Zypher: And welcome all to another chapter! Glad you all enjoyed it! So here's the next chapter for you all and I hope you enjoy this one like all others!

Note to Shinigami (if you do come to review again): Yes, I'm following the manga but with my own plot and yes, I'm planning to make a sequel following the show and if I can, will do my best to keep it closely related to what happened in the subbed version than the dubbed.

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Yami no Game: Death's Awakening

Chapter 36

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Yugi and his friends were getting excited, already eager enough to start playing the game without knowing the full extent of the consequences. "I just can't wait to play, Ryou-kun!" Yugi cheered and 'Ryou' nodded. "Me too, Yugi..." he whispered. "Now, why don't we start playing?" he spoke up and they all gave their agreement. Bakura secretly took a glance down to the puzzle. 'Yugi...we will win this yami no game and take your Sennen Puzzle!' he thought. Before starting the game, 'Ryou' explained the rules to them. They hung on to every word before Jounouchi spoke up.

"So we get ta kill things?" he asked and 'Ryou' nodded. "You cut right to the point, don't you?!" Yugi looked over to Jounouchi, chuckling softly. "Ryou's right. In Monster World, it combines the elements of a board game and a roleplaying game. Ryou is taking part of the Game Master in an RPG."

"Roleplaying game? You mean something like a video game?" Zella asked and he nodded. "Yeah but video roleplaying games are more common today...but the original roleplaying games were played around a table like this." Yugi explained. 'Diamond' smiled and nodded. "That's right! And do you know the true meaning of roleplaying?" she asked and they came up with a blank. "Playing a role! You get to become the character! By getting inside the mind of the character and acting out your part, the players can enter an imaginary world! It's the original virtual reality!"

"She's right. That's the true beauty of the game!" 'Ryou' spoke and she glared at him from the corner of her eye. 'Why does it seem Ryou-kun and Diamond-chan are different from yesterday...' Yugi thought before listening to 'Ryou' as he spoke again. "Before we truly start the game, everyone needs to create their characters!" he said, picking up four sheets and handed it to them. "Fill in your data on these character sheets." They took the sheets and started looking at the race list. Jounouchi looked at the list and stated laughing, looking to Honda. "Honda! Ya should be a pixie-fairy! That race is made fer ya!" he jeered, Honda growling at the response. "You're the fairy, baka!"

"Maybe I'll be a half-elf..." Yugi pondered. "Once you chosen your race, next you need to choose your class." 'Diamond' directed. They went through the class list, making their decisions while Bakura and Crimson watched. 'Choose carefully...you'll be playing that character for longer than you think...a lot longer!' Bakura thought with a smirk. "Alright! We finished makin' our character sheets!" Jounouchi said and 'Diamond' took them back before looking them over and nodded as she handed them to 'Ryou'.

"Ok! Let me put the final touches to your miniatures!"

Once he was done, he gave them each a miniature that looked like them but with the race and class they chose. "Wow! You made these figures look just like us!" Jounouchi commented as he took his. "Yes, Diamond and I pride our games on our attention to every little detail." 'Ryou' spoke. "I'll enter your character data into the computer for reference. These numbers will make all the difference when you get into a life-or-death fight! With Ryou as the master, he makes all the crucial rolls!" 'Diamond' spoke as she typed in the info into the computer.

"There, it's all done! Place your pieces on "Start"!" she said, looking to them and they did so. "Alright. Game Start!" she called but as they looked to the field, there was nothing there. "Where are the other pieces? There's not a single enemy monster!" Jounouchi exclaimed in disappointment. "One of the facts of this game is that you don't know where the enemy monsters are hiding! The monsters will appear depending on the players' actions...or sometimes, by random chance!" 'Ryou' spoke.

"Yeah, come to think about it, we don't know much about this world!" Jounouchi hummed.

"Like who's the enemy or what's the point of the game!" Honda added.

"The town! You go into a town to get information in an RPG, don't you?" Zella questioned. "Zella's right! Let's head to the town first!" Yugi spoke as they move their pieces towards the village and 'Diamond' removed the piece to reveal the inn underneath. They were intrigued as the piece was removed. Jounouchi was the first to speak up. "Hey, you! Old man! As you can see, we're highly skilled adventurers! Any way fer us ta make some money?" he asked and Honda groaned. "You start with money...?"

"At those words, the villager sends a glance your way and sighs as he speaks."

/"If money could solve our problems, I'd give you all I've got...but before you could claim your reward, you'd be dead!"/ The villager spoke. "And with that, the old man moves away from the bar..." 'Ryou' murmured but Jounouchi was determined as he moved his piece again. "Wait a sec! It sounds like ya got a story ta tell! We're all ears fer it!" he said and Honda slapped his forehead. "Hearing these words, the old man opens his mouth and speaks with a heavy tone..."

