George is holding a revolver, and he is aiming it towards Gatsby. George speaks: "Jay Gatsby… I'll never forget the time when you murdered my wife." Does this asshole still think Gatsby was responsible for Myrtle's death? I'll tell him the truth: "George, you're an idiot. It was obviously that bitch Daisy who murdered Myrtle." George gets angry: "Shut up! I know it was Gatsby!" I pull out my Fifty-two Pickup. "I don't know where people go once they die in the Shadow Realm, but I'll give you the honor of figuring that out for me," I say. Gatsby steps in front of me and speaks: "Nick, let me deal with George… This is personal."
Tom speaks: "Hey, don't start a fight here! We all have our reasons for—" he is cut off, as Gatsby rushes towards George while charging electric energy in his hands. George fires his gun towards Gatsby, and misses. The bullet almost hits me. Gatsby punches George with his energized fists, and a small explosion is created, launching George a few meters back. George lands on his feet, and he punches towards Gatsby. Gatsby grabs George's arm, and he releases lightning, shocking George. George falls to the ground, and he can't move from his pain. Gatsby places his hand on George's head, and he starts charging it with lightning. "I won't end you here, but I'm just going to put you into an unconscious state," Gatsby says. He's so hot. Gatsby then releases the electric energy into George, knocking him out. "That was easy, let's go to the Shadow Castle now," Gatsby says.
All three of us start walking towards the area where the Shadow Castle is, but I notice something from the corner of my eye. I turn around, and there's something coming out of George's unconscious body. It looks like George, but with a negative-color filter applied. It rushes towards us, and I quickly draw a card from Fifty-two Pickup; it's the seven of spades, which creates a barrier. A barrier forms around us, blocking the strange thing from hitting us.
"What the hell is this thing?" I say. The thing speaks: "Hahahaha! I am the embodiment of George's subconscious mind. I hold all of his emotions. I represent all of his hopes and dreams. I am Nega-George!" My barrier disappears after its duration period, and Nega-George dashes towards Gatsby. Nega-George kicks Gatsby in the face, and rapidly punches him in the face. "Gatsby! I'll never forgive you for killing my Myrtle!" Nega-George says. I draw another card, and I get the five of diamonds. This card is useless, it just makes my hair grow 5% faster. I draw again, and I get the seven of diamonds, which is just a "get out of jail free" card from Monopoly. Dammit, all these cards I'm drawing are useless! While I'm wasting time trying to draw for a good card, Tom unsheathes Texcalibur, and he punches Nega-George with the spiked brass knuckles on it. However, Texcalibur phased right through Nega-George as if he was a ghost. "You can't touch me! I am a projection of George's mind, so I'm immune to all physical objects!"
"Tom, this bastard is just a hologram; let's destroy the projector!" I say. I start running back towards George's unconscious body. "Not so fast!" Nega-George says, and he stops attacking Gatsby to run towards me. Shit! He's too fast! I only have one chance… I draw a card again, and I get the jack of spades, which lets me teleport a short distance. This will let me escape from Nega-George. I teleport to George's body, and Nega-George is still pursuing at a high speed. If I destroy George's mind, then his subconscious will also be destroyed, and Nega-George will cease to exist. I draw the eight of diamonds, which lets me turn objects inside-out by punching them. By the way, this card totally isn't a reference to C-Moon from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. "This is for murdering Gatsby, you asshole!" I punch George's head, which becomes inside-out. The skin and skull collapse, and his brain appears on the outside, and he dies.
Nega-George starts screaming in pain, and he slowly dissolves. As Nega-George is dying, he gives his last words to me. "Nick… I've always wanted to tell you something… It's something I've had on my mind since we first met…" Nega-George screams very loudly; I can tell that what he says next will be very important. "Your mom is fat!" Nega-George finally disappears.
