YU-GI-OH!
A New Generation of Duelists
Brian vs. Mage
Yami, Brian spoke to his alter ego, if we conceal the Dark Magician with Magical Hats, would Mage find it with the Millennium Eye?
Afraid so.
Well, since it's the only move we have left, at least we'll go down fighting.
Yami spoke with disappointment in his voice. You did your best, Brian.
"I'll play the Dark Magician in Attack Mode. And I'll use the Magical Hats to conceal him."
The Dark Magician appeared (A: 2500). A giant hat appeared and covered the Dark Magician and three more appeared.
Mage snickered. Ha! The little fool. Once the Millennium Eye tells me where the Dark Magician is concealed, I will destroy him and end this game.
Mage pointed the Millennium Eye at Brian's head and prepared to probe his mind.
Brian! Yami spoke up. Do you feel that?
Feel what? Mage reading our mind?
No. I feel a different force. Something stronger than the Millennium Eye.
"Skull Knight!" Mage shouted. "Destroy the hat on the far right."
The Skull Knight (A: 2650) held its sword and pointed it at the hat on the far right. It shot out a beam of dark energy and destroyed the hat.
Mage chuckled. "Ah! Now the mighty Dark Magician is no more."
But as the smoke cleared out, Mage stopped chuckling.
What's this? Something's not right. No debris.
He looked at the scoreboard. Brian didn't lose any Life Points and the Dark Magician was still on the board.
How is this possible? The Dark Magician had to be there. I read his mind. How could he have concealed its location from me?
"Brian!"
Mage gasped when he heard the voice. Both he and Brian turned to the balcony and saw Michelle standing next to Trevor, Amy, and Fox.
No! The girl escaped. With the Necklace of Hathor guarding Brian's mind she'll ruin everything.
In his head, Brian gasped. She's okay. Whatever the problem was, she seemed to handle it well.
But how is it Mage chose the wrong hat? Yami wondered. It doesn't make sense.
Perhaps Mage really is up to something. But we'll worry about that later.
Brian drew a card and looked at it with surprise.
"I'll play one card facedown and conceal it inside one of the hats."
Meaning that if I destroy the hat that it's hidden in, I'll activate its effect.
Mage drew a card. "Skull Knight! Destroy the second hat on the left."
The Skull Knight blasted the hat away and a golden arrow appeared.
"Mage you have now released my Magic Arrow."
"NO! Not the Magic Arrow!"
"Yes. The Magic Arrow destroys all of your Magic Cards. And for each one destroyed, you lose five hundred Life Points."
As he spoke, the Arrow shot at Mage's Monsters and his Magic Cards were destroyed.
Brian: 400. Mage: 500.
Mage snarled at Brian. "Curse you, Brian. My powerful Magic Cards are destroyed and my Life Points are damaged. But it matters not for my Skull Knight is still strong enough to destroy the Dark Magician and it's only a matter of time until I find him."
Brian drew a card. "You won't need to find him, Mage. For I have drawn Sword of Dark Destruction, which I will now equip my Dark Magician, who I will now reveal. Now that your Ring of Magnetism is destroyed, my Dark Magician can destroy your Skull Knight."
The Dark Magician (A: 2900) jumped out of the second hat on the right and pointed his scepter at the Skull Knight. It shot out a beam of dark energy and destroyed it.
Brian: 400. Mage: 250. "Alright!"
Michelle called out. "That's the Brian we know and love."
"Keep it up, bro!" Trevor called out. "You're killing him."
Mage growled as he drew a card and looked at the Right Leg of the Forbidden One.
If that girl didn't show up, I would have this match over now. No matter, now. Soon I will draw the fifth and final piece to Exodia and this duel will be mine.
"I pass this turn."
Brian drew a card and looked at it with interest.
"Now I will play Card Destruction. Meaning we now discard the cards in our hands and draw the number of cards that were in our hands.
"NOOOOOOOOOO!"
They placed the cards that were in their hands and they drew the number of cards that they had before. Yami Brian looked at Mage's Graveyard and looked at his pile with surprise.
"Now I understand what you were up to. You planned to summon Exodia. No surprise that a man as powerful and as wealthy as you would have such rare cards."
Trevor had his confused face as he looked at Michelle. "Ex-who-dia?"
"Exodia is a very powerful monster. Unbeatable even. It can only be summoned if you have all five Exodia cards in your hand. Once you have them, you automatically win."
