Author's Note: I hope this duel chapter gives you more clue about Shadow and the Principal lol. Enjoy! Also, this happened during GX Episode 6 since episode 5 and 6 (Duel with Titan) were two-parters that occurred in the same day.

Disclaimer: I do not own Yugioh or anything associated with it. Credit goes to GLL99 for subs of GX episode 6.


EPISODE 5 PART B

Kurai appeared on the screen with his duel disk activated and his deadly E-Merc Bolt Assassin was right behind him. An official logo was printed on the bottom right corner.

"Me again?" Kurai asked.

"What's with the rude tone?" The narrator complained.

"Oh nothing except the fact that you're wasting your time with this because of your pathetic writer's block. Such moron." Kurai commented rudely.

The narrator gasped.

"…What?" Kurai asked.

"You spoke such a long sentence! What a miracle!" The narrator exclaimed.

Kurai twitched.


"Izumi, wait up!" Tsubaki panted as he chased Izumi who was running toward the Duel Academy, "Where the hell are you going?"

"I'm going to stop Shady or whatever his name is! I'm going to tell the principal!" Izumi exclaimed with concern.

"That's a wise course of action." Alexander followed them soon after.

"But…" Tsubaki whined.

Alexander smiled as he read his mind, "Do you even know what the principal look like?"

"Of course I knew what he…." A giant droplet formed on Izumi's head as she finally realized, "….Actually, I have no clue at all." She laughed nervously.

Tsubaki fell down. He got up and yelled, "Then why the hell are you running for?"

Izumi laughed nervously, "It was impulse!"

"Baka." Kurai commented and suddenly the Millennium Symbol flashed in his mind again. He groaned slightly as he held his head, 'Not again…!'


Inside the duel Academy, Shadow was taking the elevator elevating to one of the top floors. There was a soft ding as the lift finally stopped and the steel doors slid open. The dark duelist stepped forward and accidentally crashed into someone.

"Ouch!" That someone was Hyun-Ki who still wore his sunglasses, "Um….someone is there, right? Sorry about that."

Shadow stared at Hyun-ki with an ominous gaze. He then looked away and apologized, "It is I that should apologize. The accident was due mostly to my fault."

Hyun-Ki replied, "Nah, it was my fault! I couldn't see you." He laughed it off.

Shadow didn't laugh but spoke in a dark tone, "You destiny is near but hidden. I would unmask your true path with a duel but I cannot because you are hidden behind your damaged eyes." He walked past Hyun-Ki.

Hyun-Ki just stood there as he absorbed his weird cryptic message, 'What was that? That guy…is weird…I couldn't feel anything …it's like,' A sweat precipitated around his face, 'He's not human!'

Shadow walked down the hallway filled with duel monsters statues. He was about to enter another elevator but someone was blocking his way, a blonde girl. He narrowed his sky blue eyes, "Will you let me through?"

"Of course not! I know who you are, Shadow! The security warned us right away when they saw you!" Rebecca ordered with a duel disk attached to her arm, "I don't know why you're here on this Duel Academy but I suggest you get off the island. If you want a duel, then, you have to go through me first!"

Shadow closed his eyes, "I have no time to deal with you."

"No time?" Rebecca yelled angrily, "I'll have you know that I'm American Champion of Duel Monsters!"

"Former American Champion," Shadow countered, "You played a minor role in the ancient battle five years ago."

"Five years ago?" Rebecca asked, "Ancient battle?" She silently thought to herself, 'What does he mean by that? …Wait, is he talking about the Pharaoh's battle?…Is he talking about darling?'

"I wish to meet the Principal." Shadow demanded.

Rebecca narrowed her eyes, "Like I said, you have to go through me!"

"Hello, cute little Rebecca!" A male voiced yelled and both duelists looked toward the Fisherman who was fishing earlier.

Rebecca fell down but quickly got up, "Fish guy?"

The Fisherman walked past by Shadow and pulled Rebecca's face cheeks, "How's my cute little Rebecca doing? You got cuter than yesterday! Why I would hug and cuddle you all day."

Rebecca twitched and slapped him, "Pervert!" Her slap sent him flying.

The fisherman stood up with a large hand print on his cheek, "Abusive as usual, Rebecca."

Shadow stood there with unamused look. The Fisherman noticed his presence, "Oh…it's you…long time no see….although I thought you moved on already five years ago…so what name do you go by now?"

The mysterious man replied, "Shadow. I abandoned my other name in accordance to the Pharaoh's last journey."

Rebecca narrowed her eyes, 'The Pharaoh! So he is connected to my Darling…' She noticed Shadow's dark skin and face, 'From the look of him, he's Egyptain… Is he one of those Tombkeepers?' She turned her head toward the Fisherman, "Principal, do you know this man?"

The Fisherman looked at Rebecca, "Don't you have classes to teach?" He smirked, "Unless you would like to stay with me and we can have fun together if you know what I mean!"

