Where Anzu ended up.
Anzu hissed through her teeth in pain. They had fallen into another game again. She just knew it. She struggled to her knees and looked around. They were in a forest.
Well, she was in a forest.
Alone.
All by herself.
Everything around her was still. There was no sound of insects or birds. No breeze rustled the leaves around her.
She began to feel very afraid.
There was a faint rustling in the underbrush. One of her friends maybe?
"Yugi!" she called out hopefully. Nothing.
"Atemu? Jonochi? Honda?"
Silence.
She gulped and crept closer to the bushes. The rustling stopped.
All was still for a few moments.
A streak of blue shot out of the undergrowth, leaping at her.
Anzu screamed and fell on her backside. The whatever it was was behind her now. She scrambled to turn around, and saw it clearly.
It was a fox. An anthropomorphic fox, pale blue and nearly transparent. The thing bowed once and then shifted it's grip on a sword that was as transparent as itself.
She swallowed hard. Well it hadn't attacked again, so maybe it was friendly? She held out a hand.
"Hi. My name is Anz—"
The creature lunged. Anzu screamed again and rolled into the brush. The thing was out to kill her!
What could she do? What could she do? She could hear the thing snuffling around. She scrabbled in the forest debris. There had to something, a stick, a rock, anything she could use to defend herself. Her hand closed around something heavy. It was long too. She stared in amazement. A sword! She'd found a sword. Too bad she didn't know how to use it.
She heard a bark of triumph. The fox thing had found her. She turned and saw it leaping. She was never very sure of what happened next. She knew she was too slow. But the moment the Fox Spirit hit the top of its arc, the sword, it seemed to her began to drag her forward. As the Fox came down, the sword sliced through it.
Anzu closed her eyes expecting something horrible. But there was no sound, just the swish of the blade. She opened her eyes. The Fox staggered in front of her. It managed a shaky bow, rather deeper than the first and then dissipated like vapor.
Anzu staggered to her feet, gripping the sword as if she'd never let it go again. It hummed pleasantly in her hand. Unsteadily she inspected the spot where the creature had been. There was a strip of red and white cloth on the ground. When she picked it up she saw that it had the stylized Rising Sun. The kamikaze headband she realized.
"All right, FINE!" she yelled at the world in general. "If that's how you want to play, you got it!"
She tied the headband on and shouldered the sword. For the first time she realized that she was wearing a yellow and black suit.
When did that happen? she wondered. She looked around and found a path. She was all alone, dressed in clothes she knew she didn't own, carrying a sword she didn't know how to use, and she was pretty sure she was once again, trapped in a Shadow Game.
Crush or no crush, when she found the Pharaoh again she was going to give him a piece of her mind! And Bakura too, this was all their fault!
She set off determinedly. Hopefully the path would lead her to someone who could teach her how to use her new weapon.
To be continued…
The Yamis are up next.
I still need help with Honda. Should he be an international super spy or a yakuza? Which ever one he is, Otogi will be the other. I'm leaning towards spy.