A Young man was at the docks, his outfit was a black overcoat with sharp trimmings, his blue hair would remind many people of Syrus Truesdale but this was in fact the Hell Kaiser Zane, the lord of the Cyber Beasts.
He looked around and then noticed something, a card, a card of a man on a shark, the legendary fisherman.
"Interesting…" Zane thought but then he heard footsteps and saw a figure in a robe
"Are you the one who sent me this message?" Zane asked pulling out a note from his pocket, it read, "Zane, if you wish to face a strong opponent meet me by the docks at 4"
"Correct" The figure said, her voice sultry
"So mind explaining why you asked me to face you here?" Zane asked getting a tad annoyed by the figure
"Step onto the docks and prepare your duel disk" The women said stepping to the docks and standing ready
"Very well then" Zane said readying his duel disk
The women pulled off her robe to reveal a young a women who wore a black one piece dress, showing her ample chest nicely. Her long black hair flowed freely as she gazed on Zane with piercing green eyes.
"Zane Truesdale, known as the Hell Kaiser, a duelist who fell to the shadows and died, only to be born again from unknown sources" The women said as the field around them seemed to grow darker.
"Who are you?" Zane asked
"I am Lust from the group called Sin, and you will die at the end of this duel. The winner will go to the finals, I know you have plenty of locator cards" She explained
"Correct" Zane said holding up 9 cards
Lust held up 9 of her own
"Winner takes all" Lust said drawing, "It's time to start this shadow game"
Lust smiled when she drew her hand
"I summon Cyber Harpy in attack mode" She called out summoning the Winged Woman to the field (1800 ATK)
"And she is considered to be the monster Harpy Lady which lets me play this spell, the Harpy's Lyre" Lust said playing the card that looked like a light green Lyre
The lyre appeared in the Harpy's talons and she began to play
"With the musical notes I can summon any monster from my hand with the word harpy in its name for this turn so I summon Harpy's pet dragon and Harpy Lady" Lust said summoning the bright pink but very terrifying dragon with another Happy lady, minus the cybernetic coverings (1300 ATK for Harpy lady), (2000 to 2600 ATK)
"My Dragon gains 300 attack and defense for every Harpy on the field" Lust explained and the dragon roared
"Next I play the spell the Lure of the Harpy" Lust said as she played a spell that looked like the Harpy Lady Sisters winking suggestively forward
"If I control a Harpy lady, all your monsters must remain in attack mode and attack me, of course when I play the rare gold armor onto my dragon, you might have some trouble" She said playing her last card which encased the dragon in gold armor
"You have no choice but to attack my dragon, and you won't be able to summon a strong enough monster on the first turn" Lust said laughing but Zane wasn't moved
"Are you done yet?" Zane asked in a cold and serious tone
"Fine make your move" Lust said
Zane drew his card and called out, "I summon Cyber Dragon in attack mode"
The large machine dragon appeared and roared (2100 ATK Level 5)
"I can special summon Cyber dragon if you control monsters while I don't" Zane explained laying down a spell
"Next I play Cyber Mass Production" Zane called out, the spell looked like a factory assembly line with many goblins working hard
"With this I can special summon from my deck as many cyber monsters as I want, however at the end of the turn I lose 1000 lifepoints for each one summon and they are destroyed" Zane explained
"So why summon monsters that only hurt you and are destroyed at the end of one turn?" Lust asked cocking an eyebrow
"Simple, to beat you" Zane said, "I summon Two Cyber Dragons and two Proto Cyber Dragons"
Two more cyber dragons appeared and then two smaller dragons that looked like incomplete versions of the cyber dragons appeared (1100 ATK)
"Fine at the end of the turn you lose 4000 lifepoints, enough to beat you" Lust said but then she noticed the dragons seemed to meld
"What's going on?" She asked looking worried
"I'm fusing my machines, this fusion summon doesn't need a polymerization to work" He explained as the dragons disappeared and in their place a large snake like dragon
"Meet Chimeratech Fortress Dragon who gains 1000 attack and defense for each machine used to create it" He said (5000 ATK and DEF)
"5000 attack!" Lust cried out stepping back
"But I'm not done, I play Overload fusion" Zane cried out
"By removing my five Cyber beasts in my graveyard I fuse them to form Chimeratech Overdragon"
Lust looked worried as the large machine Hydra appeared and roared
"This machine gains 800 ATK for each machine used to create it and can attack an equal number of times, so 4000 attack and 5 attacks" He said holding up five fingers
"No…" Lust said twitching
"However when Overdragon is summoned it destroys all monsters on my side of the field other than itself" Zane said
The Overdragon roared and the Fortress dragon roared in pain as it blew up leaving the mechanical hydra alone on the field
"I play Limiter removal, now for one turn my dragon double its attack, its over" Zane said calmly as the Overdragon began to form energy from their mouths
"Attack with Evolution Result Burst!" Zane commanded and all the Harpy monsters were annihilated taking Lust's lifepoints down to 0
"No…" Lust said weakly, "A one turn kill…."
