Chapter 7: - Comes the Dark
"Are you sure this is the way, Yuge?" Joey asked as they ran, "All the corridors look them same!"
Yugi was about to answer when something seared through him, causing him to cry out and trip over his own feet, sending him crashing to the floor.
"Yugi!" Joey and Kari had stopped and were by his side in less then a second. "What's wrong?"
Yugi knew without having to think, though it took him a moment to get his head clear again. "Y…Yami…" Yugi stammered, "It's Yami! He's hurt!"
Yugi attempted to get to his feet, but they just gave out under him and the world spun.
"I gotcha pal." Joey said, letting Yugi put all his weight on him.
"Check it out." Kari pointed into the ravine, "It's some kind of energy stream. That wasn't there just now."
"If we follow it, it might lead us to Anubis." Yugi said, managing to shake the last of the fog that had invaded his mind.
"Come on then." Joey smiled at him, and then glanced at Kari who nodded and drew her wand. "Let's go get him."
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The Pyramid was glowing brighter then ever as Ombre pulled Mokuba away.
"Seto! Kari!" The boy struggled in her grip, "Yugi! Yami!"
Ombre personally agreed with him, they had to get in there, but she didn't think that Kaiba would be best pleased if she let his little brother get hurt. She had just enough time to worry about the storm clouds that were swirling overhead, before an earthquake started that threatened to shake apart what remained of the Duel Dome.
Ombre hadn't felt one this bad the whole time she'd been aware and held on tightly, curling over Mokuba to protect him as parts of the Duel Dome's roof fell. What she guessed was the control room collapsed, landing on the Pyramid of Light which just let off some light and caused the thing to explode, sending what pieces didn't land on the Pyramid and burn up, everywhere.
"Ombre!" Mokuba squeaked as he caught movement out of the corner of his eye.
She growled, tapping into the Orb, which was just beyond the Pyramid wall and using its powers to allow her to push the falling ceiling away from them.
"Up here!" Ombre let go of Mokuba and looked up. Flying in a helicopter over the collapsing building and letting down a rope ladder, was a man with silver hair was shouting down to them.
"Pegasus?" Mokuba yelped.
"I'd hurry up!" Maximillian Pegasus shouted down to them. Ombre looked over her shoulder. The floor was collapsing… She pushed Mokuba, who was hesitating, towards the rope ladder and got a foot on herself.
Once they were safely in the helicopter Mokuba turned to Pegasus, "What're you doing here?"
"How about we start with a thank you little ingrate. Ombre couldn't have saved you forever, be grateful I worked out what this Pyramid of Light thing is."
"We already know." Ombre said, trying to spot her hikari through the blue light, "It's the Pyramid of Light, belonging to the Lord of the Dead who fought Yami over five thousand years ago. I figure he's trying to make a come back." Pegasus looked put out that they'd worked it out before he'd gotten there. "My hikari, Yugi, Yami and Kaiba are all trapped in there."
"Your hikari?" Pegasus gave her an odd look she didn't catch because she was too busy keeping an eye on what was going on below. He shook his head; it was information for another day. "Kaiba thinks he got that card from me," Pegasus continued as if nothing had been said, "But I didn't create it, this was all arranged by Anubis."
"So it is Anubis that created that Pyramid!"
"It's more then just a Pyramid, Anubis has created the ultimate Shadow Game and he gets stronger every moment."
"Kari…" Ombre murmured unhappily as she stared at the Pyramid below. "I've got to get in there."
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"Looks like this is it." Joey said as they followed the energy to an open doorway, the same one Yugi and Kari had fled from. Kari took point, wand out, as they entered.
The energy was flowing around the room and into red jewelled Millennium Symbol above the decorated sarcophagus.
Kari wasn't sure she wanted to know what was going on, she had a bad feeling the energy was coming from Yami. The voice that had spoken the ancient Egyptian was laughing, louder and louder as more energy drained into the symbol.
