Yu-Gi-Oh: War of the Gods.

Disclaimer: If I owned Yu-Gi-Oh, I would be a rich guy with my own island, and not a broke college kid who works at Dairy Queen, and writes stories for

Author's notes: Even though this takes place in the world of Yu-Gi-Oh, it is not about the main Characters of Yu-Gi-Oh, although they are referenced and may make cameos. This world coexists with my contemporary Wolf General's "Demon Duelist Legacy" which I highly recommend. While Yugi and co are at the Shadow tournament finals, our story continues.

Davis bolted down the hall of the building, trying desperately to find someone, anyone who knew where Malachi's Duel was taking place. He noticed a man wearing a "staff" badge, also walking down the hall. Davis stopped.

"Hey man?" Davis asked, "Do you know where Malachi Anasazi is dueling?' The man turned and pointed to the room right across from them.

Davis rushed into the room just in time to see Malachi take his place on the Dueling floor. Davis slid into a corner, hoping to see Malachi Crush his opponent.

A Japanese kid who wore a cerulean blue kimono stepped out onto the field. He looked familiar, Davis knew he had seen him somewhere before. Davis looked at Malachi. He hoped Malachi's deck was ready.

He'd seen some of Malachi's cards before. Malachi's best cards were the same as Joey Wheeler's. Malachi had gotten his Red Eyes B. Dragon at the same time that Joey had won his in Duelist kingdom. Malachi had taken it as a sign and tried to emulate the blonde duelist as much as he could. Red eyes, Jinzo, and Insect Queen composed some of Malachi's strongest cards, but Malachi did have quite a few good cards of his own. Plus Malachi said he had revamped his deck and built a new strategy.

Davis knew he wouldn't toss his other cards (Malachi had spent months and money trying to get Jinzo, and Insect Queen.).

"You look familiar," Malachi said, "have I seen you somewhere before?

"You may very well have," the Japanese Duelist declared. "My mighty denizens of the deep have crushed many a duelist, and sent them to a watery grave."

Malachi's eyes widened as he recognized the voice of the world famous ocean duelist.

"You're Mako Tsunami!" Malachi said. "what the heck are you doing in the St. Louis area?"

"Boat shopping," he said without hesitation, "Then I heard about Black Falcon Industries tournament and thought: what the hey, why shouldn't I duel?

"Then by all means," Malachi said, "It will be an honor to duel you, whether or not I win, I can always say that I dueled Mako Tsunami! But don't get me wrong, I'm playing to win."

Mako laughed, "I expect nothing less!"

"Let's duel!" they declared together, and immediately the flaps on their duel disks locked into position and their Life point totals lit up.

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"You take first turn honors," Mako said.

"OK," Malachi looked at his opening hand and bit his lip, he then drew a card.

Not bad, he thought, and aloud he said, "I set one monster in defense mode, as well as play two cards facedown. I then play Chorus of Sanctuary."

Malachi's field slot slid open and he placed the card inside it, a split second later a giant image of the card appeared on the field. A mist covered the floor of the gym, and a little Angel began flitting about the field. A pearly fence surrounded the entire field, there were gates at both ends. Each gate seemed ornately carved and had a cross at the top.

Malachi smiled, "this card raises the defense of all monsters by 500. End turn"

Mako smiled and drew. "Time to test the water," he said, "I summon Unshaven Angler (WATER/4/Fish/Effect/1500/2100) in attack mode. I then set two cards facedown"

A wispy fish with large sharp teeth appeared on the field. A small glowing fish appeared right next to it.

"Unshaven Angler," Mako yelled, "Attack Malachi's defensive card."

Malachi grinned, "You've activated my quick play spell card The Reliable Guardian! This will raise my defense mode monster by 700 points. By the way, my facedown monster is revealed: Stone Statue of the Aztecs! (EARTH/4/Rock/Effect/300/3200)"

A gigantic statue appeared on Malachi's field. It looked like something you might find in a South American jungle. The Angler rushed towards it, smacked its head against it hard, and then took a moment to recover.

