Chapter 6: - Mummies? Mummies? Ahhhhhhhh!
Yami looked at his hand, then at Kaiba's field.
With both Yugi and Kari out of the match, this was a whole new game, and with some of his best cards already gone, it wasn't going to be an easy one.
"I play a card face down and end my turn Kaiba." Yami growled, unable to do anything else.
Kaiba drew, smirking, "I summon Des Feral Imp, and activate my Card of Demise. It lets me draw five cards but if I don't use them in five turns, I lose them in five turns." Kaiba couldn't have drawn a better hand if he'd stacked the deck himself, "Now, I'll sacrifice my Feral Imp to activate White Dragon Ritual, to summon Paladin of White Dragon!"
The knight riding a sort of Blue Eyes looking Dragon appeared in a flash of white light, "Paladin, attack with Ionic Spear Burst!"
The rider and dragon hit Valkyra straight in the chest. Yami cringed as more energy drained from him and his life points hit 3100. "It's like when I lose my life points, I lose my life energy…"
"And now, I activate Paladin's special ability to summon Blue Eyes White Dragon." Kisara didn't look as happy as Yami would have thought she would be with the turn of events. "Take a good look Yami, it's the monster that's been the bane of your existence since before you had your own body, and now she's back, but she's not alone, not for long." Seto set a card face down, "Any last requests?"
Yami realised that he was actually shaking in fear. If Kaiba pulled the move he was afraid Kaiba was going to pull, the Heart of the Cards was the only way he was getting out of this.
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Yugi and Kari were sat on stairs of the interior of the Puzzle.
"It's a Puzzle, it has to have a solution!" Kari growled as they looked at their surroundings, "Can't you just tap into the Puzzle and ask it to take you to Yami?"
"You've obviously never been lost in your Millennium Item, I once got stuck in here for three days." Yugi sighed, "I learnt quickly that most of these doors are booby trapped."
"Yeah, I noticed that thanks." Kari's sarcasm made Yugi smile slightly, "So how are we getting out of here? Ombre'll go berserk if I'm stuck in here that long… oh no… Ombre!" Kari shot to her feet, "She will be going berserk! If I'm stuck in here, then who's in my body?"
Yugi got to his feet, "No one, probably."
"Exactly!" Kari growled, "We have to find a way out, fast!"
"We've tried all the…" Yugi trailed off, "Yami! Wait for us!"
"Yugi?" Kari yelped as the smaller teen ran off, "Yugi, wait up!"
Yugi chased after the Pharaoh, whose shade vanished through an unmarked metal door. "That's not his room…"
Yugi opened it as Kari caught up with him.
The room inside looked like an Egyptian tomb, with plain Sarcophagi lying on the floor, surrounding a much more ornate one that the Pharaoh's shade had stopped by. Jackal headed, it creeped Kari out slightly and Yugi yelped as Yami's shade turned into blue energy and vanished into it.
"Yami!" Kari growled as someone started laughing.
"Who's there?" Yugi demanded, drawing his wand and quickly trying to spot anyone else in the room.
Kari shifted into a defensive position and drew her own wand as the voice started speaking Ancient Egyptian. She didn't know all of it, but she knew enough to know this wouldn't be good.
The Sarcophagi opened, revealing mummies and Yugi took a step backward as they emerged from their resting places, both hikari's trembling as the mummies started approaching.
"Incendio!" Kari bellowed, pointing her wand at the nearest of the Mummies, who burst into flame, igniting the four around it but dying before it could ignite the rest.
Yugi and Kari were on their fifth or sixth Incendio when they realised there was just too many, turned, and ran for it.
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Joey was heading in the direction he'd heard Yugi and Kari's voices coming from when two blurs shot past him.
"Yugi! Kari! Wait up!"
"Talk later…" Yugi panted, "Run now!"
"What?" Joey asked, turning and looking back the way his friends had come from.
The Mummies came around the corner and Joey easily caught up to his friends as they fled.
