Hey, guys! Like, I said from here on, until I declare the end of season 2, it's gonna be a couple of filler chapters! Chapters you will all get to enjoy! Now, let's get started!
Disclaimer: Mage of Hope doesn't own any Yu-Gi-Oh series, only the OCs! Mage of Hope also doesn't own the game, "Among Us," as it's developed and published by the company Innersloth.
A few weeks have passed since the Light of Destruction was defeated, and school life resumed. Sartorius reunited with his sister, Sarina, and both left the academy to live peaceful lives. Jaden managed to use the time to recover from her injuries and went back to dueling like she always loved. Hassleberry, Chazz, and Syrus were still rivals of love for Jaden, though their relationship between them all has improved to a friendly rivalry, and besides that, they seemed like good friends to hang out. Aster didn't return to Pro Dueling right away, as he wanted to take some time off to spend at the remainder of his school year.
All in all, everything seemed to have returned to normal. All that was left was to enjoy the remaining school life.
Which brought Jaden and her friends to be brought altogether to play a rather popular online game called "Among Us."
"Okay! Is everyone here?" called Jaden, communicating with the others through Voice Chat. "I think I set my own mic correctly! Can anyone hear me?" Her character was the Red Player.
"Yup! I can hear you loud and clear, Jay!" chirped Syrus, who was playing Among Us in a different room, specifically the dining room with his laptop. He chose the Cyan Player.
"Same here! Just got here!" Hassleberry said, confined outside of the dorms, lying against a tree with his laptop on his lap. For his color of choice, he took the Brown Player.
"I was waiting here for a few minutes. About time you guys logged in!" Alexis spoke while inside her own dorm room, playing as the Blue Player, though she added a cute flower accessory.
"The Chazz is here! Make way, nerds!" said Chazz in his large room, having just spawned into the Lobby as the Black Player.
"Wait, wait, wait! Alexis, how did you get a cute flower?" squealed Jaden.
"Uh...Jaden? I thought you played this game before? Shouldn't you know how to?"
"It's been a long while, so I may have forgotten a few things in this game?"
"Well, you see that laptop in the Lobby? You can change your own color and even customize your character with some cosmetics!"
"Uh..."
"You can accessorize your character."
"Oh, cool! Lemme try!"
"Me first! Me first!" said Syrus.
"No wait! I'll go first!" said Hassleberry.
"Guys, you can all try it out at the same time," pointed out Alexis.
Then, a new player, Aster, spawned into the Lobby as a White Player. "Alright, I'm here. Let's-Uh...What is going on?" Aster found himself, within his private yacht, staring at the screen of his laptop as Jaden, Hassleberry, and Syrus' characters were crowded around the laptop and constantly switching accessories and colors.
"Oh, hey, Aster! Apparently, Jaden, Syrus, and Hassleberry wanted some accessories, and...things are getting a bit out of hand," spoke Alexis.
Then, Atticus' character showed up as...the Pink Player. "Hey, guys! I love this game so much! I can't wait to play it with all of you!" Atticus said through the Voice Chat. "...Hey, why am I Pink?!"
"Sorry, Atticus, but you were a bit too late selecting the color. I got Blue, and I'm not giving it up!" spoke Alexis confidently.
"Awww! Then, I wished I gotten Cyan!"
"Syrus already has that," pointed out Chazz.
"Well, I'm gonna try and change my color! Gotta see what other available colors there are!" said Atticus. "And maybe even some accessories, too!"
Alexis groaned. "Oh, this is just terrific."
"Why?" asked Aster.
"Atticus always takes forever to pick an accessory! We'll be here for a while!" Alexis sighed, watching Atticus choosing . "You know, it's a bit of a shame that I couldn't invite Bastion. Kinda hard to get in contact with him."
"Who? Oh, that smart guy. Yeah, but I heard that he's doing just fine wherever he is."
"Yeah, but I managed to find a replacement, or rather, Jaden found us one. So, we'll have 8 players! Though, I was hoping for the full 10 player set."
"...8?" wondered Chazz. "There's like, 7 of us now. Who's the other-?"
Then, a new Player appeared, bearing the color Pink. He's most commonly known by his last name and has a shrill voice, along with an...unhealthy and strange love for Ancient Gear Golems.