"And now," Yami Brian called out, "I will equip my Dark Magician with the Book of Secret Arts. He is now powerful enough to destroy the Millennium Shield."
The Dark Magician (A: 3200) shot out a beam of dark energy and destroyed the Millennium Shield (D: 3000).
Mage sneered at Brian and glared at the Left Leg of the Forbidden One in his hand as he drew a card. Curses! Brian has destroyed my ultimate weapon. Well without the other four, this one is useless.
"I'll just play this in Defense Mode."
Yami Brian smiled. "I may not have your mind-reading powers, Mage. But I can tell by the look on your face that it is the last Exodia card you needed. Dark Magician, destroy it!"
The Dark Magician shot out a beam of dark energy and destroyed Mage's Exodia card (D: 100).
With an annoyed face, Mage drew a card. He suddenly made an evil grin.
"I have to say how impressed I am, Brian. You managed to get pass my Ring of Magnetism to destroy my Skull Knight and you manage to do the impossible: you defeated Exodia. However, Exodia was only my strongest Monster. I still have plenty of moves that can defeat you. Such as this one."
As he played a card a skinny, green ghoul with red eyes all over its body and sharp claws appeared (A: 1600).
"One of my favorite monsters: the Shadow Ghoul. Its Attack increases by one hundred points for every monster in my Graveyard. Plus I will use Giant Trunade to return all Magic and Trap Cards to their owner's hands. Meaning that your Book of Secret Arts and Sword of Dark Destruction are no more. And since there are eleven monsters in my Graveyard, my Shadow Ghoul now has an Attack of 2700."
The Shadow Ghoul (A: 2700) slashed one of its claws at the Dark Magician (A: 2500), destroying it.
Brian: 200. Mage: 250.
"You may have defeated Exodia, Brian. But all it did was make my Shadow Ghoul stronger. You've got nothing now. Admit defeat."
Brian looked at his father's deck. This is it, Yami. Whatever we draw might be our last.
Let's just hope it is one that can defeat Mage.
He slowly reached for his deck, his hand nervously shaking as he knew that it might be the last card he could draw.
Believe in yourself, Brian, Michelle prayed. Like I believe in you.
You've never lost before, Bry, thought Trevor. You're not going to lose now.
C'mon Brian, thought Amy. You can still win.
Mage is tough, kid, Fox thought. But I've seen you duel and you're a lot tougher.
Brian stopped reaching. He was afraid to draw.
"DON'T QUIT, BRIAN!"
Brian gasped as he heard the voice.
Mage was no less surprised to hear the voice. "WHAT?"
Michelle and Trevor also heard that voice. They turned to where it came from and saw Derrick standing there with the Millennium Rod in his hand.
"Derrick?" Michelle gasped. She couldn't help but smile.
"No way, man," Trevor was also so happy to see him.
"Yeah way, man," Derrick said with a smirk. "In the flesh."
Derrick's alive, thought Brian. I can't believe it.
Derrick looked back at Brian. "You still have what it takes, Brian. Don't give up."
Brian smiled as he heard Yami's voice. Derrick's right. Your father's deck has never let us down and it will not now. You just have to have faith that you will draw the right card.
Right. Brian closed his eyes and reached. Heart of the Cards, please give us something that can defeat Mage.
Brian drew. He looked at the card with shock. Then he grinned at Mage.
"I have just drawn the card that can defeat you, Mage. Go, Soul Release!"
"WHAT?"
"With Soul Release I can remove five cards from your Graveyard and control them. And I chose your Exodia cards."
As Brian spoke, an enormous golden monster in shackles appeared and loomed over the Shadow Ghoul.
"Holy Mama," Trevor gasped.
"It can't be!" Mage spoke with fear in his voice. "Betrayed by my ultimate weapon."
"Exoda, OBLITERATE!" Yami Brian shouted.
Exodia shot out an enormous sphere of light and destroyed the Shadow Ghoul. Mage screamed the whole time.
Brian: 100. Mage: 0.
Yami Brian averted back to Brian.
"It's over, Mage. I won."
With his fist in the air, Derrick shouted. "YEAAAH!"
"You won, Brian!" Michelle called out.
"Wayta go bro!" Trevor laughed. "HAHAHA!"
"He did it!" Amy screamed. "WHOO!"
"YEE HAW!" cheered Fox.
Brian smiled at his friends as they cheered for him.
Well done, Brian, Yami spoke up. Your father would be proud of you.
I owe it all to you, Yami. Without your guidance, we could never have beaten Mage.