/"...until a few years ago, this village was peaceful...but then the dark lord Zorc assassinated the king and changed the castle into a den of evil! After that, monsters began appearing in our peaceful valley. Many of my fellow villagers have fallen prey to them."/ The villager spoke and Jounouchi was now even more determined to defeat Zorc but promised to do so for some gold pieces causing Zella to smack him over the head. "Jou! This game's bringing out your bad side!" she hissed angrily and he pouted. "Not my fault I couldn't get the best items I wanted at the start." he murmured.

Zella only snorted before turning to Yugi. "Yugi...does these pieces have a little speaker inside of it? To me, it really sounds like that old man is talking..." she murmured and Yugi shook his head. "No, I don't really think so. But it is odd that he really sounds as if he was talking. Maybe Ryou can throw his voice to make the people talk." Yugi said and Bakura's eyes darkened but they continued the game normally, dark tendrils skittering over the floor silently.

/"Hear me adventurers! Before you start on your journey to Zorc's castle, you should talk to that man in the corner...he can tell you the safest route to the castle!"/ The villager spoke as they spotted the man standing at the table alone. They moved over to him and when the figure turned, they realized who he looked like. "Hey! That figure almost looks like Karita-sensei!" Jounouchi said, laughing along with Honda.

/"I-It's you! Jounouchi! Honda!"/ Karita yelled but Jounouchi only looked to Honda, asking if he called his name. Honda shook his head and asked the same of Jounouchi. /"Save me, you guys! They turned me into a miniature!"/ he cried and turned back to see Crimson's dark look. /"You are no longer a teacher or a man called Karita...we made you into an eternal inhabitant of our masters' game world. Now play your part...you will act as the role of Villager D forever!"/ he hissed. /"Play the part or have your soul die a gruesome death by our hunger!"/

The figure flinched before turning back to the others. /"Z-Zorc's castle...is to the north...outside of the village...B-But stay out of the forest...it's full of monsters..."/ he spoke shakily. They nodded and soon left the town but Yugi looked back to the figure. 'That villager...it really seemed like it was talking...like it was alive...' Bakura chuckled to himself as he watched them. 'Let Karita-sensei's fate foreshadow your own!' Jounouchi pumped a fist into the air as he looked down to the board.

"Ok! Now we know our mission! We head for Zorc's castle!" he said with excitement, expecting great rewards if they finish the quest. "Let's roll! Don't stop fer anythin'!" 'Ryou' nodded. "All right...you've just entered an area where there's a danger of random encounter...from now on, there's a judgment roll every turn to determine if monsters will appear!" he spoke before holding up two dice. "Using these 10-sided dice!"

"10-sided dice..."

"I've never seen dice like that before..."

"The area you're in right now has a monster encounter rate of 30 percent! The roll is done with two 10-sided dice! The white die is the ones column...the red die is the tens column...so you get a number between zero and 99! If the outcome is from 31-99 then you avoided meeting any monsters! But I make the roll!" he explained as he threw the dice and the red die landed on 2 and the white die landed on 1. "This judgment roll is 21! That's lower than 30...that means that a monster appears!" he said as the monster fazed onto the field and became a Level 3 Goblin.

Jounouchi chuckled in glee. "We found a monster!" he said happily, itching to get the chance to fight a monster. "I was getting bored waiting for a fight!" 'Ryou' handed Jounouchi the dice. "All of the battles are decided with these 10-sided dice! With a percentage roll! Now you go first! Take your shot!" 'Ryou' explained and Jounouchi took the dice with a big grin. "Alright! The warrior rolls!" Jounouchi called as he threw the dice and roll was 13. 'Diamond' started to type the info into the laptop before looking back up. "Based on the warrior's level, speed and weapon, I calculate that the warrior's short sword skill kills the goblin on a roll of 40 or less!" she spoke. "So the goblin goes down!"

The lead miniature of Jounouchi slashed at the Goblin and with a defeated cry, it was gone. "The closer you roll to double zero, the more damage you inflict to the enemy! But on the other hand, if you throw a fumble, a 99, you have to take a penalty..." 'Ryou' spoke. 'The penalty to become a miniature in our game world...for the rest of your lives!' Bakura thought with a sinister grin.

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Zypher: And that will be all for today! Sorry if the chapter seemed short but I'm going as long as the duel stories in the manga goes. But soon, we'll be getting to the real battle and a breakthrough with Bakura and Crimson's emotions towards Ryou and Diamond (good enough of a hint on my part of what will happen towards the end but I'm not giving away any more info!).

And as a last note, I have now decided to change tidbits to the sequel. Instead of having the entire sequel to be based off the anime, I will now have all of Duelist Kingdom and Battle City be manga-centric and other parts such as Dungeon Dice Monsters, Capsule Monsters, Doom Saga and the KC Grand Prix be based off the anime.

Why, because I just read my copy of Yu-gi-oh: Duelist volume 3 and I think I'll have fun following the manga for those stories even though I seem to be following the same thing when it comes to Angel's Nocturne's sequel for Laryna6 Do You Dream of Me except for the plot basis of them. Oh well, I'm sure you all enjoyed that sequel, for those that read it, and will enjoy mine just as much when I get to it. But for now, hoped you all liked this chapter and will be waiting for more. See you soon!