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Ombre couldn't believe that the Duel Dome was still standing after this afternoon's earthquake but what was more worrying was that the huge blue Pyramid, that looked like that artefact they'd seen in the museum, was still standing after the holoemitters had broken.
This was no ordinary duel.
Ombre tried to see through the blue Pyramid without touching it. She didn't know what it did and she wouldn't be able to help her hikari if she got herself trapped in the same magic.
"Ombre!" Ombre's head shot around to find the younger Kaiba brother looking at her in relief.
"What is that?" Ombre asked, "Please tell me that's not the Pyramid of Light!"
"Uhhh, this whole madness started when Seto played a card by that name…" Mokuba trailed off,
"Is Kari inside that thing?" Ombre demanded, scaring him slightly.
"She's in there, along with Yugi, Yami and my brother." Mokuba said quietly, "How is this possible?"
"Mokuba, think about where we go to school, and then think about what you just asked."
"Ah."
"It might have something to do with Egyptian Lord at the Museum." Ombre said, "Anubis, Lord of the Dead."
"How? Wasn't he a Mummy?" Mokuba asked. Ombre looked at him, "Kari isn't the only one interested in where you and Yami come from." He said defensively.
"There was a legend on the sarcophagus." Ombre sighed, "Anubis once tried to destroy the world using the Pyramid of Light and we think Yami might have defeated him back then."
"So this is a remnant of a battle held over five thousand years ago?" Mokuba asked her with wide eyes.
Ombre nodded, "And I have to get inside it, to try to help Kari. Anubis may be planning on using that Pyramid as a launching platform for a second attempt."
"We've got to get them out of there." Mokuba sounded panicked, "Kari and Yugi passed out just after the card was played but Yami and my brother are still fighting!"
Ombre growled, swearing to tear Kaiba into a million little pieces when this was over and settled for seeing if her Orb could interact with the Pyramid at all.
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"I don't know what Dark Powers are at work here, but I can't let them go unchecked!" Yami snapped at Kaiba as he played Premature Burial to raise Magician's Valkyra from the graveyard, "And I'll boost her strength with Mage Power!" Yami's points dropped to 2300 as he paid the life point cost and had to pause for a moment to let his head clear.
"It may cost me eight hundred life points," Yami continued as Valkyra reappeared with a nod to Yami, Mahado and Mana and then turned and gave Kaiba the most disgusted glare she could manage, "But my Valkyra gains five hundred attack and defence points every time I play a Magic or Trap card, like this one." Yami played another card face down and Valkyra's attack rose by fifteen hundred, five hundred for every magic or trap card on Yami's field.
Yami glared up at the huge dragon, "A thousand extra points make her more then a match for your Blue Eyes!" Yami said, his voice a low growl, Attack Valkyra! With Mystic Scepter Blast!"
The Spellcaster launched her attack.
"Not so fast Yami!" Kaiba growled, "Attack Guidance Armour will save my Blue Eyes!" He activated the trap card and it attached itself to Peten, the Dark Clown, redirecting the Spellcaster's attack.
Yami just growled as Kaiba smirked over the fact that Yami lost another quarter of his deck to Kaiba's Deck Destruction Virus. Mana gave the cards being destroyed a sharp look, as if… Yami realised what was wrong. The card that was the part of her that lived in his deck had been sent to the Graveyard… If Yami had any doubts that this was a Shadow Game, they were now gone as he realised half his deck now rested in the Graveyard.
"Soon you'll deck out and I'll be King of Games." Seto smirked, a cold icy smirk, "But first I'll bring back a friend who just hates to say goodbye." Another Peten the Dark Clown appeared and Yami was glad to know that it was the last one Kaiba could have in his deck. It chuckled and waved at Yami who glared at it.