Still, I wonder how it is we first weren't doing so well against him, and all of a sudden we won so easily. It felt like another force was helping us.
Well whatever this force is, at least it's on our side. The important thing is that we won and Mage will reunite me with my dad.
I'm afraid not, Brian.
What do you mean?
Look.
Brian turned to the other side of the stadium and Mage wasn't there. He ran up there and all he could find was the Millennium Eye.
Where is he? Why did he leave the Millennium Eye?
Mage wasn't real.
What?
When Pegasus, Bakura, and Marik, all died without heirs to their Millennium Items, they created one for themselves. Since Mage now no longer has possession of them, he now ceases to exist.
But without Mage, we can't use the items to free my dad. You knew this would happen, didn't you?
Yes.
Brian was filled with rage. But you had me wager his Millennium Eye. And now that he's gone, we can't use the Millennium Items to free my dad.
I had to wager the Eye, Brian. As long as he had them in his possession, he could do more damage than you can imagine. But there's more you should know.
I don't care! You went ahead and wagered his eye and now I'll never see my dad again.
Brian, please listen.
No! I don't want to listen. I don't want to have anything to do with you.
He quickly removed the chain from his neck and threw the Millennium Puzzle to the wall ahead of him.
Yami's voice screamed. BRIAN! NOOOO!
As the puzzle collided with the wall it shattered into several tiny pieces. With tears in his eyes, Brian ran off.
Derrick, Michelle, Trevor, Fox, and Amy all watched Brian throw his puzzle.
"Something's wrong," Michelle pointed out. "We've got to find out what happened to Mage and what's with Brian."
Trevor nodded. "Right."
Derrick ran up to them. "Let's go."
So the three of them ran out. Amy and Fox just stood there and watched them leave.
"There's something weird about all this," Amy spoke up. "First they wager souls and those Millennium Items, then Mage disappears, and Brian seems upset about his Millennium Item. Fox what do you think is going on?"
Fox just shrugged his shoulders. "All I know is that this tournament's over and I'm packing up to leave."
So Fox left and Amy followed him out.
"I just hope whatever's going on, they'll figure it out."
Once the room was empty, a tan hand scooped up the scattered pieces of the Millennium Puzzle and placed them in a golden box.
To Be Continued...
A New Generation of Duelists
Brian vs. Mage
Yami, Brian spoke to his alter ego, if we conceal the Dark Magician with Magical Hats, would Mage find it with the Millennium Eye?
Afraid so.
Well, since it's the only move we have left, at least we'll go down fighting.
Yami spoke with disappointment in his voice. You did your best, Brian.
"I'll play the Dark Magician in Attack Mode. And I'll use the Magical Hats to conceal him."
The Dark Magician appeared (A: 2500). A giant hat appeared and covered the Dark Magician and three more appeared.
Mage snickered. Ha! The little fool. Once the Millennium Eye tells me where the Dark Magician is concealed, I will destroy him and end this game.
Mage pointed the Millennium Eye at Brian's head and prepared to probe his mind.
Brian! Yami spoke up. Do you feel that?
Feel what? Mage reading our mind?
No. I feel a different force. Something stronger than the Millennium Eye.
"Skull Knight!" Mage shouted. "Destroy the hat on the far right."
The Skull Knight (A: 2650) held its sword and pointed it at the hat on the far right. It shot out a beam of dark energy and destroyed the hat.
Mage chuckled. "Ah! Now the mighty Dark Magician is no more."
But as the smoke cleared out, Mage stopped chuckling.
What's this? Something's not right. No debris.
He looked at the scoreboard. Brian didn't lose any Life Points and the Dark Magician was still on the board.
How is this possible? The Dark Magician had to be there. I read his mind. How could he have concealed its location from me?
"Brian!"
Mage gasped when he heard the voice. Both he and Brian turned to the balcony and saw Michelle standing next to Trevor, Amy, and Fox.
No! The girl escaped. With the Necklace of Hathor guarding Brian's mind she'll ruin everything.
In his head, Brian gasped. She's okay. Whatever the problem was, she seemed to handle it well.
But how is it Mage chose the wrong hat? Yami wondered. It doesn't make sense.
Perhaps Mage really is up to something. But we'll worry about that later.
Brian drew a card and looked at it with surprise.
"I'll play one card facedown and conceal it inside one of the hats."
Meaning that if I destroy the hat that it's hidden in, I'll activate its effect.
Mage drew a card. "Skull Knight! Destroy the second hat on the left."
