Arlekinos Carnivale Amusement Park is one of the top rated amusement parks one can find within the spirit world even receiving a 9.8 in the new stork times. The owner is said to be constantly involved in the operation and is commonly seen controlling the rides and chatting with various customers. However, currently the owner is having his ear chewed off by a small girl with blond hair who is half his height who is constantly being nagged by this girl. Beside him is a young man who seems to be seriously revaluing if following this man into a portal which housed a theme park was a good idea, especially after seeing the man get yelled at for the last hour.
Just as the man is about to make a break for it and see if he can escape this weird mix of a theme park and carnival, the man next to him begins to speak.
“Listen Comica, I know I’m late on you pay, but it’s taking longer than expected here. Take this and it can surely just all blow over for now, correct?” The man takes out a huge wad of cash and quickly puts it into the young lady’s hands before grabbing the young man next to him and rushing off without saying another word.
“Listen Aster, that should have bought us some time before she notices that the bills are fake. We need to quickly rush through all the info before you have to leave.”
Before Aster can even respond, Arlekino pushes him into a tent and quickly follows behind.
“Alright, for now we’re gonna have to make you a new body once you're ready. Touch that mirror in front of you and you will begin creating a new body. I have to go and get the materials right now, so you should be done when I get back.” With those words, Arlekino dashes out of the tent, leaving a confused and befuddled Aster behind.
“What the hell was that all about? And wait, did he say he payed that girl in fake bills? Is he talking about these bills here?”
Aster picks up some nearby hills lying on a desk in the tent.
“This is just Monopoly money.”
“Shit, I forgot to ask him my questions before he left. I guess I will have to ask when he comes back. In the meantime, I guess I should create a body like he said?”
Aster walks over to the mirror, which fitting the theme of the park, is a funhouse mirror.
“He said I have to touch it to start, right?”
Aster puts his hand i onto the mirror and before he can react, he’s pulled through like he’s in Mario 64.
Bass Aster slowly regains his vision. He looks up to see a floating blue panel with sliders on it and in the middle is a portrait of a human just like in fallout or skyrim. There are several different tabs which read: Race, Head, Body, and legs, each of them having several categories within them changing a different thing in the selected part.
“Shit, I never liked actually creating a fully detailed character when playing games. I wonder if there’s a randomize button?”
After searching awhile, Aster eventually finds a set of dice hidden in a corner, which he promptly pushes, causing a random body to form.
“Hmm, nope next. Nope, next. Next. Hmmmm maybe? Nope next.”
This act goes on for a long while before eventually the mirror creates a suitable body for Aster.
“Well, it looks okay enough.”
Aster than presses a button conforming his body and then he is thrown out of the mirror.
“Well, that took quite a while. However, Arlekino doesn’t seem to be back yet. I guess I should explore a bit.”
Unfortunately for Aster, the tent he is in is somehow locked, meaning he can’t leave, so he instead decides to explore the tent instead. Eventually, he comes to a cabinet, which he promptly opens.
“I wonder what Arlekino keeps in here. Let’s find out. Hmm, a lot of this is just junk. I mean, what’s the use of a signed funky pop of Yugi Moto? Wait a second, what is this magazine right here? Play Clown? What the hell is Play Clown?”
Just before Aster is about to look at pin the magazine, the tent behind him opens, revealing Arlekino holding tons of different materials. Luckily for Aster, the materials are blocking Arlekino's face, meaning he can’t see what he’s doing. Before Arlekino can even say anything, Aster slams the cabinet shut and quickly acts like he’s doing nothing.
“Aster, I got the materials we need to quickly build your body. Have you already built the design?”
“Yeah, I have just finished didn’t do anything else.”
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“Alright good then.”
Arlekino quickly shoves the materials into the mirror and a few seconds later the mirror spews out a pasty tall semi muscular boy with black hair and grey pupils.
“Aster, did you even try to make a good body?”
“Not really. I kinda just clicked the randomize option a couple times until this came out.”
“Well, this thing looks like a weird vampire e-boy. Honestly, if I didn’t know you were 23 before dying, I would have thought an angsty teen who spends 90% of his day on Biscord made this.”
“What the hell is Biscord? Do you mean Discord?”
“Woah, Woah, Woah, we can’t say that up here we’re gonna get fucked over by copyright.”
“Copyright? You guys are like gods. Who the hell is gonna sue you over copyright?”
“Yeah, well, we thought that too until Reign-Beaux lost the entire dark world in a legal battle with Disney.”
“Anyway, that not important for now. Let’s get you put into your new body.”
“How are we gonna do that?”
“Don’t worry, it’s very simple.” Without missing a beat, Arlekino takes out a comically small pistol and shoots Aster directly in his forehead, leaving a small hole through it and sending the body onto the floor. He then proceeds to dig his hand into Aster's chest until he grips a grey flowing ball which he then shoved inside the new body.
