A/N: Alright! Here is the moment when the duel of all duels actually begins. And this is the moment when the real drama comes to pass. What will this duel bring for our heroes? Will this be the turning point? What will happen? Only one way to find out.

Disclaimer: Yugioh and Sailor Moon are not my property.

Chapter 43

The Rematch: Yugi vs. Kaiba Part 2

Yugi P.O.V.

"LET'S DUEL!"

Kaiba was the first to draw a card, so he took the first turn. "I play Reukashin in attack mode." With a flick of his wrist, the duel disk spun out and in a show of light, Kaiba's monster appeared onto the field.

Reukashin Attack: 1600

Once the monster had been called out, Kaiba disappeared behind holographic duel monster cards. They must represent the cards in our hands; the cards we're keeping hidden from each other as well.

"The cards!" Tea exclaimed.

"They're holograms just like the monsters," Joey stated, equally surprised. Such a thing didn't happen during his duel with Kaiba.

I drew my card and placed it onto the card reader before flinging the disk out just as Kaiba had.

"I summon Curse of Dragon!"

Curse of Dragon Attack: 2000

Kaiba simply laughed as my dragon appeared. "Well done, a formidable card Yugi and a play I would expect from a duelist of your caliber."

"Don't patronize me," I ordered, not sure where all this anger towards Kaiba was coming from. Is it that other presence again?

"Yugi, I know from playing you that you're a talented duelist, but you're just not as good as I am." Kaiba stated. "Listen up, only one duelist is going to challenge Pegasus and that's me."

"Wrong," I replied defiantly.

"Then attack and find out," Kaiba suggested. "What's the matter Yugi, no faith in your monster?"

"You'll see, he's mightier than yours," I snarled. "Go Curse of Dragon, attack Reukashin with Dragon Flame!"

My Dragon turned Reukashin to dust in seconds and took a decent chunk out of Kaiba's life-points.

Yugi: 2000

Kaiba: 1600

Kaiba retracted his duel disk then and the holographic cards disappeared along with them. His smirk, now visible again, taunted me and made me angry for reasons I really couldn't comprehend.

"You're good," he stated, "but oh so predictable. Don't you think I expected that attack? Once again you've played right into my hands Yugi."

"He's bluffing," Joey shouted. "You already have Kaiba on the ropes. Just keep it up Yugi."

Kaiba drew is card. "It's not a bluff as you will all soon see. I play Sword Stalker."

Sword Stalker Attack: 2000

But that's the same as my Curse of Dragon. If Kaiba attacks then both of our monsters would be destroyed. Unless…

"The Sword Stalker gathers the life force of a fallen ally," Kaiba began, a smirk on his face again. "This strengthens his attack force by twenty percent."

Sword Stalker Attack: 2400

"So that's why Kaiba allowed his previous monster to be defeated so easily. He wanted to power up his second monster so that it would be powerful enough to destroy mine."

"Attack now Sword Stalker!"

"Of course, there's one fatal flaw in Kaiba's move."

My Curse of Dragon disappeared from the field just before Kaiba's Sword Stalker could finish his attack.

"What!" Kaiba exclaimed. "Why did your dragon disappear?"

I laughed. "That happened because I placed a monster replace magic card onto the field." My magic card turned around so that it was now facing toward Kaiba, this indicated that my card had been activated.

"This card switches the monster on the field with the monster in my hand that has the highest attack power."

"No," Kaiba muttered. "Yugi…"

"I take it you know what that means," I interrupted. "The monster with the greatest attack power in my hand is the Dark Magician."

My favorite monster appeared onto the field and struck Kaiba's monster down with one swing of its magic rod.

Kaiba: 1500

"Now I can replay Curse of Dragon in attack mode," I stated, setting Curse of Dragon back onto the card reader and flinging the disk outward so that my dragon would appear along with my magician.

Kaiba retracted his disk again. "I'll counter with a magician of my own." He placed his card onto the card reader just as I had and then flung the disk outward to reveal Lajin, the Mystical Genie.

Lajin Attack: 1800

I had the sinking suspicion that Kaiba was making this a bit too easy for me. Something was definitely not right, but it would probably be worse to keep that genie on the field.

"Dark Magician attack!"

"Your attack activates my trap, the Ancient Lamp!" Kaiba shouted. I cringed, knowing exactly what the lamp was meant for. "First it protects my genie by drawing it into the lamp."

"No," I muttered, watching in contempt as the lamp drew the genie in.