Crowler.
"WHAT?! Who invited that guy?" cried out Hassleberry, ceasing his "accessory and color shopping."
Chazz started crackling when he realized the color Crowler was given. "Oh, man! That suits you TOO much! Ahahahaha!"
"Pink?! How atrocious!" shrieked Crowler, making his Player move around in a spam-like order, back and forth. "Why am I not blue?! Royal blue, to be precise!"
"Uh, you can't pick that because Alexis already has the blue color," pointed out Syrus. "The closest to royal blue is probably her color."
"How can I change my own color then?! I don't wish to be pink!"
"Well, you can customize your own color by going to that laptop over there," instructed Aster.
Crowler made his Player move towards the laptop, trying to select a new color. In the meantime, Hassleberry decided to change his color to Green and bought a military hat to customize his Player, and Jaden and Syrus both kept their colors, but had new cosmetics, as Jaden chose cat ears and Syrus decided on a regular cap. Chazz decided to scroll through the number of cosmetics available and chose a knife hat to depict how deadly and cool he could be.
"Clearly, something's very wrong with this game!" growled Crowler. "Ooh! How infuriating!"
"What's wrong?" asked Aster.
"I keep attempting to choose Royal Blue, but the screen won't let me! Some of the other colors work, but I REFUSE to use these atrocious COLORS!"
Everyone winched from Crowler's shrill complaints and began voicing their own complaints, loudly overwhelming each other's voices.
"Jesus, Crowler! You're too loud!"
"Aaaah! My ears!"
"Keep it down, why don't you, Rapunzel?!"
"Why'd you have to yell like that?!"
"Great, just great! My ears!"
"Once again, who invited him?!"
"Shut up! SHUT UP!" shrieked Crowler. "I demand a different color! If you can buy accessories here in this game, then it's only right that I can also buy new colors!"
"You can't buy new colors, those are the only default colors available," informed Alexis. "Maybe the game will have a new update and then we'll see some new colors."
"You mean, like that new map they plan to install later in the future?" asked Syrus.
"Yeah, exactly!"
"I can't wait that long! I demand a new, royal color NOW!" shouted Crowler.
"Wow, I kinda feel bad for you guys if you had to suffer having a guy like him as a teacher for this long," sighed Aster. "Look, if you really want something royal, why not choose Purple? That's actually a symbol for royalty, and it's the closest to Blue."
"Hmm...You know what? You're right! I suppose I'll go with Purple!"
Everyone sighed and/or cheered. Finally, they could get this game started-
And then Atticus changed his color to Purple.
"ATTICUS/OH COME ON!" Everyone yelled while Crowler shrieked in frustration.
Atticus gave a hearty laugh and ultimately chose the Pink color. "Alright, alright, my bad! I just wanted to troll Crowler a little!"
If looks could kill, specifically online, seething ones, Atticus would already be dead 7 times over.
Then, surprisingly, a new Player, clad in Yellow, popped into the server; Bastion.
"Good afternoon, everyone! It's been quite a while, hasn't it?"
"Whoa, Bastion! This is a surprise!" admitted Syrus.
"Yeah! We didn't know that you'd be here!" said Hassleberry. "How've you been?"
"Good, good. I'm having a pleasant life as Dr. Eisenstein's assistant! Today's my day off though, so Jaden graciously allowed me the code for a Private Server to play this popular game called Among Us."
"Yup!" confirmed Jaden. "I felt bad that we're all playing together and that Bastion might be left out, so I invited him to play! Now we have 9 members, now!"
"It would be pretty sweet if we have the full 10 Player set," said Hassleberry. "Hey! Why don't we invited someone else to complete that! Uh...what do we have?"
"Chancellor Sheppard and Miss Dorothy are far too busy," said Alexis. "So, no use going to them."
"What about Sartorius? Or even Sabrina?" suggested Jaden.
"You want to invite Sartorius, the man who was so close to destroying the world?" asked Bastion in disbelief.
"It's...a really long story, but let's just say that an evil force was controlling Sartorius and that...most of the mess that happened wasn't quite his fault," said Aster. "And, no dice there. I heard that he's taking physical and mental therapy sessions and his sister will be too busy helping him."
