Oops, sorry for waiting so long to update. Well, the first like, third of this chapter is basically what happened to me as I beat Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy. So, major but at the same time not exactly major spoilers about it in that section. If you don't want to see the spoilers, skip down to where the chapter returns to my (Shimmering-Sky's) POV. Because the chunk with the spoilers is in Sky's POV.
Uh, I hope you guys enjoy this chapter! I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds, the Professor Layton franchise, or Rune Factory (yeah, that comes into play).
Chapter 6
*Sky's POV*
I stare across the room at my author. She's sitting, curled up against the wall, clutching her 3DS and staring at it intensely. Rudolph is on her head, Lucy and Joseph on her left, and Shade on her right. Meri is across the room, hands over her ears, and she's muttering something about "No spoilers."
"If you step into the beams of light, you will die!" a female voice echoes from the game.
"W-What?" Shimmering-Sky gasps.
"That can't be right!" Lucy exclaims. "Luke and Professor Layton can't die! This is the end of the prequel trilogy!"
"Sssssh!" Shade hisses. "Oh look, Luke's the first one to try to help…"
The group of four people and one dog fall silent, and the game continues. It plays some really cool music for a while, but it gets drowned out by people screaming. I have a suspicion that they're being murdered…
Then everything goes silent for a moment as my author closes her 3DS. She stares blankly at the space the top screen was at, and she makes this weird moaning sound. All of her muses look horrified as well—which is a huge surprise.
"But… they… that…" Lucy stutters.
"How…? No way…" Joseph adds.
I'm just going to leave them to that. I'm sure Shimmering-Sky will want to get out a chapter of Shimmer once she's done. I'll make myself useful and copy down the dares…
XXX
When I return, all of them—save Meri, who is still trying to ignore them—are balling their eyes out. The 3DS is put up though.
"What just happened?" I ask.
"Aurora!" Shimmering-Sky sobs.
"W-Worse that Claire! Oh my gosh, how is that even possible?!" Lucy exclaims, wiping away her tears. She suddenly gets this weird grin on her face. "Idea! I have an idea!" And she vanishes.
I have a bad feeling about that 'idea' of hers…
XXX
*Shimmering-Sky's POV*
I wipe away the last of my tears. "Sorry you had to see that. Professor Layton games have a tendency to make me cry at the end, and The Azran Legacy was no exception. Actually, I think The Curious Village was the only one that didn't make me cry…"
Sky waves her hand dismissively. "It's fine, I've just… never seen your muses exhibit emotion like that. Seriously, I've seen them excited, angry, happy, and annoyed. But never… sad."
"You need to watch me play some of my games more often," I say. "Let's see… that level of crying happened at the end of Professor Layton and the Unwound Future and all of the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon games, bar Gates to Infinity. So this isn't the first time." I shrug. "Alright, it's probably time to get back to the other characters and add another installment to Shimmer…"
XXX
I look at my notecards—thanking Sky again for copying them down as I was too absorbed in my game… "Hmm… Meri, I need you to fetch Lester and Primo out of the Closet of Doom."
My muse finally uncovers her ears. "What was that?"
"Go get Lester and Primo." I resist the urge to yell what happened at the end of The Azran Legacy.
"Fine," she says. "I'm going to need Kitty, though."
I pause for a moment. "I'm letting mcdinh borrow Giratina," I say.
"…Then I'm going to need a pair of scissors," Meri says. She looks quite annoyed at the fact that I won't give her back Giratina.
I shiver a little, remembering a conversation we had a few days ago. "Uhm… I'd rather not…"
"It's either scissors or Kitty," she insists.
"Fine…" I pull out a pair of purple scissors—kids style—and toss them to her.
She catches them, grins, and walks into the Closet.
"What in the world is she going to do with a pair of scissors?" Akiza asks.
"Don't ask," I reply. I look back at my cards. "Well, to pass the time… here Akiza, you get to hand out the first of the dares."
The magenta-haired Duelist raises an eyebrow, but accepts the card.
Request by: amk8930
Receiver: Crow
Dare: Someone gets to shave your hair.
Crow stares at me for a moment, and a hand goes to his hair. "I… have to go to the… uh… bathroom," he declares, running to the aforementioned room and locking himself in it.
I cross my arms. "Alright, looks like we have the first ditcher of the story," I note. I'm surprised Jack's dare of getting kicked hadn't been ditched. Then again, Meri hadn't given him much of a choice. "Well, when he comes out of there, he's going to face the Closet of Doom…"
"And over a haircut?" Yusei asks, shaking his head. "Well… I guess that's how it is."
The door to the Closet of Doom flies open, and both Primo and Lester run out of it, slamming the door shut behind them. They both look like they've walked through a furnace, and Primo is missing his metal eyepiece. Which is really awkward, because it's all wires and stuff exposed now.
The two press themselves up against the door, trying to keep Meri from coming out. I almost facepalm. "You two do realize she can teleport, right?"