"Foolish Mortals." He laughed, Kari looked back over her shoulder at Joey and Yugi who had drawn their wands, "There is nothing you can do to stop my rebirth. I have infiltrated the realm of the Pharaoh, and his life force now feeds mine."
Yugi growled, moving to the front of their group, "We won't let you kill Yami to save yourself!"
"There is nothing you can do, mortal, for when the Pharaoh loses this Duel, your life force will belong to me too."
"They're on the same team!" Kari's eyes went huge. "If Yami loses…"
Yugi didn't look afraid, "We're gonna take you down Anubis!" He growled.
"I'd stay in that casket if I were you." Joey smirked, wand drawn, ready for battle, "Cause there's three of us and one of you."
Yugi took one step forward and the mummies started appearing from corners and from behind sarcophagi.
"I'd rather have the Hogwarts ghosts." Kari said, trying to keep the fear out of her voice.
"What do you want anyway?" Yugi demanded.
"Behold the future, since you won't live to see it for yourself." A portal appeared, some sort of scrying portal, showing cities burning and Duel Monsters attacking, "Soon my beasts of destruction shall annihilate all traces of life on Earth, and I will finally complete what I started millennia ago." Anubis's voice took on an amused edge, "It is by your hand that this devastation will occur, mortal, for when you released the Pharaoh you released me as well."
Yugi's face turned determined and he took a step down the stairs to the mummy ridden floor below. "Yuge?" Joey asked, a multitude of questions in the one word.
"This is between him and me." Yugi answered, he turned to Joey and Kari, "Listen, you guys need to find a way out of…"
"Yuge, you didn't walk out on Harry when we went down to the Chamber of Secrets, I'm not walking out on you now." Joey said, looking at him like he was stupid.
"I'm not going anywhere." Kari said, "We're in this too."
"You don't have to stay, but I have to figure out that Prophecy."
"You work it out, we'll burn things that try and stop you." Joey shrugged, Ombre had explained the Prophesy to them yesterday, at the Museum.
"But guys…"
"Not going anywhere Yuge." Joey said as if that ended the conversation, and to Kari and Joey it did.
"Incendio!" Yugi gave up trying to reason with them, turned around and yelled, pointing his wand at the nearest Mummy.
It burst into flames, running around like a headless chicken and setting four or five others alight before collapsing.
"Do you think Mummy powder is a required potions ingredient next year?" Kari asked as she started casting.
"If it is, don't tell Yami." Joey advised. "Though we have plenty in stock here, do you like your Mummies rare or extra crispy?"
"Guys…" Yugi backed up slightly as a fresh wave of mummies appeared, "I don't think the jokes are helping."
"INCENDIO!" Joey bellowed, the flames launched from the end of his wand, but a blast of light from what had to be Anubis's Sarcophagus sent the flames back at them. They avoided them but the flames cut their escape route off.
"So glad we're spirits here, and don't need to breathe." Kari murmured. As the smoke rose, Joey was just as glad.
Anubis was still laughing as the three friends stood back to back, ready for a fresh round of casting, while hoping Anubis wouldn't be able to block all of their spells.
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Yami was exhausted and in pain, but knew he couldn't give up as he attempted to get back to his feet.
"Look how the mighty have fallen." Kaiba snorted, "Lying on the ground like a dog waiting to be put out of it's misery. Get up!" Kaiba growled, "Get up so I can knock you back down!" There was another voice echoing Kaiba's as he spoke and Yami glared at him as best he could from his position on the floor.
Mahado came over and gave the Pharaoh a hand to his feet. Your highness, are you alright? He asked as he supported the Pharaoh until he was steady enough on his own.
'I'm fine, Mahado,' Yami answered, 'I'm more concerned about Yugi and Kari then I am about myself.'
Mahado didn't look like he believed him for a second but stayed at his side to offer help if it was needed.
"Something's not right here, Kaiba, and you know it!"
