Me: Okay, quick warning before the chapter, there's actually some violence in here!

Astral: It is still rated T though.

Me: It's not that serious. Just to make things a bit more epic! Anyway, we STILL do not own Yugioh Zexal or II, so dang it!

Astral: I thought you were joking when you sent an email to TV Tokyo asking for the rights to Yugioh Zexal.

Me: Well I wasn't! And since they haven't replied to me, I still don't own it!

Chapter 7: Plans, Dating, and a Violent Thug

"Okay, let me get this straight." Yuma said slowly. He, Rei, Kotori, and Sarah were standing around the lockers and trying to figure things out.

"You're a fan of mine from the WDC."

"Yup!" Rei nodded his head.

"And so you now transferred to our school?"

"Yup!"

"And you don't find anything strange about this world?" Sarah added.

"Nope!"

"Well, this is weird." Yuma concluded.

"He knows about you winning the World Duel Carnival even though it didn't happen in this world." Kotori said. "Maybe he's from our world too?"

"Hmm, I guess that could be too."

"This world?" Rei asked. "What do you mean by that?"

"Uh, don't worry about it!" Yuma said quickly.

"Well, okay! Well, just meaning well, this is awesome how I get to meet the great Yuma!" He said happily. "You've been my hero ever since the World Duel Carnival finals! It was amazing how you won!"

"Yeah, uh, thanks!"

"This still doesn't make much sense." Kotori said to Sarah.

"I know." She said back.

"Shouldn't we be eating lunch now? It is lunchtime, after all." Rei said.

Yuma's stomach rumbled. He laughed. "Yeah! We'll figure this out after lunch!"

"Isn't figuring this out more important than lu—"

"Come on Kotori, Shingetsu, let's go eat lunch!" Yuma interrupted Sarah as he grabbed the two and ran down the hallway. Sarah stared after them.

"I think Yuma forgot I have all the lunches." She opened her locker, took out three lunches, sighed, and walked after them.

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Sarah walked into the lunchroom to see Yuma and Kotori talking in a table in the corner. Rei was nowhere to be seen.

"Hey, Yuma. You forgot that I had the lunches." Sarah said as she walked up to them and put the three bags on the table.

"Oh, so that's where they were!"

"Yuma, I told you we should have gone back to get them!" Kotori said.

"Ah well, it still worked out in the end!"

"Anyway, where's that Rei?" Sarah asked as she sat down next to Kotori.

"Oh, when he found out I didn't have my lunch, he ran to the lunch line! I guess he's buying lunch for us or something." Yuma shrugged. "Maybe…"

"Here it is!" Rei yelled as he ran to their table holding a tray of spaghetti, salad, and breadsticks. "Yuma-kun! I got the lunches!"

Then a little 6th grader accidentally walked into his path and they both crashed into each other. The lunches they were both holding went flying. Right in the middle of the table where the popular kids who had made fun of Sarah the other day. It splattered onto all of them very messily.

Yuma, Kotori, and Sarah stared at them as the girls shrieked and the boys yelled curses very loudly. They walked over to Rei very angrily and were about to give him a piece of their minds before a teacher came over and sent them to the office for cursing when it wasn't allowed on school grounds. The boys walked out of the lunchroom, followed by the upset girls. Rei apologized to the boy, then sat down at their table, smiling.

The four of them looked at each other, then burst into laughter.

"Well. That was entertaining." Astral said, smiling as well. "I suppose this is payback?"

"Yes." Sarah managed to say between laughs. "Yes it is."

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"Okay, we gotta go home now!" Sarah said to Kotori, Yuma, and Rei.

"But can't we stay a bit longer? I wanted to duel with some people here!" Yuma whined.

"We'll be able to finish our homework on time even if we stay a bit longer, so I don't see any problem with it." Kotori added.

"Uh, we really can't stay to duel!"

"Why not?!"

"Look, you'll understand eventually."

"But yesterday I dueled that man and even though he used that weird card, we still dueled just fine!"

"That's a special case."

"How?!"

Sarah paused. "I really don't know."

"So why don't we—"

"Hey there!" A boy came up to them, a group of his friends following behind him. "My name's Justin!"

"Hello." Kotori said politely.

"What's up, Justin?" Sarah asked.

"Well, uh…" Justin looked away and blushed. "Tori, I know we just met, but, WILLYOUGOONADATEWITHME?!"

Kotori stared at him. "I'm sorry, what?"

"W-Will you go on a date with me?" He asked slower, still blushing. Kotori blushed along with him.

"A date? Um, I don't know—"

"This is great! Isn't it, Kotori-san?" Rei said.

"It's just an afternoon on Saturday tomorrow! I'll come by your place! It's not that long! There's this new movie and, well, if you wanted to see it with me…."

Sarah looked at Yuma. He had a strange expression on his face, like he was getting irritated and annoyed by Justin. Maybe he just wanted to get this over with so he could go out and duel. Or maybe…

She immediately started snickering.

"W-What? What's so funny?" Yuma stuttered out.

"Oh….nothing…." She sang, looking away.

