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Chapter 2: "Culture Fest Is Here!"

When the morning came around, the sun shown through Ryoko's window making the room seem to glow heavenly. Ryoko slowly began to awaken, rubbing his eyes to adjust to the sunlight that was shinning down in his room. Walking slowly to the closet he grabbed a red button up shirt and a pair of blue jeans, and then headed for the shower. He stood in the shower enjoying the warm water cleansing his body. Once leaving the shower he dried his dark brown hair and put on the fresh pair of clothes he had picked out. After all his usual morning chores were completed, he grabbed his poster and left for school.

Upon arriving to school he headed to his classroom to notice that students were already setting up the classroom for culture fest.

"Ryoko, please come here and help me set up this KaibaCorp contraption." The teacher said a bit aggravated.

Ryoko nodded and replied, "Sure, teacher I'll be right over."

He headed over toward his teacher and the KaibaCorp machine and waited for orders.

"Please, set these holographic projectors up around the room, it would be much appreciated." His teacher told him.

Ryoko nodded and proceeded to hook up the projectors in the corners of the room. A few hours passed and the room was ready. The tables were set nicely, menus printed, and projector up and running.

"Well done everyone," the teacher told the class.

The class smiled and they all applauded at their accomplishment.

The day came and went quickly, and before they knew it the day of the culture fest had arrived. Ryoko and the rest of the students were dressed up nicely, the men is suits and the women in waitress outfits. When Ryoko arrived he noticed there were already some duel monsters walking around with their owners.

"Seems the machine is up and working, well that's one thing less to worry about".

He smiled and thought to himself. I can't wait to see what the dark magician girl looks like on it.

He walked into the classroom and smelt the aroma of candle burning from the tables. At the front door was Celtic Guardian holding a sign welcoming people into their café. Ryoko reached into his pocket and gently pulled out his Magician's card. He took a deep breath and then released it.

"Well here goes nothing, hope this thing works right."

He placed the card on the digitalized panel and lights started to flicker around the card. When he turned around he saw a bunch of different colors forming an image in front of him, a few seconds later the dark magician appeared in front of him. He smiled and she smiled back and looked at him with her lovely green eyes. He walked up closer to her looking at her up and down in amazement of how real she looked.

"You look… so real," He said to her, not actually looking for a response because he didn't really know if the Kaiba invention had a speaking function.

The dark magician girl blushed and replied, "Did you see anything that you liked master?"

She smiled warmly at him. He stepped back rather surprised.

"Y…You can even speak?"

She nodded and smiled. "So my master, what exactly did you need of me?"

She looked around, "are you having some sort of party?"

She turned back to Ryoko. He smiled and nodded

"You could say that, this is the culture festival for our school. Each class makes their room into something special that represents a different culture, and our class decided to have a duel monsters café. Do you understand?"

He looked at her curiously wondering if she could understand. She smiled and nodded "Yes I understand, so what is it that am to do?"

He handed her the poster he had made and his hand brushed up against hers.

"Y…you guys even feel real? B…but you're a Hologram?" He questioned.

He shook his head in disbelief "That kind of technology is incredible," he remarked.

"W…well anyways Dark Magician Girl, I would like you to hold that sign at the front door and greet customers is the Celtic Guardian." He pointed to the door where the Celtic guardian was located.

She smiled, "You know master; you don't need to call me Dark Magician Girl, please call me Mana, that's my real name."

He laughed a little, "Hehe, I'll call you Mana, but please don't call me master, you can call me Ryoko." He smiled to her.

She laughed as well, "I know your real name; you didn't need to tell me. I have been watching you for a couple years now ya know. Let me explain this," she thought for a moment.

"That machine you used to summon me here, its opens a link to my world, the shadow realm. Now since you have played my card you summoned me, we who have cards are the tame ones, but there are many other monsters in the shadow realm who have no owners that just run free and some are very evil, do you understand?"

He stood there taking it all in. "S… so you are real then aren't you?"

She smiled and nodded at his question, "Yup, and I have been watching you from there and know quite a lot about you".

He blushed madly, "Hey…you don't watch me when I'm like in the shower do you?" He started to sweat.

She shook her head trying to hold in her laugh, "No, I respect your privacy Mast….I mean Ryoko."

She leaned her head toward his ear and whispered these words, "but please keep this information a secret, if people knew we were real it could cause a commotion. The machine Kaiba sent is an experimental type and it's the only one he made. I'm not entirely sure where you guys got that, but don't let it get damaged, it could be a very bad thing. It would create a dimensional rip and monsters would be set free everywhere."

She kissed his cheek gently and smiled. His face turned bright red.

"Why did you tell me this? I mean isn't that supposed to be kept secret, you just said yourself…"

She interrupted him. "I trust you Ryoko and I felt as if you needed to know," she said.

The culture fest was about to begin.

"Well I'll head to door now with your poster, where will you be Ryoko?" She smiled to him hoping he would remain close to her. She had deeper feelings for him then she was letting out. She wanted to be by him the whole time.

"I'll be a waiter in here, taking orders and serving drinks," he replied, "So if you need anything just come in and ask, Ill be glad to help you".

She smiled at his answer and walked to the front door and help up his sign as townspeople from close by started walking around the halls. Culture fest had officially begun.