"Spare me, Yami, you're just trying to come with an excuse for losing!" Kaiba replied.
"You have no idea what's at stake here!" Yami snarled, drawing, "But believe me, I cannot let you win this Duel!" He summoned a Monster, "Big Shield Gardna, in defence mode!"
"I think you're the one who doesn't have a clue what this duel is about. It's about payback." Kaiba drew and his smirk grew wider, "And this card will see to that." Yami frowned slightly but Kaiba continued, "But first let's deal with your so called Big Shield Gardna. Do you think it's beg enough to block the power of my Blue Eyes Shining Dragon?"
Up above them in the helicopter, Mokuba had spotted Joey's unconscious form.
"Shining Dragon! Attack with Shining Neutron Blast!" Kaiba yelled, the dragon attacked, blowing away Yami's defences.
Mahado was between Yami and the attack before it blasted through the Warrior Monster and put up a shield to defend Yami.
Kaiba just rolled his eyes. "I told you when we started this duel, that this time was gonna be different Yami. You may have beaten me in the past, but now there's nothing you can do to stop me from having my revenge!" The echo was back again, much deeper and worrying then Kaiba's own voice. "You're finished."
"Not yet I'm not." Yami merely replied as he drew. "I activate Pot of Greed, which lets me draw two more cards." Kaiba looked bored, "And I summon Watapon, in defence mode." A cream puff looking thing appeared on the field. "And since I used Pot of Greed to summon Watapon, I can summon another monster to the field and I choose Obnoxious Celtic Guardian! It's your move."
"So let me see if I've got this straight, you're playing a cream puff and an elf. Well it's your funeral." Kaiba drew, "First the Card of Demise I played before sends this dragon to the Graveyard and I know you know what that means, don't you? Now my Blue Eyes Shining Dragon has more destructive power then ever before."
"Kaiba please, listen to me." Yami was trying to reason again.
"All I want to hear from you is your anguished cry of defeat." The echo was there for most of the sentence.
"Kaiba for the last time, I'm begging you to stop this. People are getting hurt, lives are in danger and this Pyramid of Light you've created is the source of it all." Yami's hand pointed towards the fallen hikaris. "Kari considers you her friend, and yet you don't even care what happens to her."
Kaiba looked stunned for a moment and he glanced over at the two.
"There's a dark power in our midst," Yami continued, "You can't deny it. With every life point we've lost, we've both become weaker, I know you can feel it!" Kaiba looked away from the two, "We must stop before it's too late!"
Yami could see Kaiba was thinking, and hoped he was getting through to him. Kaiba's eyes opened and Yami's hear sank, "I'm afraid for you it's already to late!"
"Kaiba please, you mustn't do this! We have to stop the madness! All we have to do is stop this duel!" If I lose, what happens to Yugi?
"You're absolutely right Yami, stopping this Duel is exactly what I'm going to do. Now, Shining Blue Eyes activate your final special ability!"
"No! You're playing with forces you can't possibly understand."
Kaiba hesitated but Yami didn't get his hopes up as Kaiba's eyes went to the face down card.
"I use Shining Nova!" Kaiba bellowed. "The rage of a thousand Blue Eyes goes into a blast so strong that it destroys itself plus anything I choose and the card that will feel the wrath of Blue Eyes Shining Dragon, is the Pyramid of Light!" Hesitation again, was Kaiba trying to fight the Pyramid's grip? "The Muto's grip on the title King of Games is about to be broken, Yami, that title will be mine, along with all three of your Egyptian God Cards." Kaiba glanced at Kari, then gazed up at his dragon, "Blue Eyes Shining Dragon, sacrifice yourself and destroy the Pyramid of Light!"
A huge explosion rocked the Duellists as the dragon exploded and a huge beam of white light attacked the card.
Yami watched as the light faded and the card still stood.
Someone was laughing. "This I cannot allow."
"What? The Pyramid of Light wasn't destroyed?" Yami gasped.
