maskedhero99: thanks for the review, I'm glad you like it, I try to include a duel every chapter or so because the card game is what the tv shows are all about but there also has to be a reason for the duelling (ergo the plot) and I'd like to think my plot line works even if some people don't agree with it. Like I said at the start this is my attempt at a Yugioh Movie and so it need's to be bigger than any episode of the series which means new cards which never appeared in the series (or were made afterwards) including some of my own invention. Of course been a fan made project I couldn't help but add a few OC moments that I'd pay my soul (no one would want it that's the trouble) to have had in the series like Atticus becoming the Head of the Slifer Dorms other than that I like to think I've kept all the characters as in character as possible.

Unfortunately I tend to suffer from writers block (hence the short cut scene – Bastion's Cameo) however every scene is necessary to advance the overall plot, when the Army of the Light and the Heralds of Darkness via for Dominion over the world.

GriffinRose: No it's not Haou-that's one I never even thought of to be honest, but I think you'll like who it is (Hint: the clues in the title)

Scene 11) Master of Cyberdarks Vs Stalker of the Night

Last time:- "Victory?" Camula laughed in desertion still weakened after her time in the netherworld "there are only three of us now what can we do?" she sneers at her saviour who turns away seemingly in contemplation.

"No" she replies "There is another" she turns back to face Camula and Titan "there is another who can be turned to our cause" the Masked Figures silver amulet glows with a violet hue "I'll be back" she declares before vanishing in a sheen of silver light.

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Alexis clad in a light blue nightie (it wasn't her patriotic pride as an Obelisk Blue, she'd gone of pure white recently) and was just drifting of to sleep when…a knock against her window woke her up, she wouldn't think much of it except her room was on the second floor of the dorms. Rubbing the sleep out of her eyes another couple of knocks hit her window in quick succession. Getting the hint she wraps a blanket around herself and walks over to the French windows determinedly.

'If this is one of Atty and Chazz's inane serenade attempts…I'll kill them' she thinks darkly opening the windows and stepping out onto the balcony carefully side stepping the occasional small rock strewn across the balcony. She glances down to the rock throwers below and does a double take sure Chazz was there as expected but instead of Atticus (her slightly insane pop star wannabe older brother now turned Duel Instructor and Head of the Slifer Dorms) Jaden one of her closest (if clueless) friends stood beside the master of Emo looking surprisingly serious for the hyperactive E-Hero user (and E-number injester) 'well this is new' she thinks "Stay right there I'll be down in five minutes" barely acknowledging their nodded replies she turns around and returns to her dorm room to get dressed. 'Some thing tells me I'm not going to get a lot of sleep tonight' she sighs wearily.

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At A Duel Stadium somewhere in Japan the crowd went wild as another Duellist bit the dust "And that's another win for Zane Truesdale" the Announcer announces "can anyone beat the undisputed master of Cyber Dark Destruction?" Zane took it all in his stride even as his last opponent was been rushed to hospital for emergency care. It truly meant nothing to him all he felt was…dissatisfaction. He craved stronger opponents so he could gain more satisfaction from crushing them. The best the Pro-leagues had to offer weren't even worth his time. He was thinking of a re-match against Phoenix he didn't care about revenge never did and never would but at least Destiny Boy would give him a real challenge unlike these dime store Duellists he'd been duelling recently.

As he strode away from the stadium and through the dark city streets he found his way blocked by a masked figure clad similar to Zane with a dark purple trench coat stylised just like his black one. The Demonic mask was painted black as night with silver horns sprouting up from the forehead. Violet hair arranged in two downward spikes spilled out past the sides of the mask along with a trio of downward spikes arranged in a fringe over the masks horns.

At a primitive level Zane could understand that dressing like this would inspire fear in the hearts of any lesser Duellist but not in Zane he was beyond fear, beyond all emotion.

