Chapter 5:

What the Hell?

Yami stirred slightly opening his eyes. He rubbed them sand sat up, yawning a little. "Yami?" a voice called. Yami opened his eyes seeing a beautiful girl before him. "Hideko? Is this a dream…? I feel like…there's an angel over me…" he said groggily.

"This isn't a dream," Hideko said with worry. "We're in big trouble!"

"What? What do you mean?" Yami asked still groggy. "Just wake up!" Hideko cried. Yami opened his eyes fully and saw a huge forest around them and their friends lying on the ground. "What? Where?" Yami cried and looked at his arm. A familiar gun-like object was on his arm along with a familiar belt.

"Oh…shit," He muttered. "What?" Hideko asked. She glanced at the objects on her. "What in hell?" she cried.

"…Hideko, I don't think we're in Domino anymore…" Yami said. "Yami, quit yelling," Yugi moaned in his sleep. Yami rushed to his brother's side. "Yugi! Wake up!" he cried. Yugi rubbed his eyes tiredly and was startled. "What? Where are--" he glanced at his arm and waist. "Not again…" he groaned.

Soon the others woke up. "Aw man…last thing I remember was dreaming about that monkey with vanilla pudding again," Joey groaned. He glanced at his wrist and waist. "Aw man!" he groaned falling on his back. "Not this again…"

"What's going on, Yami?" Hideko asked with fear. She clung onto his chest but only felt metal. "Yami?" she asked. Yami looked down seeing the armor he had not long ago. He sighed. "Hideko…you may not believe this, but…we're in the world of Capsule Monsters."

"Capsule what?" Hideko repeated. "We've been in the world before but we had to defeat a very powerful foe by the name of Alexander," Yami explained.

"We went through five challenges in order to get home," Yugi continued. "But we knew we weren't finished yet."

Hideko blinked and glanced at Yami's belt. He had four capsules in the little slots as the others only had three. "What?"

Yami sighed and took out a capsule. "Hideko…I need you to watch this," he said loading a capsule in his shooter. "Fire capsule!" he cried. His capsule was launched and a monster appeared. "Magician of Black Chaos!" Hideko cried in awe.

Yami smiled. "Now watch this. It's what you guys call…cool," he said outstretching his arms. "Activate Duel Armor!" he yelled. His monster merged with him and his body was turned into almost the identical version of the monster, only the staff was like a DNA strand and his wings were like bats wings. "Whoa…" Hideko said in awe. "How are we supposed to get home?" she asked in fear.

Yami held her hand tightly. "Something tells me that we haven't seen the last of Alex," he said sadly. "Let's split up. We'll meet back here after sundown."

Everyone nodded and split up in different directions. Hideko and Yami went off into a deep forest with Hideko clinging to his jacket like a lost child. "Yami, I'm scared," she whimpered closing her eyes tightly. Just as she opened her eyes, Yami was nowhere to be seen. "Yami…?" she called.

There was no answer. "Yami? Where are you?" Hideko called again. She heard a low growl from the forest. "Who's there?" she called. "Hello?"

The roar became louder and Hideko took a step back. "Yami…?" she called. Suddenly, a lion-like creature jumped out of the woods growling like a mad dog. It was on two legs and had a long blonde mane, it's sharp teeth bared to the little girl. Hideko didn't know what to do. She took another step back and did what her gut told her to do.

Run.

As she did, the monster ran after her jumping from tree to tree. Hideko ran as fast as she could but she tripped on a rock landing on her front. She turned around as the creature pinned her, ready to bite her head off. She screamed as the monster prepared to attack.

"CHAOS SCEPTER BLAST ATTACK!"

A dark ball of energy appeared on the monster and it exploded, sending the creature flying. Hideko opened her eyes to see her savior. "Yami!" she cried. "Are you okay?" Yami asked. Hideko nodded holding her stomach. "Hideko? What's wrong?" Yami asked kneeling to her. Hideko just smiled.

"I'm gonna have a baby," she whispered. Yami's smiled turned wider and he hugged her tightly. "You made me the happiest man alive!" Yami cried, unaware that the creature was behind him.

"Yami! Look out!" Hideko cried. Before Yami could react he was picked up and thrown against a tree and hitting a rock on his way down, knocking him out. "Yami!" Hideko screamed. The creature went over to Yami about to make the kill. Hideko took a step back touching what looked like a rock. But it wasn't.

It was a capsule. "That's it!" She said to herself. She smirked getting and idea. The creature picked up the Pharaoh about to kill him. "Hey, Simba!" Hideko cried. "Put him down!"

The monster only growled in refusal. "That's the way you wanna play, huh?" Hideko smirked taking out her capsule and loading it. "Fire!" she cried. "Come forth, Magician's Valkyria!"

A tall female mage appeared in a teal dress with a staff in a shape of a question mark. The monster growled grabbing Yami by the neck and tightening its grip. "Now, my mage! Attack with Mystic Scepter Blast!" Hideko cried. The mage fired a blast at the creature destroying it and Yami fell to the ground as his armor disappeared. "Yami!" Hideko cried as her monster returned to her capsule and she rushed to him. "Yami…Yami, talk to me! Wake up!" she cried shaking him.

Yami slowly stirred opening his eyes. "…Hideko…?" he whispered. "Yami! Thank goodness!" Hideko cried. "You alright?" Yami asked. "Yeah, I'm fine! But…what about you?" Hideko wondered.

"I'm okay," Yami said sitting up. He cried out in pain rubbing his head. "Easy, Yami," Hideko soothed laying him down against the tree trunk. "You just rest."

Yami smiled placing a hand on her stomach. "Beautiful…" he whispered before falling asleep. Hideko smiled and went off to go find some wood for a fire.

Later that night, Hideko was watching Yami closely. He was still asleep after she went to get some wood. "Hideko!" a voice called. "Yugi! Guys!" Hideko cried happily. "Where've you been? And what happened to Yami?" Yugi wondered.

"He…he saved my life from…a giant monster," Hideko said sadly. "What'd it look like?" Joey asked. "A lion, but it was standing on two legs," Hideko said. "Yami tried to kill it but got attacked as well. And…" she reached into her belt pulling out a capsule. "I found this."

"Wow! Your first capsule!" Yugi cried. "What's inside it?"

"Magician's Valkyria," Hideko smiled. "Awesome!" Joey cried.

That night everyone was asleep, Hideko was wide awake, just watching Yami. She didn't realize that she fell asleep as well. Yami started to stir and open his eyes, feeling better than he did earlier. "Ow…What…what happened?" he asked. He looked around finding that everyone was asleep, even Hideko. He smiled weakly and got up to look around the forest.

Chappy 6 comin!