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Medan stalked around the
chamber, incanting the ritual that would give him the power he desired.
It was almost safe to take his time to ensure everything was correct before he risked casting the spell, the other Spellcaster, the unwilling sacrifice in the coming events, had little chance of escaping, the Paralyzing Potion that Medan had forced on the Light monster had seen to that, causing the Ka beast’s body to become limp and unresponsive, and he had guards on the entrances, while would waylay anyone who managed to find their way to this sanctuary.
Medan had felt the moment that his spell over the vessel had broken but it no longer mattered. The first thing he had had Yugi do while under his spell was summon his Ka beast, who had only not attacked Medan because the red Dark Magician had used the Duellist as a shield, and, while Yugi was still changing into a version of Responsibilities of Friendship, Medan no longer needed him as he already had his second sacrifice and as such had been willing to let Yugi go much easier than he would have done otherwise.
The death of his Ka beast would, after all, destroy what was left of Yugi’s dangerously exhausted life force or at least the greater part of it.
It amused Medan, as he started on the final words of the spell, that the Pharaoh would be under the impression that his other self was finally safe, when, in fact, in just a few minutes it was likely that the vessel would be dead.
Of course, he glowered in the direction of the door when a loud noise caused him to pause mid word as someone had set off a trap at the door that had blown away the guards and Kaiba and Wheeler had piled through the door, backed up by a few creatures from their deck.
“Uri!” Wheeler ordered the attack and the Flame Swordsman did just that, attacking using the powers of the flames that swirled around his sword, only for the flames to reflect off of a wall that appeared out of nowhere and strike the Flame Swordsman, causing some rather painful burns that slowed him down considerably.
Kaiba snorted, looking the wall over. “No Mirror Wall’s going to stop me.” He growled, drawing a card and going to cast the spell or trap card.
Medan didn’t give him a chance, blasting the CEO with his Dark Magic Attack, sending the man flying, causing him to crash into Wheeler and leaving both of them in a crumpled heap on the floor.
The red Dark Magician quickly continued the spell, wanting to get it over with before the pair picked themselves up, something they were doing rather quickly, and was rewarded with a pair of lights surrounding both him and the paralyzed Ka beast on the ground.
Pain coursed through the pair, tolerable at first but building up into an agony that caused him to let out a pained scream, before both he and Responsibilities of Friendship shattered into tiny shards of light and their fragments fused together.
Seto and Joey watched, having knocked down the Mirror Wall, preparing to fight, as the two sets of light, one purple, one white, merged into one black sphere that seemed to suck the light in from the surrounding area, only for it to warp into a hooded shape with skeletal fingers, whose eyes glowed with a blood red light and whose appeared to have a mouth full of fangs, though there was no clear face defined and who was holding a scythe like weapon whose blade consisted of a purple light and hummed ominously.
“What is...?” Joey yelped, backing off rapidly as the creature floated forward.
“I,” The creature spoke with a voice that was an odd mixture of Yugi’s and Medan’s, “Am the Reaper of Magic.” It took a lazy swipe at Uri who narrowly avoided the blow and moved between his Duellist and the creature, “And I am death.”
The creature attacked and Joey narrowly pulled his Flame Swordsman aside in time to avoid being impaled.
“Return to your deck.” Joey demanded, attempting to dismiss the weakened Flame Swordsman in order to protect it, only to find that Uri didn’t go anywhere. Both fortunately for them and unfortunately for Seto, the Reaper of Magic had changed its focus and gone after the CEO’s Swordstalker. Seto attempted to stop the attack with one of his traps, but the Reaper waved a hand and the trap dispersed, allowing the robed figure to strike.
The light only needed to touch the Dark Warrior monster for the creature to shatter and disperse.
The Reaper let out an amused chuckle as Joey hesitated and Seto snarled at him, able to almost taste the fear and uncertainty rolling off the blonde and the anger flowing from the brunette. “So,” It said, floating in mid air, considering which man to attack, “Which one of you wants to die first?”