Rebecca stared at him with complete disgust, "No way. I'm leaving!" She stormed off, "Hmph!" She glared back at him, 'The Fish guy is definitely hiding something…I knew he's Egyptain too but I didn't think he might have connection to the Tombkeepers…heh…stupid fish guy, even if you don't tell me, I'm going to find out myself what's going on.' She left through the opposite elevator.

Shadow sensed Rebecca's presence drifting further away from his location. He looked at the Fisherman/Principal of Duel Academy, "Your presence and attitude is so much different from what I knew, Kar…"

"That's not my name, Shadow," The Fisherman interrupted, "I'm Principal Kamil. The name and the person you're familiar with was dead way long time ago. Even though I shared his heritage and I have his memories, I'm not the same person. So what bring you back from the dead, Shadow?"

Shadow answered, "The Pharaoh is awake."

The principal groaned, "Are you serious? Didn't he already have some fun five years ago with the Duel King? Plus that same Duel King is the one who sent him back to the afterlife. So why would he be awake?"

Shadow closed his eyes, "The Pharaoh may have sense something…so he rose from his slumber and lend his power to a new host."

Kamil raised his closed eye in suspicion, "A new host? You mean he's living inside another boy?"

"No, that only work with the Duel King because that boy share the same body and blood as the Pharaoh," Shadow explained, "In this case, he only gave a bit of his power to the new boy although I don't know the Pharaoh's true purpose."

Kamil looked at a nearby Duel Monster statue, "So that's why you challenge duelists left and right all over the world. You were looking for the boy chosen by the Pharaoh, huh? And since you're here…"

Shadow nodded once, "The boy I sought may be here on this island."

"So you're looking for that boy, huh? Which could be any strong duelist, is that you're saying?" The Fisherman asked seriously.

Shadow slowly nodded his head.

The Fisherman frowned seriously and then put on a dopey smile, "Well, you're in luck!"

Shadow just stood there with an emotionless face.

The Fisherman smirked as he held three fingers up, "I just got three catches today, two averages and one huge one!"

"Where can I find this...so-called huge one?" Shadow asked.


Back at the Osiris Red dorm area, Izumi was concerned, "Who knows what could happened to the Principal?...He could be slaughtered, his arms and legs chopped off into tiny pieces and being fed into a monster that soon mutated into a killer zombie!"

Tsubaki looked at Izumi strangely, "You have watched way too many American Horror movies."

"Heh, that's the only thing shown in Hollywood after all." Alexander commented.

Tsubaki remarked, "Plus, what make you think the Principal could be targeted by Shadow anyway?"

Izumi replied, "Well, being a principal of the Duel Academy means you're a strong duelist, right? So wouldn't Shadow target him?"

Alexander chuckled, "You don't need to be a very strong duelist to become a Principal plus anyone who wants to work here as a teacher requires noteworthy dueling skills. So all of them can be strong but not necessarily the strongest."

"By the way, this has been bothering me, why are you hanging out with us?" Tsubaki asked Alexander suspiciously.

Alexander chuckled, "I'm not allowed to hang out with you?"

"Well it's just weird for an Obelisk Blue to hang out with us." Tsubaki pointed out.

"Who cares?" Izumi intervened, "Even though we're different grades, all of us are still duelists!"

"Well said, Izumi." Alexander smiled.

"Hey Yuki, where are you going?" Tsubaki noticed that Kurai was leaving.

"Anywhere beside here." Kurai left.

"Yuki," Izumi sighed, "I wish he could have been friendlier."

Kurai was walking to the beach, pondering to himself. He was thinking about why is he hanging out with the idiots. What was he doing here, he was asking himself. He took out his deck and took out a hidden wallet-sized photo, revealing two young boys, one with brown hair and the other with blue hair, "Knowing him, he's probably way ahead of me." He narrowed his eyes and glared at the photo with hatred. Then he felt a presence as the Millennium eye flashed inside his mind. He looked up toward the rocky cliff and saw Shadow staring down at him, "That guy."


"Yuki hates me. Yuki hates me not. Yuki hates me. Yuki hates me not." A blonde Obelisk Blue girl was pulling off the petals one by one off a native flower. Lisa was sitting on a small flower garden nearby the cliffs. Although she was supposed to be surrounded by flowers, half of them were torn and lost their petals. She then pulled the last petal, "Yuki hates me," she stared at the petal-less flower. She dropped her hand in sorrow, letting the flower slid off her grip, "Yuki still hates me!" She wailed, "Why would he still hates me? I was trying to get rid of that awful poor city-born witch!" She suddenly glared intensely, causing the surviving flowers to wilt in fear, "That horrible witch. How dare she cast some kind forbidden spell that trapped those two handsome men into her grasp. As the president of hunky, attractive, noble, dangerous, so magnificent, elegant aka H.A.N..M.E. Duelists Club, it is my duty to stop her!" Her attitude took a 180 degree change, "But Yuki is still mad at me!" She cried.

"Miss Lisa!" Another Obelisk Blue girl with bob hair-cut, Vanessa, was running through the now-dead garden to her captain.

