I'm gonna make the part where Yugi plays two chapters long. Just because alot of things go on in this part. Ryan and Ryou are gonna start kicking butt now. You'll see how and not just the white wizard. Review please!
Yami Ryou glared at Yugi with hatred and anger. Yugi just made a gaming smirk with his arms crossed as if he ruled the game. He reached over with a handful dice. Yugi showed a smirking grin at that point.
"I believe it's my turn," Yugi said while squishing the two dice between his first three fingers. With those first three fingers, he began to roll the dice. They spun like a top and landed on a 03. With that, Tristan shot through Zork's left hand with his gun.
"BOOYA!" Tristan shouted victoriously. "Take that, bitch! Who's the coward now?"
Zork's left hand fell off and landed on the ground. Everyone cheered victoriously and jumped up and down around Tristan.
"Nice going, Tristan!" Hanaski cheered.
"I think we should thank Yugi," Atem said while looking back at his giant brother. Yugi smiled childishly while picking up his tiny avatar brother with two hands.
"Don't worry, I'll get you out of there, Brother," Yugi promised. His eyes then were half closed. "You know, you kinda look cute like this."
"Oh shit," Atem responded grimly as his miniature body was rubbed against Yugi's cheek. Everyone else giggled as Atem blushed in embarrassment. "Ugh, you just love torturing me, don't cha?"
"Maybe, but you still look kinda cute in your little dolly form."
"Put me in a hamster cage and I will kill you."
"As much as I love to see your pathetic brotherly affections, can we go on with the game?" Yami Ryou smirked as Yugi left out a giggle from his lips. He kissed his brother's dolly form as Atem cringed and his head turned cherry red. Yugi placed his brother's character back to the board.
"Now wasn't that just adorable?" Joey teased as Atem showed a devilish smirk.
"You know I could cut off your head right about now," Atem mentioned.
"Well, since you'll be playing along, from now on, you'll be playing the adventure team. If their life points reach 0, they all die," Yami Ryou explained as Yugi nodded his head with his game face.
"Aw man, I don't wanna die!" Tristan whined.
"Oh, man up, Tristan! We ain't going to die looking like this," Joey glared.
"Yugi's here isn't he?" Hanaski asked rhetorically. He showed a brightened smile. "I believe he'll help us and get us out of these things."
"He's right!" Yugi agreed in promise. "I'm gonna rescue all of you, including you, Brother."
"Then let's get on with it, shall we?" Yami Ryou smirked before narrating again. "Though, Zork lost his hand when his guard was down, he seems to be uninjured! You could even say that things have now gotten worse for the adventurers."
"Oh shit!" Joey responded while watching Zork's hand mutate into some sort of odd creature.
"That hand is turning into a monster!" Tristan realized.
"Any piece of flesh cut off from my body transforms into any monster at my command!" Zork shouted.
"Zork is the source of all darkness!" Pokie explained to his master, Atem. "He will continue to summon out monsters until you take out his life once and for all. On the positive side, he is starting to lose control."
"What do you mean?" Atem asked in confusion.
In Ryou's soul room, Ryan watched as Yugi took over in his brother's place. Ryan knew he had to trust that Yugi would save him and his brother from this evil. When Tristan's character cut off Zork's hand, Ryan felt something on his right hand that made him gasp. Ryou's hand gripped tighter against Ryan's hand. When Tristan took out Zork's left hand, that left hand freed Ryou.
"Ryou!" Ryan cried happily. "You just grabbed my hand! But... if you did that after Tristan's attack... maybe Zork isn't invincible. Our other friends weren't able to attack Zork! Ryou, try balling up your left hand!"
Ryan glanced at the screen and saw Yami Ryou's left hand balled up and clutched tight. He grinned excitedly. Ryou had control over the left hand, which meant he can control his own body in some way. Ryan held a hopeful smirked as he stared directly at Ryou.
"Don't give up! Keep fighting!" Ryan encouraged his brother.
"Brother," Ryou's voice echoed. "I'll... I'll save our friends."
"I know."
Zork turned and left, leaving his monsters to fight the adventurers. Atem smirked deviously with a gaming smirk on his face.
"What cha running away for, Zork?" Atem asked with fighting spirit.
