Me: Hello! I am bored so please enjoy this chapter which I forgot about for a while! Ahehe…

Astral: Stay more focused. You will finish it faster.

Me: I'm trying! But I have to do this poster for school and I don`t own Yugioh Zexal or Yugioh Zexal II no matter how much I try! So anyway, here!

Chapter 2: Many Head Bonkings

"Huh? What are you talking about?" Yuma looked at the girl, who was still staring.

"U-U-Uh…. W-Well….." She pointed at him shakily. "Uhhh…"

"Hm?" An older woman walked into the room and looked at Yuma, the girl's mom. "Oh, this is where you've been!"

"You know them?!" The girl yelled.

"Of course?" Her mom looked at her in confusion. "He's your cousin after all."

"Cousin?!"

"He's visiting for some time. Uh, that's strange. I can't remember, what was your name again?"

"Oh! I'm—"

"Yuya!" The girl interrupted Yuma. "Yuya… Tsukune!"

"Oh that's right! I guess I must have blanked for the second." Her mom laughed. "Well, we already have a room for you ready. Tell me when you're ready to move in."

"Sure." Yuma nodded as the mom left and closed the door. "Okay, what was that about?"

"It seems we have been transported to some other place." Astral said.

"Y-Yeah…." The girl said. "Sure. Yuma Tsukumo and Astral are standing in my room. Yeah…."

Then she ran over to the wall and began hitting her head on it repeatedly. "This is just a dream! This is just a dream! I'll wake up in a sec! This is just a dream!"

"W-Woah!" Yuma ran over. "This isn't a dream! So can you just tell me where I am and…. How do you know Astral's name? And how can you see Astral?"

"How would I know that!" The girl held her head as she stopped hitting it. "I just come home from school to see you two standing in my room! It's very awkward ya know!"

"Well it would be a bit weird to find a stranger in your ro—"

"No it's not that! You two aren't supposed to exist!"

Yuma stared at the girl. "Wha?"

The girl sighed. "Look. This might be hard to accept, but see here, you," she pointed at Yuma, "are an animated, not real main character of a tv show for us called Yugioh Zexal."

"What?"

"And Astral," she pointed at Astral, "you're an emissary from the Astral world connected to Yuma to gather the Numbers. You're also a character."

"What?"

"Hmm…" Astral looked at Yuma. "Would this be one of those 'strange' situations you talk about?"

"Yes! Yes! I don't get it! I am not a tv show! I am a person!" Yuma yelled.

"Well in this world you're just a character on a tv show!" The girl yelled back.

"So you are saying we are some of those 'fictional characters' found on tv shows? Like ESPer Robin?" Astral asked.

"Well, not really. It's more complicated than that. See, there's two kinds of tv shows. There's the kind where real people act out make-believe situations, for you, that would be stuff like ESPer Robin. Then there's another kind where people just draw cartoons and animate them, where the characters aren't real, which is Yugioh Zexal, and you guys."

Yuma stared at her. "Huh?"

"You don't get tv? For shame Yuma!"

"It doesn't make sense! If I'm a tv character, then how am I here?!"

"How would I know!"

"I still don't believe it!"

"I don't believe it either but you stopped me from hitting my head on the wall! Anyway look at this!" The girl marched out of the room and went downstairs. Yuma and Astral followed.

The girl went to the dining table and opened her laptop. Her mom was sitting across on her own laptop doing some work.

"Hmm? Sarah? Are you done already?" Her mom asked.

"Yeah." Sarah said.

"You're name's Sarah?" Yuma whispered.

"Just shut up and look at this." Sarah whispered back. On the computer screen was a place called with an article titled 'Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL'. Yuma read the description and stared at it.

"Okay, that's creepy."

"See." Sarah said.

"But it doesn't say the main character's name! The plot's summary is identical to what happened before Astral came, but it doesn't say any names!"

"What?" Sarah looked at the page. Whenever it came to the name of either Yuma or Astral, the name was blanked out. The pictures where Yuma and Astral should have been were empty. "Wait what the heck?!"

"And who's Reginald?" Yuma asked.

"That's, uh…." Sarah facepalmed and exhaled. "That's….Shark."

Yuma stared at her. "What?! Shark's name is Ryoga Kamishiro! Not Reginald!"

