Summary:
Ever wonder why Atem, Yugi, and Timaeus look so much a like? Why Atem and Timaeus like exactly a like? What if they each had a twin brother? And what if they all had ancient powers given to them as a birth-right?
Chapter Summary:
Part three of the duel between Yugi and Pegasus.
Notes:
This chapter is based off episode 37 of Yu-Gi-Oh!
Yugi: 900
Pegasus: 2000
"I summon the Dark Magician in attack mode," the spirit said. LV-7 ATK-2500 DEF-2100. "And then I'll use Magical Hats to hide him."
A magician's hat appeared and covered the Dark Magician. Then, the hats multiplied until there were four identical hats on the field.
'Maybe this combo will confuse Pegasus.'
"Oh, I see," Pegasus said slowly. "You're trying to find a way to defeat my Toon World, huh? Well it won't work."
The spirit jumped slightly at Pegasus's blunt statement.
"Yugi-girl, which hat is the Dark Magician under? Your mind decides that. All I have to do is read your mind to know the answer."
The spirit gasped, trying his hardest not to think about the . . .
"The far left hat," Pegasus said proudly.
'He read my mind,' the spirit groaned mentally as his right hand clenched into a fist.
"Are you ready, Yugi-girl?" Pegasus asked.
'The Magical Hats didn't work either? I can't find a way to defeat Pegasus's Millennium Eye!" His eyes squeezed shut.
"Yug'!" Joey yelled. "Don't give up!"
"Yugi, you can't lose," Anzu whispered before yelling, "You can't lose!"
Suddenly, the Millennium Puzzle began to glow brightly.
"Toon Summoned Skull, destroy the Dark Magician!"
Toon World opened and the Toon Summoned Skull appeared. The monster fired a blast of electricity toward the far left hat.
"The Dark Magician is no more," Pegasus mocked. However, he quickly noticed when his screen showed that the Dark Magician was still on the field. "What? You're Dark Magician should have been destroyed!"
'I read her mind!' Pegasus thought angrily. 'She couldn't have deceived me.'
"I can use my mind to change the location of the Dark Magician," Yugi said, but her voice was different than before, softer. "It seems you haven't read my other mind."
"You're other mind?!" Pegasus yelled in shock.
"That's . . . " Anzu began.
Joey looked at her. "Anzu, what's Yug' talkin' about?"
"Another mind," Anzu repeated to herself. "I heard Yugi say something about her other self."
Confused greatly, Joey turned to Yugi for answers. "Yug', what's goin' on?!"
Yugi looked up at them. "I haven't been honest with you guys. I'm not me when I duel."
Joey, Anzu, and Yuki all gasped.
"A spirit from the Millennium Puzzle duels in my place." Yugi looked down at the screen. "While I watch from within my heart."
"She does act differently when she duels," Yuki commented just loud enough for Anzu and Joey to hear.
Yugi looked back at them. "But I couldn't stand seeing him suffer!"
'The Magical Hats didn't work either? I can't find a way to defeat Pegasus's Millennium Eye!" His eyes squeezed shut.
[Spirit!] Yugi's voice called to him. [Please, listen to me! Spirit!]
'Yugi!' the spirit thought in shock. He had never heard her voice do clear. '.She's calling me!'
Suddenly, the Millennium Puzzle began to glow brightly.
They appeared in a hallway. That was petty much all Yugi took in of their surroundings. She had more important things to do.
"Spirit!" she said happily. "You heard me?"
"Yes." His deep voice surprised her for a moment.
"It's the first time we've spoken like this, face-to-face. I could feel that you were in trouble." Yugi looked up at him fiercely. "I want to help you!"
"But how?"
Yugi looked down, looking slightly embarrassed. It only lasted a moment, however. "Let me duel. You can't defeat Pegasus on your own."
"But no matter what I do, I can't stop Pegasus's Millennium Eye."
"What if . . . What if Pegasus is only able to read one mind at a time?"
"If Pegasus can only read one mind . . . " the spirit said slowly. "If we fight with two minds, then maybe we can win."
