48 chapters down, and we're just getting started.
This chapter is a double tribute.
First and formost, it is a tribute to one of the greatest villains in Yu-Gi-Oh history, the legendary Thief King Bakura.
And second of all, to Cyber Commander's Yu-Gi-Oh Junior trillogy which has long since ended, but has influenced my writing style greatly. This duel has one of the stranger parts of the first fanfiction, but how will it end? Only time will tell.
Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh.
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From an early age, my dad told me a lot about his different duels.
It felt kinda cool, that he could sit down with his 5 year old daughter, and recount his greatest adventures card for card, it was this early influence that drove me to making my own deck.
However, there was one duelist that stood out in my mind, one that my dad had to duel a total of three times, twice with the help of the Spirit, the third time on his own with only his friends.
Now the same duelist is back, and I have the support of the spirit, and despite his efforts, my friends.
But this time, I don't know if I can win, even with their help.
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CHAPTER 43:
DARK SPIRIT OF THE SILENT
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Well, its obvious who is next, only the Pharoh remains, and if Bakura fails, I'm next, Sartorious thinks, and stands up. Well, I best prepare.
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Katie, not knowing the fate that had befallen her friends, is walking down the last hallway, looking around uneasy.
This place gives me the creeps, and the feeling of dread dosen't help either, she thinks, holding her pink jacket close to her.
A door is in front of them, but unlike the others, it has no inscription.
"Katie, we must approach with caution, I sense an ancient and evil power within," Yami says in spectral form next to her.
"Right," Katie says, and pushes the door open.
The room inside is dark, pure, unfiltered, darkness. Katie can barely see anything in front of her face.
Suddenly, out of the darkness emerges something, it appears to be a golden dreamcatcher, but then behind it emerges...
"BAKURA?" Katie demands as Yami takes over.
"Thats right Pharoh," Bakura says with a cruel chuckle. "Doppler was kind enough to use her magic to allow my spirit to take a physical form whenever I want. And now you and I must duel!"
"And if I were to refuse?" Katie asks.
"You have no choice, Pharoh, for you see, if you where to refuse, you would never see your friends again!" He says, and shows a plaque, on it is 5 cards, each with the image of one of Katie's friends. "I have locked them all away in the Shadow Realm, and if you want to save them, you and I must duel! Not to mention, you have to get the Key of Shadows from me in order to continue on."
"Fine, get your duel disk..." Katie says.
"Oh, but we won't be dueling that way today," Bakura says, and waves an arm, suddenly a huge Dueling Station from the old Duelist Kingdom days appears out of nowhere. "Sure this thing is a little outdated, but it will suit our purposes fine," he says, and steps onto the Red platform, and Katie steps onto the blue, they both place their decks in the spots. "Now, pick your deckmaster, I think I will pick, my Bistro Butcher!"
A demonic chef appears next to him.
"And I'll pick, my Dark Magician Girl!" Katie says, and the beautiful apprentice of the Dark Magician appears next to her.
"LETS DUEL!" The two say in unison.
"I'll start," Katie says, and draws. "I set one monster in defense mode, and end my turn."
Bakura draws. "I summon Death Calibre Knight (1900/800), in attack mode!" He says, and a demonic horseman appears. "Now, attack her face down monster!"
The horseman charges at the monster, and raises his sword...
Only to be knocked back by a Mystical Elf, Bakura growls as his life points drop to 3900.
"Fine, I'll place one card face down to end my turn," he finishes.
Katie draws. Okay, I don't know what that face down card is, but its probably something dangerous, and by the looks of it, he's using that deck he used against my dad during the whole thing with the Pharoh's memories, Katie thinks, looking over her hand as Bakura smirks. "Alright, I'll sacrifice my Elf to summon my Chaos Command Magician (2400/1900)!"
A green robed spellcaster appears.
"Now, attack his knight!"
"Activate trap card, Negate Attack!" Bakura counters, and the attack is fizzled out by a vortex.
"Fine, I'll place one card face down and end my turn," Katie says.
"I'm going to activate my Deckmaster's special ability, I can draw two cards in exchange for discarding one," Bakura says, and draws two cards, and then discards a card Katie recognizes as a Headless Knight. "Now I set one monster in defense mode and end my turn."
Katie draws. Okay, lets see here, he has no face down cards this time, but I'm sure he has something up his sleave, she thinks, and looks at Dark Magician Girl who smiles reassuringly. "Alright, I set a monster in defense mode, and I'll have my Chaos Command Magician attack your Knight!"