Seto drew and gave Yami a look that the Pharaoh just knew was trouble, "I'm gonna summon up your worst nightmare, because if you couldn't defeat one Blue Eyes…" Yami knew what he was going to do before he even announced it and took an involuntary step backwards. Mahado and Mana looked at each other and moved quickly between Kaiba's monsters and the two fallen hikaris. "There's no way you'll defeat three, especially combined as the Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon!"
"If you think she's scary now just wait until she attacks, in fact, don't wait. Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon, attack with Neutron Blast!"
The three heads attacked as one, a look of fear gracing Vakyra's features just before the attack destroyed her and carried on to Yami, shocking the Pharaoh with it's leftover electrical energy as his points dropped to 1500.
Mahado watched his Master carefully, he was exhausted, hunched over and attempting to catch his breath as Kaiba started speaking again, "Look at the World's Best Duellist now." He said, if he'd crammed any more sarcasm into the sentence, it would have collapsed under the weight.
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Yugi, Joey and Kari all stopped running to catch their breath as they reached a great chasm in the Puzzle's floor.
"I think we lost them." Joey gasped.
"Mummies? In the Puzzle?" Kari glared at Yugi, "Does Yami know?"
"I didn't know before today." Yugi gasped back at her.
The evil laugh started again and Kari drew her wand again, "You know that's really starting to get on my nerves."
"Yugi, where are we?" Joey asked.
"We've been drawn into the Millennium Puzzle." Yugi said, worried as he looked up at the huge floating Millennium Symbol which was surrounded by red energy. "And thing up there is somehow responsible."
"Yugi… look down there…"
"What the?"
"The Pyramid of Light and the Millennium Puzzle?" Yugi was just as shocked as Joey and Kari were.
"That Pyramid looks like it's kicking the crud out of your Puzzle, Yuge." Joey said, trying to sound calm.
"Fighting Pyramids and creepy floating eyes, wonderful." Kari growled.
"You should be used to this by now." Joey said with a laugh.
"I don't think I'll ever get used to it. Yugi, could this be the work of Anubis?" Kari asked, as they looked around.
"The same Lord of the Dead whose Mummy was at the Museum?" Joey asked, "But he's dead!"
"So're Yami and Ombre and they're still here aren't they?" Kari said with a glare at her boyfriend.
The floating Millennium Symbol's red gem like core showed them a vision of the Duel and Kari ground her teeth as they watched Yami getting blasted by Kaiba's Blue Eyes Ultimate.
"I know he wouldn't stop!" Kari snarled, "There's something wrong with him!"
"Yami's not looking so hot either." Joey said, worried.
"We have to do something to help him!" Yugi growled at his own inability, "And the only thing I can think of right now is to go back to Anubis's Tomb."
"Back towards the Mummies?" Joey yelped.
"You know Incendio, right?" Kari attempted a light laugh as they turned and headed back the way they'd come.
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Does it hurt Yami?" Kaiba sounded triumphant, doing nothing but angering the Pharaoh, "Because it only gets worse from here."
"Kaiba, we can't continue this Duel," Yami decided to try the reasoning route again, "There's another power at work here, and it's destroying us both!"
"Give me a break."
"No, that Pyramid of Light has created a deadly Shadow Game. I know you can sense it! We must stop now!"
"The only thing I sense is your fear, not that I blame you, but I came here to win and stopping isn't an option. For all the times you humiliated me in a Duel, when clearly I should have been the champion! For all those years I had to listen to you preach about the Heart of the Cards…" Kisara gave her chosen a disgusted look and flew over to Mana, who glared at Mahado until he agreed to let Kisara help stand guard. "You're going down Yami and my Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon is going to put you there!"
"Kaiba, once again your ridiculously over inflated ego blinds you the truth! I am far from beaten!" Yami roared, finally pushed the edge by Kaiba's ranting. "I play Monster Reborn to bring back, Dark Magician Girl!" Mana and his Dark Magician Girl grinned at each other, before his monster settled down to battle, "Next I reveal my face down spell card, Sage's Stone! When Ma… the Dark Magician Girl is on the field and Sage's Stone is in play it allows me to automatically summon the Dark Magician!"
