Dueling Critters, a Smiling Critters x Yu-Gi-Oh AU Story

Chapter 2

Chapter 2: Changed Times

A year has passed since CraftyCorn's sacrifice. Without her, these critters are no longer smiling with each other. Adulthood has arrived for them since some are either in their Junior or Senior year of high school. Let's take a look at two of them right now.

It was 7AM on a bright Wednesday morning in the city of Crittopia. A place full of critters with whatever they do to support one another.

A purple cat was fast asleep on his bed until the alarm at 7AM went off, causing him to wake up in sweat. He looked at the alarm and turned it off. He sighed as he lays back down. Then, someone knocked on the door to his bedroom.

“Rise and shine, CatNap!” A Masculine voice hollered from the other side,

“Ugh! Give me 5 minutes!” CatNap said full of angst,

“Come on, you don't want to be late!”

“I never had, but I want to.”

An orange dog came in.

“Come on, get up.” He said, “I'm making breakfast.”

CatNap sighed as he slowly got up.

“Fine.” He said as he got the blanket off of him, “I'll meet you downstairs, DogDay…”

“Good!” DogDay said as he leaves CatNap's room,

CatNap sighed.

Later, toasted bread came out of the toaster as DogDay puts them on a plate. CatNap was at the small kitchen table, eating bacon and eggs while looking at them. DogDay puts his eggs and bacon in between the toasted bread as a sandwich and sat across the small kitchen table from CatNap.

“So, how did you sleep?” DogDay asked,

“...Better than usual, but still, I've been getting horrible dreams…” CatNap replied,

“Oh… It's about her, yeah?”

“Yes, CraftyCorn… Ever since she sacrificed herself so that whoever dueled her a year ago wouldn't come after us, things have changed…

“...Yeah, I can see why…”

“There were two of us moving to this apartment together just so I can isolate myself from the others…”

“One example of that…”

CatNap sighed again as he ate more of his bacon.

“Hey, do you remember when I used to watch you guys sleep?” He asked DogDay,

DogDay laughed nervously.

“Y-Yeah, that's a bit disturbing…” He replied,

“It sure as hell is, I want to let that crap go to begin with.” CatNap said,

The two chuckled a bit.

After a nice breakfast together, the two were ready for another day in high school.

“Ok, I got my cup of coffee.” CatNap said as he finished making coffee from a brewing machine, “And my school bag. I'll meet you outside.”

“Wait!” DogDay said, stopping CatNap from going outside, “You forgot something!”

“Huh? What is it?”

DogDay showed CatNap a charm with a crescent moon on it. CatNap sighed.