Me: I can't believe I'm doing this. So yeah, I'm doing the fic but somehow I turned it into a trilogy.

Astral: She incorporated the original idea into this.

Me: What's incorporated?

Astral: (sighs) Look in the dictionary.

Me: I have a better idea! !

Astral: That is not always right remember.

Me: It's almost always!

Astral: Remember when it said that black bears are 24 feet long?

Me: THAT WAS 3 YEARS AGO AND wait! You weren't with me 3 years ago! How do you know that!

Astral: Remember?

Me: Oh yeah. You can see my memories. Dang.

Astral: Shouldn't you get to the story?

Me: The readers don't know it! I'm not worrying!

Astral: They'll know it soon.

Me: Might as well explain now. Um…. Astral! You do it! I don't feel like it.

Astral: (sighs) The summary's in the summary so I see no need to repeat it.

Me: We do not own Yugioh Zexal! I wish I did though!

Astral: This is in episode 48. Watch it to understand the story.

Me: Please don't hate it! This is my first try at something sad!

Chapter 1: Who are you people?

(Yuma's POV)

What is this. What on earth is this! I open my eyes and the first thing I know is that I'm duelling a guy in an Aztec armor. We're in some ancient colosseum. There was a tower behind him and he just demolished it with a green seal!

I don't get it. I think I heard someone calling out to me, I'm not sure. It's scary. All of it's scary! There were some people behind me; I think they were some of my classmates. They might have been yelling, I don't know.

All I know is that when that guy destroyed the tower, I felt the loneliest I've ever felt before! Even after all those times where everyone at school abandoned me. Even after my parents died! I could only stare as everything seemed muted.

What on earth is this?

"With this, there's no one else to help you anymore!" The guy in the armor said.

I shakily stood up and looked again. He had amazingly strong monsters. There's no way I can win this duel! I panicked and took a step back, and another.

There was nothing but empty air under my foot. I slipped and fell backwards off the flying colosseum. Somehow, I managed to hang on with one hand. Under me was the ocean! I'm going to fall! There's no way I can hold on! I'm really going to fall!

Some of my classmates said something, I couldn't hear. My hand was slippery with sweat. My legs dangled helplessly. My face was strained with sweat from holding.

My hand let go. It's over.

"Yuma!" A large boy from my class grabbed my arm. Who was he? I think he duelled me once and said I was a disgrace to duelling. He didn't let go of me and some other classmates ran over and helped him not fall with me.

"Yuma! Hang in there!" One of them said.

"Why are you guys…..?" I asked as they started to pull me up.

"Isn't it obvious! We're friends!" He shouted at me.

"I'm friends with you guys?" You guys ignored me with everyone else!

"That's right!" The girl with green hair said.

"Yuma!" The other girl who looked like a cat said.

"We're…" The blue haired kid said.

"…Friends-ura!" The small one said.

They pulled me up and I landed on solid ground on all fours. I breathed in and out.

"You really forgot everything?" The big kid said. "You were someone who never gave up!" I looked at him.

He grabbed my shirt and pulled me up to him. "No matter what the situation was, you always fought with everything you had! That's the Yuma I know!"

He let go of me and I fell back onto my arms and knees. "I'm brave? We're friends?" I held my head. How could we be friends if I don't know anything about them? I don't even remember their names! But they seem to know me!

"Chatting time is over!" The guy in the armor said. We all looked at him. "I forgot you guys were still here!"

He held out his hand and the green crest from before appeared. It shot out at us and we got blasted backwards.

"Agh!"

I think something snapped off my neck. But that can't be! I don't where anything around there! I flew threw the air from the blast.

"Yuma, I will take everything away from you!" He pointed at me and I fell to the ground painfully on my back.

"It's useless! As long as you're inside there, your voice won't reach him!" He said. What was he talking about?

"Now stand! It's your turn!" He yelled at me. I managed to stand.

"M-My turn. D-Draw." I took a card from my duel disk. I looked at the other cards in my hand. There's no way I can win. I can't do this! There's no way I can do this!

"I-I end my turn."

Yuma: 400

III: 2200

"It's my turn! I draw! This is the end! Numbers 33! Machu Mach! Attack Yuma directly and end this duel! Flames of Bril!"

The enormous castle shot a beam into the sky. I fell backwards staring at it. This is it. This is it! There's nothing I can do! I'm going to lose!

A gigantic flaming meteor came out of the sky and hit me. Everything went white as I flew backwards and hit the ground.

Yuma: 0

III: 2200

"And now your Numbers are mine!" He thrust out his hand and a glowing version of it flew into my deck case. It started shining rapidly.

"What?" He took the hand back and I looked at him. "It seems that you don't have the Numbers with you as long as Astral is gone! You're no use to me now!"

