Zypher: Hello all! Glad you enjoyed the last chapter and since I'm working on these chapters at the speed of a hare, here's the next one for you and the start of Death T-1! Enjoy.
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Yami no Game: Death's Awakening
Chapter 25
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They continued to walk down the tunnel, staying silent most of the way until Jounouchi spoke up. "Hey...this feels creepy...and it's dark..."
"You're not scared, are you, Jou?" Honda taunted and Jounouchi shook his head furiously.
"Man, how far does this tunnel go?"
"Where's the stupid game?" Jounouchi groaned, already feeling tired with walking. They stopped when they reached a door labeled Death T-1. "Death T-1? Guess this is our first game." Aqua murmured. The doors opened and they walked in. After a while, there were sounds and the calls of "Emergency! Emergency!" going off. "What's goin' on?!" Jounouchi exclaimed, looking around. Soon, someone ran towards them. "Please, help me!" The person cried. When they realized who it was, they gasped. "Zella?!" They all, including Yami and Aqua, said in shock. "Whaa!" she cried when she noticed them. "What are you doing here?!"
"Hey, that's my line!" Jounouchi growled, still in shock.
She sighed lightly, cat ears flicking lightly in the air. "I started working here after I lost my temporary job at Burger World..." she started to explain. "When did you start working at Burger World?" Honda questioned. "Not the time to ask that. Anyways, I lost my job from there since I punched out some guy who touched my butt." They were silent and she pouted, crossing her arms. "Not my fault, he started it. Anywho, I applied at Kaiba Land and they put me in this costume and made me the guide for this game." she finished. "But seeing you guys here surprised me."
"So, why did ya yell 'help'?" Jounouchi questioned. "Duh! It's a part of the act for this game! After that, I say this line to the customer...! 'The enemy is about to blow up this space station! You are the only one who can save it! Put on your cyber-vests and defeat the intruders with your laser guns'!"
"No offense, Zella, but how can you act at a time like this?!"
"Hey! I practice hard! And there's no problem with acting!"
"Do ya even know what this theme park is 'bout?! Actually, it may be best if ya didn't know..." Jounouchi murmured and that left her confused. "Anyway, the first game looks like a shootout!" he said, pointing out to the vests hanging on the wall. "Alrighty, everyone! Go ahead and grab a vest and a laser gun." Zella said and they each did so, placing the vest on but Honda had to take the kid off his back.
"Ok! The game is a shooting match, three against three and you can call back to switch if you need to. The battle takes place in the Electrical Field behind that door." Zella explained, pointing to said door. "There's a sensor on the front of these cyber-vests! Aim for this spot! If the enemy's laser hits your sensor, you'll feel a light vibration over your whole body. The first team to lose all its members loses...then it's game over!" They nodded but Yugi had a feeling that Kaiba didn't make this game so simple and there's a trap behind it all.
Honda picked up the baby which he had to let sit on the floor while he was placing on his vest. "Hey Zella, mind watching him?" he asked. "Whoa! Is he yours?" she questioned. "No! My sister made me watch her kid." he said and she nodded as she took him from Honda. He cooed softly and she smiled but she grimaced, her tail fluffing up in shock as the baby nuzzled himself comfortably on her chest. "Ok, kid's a perv..." she murmured. "Ok, me, Honda and Jounouchi will go. Yami, Aqua, you stay back here for now." Yugi said and they nodded.
Aqua leaned down and nuzzled him. "Be safe out there, koi." he whispered and Yugi kissed his snout softly, nodding before they went through the door. "Good luck!" Zella called before she handed the kid to Aqua who felt a bit awkward holding him but stayed silent.
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In another room, Kaiba viewed their location and glared at the suit that stood next to him. "Who hired that girl!? She was one of their friends!" Kaiba hissed. "My apologies sir." The man whispered. "Ah well..."
"Death T-1, Stardust Shootout! They've entered the Electrical Field!"
"Is our team ready?" Kaiba questioned.
"Yes sir! We have prepared a special team to face the three of them along with the demons! Each one is a pro in his field!" Kaiba looked over the info that showed up on screen and nodded. "It's all over already, Yugi. The guns I've given you are mere toys...but if the lasers that these three holds hit the sensor on your cyber-vest, you'll get shocked with a million volts!" he said. "I'll be watching you and your demons play this death game, Yugi...and nothing will give me more pleasure!" he said, laughing before turning to the suit.
