What was I thinking walking into a place that screams trap while I barely have enough energy to stand. Why did I do this to myself?

I started slow, their seemed to be ruins everywhere, but the webs were also showing up more often I wanted to retrace my steps and get a better idea of where I am before I realized I can't go back. Looking back I feel such a heavy presence, I can actually see the magic in the air, it's dark purple almost black, it's blocking my vision and it is slowing my movement.

As if I am walking through water I try to move backwards only to be unable to, it's not the threat of something that is stopping me, I am just unable to move back. Looking around for anything I see the area around me looks like a rotating tunnel, I guess if I can't move back then the only way I can move is forward. As I continue walking I notice I am getting slower by the minute, I am wasting so much energy just walking aimlessly. For some reason I can't ear anything.

More and more time passes by and I seem to be getting nowhere my energy is down to the point where I am hardly moving, my eyes dull, all sense of danger leaves me. I keep going forward in a type of trance I guess you could say, my heart rate is slowing down, as I calm down. I start feeling a type of happiness, I am finally able to slow down and think through things. For some reason I can't feel anything.

As I kept going I soon came to a dark room, I was able to see the other side, it had a door, so I kept going hoping to reach it. As my senses start being lost to me the only thing left is my sight I can see the door, but it get blurry as more things come into view but they arn't really there, walking by I can see shadows looking at me. I can feel them looking at me, my eyes start closing, my blinking becomes slower as I have almost no energy left to think, focusing all on just moving.

The door seems so far away, yet no matter how long I walk it never seems to get any closer. I don't know how long I have been walking, honestly it could have been hours and I would not have noticed. Warmth surrounds me, the air is warm now. I am able to feel something, for the first time in a while I feel a soothing sort of cloud around me, my muscles relax as at this point I am merely swinging from side to side instead of moving.

I see something off to the side, it looks to be a family member of mine, this makes me remember my family, I remember everything, from when I was a kid, to when I first held my little sister, to my first Yugioh game, and even laying on the floor dying. I start to wonder if I wasted my past life, as I start thinking about it, the memories of it going by so slowly and yet so quickly.

Once my memories get to the point of my once death I wonder how my sister is, honestly she was the only person I truly cared for, and because of me she ended up losing an eye. But then something odd happens, my memories continue, to this life, to me waking up and losing to that guy, it sparks a bit of anger in me, but then I realize something.

My memories of my past life, and this one, I thought I was just remembering all the good times I had, so why would I think of this life too? Or are they technically the same life? Did that one ever stop? Or did this continue it.

The dullness in my eyes fade as realization dawns apon me sending a huge amount of adrenalyn through my veins, that wasn't reminiscing, that was my life flashing before my eyes. My energy isn't the only thing leaving me, so is my lifeforce. I snap back to my senses and look around quickly red, green, no this place is zapping my energy from me.

I start sprinting off with only one thing guiding me. 'I need to live.' I see the door on the other side of the room getting closer, I can feel pain shoot through me and not the good kind, my bones, muscles, everything hurts my vision is blurry and I start wondering if I will live. Should I just drop and do nothing? Let this place consume me?

My body starts to fail on me, I start to slow down, my body swings more, the voices in the back of my head telling me to not try, that I can't win so why try? I think that they are right in all honesty I can't win, so why try? I have nothing to live for anymore, my family isn't here, nor is there anything tying me to this world.

I almost let go until I think of something, I was one day walking past a Tv store full of people arguing of what the afterlife is, I remember that was one of the things that made me stop trying in life, if I would die anyway then why should I do anything? I wouldn't care if people would hate me, I would be dead. But for some reason they all said living was the most important thing a human has.

Magic. This world has it, the power to control fate with your will. I can overcome the human limit, is that what I want to do? Overcome humans? Become a god maybe? I don't want that atleast I don't think so, but maybe I want to be the strongest not in duel monsters, not in physical power, not in spiritual power, but the power to do what ever I want, not forced to abide by the rulers, not forced to abide by other people.

Not even the laws of physics itself should be able to stop me, but that could never happen right? So why try, but this is a new world fate can be broken here, so even if it takes all my will power and everything I have left then I will do it, I will become the strongest, so I can't give up.