He turned and started to walked away, leaving me staring. "Here! So we can meet again in the finals!"

The guy tossed a small red crystal object at me. I caught it and put it in my pocket. Why was I duelling him in the first place? How'd I even get here! No of this makes any sense!

I slowly got up. There was a small poof and my classmates ran up to me.

"Yuma! Are you okay?" The big one asked me. I looked at him again. He said that we were friends. How can that be!

"It's scary."

"Huh? What did you say?" He asked.

"I'm scared. I'm scared!" I looked at him. "All of this is scary! How could I know you! How could I know any of you! I don't remember us ever being friends!"

"Yuma…" The green haired girl looked at me. "Don't you remember anything about all the times we had together? Don't you remember this?" She held out a strangely shaped object.

"What is that?" I asked. She gasped and looked at me with sadness in her eyes. Why?

"At least take it." She gave it to me.

"T-Thanks?" I looked at it some more. It did seem faintly familiar, but I couldn't figure out how.

I looked at her. She seemed familiar, but I don't know how. This is all too confusing!

"Sorry! I gotta go!" I ran away from the highway to my house, with them shouting after me.

Some Running Later

I ran through the front door. Everything's already black outside. It's 11:00 at night already. Guess the duel took longer than I thought.

"I-I'm home." I said and started to walk home the stairs.

"Oh Yuma!" Akari shouted from the couch. "Were you out duelling again?"

"N-No! I don't duel anymore! Remember? I stopped 5 years ago!" I said. Her eyes widened.

"What are you talking about?" She looked confused. "I banned you from duelling but you were always doing it behind my back?"

My eyes widened. It's the same as before. Why does everyone think I'm someone brave! Just yesterday, my life was like it usually was, with me having no friends and everyone ignoring me. Now everyone thinks I'm someone else completely!

"S-Sorry! I'm going to my room!" I ran up the stairs to my room.

"O-Oi! Yuma!" She called after me. I shut the door to block out her shouts and flopped onto my bed. This is all too strange.

I took out the strange red crystal and looked at it, then noticed something else in my pocket. I took it out. It was a heart frame with four of the same red crystals inside it. I looked back and forth between the two objects, then tried putting them together. They clicked and formed a perfect heart.

Why did I have this heart? I think some kids in my class once talked about a World Duel Carnival with heart pieces, but I definitely wouldn't join something like that! There's no way I could've one even one duel! But then how'd I get a perfect heart?

I got up and put the heart on my desk, then took out another thing from my pocket, the weird golden object. It really did seem familiar, but I just couldn't figure out how!

There was a string attached to it, so I guess it's a pendant, but I don't think I should wear it without fully knowing what it is. I put it beside the heart and noticed a rope and some multi-colored stairs from a hole in the ceiling.

Wasn't that the attic? Yeah! But mom and dad would always store the things that they found up there. Going into the attic was scary. It's still scary! Why would there be a path to the attic from my room?

I pulled the blanket over my head as I lay down in my bed. All of this is scary. All of this is too scary! I don't get it at all! Why is this happening!

Meanwhile, In The Toolshed!

Astral: You are not Darksideincorperated.

Me: What! It's funny!

Astral: Do the actual one.

Me: Fine! Meany.

Meanwhile, Somewhere Else

III walked up the steps and pushed open the door to Tron's room, where he was in his usual seat watching cartoons and laughing maniacally.

"I'm sorry Tron. I couldn't retrieve the Numbers as planned." III said formally.

"It's fine III." Tron said, making III's eyes widen.

"Really?"

"Yeah." Tron waved his hand in the air.

"Thank you Tron." III bowed and walked out of the room.

"Now that the messenger from the Astral World is sealed off and Tsukumo Yuma no longer remembers his Kattobingu, we can continue with plans without any worry." Tron said and laughed again.

Me: Okay, who remembers Tron's maniacal laugh, cause it really creeps me out.

Astral: Find one fanfic to work on and stick with it.

Me: That's not the point here!

Astral: Then you will always have four fanfics going on at the same time.

Me: You're spoiling!

Astral: Have you figured out what incorporated means yet?

Me: Yeah. Here it is.

in·cor·po·rat·ed [in-kawr-puh-rey-tid]

adjective

1. formed or constituted as a legal corporation.

2. combined in one body; made part of.

Me: So you're saying, I formed the idea as a legal corporation? What does that even mean!

Astral: The second meaning.

Me: What? So I combined the idea into this. Oh! That makes much more sense!

Astral: (sighs) You're becoming more and more like Yuma.

Me: Am not! I am not an idiot!

Astral: I never said you were an idiot. I merely claimed that you are inheriting some traits of Yuma.

Me: What! Why you…

Astral: Review.