Tom and Gatsby run up to me. Tom speaks: "Nick, are you okay?" I respond: "Yeah, George was too weak for me. I'm ashamed to be a member of the same species as him." I notice bruises on Gatsby's face, and his nose is bleeding. "I have some cards in Fifty-two Pickup that are good for healing. Let me try to get one for you," I say. I draw a card, and I luckily get the five of hearts, which applies a small-sized regeneration buff to a target of my choice. The card starts glowing, and I apply the regeneration to Gatsby, and I see the bruises disappear after a few seconds. "Thank you, Nick," Gatsby says.
Gatsby then walks up to me, and he starts hugging me, so I hug him back. He lines his lips up to mine, and we start kissing each other. After about a minute of kissing, Tom starts speaking: "Come on, let's destroy the Shadow Realm so we can save the world!"
Suddenly, a small void appears in the ground in front of us, and a woman appears out of it. It's Myrtle Wilson. "I found you, Tom! You're the one who killed me by hitting me with Gatsby's car!" I facepalm: "Myrtle, Daisy was the one who—" "Shut up! If you're siding with Tom, then you're also my enemy! Wait… What's this?" Myrtle notices George's corpse on the ground. "Tom! You killed my husband! I'll never forgive you for this!" I should let Myrtle know that I'm the one who killed George: "Myrtle, I'm the one who killed—" "Shut up, Nick! Nobody asked!"
Tom responds: "Nick is right, I had nothing to do with—" he is interrupted by Myrtle: "Shut the hell up! I'm going to get my revenge on you!" Myrtle summons a void in her hand, and a flaming sword appears out of it. "1v1 me, Tom. This will settle our rivalry," she says. I try to interrupt her: "Tom literally didn't do—" "I don't care!"
Myrtle rushes up to Tom with her flaming sword, and she swings it at him. Tom pulls Texcalibur out of his Magic 8 Ball, and he parries Myrtle's attack. Tom then counterattacks by swinging Texcalibur's hammerhead into Myrtle. Just as Texcalibur is about to hit Myrtle, she disappears for a second, and she reappears, completely dodging the attack. "You can't defeat me, Tom! I have the ability to control voids!" Myrtle creates several baseball-sized voids in her hand, and she throws them towards Tom. He swiftly dodges all of them as if he can see them in slow-motion. The voids hit the ground, causing parts of the ground to disappear. While Myrtle is focusing on Tom, Gatsby shoots lightning towards Myrtle from behind. However, the lightning is absorbed into the defensively-placed voids around her. "None of you can beat me! I'll make you all suffer!" Myrtle continues throwing voids around, and some of them hit Tom in the foot, and his leg is erased from existence.
"Tom! No!" I scream. I continue drawing cards, but I keep getting useless ones. Come on, I know there's something useful in here. After several draws, I finally pull the king of spades and the three of clubs. The king of spades allows me to stop time for a few seconds, and the three of clubs lets me focus wind energy into a knife-like form and throw it as a projectile. I activate the king of spades, and time stops around me. Alright, I only have one chance at this. I run up to Myrtle while holding the three of clubs in my hand. The voids have no effect on me right now since they don't have any time. I charge some wind blades, and I launch them towards Myrtle's neck from a few different angles. The wind blades become motionless the moment they are released from my hands. Time starts again, and all the wind blades resume their trajectories, and they hit Myrtle in the neck, decapitating her.
I grab Myrtle's flaming sword from the ground, and I hold it out to Tom, who is bleeding heavily due to his missing leg. "Here, take this sword that can actually be used as a weapon." "No thanks, Texcalibur is all I need," he replies. Suddenly, from the hole in the bottom of Myrtle's head, a large void appears, and it starts sucking all of us in. "What the hell!?" I shout. Suddenly, Gatsby, Tom, and I all appear inside the void dimension.