"Why did you want to duel me?" Zane asked
"We need the power of powerful duelists…heh now my soul belongs to the dark god….you may have won this round but three remain, Wrath, Greed, and Pride, the top three duelists…." Lust said laughing
"We'll see" Zane said as he watched Lust disappear
In another part of town a duel was taking place, in a dark alley way a robed man was dueling Jaden
"Darn it…" Jaden said panting, his clutched his arm as the robed man was silent, his monster was the Chaos Necromancer ( 4000 ATK) and Jaden only had an E-Hero Clayman (2000 DEF)
? LP: 2100
Jaden LP: 1200
The man silently played a card, Big Bang Shot and Jaden's eyes widened in horror, the card would not only boost the attack of the monster by 400 but give it a piercing effect, in other words, Jaden was doomed
The man pointed his hand towards the hero and the Necromancer began to chant and dark tendrils appeared from the ground around the hero and wrapped themselves around him. The hero was dragged into the shadows and Jaden's lifepoints went to zero
"No…." Jaden groaned as he watched his body disappeared, he turned to his friend Syrus and yelled, "RUN"
But it was too late Syrus's body was disappearing as well.
The man watched as they disappeared and he turned to leave, it was time to make it to the finals.
Over on the other side of town Russell was running down the streets as the sun was setting in the distance
"Darn it, got to get to the Kaiba Corp stadium" He groaned
The Locator cards directed to the stadium, kinda obvious since it belonged to the young millionaire Seto Kaiba
"A call back to the first Battle City" Russell thought grinning as he made it to the front entrance only to find he wasn't the first to make it inside the large arena. He saw a large Blimp inside and in front of the large flying machine was Seto Kaiba and Yugi Moto
"Looks like we have our fourth finalist" Seto said
"Fourth?" Russell asked but then he saw more people. First he saw Rommel Nein standing looking serious. He saw his friend Bren who was relaxing. He then also saw an older gentleman in a top hat and tuxedo. His duel disk was gold and he seemed well relaxed.
"I recognize everyone but you" Russell said pointing at the man
"I am Sir Isaac Richington, the billionaire duelist" He said in a polite and posh tone, he extended his gloved hand to Russell who shook it
"Yeah" Russell said smiling, "I'm Russell"
"Good to see you made it" Bren said when he noticed the young lady that was Artemis walking down towards them from the entrance
"I am Artemis" She said in a cold tone to Yugi and Kaiba
Next to arrive was Bandit Keith who was grinning, "Heh, time to show everyone why I am the best card professor" Keith said chuckling
Next was an old man in a Kimono his duel disk was tan and he was calm, "I am Shinta Tenshito" He said
The last to arrive was Zane who seemed serious, he was silent as he took his place with the others
"Duelists, you 8 have made it to the finals" Kaiba announced, "You 8 are the best of the best, however one of you shall achieve the honor to duel me and Yugi, so now let the finals begin!"
Everyone clapped
"Alright, allow me to explain the way the finals will work, this blimp will take us to the duelist Academy where the final four shall face off" Yugi explained, his voice was similar but in a slighter higher tone then that of the spirit of the millennium puzzle, Atem.
"So how do we determine the four finalists?" Artemis asked
"Simple, 4 duels, 4 duelists are eliminated on our way, now come, our flight awaits" Kaiba said turning to get onto the blimp.
The rest followed suit and when each one stepped on they were given a room card key
Isaac: 1
Bren: 2
Russell: 3
Shinta: 4
Artemis: 5
Zane: 6
Keith: 7
Rommel: 8
The blimp began to take off and the group met at the main hall where they saw a large bingo ball, ball randomizer
"In order to decide the outcomes we will draw lots, your room key number will represent the duelist drawn" Kaiba explained as the balls began to fly around in the large clear container
Everyone was silent as the first ball fell out
"The first duelist will be…Bandit Keith" Kaiba said after looking over the ball holding up a 7
"Heh nice" Keith said
The next ball came out and Kaiba announced," Next will be Sir Isaac Richington" Kaiba said holding up the 4
"I see, so my first duel will be with him…." Isaac said in a calm polite tone
"The next match up will be…." Kaiba said holding up the two new balls
"Artemis and Zane" He announced
Zane turned to Artemis who grinned in a dark tone
"The next match up will be…" Kaiba said
"Russell and Rommel" Kaiba said
"Perfect" Rommel said
"Well you wanted to take me on in the finals" Russell said
"So the last match is me and Shinta" Bren said
"Correct" Kaiba said
"The finals will began in 30 minutes, prepare yourselves for the finals will begin" Kaiba said and the duelist dispersed into their rooms.
Bren was relaxing looking through his cards
Artemis was tearing into a steak like an animal
Isaac was sipping some fine wine
Russell was in his seat trying to relax
Shinta was on the floor mediating
Keith was at a desk with his eyes closed, he seemed much calmer than his normal self
Rommel was sipping a bottle of Vodka, muttering something in Russian
Zane was on his bed, laying back and quiet, trying to focus on the next battle
The finals would begin but who will win and will the world survive?