The spellcaster blasts the fiendish horseman, and Bakura's life points fall to 3400.
"Your move, thief."
"I'll activate my deckmaster again," Bakura says, and draws 3 cards, and discards two. "Now, since I have 3 fiends in my graveyard, I can remove them to summon my Dark Necrofear (2200/2800)!"
The blue fiendish woman appears.
"I'm not afraid of the Dark Necrofear, Bakura, I beat an occult duelist before, and I'll do it again!" Katie exclaims.
"Oh yes, that Spirit Eliminator, the Earl of Demise, you and I both know that he couldn't beat a rug," Bakura says. "Now Dark Necrofear, attack her Chaos Command Magician!"
The fiend sends a blast of unholy energy at the spellcaster, who retaliates with a magical blast, and she's destroyed, Bakura's life points fall to 3200, and he grips his chest a little.
"That cost me some life points, but its worth it, because now I can activate the field spell, Dark Sanctuary!" he shouts, and dark magic covers the entire field with eyes and mouths, and a huge castle appears behind Bakura. "I'm sure you remember how this works, I'll sacrifice my face down Sangan to maintain it."
The three-eyed fiend dissapears.
"Now I can add a monster with low attack to my hand," he says, and takes a card out of his deck.
Oh man, I remember this combo, I'm in trouble now, Katie thinks. And the worst part is, I don't have any of my friends to back me up.
"You have me, Katie, and together we'll beat Bakura, and rescue our friends!" Yami says.
"I'll end my turn with one card face down, and playing, The Dark Door!" Bakura says.
Katie draws. "I summon my Skilled Dark Magician (1900/1700), in attack mode!" She says, and the lesser Dark Magician appears. I can't risk attacking now, I'll have to end, she thinks. "Your move, Bakura."
"I chain this card to you ending your turn, the trap card, Destiny Board!" Bakura says, and a Ouija board appears on his side of the field, and it moves onto the letter F. And then Bakura draws. "I'm sure you remember how this card works, but that won't matter soon enough, I summon Witch of the Black Forest (1100/1200), in defense mode, and end my turn by sacrificing her to the Dark Sanctuary, which lets me take a monster out of my deck with low defense points," he says, and takes a card out of his deck.
Katie draws. Alright, now I have no choice, I have to attack, she thinks. "Chaos Command Magician, attack him directly!"
"Go, Ghost of the Dark Sanctuary!" Bakura shouts, and the ghost emerges from the Magician's back, and blasts Katie, and her life points fall to 2800, and Bakura's rises to 4400.
Then she screams, and falls to her hands and knees, gripping her chest, it felt like a knife was piercing her heart.
"What did you do, Bakura?" She demands.
"This is a shadow game, Pharoh, but one more painfull than anything you have ever experienced, or ever will again!" Bakura says with a laugh. "Its called the Pain Splitter, and this is how it works, everytime you lose life points, you'll feel a great amount of pain, as you've already experienced, and whoever loses this duel will die!"
"Your sadistic," Katie says as she gets to her feet.
"Why thank you," Bakura says with a laugh. "Is that all?"
"Your move," Katie says, still in a little bit of pain.
"And now, I can activate the next part of your message!" Bakura says with glee, and the selector on the Ouija board moves around, and stops on the "I". Bakura draws. "I'll summon my Souls of the Forgotten (900/200), in defense mode, and place one card face down!" He says, and purple spirits appears. "Now, I sacrifice my spirits for the Dark Sanctuary to end my turn."
Its hopeless, maybe we should just forfeit, Katie thinks.
"Now, that's no way to think," a voice in her head, other than Yami, says.
"Darren?" Katie asks.
"The one and only, but I ain't alone here," Darren says.
"That's right, Bakura might've sealed us away, but we have two Millenium Items compared to his one, so we where able to figure out a way to communicate with you, and a little more..." Ariel says.
"More?" Katie asks.
"Draw your next card, and you'll see," Renee says.
Katie draws, and looks at it suprised. This is Ariel's card, but how did it get in here? she thinks.
"Make your move already!" Bakura shouts.
"Oh, I will, I'm going to activate a spell card I got from a dear friend, I activate, Raven's Feather Duster, which destroys all your cards, and gives me 500 for each!" Katie shouts.
