A.N. Thanks everyone for sticking around this long…Well, this is it…The final chapter of this fic…I will be publishing a sequel eventually…And I will put an Authors Note on this fic when it's ready…Until then, please enjoy this last chapter.

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Finale: Darkness Rising:

Unknown Location: At the same time

Hundreds of screens showed duels from all over Duel Academy Island, each one flashing rapidly to a different one as a figure in shadow cycled through the duels that the current batch of students had waged. Most were mediocre in the eyes of the employer of this technician, but then again, the duels so far had been by the lowest ranked students in the academy.

As the rankings of the students climbed, so too, quite obviously in the tech's opinion, did the talent displayed and the overall quality of the matches; much to the satisfaction of the man watching behind him…But still they were disappointing in one way or another. Or at least, that's how it was until they hit the top duelists in the academy (including the newly returned Princeton).

"This, is why I love my job." The technician thought with a grin as he watched the best duelists of the upcoming generation's duels. Clearing his throat after the footage ended: "Well boss, did you get what you needed?"

A raspy chuckle, augmented by the live support machine the man was in, answered him: "Yes, I do believe I have Charles…Send out summons to the people whose files I just sent you. It's time to claim what is mine."

The tech checked his tablet as he was leaving to send the summons, and whistled when he saw who his employer wanted him to contact: "Well damn…I know that the lock on those cards requires a sufficient amount of duel energy to open, but this seems a little overkill…But then again, if that Jaden kid is the Lightning Count, maybe not."

A Castle in Transylvania:

A young woman was sitting in an old style throne, bored out of her mind when a buzzing reached her ears. When she checked her phone, given to her by her "ally," she saw the message she had been waiting a very long time for. Upon seeing it, a wide grin that exposed larger than normal canines crept across her face as she began to laugh in a disturbing manner.

As her laughter echoed off the walls of the castle, it began to shake, as though struck by an earthquake…But in reality, the massive structure was rising into the air, and heading towards Duel Academy.

Deep within the Russian Tundra:

A Siberian Tiger growled at a young man carrying an ornate gauntlet, it could sense the power in the object, and was not about to let something like that into it's territory…But before it could react, it had been shot with several tranquilizers.

The man quickly slipped the gauntlet onto the tiger, whose form swiftly began to change to that of a woman in her early twenties.

The man sent a message back to his employer that he had accomplished his mission.

In an alley way somewhere in Europe:

The shadow duelist known as "Night Shroud" looked on apathetically as another inexperienced OZ mercenary was sucked into the shadow realm. As soon as the man disappeared, he chuckled slightly, one step closer to his goal.

As he turned to leave, he received a text…One that might bring his goal to completion much sooner than anticipated.

In a giant floating ship:

A young man wearing ancient Egyptian clothes and a golden mask, gazed impassively down at his latest defeated foe. As he did, he wondered if he would ever find someone who could match his ability…It was as his next opponent of the day approached that one of his servants brought a message to him.

It seemed that the man responsible for his current situation was in need of help…And so he magnanimously decided to aid his benefactor.

In the Duel Spirit Realm:

Titan growled in frustration as yet another attempt to escape from the prison the Deceiver had locked him in ended in failure. As he was being escorted back to his cell, the warden of the prison, a Phantom Captain, came holding a face mask with the Millennium Item insignia on it.

The Captain, without any explanation, slammed the mask onto the duelist's face, where it stuck. With the mask, Titan felt his senses dull, but before he completely slipped unconscious, he could hear the captain growl something in its guttural language at him, and to his surprise his body answered back but that was the last thing Titan would be aware of for quite some time.

Somewhere else in the Duel Spirit Realm:

The bandit group known as "The Dark Scorpions" were busy counting up their loot from the last raid they made when one of the Deceiver's generals, a spirit known only as "The Spider Queen", arrived. She came with an ultimatum, serve the Deceiver's partner in the human world for a mission, or be destroyed.

The bandits swiftly agreed, and Don Zaloog was given a mystical eye patch to send them to the human realm.

Deep in the African Savanah:

A hunter aimed down his rifle at a male lion...Ordinarily he would nit hunt lions, as there was little challenge to it, but this one was different. It was a man killer, and had already killed fifty men; as such, the locals hired him to hunt and kill the beast.

With an inhale, then exhale, his rifle barked once, and the lion died. As the lion fell to the earth, his phone rang, and when he answered it, he was surprised to hear that it was a job that required his dueling skills…something that he had not used in many years. But he saw it as an opportunity to see if he was still able to perform as well as he once was, and so accepted.

At a fencing club in London:

A young woman was finishing up a shower after winning yet another match in her unbroken winning streak when her phone buzzed, signaling she had received a text from her employer. As she read what was in it, she narrowed her eyes briefly. This was not the kind of thing she normally handled, but she would make an exception just this once, as it seemed to promise some form of entertainment.

On Duel Academy Island itself:

Professor Banner had just finished running another detention for his Slyphers, when he received a text telling him that he was to prepare to fulfill his part of the plan…It filled him with apprehension and dread, but he had come too far to back out…Even though he suspected that the man he was in league with was not completely truthful, which is why he had a backup plan in case he was right.

In the Chancellor's office:

Chancellor Sheppard gazed out of his office's window at the gathering storm cloud with a sense of foreboding, as they seemed to be portents of a future calamity. And while he had confidence that they would weather the storm, his conscience was still bothering him.

He did after all know the resources that Kagemaru could bring to bare in his quest to possess the Sacred Beast cards…But he reminded himself that he had to have faith in his students and staff for this, otherwise he might as well hand the cards over now.

But now he just had to consider who to pick to guard the keys…And the choice was extraordinarily easy. He just had to inform his choices tomorrow.

Story Complete!

Poll: Should I add an, technically, OCF character to Jaden's harem?

By Majority (8 to 3) vote, Arturia Pendragon is added to the harem.

SECOND POLL: Mrs. Fontaine, back in or not:

Yes: 6

By unanimous decision, she is back in.

Finalized Harem: This will be here until I get them together with Jaden: (will carry over to next story)

Alexis

Dark Magician Girl

And Uriel/Yubel's true self or her good half (Whatever you prefer to call her)

Mrs Fontaine

Arturia Pendragon

Till next time folks.

R&R