"I have a special place for our final fight. Make your way to the castle if your fighting spirit still lurks within your hearts, that is if you can," Zork invited before disappearing from the game board. Since everyone knew this was a shadow game, Yami Ryou decided to not hide the magic of the characters being real or not. The characters were now more realistic than before.
"Zork disappears and heads towards the castle," Yami Ryou narrated.
"And he calls me a coward," Tristan glared.
"Don't worry," Joey reassured his friends. "We'll make it to Zork's Castle no matter what!"
"We're playing according to Bakura's script. It's as if we're really stuck in this game world madness of his," Atem thought glaringly.
'You're right! Bakura made Zork appear when the adventurers' guard was down. That's why he was able to seal your souls into your avatars. He is one badass game master!' Yugi said through his mind link that still appeared, even when him and Atem were in separate forms.
'Though, there's still those 00 rolls he's getting. It's obvious that he's cheating.'
'I know. I noticed when I was watching his dice rolling technique. I know a way to stop it.'
'Go for it!'
"It's now the warrior's turn to attack," Yami Ryou declared as Yugi flipped the dice into his hand. "Just remember that if you roll a fumble, your warrior dies."
"Ok," Yugi understood as he squished the dice in-between his three front fingers and spun them on the board. Yami Ryou rose up two eyebrows as the numbers on the dice read 00. "With that, Joey cuts that monster in half!"
"ALRIGHT!" Joey shouted victoriously as he took his sword with two hands and slashed through the first monster. "Take that bitch!"
"That's amazing, Yugi!" Hanaski cheered for his friend as Yugi showed a chuckling smirk. Yami Ryou seemed slightly confounded.
"HEY!" Joey shouted to Yami Ryou. "I slayed him right? Get on with the narrating!"
"Uh right!" Yami Ryou replied with a few sweat droplets on his face. He types some things on his laptop, not aware that his left hand was moving on its own. "Seeing his companion slain by the warrior, the other monster hesitates and loses his turn to attack. That means the next turn goes to Beast Tamer."
"Time for me to kick ass!" Atem smirked devilishly at a huge dragon. "Yugi! Do your stuff and I'll capture this dragon here!"
"I'll hold him down," Pokie said.
"Until a few minutes ago, the Zork Arm Dragon was a part of Zork. The success of brainwashing him is at a low 10%," Yami Ryou explained with furrowed eyebrows.
"I believe in Yugi," Atem replied while Yugi spun the dice with his first three fingers that were holding the dice.
"Time for me to do my stuff," Yugi smirked while the dice spun around. The red die, representing the ten's column, landed on an 8 while the white die still spun.
"So much for that. The red die represents the ten's column and it landed on an 8. There's no way you can..." Yami Ryou smirked before the white die bumped against the red die while it was still spinning and the red die spun again. Everyone gasped as Yugi showed a half smirking smile and the numbers read 02. "What the..."
"That means the brainwash was a success, bitch!" Atem declared as the magical hands clapped at the dragon and transformed him into an ally. It looked like a toon monster in duel monsters. "Looks like I got a new ally."
"Today is a start for you," Pokie said.
"I know," Pado the dragon replied, nodding his smiling head. "I'll do my best."
"Oh god! He sounds like Barney!" Atem glared in frustration.
"You little cheat!" Yami Ryou glared furiously. "What kind of technique was that?"
"One of the many ways of cheating with dice called The Double Hit," Yugi replied as everyone eyed at him. He kept his childish smile casually while his eyes ended half closed and pointed at his enemy. "The same class as your 'run of zeros,' Bakura!"
"SHIT!" Joey glared, shooting daggers at Yami Ryou. "You mean to tell me that asshole has been cheating this whole time?"
"No surprise there," Atem responded while rolling his eyes. "He kept getting double zeros two turns in a row. It's not that hard to figure out, though I couldn't see how that was possible."
"So... you can control the roll of the dice?" Hanaski asked in great surprise.
"Yep," Yugi replied. He picked up the dice and held them by his three front fingers. "As you can see, these ten-sided dice are shaped like a five-petaled flower on the top and bottom. They're slit into an even side and an odd side." He showed the even numbers on one side of the dice and the odd side on the other side. "In the double hit technique, it's important to spin the dice like a top with the even side facing upwards." He then threw the dice like spinning a top on the board as a demonstration. Since Yugi wasn't spinning to move his characters or choose a move, the roll never counted as a play roll, especially since the game was paused.