Mahado watched as a Dark Magician appeared on the field, half bowing to the Pharaoh before giving him a stern look and Mana and the Dark Magician Girl a small smile each.
"Big deal." Kaiba smirked.
"Oh it's a very big deal." Yami however had his, uh-no-I –know-that-look-we're-all-gonna-die, death smirk on. "For now I sacrifice both Magicians to summon the Sorcerer of Dark Magic!"
He appeared, twirling his staff as if bored and giving Kaiba a glare that would easily kill if he was a Basilisk.
"And with his rise to power, comes your Blue Eyes's fall from grace, because for everyone of my Sorcerer's fallen comrades in the graveyard, your dragon loses five hundred points." It was Kaiba's turn to take a step back as he realised the implications, "And right now there have been three magician's laid to rest so your precious Ultimate Dragon loses fifteen hundred points!"
"But that means my Blue Eyes is vulnerable to an attack!"
"That's exactly what it means!" Yami continued, "Attack with Celestial Blast!"
A huge blast of energy shot from the black robed Sorcerer's staff and blew Blue Eyes Ultimate to pieces. It was Kaiba's turn to be drained, as his life points decreased by two hundred.
"Now, will you stop this madness?"
"After one lucky move? I don't think so."
"Very well," Yami shrugged, "You leave me no choice, I move to attack Peten, the Dark Clown!"
"No, I'll have no monsters left to defend my life points!" Kaiba growled.
"Sorcerer! Celestial Blast Atttack!"
The Spellcaster blew away Peten without a second thought.
"You may have destroyed my clown but you forgot about my trap card and just at a time you couldn't afford to." Kaiba snapped at him. "Your deck's about to be wiped out!"
The virus attempted to discard more cards, but the Sorcerer batted the tendrils away.
"What?" Kaiba demanded.
"Sorry Kaiba, but my Sorcerer of Dark Magic's power is so mighty that he can stop the activation of Trap Cards and destroy them. My deck is safe."
"But your life points aren't." Kaiba growled, he drew and started laughing, a strange laugh that didn't sound much like Kaiba at all.
The Pyramid… Yami thought.
"I activate the magic of Monster Reborn." His Ultimate Dragon reappeared, "Then I sacrifice my reborn Ultimate Dragon to summon a new monster!"
"What?"
"That's right. I have a dragon even more powerful then Ultimate, compliments of Pegasus! A shiny new dragon. The Blue Eyes Shining Dragon!"
Ultimate Dragon's scales cracked, revealing a hard metallic armour underneath. The new dragon looked more like a Blue Eyes White Jet then an organic dragon.
"And for every dragon in my Graveyard, Shining gets an additional three hundred attack points, that's an extra fifteen hundred attack points right off the bat for a punishing grand total of 4500 points."
"But don't forget, due to my Sorcerer's special effect your dragon loses fifteen hundred points."
"I don't think so," Kaiba smirked, "Thanks to my dragon's Shining Diffusion!"
"What? Your points didn't decrease!" Yami yelped as Blue Eyes Shining's ability stopped the effect of his Sorcerer.
"Exactly. My Blue Eyes Shining Dragon allows me to chose what magic, trap or monster effects can be used against him." Kaiba smirked as Yami flinched slightly, "Just face it Yami, the Muto 'twins' days as the Kings of Games are numbered, I'm going to knock you both back to the minor leagues where you belong, now, hit him again Blue Eyes! Shining Neutron Blast!"
The dragon's attack destroyed Yami's Sorcerer without hesitation and carried on through, slamming into Yami and causing everyone inside the Pyramid to be temporally flash blinded.
Yami's points dropped to 200.
Kaiba was grinning as the light died. Yami was barely on his feet, energy draining away. "How do you like it? The pain, the sting of defeat. I felt it for too long. Now it's your turn."
