Bakura cackled as he had a menacing, twisted smirk on his face. "You think you can stop us!? I love to see you fools try!" He shouted as he glanced over at Apep's direction. "You go after Amun! The Pharaoh and his Magician's Spirit are mine!" He ordered as he kept his eyes on Mahado's direction. "Come on little Magician. Let's play!" He said as he watched his Diabound vanished within its surroundings.
Apep looked at Amun as his eyes had a gleam of cockiness for the situation. "Seems that my queen wish to tangle with you, servant of Anubis. Care to see who has a better bite?" He asked as Amun faintly smirked while looking over at the Gravekeeper's High Priest. "Seems you are underestimating with me, boy. I am a god. You cannot think you can easily defeat me with Horus and Anubis' aid," he said.
"Never underestimate us humans," Amun said as his eyes glowed as he watched his High Priest twirling his staff as the Gravekeepers got into their stance. "Cause we tend to be full of tricks," he stated as he snapped his fingers, causing the Gravekeepers to scattered as Apep's creature watched the High Priest still. Amun knew that Apep would summoned his other snake-like creatures to aid his beloved pet, but he hoped he could get the jump on him before he noticed.
The spirit of Amun and Anai's father was keeping an eye on the large frog in front of them as he knew that dealing with that type of beast would be a struggle. He had to figure out how to inflict enough damage while making sure that Anai didn't get injured at the same time. He shifted his gaze over to Mahado as he used his spell attack at the ceiling, knowing what the other was doing as he turned his gaze over Diabound's outline.
'Nice move, Mahado. Nice move indeed,' he thought as he pulled out his large blade and channeled his energy as he threw it at Diabound's direction, causing him to sprint towards the large beast that Bakura possessed.
Diabound's tail caught the blade as it turned its attention over to the father's spirit, causing it to strike a mighty blow towards him. Then the sudden attack from Mahado came from above, which he used his newly attack known as Thousand Dark Magic Blasts, the very same attack that was used to blast the ceiling earlier to show light to reveal Diabound's location before he could strike at Atem and the others. As the beast roared in agony and collapsed, Bakura began to bleed even more as he barely stood on his feet as he breathed heavily.
'I-Impossible! I will not let them defeat me when I am this close to achieving my goals!' Bakura thought to himself as he pushed himself up slowly as he knew that he could not die. He shifted his gaze over as the Gravekeepers were battling against Apep's serpent queen and some other serpents that Apep had summoned in order to protect her as he turned his gaze over to Anai, who never left her eyes on him.
'Why? Why is she giving me those eyes? Those eyes filled with sorrow,' he thought as he knew he could never lay a hand on her. Not in this life or the next. He still couldn't feel guilty for what he did to her when she fell into the chasm with Atem. He spat some blood to the side as he kept his eyes on hers still. 'Does she not realize I am doing this for her safety!? Even though I gave up on Amun since he refused to accept my offer for his safety,' he thought as he began to chuckle as he began to channel in the darkness as he was near the stone tablet still.
"I will obtain the power of the most evilest and darkest ever known to man! I will not be defeated!" He screamed as Diabound began to rise up as it roared loudly enough to make the whole room shake. "Spirits of Kul Elna! Enter my body so we can destroy our enemies together!" He commanded as the spirits began to go inside of him.
"Bakura! No!" Anai screamed as she felt her heart being torn as she knew that she lost her best friend completely as she collapsed to her knees.
"Kill them Diabound! Send them to the Underworld!" Bakura commanded as the power of the souls had doubled Diabound's power as the beast lunged towards them while roaring loudly to intimidate them. 'Finally! I will win!' Bakura thought as he saw Diabound being pulled back, causing him to look over to see the spirit of Amun and Anai's father holding onto the tail with brute strength. 'Does that foolish little spirit think he can hold Diabound in its spot!? He's delusional!' Bakura thought.
The spirit of Amun and Anai's father grunted as he taped into his inner power as he began to pull the beast, causing him to throw him towards the Three-Death Frog's direction. He was glowing red as he summoned his massive blade to his hand as he got into a stance.
'No one is going to harm my children. Especially you, brat!' He snapped as he held his weapon firmly while waiting for Diabound to come back up so he could land the finishing blow on either him or the frog itself that guarded the Millennium Tablet.
Bakura grunted as he knew that this spirit was going to be a handful, but he knew that he had to eliminate the Pharaoh, his priest Shada and the spirit of his late priest, Mahado. "Diabound! Strike at them once more!" He commanded as he watched his spirit beast lunging at them. He knew that Diabound was unable to hide within the shadows, but it did not affect Bakura. As long as he had the souls of Kul Elna, he was unstoppable.
