We're finally here. This will be the last chapter where a winner will be decided. And the chapter after this one will be the Duel Chart where you track each and every move that had been made.

I won't talk long here.

So please sit back, and enjoy the final chapter of "The Ultimate Duel: Yugi vs Yusei".


Chapter 7: The Final Turn

"Yugi, please answer me… why would you give me this card?" Yusei asked, desiring an answer towards the fact he was now holding one of the most useful cards in all of Duel Monsters.

Monster Reborn was such a powerful card, which would enable the user to revive any monster from either player's graveyard. With this card, Yugi could have easily summoned any of his fallen monsters. He could have even summoned monsters from Yusei's own graveyard.

Yugi remained silent for what felt like an eternity. Yusei could hear his own heartbeat hastening with each dragged on moment that was being drawn out, until finally Yugi's voice cut through. "It's because I have no desire to use such a card."

"Why?" Yusei questioned, surprise by such an inaction. "With this, you could have such an advantage. So why didn't you play-"

"I'll never play that card, Yusei," Yugi interrupted, catching Yusei off guard. "Never."

Yusei was shocked by Yugi's words. Never? Why? Why even have a card in your deck if you would never use it? Every card had its worth, and should be used. So why would Yugi reject the use of Monster Reborn? Was there a reason for such an inaction?

Yugi's gaze never wavered, holding not an ounce of shame within them. "I can use alternative methods. I can use cards that have similar effects. Either of those works out for me, but just not that card. I won't use it no matter how far I'm pushed. Even if the entire Duel hung on me using it, I still wouldn't."

"Why?"

"Because… it is the card that represents the shackles of the past…" Yugi replied, his eyes finally casting away, looking up into the sky. "Looking at it as just a card, it is something incredibly powerful, and it has helped turn many Duels around. But to me, that card has another meaning. A message…"

'A message?'

Yusei repeated the word in his mind repeatedly while looking at the card in his hand, before the dots began to slowly connect. "The Nameless Pharaoh… Atem…" Yusei finally said, to which Yugi nodded.

He could almost make out what the message was now from Yugi's refusal to use this card.

"Let's continue the Duel, Yusei," Yugi declared, and Yusei finally placed the card he received in his hand.


"With the effect of Magical Contract Door, I can now move a level seven or eight dark monster from my deck to my hand," Yugi said, as the card he needed was ejected from the deck. With this, his deck only had five cards remaining.

This Duel had made both him and Yusei exhaust almost everything they had. He had to make what was left of his cards, and end this. "Now I sacrifice Buster Blader, the Dragon Destroyer Swordsman and Dark Magician to summon the monster I have brought out."

As the two monsters he had became orbs of energy, they went into the Magical Contract Door, the gate absorbing the energies of the two monsters, and soon began to unlock itself.

"Roaring dragon of black-steel! Shatter the lock that encloses the boundaries of the mortal plane and bring forth destruction to all my enemies! Come forth, Gandora-X the Dragon of Demolition!"

The moment that the gate had fully unlocked itself, it completely shattered, and from within emerged a large dragon with a pitch black body with red glowing orbs lined all over its body, and the center of its chest holding the large red core. The dragon released a roar that began to create a shockwave throughout the area, as it gazed at Stardust Sifr Divine Dragon.

"With this Yusei, it's over! I activate Gandora's special ability! When summoned, he can destroy all other monsters on the field. After that, you take damage equal to the monster with the highest attack points destroyed, and to top it all off, Gandora will gain that same amount of points," Yugi explained, as the orbs on Gandora began to charge up. Even if Yusei avoids taking effect damage, Yugi will have cleared Yusei's field, leaving Yusei vulnerable to a direct attack.

"I don't think so! I activate Junk Collector's special ability!" Yusei suddenly declared, as Junk Collector began to open a portal as it was slowly being drawn into and a card began to appear as well. "By banishing it and a trap from my graveyard, Junk Collector lets me use that effect! The card I choose is Shooting Star!"

Yugi's eyes widened with that. Shooting Star let Yusei destroy a card on the field if he controlled a Stardust monster. So that was why he used Stardust Sifr. With that, he could have destroyed Buster Blader.