Lisa looked back at Vanessa, "Oh Vanessa, do tell me any uplifting news for I am down with heartbreak."

Vanessa took out a thick leather-bound notebook out of nowhere, "There's two big news. First, Domon Yaku."

Lisa shuddered, "Argh! Domon? You mean that nasty awful skinny trash who always come up with stupid pranks? It's a good thing he's not in Obelisk Blue or I will die."

"According to my sources, I heard he was defeated by Yuki."

Lisa brightened, "Really? I knew that man has potential! It's such shame that he's in Osiris Red with that witch. What's the last big new?"

"Someone saw Shadow here at Duel Academy!"

"Shadow? That name sound awfully familiar…is he that awful notorious villain that defeated many Pro League duelists?"

"The very one, Miss Lisa."

Lisa sighed, "It's big news alright but that's not really something that matters to me unless he target one of our hot duelists."

Vanessa blinked, "Like if Shadow is targeting Yuki?"

Lisa nodded, "Right! That's a good example!"

Vanessa blinked, "Actually…it's not an example…" She pointed to a nearby cliff.

"Eh?" Lisa suddenly turned her head back and looked up to the cliff to see an Osiris Red facing a black-robed stranger, "Lord Yuki?"


Kurai reached the top of the cliff and saw Shadow staring at the ocean, "Found you."

Shadow turned around and faced Kurai, "Found me or destiny guided you?"

"I don't know what the hell you're talking about but I don't have time for your crap." Kurai narrowed his cold eyes, "Something is happening to my mind and I know you're the cause of it, old man."

Shadow asked, "What make you think of such accusation?"

Kurai glared, "The marking in your forehead!"

"The marking in my forehead?" Shadow slowly lifted off his black turban, revealing black paintings above his eyebrows, "What does it do to you?"

Kurai growled, "Don't act coy! Ever since I saw those, I kept seeing the Eye of Anubis inside my head!"

Shadow narrowed his blue eyes, "You saw the Millennium Symbol? I see…are you the one chosen by fate?"

"What the hell are you talking about?" Kurai wanted answers and he wanted now.

"If you beseech answers," Shadow replied as he took out a golden duel disk, "You must earn it."

"So be it." Kurai took out his own duel disk and inserted his deck.

Shadow put the turban back around his forehead as his eyes suddenly glowed golden. Thousands of Duel Monsters cards revolved around the mysterious duelist.

Kurai couldn't believe what he just saw, "Is this some kind of magic trick?"

Shadow closed his eyes, "There are thousands of Duel Monster spirits. By choosing the right ones, I can defeat any opponent no matter how strong they are." He opened his eyes as he stared at Kurai ominously, "I see it now." Forty cards out of thousands cards glowed golden, "These chosen spirits will defeat you." The glowing cards flew into Shadow's duel disk as the remaining cards disappeared, "If you are chosen by the King, then you can defy fate."

"Chosen by the King?" Kurai asked, "What does that have to do with me?"

Shadow just answered, "Defeat me and fate if you want to know so badly."

Kurai scowled, "Fine!"

"Duel!" Both of them yelled at the same time while the scoreboards of their Life Points were on display.

Shadow: 4000. Kurai: 4000.

"I'll go first." Shadow drew his card and placed a card, "I play Learning Elf [M1(3/1400/1500)] in defense." A female elf jumped into the field. She had pointed elf ears with blonde hair in the same style as the Elven Swordsman. She wore a lime-green skirt with a forest green cloak. She held a red book in her arms. She crouched on her knees in defense, "I also put one card face-down." A M/T card appeared on the field.

"Draw!" Kurai drew his card and looked at his hand. He picked one card, "I summon E-Merc Tempest Lady [M2(3/1000/1000)] in attack position!" Gray wings erupted from the ground as the winged woman in blue clad armor came to the Field, "I play a Magic Card, Tornado Duster!" [S1] The card showed a picture of a wind with gray feathers swirling along with duel monsters cards. The Tempest Lady soared to the sky and flapped her gray wings frantically. She created a large tornado that span across the opponent's M/T field, destroying everything in its path. Shadow's card revealed itself as a Trap card with a picture of an elf sealed inside a transparent orb.

"You have destroyed my trap card, Mirror Barrier [T1]." Shadow pointed out as he discarded the card into the Duel Disk.

Kurai continued his turn as he grabbed two cards from his hand, "Next, I play Polymerization [S2] to fuse my E-Merc Flame Berserker with E-Merc Tempest Lady to fusion summon E-Merc Blazing Windman!" [M3(6/2100/1200)] The winged woman and the flaming warrior disappeared into the pieces that were absorbed into the swirling circle in the sky. Suddenly pillars of wind and fire struck the Field and merged together, creating a blue orange winged warrior with a hawk firearm, "Blazing Windman, destroy his pathetic elf with Blazing Hawk!" The winged warrior took flight and aimed its hawk-like cannon at the elf. The hawk opened its beak and fired a purple flaming hawk that charged toward the elf. The elf shrieked as she was melted by the flame, "Due to my E-Merc's effect, you take damage equals to the defense of your monster!" The winged warrior fired another shot at Shadow, burning his Life Points away.

