Hello again.
Sarah: It's about time you updated! I bet no one even remembers what this story is about! You've probably lost all your readers!
But...it was only about 3 days...
Sarah: TOO LONG!
Hey, I have a life, you know.
Sarah: BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! No seriously, you're whole life is Yu-Gi-Oh, and Yu-Gi-Oh fanfiction falls into that category.
I have to do other things than write fanfiction!
Sarah: Not from what I've seen.
*SIGH* Discalimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh or any toher references I use that are to small to mention. Now on to the story.
"Um…Sage? Aren't you going to go to Duke's game shop?" Heather asked me. I was sitting in my room doing some homework on my bed, completely relaxed.
"No." I answered simply.
"But…you know what's going to happen to Yugi. What if 'He' is there to mess with the plot?"
"Nothing happens for a little while. Yugi starts playing Duke in Dungeon Dice Monsters, Duke's crazy A*EEP dad smashes the Millennium Puzzle, and eventually Yami Bakura comes in out of nowhere. Hey, if Yami Bakura can come later, I'm sure I can."
"Whoa whoa whoa. What do you mean the puzzle gets smashed? What's up with Duke's dad?"
I looked up from my homework for a second.
"Are you sure you're my ka?" I asked. "Apparently, Duke's father used to know Yugi's Grandfather and played him in a deadly game once played in ancient Egypt to see who could have the Millennium Puzzle. Not only did Duke's father lose, but he also aged…I think it was 50 years in one night."
"Holy SH*EEP."
"Yeah, it was bad. So Duke's father says Duke has only one purpose and that is to exact his revenge and get the puzzle that is 'rightfully his'." I had returned to my homework as if it was no big deal. Heather, on the other hand, was definitely shocked.
"All the more reason to hurry and try to stop that all from happening!"
"But I have some homework." I whined.
"Sage! You get your butt down to that game shop and make sure nothing bad is happening that isn't according to the plot line you've apparently memorized!" Heather scolded.
"Fine. I was going to go in a couple minutes anyway." I got up from the bed and put on my black sweatshirt and headed downstairs.
"See you later Greta! I have to go meet some friends at the new game shop down the street!" I called out. It wasn't exactly a lie, but I guess it wasn't really the truth, either.
"Alright. Just don't stay out to late." Greta called out from the kitchen.
"Having a maid is great." I thought to myself as I headed to the game shop.
"Hey, they should call it 'The Little Game Shop of Horrors'." I mused.
"Keep walking and don't stop." Heather yelled.
"I'm going, I'm going!"
"Alright, here we are." I stood in front of the Black Clown Game Shop, where Yugi currently resided playing a game for something that was rightfully his.
I went inside. There, two guards were unconscious on the ground.
"Looks like Bakura was already here…" I acknowledged as I stepped over the bodies, not even attempting to help them up.
"Are you going to…"
"Hey, you wanted me to help Yugi and make sure nothing happens to the plot, not help the random passed out guards who got Yugi into this mess in the first place."
"*SIGH* Fine…"
I continued until I came to a door slightly opened. I could hear the shaking of dice and the sound of them hitting a table. Everything got super quiet so that all you could hear where the dice spinning. Once that stopped, a cheer from Yugi and a groan from Duke followed.
I didn't want anyone to know I was there yet, just in case "He" was indeed there and still unaware of my presence, so I just peeked through the little crack to see what was going on. From what I could see, it must have been the very end I heard because it looked like Yugi had won the duel…game, thing.
The next events played out like a movie in front of me I had seen 10,000 times (which technically, I had. I just read it instead of watched it). Duke's crazy father took the part of the Millennium Puzzle Yugi had just conveniently put a chain on that day, put it around Yugi's neck, and proceeded to try and strangle him as he twisted a clown mask to reveal a hidden room.
Still not sensing "Him" and seeing that Yami Bakura was now Ryo, I entered the room while Ryo and Duke pounded on the wall.
"What's going on?" I asked as realistic as possible.
"My father took Yugi to the other side of this wall." Duke said, hitting the wall with his fist.
Had I not known what was actually going on, I probably would have laughed because that sentence would have made no sense to a normal human being. Some might have figured there was a secret room on the other side of that door, but those of us who wouldn't think it through would be like "How…how did he go through the wall? Did he phase through? And isn't there only more wall on the other side of a wall? What what's the point of that? And who is your father? Wha…", but I knew what was going on, so instead, this is what I said:
"OH MY GOD! Yugi!" And then I started to bang on the wall as if it was helping.
Couple of seconds later, everyone comes in and starts banging on the wall to try to help Yugi get out. When we start seeing smoke coming out of a crack, everyone freaks out. Absolutely nothing is getting accomplished except the bursting of my eardrums from all the screaming and now kicking of the wall. I tell you, I have no idea how any of that got the wall to bust open, it was probably tired of Tea screaming and hoped she'd stop if it gave in.
Well, the wall came down and revealed a creepy room that was now engulfed in flames. Yugi and a fat old guy in a clown mask were in there along with the Millennium Puzzle chained to a table with a board game on it.
"Do you know what game that is Sage?" Heather asked.
"Yeah, that's the Devil's Board Game. It was the same game Grandpa Mutou played against Duke's dad all those years ago. Duke's father was planning on playing it with Yugi, obviously against Yugi's will." I responded.
"Yugi, we have to get out of here!" Joey exclaimed while Yugi refused to leave the burning room.
"No! I have to fix the Other Me! I want to see him one last time!" Yugi cried out.
"One last…Yugi! Nothing will come out of dying!" Joey was now shaking Yugi, but nothing Joey did was getting through to the small teenager. Yugi just went back to trying to fix the Puzzle that he could not remove from the table.