"But before they get onto the field, tell them to not aim for the blonde boy at all cost! If they do, I'll deal with them myself!" The suit nodded and contacted them before they could get onto the field and repeated Kaiba's orders.
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The three men that were hired were at the door on their side, ready to enter the field. "Heh heh...Sure was nice of Kaiba boy to put a bounty on their heads!" Johnny Gayle, one who was experienced at guerrilla warfare, spoke. "$10,000 each with a bonus on the dragon and that wild-haired kid's look-alike! Piece of cake!" Bob McGuire, another who was experienced at long distance sniping said. "Of course, I'll finish all of them on my own..." The last, who didn't have a name but was a trained assassin, whispered. "I'm gonna enjoy this!" Johnny said as they started walking in.
"Are ya guys ready?" Jounouchi asked and they nodded. Before they could start, the floor lit up and Kaiba's image appeared on the floor. "Hello again, Yugi! Welcome to Death T-1, the first game of the theme park! The three enemies you are about to face are mercenaries I've hired special for this game! If you're lucky, you'll die in a blaze of glory like a shooting star across the sky!"
"Listen up, moneybags! Yer games suck! We're gonna make it to the top!" Jounouchi snarled. "So much energy you have. I'll deal with that later." Kaiba said with a chuckle. "What was that!?" he growled but Kaiba only chuckled again. 'The guns I've given you are mere toys...but what you don't know is the mercenaries have real lasers! When they hit the sensor on your chest, you'll be shocked with a million volts...' he thought. "Enjoy your last game and don't leave Yami and Aqua out on the fun." he spoke before the floor went blank and looked normal.
"Alright! Concentrate everyone!" Jounouchi calledd.
"Kaiba will do anything to win! The enemy will be tough!" Yugi said, thinking that they should've called Yami or Aqua to be part of the team as well. "No problem here! I'm an ace with model guns. When I was a kid, I could hit a 100-yen piece with a BB gun at 50 feet!" Honda said. "Game Start!" A mechanical voice echoed and they started to make their move along with the mercenaries. Yugi and his team ducked low, looking around the corners for any sign of the other team. "How should we deal with those kids?" One asked.
"I'm the expert at guerrilla warfare! Leave it to me! I'll pull a surprise attack and take out two of them in an instant which will leave those bonus bounties easy preys!" Johnny said. "They're amateurs. They'll be scared stiff when I jump right out in front of them. A game like this is nothing to someone with real combat experience on the field!" he continued and was soon on the move.
"Shee-oot...showoff wants the bounty all to himself." Bob grunted. Yugi and the other still stayed behind the large wall that acted as their shield, still trying to seek out the other team. "Hey! What are we waiting around here for?!" Jounouchi whispered frantically. "Idiot! Stay still! Let them make the first move!" Honda growled back. Jounouchi sulked and laid back. 'In tight quarters like these, you only move forward when you secure a good position! That's a sure survival technique!' Honda thought to himself.
'I agree with Honda's plan! If we stay here, the enemy will come to us!' Yugi thought. 'No way! I can't stand sneaking around! A real man faces his enemy head on! I've had enough of this!' Jounouchi thought and got up, clambering up onto the wall.
"Ack!"
"Jou!"
Once he was on the top, he grinned. "Yeah! Now I have room to fight!" he cheered. "Here I come!" He started jumping from wall to wall, looking for the enemy. "Jou-kun!" Yugi cried. "That moron!" Honda growled, both worried about him being taken out by the other team. Johnny was still sneaking around, low to the ground when he heard footsteps above him. "Huh...?" He looked up and gaped when he saw Jounouchi standing above him.
"Found one!"
"What?!" Johnny exclaimed. 'He thought up an attack even more surprising than mine!' Jounouchi held the gun up, aiming directly for the sensor and Johnny did the same. 'But I'm the one with weapons training. I can draw a bead first!' he thought, not caring about what Kaiba commanded them to do when it came to Jou. To him, money is money no matter the target. "Die!" he growled but wasn't expecting a foot to be smashed into his face. He fell back onto the floor, losing a few teeth as he looked to him. "K-kamikaze boy..." he wheezed. "My way is faster!" Jounouchi grinned.