"A bit early for Halloween?" he comments casually eliciting no heated re-tort, no snap reply, nothing. It wasn't the first time some clown with a gimmick had challenged him like this, he doubted it would be the last either. "You're all the same you challenge me for what? Fame? Fortune? For a shot at the underworld deck? Or is it Revenge! For a fallen 'friend' who found himself at my mercy" he smiles coldly "I don't do mercy, and you should know that if you are about to challenge me" still the masked Figure remains silent. No rederick to his imminent defeat, no trash talking, no 'A' game. "I like that" he comments "the silence – it's good – but I prefer the screaming more" he activates his Duel Disk "you all scream in the end"

The Masked Figure activates her Duel Disk "Duel!" her voice (hardly recognisable as a woman's was echoy and demonic like she was imitating a villain from a bad anime but Zane could instinctively tell his opponents gender just like he was able to tell Blair's two years ago. They each draw five cards with Zane adding a sixth to his hand "I'll go first" he declares "And I'll start by summoning the Infernal Dragon in Atk mode" A Dark Dragon monster Atk-2000, Def-0 "I'll also play my Different Dimension Capsule so I select a card from my deck and remove it from play for two turns" the Continues Spell card appears beside Zane "I set one card face-down and end my turn"

The Masked figure draws a card "Special Summon Vice dragon" A Dark Dragon monster Atk/Def-2000 but as it was summoned by its effect its Atk/Def are halved. Atk/Def-1000.

"Huh a cheap knock-of of my Cyber Dragon" he notes "and a pathetic one at that"

"Tribute Summon Des Volstgalph" the masked Figure ignores his comment summoning one of the only non-dark type monsters in her deck. An Earth Dragon monster Atk-2200, Def-1700. "I attack Infernal Dragon" Des Volstgalph attacks and destroys Zane's Infernal Dragon destroying it and dealing 200 points of battle damage.

Zane's Life-points: 3800

Des Volstgalph inflicts a further 500 points of effect damage due to its effect.

Zane's Life-points: 3300

"Set Three Face-downs, End turn" the Masked Figure informs Zane who smiles "No trash talking, no insults, only speaking when its necessary, I don't even know your name" he chuckles coldly "you're the perfect Duellist" he states.

"Night-stalker" the Masked Figure replies shocking Zane "You may call me Night-stalker"

"I think I'm in love" Zane claims sarcastically as he draws a card. Different Dimension Capsule counts down 1 turn. "I summon Cyberdark Keel in Atk mode" A Dark Machine serpentine monster Atk/Def-800 "due to it's effect I can resurrect your Vice Dragon and equip him to my monster" Zane explains as Vice dragon is resurrected and Keel latches onto the monster leeching it's Atk points "it's Atk points are added to Cyberdark Keel's" Atk-2800. "and that's not all I activate the trap card Ultimate Offering" A continues Trap card that enables extra normal summons or sets in a turn for 500 Life-points per each summon or set. "I pay 500 Life-points to normal summon a second time"

Zane's Life-points: 2800

"So come on out Cyberdark Edge" another Dark Machine serpentine monster in Atk mode Atk/Def-800. "Like my Keel I can resurrect a monster from the graveyard and I choose my own Infernal Dragon and equip him to Edge" Atk-2800. "And now I have two monsters with 2800 Atk points apiece" Zane smirks and points at Des Volstgalph "now Keel kill her Dragon" Cyberdark Keel attacks and destroys Des Volstgalph dealing 600 points of battle damage.

Night-stalker's Life-points: 3400

"Like the monster it just destroyed Keel also has an effect to deal damage when it destroys a monster through battle so you're not of the hook just yet" Zane declares as Cyberdark keel deals 300 points of effect damage.

Night-stalker's Life-points: 3100

"And I attack with Cyberdark Edge" declares Zane launching a direct attack with Cyberdark Edge its direct attack deals 2800 points of battle damage.

Night-stalker's Life-points: 300

"I set a face-down and end my turn" he states simply. 'can you can give me the challenge I seek?' he thinks emotionlessly.

"Activate Quick-play spell card Fires of Doomsday" Night-stalker flips her second face-down face-up and special summons two Doomsday tokens Dark Fiend Atk/Def-0 in defence mode. Before drawing a card "Activate Spell Graceful Charity" she draws three more cards and discards Giant Germ and Diablos Lord of the Abyss "Activate Spell Allure of Darkness" she draws 2 more cards and removes Exploder Dragon from play "activate Precious Cards From beyond" A continues spell card "Summon Dark Horus" A Dark Dragon monster Atk-3000, Def-1800 Precious Cards From Beyond activates allowing Night-stalker to draw 2 more cards for tribute summoning a monster with two tributes "activate spell Monster Re-incarnation" selects Des Volstgalph from the graveyard and discards Van'dalgyon the Dark Dragon Lord in order to add Des Volstgalph to her hand. "Activate Trap Disgraceful Charity" discarded three cards in the turn so draws 3 more cards "Special Summon Dark armed Dragon!" A Dark Dragon monster Atk-2800, Def-1000. the most powerful monster in her entire deck.