"Joey…" I said calmly as I laid my hand on Joey's shoulder to get his attention. "Yugi isn't going to leave. Look at him; he's determined to fix the puzzle. I'll stay here and get Yugi out if worse comes to worse. You should get everyone else out before they burn to death."
Joey's face showed his loss for words at what I had said. I just smiled.
"If anything happens to either of you I won't forgive you." Joey said. His expression had changed from lost to confident in a blink of an eye, and just as fast he got everyone other than Yugi and me out of the burning game shop.
I just stood in the doorway, waiting for Yugi to finish. If he wasn't fazed by fire everywhere, neither was I.
"Hello again my only true opponent." Said an all too familiar voice.
"Same to you." I thought confidently.
"Did you stay thinking I was going to kill Yugi while no one was looking?"
"Heh, yeah right."
"What is that supposed to mean exactly?"
"Come one. It would be no fun for you to kill Yugi like this. A) The Pharaoh technically isn't even here to watch you do it. B) Like you said, no one would see you do it. No one would know it was you; they'd just classify the fire as cause of death. Which brings me to reason C) he would die by a fire? No fun. Not enough pain. And just plain not evil enough."
"For being the good guy, you have a scary insight into how a bad guy would think the situation through." That was true; even I noticed how creepy it was that I had hit it right on the money.
"Yeah, well, that's the best way to win. Know what your opponent is thinking before they think it."
"Hm…I knew you'd be a fun opponent." This guy seemed way to happy about that statement. "I'll see you later, and you might want to hurry. This building isn't going to last much longer."
I felt "Him" disconnect from whatever wavelength we were on and instantly ran in to the other room to see how Yugi was doing. I found Yugi passed out on the table, from all the smoke, with the Millennium Puzzle completed in his hand.
"Alright Yugi, let's go. Allioop!" I said to the unconscious Yugi. I tried to lift him up, but a loud *CHINK* from the table reminded me why Yugi didn't leave the burning room in the first place.
"Oh yeahhhhhhh…the puzzle is hammered into the table. Hm…" I examined the hole that rested at the top of the nail-thing that held the Millennium Puzzle to the table. "I bet Morph's finger would fit through that…"
Upon hearing his name, Morph came to my side with a big smile.
"Think you can get that…nail-thing out of the table so we don't *COUGH COUGH* get killed by the smoke?" The smoke was obviously getting to me, and Morph knew he would have to move quickly. So, he simply put one of his hooked fingers through the hole and popped up the nail-thing like it was nothing.
"Thanks Morph. I better get Yugi and me out of here." I lifted Yugi up again and ran out of the burning building; trying not to get burnt by falling debris.
I saw the doorway out of the Little Game Shop of Horrors and sped up my pace. A beam started to fall in front of me, but I wasn't letting a burning, dead tree get me try to put Yugi and I in the same position it was in (which was dead and burning). I slid under it and came tumbling out of the game shop like a five-year old who just failed at a somersault.
"YUGI! SAGE!" Everyone gasped at our dramatic exit of the game shop.
"We're okay!" I called out to them.
They all jumped up and down from excitement while the ambulance took Yugi right away and some remaining paramedics checked up on me. I smiled. It had been fun narrowly escaping a burning building.
"Yeah, don't do it again." Heather said flatly after hearing my thoughts.
"But…you were the one who…never mind." I gave up arguing. I was tired.
"Miss Sage!" cried out a familiar middle-aged voice. It was Greta, and as soon as she got in range, she hugged me to the point where breathing was difficult.
"Don't you ever do that again!" Greta scolded, slightly releasing her grip on me. "Just wait until I tell your parents!"
"Good luck with that. They aren't even in the same universe as us right now." I thought to myself.
"Don't worry Greta; I have no plan of-oof!" I was greeted by another hug, but his time form DJ.
"Sage! Warn me next time before you decide you're going to go into a burning building to save someone!" DJ screamed.
"I didn't go into the burning building," I tried to explain. "I was already in it when it caught on fire."
"I don't care! Call me next time!" DJ wasn't any calmer, and my responses weren't helping at all.
"I don't have a phone I could have possibly called you with." It was true, cell phones just seemed too complicated for me to handle.
"Then get one."
"DJ I can't-" I froze as something dawned on me.
"Sage, what's wrong?" DJ asked, very worried.
"Oh D*EEP it."
Oh noooOOoOooOOOoOo. What's going to happen neeeeEEeeEeEEexxXXxXTTttT?
Sarah: Does anyone care?
Yes! Maybe...I'd like to believe so!
Sarah: Uh huh...So no one really cares then, huh?
...I don't know... Want to know something weird?
Sarah: No.
Oh...*PUPPY EYES*
Sarah: Fine. What?
I think I'm being stalked by british people.
Sarah: ...What?
No, seriously. They're everywhere.
Sarah: Please do not listen to what YamiHeart is saying. If you say this to nayone they will call you paranoid.
But I'm telling the truth!
Sarah: there aren't any british people here now.
Ryo: Pip pip cheerio. Anyone care for some tea and biscuits?
Sarah:O_o...Never mind.
Ah! Irresistably cute british person! Run away! *Leaves*
Sarah: Oh no. I better go get her back. Um...comment or something in the meantime.
Ryo: Can I come too?
Sarah: Um...just hide in the closet until YamiHeart doesn't believe she's being stalked by british people.
Ryo: ...Alright. Goodbye readers!
Sarah: Yeah, yeah. Amazing readers. GET IN THE CLOSET!
*Quick note* YamiHeart is not racist against british people. They should just stop following her for a little bit so she'll write the next part.