"Ooh! What about that other guy? The short dude that's always accompanying Crowler?" suggested Atticus, trying to select an accessory for his Player.
"Bonaparte? Too busy! I've seen him talking on the phone a lot lately, though, but it's none of my concern who he contacts with!" Crowler said, also trying to find a stylish accessory.
"Well, if there's nobody else, I guess we'll just have to settle with 9 people. That's fine, since we've already got more than enough people," said Alexis. "This should be a rather interesting game if there's this many people."
"Hold it! Some of us are new at this game! You cannot possibly believe I can learn everything at the get-go!" cried out Crowler.
"Yeah! I heard this game's popular, but even I haven't read all of the rules!" complained Atticus.
"I, too, are rather curious about this game, even though I have read the rules myself," said Bastion.
"I read the rules, too, but I'm new at this game," Aster said.
"What the hell? Atticus, Crowler, you guys didn't read the rules?" wondered Chazz.
"I mean, come on, dude! It's like, several pages long!" whined Atticus.
"Well, I guess the best way of learning is by having you all experience it for yourself!" said Jaden."But, because this is a first-timer for everyone, how about I make just 1 Imposter for this round and we'll go from here?"
Everyone unanimously agreed before they made their preparations, and soon, the game started.
Round 1
It was only natural that all Players, especially the beginner ones, would be starting in the most common starter and most popular Map in the entire game: The Skeld. Once everyone was transported in the game, they all gathered in the cafeteria, surrounding the middle large round table that had the Emergency Button on it.
"Ok, guys and gals who are new to this!" chirped Jaden. "We'll try and guide you through this game since it's your first ti-"
Then, Crowler's Player punched Chazz's Player to the ground before magically pulling out a gun out of nowhere and shooting Chazz's Player in the head.
For a moment, there was dead silence...and then there was pure chaos in the form of yelling, shrieks, and then the sound of a large beeping sound. The screen changed to an Emergency Meeting, making every Player to gather around the same table they were in.
"AIYEEEEEEE! MAMA MIA! WHAT HAVE I DONE?!"
"CROWLER, YOU ASSHOLE! I'M GONNA KILL YOU FOR WHAT YOU DID!"
"Damnit, Crowler! And we just started, too!"
"Are you an idiot, Crowler?! You don't KILL when people are present, you idiot!"
"EXCUSE ME, EVERYONE!" yelled Crowler. "I didn't know you could KILL people in this game! I was just curious about this Kill Button! What was I supposed to do?!"
"Well, what did you think this game was about? It is 'Among Us!'" replied Hassleberry.
"I thought it was a detective game!"
"It is a detective game!"
"No, I thought we were searching for the murderer!"
"We are searching for the Imposter!"
"No, the way I see it, this appears like one of those horror survival games!" argued Crowler.
"I-Well, I guess, in a small way, it is, but there's way more to it!" Hassleberry said, rubbing the back of his head.
"So, we're in this voting booth, right? Why don't we just vote off Crowler now that we know he's the Imposter?" suggested Aster, already voting for Crowler.
"Yeah, thanks for the reminder," said Alexis, also voting for Crowler.
"Don't I get a say in this?! If I'm voted off, doesn't that mean I lose?!" Crowler complained angrily.
"Well, duh, that's the point of the game. The Crewmates win, and the Imposter loses," replied Jaden; her vote for Crowler.
"Yup, now we know who to vote for. Nice job giving away your position, you idiot!" growled Chazz, still mad at Crowler for killing him,
Despite Crowler's complaints, nobody listened to him since he was the Imposter for this round, thus he was ejected out of the air lock in no time, making everyone else except Chazz the victor of this round.
A few more rounds later...
"Okay, everyone," announced Alexis, now officially the Host for the remainder of their games. "Now that we've gone through a few games and have a better understanding, what have we learned?"
"Do not split up from the group because there'll be a high chance that you'll be picked up by the Imposter," spoke Syrus.
"Teamwork is the key to success," Hassleberry said.
"Always make sure to finish your tasks before accompanying someone who hasn't," said Aster.