"The Pyramid of Light endures because I will it, so great is my power." Yami recognised the voice as the echo from Kaiba's voice that had been so obvious in the last few turns.
"Hey! What is this? Show yourself, whoever you are!" Kaiba demanded.
"I have been here the whole time, mortal, whispering in your ear."
"The whole time?" Kaiba questioned, "No, this is a trick of some sort."
He doesn't want to believe that he's been possessed most of the duel… Yami thought, before realising the shadow behind Kaiba was growing larger. "Kaiba! Look out!"
Kaiba wheeled around as a huge man appeared from the gloop the shadows were becoming. "You have served me well little worm, but you have outlived your usefulness!" The man grabbed Kaiba and threw him far enough away to not be in the way. "Kaiba! No!" Yami yelped as Kaiba hit the ground hard, head first, and didn't move.
"Mahado!" Yami snapped. The Dark Magician was already moving, grabbing up the CEO and bringing him over to the others to check over. Yami couldn't move though, he was too busy watching Anubis take form, hair, clothes… Pyramid…
Shadows surrounded him as Yami glared, "So it's been you behind this whole duel, manipulating Kaiba all along, the Egyptian Lord of the Dead, Anubis!"
"I am pleased that you remember me after all this time, my Pharaoh. It will make my ultimate vengeance all the sweeter." Anubis looked at Yami, "You will fall and my reign of destruction shall begin."
"We'll see." Yami growled back at him.
"The souls of your mortal friends have already fallen, trapped within your Puzzle."
Yami froze, glancing quickly over to the Millennium Puzzle, whose chain was still around Yugi's neck. "My friends?"
"Lost in the labyrinth of the dead, and the best part is, when I destroy you, I kill him as well, I don't even have to fight another Duel to remove your only heir."
Yami didn't think about that last bit, Yugi wasn't his heir, he was his hikari… he knew he was trembling, from rage, fear and exhaustion, he didn't know if he could do this and Yugi's life was resting on his shoulders. "You're wrong, I can still sense their presence, and I will fight to protect them!" Yami snapped at him. "No matter what happens, I will not let your evil plan come to pass!" I won't let you kill Yugi.
"All I need to do is defeat you in this Duel and the Prophecy will be fulfilled, you will be destroyed! The magic of the Shadow Games you sealed away centuries ago will once again be unleashed upon the world." Anubis held his hand palm up and open and two cards appeared, "And I shall finally take my place as the Pharaoh of this realm. With the Pyramid of Light at my command, there is nothing you can do to stop me." Dark clouds formed inside the Pyramid and Yami and Mahado growled simultaneously as they realised what was going on, "The ultimate Shadow Game is just beginning." Black goop fell from Anubis's hands and formed into two huge sphinx monsters, "I summon the terrible beasts, Andro Sphinx and Sphinx Teleia."
Yami backed up slightly and drew, "Reverse of Reverse…" Yami muttered, playing it face down. He honestly didn't know what he was going to do.
"Search your deck from now until Doomsday, you won't find anything to stand against my savage Shadow Realm beasts. No my Pharaoh, I'm afraid that for you, doomsday is today." Anubis summoned one card face down, "Now watch as your last line of defence is ripped to shreds before your eyes. Sphinx Teleia, it's feeding time!"
She pounced on Obnoxious Celtic Guardian, who's eyes widened and then he exploded.
"No!"
"And now it's your turn Andro Sphinx." The beast roared and Watapon died. "Each time Andro Sphinx destroys a monster, half of that monster's attack points are taken from my opponent's life points. You have only 100 points left."
More energy gone, Yami was only still on his feet because of Mahado.
"Your fate is sealed, Pharaoh, soon you will be the relic buried away, soon worms will feed on your flesh, just as they did on mine."