Shadow: 4000 – 1500 = 2500. Kurai: 4000.

"But because you sent my Learning Elf to the grave, I get to draw one card." Shadow drew.

"I end my turn." Kurai replied.

Lisa and Vanessa were hiding behind a large rock on the top of the cliff, watching their duel. Lisa whispered, "Oh, brilliant move, Lord Yuki! You can defeat this awful villain!"

Vanessa commented, "But this doesn't seem like Shadow's strength, considering he fought many Pro duelists."

Shadow drew his card, making the total six. He picked one card and placed it down horizontally, "I place one monster face-down." A card materialized on the Monsters Field, "I'm finished."

Kurai drew his card, 'Only one monster face-down? This is the duelist who beat many pros?' He added the card to his hand, "Blazing Windman, destroy his face-down card!" The winged warrior charged his hawk arm and aimed against the face-down card. He fired the purple hawk and became a pillar the burned the card however, the card was still there, 'I knew it. It's a monster with an effect.'

Shadow explained, "You attacked my Retrained Elven Swordsman," [M4(4/1400/1200)] The elfish warrior appeared on the field in defense. He had his elfish ear and his straight yellow hair. He had paint markings on his face with green helmet with silver horns. He was dressed in forest green battle shoulder pads and chest plate over his wooden brown shirt. He also wore beige pants and orange boots, "Due to its effect, it cannot be destroyed by a monster with an ATK of 1900 or higher and your monster has 2100 ATK."

Kurai gritted his teeth as he didn't have any other monsters cards in his hand, "I end my turn."

Shadow drew, "Draw." He placed one card on the Duel Disk, "I play a magic card, Spirit Slayer, [S3] and equip it on my Retrained Elven Swordsman. I switch him into offensive." The elven warrior's iron sword was changed into a golden sword with a thin gap splitting the wide blade. At the top of hilt was a red circular gem. The elven warrior stood up and held his sword in a fighting pose. His initial attack strength increased from 1400 to 1900. Shadow picked another card, "I normal summon Thoroughbred Elf [M5(4/1800/1500)] in attack." A tall male muscular elf came out to the Field. Like all elves, he had pointed ears and long straight blond hair. He wore a fighter's robe of moss green color.

Kurai thought to himself, 'An Elf deck? Oh frigging hell, he's some fantasy freak.'

"Elven Swordsman, attack Blazing Windman!" Shadow ordered and the elven warrior charged with his shining golden sword, "Due to the Spirit Slayer's effect, I decrease your monster's attack strength by 500!" Blazing Windman's ATK plummeted from 2100 to 1600, making him a prey for the Elven Swordsman. The Retrained Elven Swordsman swung his sword and sliced the Blazing warrior in half, the two halves shattered to thousand pieces.

Shadow: 2500. Kurai: 4000 – 300 = 3700.

Shadow shouted, "Thoroughbred Elf, attack him directly!" The fighter elf charged with a battle cry. He delivered a mean punch that nearly sent Kurai flying off the cliff. Kurai stood up as he groaned while his Life Points were dwindling.

Shadow: 2500. Kurai: 3700 – 1800 = 1900.

Shadow closed his eyes, "I end my turn."

Lisa whimpered, "Oh Lord Yuki!" She growled, "That bastard! How dare he make Lord Yuki lose half of his Life Points."

Vanessa sweat-dropped.

Kurai scowled and drew his card. He grabbed three cards, leaving only one card in his Hand, "I placed two face-down cards!" He puts two cards in the M/T slots and placed one card horizontally on the Duel Disk, "I placed one monster face-down and I ended my turn." Three cards appeared on his side of the Field.

"Draw!" Shadow drew his card and commented, "I thought this duel would be interesting," He closed his eyes, "But you have disappointed me."

"This duel is far from over, old man. Make your move because we don't have all century." Kurai retorted.

"I draw." Shadow drew his card and pondered about his face-down cards, 'It must be some cards that would help him destroy my monsters.' He took out two cards from his hand, "I summon Elven Ranger [M6(4/1300/1400)] in attack mode!" Suddenly, an elven warrior rose from the ground. Like others, he had sharp pointed ears and yellow long hair. He was dressed in wood green shirt over chained brown pants. He wore a brown shoulder pad that contained a pad that held his arrows. He wore brown protective gloves and his bow was made out of wood.

"Another pathetic elf?" Kurai insulted Shadow's monsters.

"These so-called pathetic creatures should defeat you." Shadow replied.

"Yukiiiiiii!" A loud girlish voice yelled Kurai's surname.

"That voice…" Lisa gasped, "It's the witch!" She was about to come out of her hiding spot but Vanessa quickly held her back.

Kurai cringed as his ear-drums suffered damages. He sighed, "Damnit."

"What were you doing, Yuki?" Izumi shouted while she was gasping because she ran all the way here.

