[IC] Demon Within (REbooting)

[YamiCuoreLaroux]

Kyo almost missed what was being said, so it took a moment to fully process what he had heard before he could type out an acceptable response. "I should be alright, this is not the first time I have had to deal with the differences in time zones. Still, I agree that a rest would be very beneficial. Thank you."

Since the boy nearby seemed to be acting so strangely, he stopped for a moment to look toward him. "Are you alright? Is something bothering you?"

[SilverWolfAngel]

"I'm Fine just…… I just need to sle…… Challenge…… Fight……" The voice was slipping through, speaking with Rez's voice, "No! I…… Fight you…… In … a bou…… , Game of Snap!" Rez shot the last part out in the hope there would be no chance for the voice to intervene. "I challenge you to a game of snap." He knew it was crazy, and that the others would probably think he was weird, but the others weren't normal either. He looked at Kyo, pleading with his eyes that the other boy would agree to the challenge. He didn't know why he chose Kyo, but now the challenge was out……… He just hoped it was accepted.

[YamiCuoreLaroux]

The dark-eyed boy watched quietly for a moment before typing his response. "Snap?" He tilted his head to the side, giving the other male a slightly curious look. "I'm not sure that I know of it, but I can certainly try."

[SilverWolfAngel]

Rez's shoulders slumped in relief, he hadn't even realized he was tense. But not knowing what Snap was? ……Okay. "Well snap is a game of card, where you each get half the deck and turn over one card per turn. If two cards of the same number come up in a row you slam your hand down and shout 'SNAP'. You try to be the first person to do this. If you are the first person you collect all the cards in the 'discard' pile and start a new pile. The aim of the game is to get all the cards." As he was talking, the voice having dropped it's voice by a few decibels, Rez hooked a deck of card out of his pocket and started shuffling them nervously.

[YamiCuoreLaroux]

@SilverWolfAngel

Kyo nodded at the instructions, watching carefully as the other boy shuffled the cards. "It sounds simple enough. Should we take a table for the game?" The request had been a bit odd, but seeing how he had just been acting and the way he seemed to have loosened up a bit at that moment, the quiet boy wondered if perhaps it was an issue with his demon. Can it be calmed like that? How curious...

[SilverWolfAngel]

"Yes a table might help, I always played it on the floor, but it's your choice as the challenged." Rez realized that it probably would have been easier to have picked a quick game, like go-fish, or memory, but snap had been what was in his head, so snap is what he had said. He looked at Katherin, hoping she didn't mind his being really rather rude. "You don't happen to have a spare table lying round?" He queried.

[KatherinWinter]

@SilverWolfAngel

"A small table?" Katherine typed. She nodded. She indicsted for the two of them to follow her. She lead them down the hall past several doors to what she called the game room. It held a pool table. A round table. A foisall table a dartboard, and other game related items. "This is the game room. There are cards and chips over there."

[SilverWolfAngel]

"Thanks" Rez said, grabbing a chair and slouching at the round table, He kept shuffling the cards, Ignoring the voice whispering that he should rig the game, the voice may be a scoundrel, but Rez hated to cheat, if he was going to win he was going to win this fair and square, whatever the consequences. As he dealt, splitting the deck into two piles, Rez asked something of Kyo; "Hey, can… um… you do me a favor? If I lose…… can you leave me alone for a little while?" He wasn't sure how harsh the consequence would be, but he never liked others to see his weak side. "Please?"

[YamiCuoreLaroux]

Kyo looked around the room that Katherin had led them to in awe. This castle really was prepared for everything, it seemed. It made him wonder what other kinds of rooms it held. I'll have to ask for a full tour later, if she has time...

Turning back toward the girl before following the other male to the table, he nodded in gratitude. "Thank you, this is quite impressive." Once at the table, however, he couldn't help but worry a bit again at the way Rez looked while shuffling the cards. His request, too, sounded a bit...perhaps melancholy? Or maybe just tired? He wasn't sure, to be honest, but he nodded. If this was something to do with his demon, then it made sense that it probably ended with something less than pleasant to have others see.

Of course, I'm sure you know all about that by now, don't you? You had such interesting ones a couple of weeks ago, it's actually really fun trying to come up with ways to top that~.

[SilverWolfAngel]

Finally, with two even piles of cards before him, Rez offered first pick to Kyo. "Gentleman first" he joked, covering up his dread for the end of the game.