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"Activate Trap," Malachi said, "Destruction Punch., this will destroy your monster since his attack was lower than my monster's defense."

The Angler shuddered for a second and then shattered into virtual dust.

"Why were my life points harmed so?" Mako asked looking at his duel disk. His LP total had dropped by almost half.

"My stone statue double damage done to you when you attack it in defense mode," Malachi said, "Guess you've never dueled a defensive deck before huh?"

"I can't say I've had the pleasure," Mako replied, "End Turn!" Stone Statue of the Aztec's defense dropped to 2500.

"I draw," Malachi said, "Then I play Pot of Greed, to draw twice more" Malachi grinned. He picked up his stone statue and slid it into the Graveyard slot, simultaneously the Stone Statue on the field vanished in green light from the bottom up.

"I sacrifice my Stone Statue of the Aztecs," Malachi declared, "To summon one of my personal favorites: Jinzo! (DARK/6/Machine/Effect/2400/2000)"

Mako's eyes widened as the bald warrior wearing cybernetic armor appeared on the field. Twin beams of red light shot from Jinzo's eyes and hit Mako's facedown cards. The cards became static; they were still there, but they were also useless to Mako.

"Jinzo," Malachi yelled, "Attack his Life Points!"

Jinzo cupped his hands and a swirling sphere of energy appeared between his hands and fired right at Mako, who went sliding backwards.

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Malachi grinned again, "End turn."

Mako drew and smiled, "Excellent play my friend; now allow me to make mine! I play Emergency Provisions to sacrifice my 2 useless Trap Cards to increase my life points."

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"Next I play Umi," Mako popped open his field card zone and slid his card into it. A huge tidal wave washed the Chorus of Sanctuary away. Malachi frowned as his Jinzo weakened. Water was not good for machine sub-type cards. (2200/1300).

"Monster Reborn will resurrect Unshaven Angler, (1700/1800) and promptly sacrifice it to summon, The Levia Dragon-Daedalus! (WATER/7/Sea Serpent/Effect/2800/2600)"

A huge sea serpent rushed its head out of the water and glared at Jinzo. Jinzo remained motionless however. Malachi groaned, he knew that The Unshaven Angler acted as 2 monsters when sacrificed for a WATER monster.

Mako smiled "I could just attack your Jinzo, but I have a better idea, one that will do more damage...I offer Umi from the field as a tribute to destroy all cards on the field other than my Levia Dragon-Daedalus!"

The Dragon dove under the water, seconds later, the water rushed up everywhere, It splashed over Malachi's eyes so that he couldn't see. When Malachi opened his eyes, the only thing left was the huge Levia Dragon. (2600/2400)

"Levia Dragon-Daedalus!" Mako yelled, "Attack his life points directly."

The Dragon Slammed down hard into Malachi.

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"My move," Malachi said, "I draw." He looked at his new card and almost did a double take "I play Hammer Shot! It'll destroy the monster on the field with highest attack. Unfortunately that's your Levia Dragon."

A gigantic wooden hammer appeared and slammed down on top of the Levia Dragon-Daedalus. Mako looked hurt that his sea serpent was crushed.

"Now I summon Lizard Soldier (WIND/3/Dragon/1100/800) in attack mode," Malachi said, wishing he'd had a stronger monster in his hand. "Attack his Life Points!"

A green lizard wearing battle armor, and carrying a large metal shield, and a long bladed ax appeared, and lunged after Mako's Life points

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Mako drew. "I play A Legendary Ocean!" he declared. He popped open his field card zone yet again. A huge city towered around them, and the whole field seemed to have dropped them underwater.

"Now I summon Orca Mega-Fortress of Darkness (WATER/4/Sea Serpent/Effect/2300/1400) in attack mode." Mako declared. A killer whale with metallic armor and advanced weapon systems appeared out of the water. Mako seemed to jump on its back and stand on top of it.

"Whoa!" Malachi said, "Isn't that a five star monster?"

