Malice got up, smiling with satisfaction to Kokujo.

"Why are you smiling like that?" her asked her a bit worried.

Just then he noticed that the train went on another direction and that Zakira's castle appeared in the horizon.

"Oh great, we're going towards Zakira's! Finally I will meet him face to face !" he then rubbed his hands, this reaction surprising the little ones.

"Don't be so sure of that!" Malice threatened while throwing her whip towards Kokujo.

However, this time he dodged the whip and ran towards the pilot's seat. Just then the train entered the castle and Kokujo jumped out the window before Malice could catch him again and then he ran into dark tunnel.

Meanwhile Jamira crawled out the train and saw he was in a dark palace made of bricks. The cold atmosphere and sewer-like stench did not seem welcoming at all.

"Wh-where am I?" he said while walking and looking around, trying to get an idea of what that place actually was.

In the meantime, Kokujo entered a big room filled with computers and strange gadgets. It was there that he saw Toto, who stuck his tongue out and gave his trademark laugh:

"Kaaakakakaka, I've been waiting for you Kokujo Kyoshiro!"

"Step out of the way, clown, I've got to see what's in that computer of yours." the darkness duelist replied and pointed to the giant screen behind his interlocutor.

"Sorry, but you have to defeat me first!" the clown smiled while showing his glowing deck.

"Agreed." Ko said while putting his deck on the dueling table that lay between them.

Returning to Jamira, the red haired boy was walking through the dimly lit corridors until he found a ladder which he used to ascend to the next level, hopefully to a place that was more lighted.

The duel between Kokujo and Toto had long begun and now it was the turn of the Black Death. "Dorberos, the Imprisoning Fiend, double break his shields!" Kokujo ordered and the demonic Cerberus jumped howled at the clown and the strength of its screech tore two shields. "So tell me, Toto, what's with this room?"

"It's my personal lab where I do all my evil stuff for Zakira-sama." the clown nodded. "And you will never reach my computer! I summon Petrova, Light Weapon! With its effect, I power up Great Mecha Kings. And now Steel-Armor Benkeroth, destroy his Dorberos!"

"Heh, you destroyed my double breaker, but I still have a trick up my sleeve. I summon Super Trash Train, Fuuma Devil! Then I attack Benkeroth with Daidalos and destroy my Maxval. Daidalos, take down Benkeroth!"

"Huh?" Toto said, surprised by his opponent's move. "Why would you sacrifice your Maxval just to destroy my creature?"

"Because Trash Train's effect lets me draw 1 card for each destroyed creature!" Kokujo grinned as he took two cards in his hand.

"So you sacrificed your Maxval, Electro-Fuuma which made your darkness creatures cost one mana less just to draw two cards? Cacaca, what a foolish strategy, considering how many other good draw cards there are!" the clown laughed.

"Don't be so sure of that!" the Black Death said with his eyes shining red.

"Why?" Toto asked.

"Because I am a god duelist, I am the Black Death! And after this duel I will send Zakira to hell where he belongs!"

Jamira got up and started searching the rooms that were down the hallway which was decorated with golden walls, Renaissance paintings and statues. As he admired the luxury of it all, he all of a sudden hit something and fell on his back. When he looked up, he had the horror of witnessing Zakira himself.

More turns had passed in the lab duel and Kokujo's move had come once again.

"I evolve Bell Hell De Dios, Death Castle Beast Lord into Ballom Emperor, God of Demons! Go, Ballom Emperor, destroy all his creatures!"

The lion demon with a blue mane got surrounded by a purple aura and evolved into the two headed grey goat demon which immediately waved its hands and cast its purple lasers of doom upon the clown's Light and Water creatures, sparing none.

"No, my creatures!" Toto yelled.

"Double break his shields, Ballom Emperror!" Kokujo ordered and he laughed as the demon's lasers took down the shields. "I will win this duel!"

Toto took his broken shields and stared at one card. Then he smiled and started his turn.

"I summon Mecha Crawler Tornadah and El Kaiou, Spirit Mecha King."

Jamira stuttered as the imposing figure of the man who was Zakira stared upon him with those menacing and merciless red eyes.

"Y-y-y-you a-a-a-are Z-Z-Z-Zakira?" the boy said while making a few steps away, scared to the point of wetting his pants.

"And who are you?" Zakira replied with the voice of a heartless killer.

"Erm, nobody important, so I guess I should leave now!" the boy said and crawled away quickly like a snake.

"You're not going anywhere." the white haired man affirmed and pressed a button from one of the statues.

A big wall fell in front of the exit corridor from where Jamira came.

"Oh great, I'm in trouble." he thought.