Yami glanced at Yugi and drew his last card, "Your worms will have to wait Anubis, I trust my fate to the Heart of the Cards." Yami froze… "No monsters, just two magic cards, that's all I have left…"
Yugi was about to answer when something seared through him, causing him to cry out and trip over his own feet, sending him crashing to the floor.
"Yugi!" Joey and Kari had stopped and were by his side in less then a second. "What's wrong?"
Yugi knew without having to think, though it took him a moment to get his head clear again. "Y…Yami…" Yugi stammered, "It's Yami! He's hurt!"
Yugi attempted to get to his feet, but they just gave out under him and the world spun.
"I gotcha pal." Joey said, letting Yugi put all his weight on him.
"Check it out." Kari pointed into the ravine, "It's some kind of energy stream. That wasn't there just now."
"If we follow it, it might lead us to Anubis." Yugi said, managing to shake the last of the fog that had invaded his mind.
"Come on then." Joey smiled at him, and then glanced at Kari who nodded and drew her wand. "Let's go get him."
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The Pyramid was glowing brighter then ever as Ombre pulled Mokuba away.
"Seto! Kari!" The boy struggled in her grip, "Yugi! Yami!"
Ombre personally agreed with him, they had to get in there, but she didn't think that Kaiba would be best pleased if she let his little brother get hurt. She had just enough time to worry about the storm clouds that were swirling overhead, before an earthquake started that threatened to shake apart what remained of the Duel Dome.
Ombre hadn't felt one this bad the whole time she'd been aware and held on tightly, curling over Mokuba to protect him as parts of the Duel Dome's roof fell. What she guessed was the control room collapsed, landing on the Pyramid of Light which just let off some light and caused the thing to explode, sending what pieces didn't land on the Pyramid and burn up, everywhere.
"Ombre!" Mokuba squeaked as he caught movement out of the corner of his eye.
She growled, tapping into the Orb, which was just beyond the Pyramid wall and using its powers to allow her to push the falling ceiling away from them.
"Up here!" Ombre let go of Mokuba and looked up. Flying in a helicopter over the collapsing building and letting down a rope ladder, was a man with silver hair was shouting down to them.
"Pegasus?" Mokuba yelped.
"I'd hurry up!" Maximillian Pegasus shouted down to them. Ombre looked over her shoulder. The floor was collapsing… She pushed Mokuba, who was hesitating, towards the rope ladder and got a foot on herself.
Once they were safely in the helicopter Mokuba turned to Pegasus, "What're you doing here?"
"How about we start with a thank you little ingrate. Ombre couldn't have saved you forever, be grateful I worked out what this Pyramid of Light thing is."
"We already know." Ombre said, trying to spot her hikari through the blue light, "It's the Pyramid of Light, belonging to the Lord of the Dead who fought Yami over five thousand years ago. I figure he's trying to make a come back." Pegasus looked put out that they'd worked it out before he'd gotten there. "My hikari, Yugi, Yami and Kaiba are all trapped in there."
"Your hikari?" Pegasus gave her an odd look she didn't catch because she was too busy keeping an eye on what was going on below. He shook his head; it was information for another day. "Kaiba thinks he got that card from me," Pegasus continued as if nothing had been said, "But I didn't create it, this was all arranged by Anubis."
"So it is Anubis that created that Pyramid!"
"It's more then just a Pyramid, Anubis has created the ultimate Shadow Game and he gets stronger every moment."
"Kari…" Ombre murmured unhappily as she stared at the Pyramid below. "I've got to get in there."
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"Looks like this is it." Joey said as they followed the energy to an open doorway, the same one Yugi and Kari had fled from. Kari took point, wand out, as they entered.
The energy was flowing around the room and into red jewelled Millennium Symbol above the decorated sarcophagus.
Kari wasn't sure she wanted to know what was going on, she had a bad feeling the energy was coming from Yami. The voice that had spoken the ancient Egyptian was laughing, louder and louder as more energy drained into the symbol.