"No." Mako said calmly, "A Legendary Ocean will subtract 1 star from all of our WATER monsters."

"I'll make a note of that," Malachi said.

"Orca Mega-Fortress of Darkness," Mako said, "Attack his Lizard Soldier!"

The Orca Lunged at the soldier, who made a squeaking noise and tried to get away. It failed.

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Malachi drew, and looked a the card, Des Koala's not going to do much damage to Mako, he thought, Mako's only got one card in his hand. Oh well better this than nothing.

"I set one monster face-down. End turn." Malachi said.

Mako drew, and looked excited. "I play Card of Sanctity, causing us both to draw till we have 6 cards in our hands."

Malachi drew four cards, Now this has potential, he thought..

Mako on the other hand seemed disappointed with his draw.

"I was hoping for a Cannonball Spear Shellfish, or a Torpedo Fish," He said, "Oh well, Orca Mega—attack Malachi's defense Card.!"

The whale charged forward, and for a split second you saw a small little Koala appear on the field and then vanish into the Orca's mouth.

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"What the.." Mako started to say when Malachi interrupted him.

"You shouldn't attack the defensive master!" Malachi said, "My Des Koala (DARK/3/Beast/Effect/1100/1800) deducts 400 point's per card in your hand when it's flipped over."

Mako looked at his hand and nodded. He looked concerned. His life points were 3,500 point's lower than Malachi's. "End Turn," he said begrudgingly

Malachi drew.

"OK," he said, "Here goes, "I play Change of Heart to take control of your Orca. Now I summon Des Kangaroo (DARK/4/Beast/Effect/1500/1700)"

A half angel half demon appeared on the field and flew into the Orca, who leapt out of the water and landed next to Malachi. Next a green kangaroo with red boxing gloves and a purple vest appeared on the field. The kangaroo took a few punches at the air.

"Des Kangaroo," Malachi said, "Attack Mako's Life points directly!"

The Kangaroo took a flying jump, and its boxing glove came in direct contact with Mako's face.

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Holograms vanished from the field. Malachi looked at his duel disk, the Orca Mega-Fortress was still there.

"Here's your card Mako," Malachi said as he reset his duel disk to standby mode.

"No," Mako said, "Hang onto it...You earned it, besides how else is my card ever going to see the finals? I must go now, but it has been great to meet you Malachi Anasazi, I salute you." And with that, the world-famous Ocean duelist went out the door.

Davis stepped out from where he had been standing, and walked up to Malachi.

"Impressive Dueling technique," Davis said.

"Yeah, well some people have looks and brains," Malachi said, "you just got the brains I'm afraid."

"Let's go home," Davis said. Two of them began walking toward the door.

"This is so cool!" Davis said excitedly. "I can't believe we both got into the tournament."

"Hey Davis!" Malachi said. "What was in that little yellow packet Roy gave you?"

"Oh! I forgot about it." Davis took off his bookbag and pulled out the small yellow packet. It still felt warm to his hand. He glanced it over for return address. There was none. Scrawled in magic marker was For Davis Coffin and Malachi Anasazi.

Davis tore it open. Inside were two cards in card protectors. Wrapped around them was a note and a small cross made of glowing crystal. Davis picked up one. It had a blue glowing cross and his name on the back of the card protector.

"Penumbral Soldier Lady (DARK/6/Warrior/Effect/2100/1400) ," Davis said staring at the card. "What'd you get?" he asked.

Malachi's cross was more of a crucifix with an actual image of Jesus on it. It was glowing green.

"Dude, this is weird," Malachi said. "It's a Total Defense Shogun."

They walked out into stadium parking lot. The night was dark and clear. Suddenly, they heard a voice shouting at them.

"At long last! The Sages of Christianity." A small Spanish girl stepped out of the shadows. Around her neck was a Darwin Fish, made of the same glowing crystal as their crosses. Unlike theirs', it was purple.

"Prepare to duel for your very soul!" She laughed pointing at them.

To be continued...