Tsubaki finally caught up, "For a girl," He gasped, "She sure," he gasped even more, "ran very fast." He glanced around, "Where's Alex?"

"Right here." Alexander answered right behind Tsubaki, giving him the fright of his life.

Tsubaki looked back and faced Alex's typical smile, "…How come you're not tired?"

Suddenly Alex had a black aura surrounding him, "Would you really like to know?" He smiled.

Many sweat droplets appeared on Tsubaki's head out of fear. Tsubaki quickly looked away with a shadow covering his eyes, "Never mind."

"Yuki, why are you fighting Shadow? You know very well that he's dangerous!" Izumi demanded to know.

Kurai groaned in annoyance, "Stay out of this."

Alexander grabbed Izumi's shoulders before she yelled even more, "Don't worry, Yuki will be fine."

Shadow opened the Field slot of his duel disk and loaded his second card, "I played the Field Card, The Ancient Forest – Sacred Kingdom of Elves!" [S4] Immediately, the rocky cliff was replaced by trees that grew taller than skyscrapers and lush leaves that blocked the sun. The trees gained glowing flowers, giving lights to the dark atmosphere. There were stairs that spiraled around the trees and white hut structures occupying the branches. The ground was replaced by the flat platform of the giant tree branches.

Izumi gaped, "Woah." She was breath-taken by this amazing sight.

"Wow, this place is cool!" Tsubaki looked around in awe.

Alexander explained, "This is the home of the Elves. It's natural that their habitats would be beautiful."

"This Field card increases all my elves' ATK and DEF by 300. Not only that, this forest protects my elves from perishing in battles or being assaulted by spells," Shadow explained, "Now Elven Ranger, attack his facedown card!"

The ranger picked an arrow and aimed his bow toward the facedown monster. His ATK increased from 1300 to 1600. The ranger let go and the arrow struck the facedown card, revealing a metallic wolf made out of chrome with green metallic eye shield over its face.

"You destroyed Fiend Husky!" [M7(3/800/1200)] Kurai discarded Fiend Husky into his Duel Disk and took back two cards, "Due to its effect, I brought back my Polymerization and E-Merc Flame Beserker!"

"But that does not protect you from my monster's direct attacks." Shadow claimed.

Izumi pointed out, "But direct attack from his monster means…"

"He's dead." Tsubaki finished the sentence.

"Hmm, I don't think so." Alex knew what Kurai has in plan.

Kurai replied, "I knew that but I didn't say I'm done. I activate my trap card, Hired Mercenary!" [T2] The trap card revealed a swordsman protecting the cowering Greedy Goblin Merchant, "From my deck, I special summon E-Merc Stone Guarder!" [M8(4/800/2000)] A tall muscular bodybuilder came to the Field. He wore a helmet with horns and thick stone armor. He also possessed spiked shoulder pads and legs coverings. The warrior was entirely made out of stone and he wielded a giant stone shield with spikes on the edge that was half of his size. He crouched behind his stone shield in defense.

"Your monster's strong defense is no match for my elves' strength with the aid of the forest," Shadow pointed out as his Retrained Elven Swordsman with Spirit Slayer's ATK increased from 1900 to 2200 and Thoroughbred Elf's ATK increased from 1800 to 2100, "Your defeat is unavoidable."

"Your stupid monsters may not be destroyed by battles or magic but that doesn't mean I can't use my trap! I activate my second trap card, Rock Kamikaze!" [T3] His second trap card revealed a picture of E-Merc Stone Guarder with dynamites all tied around him, "By sacrificing E-Merc Stone Guarder, I can destroys all your monsters on the Field with defenses lower than Stone Guarder and all of your pathetic elves has lower than 2000!" The stone defender started glowing brightly and created a big explosion. Suddenly three spikes from Stone Guarder's stone shield pierced through Shadow's Elf Monsters and obliterated them.

Shadow closed his eyes as he braced the winds that came from the explosion, "Impressive, I end my battle phase," He slowly opened his eyes, "But I do not end my turn," He grabbed a card and played it, "I use my Magic Card, Tears of the Forest!" [S5] The magic card had an image of the thick forest in dark shadows with few lights flickering through, "Can't you hear it? Can you hear the forest mourn for the deceased?"

Kurai answered, "The only thing I can hear is your insanity cracking your head!"

Shadow closed his eyes out of disappointment, "This magic card allows me to revive my monsters that were destroyed this turn! I bring back Retrained Elven Swordsman, Thoroughbred Elf, and Elven Ranger from the Graveyard!" The three elves were summoned back to the field, "I'm done with my turn."

"Hey man, are you obsessed with Elves or something?" Tsubaki asked.

Shadow didn't reply back. After a few seconds of silence, he answered, "Elves or to be more exact, Duel Monster spirits can see the truth unlike humans who wish not to see the truth."

"Huh?" Tsubaki was confused, "the truth?"

