Hey guys! It's time to continue this duel shall we? Though, I'm glad you guys are liking the lighthearted duel to keep us from drama. Unfortunately, we need to check on Joey. I know one of my commenters was asking me about Joey. Here's where you will get your answer. Also, around here is where I will start basing this duel off the anime. The reason for this is because there's a really awesome part I want to put in. I'm hoping to pull this off and hopefully I will. Also, I apologize for this lasting three chapters long. Review please!
While Seto and Atem were dueling, everyone else, besides Mokuba, was surrounding around what was left of Joey after the cardiac arrest. His heart was barely sounding. The doctors had asked the friends to put Joey down, but they refused it and asked to give him a chance to fight for his life. There was a slight chance he would live, but Serenity promised life and she seemed determined that Joey would win.
Serenity held onto Joey's hand tightly while the others tried to stay strong. It seemed that Serenity was the stronger one, seeing that she still had hope for Joey. Tea had two hands holding her head, hiding her bloodshot eyes. Hanaski and Tristan also held bloodshot eyes. Ishizu stared out the window, then noticed a huge holographic Slifer the Sky Dragon and Obelisk the Tormentor.
"It seems that Atem and Mr. Kaiba have already summoned their gods," Ishizu said in a loud whisper. Everyone snapped their heads over toward the window. In mere seconds, they were gathering at the window, where they saw the two gods out against each other.
"Whoa!" Tristan responded. He turned to Joey's direction. "Hey buddy, Atem just summoned Slifer! He's dueling against Kaiba!"
Joey's lips twitched and the heart meter began showing his heartbeat rising. Serenity could even feel her brother's fingers twitching. Serenity smiled, knowing what her brother wanted. She looked up at Tristan, who nodded. He walked over to Joey's side and lifted him up off the bed.
"Wait, you can't-" the doctor said.
"Joey will be fine! He wants to see Atem fight!" Serenity assured. She could only know the outcome of the duel through Seto, since he wore no millennium item. She ran by her brother and helped stand him up. "Don't give up, Joey. Atem needs your support! You can do this, I know you can."
Joey's fingers began to twitch again and his lips were quivering. It was as if he was trying to say something, but couldn't spout it out of his mouth. Serenity knew for sure that Joey's deep coma didn't prevent him from hearing his surroundings. Melvin hadn't trapped Joey too deep in the dark. He could hear their voices.
Serenity smiled as she stared out the window. She hoped in her heart that the duel with Seto and Atem would be enough to revive her brother. He was fighting, fighting for his very life! There was no doubt that Joey was determined to win no matter what it took. Joey was determined to fight against life and death.
Atem had summoned Slifer the Sky Dragon, who held 2000 attack due to holding two cards in her hand. Seto had also just summoned his god card Obelisk the Tormentor with 4000 attack. He couldn't understand why Atem laid a card face-down and weakening his god, but was about to find out the answer. Atem held a smirk upon his face as if he knew the outcome of this phase.
"Slifer's special ability activates when you summoned your god!" Atem said. That's when it dawned on Seto why Atem laid a card face-down, Slifer's special ability.
Slifer the Sky Dragon's second mouth opened and shot a huge fireball at Obelisk the Tormentor, dropping its attack by 2000 points. Now, both gods had the same amount of attack points. This made Seto slightly frustrated, but knew by his next turn, Obelisk's attack will return to its 4000. This little phase will not last and Atem knew it. Seto grew a smirk on his lips.
"I place one card face-down! That ends my turn!" Seto declared as Atem nodded, then drew his next card. Slifer the Sky Dragon's attack points were now 3000 and Obelisk's was 4000.
"If you use one of your cards, your Slifer's attack points will drop. What are you gonna do?" Seto asked mockingly.
"Besides kick your ass? I would think maybe f***ing with you some more," Atem smirked in reply while peering at his cards. "Anyways, I end my turn!"
"Then, I go!" Seto said while drawing his next card. "OBELISK, ATTACK WITH IRON FIST!"
"YELLING IS NECCISSARY!"
