I slept on the couch last night because I couldn't leave my Shinigami friends. Actually, I didn't want to leave them. I was so fascinated by their appearances, I just couldn't leave them alone. "Ryoko... Ryoko, wake up." Ryuk said.

I slowly opened my eyes before yawning. "Ryuk? What's going on?" I asked. I rubbed my eyes and looked around, noticing Gook and the rest of the Shinigami were gone. "Hey, where is everybody? What happened?" I asked, a little panic.

"Ryoko, I need you to listen to me." He said. "Ryuk, you're starting to scare me. What's going on?" I asked. "Come outside." He instructed. I raised a brow at him, confused. "Okay...?" I got up from the couch and followed him outside.

"What are we doing outside, Ryuk?" I asked her. "You'll see." He said before pulling me to his side, holding me tightly.

"Hang on."

"Okay. But why do I need to hang- Hey!"

I screamed loudly as Ryuk took off into the sky. "Whoa! Ryuk, where are we going?!" I screamed. He laughed at my fright as I saw us getting closer and closer to the clouds. I closed my eyes tightly as we went through them.

"Ryoko, open your eyes." Ryuk said. I slowly opened my eyes and gasped as we were no longer on Earth. "Whoa..." I whispered in amazement. "Does this place look familiar?" Ryuk asked. "Yeah, it does. It looks like the place I've been seeing in my dreams ever since I was six." I answered.

"Good." Ryuk flew us to the ground and gently set me on my feet. I spotted all the Shinigami here. Some were just sitting around, and I saw Gook with Deridovely. It looked like they were gambling. "Ryuk, why are we here?" I asked, looking at him.

"Ryoko, why did you dream about this place so much?" Ryuk asked.

"Well... It's just something that came into my head. In my dream, I would tell myself that I'd rather live in this place forever than be bullied for the rest of my life. I hated how the kids would tease me, so whenever I went to bed, I'd dream about this place. This would be the one place I could get away from it all, and I wished and wished that this would real. But no matter how much I wished for it, I couldn't make it come true." I explained.

"Well, your wish was heard and it came true. Because you wanted this place so badly, your dream became a reality. Just like how we became real. Because you made it that way." Ryuk said.

"Are you saying that... I created this place?"

"Yep."

"Whoa... This is amazing."

Ryuk flew towards to a tree, then came back over to me with something in his hand. "Here," He handed me an object that looked like an apple.

"What is it?" I asked. "It's a Shinigami apple." He said. I took the apple and took a small bite out of it. "Bleh!" I spit it out before wiping my mouth. "I don't think humans are supposed to eat stuff like this." I said. He chuckled as I continued to spit at the ground, trying to get the awful taste out of my mouth.

"Ryuk, I just remembered something!" I said, excitedly. "And what's that?" He asked.

"I think there's a king here!"

"A king?"

"Yeah! A Shinigami King! I remember, as a child when I was dreaming, I would play around and pretend I was a princess!"

"You played princess?"

"Hear me out, Ryuk. Every time I played around, I'd kept thinking that I needed a king. So, I made one up."

"And you think this king is here?"

"Yeah! And I know exactly where he is!"

I began to climb a hill and went into a cave. "He's over there." I said, spotting him from afar.

I walked over to him, but stopped when he spoke. "You've finally decided to come back to me, Ryoko Taizumi."

To be continued...