"So that way, it can't stop on an odd number and the chances of rolling a 0 is one-fifth!" Atem smirked impressively. He looked up at Yugi. "You continually surprise me, Yugi. Grandpa said that you were called Yu-Gi-Oh and I can see why, now." Everyone stared at Atem with blinking eyes. "What? It's not like you asked!"
"Anyways," Yugi continued. "When you throw the dice, you put the strongest spin on the die that represents the ones column. The die with the weaker spin will stop first, but if it stops on something other than zero, the stronger spinning die can change the number of the first die."
"But how can you have them hit when you want them to?" Hanaski asked.
"You can control the path of the spinning die by vibrating the surface, like shaking the table with your knee for instance," Yugi explained as he spun the dice again, stopping the red die purposely. He bumped the bottom of the table a little bit, and then the white die bumped right onto the red eye as everyone gasped. "With this technique, you can change the number on the die as many times as you want to."
"Crap," Tristan and Joey responded together.
"Sucks for you, Bakura!" Yugi smirked while pointing his index finger at his enemy. "If you can cheat, so can I."
Yami Ryou glared in annoyance. He took the dice in his hand and said, "fine. From now on, we roll like this." He dropped the dice from his hand and it fell onto the board.
"Very well," Yugi agreed with a nod.
"YEAH! Next time you cheat, you should be the one that gets turned into a doll!" Joey shouted in a glaring tone.
"On with the game!" Yami Ryou declared before narrating. "After defeating Zork's servants, the adventurers continued onward to the gates of Zork's Castle."
"Let's go guys!" Atem smirked as him and his friends ran toward the castle. 'Nice going with stopping Bakura's cheating tactics.'
'No prob,' Yugi replied smirkingly.
"Ready to enter Zork's Castle?" Tristan asked as everyone nodded.
"Be careful! There are traps everywhere in that castle!" Pokie warned.
"Don't worry, we'll be careful," Atem promised his pet. "No matter what happens. We have Yugi on our side."
"Yeah, we're safe as long as Yugi's with us," Hanaski grinned as Yami Ryou smirked with a dark chuckle leaving his nostrils.
The gate to Zork's Castle opened and the gang entered inside the castle. While walking inside, the two parts of the castle split in half and turned under the game board to show the inside of the castle. When the adventurers entered the castle, Yami Ryou began to narrate.
"Now, at last, the adventurers made it to the castle where they're goal, to defeat Zork, lies before them. The draw bridge lowers for them to walk inside the castle," Yami Ryou narrated as he went onto his computer and typed a few things, not noticing his left hand moving on its own. "The adventurers enter Zork's area and the castle field opens." The gang noticed the castle with three staircases and a throne at the very end centered. There was a little tunnel on the left that looked like a narrow tower. On the right looked like a small ramp that lead to nowhere. Nobody knew what to do first since Zork did not appear yet. "You're coming to the last stage of your quest. Zork awaits somewhere in this castle. Can the group of heroes find him and slay the demon?"
"HEY ZORK! WHERE ARE YA?" Tristan shouted with fighting spirit.
"YEAH! UNLESS YOU'RE TOO SCARED!" Joey smirked with his sword clutched into his hand.
Hanaski looked to his left and noticed the tower with the small tunnel. He said, "that tower looks suspicious."
"Then let's go in," Joey declared as he walked right inside.
"Wait Joey, what're those marks on the pedestal?" Atem asked while looking at the pedestal suspiciously.
"Good question," Joey figured while rubbing his chine. "Let's investigate it!"
'I don't know about this, Atem. Those marks look suspicious,' Yugi thought as Atem stared at the pedestal hardly.
"Wait guys! It's a trap!" Atem warned his friends.
"Huh?" Hanaski questioned with cocked eyebrows. Him and the rest of the gang, besides Atem, were already inside the tower.
"What fools!" Yami Ryou smirked as the ceiling of the tower started falling with spikes at the end of it.
"NO!" Atem cried.
"LOOK OUT!" Yugi responded out of reflects even though it was already too late.