“Neither of us are going anywhere.” Joey growled at him, calling on Tobias without thinking, having temporarily forgotten that Tobias had been on the receiving end of a Mirror Force card, and was stunned when it didn’t work.
The Reaper of Magic didn’t give him a chance to correct that mistake, missing the Duellist only because something attacked him from behind.
“Leave them alone!”
The Reaper let out an dark, mirth filled laugh and turned around to find Atem and Mahado stood in the doorway, scowling at him, behind them Subhan was carrying Yugi, who looked half-dead.
Joey swore and cast both Dien Kento the Cure Master and Lost Amulet on Yugi, only for the Reaper of Magic to negate the healing spell as it passed, but allowed the equip spell to do its job since he had no interest in being forced into striking down the vessel first anyway.
Atem spared Joey a grateful look momentarily, before he focused completely on the Reaper in front of them, wondering what other powers the monster in front of them now had, other than the ability to negate spells.
“You’re no match for me, Mahado.” The Reaper of Magic crowed at the first Dark Magician. “I’m undefeatable!”
Atem silently cast Mage Power and Magic Formula on his friend, before mentally setting the three trap cards in his hand face down, boosting Mahado’s attack through the roof.
The Reaper wasn’t oblivious to the aura that surrounded the Dark Magician and showed no concern. “Power yourself up all you like.” The Reaper snorted, “I can destroy any monster I want with just a touch, attack points don’t matter!”
“What?”
The Reaper launched himself at Mahado, who pushed Atem aside and raised his staff, narrowly managing to defend himself from the scythe, but being forced to let go of the staff in order to escape.
A second attack was blocked by a trap which the Reaper negated, only to run into Magic Cylinder at the last minute, called by Yugi. The hikari, who had been given his real deck back, had reacted with a speed that shocked his friends, setting the trap at the very last minute and causing the Reaper of Magic to walk right into it.
“You...” The Reaper of Magic pulled itself back into the air, whirled around and glowered at Yugi, who was panting heavily, his world swimming. With everything that had happened over the last few days, he had very little left to give, even after the power boost from Yami, and calling the trap had drained those narrow reserves even further.
“Your fight’s with me.” Mahado got between the Reaper and Yugi as Atem grasped his hikari’s hand and sent what little energy he could afford to spare over to Yugi. Yugi wasn’t the only one who was almost running on empty.
“It’s a good job this isn’t a game of Duel Monsters.” Joey commented as he swiftly searched through his deck for all the traps. “Or that would have been considered cheating.”
Seto just snorted at him as he did the same, well aware of the fact that if it had been a game of Duel Monsters, Yugi would never have pulled that stunt no matter how dire the situation looked.
Subhan, trusting Atem to support Yugi for the time being, put the heir down and chucked his staff to Mahado, who used it to unleash a wave of magical attacks that, though it didn’t destroy the creature, did drive it back.
The Reaper of Magic, seemingly uninjured, just launched itself at the unarmed blue Dark Magician, who narrowly managed to avoid being struck by the glowing blade of the scythe by darting out of the door, causing the Reaper to go crashing into the door frame.
Atem pulled Yugi halfway across the room as Mahado struck from behind, blasting the creature repeatedly until the wall finally crumbled and the Reaper went crashing through it and into the wall behind, which collapsed on top of him.
Mahado quickly collected his own staff and passed Subhan’s back to him, unconvinced of their victory and certain that something was going to happen, but there was something he needed to deal with now, in the short moment of peace before it did.
“I would suggest that you two go home. Now.” Mahado said, turning to the Pharaohs. It was a sign of how exhausted they were that it took them more than a moment or two to come up with an answer.
A moment or two they couldn’t spare as the Reaper of Magic launched itself at the group, shooting out of the pile of rubble and taking a swipe at Mahado. The Dark Magician couldn’t react in time to protect himself, and was only halfway turned around when Yugi darted between Mahado and the Reaper’s blade.
“No!”
Everyone froze in shock as the glowing scythe bit deep into Yugi’s chest, its blade slipping far too easily into the hikari, cutting through flesh, muscle, bone and internal organs alike.
Yugi’s light went out as he shattered into tiny pieces which lazily faded away as his friends looked on in shock.