"SHUT UP!"
"YOU'RE STILL YELLING!"
Seto groaned, then said, "Obelisk, attack! There happy?"
"I activate my spell card, Pot of Greed!" Yami declared as he revealed his face-down card and drew two more cards. Slifer's attack points were now 5000. "Did I ever mention to you how fun it is to f*** with you?"
"You little-" Seto seethed through his teeth as Slifer attacked Obelisk with blazing fire from its mouth. "I activate my spell Command Silencer! This negates the attack and I draw one card!" He drew one card from his deck.
"Then I place two cards face-down!" Atem declared, which lowered his Slifer's attack points down to 3000. "I end!"
"Very well, then it's my turn!" Seto declared before drawing his next card. "Now, my Obelisk can-"
"I play Card Destruction, which gets rid of our hand, then we draw the same amount as we just discarded!" Atem declared as him and Seto threw their hand into the graveyard and draw the same amount as they had in their hands. "Then, I play Disgraceful Charity! This returns the cards we discarded back into our hands!"
"You son of a bitch!" Seto shouted as Atem smirked, watching his Slifer's attack points rise to 6000.
"Don't get mad, get glad!"
"SHUT UP!"
Atem laughed his guts off as Seto growled in irritation, then said, "I play Thirst for Compensation! This lets me special summon two level 4 monsters or below in defense mode! I bring out Blade Knight and Sword of Soul!" A mighty warrior with black armor and a huge sword, with a gold blade and a black handle with a skull on it, appeared on the field.
"This also activates Slifer's special ability!" Atem smirked as Slifer the Sky Dragon opened its second mouth and shot two fireballs at Blade Knight and Sword of Soul.
"Which is why I activate Card Guard! This prevents my monsters from being destroyed by card effect until the end of this turn and in return, I discard one card!" Seto replied as he discarded one card from his hand into the graveyard.
"Let me guess, we're about to experience some shit here right?" Atem asked as Seto smirked and nodded.
"I sacrifice my two monsters to Obelisk to activate his special ability, since you're keen to using your god's ability!" Seto declared as Obelisk the Tormentor grabbed Blade Knight and Sword of Soul and it turned reddish.
"I've always loved it when you used this ability to Obelisk, but monster effects don't work on Slifer!"
"But the second part of its ability is active! OBELISK, ATTACK ATEM'S LIFE POINTS DIRECTLY!" Seto shouted.
"Again, with the shouting!"
"Whatever! I still win!"
Obelisk the Tormentor lifted its mighty fist and aimed it directly at Atem. He threw in a huge smirk as he took one card from his hand and sent it to the graveyard just as the fist landed on him. Seto chuckled oh so darkly over his victory, or what he thought was a victory. He gasped as he saw Atem's points still remaining the same.
"WHAT?" Seto gasped aloud as he then saw a huge holographic Kuriboh in front of Atem.
"I activated Kuriboh's ability. By sending him to the graveyard, battle damage is reduced to 0!" Atem replied as Seto's head boiled in anger.
Mokuba laughed his guts off, almost tripping onto the floor, then said, "OH MY GOSH! YOU JUST GOT PAWNED BY KURIBOH, SETO!"
"YOU SON OF A BITCH! HOW DARE YOU STOP MY OBELISK WITH THAT PUNY SHIT?" Seto almost screamed.
"Sorry Seto, but I think your ego needed to be taken down a few notches!" Atem replied, still laughing.
"I'LL MAKE YOU PAY FOR THAT!"
"I'd like to see you try!" Atem smirked with a challenge, then drew his next card. "By the way, it's my turn! My Slifer attacks Obelisk!" Slifer took a big gulp of breath and shot a whole breath of fire at Obelisk.
"Then I use my trap card Power Balance! This cuts the number of cards you have in your hand in half and I draw the same number in my hand!" Seto declared with a huge smirk. Atem discarded three of his cards, making Slifer the Sky Dragon's attack 3000 as Seto drew three more cards in his hand.