"It seems our adventurers fell into a trap, but don't worry. I'm not an amateur who just makes the death instant. I like to prolong your suffering, so I'll give you a chance to save them, Yugi," Yami Ryou smirked deviously as Yugi stared at his helpless friends longingly.
"Aw shit!" Joey whined.
"Nice going, Joey!" Tristan glared, shooting daggers at his friend.
"HEY! How the hell is this my fault?"
"Because you've got an idiot brain!"
"Guys, this is not a good time to fight!" Atem shouted from outside of the tower. He looked up at Yugi, who was scared for his friends. "Yugi, saved them! You can do this!"
"I'll try," Yugi promised as Yami Ryou chuckled deviously.
"Your friends can only stay there for so long, Yugi. You've got three rolls, three turns before your friends turn into pancakes," Yami Ryou instructed as Yugi and Atem shot daggers at their enemy.
"You'll pay for this you son of a bitch!" Atem glared in anger.
"Here is the puzzle: you must create a column to support the ceiling, but to do this, you must roll a curtain number on the dice," Yami Ryou explained.
"COMMON YUGI! ROLL A double zero OR SOMETHING!" Joey cheered with furrowed eyebrows.
"No Joey!" Hanaski said. Everyone turned their heads and faced him. "He has to roll a curtain number of Bakura's choosing."
"Crap!" Tristan glared in frustration.
Yugi rolled the dice, which appeared to be a 04. The ceiling kept squishing the characters closer to their doom. Yugi trembled in fear as he watched his friends continually becoming squished by the spikes. Atem looked up at his brother with faithful eyes and a small smile. Yugi gave a nod as Yami Ryou gave a dark chuckle. He was amused by Yugi's fear for his friends' lives.
"I'll give you a hint: the number you must roll are doubles," Ryou hinted as Yugi showed a glaring face as he picked up the dice in his hands. He then noticed the pedestal and the bottom part of the ceiling that seemed to be connecting to it. It then occurred to him that those were the keys.
'Yugi, I think the number is connected to the pedestal on the ceiling and the floor,' Atem said.
'I know, Brother! The question is, which number?' Yugi wondered.
"By the way, it's time for a monster encounter roll. There's a 30% chance that Zork will appear," Yami Ryou declared.
"Aw crap!" Atem muttered as Yugi trembled tremendously. "Stay strong, Yugi!"
"But if Zork shows up, you're all dead for sure and you can't fight him alone, Atem!" Yugi cried.
"I'll be fine!"
"I hate to interrupt your pep talk, but..." Yami Ryou said as he rolled the dice, which showed a 28. "Zork emerges from the castle!"
"NO!" Yugi cried as Atem glared furiously at the monster.
"You fell straight into my trap, foolish children!" Zork growled. Atem glared even more. "Prepare to be vanquished!"
"Well, this is great! I'm stuck in this dump and Zork is about to wipe the floor with us!" Tristan complained.
"Don't worry! I'll save you guys!" Yugi promised as he threw the dice on the board desperately. It landed on a 13. "No good!"
"YUGI!" Hanaski cried with tears leaking from his eyes out of fear and pain.
"Zork attacks. Since the defenseless targets have a 95% success rate, I'll have him destroy them first and have him finish your puny brother last," Yami Ryou smirked as Atem glared even deeper.
"Great, just when I thought being short couldn't get any worse, I become even shorter. I never thought I'd love being 4'5," Atem thought to himself.
"Don't feel bad, at least you can still kick ass," Joey smirked as Atem sighed in response.
Yami Ryou rolled the dice and it showed a 41. He humped and said, "not the number I was hoping, but a good start for a slow and painful death."
Zork slashed through the friends as they all cried in pain. Atem shouted, "ARE YOU GUYS ALRIGHT!"
"We're fine, man," Tristan replied, smiling weakly.
"I never thought I'd say this about a game, but this sucks ass," Hanaski said.
"Tell me about it!" Tristan agreed.
"Yugi!" Joey called out as he met those childish eyes. "We believe in ya!"
Yugi nodded with boldness on his face. He stared at the carvings to figure out the numbers that could match them. Atem helped his brother since he was outside watching his friends slowly die in pain. They concluded that there was a column missing from the pedestal. The numbers they concluded would match up would be 0, 3, 6, 8, and 9. The Atem twins weren't sure which doubles would match up, but they had to put faith that they had a chance.