"Humans always strive for powers and never satisfied with what they have. They will continue to want more and more until everything is gone. They are willing to sacrifice life in exchange for greater power and darkness. With so much power in their hands, they hide themselves from the inevitable truth of the unshakable sins. Duel Monster spirits can see the truth and accept their destiny." Shadow explained, "That is why I put my belief in this deck to show the duelists' true destinies."

Suddenly they heard a cold laugh and they all glanced toward the source.

Kurai had already drawn his card and he was laughing coldly, "How pathetic. So pathetic."

"Hey, that was mean!" Izumi shouted.

"Shut up!" Kurai retorted, "All that shit you said reminded me of him…that despicable idiot that I always hate. It's not the same but he believes in heroes, justice, and Duel Monster spirits. He believes in the heart of the deck and all that naïve crap. I suggest you should rethink your pathetic naivety." He slammed a card down, "I place one monster facedown and I end my turn. I'll show you that destiny is crap by beating you."

"Him?" Tsubaki whispered, "Whose him?"

Izumi answered truthfully, "I don't know…but I never see Yuki so angry about it."

Alexander advised, "Although we might be curious about this "him," it's probably best we drop it if we don't want to provoke Yuki's wrath."

Izumi slowly nodded in agreement. Tsubaki rolled his eyes, "Yeah, no kidding."

Shadow narrowed his eyes and drew his card, "This is the end. You had no face-down cards to protect your only defense! Thoroughbred Elf, destroy his last line of defense!" The Elf fighter vanished and immediately, he gave a drop kick on the face-down monster but it wasn't destroyed. Shadow's eyes widened, "What?"

Kurai explained, "You can't destroy my face-down card because of your own card." Slowly, the monster revealed itself as Kurai continued to speak, "The monster you attack is my E-Merc Wood Elf Archer." [M9(4/1400/1200)] It was an elf with his sharp pointed ears but long green hair tied in a ponytail. He wore a dark brown wooden helmet decorated with gold lines. He also had the same color and patterns on his strap shoulder pad, archer bracers, and greaves. He wore light-green shirt over his wood-brown pants with a forest green cloak. The elf held a metallic bow colored in stainless vine green, "Because of your field card, my mercenary elf cannot be destroyed in battle. Your strength has become your weakness, old man. How does it feel to know that your precious selfless elf is a mercenary working for cold hard cash?"

Tsubaki sweat-dropped, "That was rather harsh."

Shadow remained silent for awhile and finally spoke, "I end my turn."

"Draw!" Kurai glanced at his drew card, "I don't believe in faith. But I believe in luck! I summon E-Merc Flame Beserker!" [M10(3/1200/900)] The flame warrior arrived on the field with his large flame broadsword, "I play a Magic Card, Rage of Flame!" [S6] He inserted his magic card, revealing a picture of the flame mercenary roaring his battle cry and the surroundings were in fire, "This card only activated when there's E-Merc Flame Beserker on the Field. I can destroy all face up magic/trap cards and do 500 damage for each one," The Flame Beserker stabbed his broadsword on the Field and started to glow orange as he was charging himself. He roared a loud battle cry as orange lines erupted from his body and entered his broadsword. The broadsword burst into flames, spreading fires through the Field, burning the entire trees. Falling burning branches nearly hit Shadow. A single burning branch fell and almost landed near Lisa.

Lisa screamed as the fire nearly scorched her skin, "When do holograms became so real?"

Vanessa sweat-dropped, "I think it's just your imagination, Miss Lisa."

Izumi just watched the entire forest burned down in front of her eyes, "This is horrible…"

Tsubaki agreed, "Yeah, no kidding. This is probably one of the saddest things I seen in duels."

"I think it's kinda alluring." Alex smiled.

Both Osiris Red students looked at him as he was crazy.

The trees became charcoal black and dissolved into ashes as the ocean breeze blew by.

"Because I destroyed one magic card, I get to do 500 damages to you." Kurai explained.

Shadow: 2500 – 500 = 2000. Kurai: 1900.

"Next," Kurai smirked, "I play Polymerization and fuse my E-Merc Wood Elf Archer and E-Merc Bolt Assassin to summon E-Merc Lightning Huntsman!" [M11(6/2200/1700)] The Bolt Assassin appeared on the field and disappeared into the swirling circle along with the Wood Elf Archer. Suddenly a sharp vine out of tree branches grew out of the ground and reached toward the sky. Black clouds filled the sky and struck the tree with its most powerful lightning. The electricity split the tree in half, revealing an elf archer with sleek obsidian black chest armor with blue lightning decorations along with smoothly curved shoulder pads and arm armors. He wore forest green pant covered by black armored skirt on the sides and black greaves. He had a black helmet curved with lightning bolts attached to the sides and blue covered glass that covered his entire face. Behind his helmet was his long green vine-like hair. He also had a midnight blue cloak attached to his back with inner covering of green.

"Another fusion with E-Mercs?" Izumi was surprised.

