Malik Ishtahl sat in his diminutive quarters of the pyramid reading the
ancient Egyptian scriptures. Scriptures of the renowned shadow wars. He
then found something he hadn't seen before in the war. It seemed this
tablet contained a passage about a legendary companion of the pharaoh. All
would be pawns except this one who would contain almost as much power as
the pharaoh himself. The rest was undecipherable. Malik pondered for a
moment of this. "Maybe I am devoid of a confrere. This one of prodigious
imperium could defeat the other containers of the items so that he could
assemble all seven Millennium Items and contain the power of the pharaoh.
But who. Yugi Mutou is too righteous to be swayed, Anzu Mazaki is too weak,
Katsuya Jounouchi is not focused enough, Hiroto Honda is a terrible player,
Seto Kaiba's licentiousness has left him, Mai Kujaku is too mischievous and
naïve, Ryou Bakura. Bakura. Bakura-san is perfect! I shall immediately
contact him. Wait. I trapped him in the Shadow Realm. Then I must retrieve
him at once."
Malik went to the Shadow Realm. He saw Bakura wandering around in it. He reluctantly cast a spell. Suddenly Bakura disappeared and landed directly in his bed, completely unconscious. Later that night Malik appeared to Ryou in a dream. In this dream, Malik came to him from the shadows. "Hello Ryou." He said. "Malik! This is only a dream." Ryou replied in fright. "This is no dream Ryou. This. This is a vision! A vision of the future. You must join me Ryou. Together our powers united we shall control the world." Malik said. In the real world the Millennium Ring shone in the light coming in through the window from the moon and then began to glisten and tremor. Bakura suddenly began to roll in his sleep. Tossing and turning as if in a great distress. His darker side was enchanting his mind. Yami Bakura, having possessed his hikari Ryou, now entered the dream. "Malik, you trapped me in the Shadow Realm. Why should I join you?" Bakura said angrily. "Because together our powers can rule the world Bakura-san." Malik explained once again. "I will agree to an alliance, if, and only if, you stop pursuing my Millennium Ring." Yami Bakura presented his ultimatum. "Very well." Malik agreed folding his arms in anger over it. "I'll just steal it after you gather the items for me." He thought to himself. Malik then began to fade away into the darkness again. Ryou awoke to a cold sweat. He looked down at his Millennium Ring and a sinister, ruthless feeling overcame him as if his Yami side had been awoken.
The morning light shone down on the sidewalk as Ryou entered the schoolyard. Upon arriving he noticed Anzu, Yugi, Jounouchi, and Honda petting a small black cat. It appeared to be Anzu's as she was holding it. Bakura suddenly felt the vile feeling again and his Millennium Ring began beaming once more. Now the voice of Malik entered his mind. "Do it Bakura. Activate your ring! Send them to the Shadow Realm. You agreed! We have a deal! NOW! WHILE THEY'RE DISTRACTED! DO IT! " Bakura collapsed to his knees from the voices then got to his feet and ran home trying to escape the powerful urge to activate his ring. Upon arriving home he threw the ring to the floor but it became aglow again. It flew towards him and the chain fell over Ryou's head, placing it around his neck. Then the power drained from the ring into him and Bakura arrived once more. His only objective now was to obtain his friends to send them to the Shadow Realm. He let out an evil cackle then grabbed his deck and left the house.
Upon arriving at the school once again Bakura spotted his target in the classroom. They were dueling each other. He stopped and stared at them. Knowing what he must do his ring began to emit power once again. A dome of blackness filled the schoolroom and then disappeared along with Bakura and everyone else. They were now in the Shadow Realm.