"WHAT?" Bakura shouts. "I'll chain with Waboku, so I'll take no damage this turn!"
"Fine, but you still lose 4 cards, so I gain 2000 life points!" She says, and her life points rises to 4800 as all of Bakura's spell and trap zones are wiped clean.
How did she get that card? Doppler told me every card in her deck, and that wasn't on the list, Bakura thinks. There has to be something different.
"Alright Bakura, now that you've lost your combo, do you want to try anything else?" Katie asks. "Because thats it for my turn."
"I'm using my deckmaster again!" Bakura shouts, and draws 2 cards, and discards 1. "Now, I'll place two cards face down, and summon Necro Mannekin (500/500), in defense mode!" He says, and a weird disjointed monster appears in defense mode. "Your move."
Katie draws, and looks at the card. Alright, this will deffinately help, thanks Marie, she thinks. "I activate the Vase of Unholy Blight, I'll just discard a dark monster in my deck, like Ebon Magician Curran," she says, and takes the card out of her deck. "And I can draw 3 cards," she says, and does so.
Where is she getting all these cards, unless... Bakura thinks, and looks down at the plaque, and grabs it. "I've figured it out, Katie, your friends must be sending you cards somehow, but what happens if I throw this plaque into the shadow realm?"
"Oh no," Renee says.
"If you do, then you'll automatically lose the duel," Katie says with a smirk.
"What?" Bakura demands.
"You said that if I defeat you, my friends will be free, right?" Katie asks.
"Yeah, so?" Bakura asks.
"Well, if you throw that into the Shadow Realm, you'll be unable to keep up your end of the bargin, and while you claim to controll the shadows, you have to play fair in the Shadow Realm, and going back on an agreement that set up a shadow game, counts as cheating," Katie says, and Bakura slams his fist on the council, muttering a few words that Katie had to have her mouth washed out as a child if she ever said them. "Now, now Bakura, don't lose your temper, after all, I'm sure that if you work hard enough, you'll be able to win anyway."
"Yeah right," Bakura says. "Its only a matter of time before one of them decides to send you their really big guns, but I have no choice, I will continue on."
"Yami, I want to take controll for a minute, I want to talk to Bakura," Katie says.
"Are you sure?" Yami asks.
"Yes, I'm sure, there's something I must say," Katie replies, and the Millenium Puzzle glows, and little Katie takes controll. "Bakura, before we continue, I have something I have to say to you."
Huh? Why is that runt of a hikari in controll? Bakura thinks.
"Bakura, to be honest, I feel sorry for you, Bakura," Katie says.
"What? Why?" Bakura says, taken aback, especialy since Katie actually seemed sincere.
"Katie, what are you doing? This guy just threatened to send all of us into oblivion!" Darren says.
"I know, but I must do this, for not only our sake, but the sake of Bakura," Katie replies, and looks the thief straight in the eye. "Bakura, you need to know, that I understand what your going through, you've been put down by people in the past, and no one trusts you any more, and on top of that, your village was indeed wrongly massacured by the forces of the pharoh, and you could've had a better life, I realy do feel sorry for you, no one should be put through that sort of thing, like I was, the thing is, Bakura, I can relate with what happened to you."
"You can't know what I was put through, you can't!" Bakura shouts at Katie, but deep inside him, he had the feeling that she might be right.
"Bakura, you keep track of modern events, don't you?" Katie asks, staring the thief king right in the eye.
"Of course," Bakura says.
"Well, then you know all about World War III, well, it hit Japan pretty bad, at the time, me and my parents and younger sister was visiting my mom's parents in Tokyo, that of course got hit pretty bad, despite the fact that Japan was declaired a Neutral nation, I guess they thought there might be Strongheim loyalists, I was there when the bombs fell on Tokyo, I saw the death and destruction, I saw people dying, I saw their heads exploding, and their very bodies being burned to a crisp."
Katie's supporters just look shocked, she hadn't told any of them this.
"Cue flasback used to divert your attention from the Real story!" Someone off stage shouts, her voice oddly sounds like that of Ruin, Queen of Oblivion.
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Katie's Flasback
"Katie, come on, we have to run!" Yugi shouts to his daugher.
"Just a second, Yumi, Yumi?" Katie says, calling out the name of her little sister.
"Katie!" A voice from nearby shouts, and Katie turns to see a small girl with blonde and violet hair like her's, she runs over towards the small girl who is obviously her sister, and gives her a tight hug.