Yusei could have used it earlier, but wouldn't have a monster to attack with. Plus he likely worried about Yugi's facedown card.

"But even so, Gandora's effect is activate. Even if you destroy Gandora, Stardust Sifr will be destroyed and you take damage," Yugi reminded.

"I know that. And that's why Gandora isn't the target for Shooting Star," Yusei replied, and Yugi's eyes widened from that. What card was he aiming for? Yusei seemed to already know what Yugi was thinking and continued on. "The card I choose… is my Stardust Sifr Divine Dragon!"

"What?!" Yugi said in shock, but soon he realized what that seemingly reckless move would have accomplished. Without any monsters on the field, Gandora's effect would trigger, but nothing would be destroyed, and Yusei would take no damage and Gandora's attack would remain at zero. Yugi had hoped to beat Yusei with one or the other, but Yusei managed to counter both cases.

However, Yugi wasn't finished. "I'm not done yet! I activate Eternal Soul's effect! With it, I can bring back Dark Magician from the graveyard," Yugi declared. With Dark Magician back, Gandora's effect can resolve still effectively and help Yugi win the duel.

"That won't help! I activate my facedown card! Double Cyclone!" Yusei countered, as he revealed the spell card he had set the previous turn. "With this, I can destroy a card from either of our field. I choose my trap card Reinforce Truth, and your Eternal Soul!"

'No! Not that one!' Yugi thought as the trap card he had been using was finally destroyed alongside Yusei's Reinforce Truth by the two twisters that formed over it. A crack formed on the lithograph behind Yugi.

"Now with Eternal Soul gone, you can't bring Dark Magician back!" Yusei finished, as Stardust Sifr began to be covered by an aura of energy before turning that energy inward, cracks slowly forming over its body before an explosion was released that destroyed it. Gandora roared as it fired the many laser beams towards Stardust Sifr, but all of them soon struck nothing but the field itself. "And with that, you can't bring Dark Magician back anymore, nor damage my life points any further."

"No, you also accomplished one other thing," Yugi said, closing his eyes as he smiled, before he looked at Yusei, who had a puzzled look on his face. "Eternal Soul is an extremely powerful card. But for all its power, it comes with a dangerous side effect. If by any chance it's removed from the field, all monsters are destroyed. You didn't just avoid damage to your life points. You cleared my field of monsters as well."

The monolith of Eternal Soul began to crack even further, a bright glow emerging from it before the entire lithograph broke apart, engulfing a large white explosion that slowly consumed Gandora, causing it to explode.

Yugi couldn't believe that Yusei had managed to counter his play. He was just incredible.

"... Turn… end," Yugi declared.


It was his turn now. Yugi was defenseless. If Yusei managed to launch a single strike, he wins. "My turn… draw," Yusei started. Examining his hand, his eyes fell to the card Yugi had given him.

Shisha Sosei… if he used the card, he could effectively win the duel. Any possible plays Yugi might have still can be stopped if he used it.

However… the words Yugi spoke, the message he said the card represented, resounded within Yusei. His memories began to play back, recalling the many hardships he had endured, the bonds he had forged, and the people he had lost.

His father… Bruno…

He would be lying if he were to ever say that he didn't want them back. He wished that he could spend more time with them so many times. Yet as his eyes gazed towards Yugi, a thought occurred in Yusei.

Wouldn't Yugi want Atem back? Has he never wished that? Now the message became clearer.

"I get it now…" Yusei muttered to himself. "Yugi… like you, I also wish to have someone close to me return. I think anyone would. But to have that wish, but accepting that it should never be granted… it's one of the hardest things to do, but you do it. So… I'll do the same."

Yes. Like Yugi, he won't allow himself to bring someone back to life to make them suffer even more. This card represented just that, and now Yusei truly understood the depth this card held.

"Yugi, this'll be my last turn! I'll reach for victory right here and now! I activate the trap card!" Yusei declared as the card he had set several turns ago finally began to rise up, revealing what it was.

"Converging Wishes!"