Too drained of energy to remain on his feet any longer, Yami collapsed.
With both Yugi and Kari out of the match, this was a whole new game, and with some of his best cards already gone, it wasn't going to be an easy one.
"I play a card face down and end my turn Kaiba." Yami growled, unable to do anything else.
Kaiba drew, smirking, "I summon Des Feral Imp, and activate my Card of Demise. It lets me draw five cards but if I don't use them in five turns, I lose them in five turns." Kaiba couldn't have drawn a better hand if he'd stacked the deck himself, "Now, I'll sacrifice my Feral Imp to activate White Dragon Ritual, to summon Paladin of White Dragon!"
The knight riding a sort of Blue Eyes looking Dragon appeared in a flash of white light, "Paladin, attack with Ionic Spear Burst!"
The rider and dragon hit Valkyra straight in the chest. Yami cringed as more energy drained from him and his life points hit 3100. "It's like when I lose my life points, I lose my life energy…"
"And now, I activate Paladin's special ability to summon Blue Eyes White Dragon." Kisara didn't look as happy as Yami would have thought she would be with the turn of events. "Take a good look Yami, it's the monster that's been the bane of your existence since before you had your own body, and now she's back, but she's not alone, not for long." Seto set a card face down, "Any last requests?"
Yami realised that he was actually shaking in fear. If Kaiba pulled the move he was afraid Kaiba was going to pull, the Heart of the Cards was the only way he was getting out of this.
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Yugi and Kari were sat on stairs of the interior of the Puzzle.
"It's a Puzzle, it has to have a solution!" Kari growled as they looked at their surroundings, "Can't you just tap into the Puzzle and ask it to take you to Yami?"
"You've obviously never been lost in your Millennium Item, I once got stuck in here for three days." Yugi sighed, "I learnt quickly that most of these doors are booby trapped."
"Yeah, I noticed that thanks." Kari's sarcasm made Yugi smile slightly, "So how are we getting out of here? Ombre'll go berserk if I'm stuck in here that long… oh no… Ombre!" Kari shot to her feet, "She will be going berserk! If I'm stuck in here, then who's in my body?"
Yugi got to his feet, "No one, probably."
"Exactly!" Kari growled, "We have to find a way out, fast!"
"We've tried all the…" Yugi trailed off, "Yami! Wait for us!"
"Yugi?" Kari yelped as the smaller teen ran off, "Yugi, wait up!"
Yugi chased after the Pharaoh, whose shade vanished through an unmarked metal door. "That's not his room…"
Yugi opened it as Kari caught up with him.
The room inside looked like an Egyptian tomb, with plain Sarcophagi lying on the floor, surrounding a much more ornate one that the Pharaoh's shade had stopped by. Jackal headed, it creeped Kari out slightly and Yugi yelped as Yami's shade turned into blue energy and vanished into it.
"Yami!" Kari growled as someone started laughing.
"Who's there?" Yugi demanded, drawing his wand and quickly trying to spot anyone else in the room.
Kari shifted into a defensive position and drew her own wand as the voice started speaking Ancient Egyptian. She didn't know all of it, but she knew enough to know this wouldn't be good.
The Sarcophagi opened, revealing mummies and Yugi took a step backward as they emerged from their resting places, both hikari's trembling as the mummies started approaching.
"Incendio!" Kari bellowed, pointing her wand at the nearest of the Mummies, who burst into flame, igniting the four around it but dying before it could ignite the rest.
Yugi and Kari were on their fifth or sixth Incendio when they realised there was just too many, turned, and ran for it.
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Joey was heading in the direction he'd heard Yugi and Kari's voices coming from when two blurs shot past him.
"Yugi! Kari! Wait up!"
"Talk later…" Yugi panted, "Run now!"
"What?" Joey asked, turning and looking back the way his friends had come from.
The Mummies came around the corner and Joey easily caught up to his friends as they fled.