"Foolish Mortals." He laughed, Kari looked back over her shoulder at Joey and Yugi who had drawn their wands, "There is nothing you can do to stop my rebirth. I have infiltrated the realm of the Pharaoh, and his life force now feeds mine."
Yugi growled, moving to the front of their group, "We won't let you kill Yami to save yourself!"
"There is nothing you can do, mortal, for when the Pharaoh loses this Duel, your life force will belong to me too."
"They're on the same team!" Kari's eyes went huge. "If Yami loses…"
Yugi didn't look afraid, "We're gonna take you down Anubis!" He growled.
"I'd stay in that casket if I were you." Joey smirked, wand drawn, ready for battle, "Cause there's three of us and one of you."
Yugi took one step forward and the mummies started appearing from corners and from behind sarcophagi.
"I'd rather have the Hogwarts ghosts." Kari said, trying to keep the fear out of her voice.
"What do you want anyway?" Yugi demanded.
"Behold the future, since you won't live to see it for yourself." A portal appeared, some sort of scrying portal, showing cities burning and Duel Monsters attacking, "Soon my beasts of destruction shall annihilate all traces of life on Earth, and I will finally complete what I started millennia ago." Anubis's voice took on an amused edge, "It is by your hand that this devastation will occur, mortal, for when you released the Pharaoh you released me as well."
Yugi's face turned determined and he took a step down the stairs to the mummy ridden floor below. "Yuge?" Joey asked, a multitude of questions in the one word.
"This is between him and me." Yugi answered, he turned to Joey and Kari, "Listen, you guys need to find a way out of…"
"Yuge, you didn't walk out on Harry when we went down to the Chamber of Secrets, I'm not walking out on you now." Joey said, looking at him like he was stupid.
"I'm not going anywhere." Kari said, "We're in this too."
"You don't have to stay, but I have to figure out that Prophecy."
"You work it out, we'll burn things that try and stop you." Joey shrugged, Ombre had explained the Prophesy to them yesterday, at the Museum.
"But guys…"
"Not going anywhere Yuge." Joey said as if that ended the conversation, and to Kari and Joey it did.
"Incendio!" Yugi gave up trying to reason with them, turned around and yelled, pointing his wand at the nearest Mummy.
It burst into flames, running around like a headless chicken and setting four or five others alight before collapsing.
"Do you think Mummy powder is a required potions ingredient next year?" Kari asked as she started casting.
"If it is, don't tell Yami." Joey advised. "Though we have plenty in stock here, do you like your Mummies rare or extra crispy?"
"Guys…" Yugi backed up slightly as a fresh wave of mummies appeared, "I don't think the jokes are helping."
"INCENDIO!" Joey bellowed, the flames launched from the end of his wand, but a blast of light from what had to be Anubis's Sarcophagus sent the flames back at them. They avoided them but the flames cut their escape route off.
"So glad we're spirits here, and don't need to breathe." Kari murmured. As the smoke rose, Joey was just as glad.
Anubis was still laughing as the three friends stood back to back, ready for a fresh round of casting, while hoping Anubis wouldn't be able to block all of their spells.
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Yami was exhausted and in pain, but knew he couldn't give up as he attempted to get back to his feet.
"Look how the mighty have fallen." Kaiba snorted, "Lying on the ground like a dog waiting to be put out of it's misery. Get up!" Kaiba growled, "Get up so I can knock you back down!" There was another voice echoing Kaiba's as he spoke and Yami glared at him as best he could from his position on the floor.
Mahado came over and gave the Pharaoh a hand to his feet. Your highness, are you alright? He asked as he supported the Pharaoh until he was steady enough on his own.
'I'm fine, Mahado,' Yami answered, 'I'm more concerned about Yugi and Kari then I am about myself.'
Mahado didn't look like he believed him for a second but stayed at his side to offer help if it was needed.
"Something's not right here, Kaiba, and you know it!"
"Spare me, Yami, you're just trying to come with an excuse for losing!" Kaiba replied.