As instant as the card revealed itself, 10 pillars of light instantly shot out from the ground, as all the dragon Synchro monsters that rested within his graveyard rose once more. "With this card, if I have five or more dragon Synchro monsters in my graveyard, I'm allowed to immediately bring out a Synchro monster of mine. Not only that, but it will gain all the power of each and every dragon Synchro monster in the graveyard as well!"

"All of them?!" Yugi asked in shock.

Stardust Chronicle Spark Dragon and Stardust Sifr Divine Dragon took flight first, flying into the air as the other dragons followed. The two lead dragons slowly spiraled around one another, their speed increasing until they could only be seen as lights dancing in the sky, as the two converged expanded into a massive sphere of energy, where the other dragons entered into, growing in strength.

Three more dragons began to fly forward, with Shooting Quasar Dragon in the lead, Cosmic Blazar Dragon following up, and finally ending with Shooting Star Dragon. As they each let out a roar, they each soon formed a single pure white ring, that soon began to scan the remaining five dragons, each dragon showing a single star within them.

"Clustering wishes will become a new shining star! Become the path its light shines upon! Synchro Summon! Take flight, Stardust Dragon!"

As the light shot through the rings, a large explosion of energy took place, the sphere of energy slowly being absorbed as Yusei's ace monster finally appeared, taking on a giant form that easily dwarfed even Shooting Quasar Dragon. The dragon let loose a mighty roar, its attack reading as 2500, but immediately rose to the combined power of the other dragons that gave its power to Stardust Dragon, now reading at 34000 attack points.

"34,000 points?! No way!" Yugi exclaimed, clearly mesmerized by the power the final Signer Dragon exerted.

"That's right. This is the true combined power of the Team 5Ds! And with that, Stardust will grab forth victory! Go!"

Yusei looked on as his ace monster began to charge for its final strike. However, Yusei soon spotted a smirk form on Yugi's face.

"Yusei, it isn't over yet. I activate a card from my graveyard!" Yugi declared, surprising the Turbo Duelist.

By all means, Yusei had been expecting Yugi to reveal his set card, but for him to use a card from his graveyard? He hadn't been expecting that at all. From a portal that formed on the ground, Yusei spotted a lavender furred creature appear.

"I use the effect of Clear Kuriboh! When an opponent declares a direct attack to me, I can banish Clear Kuriboh, and draw a card. And if it's a monster, I get to summon it and force you to attack it!"

So Yugi did have something in mind. Now everything rested on the card Yugi would draw.


He had five cards left in his deck. He even knew which cards were left, and out of all of them, only a single card could be used to save him from this situation and win him the duel, and thus only a 20% chance of victory. Otherwise, it was all over.

Closing his eyes, Yugi slowly placed his hand on top of his deck, preparing to draw what might very well be his final draw.

"Heart of the cards… guide me…" Yugi muttered, before finally drawing the card, the card slicing through the air before it raised to his face. As the King of Games began to open his eyes to examine the card, and a smile formed, before he looked at Yusei confidently.


"I've done it, Yusei," Yugi said to the Turbo Duelist. "With this, I have now assembled all the pieces of the puzzle to defeat you!"

Yusei didn't look surprised though. Rather, he had a feeling that Yugi might pull something off like this. Leave it to the King of Games to have formed a miracle that would change the entire game.

"The card I've drawn is a monster, and with it, I summon it! Come forth, Chocolate Magician Girl!" Yugi declared, as out came the monster that Yusei saw Yugi return to his deck with Jar of Avarice. So it was that deep in his deck. Likely the deck shuffling itself after Yugi brought out Gandora had caused it to go to the top most likely. "And with that, Stardust Dragon is forced to attack her."

Yusei knew what was coming now.

"And now Chocolate Magician Girl's special ability activates. When she's attacked, she can bring forth a spellcaster from my graveyard and force you to attack it, and your attack power is reduced by half!" Yugi explained, as his graveyard glowed, expelling a card that Yugi pulled out, and revealing it to Yusei. "And the monster I'm bringing back is Apple Magician Girl!"

Now came the spellcaster that Yugi offered to summon Silent Magician the turn before Yusei had summoned Shooting Quasar Dragon. As she appeared, Stardust Dragon's attack reduced to 17000.