"He did it!" Yugi cheered.
"That idiot...he got one of them..." Honda said, still appalled.
"No way! They got Johnny!"
"Get them!"
Shots were fired and Jounouchi dodged them as he ran back to where the others were. "Alright! They've shown themselves! You be the decoy, Jounouchi!" Honda shouted. "I'll finish them off!" he said, aiming for Bob who was out in the open. "He's in my sights...now!" He fired a shot and it hit the sensor but it didn't do anything. 'Huh...? That's weird...I hit him dead on...' he thought.
Jounouchi finally made it to a wall and hid behind it, Yugi looked over to him. "Are you ok, Jou-kun?" he asked. "No problemo! I'm good!" he said, still gulping in air. Yugi nodded and turned to look out from the corner of the wall. "I'll help too!" he said, shooting at them but kept missing. The shootout continued until Honda dodged a hit and it grazed his shoulder. "Ow..." he hissed as electricity sputtered from the damaged shoulder plate. 'Wh-what the...? I got shocked!' he thought and then looked down to his gun, examining it closely.
"Man, this is bad! If they come any closer, I won't be able ta keep coverin' the sensor on my chest!" Jounouchi gasped. "I keep missing!" Yugi whimpered sadly as he continued to shoot from his place. "Yugi! Jounouchi! We have to pull back!" Honda called. "What! Run away?!" Jounouchi growled from his spot. 'There's something wrong with this game!' Honda thought.
Back inside, Yami, Aqua and Zella were watching the battle from the screen. "They got one of the enemies, they're ahead now." Aqua murmured, surprised at Jounouchi's form of attack but was glad he was able to get away. The baby grinned slightly, in the mood to taunt the demon and looked to him. "Hey, Aqua was it? Let's ditch those guys and go to the park for a date or something." he said and Aqua looked down to him, eye twitching. "Mind you, I already have someone." he grumbled. "What is your name anyway?"
"My name? I'm Johji! Good to meet you! Y'know, there's this cool milk stand in the park...whatcha think...?"
"No thanks. Zella, will you take him back?" Aqua pleaded. She looked to him and thought she saw him shivering visibly. "What's wrong? He's only a baby."
"Well, I'm not the kind of person to take care of children." he grumbled, freezing as Johji nuzzled him. Yugi, Honda and Jounouchi soon came back in, surprising Zella. "Honda! Why are we running away?! It's not cool ta show yer back to the enemy!" Jounouchi snipped to him. "Hey! You guys can't leave in the middle of the game!" Zella confirmed but Honda had an expressionless gleam in his eye and Yugi was worried.
"Honda, is something wrong?"
"Yugi...this game is rigged!"
"What?!"
Honda threw his gun to the ground. "Our guns are useless! There's no way how we can win!" he told them. "I knew it!" Yami hissed, staying quiet for the long run but hearing this made him angry. "What a lousy trick...and it's all because of Kaiba! That sonofa-" Honda started. Aqua walked over to stand next to Zella and Johji, angry that Honda was talking bad about Kaiba, reached over and took Zella's gun from her holster and pointed it at him. "You big bully! Not only do you interrupt my time with Aqua here," Johji started, getting an undignified squawk from him.
"Now you're talking bad about Kaiba! I won't let you get away with it!" he cried, shooting the gun at them randomly. Aqua grabbed the gun from his hands and held him by the back of his one-piece pajamas but looked up when he saw that one of the sensors from the spare cyber-vests was hit and it let out a big shockwave.
The others saw this as well and Yugi gasped. "What the…! There was an electric shock when that laser hit the sensor on that spare vest!" Honda growled. 'If that was one of us...' Yugi thought, not bearing to continue the train of thought. "Let me see that gun, Aqua." Honda asked and he handed it to him. He picked up the one on the floor and looked at them closely. "I knew it! Zella's gun and our guns look the same but are built completely different!" he said. "So that's it! Those mercenaries have real laser guns! They're got actual lethal weapons!"