The Skull Knight blasted the hat away and a golden arrow appeared.
"Mage you have now released my Magic Arrow."
"NO! Not the Magic Arrow!"
"Yes. The Magic Arrow destroys all of your Magic Cards. And for each one destroyed, you lose five hundred Life Points."
As he spoke, the Arrow shot at Mage's Monsters and his Magic Cards were destroyed.
Brian: 400. Mage: 500.
Mage snarled at Brian. "Curse you, Brian. My powerful Magic Cards are destroyed and my Life Points are damaged. But it matters not for my Skull Knight is still strong enough to destroy the Dark Magician and it's only a matter of time until I find him."
Brian drew a card. "You won't need to find him, Mage. For I have drawn Sword of Dark Destruction, which I will now equip my Dark Magician, who I will now reveal. Now that your Ring of Magnetism is destroyed, my Dark Magician can destroy your Skull Knight."
The Dark Magician (A: 2900) jumped out of the second hat on the right and pointed his scepter at the Skull Knight. It shot out a beam of dark energy and destroyed it.
Brian: 400. Mage: 250. "Alright!"
Michelle called out. "That's the Brian we know and love."
"Keep it up, bro!" Trevor called out. "You're killing him."
Mage growled as he drew a card and looked at the Right Leg of the Forbidden One.
If that girl didn't show up, I would have this match over now. No matter, now. Soon I will draw the fifth and final piece to Exodia and this duel will be mine.
"I pass this turn."
Brian drew a card and looked at it with interest.
"Now I will play Card Destruction. Meaning we now discard the cards in our hands and draw the number of cards that were in our hands.
"NOOOOOOOOOO!"
They placed the cards that were in their hands and they drew the number of cards that they had before. Yami Brian looked at Mage's Graveyard and looked at his pile with surprise.
"Now I understand what you were up to. You planned to summon Exodia. No surprise that a man as powerful and as wealthy as you would have such rare cards."
Trevor had his confused face as he looked at Michelle. "Ex-who-dia?"
"Exodia is a very powerful monster. Unbeatable even. It can only be summoned if you have all five Exodia cards in your hand. Once you have them, you automatically win."
"And now," Yami Brian called out, "I will equip my Dark Magician with the Book of Secret Arts. He is now powerful enough to destroy the Millennium Shield."
The Dark Magician (A: 3200) shot out a beam of dark energy and destroyed the Millennium Shield (D: 3000).
Mage sneered at Brian and glared at the Left Leg of the Forbidden One in his hand as he drew a card. Curses! Brian has destroyed my ultimate weapon. Well without the other four, this one is useless.
"I'll just play this in Defense Mode."
Yami Brian smiled. "I may not have your mind-reading powers, Mage. But I can tell by the look on your face that it is the last Exodia card you needed. Dark Magician, destroy it!"
The Dark Magician shot out a beam of dark energy and destroyed Mage's Exodia card (D: 100).
With an annoyed face, Mage drew a card. He suddenly made an evil grin.
"I have to say how impressed I am, Brian. You managed to get pass my Ring of Magnetism to destroy my Skull Knight and you manage to do the impossible: you defeated Exodia. However, Exodia was only my strongest Monster. I still have plenty of moves that can defeat you. Such as this one."
As he played a card a skinny, green ghoul with red eyes all over its body and sharp claws appeared (A: 1600).
"One of my favorite monsters: the Shadow Ghoul. Its Attack increases by one hundred points for every monster in my Graveyard. Plus I will use Giant Trunade to return all Magic and Trap Cards to their owner's hands. Meaning that your Book of Secret Arts and Sword of Dark Destruction are no more. And since there are eleven monsters in my Graveyard, my Shadow Ghoul now has an Attack of 2700."
The Shadow Ghoul (A: 2700) slashed one of its claws at the Dark Magician (A: 2500), destroying it.
Brian: 200. Mage: 250.
"You may have defeated Exodia, Brian. But all it did was make my Shadow Ghoul stronger. You've got nothing now. Admit defeat."
Brian looked at his father's deck. This is it, Yami. Whatever we draw might be our last.
Let's just hope it is one that can defeat Mage.
He slowly reached for his deck, his hand nervously shaking as he knew that it might be the last card he could draw.
Believe in yourself, Brian, Michelle prayed. Like I believe in you.
You've never lost before, Bry, thought Trevor. You're not going to lose now.
C'mon Brian, thought Amy. You can still win.