"And the attack is now redirected to her. But the fun's not over yet. Like her sister, she too has an effect. One that allows me to bring out a friend from my hand, provided that it's a level five or below spellcaster. So come out, Lemon Magician Girl!"

Yusei couldn't believe how much damage was being done to Stardust Dragon, as the moment that the yellow garbed Magician Girl emerged, Stardust Dragon's power reduced even further to now 8500.

And that wasn't the worst part.

"And you already know Lemon Magician Girl's effect. Just as you hadn't brought out Stardust Dragon until now, I'll bring out my other monster that I've held out until now!" Yugi explained as he raised a card, and Yusei knew exactly what card Yugi was referring to.

"Apprentice of the mighty sorcerer, inherit the memory and will of your master, and surpass your enemy! Dark Magician Girl!"

Finally arrived the apprentice of the Dark Magician, as well the leader of the Magician Girls. A beautiful woman with blonde hair, green eyes, garbed in blue spellcasting armor that revealed her shoulders, legs, with pink edges and linings. A pentagram charm was on the center of her outfit, and a choker with a red gem was worn around her neck, while she carried a wand in her hand. A bar showed her attack to be 2000.

And with that, Stardust Dragon's power reduced even further to now 4250.

"In just a single move… you reduced all the power Stardust Dragon had to merely an eighth of its might…" Yusei muttered. However, the dragon was still stronger than Dark Magician Girl. Not to mention that due to Lemon Magician Girl's effect, Dark Magician Girl's effect was negated, and thus couldn't grow any stronger with Dark Magician in the graveyard.

"I'm not done yet! I use the effect of the final Magician Girl!"

There's more? Yugi was really unable to stop.

"I discard Kiwi Magician Girl!" Yugi stated, as he held up the card and soon a spectral form of the Magician Girl clad in green garbs with violet hair, a heart shaped crystal on the center of the hat that extended to the sides rather than a single pointing up. Unlike the other Magician Girls, her outfit showed no skin apart from her face. "With her effect, all Magician Girls gain 300 attack and defense point by the number of Magician Girls with different names on the field and graveyard!"

As the green spellcaster began to form an energy sphere, another spectral form of the first Magician Girl Yusei had seen appear by her side, being Berry Magician Girl. Her energy began to be drawn, and soon began to spread to the physical forms of the Magician Girls remaining.

"Combining the field and graveyard, that's a total of six Magician Girls, and that means 1800 attack and defense points for them all," Yugi continued, as all of them gained the points, with Dark Magician Girl's attack now raised to 3800.

"That's still not enough, Yugi!" Yusei reminded, but the smile on Yugi's face still remained.

"Yusei, you kept worrying about the card I had placed facedown a while ago. Well, now you're about to find out," Yugi replied, as soon the card that was set began to reveal itself. "I reveal the spell card, Dark Magic Expanded!"

As soon as the card activated, now the spectral form of Dark Magician appeared by Dark Magician Girl's side, the Magician Girl looking happily at her mentor, who smiled in return to her. "Depending on the number of Dark Magician or Dark Magician Girl in either field or graveyard, I can raised Dark Magician Girl's attack by another 1000 points!"

Yusei's eyes widened at that as Dark Magician Girl's attack now raised to 4800, surpassing Stardust Dragon's now 4250. So all this time the card that Yusei had been worrying over was actually a card to boost a monster's power.

"With this, it's over Yusei!" Now Dark Magician Girl began raising her wand, gathering the energies of the other Magician Girls and Dark Magician, ready to counter Stardust Dragon.

However, Yusei soon looked at Yugi… and smirked.

"Sore wa dou kana."

In an instant, Yusei raised the card that he had drawn, and placed it on the Duel Disk. "I activate the spell, Battle Tuned!" Yusei decalred. "With this card, I banish a tuner monster from my graveyard, and raise Stardust Dragon's attack by the same amount as the banished tuner."

From his graveyard emerged one of the tuners he played on his very first turn, as it soon transformed into pure energy and gave Stardust Dragon more power. "The tuner I banish is Bri Synchron! So Stardust Dragon gains 1500 attack points!"