"Don't ever get away from me again, Yumi," she says, crying.
"I promise, big sister," Yumi says, and Katie smiles.
"Come now, we have to get back to mommy and dady," she says, and the two sisters run off.
"We should've seen it comming, we had no warning, but suddenly Yumi pushed me to the ground and out of the way, as a barrage of bullets goes through the alleyway we where in!" Katie says as a voiceover. "Thanks to her, I survived, but Yumi, my little sister, was killed.
The memory Katie is seen crying by her sister's now dead side, her tears mixing with the blood.
"Katie, I'm sorry," Yumi says.
"Its okay, Yumi," Katie says.
"Katie, just do me this one thing, I have to tell you, I am a believer, I've accepted Jesus as my savior, the Global Community is evil, God has planned this for a long time, and the Potentate is..." Yumi says, and she caughs up blood. "The Potentate, is the..."
At that moment, she takes her final breath, and is dead.
The next few scenes go in slow motion as GC personnel take Yumi's body away, and Katie is brought to a hospital to have her leg, which had been broken in the ordeal, healed.
"About two days later, the very man Yumi had tried to warn me about, paid me a visit in the hospital, Joseph Strongheim, the Potentate of the Global Community," Katie says as a voiceover.
"Ahh, you must be Katie Motou," the potentate says. "I'm sorry for your loss, Katie, but there are things that happen in war, death is one of them."
"Don't give me that crap, Strongheim," Katie growls.
"Why Miss. Motou, can't I offer my condolences for the death of your little sister?" Strongheim asks.
"No, especialy since its all your fault," Katie says. "You could've stopped this all from happening, your administration pledged world peace, not world war!"
"I know, but these things are sometimes inevitable, Katie, I am really sorry for your sister," Strongheim says. "If you won't accept that, then very well."
He
walks out, and Katie lays back on her uncomfortable hospital bed.
End Katie's Flashback
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"You see Bakura, I know what its like to lose a loved one, and you don't need to do this, you can end it right now, the combined power of all 4 present Millenium Items should be enough to stop this madness!" Katie says.
"Katie, are you sure this will work?" Renee asks.
"I really don't know, but I can hope," Katie replies, and nods, Yami takes controll again.
"So, what do you say, Bakura?" Katie asks.
"I say, work on your delivery, I'm not convinced," Bakura says.
"Well maybe this will work," Katie says, looking at one of the cards she drew. "I sacrifice my two monsters for this, the mighty, Blue-Eyes White Dragon!"
The magnificent white dragon appears.
"You where afraid of my friends sending me their big guns, well, now your facing one of them!" Katie says, and the Blue-Eyes looks back at her with a dragonic smile.
"It'll be my pleasure to help you, Katie," she says through telepathy.
Katie nods. "Now, I'll attack your monster, White Lightning!"
The dragon blasts at the manakin.
"Go trap card, Ghost Shield, by removing my Sangan from the game, I can negate your attack!" Bakura counters, and a shield appears, and blocks the attack.
"Oh man, I didn't think he'd try that," Ariel says.
"Its okay, with these other cards I have, we can still win this one," Katie says. "Your move, Bakura."
Bakura draws. "I activate my trap card, Necro Cycle, so I can summon another Manakin to the field!" he says, and a second Necro Manakin appears. "Now, I sacrifice them both to summon my Despair From the Dark (2800/3000), in defense mode!"
A huge hideous fiend appears.
"Your move."
Katie draws. "Alright, I'm going to set one monster in defense mode, and end my turn," she says.
If she's using her friend's monsters now as well as her own, that face down monster might be something dangerous, I better play it safe, Bakura thinks as he uses his deckmaster ability to draw 2 cards and discarding 1. "Perfect, I activatate the spell card, Curse Necros Twins!"
A pair of dolls, one carrying a black present, the other red, appears on the field.
"Now, we each have to pick one of them, and an effect will be activated depending on what box you pick," Bakura says.
Katie thinks for a minute. "I'll take, the Red box," she says, and the second doll hands her the red box, which opens, and she glows with a red energy.
"Now, everytime a card is discarded from your hand or deck, you'll gain 200 life points," Bakura says. "Which leaves me with the black box, this makes my graveyard, non-existant, instead all monsters already there, or that will be destroyed will become ghosts, and not take any space on the field, at least not in the normal sense."