All the surroundings are completely dark, and I can only see Gatsby and Tom in here. Tom speaks: "Magic 8 Ball, what's going on?" A message appears on the Magic 8 Ball: "You have been pulled into a void. The only way to get out is to defeat the Void Master." "Who the hell is this Void Master?" I ask. Suddenly, Myrtle's head appears in front of us. Gatsby speaks: "It's her! She's the Void Master!" I speak: "Tom, I can probably stop your bleeding, let me try to draw a healing card." I shuffle Fifty-two Pickup, and I draw a card. The first card I get is the eight of hearts. This card heals a small amount of health in an instant. I apply the card to Tom, and his leg stops bleeding. Gatsby aims his hands at Myrtle, and he shoots lightning. However, the lightning is lost in the void. Myrtle's head speaks: "Everything in this void will cease to exist in one minute. If I'm going down, you're all coming with me!"
"Shit! Our attacks don't seem to work on Myrtle!" I say. Tom speaks: "Do you have any cards that can bypass the void?" I think about it for a few seconds. "Well, I do have a card that can summon antimatter. I'm pretty sure that it will destroy all four of us if I use it incorrectly though." Tom continues: "If it's our only chance for survival, I'll take it." The stakes are high in this situation. But if I have to die, I'd rather die at my own hands than let Myrtle kill me. I draw a card. I get the four of spades, which allows me to control water. This card is useless in this scenario. I draw again, and I get the five of clubs. This card is similar to the four of clubs, but the fireballs are stronger, and it has less uses. Come on, just let me get the card I need! My third draw is a joker. "Give me the ace of clubs," I say.
The joker transforms into the ace of clubs, which is the card that lets me create antimatter. I aim my hand at Myrtle's head, and I create an orb of antimatter in my hand. Myrtle speaks: "The void will consume all of us in ten seconds! There's nothing you can do!" I respond: "Shut up, bitch!" I launch the antimatter towards Myrtle, and it doesn't get consumed by the void, surprising Myrtle. As the antimatter is approaching Myrtle, she starts screaming. The antimatter comes into contact with Myrtle's head, and she explodes.
Suddenly, Gatsby, Tom, and I all return to the Shadow Realm where the corpses of Myrtle and George are. Gatsby starts smiling: "Good job, Nick. I love you." I start blushing a little. "I love you too, Gatsby." Tom looks at his feet: "Oh, my leg came back!" I look at the two corpses again. "It would be a shame to just waste these corpses," I say. Tom looks at me: "Nick, necrophilia is gross." Dammit, I could've phrased that better. "I'm not talking about necrophilia! I meant that I can probably use these bodies for something in this Necromancy book!" Tom has a sarcastic look on his face: "Suuuuure, I'll totally believe that." Dammit, now everyone will think I'm a necrophile.
I open my necromancy book, and I look around for some spells. It seems like I'm able to turn these bodies into raw resources that can allow me to use more necromancy spells. I place my hand over the two corpses, and I cast the resource reversion spell. Some light comes out of my hand. Each body turns into a pile of six bones, leaving a total of twelve. For some reason, all the bones are femurs. "It seems like I can also store these bones inside this book so I won't have to carry them around." I cast a spell on the bones, and the necromancy book starts glowing. All the bones float into the book, and they disappear. I continue reading the book. "With these bones, I can create skeletons that I can control. There are a few different levels of skeletons. More powerful skeletons cost more bones to create. I can summon a skeleton crow for two bones, a skeleton dog for four, a skeleton archer for eight, a skeleton knight for sixteen, a skeleton rhinoceros for thirty-two, and a skeleton dragon for sixty-four. Once a skeleton is destroyed, it will become a pile of damaged bones equal to its summon cost, which turn into normal bones over time."
Tom speaks: "Nick, do you remember what happened the last time you tried using necromancy?" I respond: "These skeleton-summoning spells should be less dangerous, as they don't alter the fabric of reality like that revival spell did." Gatsby speaks: "Alright, now that the Wilsons are out of our way, getting to the Shadow Emperor will be much easier now… Unless he sends more assassins to kill us." I speak: "We're strong enough to take on anything the Shadow Emperor sends towards us." The three of us continue walking on the path towards the Shadow Castle.