A few seconds later, the vampire e-boy comes to life and begins speaking.
“WHAT THE HELL MAN.”
“It was the only way to do it. I had to.”
“You could have at least told me, asshole.”
“If I told you, you would have tried to chicken out of it. Anyway, now that we settled you into you new body, follow me to go select your deck.”
“Wait before that. What about my questions? I never got to finish them before you left.”
“We’re short on time. I’ll answer them to the best of my ability as we walk. Now follow me.”
They then walked out of the tent and started walking over to another big tent.
“Okay, so my first question is, what exactly are you?”
“Well, it’s quite simple, really. I’m a carnival amusement park owner.”
“No, not that. I mean, like, are you some sort of god or something?”
“Not exactly. I am more of a worker. Every single world has their own gods and Demi gods. Each of these gods and demigods have different forms depending on the world there from. For instance, there is a Greek mythology world out there, so you might see a Minotaur or nymph working in a similar position I am in, which is to help guide souls. However, it’s not just restricted to the underworld, there are also the gods above meaning in the Greek world they have Zeus and in we world we have The Winged Dragon of Ra.”
“Okay, but also early you said I was the chosen one of this world. What does this mean?”
“Well, it means you are the chosen one. The one who will unite the world and stop the evil forces.”
“What evils forces?”
“Well, you see, in every world there is always some sort of evil force against the good force. It’s just how the world is run. No one knows why, not even the gods.”
“Alright then, what is the evil force in this world?”
“There is a group calling themselves the Order of Duelist. there kinda like a terrorist group and their goal is to take control of everything and regulate it by stripping people of their cards.”
“Kinda like team plasma from Dokémon?”
“Yep, just a lot more homicidey.”
“How am I going t-” Before Aster can finish, they arrive at the big tent.
We’re here. Let’s head inside. We only have a few minutes left.”
“A few minutes left until what?”
“Until Comica discovers the fake bills. Now then hurry.”
The two head inside the tent and meet a small girl with blonde hair that looks a lot like Comica, who is currently sleeping inside a ticket booth. Arlekino reach’s into the booth and flicks his finger into the girl’s forehead, startling the girl awake.
“Owww, Mr Arlekino, I’m gonna report you to the union!”
“Delia, you don’t have union.”
“Fine, then. Ill report you to Comica.”
As soon as Delia says that, Arlekino faces goes down into a scowl before he quickly grabs a teddy bear whose arms and legs are wrapped in duct tape with a piece over his mouth. Arlekino then hands the bear to Delia as it struggles to escape.
“Here, take this open the door and let’s never speak of this again, ok?”
Delia quickly reaches out and snatch’s the bear out of Arlekino’s hands and then slams a button in the ticket booth before beginning to hug the bear as it attempts to escape even looking Aster in the eyes to help him to which Aster just averts his eyes.
Arlekino and Aster then head deeper inside the tent, eventually reaching a row of never ending bookshelf’s each with card binders. Directly in the middle is a Windows computer with several card images on it.
“Alright now pick five decks to start with in your new body when you arrive back on the duelist planet.”
Just as Arlekino finish’s his sentence, he is gripped on the shoulder by a young lady with blonde hair looking mightily pissed and then promptly dragged out into a room leaving Aster alone.
“Well, he’s fucked. Anyway, I gotta pick some decks, huh?”
“Hmm, I’ll take this one. This one and these 3. Oh, but what about his one? I want this one as well, but I can only choose 5. What happens if I try to go over that limit?”
Click
“I went over the limit, but it didn’t stop me?”
Little did Aster know the computer he was using was so old and bad that the limit just broke from sheer neglect.
“Well, if there’s no limit, why can’t I just choose all of them?”
Aster then preceded to choose every singles deck, there was and the click accept.
The computer then spontaneously combusted from the amount of processing that was being put into it.
Aster fled to the lobby.
In the lobby, was Delia is still hugging the bear when suddenly she stops to look at Aster.
“Oh, you're done already?”
“Yeah, I choose my decks.”
“Alright then, follow me. I’ll be escorting you out.”
“What about Arlekino?”
Delia motions towards a closed door with blood leaking out from under it.
“He’s busy.”
“Alright then. Where are we going?”
“We’re going to drop you off back on the duelist planet. You will receive further instructions from there." Now the follow me.”
With those words, Delia leaves the tent and begins to walk towards the park exit, Aster following quickly behind.
After a while, they arrive at the exit as Delia enters one of the ticket booths and begins fiddling with some buttons and levers, eventually summoning a big portal.
“Alright this should plop you back down in the alleyway you came from. Hopefully.”
“Hopefully?”
“Don’t worry about it and go.”
“What do you mea-”
Before Aster can finish, Delia quickly push’s him through the portal.
“Good luck down there. You’re gonna need it.”