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Ombre couldn't believe that the Duel Dome was still standing after this afternoon's earthquake but what was more worrying was that the huge blue Pyramid, that looked like that artefact they'd seen in the museum, was still standing after the holoemitters had broken.
This was no ordinary duel.
Ombre tried to see through the blue Pyramid without touching it. She didn't know what it did and she wouldn't be able to help her hikari if she got herself trapped in the same magic.
"Ombre!" Ombre's head shot around to find the younger Kaiba brother looking at her in relief.
"What is that?" Ombre asked, "Please tell me that's not the Pyramid of Light!"
"Uhhh, this whole madness started when Seto played a card by that name…" Mokuba trailed off,
"Is Kari inside that thing?" Ombre demanded, scaring him slightly.
"She's in there, along with Yugi, Yami and my brother." Mokuba said quietly, "How is this possible?"
"Mokuba, think about where we go to school, and then think about what you just asked."
"Ah."
"It might have something to do with Egyptian Lord at the Museum." Ombre said, "Anubis, Lord of the Dead."
"How? Wasn't he a Mummy?" Mokuba asked. Ombre looked at him, "Kari isn't the only one interested in where you and Yami come from." He said defensively.
"There was a legend on the sarcophagus." Ombre sighed, "Anubis once tried to destroy the world using the Pyramid of Light and we think Yami might have defeated him back then."
"So this is a remnant of a battle held over five thousand years ago?" Mokuba asked her with wide eyes.
Ombre nodded, "And I have to get inside it, to try to help Kari. Anubis may be planning on using that Pyramid as a launching platform for a second attempt."
"We've got to get them out of there." Mokuba sounded panicked, "Kari and Yugi passed out just after the card was played but Yami and my brother are still fighting!"
Ombre growled, swearing to tear Kaiba into a million little pieces when this was over and settled for seeing if her Orb could interact with the Pyramid at all.
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"I don't know what Dark Powers are at work here, but I can't let them go unchecked!" Yami snapped at Kaiba as he played Premature Burial to raise Magician's Valkyra from the graveyard, "And I'll boost her strength with Mage Power!" Yami's points dropped to 2300 as he paid the life point cost and had to pause for a moment to let his head clear.
"It may cost me eight hundred life points," Yami continued as Valkyra reappeared with a nod to Yami, Mahado and Mana and then turned and gave Kaiba the most disgusted glare she could manage, "But my Valkyra gains five hundred attack and defence points every time I play a Magic or Trap card, like this one." Yami played another card face down and Valkyra's attack rose by fifteen hundred, five hundred for every magic or trap card on Yami's field.
Yami glared up at the huge dragon, "A thousand extra points make her more then a match for your Blue Eyes!" Yami said, his voice a low growl, Attack Valkyra! With Mystic Scepter Blast!"
The Spellcaster launched her attack.
"Not so fast Yami!" Kaiba growled, "Attack Guidance Armour will save my Blue Eyes!" He activated the trap card and it attached itself to Peten, the Dark Clown, redirecting the Spellcaster's attack.
Yami just growled as Kaiba smirked over the fact that Yami lost another quarter of his deck to Kaiba's Deck Destruction Virus. Mana gave the cards being destroyed a sharp look, as if… Yami realised what was wrong. The card that was the part of her that lived in his deck had been sent to the Graveyard… If Yami had any doubts that this was a Shadow Game, they were now gone as he realised half his deck now rested in the Graveyard.
"Soon you'll deck out and I'll be King of Games." Seto smirked, a cold icy smirk, "But first I'll bring back a friend who just hates to say goodbye." Another Peten the Dark Clown appeared and Yami was glad to know that it was the last one Kaiba could have in his deck. It chuckled and waved at Yami who glared at it.
Seto drew and gave Yami a look that the Pharaoh just knew was trouble, "I'm gonna summon up your worst nightmare, because if you couldn't defeat one Blue Eyes…" Yami knew what he was going to do before he even announced it and took an involuntary step backwards. Mahado and Mana looked at each other and moved quickly between Kaiba's monsters and the two fallen hikaris. "There's no way you'll defeat three, especially combined as the Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon!"