Zane could barely believe how many times she'd drawn cards in one turn, although he'd heard Seto Kaiba had been in a duel once where he drew from his deck several times in a single turn. This was unbelievable.

Night-stalker activates Dark Armed Dragon's effect removing Gaint Germ from the graveyard out of play to destroy Cyberdark Edge. Zane destroys the equipped Infernal Dragon to save his monster. Night-stalker activates Dark Armed Dragon's effect removing Diablos Lord of the Abyss from the graveyard out of play to destroy Cyberdark Keel. Zane destroys the equipped Vice Dragon to save his monster. Night-stalker activates Dark Armed Dragon's effect removing Van'dalgyon the Dark Dragon Lord from the graveyard out of play to destroy Ultimate Offering. Zane's Continues Trap card is destroyed. Night-stalker activates Dark Armed Dragon's effect one last time removing Vice Dragon from the graveyard out of play to destroy Cyberdark Keel. Zane's monster is destroyed.

"Activate Spell Union Attack" Night-stalkers Dark Armed Dragon and Dark Horus gang up on Zane's Cyberdark Edge destroying the monster and dealing 5000 points of damage. But Zane flips his face-down card face up activating a Trap card "Power Wall saves me this turn by discarding every card but 1 in my deck I can reduce the battle damage by 3100. battle damage at 1900

Zane's Life points: 900

"And because I survived this turn next turn I'll add Overload Fusion to my hand and fuse every single Machine type monster in my deck into the ultimate Cybernetic Organism" he declares confidently "this duel is over"

Night-stalker merely stares at him for a single second before playing her final card "Activate Spell card Déjà vu" the field warps and changes suddenly Zane's Cyberdark Edge is back along with his face-down Power-wall. Zane blinks for once confounded "What the…? What did you do!" he demands to know.

"Déjà vu a redo of the battle phase feel free to activate your Power Wall Trap once more but with only 900 points and 1 card in your deck…It won't make any difference" proclaims Night-stalker "I Attack Cyberdark Edge with Dark Armed Dragon"

And Zane…froze as he desperately tried to come up with a come back move that he already knew didn't exist – activating Power Bond was useless, he didn't have any other cards on the field Cyberdark Edge was about to be destroyed his hand was empty and his entire deck was in the graveyard…unfortunately he didn't run cards like Necro Gardna like Jaden did, he'd have been able to make a come back move in this situation…Zane couldn't. Dark Armed Dragon destroys Cyberdark Edge dealing 2000 points of battle damage

Zane's Life-points: 0

"No" Zane states Quietly completely unable to accept the reality of the situation "I lost, I can't lose! I don't lose!" he screams his already damaged psyche fracturing under the strain he falls to his knees in despair.

"Zane Truesdale dies tonight in defeat" Night-stalker declares striding over to the fallen duellist "but he can be reborn anew" she reaches into her trench coat and removes a Metallic silver death mask with slits for eyes and metallic painted on teeth, as per Zane's Cyber machine theme it resembles a Terminators skull face. She reaches down placing it over Zane's features infusing it with dark energies from the book of Amnail. Dark blue energy spirals around Zane as the shadows mark his soul he cries out in pain, fear, confusion and anger until even the rage is gone and as the energy dies down all that is left is duty. "Arise Hells Kaiser"

Some could and indeed did say that Zane had fallen as far as humanly possible which eventually culminated in his 'dark' Zane persona and the use of the forbidden Underworld deck…some body was wrong – completely, utterly and totally wrong. Zane had just fallen far further than that.

That reference to Seto Kaiba isn't from the series but is from one of my fave fan fics which featured a decent plot and lots of good duels and his duel was even more staggering than mine even considering the number of times Night-stalker draws in a turn in my fic.

Card Info

Disgraceful Charity: (Version 2) Trap: activate during your turn: if during the turn you have discarded cards from your hand draw cards from your deck to your hand equal to the number of cards you discarded.

Technically not an original creation the anime featured a card called Disgraceful charity but it's effect allowed you to add discarded cards back to your hand (completely useless for my purposes) that's why I created this version 2 form and there is precedent ( for instance –Rioku it's effect in the anime was altered for the actual card game)

Déjà vu: Spell card: activate during your main phase 2 reset the field to how it was at the beginning of the battle phase and re-conduct your battle phase.

Again not an original creation in the manga version of Battle City Bakura used this card in his duel against Yami Yugi- I tweaked it so that it only affected the battle phase rather than re-doing the whole turn (which would have failed to allow Night-stalker to achieve victory)