[YamiCuoreLaroux]

Kyo placed his tablet down next to him on the table and took the card pile to his left, sliding it closer to where he was. Placing one hand on the top card, he nodded to indicate that he was ready and got ready to flip the card as soon as his opponent did so.

[SilverWolfAngel]

Pulling the other pile closer to himself, Rez placed on thumb on top of the top card and his fingers in a position that left them ready to grasp the bottom face of said card. It meant that when he drew the card it was facing away from himself, leaving no room to call him a cheater; a favorite tactic of old opponents.

[YamiCuoreLaroux]

Kyo quickly flipped his card directly onto the table as soon Rez moved, somehow feeling an extra urgency to move quickly. Looking down at the result, he soon moved his hand back to his pile when he realized that the cards were different. Just as quickly as the first time, though, he drew a second card to place down a moment later.

[SilverWolfAngel]

Kyo was Fast! Rez grinned matching his pace and flipping another few cards, blacks and reds, one after the other. It wasn't till about their seventh card that a match came up. Double sixes. Tugging his right hand, the one he had been using for flipping cards, out of the fray, Rez slammed his left hand towards the table, calling "Snap!" as he did so. It wasn't a rule to use the other hand, just habit.

[YamiCuoreLaroux]

Kyo blinked at how quickly the other boy had claimed the cards, a bit too stunned to react himself for the moment. Perhaps he hadn't been as prepared as he thought after all. Either way, at least he was sure of how it worked now.

Nodding in acknowledgement, he placed his hand back on the top of his stack and started quickly flipping cards over again. Once another pair showed up, he tried to slam his hand down the same way Rez had before. Checking the cards after, he could see that it was a pair if fours this time.

[SilverWolfAngel]

Well Rez though, He seems to have gotten the hang of the game Rez got himself another pair, and then accidentally attempted for a six and a nine, the voice urging him on. When he saw that they weren't even a pair he blushed scarlet red, much the same colour as his eyes, standing out radically against his white hair. "Sorry" He mumbled, shamefaced, before indicating he was ready to start again. But that had left him flustered, and for the next few pairs he barely realized they were there until they were gone.

[YamiCuoreLaroux]

Kyo took another few pairs, noticing that the boy in front of him seemed to have gotten a bit distracted. Now that he thought of it, he wasn't entirely sure what he was trying to get out of the game. Did he need to win or lose? What happened either way? While he was lost in his own thoughts, he almost didn't notice the next pair himself. He shook his head quickly as he tried to refocus.

[SilverWolfAngel]

Missing a pair, and barely snagging another, Rez tried really hard to ignore the voice, yabbing on about random cards, cards that weren't even in play! Did the voice WANT to lose?! Gritting his jaw, Rez focused, at least as much as the voice would let him; and promptly lost another handful of pairs! Why in the world would the Voice want to lose? It knew as well as he did it was not pleasant, that there was a price to pay, but really he thought, it was probably because he had been the one to challenge, not to be challenged, as then the voice would help as much as it saw fit to. But that was beside the point. The point was slowly but surely Rez was losing, and he was going to take it like a man, ……or an albino boy at least.

[YamiCuoreLaroux]

Kyo didn't really realize how many pairs he had collected until he lost another pair and took another look at his pile. It was getting pretty tall; there were probably only a few more pairs that could be played before the game ended. Though, he still didn't understand much besides the fact that the other male seemed to become more flustered as time went on.

Wait, should he have just let him win? Would that have been more helpful?

The realization made him hesitate at the next pair out of distraction, though he could see that it probably wouldn't do much good at this point when he tuned back in. Only a few cards left. It made him wonder, though; if they didn't get any matches for the last two cards, how would that affect things?

[SilverWolfAngel]

Rez ran out of cards to place, he got quite a shock too, watching the center pile as he was, he reached for a card 'flipped it over' and realized he was holding nothing. Blinking he glanced at his nonexistent pile, a taste of bile rising in the back of his throat, there was only a slim chance for him to win now, a slim chance to continue the game, and he was going to take it, that slim chance. Glancing up at Kyo he explained what happened now; "Since I've run out of cards, you just keep putting cards down, and wait and see it ther is a pair, if one comes up and I get it, we continue playing normally, if however you get the pair, you win." He had known people to be in the same position he was in and come back and win the game, but that was few and far between, and not likely, but Rez always fought to the bitter end.