"I know, but see, 4Kids changed it when they were dub—"

"4Kids?! I still don't get everything!"

"Yuma." Astral said. "It seems we are in a world where we are tv show characters, and whatever brought us into this world has blocked our names from here to stop anyone from getting suspicious when you have the same name as this tv show. The picture is blank to stop anyone from recognizing us too."

"Suuuuure?"

"Well, whatever." Sarah said. "You know how to get back? Cause it's my favourite tv show."

"Don't you think if we knew we'd be gone by now?!"

"Hmmm, no not really!"

Yuma sweat-dropped. "Of all the people to get stuck with…"

"I'm the worst yeah yeah heard it before whatever for now what are we gonna do about this!"

"I suggest we just go with whatever happens for now until we can figure out what is going on." Astral said.

"Sure!" Yuma nodded.

"And one more thing," Astral looked at Sarah. "Is there duel monsters in this world?"

"Uh, yeah, but…" Sarah laughed nervously. "Well, in this world it's called Yugioh."

"You mean like the show you said we were in?" Yuma asked.

"Yeah."

"So does that mean there are Numbers in this world too?"

"Kinda, but they're different. Wait a sec!" She ran upstairs and then ran back down, holding some cards. "See, Numbers!"

"Hope?! How do you have Hope?!" Yuma yelled.

"And there is Revice Dragon along with Crimson Shadow Armor Ninja and Galaxy Queen." Astral added.

"These are the only ones I have." Sarah shrugged. "I know others who have way more."

"There are Number Hunters in this world too?"

"Well, I wouldn't really call them Number Hunters. See, in this world, you just buy booster packs and hope you get lucky enough to pull a good Number. Hope's a really common one though, cause you can get him in a whole bunch of trial decks. They don't have any special powers in this world. They're just another card."

"But there's no Astral in this world." Yuma wondered. "So maybe cause Astral wasn't in this world, the Numbers weren't anything special!"

"Um, I highly doubt that. They just print these cards and sell them. It was based on your show, nothing else."

"But," Astral said, "some force brought us into this world. This force is very powerful, so there is no telling what it might do. It might decide to use these Numbers."

"How?! These can't exactly possess people ya know! They don't have spirits in this world! I'm still doubting the fact that you're actually here and that this isn't a dream ya know!"

"I still don't believe you on the 'different world' thing too!" Yuma said. "But there's no choice but to go with it right now!"

Sarah stared at him. Finally she spoke. "Fine! Stay for a while. As soon as something makes sense, I'll be waiting. I have homework to do." Then she walked off upstairs.

Yuma looked at Astral. "What are we gonna do?"

"I don't know. We will have to figure out a way to go back to our world, and I think the Numbers are the key."

"But you heard her. There's nothing special about Numbers in this world."

"Maybe there wasn't before," Astral looked out the window. "But there is something not right going on. Most likely it will be getting ready for something. We will have to counter it."

Yuma smiled. "So we just have to save the world then? Easy!"

-The Next Day-

Sarah walked into her classroom sleepily. She dumped her stuff on her desk and lay down. It was a crazy day yesterday which, when she woke up this morning, apparently wasn't a dream.

"Oh well, maybe something'll make sense at school. It's boring so it should stay the same." She mumbled.

The rest of the kids walked into the class and sat at their desks as her teacher went to the front of the class.

"We have a new transfer student today." The teacher said. "I hope you will all be nice to him. Please welcome Yuya Tsukune."

What?

Yuma walked into the classroom happily with Astral floating behind him. "Hi there! My name's Yuya Tsukune and I'm new here!"

What?

"I'm from Heartland City!"

What?!

"If any of you have any rare trading cards, be sure to show me!" Yuma smiled.

There was the unmistakable sound of someone hitting their head on their desk repeatedly at the back of the room.

Me: Yup! Tune in some other time and maybe the third chapter will be up! Maybe some of the Number's secrets will be revealed! Maybe something cool will happen! Maybe I'll just sit there and go 'here you go the next chapter' while I drink orange juice! I love orange juice!

Astral: That is not the point.

Me: I know but I love orange juice! It goes with reviews!

Astral: You have never read reviews with orange juice.

Me: But I do it with everything else! Bye! Review! And drink some orange juice! It's tasty!