Dark Necrofear, Sangan, Witch of the Black Forest, Souls of the Forgotten, and the two manakins appears above him with an eerie green glow.
"And now, I activate the spell card, Killing the Counterbalence, so on each of our end phases, we both have to discard one card from our deck for every monster on the field," Bakura says. "And guess what, my ghosts count for it! But I am exempt, seing as how I have no graveyard anymore, thanks to my card, so what are you going to do, Katie? I set a monster in defense mode, its now your move."
"Oh man, I already gave you my Raven's Feather Duster, and thats a limited card!" Ariel thinks.
"Don't worry, Ariel, I'll find a way out of this," Katie thinks, and draws. "Alright, I set this monster in defense mode, and one card face down, to end my turn."
"Don't forget, you now have to discard a total of 10 cards, be thankfull you can decide which one's," Bakura says.
Katie growls, and takes 10 cards out of her deck, and grins as her life points raise to 6800.
"Your move, demon," she says.
"Don't feel so smug, I will win this duel," Bakura says and draws. "I flip summon my Necro Pot (1100/900)!" he says, and a zombie-like version of the Morphing Jar appears. "But we'll get to that in a minute, your move."
Katie draws. "I activate my spell card, Tribute to the Doomed, a gift from Renee, I discard one card," she says, and discards a Sinister Serpent. "And I automaticaly destroy your Necro Pot!"
The monster is destroyed.
"I remembered your monster's effect, had I attacked, I would've had to discard a card from my deck for every 300 points of damage I dealt to you," Katie says. "I'll switch my monster to attack mode, its Wendy's Getsu Fuhma!" She says, and the red-haired woman appears.
"NO!" Bakura shouts, remembering that monster's special ability.
"And while I'm at it, I'll activate my trap card, Spirit Barrier, as long as I have one monster on the field, I won't take any battle damage. Now Getsu, attack his Despair From the Dark!" Katie commands, and the warrior woman charges at the zombie, who knocks her down, but she rams her sword into the beast's chest, and they both explode. "Win or lose, any zombie that battles Getsu Fuhma, is destroyed as well."
"You'll pay for that, Motou!" Bakura shouts.
"We'll see, now since I haven't summoned this turn, I summon Darren's favorite monster, Don Zaloog!" Katie says, and the thief appears. "Now Blue-Eyes, hit him with White Lightning!"
The dragon nods, and blasts Bakura, his life points fall to 1400.
"Please, have mercy," Bakura says, obviously in great pain.
"Bakura, we can stop this madness, but you'll have to allow us to stop the Pain Splitter," Katie shouts.
"It won't matter, Doppler will kill me anyway," Bakura says, and smiles. "Katie, thank you, you really helped me there, I am ready to face eternity," he says, and bows his head. "Do it!"
"Okay, Don Zaloog, attack him directly with Sting of the Scorpions!" Katie commands, and the thief slashes at Bakura, and his life points fall to 0.
Katie's friends are restored to their bodies, and the darkness fades, leaving them in a stone room, and a dead Bakura at their feet.
Marie brushes his wild bangs out of the way of his forhead, and smiles, seeing a cross.
"He repented, at the very last minute, he repented, Katie, you just saved his soul," she tells Katie.
Katie smiles, and nods, picking up the Shadow key.
"Hey, last one to the Door of Elements is a rotten egg!" Darren shouts.
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The 6 duelists reach the door, and look at it, each takes out a key.
Marie places the Sun Key in the golden colored lock.
Wendy places the Stone Key in the grey colored lock.
Darren places the Flame Key in the red colored lock.
Ariel places the Wave key in the blue colored lock.
Renee places the Storm Key in the green colored lock.
And Katie places the Shadow Key in the black lock.
The doors open, and they see a bright light.
Doppler, here we come, Katie thinks as they walk into the light.
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The cards Bakura used that are not real appeared mostly in the duel he had with little Yugi in the Pharoh's memory saga.
Vase of Unholy blight was either created by King Dragun or Cyber Commander.
Raven's Feather Duster is deffinatly King Dragun's work.
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Well, that's one more chapter down, and a soul saved.
We still have one more obstacle in our path though, he's made apperances in the last 6 chapters, but now its time for Sartorious to duel. This time, Katie has to face him without Yami's help, can she win it? Find out in, "Ominous Fortunetelling."
