In an attempt to control the great and powerful Leviathan, the evil Atlantean known as Dartz assembles a dark tournament to lure Yugi and the best duelists in the world to their doom. Will Yugi survive? Or will he find help in unexpected places? Only time will tell.

Dark Tournament-Epilogue! Part One.

The wind blew mysteriously and the afternoon sun glistened in the air causing the on-lookers to sweat. A look of awe on each and every one of their faces as the Statue of Liberty seeming to watch as well as it sits behind them. A man in a suit in sunglasses comes up to the podium and smiles.

"Hello! And welcome to the United States national Duel Monsters tournament Final! As you know I am the host and let me just say it's most definitely been a very exciting tournament so far, and it will end with two of the best duelists in the world. So without further adieu..."

Two duelists stepped onto the field. They were in the center of a special arena set for the duel. The first duelist was about 6'1 and had slightly spiky, rustled brown hair. He seemed to be about 15. He shielded the sun from his blue eyes and looked at the person across from him, picking up the microphone.

"Hi, my name is Anthony," Anthony said to the crowd. They cheered with anticipation in their cheer, waiting for the duel.

The second duelist was about 6'3. He had Black hair and glasses set with sinister onlooking eyes. He seemed to be older than Anthony, perhaps about 16 at the least. He also picked up a microphone.

"Hey, my name is Chris, and I'm going to win." Chris threw the mircophone down and looked at Anthony with determined eagerness.

"Well then! Let this duel begin!" The announcer spoke causing the crowd to cheer wildly.

"DUEL!" Both duelists held up their duel disks and two identical holograms shot out landing on the floor preparing the duel.

Anthony: 4000 Chris: 4000

"I'll start us off" Chris said grinning and drew his sixth card. "And I'll start by setting two cards face down and summoning Archfiend Soldier! (1900/1500)! Now I'm done."

A hole in the ground opened and a mysterious fiend with dark purple skin surfaced. It threw back its long black cloak and unsheathed it's sword, prepared for battle.

Anthony looked at him and smiled. "Fine, I'll draw and set two cards face down, then, summon Drillago (1600/1300) in attack mode!"

The holograms hummed and a gaunt machine with drills all over its body and head appeared. It fact, its head was nothing more than a black sphere with a drill sticking out at the front.

"HA! your weak little monster won't stand to my mighty soldier!" Chris exclaimed.

Anthony chuckled confidently. "Oh, really? Well, I wasn't planning on attacking your precious Fiend."

"What? Explain yourself!" Chris demanded.

"Fine. If you have a monster on the field with 1900 attack or more, Drillago can attack you directly. So I think I'll do that now! Drillago, attack him directly!!"

The monster charged forward, took its spinning drill arm, and hit Chris with it causing him to recoil and fall to the floor in shock.

Anthony: 4000 Chris: 2400

Suddenly, Anthony heard a weird beeping coming from his Duel Disk. The kind you hear when your life points change. He looked down and saw….

Anthony: 3300 Chris: 2400

"What? What happened?!" Anthony exclaimed incredulously. He looked over and Chris' trap card stared him in the face and answered his question.

"I activated the trap card Attack and Receive. When you do damage to my life points with an attack, I can inflict 700 points right back at you, which is almost half of the damage you did to me. Talk about karma."

Anthony looked at him with anger, but calmed down as he realized it was only one of the first moves. "Fine, I end my turn."

Chris smiled and drew a card. "First I'll activate Tremendous Fire! This magic card causes you to lose 1000 life points, but I lose 500 in the process."

A massive flame erupted from the ground under Anthony and engulfed him, but a lick of fire recoiled and struck Chris as well.

Anthony: 2300 Chris: 1900

"Secondly, I'll activate my facedown Mystical Space Typhoon, which allows me to destroy one of your trap or spell cards on the field. So kiss your face down card goodbye!"

A cyclone appeared on the field and swept away one of Anthony's traps. A sight of it showed that it was the bottomless trap hole, a good trap that could've destroyed one of Chris' monsters.

"Third, I'll set a card face down and attack your machine with the Archfiend Soldier! Go my monster, Slicing Demon Attack!"

The monster leaped into the air and landed on the ground, slicing Drillago in two with its long jagged sword. The monster disappeared in a blinding flash of light and took 300 of Anthony's life points with it.

Anthony: 2000 Chris: 1900

"But I'm not done yet, because I activate the spell card Dangerous Machine-Type Six!" Chris slotted the card into the duel disk while the crowd cheered loudly, "This card has a very special effect, but you'll find out soon enough. Until then I end my turn."

"All right then, I'll draw!" Anthony declared as he snapped the top card off of his deck. He looked at it and smirked. "I summon D.D. Warrior Lady! (1500/1600) in defense mode, and with that I end my turn." A blonde woman in silver futuristic armor appeared, crouching on a large horizontal hologram of its own card.

