The Tabletop Experiment - Choose Ur Own Adventure

Atem happily replaced the puzzle around his neck and reached over for Yugi's hand once they were both completely dressed, eyeing the scrubs cautiously. "So what now?" he asked.

Of course, NOBODY SAYS ANYTHING. Red and green scrubs just blindfold Yugi and Atem. The two flinched at first but this made sense. Of course if these guys were going to let them go they wouldn't want them to see where they were or what kind of building this was. Something didn't feel right, though. Yugi sensed it too and squeezed Atem's hand harder. Suddenly both felt a needle jabbed into their arms and then almost immediate loss of body control. Both fell unconscious just as they felt their bodies collapse to the ground.

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Yugi groaned as he stirred awake. Somebody get that bird to shut up. He groggily opened his eyes and reached up to clutch his throbbing head. He's never had a hangover before, but he guessed this was a pretty good idea of what one felt like. He regretted opening his eyes as it was very bright where he was...and warm. He heard more birds twittering and rolled onto his side to escape having the sun directly on his face. He felt grass beneath his hands and his head was lying on something soft. Yugi wiped the last of the sleep from his eyes to find that his head was resting on Atem's stomach and they were both underneath a tree and lying in some soft grass. The day's previous events started creeping through his foggy memory, his eyes opening wide in realization. "ATEM! WAKE UP!!" he shouted, shaking the other awake.

Needless to say, Atem didn't appreciate this very much. He too clutched his head and glared at Yugi for being so loud. Yugi ignored the glare and looked around to find out where they were exactly. He didn't have to look far, though. The orange, turtle-shaped building with the green roof said it all. "They dropped us off in our backyard, Atem."

"They? Who's they?" Atem groaned. "Oh wait...that wasn't a dream?"

"If it was, I don't think we'd be so sore," Yugi said sadly.

Atem also had a sad face and pulled Yugi close to him in a tight hug. "What's important is that we both survived it. You know I'm always here for you. What happened was very strange and terrible, but it could've been a lot worse. I'm just glad you're still with me and relatively unharmed. That's all I can really ask for."

Yugi nodded, "Yup. I just...It'll be hard for a while. But I think we'll be able to put it behind us and move forward. We both discovered something new along the way and I know it's brought us closer. If anything, we can hold onto that."

"Right," he smiled and leaned to kiss Yugi sweetly before pulling the both of them to their feet. "We better hurry and see jii-chan. I'm sure he's worried."

"Poor guy's probably worried sick! Let's go!" Yugi wailed, dragging Atem by the hand to run inside the gameshop. Neither could bring themselves to tell anybody of the ordeal they had gone through and their weird experience just became another thing they shared together.

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Did you like that ending? Perhaps you'd like a darker end to this tale? Coming soon, tune back to this part of the story and check out Alternate Ending B where their so-called release takes a dark turn for the worst.

Thanks for reading!

4/23/12 Edit: Thank you for waiting this long. I hope to see more readers soon. In the meantime I have a special treat for those of you who have waited to see more. Please proceed to the chapter labeled "New Beginning B" to see what dark turn this so-called ending has taken!