"My E-Merc Lightning Huntsman gains 200 ATK for each of your monsters on the Field!" The Huntsman waved his black gloved hand and suddenly wooden vines wrapped around the three elves, keeping them at bay. Their capture made the Huntsman's targeting easier thus increasing his ATK from 2200 to 2800, "Also, it has the ability to attack all your enemies at once!" Kurai ordered, "My first choice! Elven Ranger!" The Huntsman stretched out his arm and suddenly a lightning bolt struck his hand, creating a bow out of pure lightning. The E-Merc used his other hand to create an unstable lightning arrow and he aimed it toward the Elven Ranger. He let go of his hand and the arrow was released. The thunder arrow struck the Elven Ranger's chest and gave him the biggest shock of his life, "And that's not all! For each monster my Huntsman destroys, I can deal 300 damage to you!" With the aid of vines' conductivity as lightning rod, the lightning created an explosive fire that not only burned the elf into ashes but damaged Shadow with burning after shockwave.

Shadow: 2000 – 1500 – 300 = 200. Kurai: 1900.

Kurai shouted, "My second choice! Thoroughbred elf!" The Huntsman fired another shocking arrow that shattered the fighter elf into thousand pieces that rained upon Shadow.

Shadow: 200 – 1000 – 300 = 0. Kurai: 1900.

"I have lost. Beaten by my own chosen ally," Shadow claimed as the holograms disappeared, "You are an interesting duelist yet strangely, I do not sense the king's power inside of you."

"What the hell are you talking about?" Kurai raised his eyes in suspicion, "What do you mean by the king's power?"

Alexander smiled, "That was a brilliant victory."

Izumi nodded and thought to herself, 'Yuki is really amazing. He beats the Professor. Fought an Obelisk blue, defeat a Ra Yellow, and now he even won against the duelist that fought many pros in the past.' Izumi complimented, "Yuki, you are so cool!"

Tsubaki just stared in surprise as he couldn't believe that Kurai won against a powerful opponent, 'I thought…I really thought that all his victories were just flukes…but…he's either lucky or really good…no…he's definitely good…damnit.' He slowly narrowed his eyes as he clenched his shaking fists.

Kurai ordered coldly, "Hey old man, I won! Now spill it!"

"I'm afraid I can't," Shadow replied.

Kurai glared, "Why not?"

Shadow countered, "It is not time. Perhaps…when we meet again….I will reveal everything. I will tell you this, near the Duel Academy lies a ruin. If you seek more power, go to that ruin."

Kurai's eyes widened, "Hey!" He was about to grab him but suddenly a tidal wave crashed toward the cliff. The cold duelist covered his eyes as he braced the wave. He quickly averted his sight back to Shadow who mysteriously vanished. Kurai frowned, "Damnit!"

"Yuki," Izumi spoke his name with concern as she thought to herself, 'What was that all about? What's going on? Why do I have the feeling that we are going to be involved in something big?'


"W-what are you doing?" Titan was being swallowed by the darkness, "Impossible! Are you telling me that Games of Darkness really exist?" He ended being completely swallowed.

"Wow, awesome…" Judai pointed at the darkness while looking at Hane Kuriboh, "What in the world is happening?"

"Kuri. Kuri." Hane Kurbioh looked away.

"Awesome." Judai wasn't thinking how serious the Game of Darkness was.

"Kuri! Kuri! Kuri!" Hane Kuriboh grabbed Judai's attention as the winged ball found a way out.

Judai looked back and noticed a hole of light, "Go that way? Got it! So, that's our exit!" He jumped out of the hole and fell back to the basement of the abandoned dorms where the others were.

"Aniki!" Sho ran up to Judai.

"Judai!" Hayato ran too.

Judai noticed the others and smiled, "Are you guys all right?"

"That voice just now…" Hayato then noticed the hole was getting chaotic, "Hit the ground!" He grabbed Sho as they get to the ground.

The hole started to suck in as it was shrinking. The students laid firm on the ground but Judai noticed that the coffin holding Asuka was getting sucked too, "Asuka!" Judai stopped the coffin until finally, the hole closed completely.

Judai just watched in awe and then clapped, "Ohh! I didn't even know how he did this trick." Not even realizing that the Game of Darkness was real.

Hayato was trying to confirm the voice he just heard, 'I thought I heard a Duel Monster's voice just a second ago…'

Sho asked, "Aniki, where did that guy go?"

Judai answered, "When he lost that duel, he high-tailed it out of there." He sighed disappointedly, "Speaking of which, even though his last roulette was off, I really couldn't figure that other trick, either." He was referring to the Millennium symbol flashing in the middle of the duel field. He still had not comprehended the realness of the Game of Darkness.


TBC

Izumi: I'm surprised! Yuki actually beat a strong duelist. It wouldn't be long now before he became insanely popular with everyone.

Tsubaki grumbled.

Izumi: But then, what's with the cryptic message left behind from Shadow? Chosen? King? Ruin? I guess we're not going to find out about those anytime soon.

Tsubaki just grumbled even more and left.

Izumi: Ehhhh? Yuki's deck is stolen! No time for worrying about cryptic messages then! Tsubaki, we have to help Yuki find his deck!