The fellowship all looked around. Before anyone could speak the portal opened again. Now Seto Kaiba had entered the realm. Anzu began pacing through the dark setting. Soon Mai Kujaku also arrived in the Realm. "Where are we" Anzu said. She felt the ground. It was nothing but a platform in a void of nothingness. "We are in the Shadow Realm" Yugi said. "Those who are stricken here never return." From the darkness Bakura walked forward, clapping. "So you've been through this enough to know just where we are Yugi Mutou. You and I are not very different. I seek power. You seek power. Our paths are just different." Bakura explained. "So I will allow you a chance of salvation. A duel. If I should win the Millennium Puzzle is mine and you all shall be locked away in the Shadow Realm forever. You win and you and your friends are free as I am banished to the Shadow Realm." Yugi was taken aback. "Could I really put this much on the line? Am I right to put my friends lives at stake for a duel." He thought. He drew his deck from his pocket and stared to it. Suddenly his Yami spirit contacted him. "Yugi, we can do this together. We can defeat him." Yami Yugi said throwing in his two cents. Yugi made his decision. He activated the puzzle. He grew taller and gained a deeper voice, as he became Yami Yugi. "Alright Bakura! I'll agree to those conditions! IT'S TIME TO DUEL!" Yugi announced. "Yugi, I hope you know what you're doing." Anzu thought. Bakura laughed and smiled wickedly. The competitors readied their duel disks and began. "Alright I'll go first. I'll put The Headless Knight in face up attack position and place this card face down." Bakura said. As he finished his sentences a knight in shining armor appeared on field. The problem? He remained headless. As the evil ghost of a knight appeared, just as quickly a flashing card appeared on field to symbolize Bakura's face down card. Yugi looked at his hand to see Man Eater Bug. "This could easily eliminate the Knight." Yami thought to himself. "Alright Bakura. I'll play a monster in face down defense position also and place this face down card on field then I'll go ahead and end my turn." Yugi said confidently. Bakura laughed evilly once again. "For my next move I put out my Portrait's Secret and use. Card Destruction Yugi! We both lose every card in our hand. Since I just discarded my Dark Ruler Ha Des I can use my new card Monster Reborn to bring it back! And since there are now three fiends in my graveyard I will send them all from my graveyard to special summon from my hand, Dark Necrophia! Dark Ruler! Attack that Zombie!" Bakura exclaimed. "Now Portrait's Secret, Necrophia, and Headless Knight, obliterate his life!" Bakura said as he ordered his monsters to attack. They all rushed forward. First the Dark Ruler lunged forward and struck right through the face down monster. Then the rest hit Yugi's life points directly. 8000/3150. "NO!" said Jounouchi, Anzu, and Honda all together. Kaiba looked on in awe at the move. "Yugi has improved tremendously since our first duel but apparently Bakura has a few tricks I don't remember from Battle City." He thought. "This is what my soul is riding on? I'm history and so is everyone else." Mai thought. "Nice move Bakura but I now activate the Dark Hole destroying all of your monsters and summon the Skilled Dark Magician. Now I put one Spell Counter on him by using the spell card Proof of Dragon's Destruction to put one Buster Blader from my deck into my hand! Now I reborn your Dark Ruler Ha Des to put one more spell counter on my Skilled Dark Magician. I'll finish my turn by attacking your life points directly with both." Yugi said finishing an excellent move. 3650/3150. "It seems both players have greatly improved." Seto thought. "You may hit my life points Yugi but I get the last laugh because I flip the Oujia Board on your turn. Now that it's my turn I put the Death Message E on field. Now I'll take a page out of your playbook and play Swords of Revealing Light! Now to summon my other Dark Necrophia by removing The Gross Ghost of Fled Dreams, The Headless Knight, and The Portrait's Secret. I'll end my turn." Bakura said. "Oujia Board!? He nearly beat ya' with that last time Yug'!" Jounouchi said. "Sorry Bakura but I use the Brain Control card to take your Dark Necrophia and sacrifice Skilled Dark and The Dark Ruler Ha Des for my Buster Blader and use the Yami card to power up my spellcasters. This is my third spell so that's my third spell counter. Dark Magician is now on field! Now I use the Polymerization card to combine my Buster Blader and Dark Magician into The Ultimate Magical Warrior DARK PALADIN!" Yugi said. "I'll pass on my turn and not even place a Death Message." Bakura said. "This is awfully strange of Bakura to just pass on his turn. No matter though. This next plan is sure to end this game soon." Yugi thought. "Alright I'll place The Legendary Ocean on field to reduce water monster's levels by one and increase their attack and defense by 200 and then I'll summon The Catapult Turtle. Next I'll use his effect to catapult your Dark Necrophia at your life points." Yugi