"Always...get revenge on the last person who killed you in the next round," growled Chazz, having been killed either by being suspected of being the Imposter or due to actually being killed by the Imposter.
"Eh, close enough," sighed Alexis. "Time to start a new round! And make sure to mute yourselves this time!"
Once the new round began, everyone found themselves in The Skeld map before splitting up into different groups in different directions. Aster was with Bastion, Jaden walked with Syrus and Hassleberry, Alexis with Crowler and Chazz, and Atticus was by himself before deciding to follow after Aster and Bastion.
Jaden, Syrus, and Hassleberry all shared the same tasks, beginning with the Swipe Card task, so, coincidentally, they all stacked together. Needless to say, they were having difficulties bypassing this task, raging with each failed attempt.
Meanwhile, Aster and Bastion were in Electrical, completing their assigned tasks when the lights suddenly turned off. The two boys just finished their tasks in Electrical and were about to work on fixing the lights when suddenly, within the darkness, their Players were killed off instantly before the lights were turned on, and the perpetrators ran off.
During that time, Alexis had split off with Crowler and Chazz because their tasks were very close to each other; Alexis was diverting power in O2, Chazz was trying to navigate the Chart Course, and Crowler was clearing astroids in the Weapons area. After Chazz finished his task, he headed out to the hallway where he encountered Syrus and Atticus. Chazz backed away a little, thinking that either one of them was the Imposter, but when neither of them did anything, Chazz relaxed a bit.
In fact, after Crowler and Alexis finished their tasks, they also noticed Atticus and Syrus, but seeing as they were doing nothing but waiting for them, they all silently decided to stay as a group and were heading down the hallway for potential new tasks when the Report Button went off.
"JADEN"S DEAD!" cried out Hassleberry the second everyone gathered around the table. This caused everyone to look carefully at their screen to see Jaden's Player deceased...as well as Aster and Bastion.
"Wait a minute, Aster and Bastion are dead, too?" pointed out Atticus.
"Jeez, we just started this round, and the two most smartest people in this group are already dead?" wondered Chazz. "I can't believe the Imposter managed to kill 3 people! That's so fast!"
"You know, if Aster wasn't already killed, I would have thought that he was the traitor," admitted Alexis. "Today's his first day playing Among Us, and after the first 2 rounds, he's practically an expert!"
"Yeah, pretty sure he has a stupid smug smirk on his face now, considering that he, Bastion, and Jaden can hear us," muttered Hassleberry. "Oh, right! Jaden! Look, I found her dead in Admin! In fact, me, Syrus, and Jaden were all in Admin, doing that stupid card swipe task, when the lights suddenly turned off! I heard a weird sound before I could finish my task, but I really wanted to finish my stupid task, so I did, and now Jaden's dead!"
"Wait, but that can't be right," Alexis said. "Syrus was with us the whole time. Well, he and Atticus joined with Chazz and then those three met up with me and Crowler when we were done with our tasks."
"Isn't it obvious that Syrus is the killer, then?" wondered Chazz.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa! Wait a minute! Why am I suddenly the killer? Hassleberry could have been lying and killed Jay himself!" argued Syrus.
"Why would I kill Sarge?!"
"Because you're the Imposter! And besides, you're lying! I wasn't even in Admin! Trying to put the blame on me, huh?"
"WHAT?!" Hassleberry was baffled. "Private Truesdale! You were definitely with me and Jaden in Admin!"
"No! I was with Atticus and Alexis and everyone else! Why are you trying to pin the blame on me?"
"Come to think of it," spoke up Atticus. "Syrus could be telling the truth. Hassleberry could have self-reported."
"Not you too, Atticus! Crowler! Alexis! Chazz! You gotta believe me! I didn't kill Jaden!" shouted Hassleberry.
"Sorry, Hassleberry, but it's true. Syrus was with us the entire time," said Alexis.
"Hmph! Admit it! You made a poor excuse self-reporting! Bad timing, too!" said Crowler. "I never imagined you killing Jaden like that!"
"IT WASN'T ME!"
"I've heard enough! I'm voting off Hassleberry!" declared Syrus.
"Me too!" voiced Atticus.
"Sorry, Hassleberry, but majority votes," apologized Alexis.
