Yu-Gi-Oh! R: the untold story of the anime.
I know that I haven't updated in a while. It's been hectic. It might be a long time before I update again.
So we have today, a mix of custom and original awesomeness (at least I ruddy well hope so).
The main complexities will vanish, and it'll be more like the original manga duel from the end of the chapter. It'll vary from my first adaption a bit here, just to be a bit more realistic.
On with the show.
Reign of the Avatar!
Duel Ring server, KaibaCorp Building.
Mokuba looked in shock at the screen as the readings twisted around. "The Duel Ring server just started performing all kinds of strange calculations again!" he said in shock, scanning the screen. "That's impossible! My big brother's codes should have stopped all of Tenma's program's!" He looked up at the server. "Unless some kind of virus was uploaded by the Wicked God cards themselves!" he realized. "Now that it's been played in a duel, I don't think Seto's codes can stop it!"
On the floor above, Tea was still unconscious, the machine imprisoning her glowing brightly and shaking heavily. Tristan looked at the machine in surprise.
"What's happening...?" he wondered.
"Something's wrong with Tea!" yelled Joey. "The machine's starting up again!"
"Tea!" yelled Tristan in shock as her soulless body opened its mouth.
Joey reached out. "Tea, you okay – ack!" he yelped as a spark of electricity zapped him. Joey looked sadly at the machine.
"Man," he sighed. "We're helpless. We can't save her."
C'mon Yug' he thought miserably. You're the only one who can free her from the Wicked Gods now!
At the top of the KaibaCorp building, Yako had just successfully summoned the Wicked Avatar in attack position. He smirked at Yugi's field, which would intimidate any normal duelist, with two Egyptian God monsters.
His side of the field however contained the three Wicked God monsters, all bloodthirsty for the flesh of their rivals.
"Do you see now, Yugi?" said Yako. "This is my Wicked God – my other spirit! The Wicked Avatar!"
Yami Yugi looked at the massive dark sun, stunned. This thing was created to oppose my Winged Dragon of Ra, the god monster of the sun!
Gekko looked up at the monster, grim-faced. The Wicked Avatar, the accursed God monster that stained Yako's soul black with evil, he thought to himself with cold fury.
So he finally summoned it. The Wicked God that surpasses all other monsters, thought Kaiba standing beside him.
Slifer raised its massive head, and fired a blast of lightning, but Avatar simply shrugged it off.
Yako laughed. "Come, Wicked Avatar, metamorphose!" he called.
The black orb began to twist around and change.
"This monster transcends every other monster on the field!" laughed Yako. "Its reign is eternal!"
Yugi nervously watched and gasped in shock as a figure began to form in the black swirling aura of Avatar.
"TEA!" he screamed in horror.
Indeed it was her, a dark version of her form, swirling around in the vortex of the Wicked God.
"It looks as if your precious friend is already being absorbed by the Wicked God," explained Yako.
"Wh-what did you say?" gasped Yugi in horror.
"She will be drunk up, every last drop," said Yako, grinning.
The Wicked Avatar continued to twist and shift, finally taking on a black form of Dreadroot, its attack points skyrocketing to 4001.
"Unless you can topple this Wicked God!" cried Yako.
Yugi gritted his teeth. You monster, Yako.
Yako burst out laughing. "This is the judgement of the Avatar! Despair to you and those you love!" yelled Yako. "Wicked Avatar, destroy Slifer the Sky Dragon, and end this duel! Punish him!"
Avatar raised its new fists, and charged.
"Dark Fierce Knockdown!" cried Yako.
The monsters fists slammed into Slifer, who threw its coils futilely at Avatar.
"No!" cried Gekko and Willa. Kaiba looked on grimly. The same combo that defeated me!, he thought, remembering his defeat at the Avatar's hands.
But when the monsters broke apart, Slifer was unharmed. Yugi smiled, and a card slid out of his graveyard. He held it up and showed it to Yako.
"When I discarded a card to summon the Tricky, it was my Electromagnetic Turtle. I can remove this card to allow my monsters to end a battle at will," he explained. "So my Sky Dragon is unharmed!" he yelled.
Angrily, Yako slipped a card into his disk facedown, and ended his turn.
Below, Willa was sweating. "Yugi barely managed to get out of that one. How is he going to keep this up?" he asked.
Kaiba was worried. The power of the Wicked Avatar is unspeakable. It takes the attack power of the strongest monster on the field and surpasses it by just one point. He frowned. Yugi, can you really stand up to the Wicked Avatar, or will it destroy your Egyptian Gods and scatter the pieces?
"What's wrong, Yugi?" asked Yako. "For every moment you deliberate, more of Tea's soul is absorbed. So make it fast!"