said. 2550/3150 "Yeah Yug'! Yer' in the lead now!" Jounouchi shouted to Yugi. "Now Yugi must eliminate the threat of Bakura's Oujia Board." Kaiba thought. "Thank you actually Yugi. You see since you just ended your turn I can use Dark Necrophia's soul to enchant any one of your monsters and control it's mind since I am technically still the owner of her and that monster happens to be The Dark Paladin. I also get to set my Death Message A." Bakura exclaimed, laughing maniacally. Kaiba's eyes opened wide. "I forgot about Dark Necrophia's effect!" He thought. Suddenly from Yugi's graveyard arose a giant spirit. A blue flame if you will. It flew forward and wrapped itself around the Dark Paladin. Then the Paladin ran forward at Bakura and then turned around and ran straight at Yugi. "ATTACK HIM PALADIN!" Bakura yelled. The Paladin raised his mighty sword and struck down Yugi's life points. 2550/200. "Time is running out Yugi. I may let one of your friends go should you forfeit now." Bakura said, once again laughing maniacally. "Never Bakura. I can still win." Yugi said calmly. "He must have a plan." Bakura thought, looking at his hand. "Since it's now my turn Bakura I will counter your Swords of Revealing Light with my own!" Yugi said. His plan had begun. Bakura looked at his hand. It contained Death Message T and Change of Heart, neither of which were worth discarding over Swords. "I will also place this card on the field in face down defense position." Yugi said. "Since it's my turn once again Yugi, I place Death Message T on field. Just one more Yugi, just one more. I'll end my turn." Bakura said. "My entire fate is riding on this card. This next card." Yugi thought. He drew from his deck the next card. He turned it to face him. Mystical Space Typhoon. "Alright Bakura. I play this card from my hand. The Mystical Space Typhoon to destroy your Oujia Board and all its components!" Yugi said. Bakura began laughing. "You honestly think I didn't see this coming? I'll just discard the card I got last turn, The Souls of The Forgotten, to my graveyard to use Dark Paladin's effect and negate your Magical Space Typhoon and that means it's my turn. Now my Swords of Revealing Light leaves the field and I activate my Death Message H to complete my message to you. DEATH! That's exactly what you'll experience to the Reaper of The Cards in the Shadow Realm Yugi for you are banished there!" Bakura exclaimed his game-winning move. Suddenly the Millennium Puzzle floated from Yugi's neck and the chain fell over Bakura's head and around his neck. Bakura now contained two Millennium Items. "I can't believe Yugi lost." Anzu thought in sorrow. Just then the darkness began to intake Yugi and his companions. "I've. failed." Yugi said as he was sucked under. Bakura continued to laugh maniacally all through it. Mai furrowed her brow staring at Yugi. "I thought you were a better duelist Yugi. And I thought you cared. I thought you wouldn't gamble all our lives like this." She thought. Meanwhile, Kaiba desperately fought away. "Why should I be punished for Yugi's mistake!?" He yelled to Bakura. Bakura pondered for a moment. "Alright Seto Kaiba. You may duel me for your life and your God card. Just allow me to add Yugi's Osiris to my deck before our duel." Bakura said. "You're on Bakura!" Seto cried. Suddenly the shadows flowed away from him. He readied his duel disk and prepared to duel Bakura. Meanwhile, Anzu somehow had avoided the shadows. She watched the duel begin from behind a large box as the dark room became a room in the Egyptian pyramids at the will of Bakura. The duel disks set and the duel began.
Malik went to the Shadow Realm. He saw Bakura wandering around in it. He reluctantly cast a spell. Suddenly Bakura disappeared and landed directly in his bed, completely unconscious. Later that night Malik appeared to Ryou in a dream. In this dream, Malik came to him from the shadows. "Hello Ryou." He said. "Malik! This is only a dream." Ryou replied in fright. "This is no dream Ryou. This. This is a vision! A vision of the future. You must join me Ryou. Together our powers united we shall control the world." Malik said. In the real world the Millennium Ring shone in the light coming in through the window from the moon and then began to glisten and tremor. Bakura suddenly began to roll in his sleep. Tossing and turning as if in a great distress. His darker side was enchanting his mind. Yami Bakura, having possessed his hikari Ryou, now entered the dream. "Malik, you trapped me in the Shadow Realm. Why should I join you?" Bakura said angrily. "Because together our powers can rule the world Bakura-san." Malik explained once again. "I will agree to an alliance, if, and only if, you stop pursuing my Millennium Ring." Yami Bakura presented his ultimatum. "Very well." Malik agreed folding his arms in anger over it. "I'll just steal it after you gather the items for me." He thought to himself. Malik then began to fade away into the darkness again. Ryou awoke to a cold sweat. He looked down at his Millennium Ring and a sinister, ruthless feeling overcame him as if his Yami side had been awoken.