"If you think she's scary now just wait until she attacks, in fact, don't wait. Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon, attack with Neutron Blast!"
The three heads attacked as one, a look of fear gracing Vakyra's features just before the attack destroyed her and carried on to Yami, shocking the Pharaoh with it's leftover electrical energy as his points dropped to 1500.
Mahado watched his Master carefully, he was exhausted, hunched over and attempting to catch his breath as Kaiba started speaking again, "Look at the World's Best Duellist now." He said, if he'd crammed any more sarcasm into the sentence, it would have collapsed under the weight.
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Yugi, Joey and Kari all stopped running to catch their breath as they reached a great chasm in the Puzzle's floor.
"I think we lost them." Joey gasped.
"Mummies? In the Puzzle?" Kari glared at Yugi, "Does Yami know?"
"I didn't know before today." Yugi gasped back at her.
The evil laugh started again and Kari drew her wand again, "You know that's really starting to get on my nerves."
"Yugi, where are we?" Joey asked.
"We've been drawn into the Millennium Puzzle." Yugi said, worried as he looked up at the huge floating Millennium Symbol which was surrounded by red energy. "And thing up there is somehow responsible."
"Yugi… look down there…"
"What the?"
"The Pyramid of Light and the Millennium Puzzle?" Yugi was just as shocked as Joey and Kari were.
"That Pyramid looks like it's kicking the crud out of your Puzzle, Yuge." Joey said, trying to sound calm.
"Fighting Pyramids and creepy floating eyes, wonderful." Kari growled.
"You should be used to this by now." Joey said with a laugh.
"I don't think I'll ever get used to it. Yugi, could this be the work of Anubis?" Kari asked, as they looked around.
"The same Lord of the Dead whose Mummy was at the Museum?" Joey asked, "But he's dead!"
"So're Yami and Ombre and they're still here aren't they?" Kari said with a glare at her boyfriend.
The floating Millennium Symbol's red gem like core showed them a vision of the Duel and Kari ground her teeth as they watched Yami getting blasted by Kaiba's Blue Eyes Ultimate.
"I know he wouldn't stop!" Kari snarled, "There's something wrong with him!"
"Yami's not looking so hot either." Joey said, worried.
"We have to do something to help him!" Yugi growled at his own inability, "And the only thing I can think of right now is to go back to Anubis's Tomb."
"Back towards the Mummies?" Joey yelped.
"You know Incendio, right?" Kari attempted a light laugh as they turned and headed back the way they'd come.
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Does it hurt Yami?" Kaiba sounded triumphant, doing nothing but angering the Pharaoh, "Because it only gets worse from here."
"Kaiba, we can't continue this Duel," Yami decided to try the reasoning route again, "There's another power at work here, and it's destroying us both!"
"Give me a break."
"No, that Pyramid of Light has created a deadly Shadow Game. I know you can sense it! We must stop now!"
"The only thing I sense is your fear, not that I blame you, but I came here to win and stopping isn't an option. For all the times you humiliated me in a Duel, when clearly I should have been the champion! For all those years I had to listen to you preach about the Heart of the Cards…" Kisara gave her chosen a disgusted look and flew over to Mana, who glared at Mahado until he agreed to let Kisara help stand guard. "You're going down Yami and my Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon is going to put you there!"
"Kaiba, once again your ridiculously over inflated ego blinds you the truth! I am far from beaten!" Yami roared, finally pushed the edge by Kaiba's ranting. "I play Monster Reborn to bring back, Dark Magician Girl!" Mana and his Dark Magician Girl grinned at each other, before his monster settled down to battle, "Next I reveal my face down spell card, Sage's Stone! When Ma… the Dark Magician Girl is on the field and Sage's Stone is in play it allows me to automatically summon the Dark Magician!"