Yugi gave him a look of fury, and drew his card. You..., he thought. Then he looked at his card, and smiled. "I play a spell card!" he called. "The powerful Graceful Charity, which allows me to draw three cards and then discard two!" He drew two cards, and then as he drew the third card, it glowed so brightly that even the other God monsters had to look away. Yugi smiled, and slid it and another card into his graveyard, leaving him with two cards in his hand.
Yako snorted. "Are you stalling, Yugi? Trying to stay defended for one more turn?" he asked. "You'll never save your friend Tea that way."
Yugi glared at him. "No! On this turn..." he stated. "I'll attack the Wicked Gods!"
"What?" asked Gekko and Willa in chorus.
"I activate the spell card, Monster Reborn!" called Yugi. He slotted the card into his Duel Disk, and the mighty crest shone out above him.
Yako drew back in fear. No, he thought. I don't have the Selection facedown!
Yugi raised his hand. "I give 1000 of my life points in order to summon forth the almighty Egyptian God Phoenix!" he roared, his life points dropping to 2000.
A blast of flame swarmed forth from Yugi's duel disk, and swirled around him, as the Wicked Eraser's attack and defence points became 3000. Kaiba, Gekko and Willa stepped back in shock at the heat of the light. Kaiba's eyes narrowed. Ra never seemed this powerful when Marik was using it!, he thought in shock.
The fire slowly took on a form, a giant fiery bird, rising behind Yugi with an unearthly screech. It hovered behind the mighty serpentine dragon that was Slifer, and the blue skinned giant that was Obelisk the Tormentor.
Yugi pointed at the Wicked Avatar, flanked by the bone wreathed Dreadroot, and the coiled form of the Eraser. "Winged Dragon of Ra destroys that creature with Egyptian God Phoenix!" he roared. The giant phoenix rose up and charged with a howl. The Wicked Avatar bellowed at the Egyptian God, but there was no stopping the God monsters flight.
"No!" roared Yako. "That won't work!"
His facedown card rose up – Shift.
Yugi looked in surprise at the card.
"Watch this, Yugi! This card switches your target!" yelled Yako. "I choose for your Phoenix to target the Eraser!" he added.
What?, thought Yugi in surprise.
"He's turning the Phoenix on his own God card?" asked Kaiba in shock.
The burning form of Ra twisted away from Avatar, and slammed into Eraser.
Flames roared in the night. Eraser screeched in agony as its skin was eaten away, and it burned into black ash that swirled onto the field. Yako cried out in pain as flame surrounded him.
Yami Yugi looked on grimly, but behind him, Yugi turned away. I know it was necessary he thought. But no-one should have to suffer the wrath of the Egyptian Gods! Even Kaiba winced, having seen the effect that Ra had had on Joey in a Shadow Game that had nearly killed the blonde duelist.
The flames died down, and Eraser was gone, but the cloud of black ash remained. The cloud swirled around the field, and began to eat away at the other monsters, scorching the arms of Obelisk and Dreadroot, coiling around Slifer. Ra and Avatar hovered out of the way with slight looks of disgust as the horror below unfolded.
Yugi, Kaiba, Willa and Gekko looked at the carnage in shock, while Yako burst out in gales of mad laughter.
"I told you!" he said, laughing. "The Wicked Eraser is the God that erases the other Gods!" he commented with a sneer. "When it gets destroyed…it takes every other card on the field with it! Ra and Avatar are higher on the pyramid ranking, so they're unaffected. Erasers powers are useless against them. But the others aren't so lucky..." he observed.
Slifer was fighting wildly, refusing to let its counterpart take it down. Obelisk dissolved stoically, its fists clenched. Dreadroot was almost gone, its arms waving in panic.
Then the tornado of ash engulfed them, and spread to the duelists.
Yugi groaned in pain. I can't see!
The Millennium Puzzle glowed. Golden energy radiated out from the Puzzle, blasting though the black cloud.
The flames of the Winged Dragon of Ra burnt through the rest. Yugi looked up and gasped in surprise.
Standing behind Yako was a black, bird-like dragon, colossal and powerful, with feather-like wings, and a ring connecting its shoulders. Its attack points flashed in the air: 1.
Kaiba looked on in shock as the two Ra faced off, while Gekko and Willa could barely hold back their astonishment. Yugi ended his turn. There was nothing left he could do. Ra screeched as it returned to his graveyard in a spurt of fire. Avatar shimmered, and morphed into its base form of a dark orb.
Yako smiled. "I've seen all your duels in this building, Yugi," he told his opponent. Ra was the only card in your deck that could stop Avatar, and now that I've gotten rid of it, the Wicked Gods' reign is unstoppable!' he said. "It's my turn. I draw."
He drew his card, and smiled.
"I play Card of Sanctity," he said. "Now we draw until we hold six cards."
They drew, and Yako smiled, holding up a card.
"I summon Daybreaker!" (1700/0) he called.