As if another wave of energy comes over me, I start to speed up forcing my body to move, I will not stop until my body refuses to obey me. I get closer and closer to the exit until I reach it, swinging the door open my vision is so blurry but once I am hit with a wave of cold and different air I fall to the ground. Somehow I feel like I am no longer in danger. But I can't stop yet, as I slowly get up I find someone infront of me.

It looks like a girl with long white hair, she kneels over and touches my forehead, once she does a veil of darkness covers my eyes and I pass out.

Xxx

I startle awake, quickly looking around for signs of safety I soon fine a blocked off door, guessing that was the door I came out of I am not going to go back in there, I feel mostly fine, enough of my energy has returned to the point were walking is not a problem.

My attention is drawn to something on the floor, it's a card. A duel monster card. Picking it up I notice the picture is blank, it has nothing on it. I can tell it's a monster card but I don't know what it is. Wait is this one of the 'you can't use this card until your worthy type of things?' Original.

Third Person Pov

Zenen continued on through the underground, forcing his body to work when it wasn't ready. One near death experience after another, from punji stick traps to pits leading farther into the earth. His energy recovered faster than most people but he didn't realize the damage he was doing to his body.

Zenen doesn't know how much time has passed sense he entered these ruins, having no access to sun light is making it hard for his internal clock to get an accurate read. He pushes through obstacle after obstacle. After each challenge he finds cards, soon he has a combined total of nine.

He tried to continue on after collecting the last card but once he got the card he just fell onto the floor, deciding it was the most comfortable place he has been on for a while he slept. Waking up a few times during the sleep, Zenen felt the lack of energy and kept sleeping.

After a long time he woke up and felt like his head was splitting in two. He tried to get up but couldn't even balance himself on his arms and ended up falling onto the ground hitting his head and making the headache worse. He didn't like it, normally pain wouldn't affect him in a negative way, but this wasn't controlled pain, he couldn't stop this.

Eventually he decided to not move. Moving made the headache worse, and soon he focused out of the room, not really thinking, and so time passed, and the room seemed to distort, colorful lights danced around the room, the walls and floor seemed to be moving. Zenen slowly closed his eyes knowing everything happening around him was just in his head.

But once he closed his eyes, he couldn't open them, in fact he couldn't even move. The feeling of suffocation slowly invaded Zenen's mind, he tried to will himself to do anything, because at this point he couldn't even breathe.

Sadly no matter how much you try to will something, if your body fails on you that's the end. Zenen didn't know what to think anymore, his thoughts weren't there, and if he had any, he wouldn't be able to connect two of them.

As all of Zenen's life faded out of him he died slowly not even being able to think.

Xxx

Waking up in an empty void Zenen looked around frantically questioning how he was alive, nothing was around him except black, until he noticed a note in front of him, he couldn't talk, but he was able to think, trying to grab the note he realized his body was missing so he read it from afar.

'You have died after getting a second chance, how did you even do that? You need to live but this will have consequences. When you are ready to return, think of wanting to go back.'

After finishing the note Zenen wondered what the consequence was, but he didn't want to die so doing what the paper said his vision was soon filled with white.

Hearing trees, wind and feeling his pulse Zenen opened his eyes to find himself in the graveyard he was previously at. Looking at his surroundings he couldn't find the hut, feeling himself he found his deck boxes and cards. Wondering what happened he felt around wondering if he was missing a limb or something remembering there was supposed to be a consequence.

Finding his body fine he wonders if anything bad happened. Deciding to keep continuing his research of magic, Zenen started walking out of the graveyard only to feel off the second he started moving. Stopping immediately, the feeling seemingly went away.

He slowly changed his position of standing, shifting his center of balance and right as he lent back a bit he heard static in his ears and fell writhing in agony for a few seconds from the constant static that sounded like it was in his brain. After the feeling settled Zenen slowly got up concluding that something was done to his hearing, disrupting his ability to balance himself properly.

After getting up, he started walking to the city slower than normal keeping most of his attention on walking straight and not falling. 'Is this punishment for dying or something? Maybe it was because I tried to test fate, oh well I most likely did better than anyone else who could be put in there.'

After coming to the conclusion that he didn't care, Zenen continued on to the city losing a part of himself he will never get back to continue his attempt at godlyhood. But unknown to him, enlightenment comes to those who have given up their human feelings.