Mahado watched as a Dark Magician appeared on the field, half bowing to the Pharaoh before giving him a stern look and Mana and the Dark Magician Girl a small smile each.
"Big deal." Kaiba smirked.
"Oh it's a very big deal." Yami however had his, uh-no-I –know-that-look-we're-all-gonna-die, death smirk on. "For now I sacrifice both Magicians to summon the Sorcerer of Dark Magic!"
He appeared, twirling his staff as if bored and giving Kaiba a glare that would easily kill if he was a Basilisk.
"And with his rise to power, comes your Blue Eyes's fall from grace, because for everyone of my Sorcerer's fallen comrades in the graveyard, your dragon loses five hundred points." It was Kaiba's turn to take a step back as he realised the implications, "And right now there have been three magician's laid to rest so your precious Ultimate Dragon loses fifteen hundred points!"
"But that means my Blue Eyes is vulnerable to an attack!"
"That's exactly what it means!" Yami continued, "Attack with Celestial Blast!"
A huge blast of energy shot from the black robed Sorcerer's staff and blew Blue Eyes Ultimate to pieces. It was Kaiba's turn to be drained, as his life points decreased by two hundred.
"Now, will you stop this madness?"
"After one lucky move? I don't think so."
"Very well," Yami shrugged, "You leave me no choice, I move to attack Peten, the Dark Clown!"
"No, I'll have no monsters left to defend my life points!" Kaiba growled.
"Sorcerer! Celestial Blast Atttack!"
The Spellcaster blew away Peten without a second thought.
"You may have destroyed my clown but you forgot about my trap card and just at a time you couldn't afford to." Kaiba snapped at him. "Your deck's about to be wiped out!"
The virus attempted to discard more cards, but the Sorcerer batted the tendrils away.
"What?" Kaiba demanded.
"Sorry Kaiba, but my Sorcerer of Dark Magic's power is so mighty that he can stop the activation of Trap Cards and destroy them. My deck is safe."
"But your life points aren't." Kaiba growled, he drew and started laughing, a strange laugh that didn't sound much like Kaiba at all.
The Pyramid… Yami thought.
"I activate the magic of Monster Reborn." His Ultimate Dragon reappeared, "Then I sacrifice my reborn Ultimate Dragon to summon a new monster!"
"What?"
"That's right. I have a dragon even more powerful then Ultimate, compliments of Pegasus! A shiny new dragon. The Blue Eyes Shining Dragon!"
Ultimate Dragon's scales cracked, revealing a hard metallic armour underneath. The new dragon looked more like a Blue Eyes White Jet then an organic dragon.
"And for every dragon in my Graveyard, Shining gets an additional three hundred attack points, that's an extra fifteen hundred attack points right off the bat for a punishing grand total of 4500 points."
"But don't forget, due to my Sorcerer's special effect your dragon loses fifteen hundred points."
"I don't think so," Kaiba smirked, "Thanks to my dragon's Shining Diffusion!"
"What? Your points didn't decrease!" Yami yelped as Blue Eyes Shining's ability stopped the effect of his Sorcerer.
"Exactly. My Blue Eyes Shining Dragon allows me to chose what magic, trap or monster effects can be used against him." Kaiba smirked as Yami flinched slightly, "Just face it Yami, the Muto 'twins' days as the Kings of Games are numbered, I'm going to knock you both back to the minor leagues where you belong, now, hit him again Blue Eyes! Shining Neutron Blast!"
The dragon's attack destroyed Yami's Sorcerer without hesitation and carried on through, slamming into Yami and causing everyone inside the Pyramid to be temporally flash blinded.
Yami's points dropped to 200.
Kaiba was grinning as the light died. Yami was barely on his feet, energy draining away. "How do you like it? The pain, the sting of defeat. I felt it for too long. Now it's your turn."
Too drained of energy to remain on his feet any longer, Yami collapsed.