I just realized, technically what's happening right now is what's technically canon. So, with this kind of opportunity, I could use it to make Skyshipping canon! That'd be awesome!

"What are you laughing about?" Rei suddenly asked from behind her.

"Ack!" She jumped. "Oh! Uh, nothing, nothing really!"

"Kotori, we have something to do tomorrow, remember?" Yuma suddenly interrupted. "There's no time for you to go see the movie!"

"Huh?" Kotori looked at him puzzled. "There is?"

"Yes there is now let's go home!" Sarah said, grabbed Kotori, and they walked out the door. Yuma and Rei followed behind.

"So…. I guess that means you're rejected man." One of Justin's friends said.

"Too bad, better luck next time!" Another said.

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"So, why are you following us?" Yuma asked Rei as they walked home.

"Uh, just meaning well, for some reason, I don't really have a place to stay." Rei said sheepishly.

"Well…." Yuma looked at Sarah, who sighed.

"Fine, I'll see if he can stay with us." She said.

"Yes! Thank you!" Rei began shaking Sarah's hands up and down over and over.

"Y-You can stop that now!" Sarah said.

"Right!" Rei stopped immediately, still smiling.

"Anyway, I need to go buy some stuff for home, cause we're running out of stuff. You guys coming along?" She asked.

"Sure!" They all walked to the marketplace. Sarah bought the supplies, and they walked back to her house.

On the way, there was a carnival by the road. The sign said 'Fortune Telling'.

"Fortune Telling?" Sarah looked at it, confused. "I don't ever remember anything like this here before."

"It seems interesting, so let's check it out!" Yuma said cheerfully and walked towards it.

"Um… it doesn't really seem safe—"

"Don't worry about it! Besides, if anything happens, I can duel my way out of it!" Yuma said. "Let's go!"

"Oh what am I getting myself into…." She mumbled as she followed them to the weird carnival.

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"Why is it so dark in here?" Kotori wondered. "I can't see anything."

The inside was completely dark, with the only light coming from the open entrance.

"Some carnival this is. Hey, why don't we go now?" Sarah suggested nervously. "This place is really giving me the creeps!"

"You're scared of the dark?" Rei asked.

"No! It's just this place gives me the creeps!" Sarah said.

Then the entrance closed and the entire area was pitch-black.

"Which one of you closed the entrance?" Sarah panicked.

"Not me!"

"I didn't touch it!"

"Weird!"

"Okay, now I'm scared!" Sarah said. "Let's get out of here!"

"Good point!" Kotori said. They began walking around, trying to find the exit.

"Do you know where it is?" Rei called.

"Can't find it!" Yuma yelled back.

"I really want to get out of here!" Sarah panicked. She was trembling slightly. "It's too dark! It's too small!"

"We really need to get out of here!" Kotori said.

"You're not leaving yet." Someone said. The lights went on, and a gang of thugs were standing there across from them, grinning. "Not until we get what we want!"

"W-Who are these guys?" Yuma stepped back. Astral appeared next to him.

"They might be working for Barian. Be careful Yuma."

"Yeah." Yuma eyed them nervously. "I don't know who you guys are, but you're not keeping us here!"

"You're not leaving until we get what we want!" Another thug said.

"You're not getting my Numbers! Not through a duel you're not!" Yuma yelled. The thugs looked at him confused.

"Numbers?"

"Duel?"

"What's this kid talking about?"

"You think he's insane or something?"

"I am not insane! And what I MEAN is that I'm not gonna lose in a duel! And when I win, we're getting out of here!" Yuma said and took out his D-Pad and D-Gazer and tried to activate them. When they didn't work, he looked at it confused and tried again. Then he got frustrated.

"Why aren't they working?!"

"Aww, the kid's upset 'cause his toy doesn't work!" A guy said. "That's cute! Maybe we can sell those for some extra money!"

"What are you talking—"

"We're gonna hold you kids ransom so that we can get lots of money!" A thug yelled. "Ain't that obvious?!"

"What?! You can't do that?!" Kotori yelled.

"Oh we can do whatever we want!" Another one yelled and stepped towards Kotori and Sarah threateningly. "And we're gonna start with you two!"

"Oi!" Yuma stepped between Kotori and the thug angrily. "You're not doing anything!"

"Shut up you brat!" The thug roared.

Then suddenly, his fist collided with Yuma's face. The punch sent Yuma flying backwards until he hit the wall, knocking him out. Rei immediately ran over to him in a panic.

"Yuma!" Kotori screamed.

Me: . . . .

Astral: . . . .

Me: . . . . I actually wrote it.

Astral: Yes you did.

Me: I got Yuma punched.

Astral: Yes you did.

Me: I'M SO SORRY! It's just this was the best way I could think of to have Yuma learn a bit more about this world! I'm sorry!

Astral: And now everyone reading this will have to wait until next chapter to see how this turns out. And if Sarah's plan goes through.

Me: You know, I bet people forgot about that as soon as we got to the end. But yeah, review, I'm sorry again, favourite, follow, see you again!