"You have no idea what's at stake here!" Yami snarled, drawing, "But believe me, I cannot let you win this Duel!" He summoned a Monster, "Big Shield Gardna, in defence mode!"
"I think you're the one who doesn't have a clue what this duel is about. It's about payback." Kaiba drew and his smirk grew wider, "And this card will see to that." Yami frowned slightly but Kaiba continued, "But first let's deal with your so called Big Shield Gardna. Do you think it's beg enough to block the power of my Blue Eyes Shining Dragon?"
Up above them in the helicopter, Mokuba had spotted Joey's unconscious form.
"Shining Dragon! Attack with Shining Neutron Blast!" Kaiba yelled, the dragon attacked, blowing away Yami's defences.
Mahado was between Yami and the attack before it blasted through the Warrior Monster and put up a shield to defend Yami.
Kaiba just rolled his eyes. "I told you when we started this duel, that this time was gonna be different Yami. You may have beaten me in the past, but now there's nothing you can do to stop me from having my revenge!" The echo was back again, much deeper and worrying then Kaiba's own voice. "You're finished."
"Not yet I'm not." Yami merely replied as he drew. "I activate Pot of Greed, which lets me draw two more cards." Kaiba looked bored, "And I summon Watapon, in defence mode." A cream puff looking thing appeared on the field. "And since I used Pot of Greed to summon Watapon, I can summon another monster to the field and I choose Obnoxious Celtic Guardian! It's your move."
"So let me see if I've got this straight, you're playing a cream puff and an elf. Well it's your funeral." Kaiba drew, "First the Card of Demise I played before sends this dragon to the Graveyard and I know you know what that means, don't you? Now my Blue Eyes Shining Dragon has more destructive power then ever before."
"Kaiba please, listen to me." Yami was trying to reason again.
"All I want to hear from you is your anguished cry of defeat." The echo was there for most of the sentence.
"Kaiba for the last time, I'm begging you to stop this. People are getting hurt, lives are in danger and this Pyramid of Light you've created is the source of it all." Yami's hand pointed towards the fallen hikaris. "Kari considers you her friend, and yet you don't even care what happens to her."
Kaiba looked stunned for a moment and he glanced over at the two.
"There's a dark power in our midst," Yami continued, "You can't deny it. With every life point we've lost, we've both become weaker, I know you can feel it!" Kaiba looked away from the two, "We must stop before it's too late!"
Yami could see Kaiba was thinking, and hoped he was getting through to him. Kaiba's eyes opened and Yami's hear sank, "I'm afraid for you it's already to late!"
"Kaiba please, you mustn't do this! We have to stop the madness! All we have to do is stop this duel!" If I lose, what happens to Yugi?
"You're absolutely right Yami, stopping this Duel is exactly what I'm going to do. Now, Shining Blue Eyes activate your final special ability!"
"No! You're playing with forces you can't possibly understand."
Kaiba hesitated but Yami didn't get his hopes up as Kaiba's eyes went to the face down card.
"I use Shining Nova!" Kaiba bellowed. "The rage of a thousand Blue Eyes goes into a blast so strong that it destroys itself plus anything I choose and the card that will feel the wrath of Blue Eyes Shining Dragon, is the Pyramid of Light!" Hesitation again, was Kaiba trying to fight the Pyramid's grip? "The Muto's grip on the title King of Games is about to be broken, Yami, that title will be mine, along with all three of your Egyptian God Cards." Kaiba glanced at Kari, then gazed up at his dragon, "Blue Eyes Shining Dragon, sacrifice yourself and destroy the Pyramid of Light!"
A huge explosion rocked the Duellists as the dragon exploded and a huge beam of white light attacked the card.
Yami watched as the light faded and the card still stood.
Someone was laughing. "This I cannot allow."
"What? The Pyramid of Light wasn't destroyed?" Yami gasped.