Yugi rolled the dice with hope in his heart that the right number would appear. He watched as the dice rolled and appeared as a 33. Then, Yugi stared at the pedestal as a column appeared in between the two pedestals. His friends were saved and escaped from the tower just in time. Atem smirked victoriously toward his brother.
'We did it, Yugi!' Atem smirked in his mind.
"Nice job, Yugi!" Hanaski cheered.
"Yes, but Zork gets another chance to attack since Yugi used his last turn to save his friends instead of using Atem's character to attack Zork. Not that it would be of any help anyways," Yami Ryou smirked with a hint of mockery while rolling the dice. It showed a 12. "Zork strikes the adventurers once more!" Zork starts blasting the pillar right after the adventurers escaped just in time.
"Nice try, but the characters have a higher speed. Once the puzzle was solved, my friends succeeded in escaping," Yugi smirked, pointing to his friends who were safe and sound.
"And thank goodness. Those spikes were giving me a headache... literally," Tristan added.
"But now I have holes on my head!" Joey complained as Atem rolled his eyes.
"At least you're safe!" Atem mentioned with narrowed eyes.
"By being behind Zork, the adventurers get a surprise attack! In other words, I get more attacks!" Yugi smirked as he rolled the dice. Yami Ryou glared in annoyance as the dice rolled a 15. Joey struck Zork from behind with his sword.
"AND THERE'S MORE WHERE THAT CAME FROM!" Tristan shouted as he pointed his little miniature gun. "I'll make you pay for using Ryan as a rag doll!"
"We never forgive ANYONE who treats our friends like shit!" Joey shouted aloud.
"That's right!" Hanaski shouted in anger. "When you mess with our friends, YOU MESS WITH US!"
"We'll wipe the floor with you and kick your shit!" Atem cried out.
The millennium puzzle glowed and the anger from Yugi's friends united with the puzzle and into the dice. Because the puzzle's power was of Unity, it united their powers and anger together. The anger the five friends shared was transferred into the dice Yugi was holding. He shared the same anger as Yami Ryou felt the power of the unity that the five friends shared. He was also feeling something vibrating in his left hand as well. The anger was also shared in Ryou and in Ryan, who were inside Ryou's soul room.
The dice fell out of Yugi's hand and landed on a 09. Tristan shot Zork with his gun that showed tremendous power. Yugi rolled again for Hanaski and the dice landed on a 13. Hanaski waved his wand and a big bolt of energy emerged in midair, and then shot it right at Zork. Finally, Yugi rolled again for Atem and it landed on an 08.
"THIS IS FOR RYAN AND RYOU! LEAVE MY FRIENDS ALONE!" Atem shouted in anger as his pets attacked Zork with their tremendous power.
"WHAT? How is this possible? You're not even doing anything special with your hands!" Yami Ryou shouted confoundedly.
"It's the puzzle!" Atem replied with a smirk up his lips. "Our anger has channeled into the dice. Because we're angry, we wished for the dice number at our will."
"Hm," Yami Ryou smirked as Zork appeared through the smoke from the attacks. Everyone gasped in confusion.
"You have got to be kidding!" Tristan glared. He threw his arms in the air. "After all those attacks?"
"You really are fools!" Yami Ryou mocked as an evil laugh escaped his mouth. "You are nothing, but level-one adventurers! You don't have enough experience to defeat Zork!"
"But... after all those hits..." Joey muttered with confusion in his eyes.
"This game was ridged from the start," Hanaski realized.
"Are you calling me a cheater?" Yami Ryou asked rhetorically as all the avatars glared at him in response. "As the Dark Master, I made everything in this game world. I AM THE RULES! I AM THE MONSTERS! I AM GOD!"
"More like the devil," Atem added while keeping his glaring eyes.
"Now, continue on your onslaught. At least you'll end up dying in honor," Yami Ryou mocked while laughing manically.
In Ryou's soul room, Ryan glared in pure anger. His arms were trembling enough to shaking his dear brother, who was still in his arms. Yami Ryou had ridged the game to where Ryan's friends could never defeat him. Was there no hope? Ryan knew he had to think of something, but what? Ryou was still fighting and his hand continued to hold tightly against his brother's hand.