Mahado used his attack on Diabound to severely damage him in order to prevent from anything happening. When the dust cleared, he was in shock when he saw Diabound unharmed while the spirits were encasing the beast as if they were some kind of barrier. He gritted his teeth as he knew the situation was seriously grim as Atem was worried about his companion.
"Time to die! Magus of Illusion!" Bakura shouted as Diabound blasted an attack at Mahado, causing Mahado to collide against the pillar behind him.
Before Mahado could collide with the pillar, Amun and Anai's father appeared as he gotten the impact while shielding Mahado from any serious damage, even though the blast was enough. Mahado spat out some blood as he knew that Atem would feel the impact as well as he slowly turned his head over to Amun's father, giving him a weak smile. "I owe you one, dear friend," Mahado weakly said as he heard a chuckled from the father.
"No need. We got each other's back," the father answered as he looked over at Anai, who coughed up some blood, knowing that she felt the severe pain that he experienced. 'Anai,' he thought as he knew that he wouldn't let anyone or anything harm her, but she knew the chance when they were battling Bakura.
"This time I will destroy you! You won't be able to return to this world again, Magician!" Bakura called out as he watched his beast lunging towards them while charging up an electrical sphere in its hand.
"Mahado!" Atem called out as Shada extended his Millennium Item. "Millennium Key! Accept my Ba and Heka to summon the spirit named - " Shada began until he was struck down by an asp, causing him to cringed as he let go of the Millennium Key.
"Shada!" Atem called out as Apep's asp grabbed the Millennium Key while taking it back to its master.
"You do not need to thank me, Bakura. We have three of the Millennium Items, but we need the remaining four," Apep said as he watched the Gravekeeper's High Priest using his attack on his precious serpentine queen, causing him to hiss in pain while he knew that particular High Priest responds to Anubis himself, causing him to turn his gaze over to Keku, who was figuring out the next attack from his massive frog creature he summoned. Apep threw the Millennium Key towards Bakura's direction to strengthen his beast for its final attack.
Bakura smirked as he caught the Millennium Key as he cackled. "Now perish, Magician!" He screamed as he watched Diabound's attack striking down the pillar where both spirits were at as he waited until the dust cleared. Once it did, he was in shocked as he knew that both spirits were not there. 'Where are they!?' He thought as he noticed two feminine figures appear while grabbing both of them with their strength. "WHAT!?" Bakura screamed as he was in shocked to see that his attack had missed.
'Hang on you two,' the spirit of the wife said as she looked down at her husband, causing him to smile at her.
'Hang on master!' A female magician said as she held onto Mahado, causing Mahado to be surprised as he knew who it was.
'Mana?!' Mahado said as he saw his former apprentice above where they were as Atem was surprised to see her, causing him to support Shada's body over his body.
"Looks like the cavalry are here," Amun said as he saw the High Priests in the room, causing him to help his sister up to her feet. "You okay?" He asked her. She nodded as she saw their friends, causing her to smile at them as she knew that this battle was going to be theirs as she watched her parents going through the hole where Mana was at.
'Mother. Please treat father and Mahado,' Anai thought to her, causing her to turn her attention to Seto. She smiled a bit big as she ran over to him as she wrapped her arms around his neck, causing Seto to embraced her.
"I thought I would never see you again," Seto whispered to her as Anai held him still. "Seto," she whispered as she didn't want to let go of him as Amun brought over Atem and the body of Shada over to the fellow priests.
Amun looked at the remaining Sacred Guardians as he grimly shook his head for Shada's well being, letting them know that there was nothing they could do. "We got ourselves a battle. The Thief King Bakura and two of Set's subordinates, Apep and Keku," Amun began to explain as he looked at his Gravekeepers. "Atem and Anai are going to be out of this until they are healed up," he said as he looked at the Sacred Guardians.
"Our job is simple. Protect the Pharaoh, reclaim the Millennium Items that were stolen, and finally, send these bastards back to the Underworld so they would be unable to escape from their pits," he stated as they nodded their heads in agreement as they knew that Amun had the plan laid out for them to do in order to achieve it.
Bakura scowled as he was furious to see the Sacred Guardians to be present, knowing this battle was going to become intense. 'They think they outnumbered us? They're just walking into their own deaths! Especially with the Millennium Items they possessed!' He thought as he began to smirk in a twisted manner. He began to cackle a bit as he gotten the attention from them, causing him to clap his hands sarcastically.
"It is an honor to have all the Sacred Guardians of Pharaoh Atem to be present!" He called out. "But you all will perish from my wrath!" He exclaimed as he pointed his finger towards Seto's direction while having hatred in his eyes. "And I will enjoy slaughtering you for trying to steal my Anai away from me!" He shouted.