"Why did you send her after us?" Primo demands. "Do you have any idea what she tried to do?"
"No, and I don't really care. I just needed you here," I say. "As for why Meri was sent to fetch you… well…" I jab my thumb in the direction of my other muses (minus Lucy), who are all asleep. That's generally how it happens after an extremely emotional crying-fest brought on by a video game… they sleep for several hours once they calm down. Meri and Lucy are the only exceptions from this… huh. My male muses are the only ones that do that. Weird.
Meri appears in a cloud of smoke, tosses the scissors back to me, and sits down, smiling. "There you go! I got them to settle their differences and come here. So, why'd you need them?"
"I'm finally using the dare that was submitted to bring the two of them here in the first place," I reply, smiling. "Leo, would you like to do the honors?" I extend the card to him.
"Does it involve hurting any of us?" Leo asks.
I assume he means the good guys. "Nope, just the two of them."
"Okay…" he reluctantly takes the card from me.
Request by: Ulrich362
Receiver: Lester
Dare: You are Primo's slave for a week.
Primo's lone eye lights up with excitement, and Lester screams in frustration.
I laugh a little, "Sorry Lester, that's what the dare says. You aren't going to be a wimp like Crow, are you?"
The boy looks at Primo, then back at me and scowls. "Grr… I… I'll do the dare."
"Perfect," Primo says, grinning evilly. "Now, you need to…" He rattles on a long list of stupid chores for Lester to do, and the younger Emperor reluctantly leaves to go work on them back at who-knows-where.
I shrug and pull the second to last card out. "Okay, well… I was going to have Crow hand this out but… uhm… here, you can do it instead, Yusei."
He accepts the card without saying anything.
Request by: Pimsan
Receiver: Luna
Dare: You go to the world of Rune Factory and work on a farm.
"…By the way, Pimsan said they think it fits your character, Luna," I say.
"It does," she replies. "I've played the games." She pauses for a moment. "So… how do I get there?"
"Like this." I snap my fingers, and she vanishes. Nothing appears on the screen, though, and so I say, "I'm just going to let Luna do what she wants to… Later, she can tell us about it."
Leo fidgets in his chair. "I don't like this…"
"Suck it up, Leo," Shade mumbles, rolling over.
I stare at my eldest muse for a moment. He's still asleep, so him telling Leo to suck it up surprises me… a little. I shrug; I'll just have to ask later. "Okay, time for the last one of this chapter." Hmm, but who to let hand it out? …Well, why not Kalin? I hold out the card to the icy-blue haired man.
He accepts it with a grin.
Request by: mcdinh
Receiver: Jack
Truth: Why are you such a jackass?
The blonde scoffs, "How dare this mcdinh say that? I am not!"
Meri lashes out from her position on the floor, kicking Jack's ankle and knocking him to the floor. Jack glares at her and stands back up.
"What about when you stole Stardust Dragon and my first Duel Runner?" Yusei asks.
"Or when you ate my cereal—twice!" Crow's voice echoes from the bathroom. "I have yet to get an apology!"
"Also, the fact that you seem to think the world revolves around you," I add. "I mean, you spend money that you don't have on expensive coffee, and you can't even hold a job."
"Okay! Okay! Enough!" Jack shouts. "I thought we were going to move on from what I've done!"
"That sounds like a ditch to me," Meri chimes. "Ooh, can I get Crow out of the bathroom and send them both to the Closet?"
I stare right at Jack, who pales visibly. "Sure," I say. "But no scissors."
XXX
About ten minutes later, Meri tosses both of the two guys into the Closet of Doom. "How long are they going to be in there?" Meri asks.
"Until next chapter," I reply. "I have a special dare planned for it, if I can figure out how it works…"
Suddenly Lucy swings the front door open, a piece of paper in one hand and a pencil in the other. "I told you I had an idea! C'mon, let me read it! I have the prologue written already!"
"No—"
Of course she ignores me and clears her throat. "'I'm sorry, Miss Fudo. If what they claim is correct, then the three of them have been sent through a wormhole. We have no way of rescuing them…'"
I tear the paper from Lucy's hand, and she stops talking. I give her the best death glare I can muster and say, "Lucy, we have more than enough stories to work on at the moment. It's interesting, but it needs to wait, at least until Blue Sky is finished."
Sky flinches a little. "Okay, that one line is going to have me worried about what's going to happen…"
Lucy grins. "It'll be awesome! …Once I'm allowed to write it, anyways."
~To be continued~
That's the end of this one! I hope it was up to standards. Oh, and the idea that Lucy has is a crossover between Professor Layton (more specifically The Azran Legacy and The Unwound Future, I think) and Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds. So… yeah, once I finish Blue Sky it will go up. Uhm… please review! Especially IronChainDragon. I love both of your dares, and the second one is going into play next chapter… it's just the way you wrote the dare out that confuses me a little. I'd PM this entire statement to you, but since you're a guest reviewer…