"Then I use Necromancy!" Atem declared with tension building up. "This special summons your monsters back on your field in defense mode, but if destroyed, your Obelisk take 600 points of damage!" Four of Seto's previous monsters from his graveyard with less than 2000 points appeared on the field, then were instantly destroyed due to Slifer the Sky Dragon's effect. Seto glared intensely as he found Obelisk's attack dropping to 1600.
"Then I activate my Sword of Soul's effect! This increases Obelisk's attack by 1000 points!" Seto said hastly as Obelisk's attack increased to 2600.
"I also activate my monster's effect! When Electromagnetic Turtle is sent to the graveyard, I can end my battle phase!"
The attack between the gods stopped as Atem sighed in relief while wiping the sweat off his brow. He began laughing at the excitement and intensity of this game. Then, Seto began laughing and both were continually laughing until they couldn't find the breath to laugh anymore. Atem sighed while rubbing his right eye. He loved the excitement of the duel! To be pushed to his limits!
"I set one card face-down!" Atem declared, still breathing in and out from the laughter. Slifer's attack was now 1000 and Obelisk the Tormentor's attack was back to 4000.
"Want to go again?" Seto asked, with a smiling smirk.
"BRING IT ON!"
"Obeliks attacks Slifer!" Seto declared aloud.
"I play Spell Textbook! I discard all my cards and draw one card! If it's a spell card, I can activate it!" Atem declared as he threw his last card in the graveyard and then a smirk appeared on his lips. "The card I drew is Card of Sanctity!"
"Oh sure, because every card you draw has to be the one you want! What are you a wizard?" Seto said sarcastically as he and Atem drew from their deck until they reached 6 cards. "Anyways, I activate my trap card, Life Shaver! You must discard your cards for each turn this card has been set and it was two turns!" Slifer the Sky Dragon's attack was now 4000, the same attack as Obelisk the Tormentor.
The two Egyptian Gods attacked one another and as they made their attack, a bright light began to glow in the middle of the field. It was like an explosion of an atomic bomb. At first, Seto and Atem thought this was part of the holographic projector, but then they began feeling the effects of this explosion. It was intense! The sound and wind of the explosion was sucking the boys in!
"SETO!" Atem shouted.
"AT- YAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Seto screamed. Atem felt his world tumbling upside down as he found himself falling into some sort of black hole of some sort.
"SOMETHING TELLS US WE'RE NOT IN KANSAS ANYMORE!"
"WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?"
"IF I KNEW, I WOULD'VE TOLD YOU!"
The two boys fell deep into the black obyss and landed onto the hard floor of some sort of room. Atem got up, rubbing his head from the hard fall. The room was dark, very dark, though not enough to where nobody could see the room. There were torches alongside of the walls of this palace. Wait... PALACE? Atem gasped, not knowing where he was. Seto was thinking the same thing.
The boys had landed in some sort of large palace filled with walls made of sand-baked bricks. There was a huge opening the size of two french doors and another opening across from them next to a corner of the room. The floor seemed to be made of rock or sand-baked brick, like the walls. The climate of the room seemed to be cooler on the inside, perhaps due to the thick walls, and it was very dark inside if not for the torches. This told the boys that it was probably night time at this point, despite it being the early afternoon not too long ago.
"Where are we?" Seto asked in a whisper.
"I don't... know," Atem replied, getting up on his feet. He saw someone with a long skirted tunic, some cuff jewelry, and a tall headdress of some sort walking inside of the palace toward the throne. There, on the throne, was a king with a man skirt, a bare chest,vsome gold cuffs, neck jewelry, ear rings, and a headdress, only of a pharaoh. He gasped aloud at this sight, who was this man?
"My lord! Your city has fallen in ruins! You have nothing left!" The man, entering the palace, declared with a slight smirk.
"Seth, Aknadin has betrayed us, but you don't have to turn against us too!" The king said in a serious, but familiar voice.
"Why? Because your soft tender heart is enough to save your precious kingdom?"
"Seth, speak to me!"