"Brother, fight with them!" Ryou's voice called out in an echo. Ryan's eyes widened as he stared at his brother. "You... you must fight with them. I'll be fine!"
"Ryou, I can't let you go!" Ryan said.
"Fight! I'll fight too! He's... he's going to cheat! I'll try to keep him from destroying our friends, but you must promise to fight!"
"I will," Ryan promised boldly as he took both arms and wrapped them around Ryou's body and held it tight. While holding his brother, he watched Yami Ryou open a drawer, which held the avatars of his previous friends that were comatose. Ryan glared furiously as the dice inside the drawer were removed, but not just any dice, Brainwashing Dice.
The power of the millennium ring could seal any soul into any object. While the puzzle was of Unity, the Ring was of Sealing. Though, Ryan thought it was "stealing" when Ryou first mentioned the ring's power. In a sense, it was possible to steal peoples' souls. At least that's what Yami Ryou did. These Brainwashing Dice was sealed by Zork's dark power. On the positive side, it gave Ryan and Ryou more room to fight against Yami Ryou.
"That son of a bitch," Ryan muttered while watching Yami Ryou grabbed the dice from the drawer. "He's willing to do whatever it takes to win and gain ultimate power." Yami Ryou threw the dice on the board and it landed on a 00. "Ryou..."
"I'll fight!" Ryou declared as Ryan held onto his brother tighter. "I don't want to lose anymore friends."
"Me neither."
"I'll fight till the end!"
At the game, Yugi stared wide-eyed in fear as the dice read 00. Zork attacked everyone on the field with his powerful dark magic.
"NOOOO! HANASKI! ATEM! EVERYONE!" Yugi cried with tears leaking from his eyes.
Yugi stared in horror as he saw all of his friends on the castle ground seemingly unconscious and perhaps dead. Out of reflects, Yugi took his brother's avatar and rubbed his thumb against his small pale face. His thumb was trembling as a splash of water hit the little character with spiky hair. Yugi never kept his eyes off the little character dead in front of his eyes.
"No... brother," Yugi muttered as he brought the little character close to his face. "D... don't... leave me... please."
"Zork has the power to kill characters with more than his attack points. In other words, all your characters are dead. Including your pathetic brother you're holding," Yami Ryou declared with an evil smirk up his lips.
"NO! NO! IT CAN'T BE!" Yugi cried, still holding his dear brother in his hands. "DON'T DO THIS TO ME, BROTHER! DON'T! I LOVE YOU! DON'T DIE!"
"Oh, stop your whining. You're worse than the Bakura twins," Yami Ryou glared as he typed and calculated the data on his laptop. "It's probably pointless, but I'll calculate the character's status on the computer. Maybe seeing it in front of your eyes in numbers will do you some good."
"Brother," Yugi muttered as more streams of tears fell from his cheeks. "You can't die on me, brother! I love you! I've always loved you! Even when you were a small child, I loved you! I never let anyone else solve the puzzle! NO ONE! I would trick them! I would make them see illusions, so they would put the pieces in the wrong place, but not you! You're the only person I didn't tricked, because... I love you!" Yugi sobbed and wept as more tears left his eyes and Yami Ryou's eyes widened in shock. It was as if he did something wrong or made a mistake, but Yugi was too depressed to notice this. "I could... love Tea romantically. We'd probably break up and... hate each other, b... but... our love is eternal. I'll never love anyone else like you... brother. I'll... never let anyone else solve my puzzle, only you. Not even Hanaski or Tea. You... can't leave me... brother."
"I'm not going anywhere, Yugi," a voice muttered as Yugi snapped his eyes open as he felt Atem move in his hand. Yugi was so excited he rubbed Atem's avatar against his cheek.
"ATEM! BROTHER! I LOVE YOU! I LOVE YOU! I LOVE YOU!" Yugi cried in joy while squishing his avatar brother against his cheek and moving his face left and right.
"I love you too, now will you put me back on the board and give me some breathing room?" Atem glared as Yugi held the avatar away from his face and gave out a chuckle. "But seriously! If I was dead, don't you think you'd be dead too."
Yugi blushed cherry red. He forgotten that his and Atem's souls were so closely bonded that if one was dead, so was the other. Their bond was literally dead close. Yami Ryou stared at Yugi coldly before darting back onto his laptop, or his keyboard. Yugi wasn't sure which and neither was Atem. They were having a reunion.
