Chapter 5: - What the...?
"It hurts doesn't it, when you put your faith in the gods and they let you down?" Kaiba asked, Yami wasn't paying attention, he was too busy trying to find any trace of Yugi's mind inside the depths of the Puzzle, "If I were you, now's a good time to start praying for mercy." Yami looked up angrily at Kaiba, "Because from here on out, I'm planning to take you apart piece by painful piece."
Yami realised why he recognised Kaiba's behaviour, this was how he'd been acting pre-Hogwarts… pre-Kari… He also realised that Kaiba was not going to stop the Duel, even with Yugi and Kari unconscious. The old Kaiba just didn't care. Well if Kari and Yugi had been effected by something in the Duel, and Yami was certain it was the Pyramid's fault, then when he won, they'd recover… he hoped.
'Protect them, Mahado.' Yami looked at Mahado as he sent the thought.
I will, your highness. The Dark Magician arrived.
"So let the torture continue with this: The torrential magic of Mystical Space Typhoon!" Kaiba only had to hold up the card for it's effect to take place, that shouldn't be right…"Your facedown card is destroyed."
Yami's Mirror Force was blown away.
"And if you liked that, then you're gonna love this: Peten The Dark Clown."
Yami growled as he wheeled around to face the CEO, he had no monsters on the field…
"But don't let his name fool you. He's no laughing matter." Peten vanished from in front of Kaiba, "Now, attack with Bloodlust Slash!"
Yami cried out as the blade coming through his back felt very real indeed, he fell to his hands and knees, as something drained away from him, pain wracking through him.
"And to top it off, I'll place this facedown on the field."
"That attack," Yami grunted, as he got back to his feet, "It drained me somehow. But I'm far from finished." He drew, summoning the card Kari had been trying to steal from him and Yugi for a while, "Magician's Valkyra, attack! Mystic Sceptre Blast!"
Peten the Dark Clown was destroyed.
Kaiba's points dropped and energy seeped away from the CEO.
"Nice try, Yami, but I knew you'd make that move, which is why my facedown card is Deck Destruction Virus!" Kaiba growled, "You set off this crippling trap when you destroyed my Dark Clown and now it's viral tentacles will infect ten random cards from your deck and then send them to the Graveyard."
"Oh no!" Yami gasped, staring at his deck.
"Oh yes, Yami. Now say goodbye to twenty-five percent of your Duel Deck."
"No!" Yami called as ten cards vanished from his deck.
"I hate to be the bearer of even more bad news, but when you destroyed my Peten the Dark Clown, you activated his special ability, allowing me to summon another Dark Clown to take his place." Another clown appeared on the field, "It's your move, Yami."
Yami was glaring at Kaiba, but his mind and heart were far away.
Hs gaze shifted to Yugi, who alongside Kari, was being watched over by Mana and Mahado.
"Yugi…"
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Yugi groaned as he came round, sitting up, and looking around. Just feet from him, Kari was led on the ground. Yugi shook her back to consciousness, and she stared at their surroundings, "Wh…where are we?"
"This place looks kind of familiar…" Yugi started, biting his lower lip, then his eyes went wide, "This is what Yami's Soul Room leads onto, the Inside of the Millennium Puzzle!"
"How did I get inside the Puzzle?" Kari yelped.
"I'm not sure, but we've got to find Yami, so we can get back." Yugi looked around, "I'm pretty sure one of these rooms belongs to him."
"Which one? There must be hundreds, no thousands of doorways in this place."
"We'll just have to try doors until we find the right one, it's the only way."
"Yugi, Seto's not going to stop the Duel because of this, something's not right with him, he'll make Yami keep going." Kari sounded afraid, as they headed towards the first of the doors.
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Joey was watching the Duel from the balcony.
Between himself, Gramps and Ombre, they'd managed to get the queue down far enough to allow the Muto 'twins' to slip out the back door but it had still been mad all day.
Things had quietened down just before three, when Yami and Yugi had come and collected their Duel Disks for their match with Kaiba and it had been so quiet afterwards that Gramps had let them leave to go and watch the match, if they got there in time.