It was almost safe to take his time to ensure everything was correct before he risked casting the spell, the other Spellcaster, the unwilling sacrifice in the coming events, had little chance of escaping, the Paralyzing Potion that Medan had forced on the Light monster had seen to that, causing the Ka beast’s body to become limp and unresponsive, and he had guards on the entrances, while would waylay anyone who managed to find their way to this sanctuary.
Medan had felt the moment that his spell over the vessel had broken but it no longer mattered. The first thing he had had Yugi do while under his spell was summon his Ka beast, who had only not attacked Medan because the red Dark Magician had used the Duellist as a shield, and, while Yugi was still changing into a version of Responsibilities of Friendship, Medan no longer needed him as he already had his second sacrifice and as such had been willing to let Yugi go much easier than he would have done otherwise.
The death of his Ka beast would, after all, destroy what was left of Yugi’s dangerously exhausted life force or at least the greater part of it.
It amused Medan, as he started on the final words of the spell, that the Pharaoh would be under the impression that his other self was finally safe, when, in fact, in just a few minutes it was likely that the vessel would be dead.
Of course, he glowered in the direction of the door when a loud noise caused him to pause mid word as someone had set off a trap at the door that had blown away the guards and Kaiba and Wheeler had piled through the door, backed up by a few creatures from their deck.
“Uri!” Wheeler ordered the attack and the Flame Swordsman did just that, attacking using the powers of the flames that swirled around his sword, only for the flames to reflect off of a wall that appeared out of nowhere and strike the Flame Swordsman, causing some rather painful burns that slowed him down considerably.
Kaiba snorted, looking the wall over. “No Mirror Wall’s going to stop me.” He growled, drawing a card and going to cast the spell or trap card.
Medan didn’t give him a chance, blasting the CEO with his Dark Magic Attack, sending the man flying, causing him to crash into Wheeler and leaving both of them in a crumpled heap on the floor.
The red Dark Magician quickly continued the spell, wanting to get it over with before the pair picked themselves up, something they were doing rather quickly, and was rewarded with a pair of lights surrounding both him and the paralyzed Ka beast on the ground.
Pain coursed through the pair, tolerable at first but building up into an agony that caused him to let out a pained scream, before both he and Responsibilities of Friendship shattered into tiny shards of light and their fragments fused together.
Seto and Joey watched, having knocked down the Mirror Wall, preparing to fight, as the two sets of light, one purple, one white, merged into one black sphere that seemed to suck the light in from the surrounding area, only for it to warp into a hooded shape with skeletal fingers, whose eyes glowed with a blood red light and whose appeared to have a mouth full of fangs, though there was no clear face defined and who was holding a scythe like weapon whose blade consisted of a purple light and hummed ominously.
“What is...?” Joey yelped, backing off rapidly as the creature floated forward.
“I,” The creature spoke with a voice that was an odd mixture of Yugi’s and Medan’s, “Am the Reaper of Magic.” It took a lazy swipe at Uri who narrowly avoided the blow and moved between his Duellist and the creature, “And I am death.”
The creature attacked and Joey narrowly pulled his Flame Swordsman aside in time to avoid being impaled.
“Return to your deck.” Joey demanded, attempting to dismiss the weakened Flame Swordsman in order to protect it, only to find that Uri didn’t go anywhere. Both fortunately for them and unfortunately for Seto, the Reaper of Magic had changed its focus and gone after the CEO’s Swordstalker. Seto attempted to stop the attack with one of his traps, but the Reaper waved a hand and the trap dispersed, allowing the robed figure to strike.
The light only needed to touch the Dark Warrior monster for the creature to shatter and disperse.
The Reaper let out an amused chuckle as Joey hesitated and Seto snarled at him, able to almost taste the fear and uncertainty rolling off the blonde and the anger flowing from the brunette. “So,” It said, floating in mid air, considering which man to attack, “Which one of you wants to die first?”
“Neither of us are going anywhere.” Joey growled at him, calling on Tobias without thinking, having temporarily forgotten that Tobias had been on the receiving end of a Mirror Force card, and was stunned when it didn’t work.