A white armoured knight appeared, and Avatar twisted its form into a dark version of the knight, increasing to 1701 attack points. Yako pointed at Yugi, who was scanning the new cards in his hand.
"Daybreaker attacks directly!" yelled Yako.
But to his shock, a wall of fuzzy brown creatures appeared, absorbing the attack. Down below, Kaiba grimaced – he hated those furballs.
"My thanks for playing your Card of Sanctity, Yako," commented Yugi. "My Kuriboh can be discarded when I would take damage in battle, and prevent that damage from touching me!"
Yako snarled. "You can't block this!" he yelled, clenching his fist. "Wicked Avatar, attack!" he screamed. The dark knight raised its sword, and sliced across Yugi's body, causing him to scream in pain as his life points dropped down to 299.
"I set two facedown cards!" called Yako. The two cards appeared in front of him. "That ends my turn."
Quickly Yugi drew his next card. I can't dodge his attacks forever. If I can't reverse my current situation, then I'll be in trouble and Tea will be gone forever, he thought grimly as he looked at his card.
Perfect! I drew what I need to reassess my options.
"I play the Monster Recovery spell card!" he called, and a whirlwind appeared in the air. As he slipped his five cards into his deck he added, "This card allows me to return all the monsters on my field, and every card in my hand to my deck, then draw the same number of cards that were in my hand!"
He drew five cards with a flourish, and examined them.
Below, Gekko was impressed.
"He drew that card at the time where its use would be the most effective!" he commented.
Willa wasn't so joyful. "But Yako said it himself – Yugi doesn't have any monsters that could beat that Wicked God," he pointed out.
Yako smiled. "You'd better hope that you drew a good monster to keep you safe," he commented. "But you can't stop my Avatar's judgement."
And then, glowing swords appeared on the field between them, and Yako gasped in shock. Wh-what the?, he thought. Swords of Revealing Light!
"While this is on the field, your God can't attack for three turns!" explained Yugi.
Yako snorted. "So, since the Swords of Revealing Light affect the entire field, even the Wicked God is affected?" he asked. "But you're running out of cards. How long can you hold out?" he asked.
Up on the duel platform, Yugi selected three cards. "And now," he said. "I set three cards face-down on the field!" He looked at Yako. "That ends my turn."
Yako narrowed his eyes.
"He didn't summon a monster?" asked Gekko. "Did he not draw one?"
Yako looked at Yugi quizzically. "You didn't even summon a monster to act as your shield," he observed. "Do the Swords of Revealing Light make you feel that safe?" he asked.
Yako drew his card. "My turn," he said with a grin, right eye bulging. "Yugi! Why don't we throw in a little twist at the end?" He placed a card into his duel disk and a circle of red light appeared, smoke rising from it, and a shape forming in the smoke. "I play the Fiend's Sanctuary spell card!" he cried.
Yugi gasped. The card that Kaiba gave me to beat Marik!
A token made of reflective beads appeared, and Yugi could see his reflection in the head of the Metal Fiend Token.
Yako gave a smug smile and began to explain. "The Metal Fiend Token reflects my opponent. Now, Yugi, for all intents and purposes, your power is reflected within this Token! And while Avatar takes on the highest attack power on the field, well his form on the other hand is selected based on the highest power in play!"
Sure enough Avatar was warping, shifting into a new form.
Yugi, Kaiba, Willa and Gekko all gasped in shock.
Wh-what the-?, thought Yami Yugi in horror.
The Wicked Avatar is changing, thought Gekko.
Standing before them, eyes closed was a black form of Yugi Muto. Not the spirit of the Puzzle, but the real human being himself.
Beside it, Yako wore a self satisfied smile.
Gack.
This was so annoying to adapt. I've had to cut out two or three pretty cool monsters from the original duel, which I am kind of annoyed about. At least the gods are out of the picture (ish). Fortunately, I was able to insert the Swords back into the Duel.
Originally I was going to have Yugi use Battle Fader to dodge that direct attack. I hadn't realised at the time that I could do what happened. (I was also going to use Battle Fader again, as of course it would have been returned by Monster Recovery.)The real effect of Fiend's Sanctuary made this hard to adapt, but not too bad – just had to put more monsters out on the field.
When Yugi summoned Ra, Yako was talking about what happened the last time Yugi tried this. He used the Selection to negate the special summon of Ra.
I really hope that the god face-off was cool. That was the main reason I altered the duel this much. I wanted something legendary, and I really wanted to give it. It's also quite interesting to see how many fanfiction's that feature Eraser just have it blow up the field, rather than the description I gave. I am not making this up – it actually does the whole ash thing (or at least it does when Yako sacrifices it in the original manga. It uses its blood when Bandit Keith uses it against Joey, as you saw.)
Anyway guys, please do rate and review.