"Are you willing to help me?"
Yugi nodded, already feeling the pull back to her body.
"You might not believe it, but since I solved the Puzzle," Yugi said as she held up the item, "we have taken turns at living."
That made Anzu remember what Yugi had told her right before they had tried to enter the castle.
"Actually," Yugi said slowly, "I become someone else."
Anzu stared for a moment before smiling. "It's okay, because you're still you!"
"The spirit," Anzu replied. "So it's not an emotional problem."
Joey, meanwhile, was having trouble dealing with the information. "Having two minds?!" He turned to Anzu. "It's when she acts different, right?"
"My turn," Yugi said as she drew a card. "I'll place this card face-down and end my turn. Pegasus, do you know what card I just drew and placed in the field? Read my mind, if you can."
Pegasus chuckled. "All right, Yugi-girl."
Pegasus begun to use the power of his Millennium Eye, just as the Millennium Puzzle glowed as well.
"What?" Pegasus cried in shock as he was unable to see the card. "I can't see what card you just played!"
"Sorry, Pegasus, but I don't know what this face-down card is either," the spirit said. "Looks like your mind reading doesn't work anymore."
'They changed minds!' Pegasus thought in shock.
"Pegasus, you use your Millennium Eye to read people's minds," the spirit stated. "It seems to take some time, during which I change minds."
"So, Yugi is fighting with two minds in one body," Yuki commented.
"If Pegasus reads one mind," Joey said happily, "they just switch to the other."
The guards had their guns out and ready, but Bakura was perfectly calm.
"You can't get away now!" one yelled at them.
Bakura laughed. "How about we play a little game? If your weapons are guns, then mine are these cards," he said as he pulled out his deck.
"Stop with the nonsense!" a guard yelled.
"Do as we say!"
Tristan, however, was watching Ryou carefully. 'I've seen that look before,' he thought, thinking back to his dream, or at least what he had thought was a dream. 'Its that evil Bakura guy. That means it wasn't a dream.'
"My turn," Bakura said. "Now, say hello to my Man-Eater Bug."
The Millennium Ring glowed and the monster appeared before them. It let out a cry before charging at the guards.
"What is that?!"
"A monster!"
Several if them fired shots at it but they simply bounced off the Man-Eater Bug's shell.
"Now you won't get to go," Bakura smirked.
'What is that?' Tristan asked himself mentally. 'There's no duel system here.'
Bakura glanced at Tristan before reaching for another card from his deck. "Now it's my turn." He drew a Morphing Jar. "Here you go! I'll save you from the Man-Eater Bug."
The Morphing Jar appeared and pointed toward the guards before shooting towards them.
Their screams only lasted a few seconds.
"But it will be even worse," Bakura chuckled.
They found themselves in what appeared to be a graveyard.
"Where are we?" one asked as he looked around. He froze, however, when he noticed what looked like the Grim Reaper flying towards them with a scythe.
Their screams only lasted a few seconds.
"Your turn, Pegasus," the spirit said.
Pegasus shook his head as he drew a card. "Unbelievable! The Dark Magician's location is hidden in Yugi-girl." He smirked. "But as long as I have Toon World you cannot attack. All your Dark Magician can do is hide until I find it."
The spirit chuckled. "Pegasus, do you trust yourself without the Millennium Eye?"
"It's true that I haven't relied on myself these last few years," Pegasus admitted. "Toon Summoned Skull!"
The monster appeared and destroyed the middle hat.
Pegasus waited for any sign that he had been right, but none came. "I missed again," he growled.
"Too bad, Pegasus," the spirit mocked. "Pegasus, you created Duel Monsters, so you should know that the rule of the game is to determine a winner and a loser. How do you decide the boundary? You must depend on correct judgement and intuition. If you can do that, you're the winner. Judgement is based on experience and confidence. Intuition needs a lot more courage. If you rely too much on your Millennium Eye, then you lose your judgement and intuition."
That last part made Pegasus hiss.