The Reaper of Magic didn’t give him a chance to correct that mistake, missing the Duellist only because something attacked him from behind.
“Leave them alone!”
The Reaper let out an dark, mirth filled laugh and turned around to find Atem and Mahado stood in the doorway, scowling at him, behind them Subhan was carrying Yugi, who looked half-dead.
Joey swore and cast both Dien Kento the Cure Master and Lost Amulet on Yugi, only for the Reaper of Magic to negate the healing spell as it passed, but allowed the equip spell to do its job since he had no interest in being forced into striking down the vessel first anyway.
Atem spared Joey a grateful look momentarily, before he focused completely on the Reaper in front of them, wondering what other powers the monster in front of them now had, other than the ability to negate spells.
“You’re no match for me, Mahado.” The Reaper of Magic crowed at the first Dark Magician. “I’m undefeatable!”
Atem silently cast Mage Power and Magic Formula on his friend, before mentally setting the three trap cards in his hand face down, boosting Mahado’s attack through the roof.
The Reaper wasn’t oblivious to the aura that surrounded the Dark Magician and showed no concern. “Power yourself up all you like.” The Reaper snorted, “I can destroy any monster I want with just a touch, attack points don’t matter!”
“What?”
The Reaper launched himself at Mahado, who pushed Atem aside and raised his staff, narrowly managing to defend himself from the scythe, but being forced to let go of the staff in order to escape.
A second attack was blocked by a trap which the Reaper negated, only to run into Magic Cylinder at the last minute, called by Yugi. The hikari, who had been given his real deck back, had reacted with a speed that shocked his friends, setting the trap at the very last minute and causing the Reaper of Magic to walk right into it.
“You...” The Reaper of Magic pulled itself back into the air, whirled around and glowered at Yugi, who was panting heavily, his world swimming. With everything that had happened over the last few days, he had very little left to give, even after the power boost from Yami, and calling the trap had drained those narrow reserves even further.
“Your fight’s with me.” Mahado got between the Reaper and Yugi as Atem grasped his hikari’s hand and sent what little energy he could afford to spare over to Yugi. Yugi wasn’t the only one who was almost running on empty.
“It’s a good job this isn’t a game of Duel Monsters.” Joey commented as he swiftly searched through his deck for all the traps. “Or that would have been considered cheating.”
Seto just snorted at him as he did the same, well aware of the fact that if it had been a game of Duel Monsters, Yugi would never have pulled that stunt no matter how dire the situation looked.
Subhan, trusting Atem to support Yugi for the time being, put the heir down and chucked his staff to Mahado, who used it to unleash a wave of magical attacks that, though it didn’t destroy the creature, did drive it back.
The Reaper of Magic, seemingly uninjured, just launched itself at the unarmed blue Dark Magician, who narrowly managed to avoid being struck by the glowing blade of the scythe by darting out of the door, causing the Reaper to go crashing into the door frame.
Atem pulled Yugi halfway across the room as Mahado struck from behind, blasting the creature repeatedly until the wall finally crumbled and the Reaper went crashing through it and into the wall behind, which collapsed on top of him.
Mahado quickly collected his own staff and passed Subhan’s back to him, unconvinced of their victory and certain that something was going to happen, but there was something he needed to deal with now, in the short moment of peace before it did.
“I would suggest that you two go home. Now.” Mahado said, turning to the Pharaohs. It was a sign of how exhausted they were that it took them more than a moment or two to come up with an answer.
A moment or two they couldn’t spare as the Reaper of Magic launched itself at the group, shooting out of the pile of rubble and taking a swipe at Mahado. The Dark Magician couldn’t react in time to protect himself, and was only halfway turned around when Yugi darted between Mahado and the Reaper’s blade.
“No!”
Everyone froze in shock as the glowing scythe bit deep into Yugi’s chest, its blade slipping far too easily into the hikari, cutting through flesh, muscle, bone and internal organs alike.
Yugi’s light went out as he shattered into tiny pieces which lazily faded away as his friends looked on in shock.