"Yugi, even when we're separated, our souls will never be apart," Atem reminded his partner. Yugi nodded as he brought his brother close to his cheek and Atem pecked a kiss on that soft cheek. "I love you, Yugi."
Yugi kissed his brother's avatar figure before replying, "I love you too."
Yugi placed Atem back with his friends as they all recovered from the attack. Everyone was okay, except for a few scratches and wounds from the attack from Zork. Everyone was happy to be alright, especially Atem. Joey, then walked over toward Yugi with a serious grim.
"I overheard some things and I have one question," Joey said as Yugi rose his eyebrows. "ARE YOU MEANING TO TELL ME WHEN I TRIED SOLVING YOUR STINKEN PUZZLE YOU F***ED MY MIND?" Yugi chuckled before giving a shrugged, meaning a yes. "Son of a bitch."
"Wait, when did you mess with my puzzle?" Atem asked suspiciously as Joey flushed.
"I was seven okay! I was bored and curious, so I tried solving the damn thing!"
"I tried solving it too," Tristan admitted as Atem shot daggers at his friend. "I was curious! I wanted to see if I could solve it! I didn't think a spirit would f*** with me!"
"But Atem was the only one Yugi let solve the puzzle without any tricks," Hanaski pointed out before putting his head down, thinking. "Eight years. That means Yugi has known you since..." He counted with his fingers on the number of years.
"Seven," Atem declared as everyone stared at him. "I got the puzzle when I was seven."
"Damn!" Tristan responded. He looked up at Yugi. "You've known him for that long?"
"He was cute at that age," Yugi grinned.
Meanwhile, at Ryou's soul room, Ryan held a victorious smirk and a small chuckle while watching the screen. On the laptop read as typed, "I am Ryou Bakura. I won't let you kill my friends. I'll fight too."
"F*** you bitch," Ryan smirked as Ryou's lips twitched.
At the game, Yami Ryou was horrified at what he read on the screen of his computer. It was Yugi's turn to roll and Yugi rolled a 05. Joey slashed Zork's eye off as Yami Ryou's eye closed up. That was when everyone heard something that made them jump off the game board.
"F*** you bitch!" A voice that sounded familiar was heard. Everyone gasped as they saw Yami Ryou glaring angrily and in annoyance.
"What are you all looking at?" Yami Ryou asked in anger. Yugi smirked casually.
"Since when does your left eye shut?" Yugi asked rhetorically as a small giggle left you. "By the way, your hand is moving randomly."
Yami Ryou stared in horror as he watched his left hand move on it's own, typing on the lap top. It read, "I won't let you control me anymore! I'm going to help my friends strike you down!" Yami Ryou became so infuriated that he moved his laptop from his left hand and Yugi giggled at the sight. It was clear that Yami Ryou was losing control over his own body. As Zork lost more body parts, Yami Ryou lost more control over his host.
When Joey struck Zork down, it must have damaged a part of his lips for everyone to have heard something from Ryan... or was it Ryou? Yugi wasn't sure which one, but he knew this was a good sign. Him and Atem agreed that if they kept playing and fight Zork some more, Yami Ryou would evenually lose control.
"Alright! Back to the game! The warrior strikes a perfect hit! His sword gauges out Zork's left eye. However, Zork's points are only lowered by a fraction. FACE IT! No matter how much you hit! You will never defeat Zork!" Yami Ryou smirked with cockiness in his eyes. "Now, according to the scores, Hanaski's Magician goes next, but his and Zork's scores are tied, so Yugi and I will have to roll together."
"FINE BY ME!" Yugi smirked as they both rolled their dice. Yami Ryou used the dice, which he believed to be the brainwashing dice, but never eyed on what his left hand was carrying. Yugi rolled a 09.
"HA! THE GAME IS OVER! Zork's moves are faster than Hanaski! He raises his..." Yami Ryou narrated while Yugi was chuckling. "What's so funny?"
"I think you need to have your... eye checked. Look at what your dice landed on," Yugi said, pointing to Yami Ryou's dice, which showed a 10. "As Ryan just said not too long ago, 'f*** you, bitch!'"