The morning light shone down on the sidewalk as Ryou entered the schoolyard. Upon arriving he noticed Anzu, Yugi, Jounouchi, and Honda petting a small black cat. It appeared to be Anzu's as she was holding it. Bakura suddenly felt the vile feeling again and his Millennium Ring began beaming once more. Now the voice of Malik entered his mind. "Do it Bakura. Activate your ring! Send them to the Shadow Realm. You agreed! We have a deal! NOW! WHILE THEY'RE DISTRACTED! DO IT! " Bakura collapsed to his knees from the voices then got to his feet and ran home trying to escape the powerful urge to activate his ring. Upon arriving home he threw the ring to the floor but it became aglow again. It flew towards him and the chain fell over Ryou's head, placing it around his neck. Then the power drained from the ring into him and Bakura arrived once more. His only objective now was to obtain his friends to send them to the Shadow Realm. He let out an evil cackle then grabbed his deck and left the house.
Upon arriving at the school once again Bakura spotted his target in the classroom. They were dueling each other. He stopped and stared at them. Knowing what he must do his ring began to emit power once again. A dome of blackness filled the schoolroom and then disappeared along with Bakura and everyone else. They were now in the Shadow Realm.
The fellowship all looked around. Before anyone could speak the portal opened again. Now Seto Kaiba had entered the realm. Anzu began pacing through the dark setting. Soon Mai Kujaku also arrived in the Realm. "Where are we" Anzu said. She felt the ground. It was nothing but a platform in a void of nothingness. "We are in the Shadow Realm" Yugi said. "Those who are stricken here never return." From the darkness Bakura walked forward, clapping. "So you've been through this enough to know just where we are Yugi Mutou. You and I are not very different. I seek power. You seek power. Our paths are just different." Bakura explained. "So I will allow you a chance of salvation. A duel. If I should win the Millennium Puzzle is mine and you all shall be locked away in the Shadow Realm forever. You win and you and your friends are free as I am banished to the Shadow Realm." Yugi was taken aback. "Could I really put this much on the line? Am I right to put my friends lives at stake for a duel." He thought. He drew his deck from his pocket and stared to it. Suddenly his Yami spirit contacted him. "Yugi, we can do this together. We can defeat him." Yami Yugi said throwing in his two cents. Yugi made his decision. He activated the puzzle. He grew taller and gained a deeper voice, as he became Yami Yugi. "Alright Bakura! I'll agree to those conditions! IT'S TIME TO DUEL!" Yugi announced. "Yugi, I hope you know what you're doing." Anzu thought. Bakura laughed and smiled wickedly. The competitors readied their duel disks and began. "Alright I'll go first. I'll put The Headless Knight in face up attack position and place this card face down." Bakura said. As he finished his sentences a knight in shining armor appeared on field. The problem? He remained headless. As the evil ghost of a knight appeared, just as quickly a flashing card appeared on field to symbolize Bakura's face down card. Yugi looked at his hand to see Man Eater Bug. "This could easily eliminate the Knight." Yami thought to himself. "Alright Bakura. I'll play a monster in face down defense position also and place this face down card on field then I'll go ahead and end my turn." Yugi said confidently. Bakura laughed evilly once again. "For my next move I put out my Portrait's Secret and use. Card Destruction Yugi! We both lose every card in our hand. Since I just discarded my Dark Ruler Ha Des I can use my new card Monster Reborn to bring it back! And since there are now three fiends in my graveyard I will send them all from my graveyard to special summon from my hand, Dark Necrophia! Dark Ruler! Attack that Zombie!" Bakura exclaimed. "Now Portrait's Secret, Necrophia, and Headless Knight, obliterate his life!" Bakura said as he ordered his monsters to attack. They all rushed forward. First the Dark Ruler lunged forward and struck right through the face down monster. Then the rest hit Yugi's life points directly. 8000/3150. "NO!" said Jounouchi, Anzu, and Honda all together. Kaiba looked on in awe at the move. "Yugi has improved tremendously since our first duel but apparently Bakura has a few tricks I don't remember from Battle City." He thought. "This is what my soul is riding on? I'm history and so is everyone else." Mai thought. "Nice move Bakura but I now activate the Dark Hole destroying all of your monsters and summon the Skilled Dark Magician. Now I put one Spell Counter on him by using the spell card Proof of Dragon's Destruction to put one Buster Blader from my deck into my hand! Now I reborn your Dark Ruler Ha Des to put one more spell counter on my Skilled Dark Magician. I'll finish my turn by attacking your life points directly with both." Yugi said finishing an excellent move. 3650/3150. "It seems