Chris smiled and drew. Then, the Dangerous Machine-Type Six card activated and a circular machine with six circular red lights appeared The Machine shot out a dice. It rolled onto the floor and landed on five. One of the lights glowed deep red and shot out a beam that shattered the D.D. Warrior Lady.

Anthony looked on in shock. "How.... how did you destroy my monster," thought he had a gut feeling as to what happened.

"It's quite simple, my "friend". Once during my standby phase I roll a 6-sided die. The result determines what the machine will do. Unfortunately for you a five destroys one of your monsters. Too bad for you, but the show goes on, and it goes on with this! I sacrifice Archfiend Soldier for Needle Bunker (1700/1700)!" The Archfiend disappeared and a large scorpion-like monster made of metal appeared on the field. "Now my monster attack his life points directly!"

The monster marched over toward Anthony, but it disappeared in a swirling vortex, then, reappeared on Chris' side of the field, as if though it never left.

"Sorry to burst your bubble, but my face down card, Negate Attack, defends me from your monster's assault," Anthony declared proudly.

"Grr..... fine, I'll end my turn," Chris mumbled.

Anthony nodded and drew his card. He grimaced at the sight of it. "Damn", Anthony mumbled as he played it. "I'll set a card face down and a monster in defense mode and end my turn."

The Dangerous Machine-Type Six activated again, dropping another die from inside its inner workings The die bounced and landed on a three. Chris smiled and drew a card from the top of his deck. Anthony felt like asking, but it didn't take him log to figure out why, so he withheld his comment.

"Now you're about to see something interesting, Ant my boy. Needle Bunker, attack his defense monster with Needle Shot!"

The Scorpion fired a barrage of needles from its tail that hit Anthony's face down monster. They hit with deadly accuracy and destroyed the creature, which was a female magician with long red hair and a staff that had a crescent shape at the top.

" You attacked my Magician of Faith (300/400)," Anthony declared.

But the needles kept coming after the blow and struck Anthony, knocking him to the floor. Anthony looked at his duel disk to see his life points take a plummet.

Anthony: 1000 Chris: 1900

"Before you ask a stupid question Anthony, When Needle Bunker destroys a monster it does 500 points of direct damage to your life points times the number of stars it contains. Magician of Faith has two, so you took 1000 points of damage. And unfortunately since you have yet to activate a magic card all duel long you can't retrieve one. Oh well. I activate Hasty Attack! It allows me to pay 1000 life points to activate a trap card from my hand without having to set it for a turn!"

Anthony: 1000 Chris: 900

"And the card I choose is Mask of Restrict! This stops anyone from sacrificing any monsters for anything. I'll also play Mask of Refuge and Mask of Judgment! At the cost of half of my life points per card, you can't activate any more traps or spell cards! And with my Needle Bunker on the field, you have no chance in winning this duel! But just to make sure, I'll play Machine Conversion Factory, which will make my Needle Bunker (2000/2000) even stronger!"

Anthony: 1000 Chris: 225

Anthony sank to his knees. Chris was right; there was no way that Anthony could win this duel, even with his best card.

The crowd jeered and laughed at Anthony as the announcer spoke of Chris's incredible move. Anthony Reached down to his duel disk and closed his eyes. He knew he needed a winner. Anthony then opened his eyes and drew. When he looked at the card, a smile spread across his face.

"It's over! Prepare to meet the Chaos Sorcerer (2300/2000)!"

Suddenly Magician of Faith and Drillago appeared on the field. They dissipated into a dark and gold light and combined into a strange, cloaked magician with pale skin that had a strange green aura just standing there. He looked at the shocked Chris.

"No!! Chaos Sorcerer was a special summoned monster, so it could bypass my Mask of Restrict! And I have nothing to defend me!"

"Indeed. Now to end this duel! Chaos Sorcerer, Chaotic Wave of Destruction!"

The Chaos Sorcerer floated over to the Needle Bunker and raised its arms. A ball of dark and light energy appeared in both his hands. The Chaos Sorcerer then combined them into a ball of destruction and shot it at Needle Bunker destroying it and even bypassing it, slamming into Chris as his duel disk's life point counter dropped to zero.

Anthony: 1000 Chris: 0

Chris fell to his knees and looked back up at Anthony. How could he lose to this chump, a chump that beat him without using a single magic card? Chris couldn't believe it. Anthony smiled and shuffled his hand into his deck.

"Your winner folks! Anthony!" the Announcer raised his hand and the crowd roared with ferocity.

Far, Far Away

Dartz looked onwards into a small pool of water to see Anthony's duel. A smile laced the face of the Atlantean as he brushed a spiky lock of pale blue hair from his eyes, which were two different colors. A tall, blonde man who seemed to be made entirely of muscle walked over to him.

"Shall we bring him in master?" the man named Raphael asked.

"Yes. He will do well", Dartz smiled and laughed out loud thinking about how this dark plans were only beginning.

TO BE CONTINUED