"The Pyramid of Light endures because I will it, so great is my power." Yami recognised the voice as the echo from Kaiba's voice that had been so obvious in the last few turns.
"Hey! What is this? Show yourself, whoever you are!" Kaiba demanded.
"I have been here the whole time, mortal, whispering in your ear."
"The whole time?" Kaiba questioned, "No, this is a trick of some sort."
He doesn't want to believe that he's been possessed most of the duel… Yami thought, before realising the shadow behind Kaiba was growing larger. "Kaiba! Look out!"
Kaiba wheeled around as a huge man appeared from the gloop the shadows were becoming. "You have served me well little worm, but you have outlived your usefulness!" The man grabbed Kaiba and threw him far enough away to not be in the way. "Kaiba! No!" Yami yelped as Kaiba hit the ground hard, head first, and didn't move.
"Mahado!" Yami snapped. The Dark Magician was already moving, grabbing up the CEO and bringing him over to the others to check over. Yami couldn't move though, he was too busy watching Anubis take form, hair, clothes… Pyramid…
Shadows surrounded him as Yami glared, "So it's been you behind this whole duel, manipulating Kaiba all along, the Egyptian Lord of the Dead, Anubis!"
"I am pleased that you remember me after all this time, my Pharaoh. It will make my ultimate vengeance all the sweeter." Anubis looked at Yami, "You will fall and my reign of destruction shall begin."
"We'll see." Yami growled back at him.
"The souls of your mortal friends have already fallen, trapped within your Puzzle."
Yami froze, glancing quickly over to the Millennium Puzzle, whose chain was still around Yugi's neck. "My friends?"
"Lost in the labyrinth of the dead, and the best part is, when I destroy you, I kill him as well, I don't even have to fight another Duel to remove your only heir."
Yami didn't think about that last bit, Yugi wasn't his heir, he was his hikari… he knew he was trembling, from rage, fear and exhaustion, he didn't know if he could do this and Yugi's life was resting on his shoulders. "You're wrong, I can still sense their presence, and I will fight to protect them!" Yami snapped at him. "No matter what happens, I will not let your evil plan come to pass!" I won't let you kill Yugi.
"All I need to do is defeat you in this Duel and the Prophecy will be fulfilled, you will be destroyed! The magic of the Shadow Games you sealed away centuries ago will once again be unleashed upon the world." Anubis held his hand palm up and open and two cards appeared, "And I shall finally take my place as the Pharaoh of this realm. With the Pyramid of Light at my command, there is nothing you can do to stop me." Dark clouds formed inside the Pyramid and Yami and Mahado growled simultaneously as they realised what was going on, "The ultimate Shadow Game is just beginning." Black goop fell from Anubis's hands and formed into two huge sphinx monsters, "I summon the terrible beasts, Andro Sphinx and Sphinx Teleia."
Yami backed up slightly and drew, "Reverse of Reverse…" Yami muttered, playing it face down. He honestly didn't know what he was going to do.
"Search your deck from now until Doomsday, you won't find anything to stand against my savage Shadow Realm beasts. No my Pharaoh, I'm afraid that for you, doomsday is today." Anubis summoned one card face down, "Now watch as your last line of defence is ripped to shreds before your eyes. Sphinx Teleia, it's feeding time!"
She pounced on Obnoxious Celtic Guardian, who's eyes widened and then he exploded.
"No!"
"And now it's your turn Andro Sphinx." The beast roared and Watapon died. "Each time Andro Sphinx destroys a monster, half of that monster's attack points are taken from my opponent's life points. You have only 100 points left."
More energy gone, Yami was only still on his feet because of Mahado.
"Your fate is sealed, Pharaoh, soon you will be the relic buried away, soon worms will feed on your flesh, just as they did on mine."
Yami glanced at Yugi and drew his last card, "Your worms will have to wait Anubis, I trust my fate to the Heart of the Cards." Yami froze… "No monsters, just two magic cards, that's all I have left…"