"In terms of courage, Yugi is much better than you will ever be." In the back of his mind, the spirit could feel Yugi's warmth from his praise. "Here goes," he said as the Puzzle glowed and Yugi took over.
'Yugi-girl's back,' Pegasus thought.
"It's my turn," Yugi said as she drew a card. She smiled when she saw what it was. 'I think I can use this card.'
"I'll place this card face-down and end my turn."
The spirit quickly took over again. "Your turn, Pegasus."
'I can't see this card either,' Pegasus thought in dismay.
'Now there are two car face-down,' the spirit thought as he stared down at the two hidden cards. 'But I believe in Yugi.'
"My turn," Pegasus said as he drew a card. "Wonderful! I play Magical Neutralizing Force. This magic card destroys any magic cards on your side of the field. Say goodbye to your Magical Hats!"
"No!" the spirit yelled. "My Dark Magician!"
"It's over, Spirit-boy," Pegasus said mockingly. "An expert duelist doesn't need intuition. He needs to think about how to not get hurt."
The spirit's eyes narrowed.
"Toon Summoned Skull!" Pegasus yelled to his monster, who appeared at its master's call.
'Toons can only be destroyed by Toons,' the spirit recalled. 'The Toon Summoned Skull will destroy my Dark Magician and remain unharmed.'
"Now, Toon Summoned Skull, destroy the Dark Magician!"
The Toon Summoned Skull's attack shot toward the Dark Magician.
"Not so fast, Pegasus!" Yugi cried as she took control. "I activate one of my face-down cards, the Living Arrow card."
"The Living Arrow?" Pegasus cried in shock, knowing what was about to happen.
"Pegasus, you didn't know?" Yugi asked. "The spirit worked you up while I placed cards onto the field."
"What?!"
"It was our intention . . . " Yugi began before the spirit took over.
" . . . to have you destroy the Magical Hats," he finished. "Pegasus, I use the Living Arrow card to send the Magical Neutralizing Force to your side of the field."
Pegasus smirked. "But its too late to save your Dark Magician."
Yugi took over once again. "Too bad that my other face-down is a trap card. I activate Mirror Force."
"No!" Pegasus yelled.
A barrier appeared before the Dark Magician, reflecting the Toon Summoned Skulls attack back to Pegasus's side of the field.
"Since the Living Arrow has already destroyed Toon World, all your monsters return to the field in their original forms."
The electrical attack struck the Doppleganger, Red Archery Girl, and Ryun-Ran, destroying them all.
Yugi: 900
Pegasus: 2000 – 600
"My Toons!" Pegasus cried in horror. "My precious Toons!"
"We did it!" Yugi said aloud to the spirit. "The Toons are destroyed!"
[Well done, Yugi. I'm very proud of you.]
'I never thought that having two minds would allow Yugi to defeat the power of my Millennium Eye,' Pegasus thought.
"All right, Yug'!" Joey yelled.
"Great job!" Yuki agreed with a big smile on his face.
'Yugi,' Anzu thought, 'if your two minds can defeat Pegasus, then Grandpa and the Kaibas can be saved.'
All that remained of the guards were a few guns and some broken sunglasses.
'What the hell is going on?' Tristan thought as he looked at where the men had once stood. He turned to Bakura. "I remember you. It wasn't a dream. You're that Bakura guy who possessed Ryou's body."
Bakura chuckled. "You had better give me Mokuba."
"Like hell I will!"
"So I suppose you want to join those fools," he said as he kicked away a gun.
"How wonderful!" Pegasus said suddenly, surprising everyone. "This is the owner of the Millennium Puzzle. Looks like my game is over. I put my greatest hope in this duel. Yugi-girl, you were chosen for the Millennium Puzzle. Now!" he said as his Eye began to glow brightly and darkness crept around the duel ring.
"We shall finish this duel as a Shadow Game!"
"A Shadow Game?" Yugi muttered. She heard the spirit gasp.
[Yugi, be careful. This duel is about to get much tougher.]
Disclaimer:
I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh! It belongs to Kazuki Takahashi.