both players have greatly improved." Seto thought. "You may hit my life points Yugi but I get the last laugh because I flip the Oujia Board on your turn. Now that it's my turn I put the Death Message E on field. Now I'll take a page out of your playbook and play Swords of Revealing Light! Now to summon my other Dark Necrophia by removing The Gross Ghost of Fled Dreams, The Headless Knight, and The Portrait's Secret. I'll end my turn." Bakura said. "Oujia Board!? He nearly beat ya' with that last time Yug'!" Jounouchi said. "Sorry Bakura but I use the Brain Control card to take your Dark Necrophia and sacrifice Skilled Dark and The Dark Ruler Ha Des for my Buster Blader and use the Yami card to power up my spellcasters. This is my third spell so that's my third spell counter. Dark Magician is now on field! Now I use the Polymerization card to combine my Buster Blader and Dark Magician into The Ultimate Magical Warrior DARK PALADIN!" Yugi said. "I'll pass on my turn and not even place a Death Message." Bakura said. "This is awfully strange of Bakura to just pass on his turn. No matter though. This next plan is sure to end this game soon." Yugi thought. "Alright I'll place The Legendary Ocean on field to reduce water monster's levels by one and increase their attack and defense by 200 and then I'll summon The Catapult Turtle. Next I'll use his effect to catapult your Dark Necrophia at your life points." Yugi said. 2550/3150 "Yeah Yug'! Yer' in the lead now!" Jounouchi shouted to Yugi. "Now Yugi must eliminate the threat of Bakura's Oujia Board." Kaiba thought. "Thank you actually Yugi. You see since you just ended your turn I can use Dark Necrophia's soul to enchant any one of your monsters and control it's mind since I am technically still the owner of her and that monster happens to be The Dark Paladin. I also get to set my Death Message A." Bakura exclaimed, laughing maniacally. Kaiba's eyes opened wide. "I forgot about Dark Necrophia's effect!" He thought. Suddenly from Yugi's graveyard arose a giant spirit. A blue flame if you will. It flew forward and wrapped itself around the Dark Paladin. Then the Paladin ran forward at Bakura and then turned around and ran straight at Yugi. "ATTACK HIM PALADIN!" Bakura yelled. The Paladin raised his mighty sword and struck down Yugi's life points. 2550/200. "Time is running out Yugi. I may let one of your friends go should you forfeit now." Bakura said, once again laughing maniacally. "Never Bakura. I can still win." Yugi said calmly. "He must have a plan." Bakura thought, looking at his hand. "Since it's now my turn Bakura I will counter your Swords of Revealing Light with my own!" Yugi said. His plan had begun. Bakura looked at his hand. It contained Death Message T and Change of Heart, neither of which were worth discarding over Swords. "I will also place this card on the field in face down defense position." Yugi said. "Since it's my turn once again Yugi, I place Death Message T on field. Just one more Yugi, just one more. I'll end my turn." Bakura said. "My entire fate is riding on this card. This next card." Yugi thought. He drew from his deck the next card. He turned it to face him. Mystical Space Typhoon. "Alright Bakura. I play this card from my hand. The Mystical Space Typhoon to destroy your Oujia Board and all its components!" Yugi said. Bakura began laughing. "You honestly think I didn't see this coming? I'll just discard the card I got last turn, The Souls of The Forgotten, to my graveyard to use Dark Paladin's effect and negate your Magical Space Typhoon and that means it's my turn. Now my Swords of Revealing Light leaves the field and I activate my Death Message H to complete my message to you. DEATH! That's exactly what you'll experience to the Reaper of The Cards in the Shadow Realm Yugi for you are banished there!" Bakura exclaimed his game-winning move. Suddenly the Millennium Puzzle floated from Yugi's neck and the chain fell over Bakura's head and around his neck. Bakura now contained two Millennium Items. "I can't believe Yugi lost." Anzu thought in sorrow. Just then the darkness began to intake Yugi and his companions. "I've. failed." Yugi said as he was sucked under. Bakura continued to laugh maniacally all through it. Mai furrowed her brow staring at Yugi. "I thought you were a better duelist Yugi. And I thought you cared. I thought you wouldn't gamble all our lives like this." She thought. Meanwhile, Kaiba desperately fought away. "Why should I be punished for Yugi's mistake!?" He yelled to Bakura. Bakura pondered for a moment. "Alright Seto Kaiba. You may duel me for your life and your God card. Just allow me to add Yugi's Osiris to my deck before our duel." Bakura said. "You're on Bakura!" Seto cried. Suddenly the shadows flowed away from him. He readied his duel disk and prepared to duel Bakura. Meanwhile, Anzu somehow had avoided the shadows. She watched the duel begin from behind a large box as the dark room became a room in the Egyptian pyramids at the will of Bakura. The duel disks set and the duel began.