Ombre and Joey had played Rock Paper Scissors and Joey had won, grabbing his jacket and running for it, reaching the Duel Dome at around quarter past, just in time for Mokuba to let him go up the other lift to the viewing platform.
He'd heard Yami and Yugi trying to reason with Seto, and Tobias had hovered warily as the duel began.
"It's no mistake." Kaiba claimed, "My entire strategy was to draw out your three Egyptian God Cards, so I can be the first Duellist to crush all of them at once."
Joey saw his Girlfriend give her employer a really confused look.
"Just how do you intend to do that?" Yami asked, surprise evident in his voice.
"You're about to find out right now." Kaiba smirked, "Reveal Trap Card. Pyramid of Light!"
Joey froze, the Pyramid of Light had been an artefact at the museum…
He saw Yami unconsciously shift into a defensive position and Yugi tense up.
Kaiba didn't know what he was playing with.
"Now, pyramid, activate!"
A bright blue light shot up from the card, and a blue blot of energy hit the ground, splitting into four and creating a pyramid shape.
All five of them were distracted by the Egyptian Gods' cries of pain… the Gods… in pain? What the hell was going on?
Joey started forward as the blue light pyramid closed in around the Duellists.
He froze as a disembodied voice started speaking Ancient Egyptian. He couldn't speak it and unlike Yugi wasn't learning it so it was all Greek to him. An eye like the one from the Millennium Items appeared on the side of the Pyramid.
Joey drew his wand without thinking, "What're you staring at?" He yelled at it.
Then had to grab tightly onto the railing as it felt like the eye tried to suck him in.
Tobias landed and braced himself against the railings.
Joey yelped as his body fell backwards but he stayed upright.
He could see through his hand!
Unable to resist the suction in spirit form, Joey was sucked into the eye as Tobias growled at the blue glow.
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Ombre was on her way to the Duel Dome when the Earthquake happened.
She braced herself as the ground shook, and she found herself thinking longingly of Hogwarts where there weren't any Earthquakes, unlike in Japan.
Or at least that was what she was thinking until simultaneously a bright blue beam of light shot from the Duel Dome like a beacon into the sky and the link with her Hikari went dead.
She sped up, running as quickly as she could to reach the Duel Dome.
Someone was up to something and if her hikari was caught up in the middle of it, she wanted to stop it.
She couldn't lose her Hikari, she just couldn't.
Yami realised why he recognised Kaiba's behaviour, this was how he'd been acting pre-Hogwarts… pre-Kari… He also realised that Kaiba was not going to stop the Duel, even with Yugi and Kari unconscious. The old Kaiba just didn't care. Well if Kari and Yugi had been effected by something in the Duel, and Yami was certain it was the Pyramid's fault, then when he won, they'd recover… he hoped.
'Protect them, Mahado.' Yami looked at Mahado as he sent the thought.
I will, your highness. The Dark Magician arrived.
"So let the torture continue with this: The torrential magic of Mystical Space Typhoon!" Kaiba only had to hold up the card for it's effect to take place, that shouldn't be right…"Your facedown card is destroyed."
Yami's Mirror Force was blown away.
"And if you liked that, then you're gonna love this: Peten The Dark Clown."
Yami growled as he wheeled around to face the CEO, he had no monsters on the field…
"But don't let his name fool you. He's no laughing matter." Peten vanished from in front of Kaiba, "Now, attack with Bloodlust Slash!"
Yami cried out as the blade coming through his back felt very real indeed, he fell to his hands and knees, as something drained away from him, pain wracking through him.
"And to top it off, I'll place this facedown on the field."
"That attack," Yami grunted, as he got back to his feet, "It drained me somehow. But I'm far from finished." He drew, summoning the card Kari had been trying to steal from him and Yugi for a while, "Magician's Valkyra, attack! Mystic Sceptre Blast!"
Peten the Dark Clown was destroyed.
Kaiba's points dropped and energy seeped away from the CEO.
"Nice try, Yami, but I knew you'd make that move, which is why my facedown card is Deck Destruction Virus!" Kaiba growled, "You set off this crippling trap when you destroyed my Dark Clown and now it's viral tentacles will infect ten random cards from your deck and then send them to the Graveyard."
"Oh no!" Yami gasped, staring at his deck.