Mage is tough, kid, Fox thought. But I've seen you duel and you're a lot tougher.
Brian stopped reaching. He was afraid to draw.
"DON'T QUIT, BRIAN!"
Brian gasped as he heard the voice.
Mage was no less surprised to hear the voice. "WHAT?"
Michelle and Trevor also heard that voice. They turned to where it came from and saw Derrick standing there with the Millennium Rod in his hand.
"Derrick?" Michelle gasped. She couldn't help but smile.
"No way, man," Trevor was also so happy to see him.
"Yeah way, man," Derrick said with a smirk. "In the flesh."
Derrick's alive, thought Brian. I can't believe it.
Derrick looked back at Brian. "You still have what it takes, Brian. Don't give up."
Brian smiled as he heard Yami's voice. Derrick's right. Your father's deck has never let us down and it will not now. You just have to have faith that you will draw the right card.
Right. Brian closed his eyes and reached. Heart of the Cards, please give us something that can defeat Mage.
Brian drew. He looked at the card with shock. Then he grinned at Mage.
"I have just drawn the card that can defeat you, Mage. Go, Soul Release!"
"WHAT?"
"With Soul Release I can remove five cards from your Graveyard and control them. And I chose your Exodia cards."
As Brian spoke, an enormous golden monster in shackles appeared and loomed over the Shadow Ghoul.
"Holy Mama," Trevor gasped.
"It can't be!" Mage spoke with fear in his voice. "Betrayed by my ultimate weapon."
"Exoda, OBLITERATE!" Yami Brian shouted.
Exodia shot out an enormous sphere of light and destroyed the Shadow Ghoul. Mage screamed the whole time.
Brian: 100. Mage: 0.
Yami Brian averted back to Brian.
"It's over, Mage. I won."
With his fist in the air, Derrick shouted. "YEAAAH!"
"You won, Brian!" Michelle called out.
"Wayta go bro!" Trevor laughed. "HAHAHA!"
"He did it!" Amy screamed. "WHOO!"
"YEE HAW!" cheered Fox.
Brian smiled at his friends as they cheered for him.
Well done, Brian, Yami spoke up. Your father would be proud of you.
I owe it all to you, Yami. Without your guidance, we could never have beaten Mage.
Still, I wonder how it is we first weren't doing so well against him, and all of a sudden we won so easily. It felt like another force was helping us.
Well whatever this force is, at least it's on our side. The important thing is that we won and Mage will reunite me with my dad.
I'm afraid not, Brian.
What do you mean?
Look.
Brian turned to the other side of the stadium and Mage wasn't there. He ran up there and all he could find was the Millennium Eye.
Where is he? Why did he leave the Millennium Eye?
Mage wasn't real.
What?
When Pegasus, Bakura, and Marik, all died without heirs to their Millennium Items, they created one for themselves. Since Mage now no longer has possession of them, he now ceases to exist.
But without Mage, we can't use the items to free my dad. You knew this would happen, didn't you?
Yes.
Brian was filled with rage. But you had me wager his Millennium Eye. And now that he's gone, we can't use the Millennium Items to free my dad.
I had to wager the Eye, Brian. As long as he had them in his possession, he could do more damage than you can imagine. But there's more you should know.
I don't care! You went ahead and wagered his eye and now I'll never see my dad again.
Brian, please listen.
No! I don't want to listen. I don't want to have anything to do with you.
He quickly removed the chain from his neck and threw the Millennium Puzzle to the wall ahead of him.
Yami's voice screamed. BRIAN! NOOOO!
As the puzzle collided with the wall it shattered into several tiny pieces. With tears in his eyes, Brian ran off.
Derrick, Michelle, Trevor, Fox, and Amy all watched Brian throw his puzzle.
"Something's wrong," Michelle pointed out. "We've got to find out what happened to Mage and what's with Brian."
Trevor nodded. "Right."
Derrick ran up to them. "Let's go."
So the three of them ran out. Amy and Fox just stood there and watched them leave.
"There's something weird about all this," Amy spoke up. "First they wager souls and those Millennium Items, then Mage disappears, and Brian seems upset about his Millennium Item. Fox what do you think is going on?"
Fox just shrugged his shoulders. "All I know is that this tournament's over and I'm packing up to leave."
So Fox left and Amy followed him out.
"I just hope whatever's going on, they'll figure it out."
Once the room was empty, a tan hand scooped up the scattered pieces of the Millennium Puzzle and placed them in a golden box.
To Be Continued...