The man, whose name was Seth, narrowed his eyes and they turned into some sort of bright red color. The king jumped off his throne and ran across down the steps. Atem gasped aloud, seeing those bright violet eyes and face on this king's completion. IT WAS YUGI!
"You're not my cousin! What have you done with him, Zork?" Yugi shouted in anger, pointing his index finger directly at Seth.
"Just making his wish come true, to gain true power!" Controlled Seth replied in an echoed voice. "You have failed to protect Egypt, king, you are worthless!"
"I won't let you treat my family like your own puppets! You already have my uncle and my dear friend Ryou, what more do you want?" Yugi questioned in anger that Atem had never seen before in his brother's eyes.
"Destruction, my king! To take you out, my king! The people here think you're a god, but you are nothing! You can't even protect your own precious loved ones!"
"I won't give into someone like you!" Yugi promised with his heart. His puzzle around his neck began to glow and a monster of what looked to be like the Dark Magician appeared. "I will do to Seth what I couldn't do for my two beloved!"
"You can't bring him back, Pharaoh!" Controlled Seth smirked as the rod in his hand, what looked to be like the millennium rod, glowed and a Blue-Eyes White Dragon appeared. "It's time I let Blue-Eyes finish you off!"
This Seth character appeared in the light to show more of his outlook. Seto gasped aloud. This Seth looked like a reflection of himself. Only, his eyes were more reddish like he was being controlled. He seemed to be wearing priest clothing as if his job was to protect the pharaoh. Before Seto knew it, he saw Yugi's real spirited figure from inside of Atem appear with a blank look. It was as if he was trying to remember this scene and take it all in his mind.
"Do you remember this?" Atem asked. Yugi nodded, then turned to Seth. He remembered this character.
"It's my cousin Seth. Seto is the reincarnate version of him... the former holder of the millennium rod," Yugi whispered, then held his puzzle. "And puzzle after me."
"Shit."
"Seth," Yugi whispered while closing his eyes and a tear rolled down his cheek. Atem could feel the pain of this memory within Yugi. He was remembering the pain of watching his own flesh and blood in the hands of a monstrous demon.
Atem and Seto snapped their eyes open and they were back on the duel stage. The god cards colliding! Atem knew they were more than just average duel monster cards, but he had no idea that they were the reason for this mysterious vision. He new in his heart there was more to Yugi's past then met the eyes. Just as there was happy events of his memories, there were also sad ones as well. Yugi had faced so much hardships in his past and Atem felt grief for his dear friend.
"Atem!" Seto cried out as Atem looked at his friend. "Are you okay?"
"I think so," Atem replied. "I think I'm a little sick from our little trip to Wonderland."
"Same here. Let's continue and leave what we just saw to after the duel."
"Good idea!"
Seto panted, then searched through his deck and declared, "I place one card face-down and end my turn!"
A/N: Okay, let me get something clear about Obelisk's effect for those of you that don't know his effect (sighs). Sacrificing two monsters does not make its attack points infinite. I WILL SAY IT AGAIN! SACRIFICING TWO MONSTERS DOES NOT MAKE ITS ATTACK POINTS INFINET! That's only if Obelisk sacrifices The Winged Dragon of Ra and Slifer the Sky Dragon THEN it's infinite! Let me explain the effect of sacrificing two REGULAR monsters. It destroys all monsters from the opponent's field. This does not work against Slifer the Sky Dragon since Slifer is immune to monster effects. Not to traps or spells, at least in the manga, but... I think you get the idea. Okay, it destroys your opponent's monsters on the field and in the manga or anime or whatever. Obelisk's effect also includes direct attacking at your opponent of 4000 points and this is treated as battle damage, which is why Atem is able to sacrifice kuriboh to reduce that battle damage effect to 0. Anyways, I wanted to put this here to make it more clear, because the anime nor manga is gonna tell you squat! I'm still confused about half the duels on this show, seeing that I've played Yu-Gi-Oh several times. Anyways, I hope this clears out what questions you might have of why Obelisk's attack isn't infinite in this duel lolz.