With that, Stardust Dragon's attack now raised to 5750, surpassing Dark Magician GIrl's attack. The two monsters immediately launched their attacks, the two blasts of energy clashing and sending a shockwave even more powerful than Silent Magician's and Shooting Quasar Dragon's clash of power.

Yugi looked at Yusei with surprise, and began to chuckle. "You're incredible Yusei… I had all those cards placed, and you still managed to raise a counter to try and beat me. You're every bit the man I expected you to be, Yusei... you really are worthy of the title King of Games…"

For the two, it seemed like everything else had vanished. It was just him and Yugi, staring at one another with nothing but the utmost respect.

"Thank you… to be honest, I really wish that our Duel could last forever…" Yusei confessed, looking almost sad at the idea that their battle was ending.

"But we'll always have another chance to Duel. And I look forward to the day when I face you when you're even stronger, Yusei," Yugi replied, but the wording of Yugi's sentence were caught by Yusei.

The Signer looked at Yugi with a questioning look.

"I said that you're every bit the man I expected you to be… so I'm really glad… that I withheld this card when I did," Yugi said, as he held up the final card that he still had in his hand, Yusei finally realizing what was happening the moment the card was revealed to him.

Appearing next to the struggling Dark Magician Girl was none other than… Apprentice Illusion Magician.

"I discard Apprentice Illusion Magician, and with it, Dark Magician Girl now gains 2000 attack points for this battle…" Yugi declared softly as Apprentice Illusion Magician was slowly absorbed into Dark Magician Girl, darkening the woman's skin and for a moment, Yusei could have sworn he saw the spirit of a girl appear over Dark Magician Girl, the two being virtually identical.

However, as Yusei looked at Dark Magician Girl's attack raising to now 6800, Yusei realized that it was over.

As he looked down, Yusei did the one thing he could do now.

Laugh.

He couldn't help it. Lifting his head up to the sky, Yusei just released the most laugh he had done in his entire life. "Yugi… you are amazing. You're still the best Duelist there is…" Yusei praised as he looked at the silent Yugi that merely smiled at him.

"I hope we get another chance to duel like this," Yusei said, before raising his hand to the sky, before directing it at Yugi, the latter mirroring the same thing.

"SHOOTING SONIC!"

"BLACK BURNING!"

The two clash of energies seemed to almost hang for an instant, before a powerful silence filled the air, Dark Magician Girl's attack overpowering Stardust Dragon's, before consuming the dragon in the blast, disintegrating it in a large explosion.

Once the smoke cleared up, Yusei remained standing alone, as his life points fell to zero.


Everyone was silent, absorbing everything that had just happened, before finally someone spoke.

"It's… IT'S OVERRRRRRR! THE WINNER AND STILL REIGNING KING OF GAMES IS NONE OTHER THAN… YUGI MUTOOOOOOO!" the MC declared, as the audience erupted into a powerful cheer. They didn't care about who had won, but rather moved by the amazing Duel in itself. Something that was reflected by both Yusei and Yugi.

Yusei began to step forward as Yugi approached him. Neither spoke, but then Yusei held out his hand in a handshake, which Yugi took, as the two stared into one another's eyes with a smile plastered on their faces.

No more words needed to be exchanged. The two already exchanged all they needed to for this Duel.


AND IT IS OVERRRR!

THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR STICKING WITH ME.

I had wanted this Duel to be like this for so long that I am so happy that everyone could finally see this Duel that I have envisioned for so long. To finally have this finished it something that I am so glad that I had the opportunity to show it.

I am sure that some might want to ask if I could give the alternate ending where Yusei won. To that I say: NO.

And I'm not saying this to be mean. It's merely because that this ending, this way where Yugi and Yusei gave it their all and then Yugi pulling off the victory, it's how I imagined it and wanted to express for so long. To make an alternate ending with Yusei as the winner would be an insult to the effort that was put into this.

So I hope that you all understand that this is how the Duel between the two ends. Yugi remains as the best Duelist, but hey, who knows. Maybe next time, they'll Duel again. You guys can also make a Duel as well.

I hope you guys continue to review and hopefully, I am able to also make more Ultimate Duels featuring other characters.