Hanaski lifted his wand and healed everyone's wounds. Yami Ryou cursed himself when he realized that the dice he was holding were regular dice. So, where were the brainwashing dice? Yami Ryou decided to finish Yugi's friends off already with regular dice since Zork couldn't be killed anyhow. Everyone was prepared for an onslaught from Zork.
"It doesn't matter, because after this attack and you're all through," Yami Ryou smirked evilly as he held his right hand with the dice in his hand. "All I have to do is roll less than an 80. IT'S OVER!" Then, Yami Ryou's left hand jerked and rolled the brainwashing dice on the board. It rolled a 99! Zork blew himself up!
"ALRIGHT!" Joey cheered while jumping up and down.
Yami Ryou grasped his left hand as if trying to control an out-of-control dog. Everyone gasped while Atem and Yugi held a smirk up their lips. They had known for a while that Yami Ryou was losing control over his host. Yami Ryou jammed his left hand against the sharp top of the tower as blood splattered out on the top and bottom part of the hand. Some of it even dribbled down the tower. Ryan was going to need a hospital after this.
"THERE! WHO'S THE MOTHER F***ER NOW, YOU LITTLE BASTARD!" Yami Ryou shouted at his left hand as the fingers tried to grasp a hold of something.
"It seems you're losing control over your host!" Yugi smirked enthusiastically. "Compared to you, I love my brother and would never use him as a shoe toy. We respect each other and that's why I'm not in your position. When you dictate, you eventually lose control when that host stands against you. By keeping Ryan and Ryou prisoners and sealing their friends, you've created a rebellious army and I'll prove it on my next move."
"It's Beast Tamer's turn," Yami Ryou hissed through his teeth as Yugi showed a smirk.
"Brother, use your powers on Zork!" Yugi declared as Yami Ryou mocked at his decision.
"You think that it'll work on Zork? That's a foolish way to think, even for you," Yami Ryou mocked as Yugi kept his smirk and rolled the dice. It landed on a 05.
"Time to bring back a friend!" Atem smirked as the magical hands appeared and the palms were shown in front of Zork.
"You think you foolish mortals can make me into an ally?" Zork mocked with an evil chuckle. "It will take more than that to..." Then a white hair-ball appeared on his left hand. "WHAT'S THIS?"
The magical hand grabbed a person from the inside of Zork's left arm and pulled him out. This character flew into the air and landed next to Joey, Tristan, Hanaski, and Atem. The face looked exactly like Ryan's, even the smirk. This time, this smirk was the one the friends recognized came from the real Ryan Bakura.
"Ryan, is that you?" Atem asked as Ryan's character glared at him.
"I told you not to ever play games with me!" Ryan shouted.
"Yep, that's Ryan alright," Joey declared boredly.
"Seeing that we're playing a shadow game and changed into dollies, I guess I can't blame you for hating games," Tristan concluded as Ryan showed a depressed face.
"Luckily, I've played Monster World long enough to level my character to level 13. That should be enough to defeat Zork or give him alot of damage," Ryan concluded with a sharp smile this time. He turned to Atem. "My brother is fighting the evil spirit inside him. I think the power of your puzzle game him strength. What's the power of your puzzle?"
"Unity," Atem replied.
"Mine is sealing. When we became friends, Ryou was also friends with you as well. It must have reacted to the puzzle. That's why when I touched it, it hurt me. It was attacking the evil spirit inside Ryou. Your puzzle has made Ryou strong enough to fight. I thank you and Yugi," Ryan thanked his friend as Atem gave a nod.
"Your welcome. Now let's kick ass."
"It's still your turn. The Magic Gunsman goes next," Yami Ryou cringed as Yugi rolled the dice, which landed on a 15. Tristan shot Zork with his gun, which created more damage than ever before.
"I lowered Zork's defenses, so you can kill this mother f***er," Ryan smirked as Yugi held a gaming smirk. Yami Ryou glared with anger written on his face. "You hurt my brother and you hurt my friends. It's time for me to f*** your shit you d***head bitch ass!"
"You little..." Yami Ryou hissed before Ryan interrupted him.
"Kiss my f***in ass, so I can send you straight to hell! I'm sick of you f***ing with my brother, so now I'm gonna start f***ing with you by kicking your ass."
"Then let's do this shall we?"