At the duel, Kokujo placed a multicolored card in the battle zone and tapped his Darkness evolution creature, saying:

"I summon Melnia the Aqua Shadow and now I attack with Ballom Emperor, break his final shield!"

"Got'cha!" Toto smiled as he took the card in his hand. "Shield trigger, I summon Aqua Surfer, send his Daidalos, General of Fury back to his hand!"

"Shit." Kokujo angrily murmured.

"My turn, I summon Murmur, Apostle of the Formation and give +3000 power to all my blockers!" the clown announced. "Next I evolve El Kaiou into Omegablack Z, Invincible Giant! Ike, Tornadah, destroy his Ballom Emperor! Omegablack Z, double break his final shields!"

A wave came from the Tornadah card which hit the grey demon and made it explode. Then the robotic creature which had heads of different mammals fired two lightning bolts from its shoulders which pierced through the darkness duelist's last shields.

"Grr…" Kokujo thought. "He still has Aqua Surfer in the battle zone."

"Aqua Surfer, todomeda!" Toto pointed the target for his creature.

"Wait a minute!" Kokujo exclaimed as he took the cards in his hand. "Shield trigger, I summon Aqua Surfer, send his Aqua Surfer to his hand!" a second blue surfer appeared and used its surfboard to hit the first one and make it disappear. "You don't like this, am I right? I summon Maxval, Electro-Fuuma and then Bloody Earring! Melnia, the Aqua Shadow, todomeda!"

"Kakakaka, are you sure of that?" Toto asked while showing the card he was staring at. "Ninja Strike 4, I summon Genius Janit of the Hidden Blade!"

"Huh? What's that?" Kokujo asked.

"Genius Janit, send his Melnia to his hand!" Toto ordered and as soon as the blue ninja appeared, it used its hands to stop the purple liquid ghost and then it made the creature disappear, the card returning into its owner's hand.

"What the… why you idiot!" the amazed Kokujo uttered as he took the card in his hand.

"Kakakaka, find it impossible to beat me?" Toto asked while licking some ice cream. "This is because I am the almighty Toto! No one can stop me now! Omegablack Z, todomeda!"

"Block it, Bloody Earring!" Kokujo yelled and the spider jumped in the way of the robot, taking the full force of its attack.

"See? See? Soon you will be defeated! Kaakakakaka!"

Back at Jamira, the situation did not look very good for him, as Zakira was ready to question his presence there, and he knew the man did not like to fool around.

"Hehehe, so Zakira, what do you want to chat about?" Jamira asked, trying to hide his fear.

"For starters, how did you enter my castle?" Zakira asked, the ruthless expression on his face not changing one bit.

"Long story."

"Then shorten it!"

"O-ok, I was following Kokujo to get his deck and that's how I ended up here."

"So you don't know anything about Dorballom?" Zakira asked again.

"N-no…"

"Then I have no use for you. Malice!"

"Yes sir!" the girl said while appearing from the shadows.

"Take care of this garbage for me! " the blue skinned man ordered.

"As you wish Zakira-sama." she bowed and afterwards she turned her sadistic eyes to the poor Jamira.

At Toto's laboratory, the duel had arrived at the point where it was either win or lose. The next move was going to decide the fate of the entire game.

"So do you give up, Black Death?" Toto asked him while relaxing in his seat like a king would in his throne.

"You're an idiot!" came Kokujo's short answer. "I charge mana. I have ten mana now and I shall use Maxval's effect and summon Daidalos for only three mana. Then evolve him into Ballom, God of Demons for only seven mana!"

"What?!" the clown yelled as he saw the blue skinned goat demon emerge and fire a wave of darkness that destroyed all of his creatures. "You killed my creatures once again?!"

"Todomeda, Ballom, send this clown to hell!" the Black Death ordered and Ballom waved its hands and created a sphere of darkness which it then cast upon Toto, blowing him away.

After Ballom's blast the whole room was full with smoke. Kokujo packed his deck and walked towards the computer. There he saw the hurt Toto getting up and walking to the keyboard.

"Zakira-sama won't be very happy knowing that I lost to you." he affirmed.

"Heh, don't worry, Zakira won't punish you because I will send him to hell before that!" Kokujo promised.

"Kaakakakaka, to hell?" Toto asked while sitting back on his wheelchair."I would so like to see this happen!"

Toto started typing on his computer, saving all of Zakira's plans from its memory into a CD. After the disk ejected from the machine, he pressed a button and the lab's doors closed while he disappeared into a hole in the floor which immediately closed. Kokujo ended up locked in that place.

"Things couldn't get any worse." he thought.

But just then he heard a voice from the computer saying: This room will blow up in 60 seconds. 59… 58… 57…