Next Episode: Episode 6 – The Lost Deck

Izumi blinked: Tsubaki? Where are you?...he…wouldn't….


Strongest Card of the Duel

Alexander: Today's choice is The Ancient Forest – Sacred Kingdom of the Elves. It's a magnificent and magical forest that increases the elves' strength. It also shields them from battles and evil spells.

Izumi: It's a very powerful card, isn't it? I wonder how many elves cards are there?

Alexander chuckled: There's not many because they are mostly Lv. 4 or less. Lack of powerful elves card made it unpopular with the duelist community even though one of Pegasus's protégée used it quite well.

Izumi: That's too bad because I think elves are amazing! Especially with their cool pointed ears!

Alexander smiled: Would you like to be an elf?

Izumi: Eh, really? Wait a minute…is this another one of your lies?

Alexander smiled: Nope, I can help you become an elf.

Izumi: Really?

Alexander smiled: Really. You just need to close your eyes.

Izumi: Well, alright! ::She closed her eyes as she let Alexander do his stuff::

Alexander: Here you go. ::he held a mirror::

Izumi opened her eyes. She blinked: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Why is my skin blue?

Alexander smiled: I said I'll help you become an elf. And I did, I helped you became Mystical Elf.

Izumi: ALEX!


Cards used in Duel

M1 - Learning Elf: Earth/Spellcaster/3/1400/1500: Effect: When this monster is sent to the Graveyard, draw 1 card.

M2 - E-Merc Tempest Lady: Wind/Warrior/3/1000/1000

M3 - E-Merc Blazing Windman: Wind/Warrior – Fusion/6/2100/1200: This card can only be special summoned by fusion summon. When this card destroys and sends a Monster to the graveyard in battle, do damage equal to the defense strength of the monster destroyed to your opponent.

M4 - Retrained Elven Swordsman: Earth/Warrior/4/1400/1200: Effect: This card cannot be destroyed in battle with a monster that has an ATK of 1900 or higher. (Damage is still done.)

M5 - Thoroughbred Elf: Earth/Warrior/4/1800/1500

M6 - Elven Ranger: Earth/Warrior/4/1300/1400: Effect: When there's [The Ancient Forest – Sacred Kingdom of Elves], you may activate this effect. Select one of your opponent's monster and decrease the selected monster's ATK by the number of the ATK of this monster until the end of your turn. By using this effect, this card cannot attack this turn.

M7 - Fiend Husky: Earth/Machine/3/800/1200: If this monster is sent to the Graveyard, you can return 1 [Polymerization] and 1 monster with [E-Merc] in its name into your hand.

M8 - E-Merc Stone Guarder: Earth/Warrior/4/800/2000

M9 - E-Merc Wood Elf Archer: Wind/Warrior/4/1400/1200

M10 - E-Merc Flame Beserker: Fire/Warrior/3/1200/900

M11 - E-Merc Lightning Huntsman: Light/Warrior – Fusion/6/2200/1700: Effect: This monster can attack each of your opponent's monsters once. When this monster attacks, it gains 200 ATK for each opponent's monster until the End Phase of your turn. For each monster this card destroys, inflict 300 damage to your opponent.

S1 - Tornado Duster – Normal Magic: You can only activate this card when there's [Tempest Lady] on the field. Destroys all of your opponent's Magic and Traps cards on the Field.

S2 - Polymerization – Normal Magic: Fuses 2 or more Fusion-Material Monsters to form a new Fusion Monster.

S3 - Spirit Slayer – Equipment Magic: Decrease the target monster's attack points by 500. Increase the equipped monster's attack points by 500.

S4 - The Ancient Forest – Sacred Kingdom of Elves – Field Magic: Increase all monsters with [Elf] and [Elven] within its names's ATK and DEF by 300. These monsters cannot be destroyed as the result of battle (Damage is still done) and by any Magic cards.

S5 - Tears of the Forest – Normal Magic: Can only activate when there's [The Ancient Forest – Sacred Kingdom of Elves]. You can special summon monsters that were destroyed this turn back to the Field from the Graveyard.

S6 - Rage of Flame – Normal Magic: Can only activate when there's [E-Merc Flame Beserker] on the field. Destroys all face-up magic and trap cards and dealt 500 damage for each card destroyed this way.

T1 – Mirror Barrier – Trap: Activate only when your opponent declares an attack. After activation, this card is treated as an Equip Card. The equipped monster cannot be declared as an attack target. During your 3rd Standby Phase after this card's activation, destroy this card.

T2 - Hired Mercenary – Trap: This card can only be activate when one of your monster on the field is destroyed as a result of battle. Special summon a monster with [E-Merc] in its name that is Level 4 or lower from your hand or deck.

T3 - Rock Kamikaze – Trap: Can only activate when there's [E-Merc Stone Guarder] on the field. Sacrifice [E-Merc Stone Guarder] and destroy all of your opponent's face-up monsters on the Field with the defense strength lower or equals to the sacrificed monster's defense strength.