"I'm voting that guy off too!" said Chazz.
"Yes! Certainly he must be the Imposter!" Crowler shouted.
"No, no, no! You sons of bitches! I-"
Before Hassleberry had the last say, his Player was shot out of the airlock, though he still didn't turn off his mic, so everyone winched and complained when they heard his screaming rage. Everyone watched his Player floating away along with the announcement of whether or not he was the Imposter.
Hassleberry is not the Imposter.
"..." Every Player turned to Syrus, giving him glares of suspicion.
"W-wait! I'm not the Imposter!"
"Well, we just learned that Hassleberry isn't the Imposter! How do you explain about that, huh, IMPOSTER?!" yelled Chazz.
"How should I know?!"
"Wait a minute, guys," spoke up Alexis. "We never did figure out who killed Aster or Bastion."
A heavily silence fell within the group as they eyed each other suspicious. Right now, there were only 5 players left; Alexis, Syrus, Chazz, Crowler, and Atticus. Though, right now, the most suspicious was towards Syrus.
"W-wait, guys! The Imposter could have vented! Yeah! It didn't have to be me!" protested Syrus.
"But there's no proof that it isn't you, either!" pointed out Crowler.
"Well, we can't vote now. We don't have enough proof," sighed Alexis. "Look, why don't we all stick together? The Imposter can't kill anyone so long as we're all witnesses, right?"
"I'm fine with that, but what about Aster and Bastion? We still haven't figured out who the culprit is," reminded Atticus.
"We also never found out where their bodies were, so we can't do anything about that," said Alexis. "So, we'll just have to stick together until then, okay?"
Everyone agreed, all decided to head towards the south hallway...until suddenly, Syrus' Player stabbed Chazz's Player numerous times, and Crowler's Player snapped Atticus' Player's neck simultaneously, thus resulting in a game over for the Cremates, but a bit victory for the Imposters before everyone was transported back to the Lobby Room.
Cremates: Jaden, Hassleberry, Alexis, Atticus, Aster, Bastion, Chazz
Imposters: Syrus and Crowler
"How?!" exclaimed Chazz, making his Player circle around Crowler and Syrus' Players as though he was attempting to make any strangulation animations with the "angry" circles he was making. "How is that possible?!"
"Jaden! You were the host of this round! Why didn't you tell us that there were 2 Imposters?!" shouted Aster.
"Well, I guess I wanted to spice things up, and I kinda forgot," admitted Jaden. "That, and I reduced the Cooldown time."
"You what?!"
"Hey, Sy! I'm still mad at you! Blaming me for Jaden's murder and making me take the blame for what you did!" growled Hassleberry, pouting.
"Actually, I didn't kill Jaden. I think that was Crowler," said Syrus. "I just turned off the lights and was heading to Electrical to kill the first person I saw trying to fix the lights."
"Crowler, you were with us the whole time! How did you kill Aster and Bastion?" wondered Chazz.
"I say, we were both in Electrical, but then I was killed by Syrus!" proclaimed Bastion.
"And I got shot in the head by Syrus!" said Aster.
"I pretended to be destroying astroids, when I noticed that the lights were off. Therefore, I went to the cafeteria, vented into Admin, and then saw Jaden and Hassleberry doing that annoying card swipe scam!" bragged Crowler. "Then, I killed Jaden! As much as I wanted to kill Hassleberry, I was on Cooldown time, and I wanted to make him look suspicious, so I left the room and tried to go to Electrical, where I met up with Syrus! Then, we both took down Aster and Bastion!"
"We then split up to avoid suspicious," said Syrus. "That's when I met Atticus somewhere in Communications."
"Yeah, I was downloading data there," said Atticus.
"..."
"..."
"...So, wanna go again?"
"Yeah!"
"Alright!"
"I'm definitely gonna take revenge for last round!"
"Alright, let's play again!"
Sorry if this seems like a short chapter, but I guess I wanted this to be a sort of an intro to what's to come later on. It's entirely possible that I may post more parts about Among Us chapters involving the Gender Generation squad just for funsies! If so, I may list the chapters as Parts to get a bit of a general idea!
So, what do you guys think? Read and review!~