A/N: I'm sorry this update took so long everyone, but its here now so enjoy this chapter! Thanks to my friend Agent of The Divine One for his help with this chapter. For the first time in a long time, this chapter will not include one of my usual recaps.

"Enough!" Once again Yubel's aura flared in rage at the interruption. "Make your move little Tea so I can throw you into the shadows!" She screamed, enraged once again.

Tea had to seize the moment right then, or she may not see another turn in this lifetime…

"Fine then." She growled. "Dark Magician attack her facedown monster! Dark Magic Attack!" Tea ordered.

The mage's staff glowed with energy, building up in strength and in power until it was finally released in a sudden burst, the blast racing toward Yubel's facedown monster card at unimaginable speeds…

Finally the blast of magical energies connected with it's target, flipping the hidden card over, revealing the hidden creature within it.

Yubel's hidden card turned out to be what looked like a pure black monster with large black wings and a silver orb in the center of it where one could assume was it's chest.

"You attacked my Chaos Core, which would normally be invulnerable to attacks, but for now it blocks your attack just once. Is that all?" Yubel asked, a slight sneer in her voice.

"Yep." Tea answered, quite calm despite the situation.

Yubel was annoyed at Tea's persistence, but also mildly happy. Yes. She wanted Tea to writhe in agony for all eternity in the Shadow Realm, but not without some sort of challenge. An easy victory is not a victory at all.

"I will place another monster in defense mode and end my turn." Yubel looked straight into Tea's eyes with her next statement. "You have made some good attacks little Tea, but you have no hope of defeating me or getting back Yugi." This last sentence was finished with a malicious smirk.

"Try all you like, but your evil will never triumph." Tea countered bravely. She knew she was playing with fire, but in this situation she felt as though she had to. She was sure that in order to win the duel and save Yugi, not only did she need to defeat Yubel, she also needed to get in the fiendish monster's head and force her to make mistakes.

"Dream on little Tea. It's all you can do." Yubel's smirk widened with malicious laughter following directly after it that could send a chill of fear and terror down even the bravest human's spines if they heard the hideous creature's laughter...

"Yuge...you can't possibly love dat ding...can ya buddy?" Joey asked, looking at his brainwashed best friend with desperate brown eyes. The whole ordeal was tearing him apart inside just as much as it was to Yami and Tea.

"Yubel-chan loves me which is more than I can say for anyone else. Now be quiet so she can destroy your pathetic friend!" Yugi snapped, the Orichalcos burning bright on his forehead.

Joey growled, racing to Yugi's side and shaking him by the shoulders. "Yugi, wake up damn it!"

Joey quickly found himself stuck in the wall, the only hint to what had happened Yubel's outstretched hand glowing in her now familiar violet aura. One could infer she used her powers to release Yugi from Joey's grip and sent the latter flying into the wall…

"Do not touch him if you want to live!" Yubel roared.

"What….What happened?" Joey asked, the blonde both looking and sounding very dazed.

"That was only a small sample of what I will do if you interfere with my Yugi. If you don't want to feel my full fury then stay down like a good dog." Yubel snarled, her eyes full of hate for the blonde duelist.

Joey groaned, before falling from the wall, landing face-first, out cold. "JOEY!!!!" Tea screamed.

Yugi sang in a Linda Blair fashion, "Ashes, ashes we all fall down." He gave a sinister little giggle and smiled wickedly.

Yubel meanwhile was stroking his hair affectionately, grinning wickedly herself.

Tea and Yami looked on in Yugi's direction, with equally horrified expressions.

"Someone please call an exorcist before this gets any more bizarre." Seto muttered.

"I don't think they deal with insane duel monster spirits..." Tea replied grimly.

"Why don't we get a therapist for Whiz Kid over there first?" Yugi answered snidely.

Then before either Seto or Tea could retaliate, Tea's comment about Yubel sank into Yugi and the brainwashed youth's aura exploded in a dark amethyst-crimson flame…

"You bitch! You could have been around since the dawn of time and still be the pathetic tea party princess you are today! You're nothing compared to Yubel!" Yugi screamed, enraged.

He wouldn't tolerate anyone tarnishing his dear Yubel's name, and Tea was no exception…

Yami stood there, his mouth hanging open in complete shock. He couldn't believe how much Yubel had twisted his sweet little aibou into this cruel, sadistic monster.

"You've never been more than a little girl putting on a brave face when danger comes around. And the longer it last the more of a coward you become." Yugi continued, with a cruel chuckle and smile.

Tea's vision became blurry as her eyes misted over with tears… "Yugi..." She whispered sadly.

"Aibou..." Yami murmured softly.

"There's nothing quite like the sting of a knife in the back is there Yami?" Yugi snickered evilly.

"Aibou...please..." Yami pleaded.

Yugi frowned before driving the knife deeper. "No. Not aibou. Not ever again. I am your executioner." He answered, his voice laced with malice.

"Yugi, you're a hikari or soul of light...not darkness…"

"Yubel has shown me the joy of the dark just as you knew it when you played the Seal of Orichalcos." Yugi answered in a dark matter-of-factly tone.

Yami cringed. He could still hear himself calling his most trusted monster, Dark Magician 'useless'.

Yugi turned to Tea, "It's over, you're hopeless and this duel is done," he sneered.

"No Yugi. The duel isn't over. The Heart of the Cards will see Tea through to victory." Yami replied, before turning to Tea.

"Trust in The Heart of the Cards and yourself," he encouraged.

"Get on with the duel Tea or else we'll give Yubel more time for bad dialogue." Seto muttered.

"Uh Kaiba...that will just make her madder..." Yami and Tea muttered back to the teen CEO.

"Nothing is easier to bring down than someone who stops thinking and lashes out in anger," Seto spoke calmly.

Tea blinked in confusion.

"When you use your emotions instead of your logic you hand victory to your opponent on a silver platter," Seto continued though he looked bored.

"Shut up Kaiba!" Yugi growled.

"Now, now Yugi-kun. All this talk means nothing. They will all pay for crossing me," Yubel cooed to the love-enslaved boy.

"But Yubel-chan, those morons are insulting our love," The smaller duelist protested.

"Well done with burying them though," Yubel giggled as once again she ruffled Yugi's hair.

Yugi blushed shyly. "Aw it was nothing. I can't wait to see them crushed under our power," He giggled sinisterly.

"That's right Yugi-kun. And don't you forget it," Yubel told him, smiling evilly.

Yugi nodded, smiling in an evil vicious way himself.

"This duel's far from over, Yubel! My move!" Tea shouted, drawing her card.

To be continued…