"Oh yes, Yami. Now say goodbye to twenty-five percent of your Duel Deck."
"No!" Yami called as ten cards vanished from his deck.
"I hate to be the bearer of even more bad news, but when you destroyed my Peten the Dark Clown, you activated his special ability, allowing me to summon another Dark Clown to take his place." Another clown appeared on the field, "It's your move, Yami."
Yami was glaring at Kaiba, but his mind and heart were far away.
Hs gaze shifted to Yugi, who alongside Kari, was being watched over by Mana and Mahado.
"Yugi…"
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Yugi groaned as he came round, sitting up, and looking around. Just feet from him, Kari was led on the ground. Yugi shook her back to consciousness, and she stared at their surroundings, "Wh…where are we?"
"This place looks kind of familiar…" Yugi started, biting his lower lip, then his eyes went wide, "This is what Yami's Soul Room leads onto, the Inside of the Millennium Puzzle!"
"How did I get inside the Puzzle?" Kari yelped.
"I'm not sure, but we've got to find Yami, so we can get back." Yugi looked around, "I'm pretty sure one of these rooms belongs to him."
"Which one? There must be hundreds, no thousands of doorways in this place."
"We'll just have to try doors until we find the right one, it's the only way."
"Yugi, Seto's not going to stop the Duel because of this, something's not right with him, he'll make Yami keep going." Kari sounded afraid, as they headed towards the first of the doors.
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Joey was watching the Duel from the balcony.
Between himself, Gramps and Ombre, they'd managed to get the queue down far enough to allow the Muto 'twins' to slip out the back door but it had still been mad all day.
Things had quietened down just before three, when Yami and Yugi had come and collected their Duel Disks for their match with Kaiba and it had been so quiet afterwards that Gramps had let them leave to go and watch the match, if they got there in time.
Ombre and Joey had played Rock Paper Scissors and Joey had won, grabbing his jacket and running for it, reaching the Duel Dome at around quarter past, just in time for Mokuba to let him go up the other lift to the viewing platform.
He'd heard Yami and Yugi trying to reason with Seto, and Tobias had hovered warily as the duel began.
"It's no mistake." Kaiba claimed, "My entire strategy was to draw out your three Egyptian God Cards, so I can be the first Duellist to crush all of them at once."
Joey saw his Girlfriend give her employer a really confused look.
"Just how do you intend to do that?" Yami asked, surprise evident in his voice.
"You're about to find out right now." Kaiba smirked, "Reveal Trap Card. Pyramid of Light!"
Joey froze, the Pyramid of Light had been an artefact at the museum…
He saw Yami unconsciously shift into a defensive position and Yugi tense up.
Kaiba didn't know what he was playing with.
"Now, pyramid, activate!"
A bright blue light shot up from the card, and a blue blot of energy hit the ground, splitting into four and creating a pyramid shape.
All five of them were distracted by the Egyptian Gods' cries of pain… the Gods… in pain? What the hell was going on?
Joey started forward as the blue light pyramid closed in around the Duellists.
He froze as a disembodied voice started speaking Ancient Egyptian. He couldn't speak it and unlike Yugi wasn't learning it so it was all Greek to him. An eye like the one from the Millennium Items appeared on the side of the Pyramid.
Joey drew his wand without thinking, "What're you staring at?" He yelled at it.
Then had to grab tightly onto the railing as it felt like the eye tried to suck him in.
Tobias landed and braced himself against the railings.
Joey yelped as his body fell backwards but he stayed upright.
He could see through his hand!
Unable to resist the suction in spirit form, Joey was sucked into the eye as Tobias growled at the blue glow.
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Ombre was on her way to the Duel Dome when the Earthquake happened.
She braced herself as the ground shook, and she found herself thinking longingly of Hogwarts where there weren't any Earthquakes, unlike in Japan.
Or at least that was what she was thinking until simultaneously a bright blue beam of light shot from the Duel Dome like a beacon into the sky and the link with her Hikari went dead.
She sped up, running as quickly as she could to reach the Duel Dome.
Someone was up to something and if her hikari was caught up in the middle of it, she wanted to stop it.
She couldn't lose her Hikari, she just couldn't.