"And Kaiba probably didn't know Zella was hired for this job so the person that gave it to her gave her a real laser gun!" Jounouchi spoke. "That's it, I quit!" Zella huffed, tail flicking behind her angrily. Yami walked over and took the gun from Honda. "But at least we have one gun we can face them with. Kaiba wasn't expecting this so he gave us the upper hand for this game." he said. "Are you sure, Yami? I don't want you to get hurt out there." Yugi said, walking over to him. "Don't worry, koi. I'll need your and Aqua's help anyway." he whispered.
He looked back to Jounouchi, Honda and Zella. "Give us a moment to discuss something." Yami said, walking off a bit with Yugi and waved Aqua over. Aqua happily passed Johji back to Zella and ran over to their side. "So, what's the plan?" he asked. "I don't know how much Kaiba would care about these mercenaries so I'll deal with them like he tried with us." Yami said.
"No Yami, please. Don't do that." Yugi whispered. "I'm sorry, Yugi, but I have to. At the moment, with so much fresh meat around, my demon instincts won't hold back for long since I haven't fed on flesh in a while and I don't want to frighten your friends away once they learn that Aqua and I are truly demons." he whispered and Yugi looked down before nodding. "Alright, what's the plan you have in mind?"
"You and Aqua distract them and I aim for them. Shouldn't be too hard as long as you have them face me. With all the lighting in there, I can't use the shadows at all to hide and move around so we'll have to resort to this." Yami explained and they nodded. "Alright, ready?" They nodded again and they stood back up. "Alright, we have a plan so wait for us here." Yami said. "Are ya gonna be alright out there?" Jounouchi questioned. "We will. Don't worry."
They headed to the door and quickly made it to the wall leading out into the open center. "Ok...go!" Yami called and Yugi headed in one direction while Aqua headed in another, Yami peeked out from the corner, watching Yugi. He continued to run through the maze of walls, trying to find any of the mercenaries. "They're still playing and we got the three that will make us some big money right here in the room!" Bob confirmed to the remaining mercenary. "Spread out and look for those two that ran in here." he said as he went to look for Yugi. The nameless one stayed silent but started slinking off to find Aqua.
Yugi stopped behind a wall and looked out from behind it. Bob just turned in that direction and grinned. "Gotcha kid!" he said and started shooting at him. He gave a squeak and dived back behind the wall before started making his way back to Yami. 'Just a little more, koi.' he thought, pinpointing the sensor in his sights. "Move, Yugi!" he called, shooting the gun and Yugi dived out the way as the laser hit the sensor and Bob cried out in pain as he was hit by the high voltage. Yugi made his way back to Yami and smiled. "Nice shot." he said and he thanked him before moving to the other side of the wall and looked for Aqua.
Aqua silently slunk through the maze, keeping his ears alert for the last person. He saw him and moved to stand in the open so he could see him. The mercenary looked to him and smirked. "I'm going to get big money from you." he said. "Then let's just see you hit me." Aqua countered. He shot the gun at him and with backflips, he dodged each shot until he hit the wall and moved behind it. The mercenary moved forward and once he was in Yami's sight, he shot the gun, catching his sensor before he could move and he shouted out in pain as he was shocked.
"And that takes care of them." Yami said with a smirk.
"They did it!" Zella cheered. "Yeah, too bad they killed them. That won't make Kaiba happy." Honda mumbled. They left out the room and Yugi smiled to them. "Well, we've completed Death T-1! Let's get going to the next game!" he said, removing his vest. They did the same and walked back to place them away before they headed to the next game, unaware of Yami staying behind. He slunk through the maze and made quick work of devouring the mercenaries' flesh before leaving out the door heading into the next game.
Up in the viewing room, Kaiba smirked. 'So, you made it through Death T-1...but how will you fare in the next stage...' he thought before calling someone to clear out the carcasses of the mercenaries. He was unaware that another has made it into his little theme park of death and wasn't taking too kindly with his thoughts of death to Yami and Aqua.
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Zypher: And there's the end of Death T-1 for you all! Yeah, I know you all might be wondering why I'm having Johji mess with Aqua with the same stuff he said in the comic. Decided to have a little fun and mess with Aqua and save Zella some torment from him but it will pretty much be a back and forth thing between Zella and Aqua with who watches Johji and all. Nothing more fun but to laugh at a death dealing demon dragon freaking out because of what a child says! Anyways, hope you enjoyed the chapter and will be waiting for the next death-defying game! See you later!