"Then, the lamp deflects your attack, turning it back on your other monster."

My Dark Magician's attack was flung back at my Curse of Dragon, destroying him and reducing my score to equal Kaiba's.

Yugi: 1500

"Reflect upon the incredible defensive powers of my ancient lamp," Kaiba ordered, chuckling as he did so. "You'll find that nothing you have can stop it."

"Your attack may have destroyed my Curse of Dragon," I stated, retracting my duel disk and drawing a card, "but I still have the Dark Magician." With that said, I placed my newest card onto the card reader face down, which represents the cards in a players hand, and flung the disk back out, thus revealing my Dark Magician again.

"You should know by now that it'll take much more than a magician to defeat me Yugi," Kaiba retorted.

I shrugged. "Maybe, but for all your bragging the score is tied. We're evenly matched."

Still, I can tell that Kaiba is trying to finish me off as quickly as possible, and that's not like him. He enjoys toying with his opponents almost as much as he enjoys winning. The last time we dueled he spent half the match messing with me, but this time he's all business.

"What's the matter Yugi?" Kaiba asked tauntingly. "You look worried."

"I'm worried all right, but not for the reason he thinks," I thought. After all, Kaiba's behavior has been erratic since he decided to challenge me. What Mina said about Pegasus doing something to Mokuba must have been right though, otherwise he wouldn't have gone through such lengths just to challenge me. Quite frankly, that worried me. Especially since he'd put a gun to his head and stated that he'd rather die than live in a world without his brother. That kind of talk is something I'd expect from a suicidal nutcase and not someone like Kaiba.

Right now, he seems to be alright, but I can't help but wonder what would happen when I won this duel. Would he kill himself?

"You have your grandfather to think about Yugi. Don't waste your thoughts on Kaiba."

There's that voice again. This time it sounds a bit different though. There's an edge of rage to it.

"Finally realizing that without your Exodia cards you can't possibly win?" Kaiba asked, now toying with me like the Kaiba I know would. That eased my worries a little.

Of course the way I responded was…disorienting.

"I don't need Exodia to defeat the likes of you Kaiba!"

Now, the words themselves weren't really all that bad. It's common for rivals in a duel to trash talk each other, but for one thing, I'm not that kind of duelist. I'm not one to be rattled easily. What bothers me more than what I said though is how I said it. My voice had sounded almost demonic and that in itself was frightening.

Kaiba retracted his duel disk and drew a card. "If I keep drawing cards like this you will." He set his card onto the disk and flung out the disk. "I arm my genie with the Dispel card."

"What!" I exclaimed.

"The Dispel card can deactivate any magic card and that's a loss I'm quite sure you can't afford Yugi," Kaiba replied, sounding more like himself by the minute. "Lajin, my mystical genie of the lamp, activate Dispel!"

The green genie pressed it's palms together and chuckled just before sending a blazing attack my way, destroying my Swords of Revealing Light. Of all the magic cards in my hand, he had to destroy that one.

The expression on my face must have been funny because Kaiba started laughing heartily.

"Hahahahahaha, it would seem that Dispel has destroyed your swords of revealing light." His laughter ceased. "That's a tough loss Yugi. Your swords could have paralyzed my monsters for three turns, but now I guess you'll lose three turns sooner."

"Don't count on it Kaiba," I replied, retracting the duel disk, making my magician disappear again. I drew a card and smiled. The Mystic Box could be just what I need to get rid of Kaiba's lamp.

"I'll again call on the Dark Magician!" I flung out the disk yet again and my Dark Magician appeared, ready for battle.

"I'm surprised that you put your magician at risk when you have no idea what I have in store for you," Kaiba stated.

I smiled. "Then perhaps I should see what your planning for myself."

"What do you mean?"

"This is what I mean Kaiba," I answered, watching as my magic card turned around so that it was facing Kaiba. "Behold, my Magic Eye of Truth, so called because the eye of truth knows all sees all."

"That phrase sounds familiar," Mina stated from the sidelines.

"Now it will reveal every card in your hand," I stated, ignoring Mina's comment. Kaiba's cards began to flip over, revealing themselves to me one by one. The first was Dispel, then Sagi the Dark Clown, next was the Ancient Lamp that was currently in play, and then…

My thoughts came to a screeching halt when my eyes caught sight of the Blue Eyes White Dragon.

"What's this?" I asked, completely taken aback. "You have a Blue Eyes White Dragon in your hand but you haven't played it?"

"You can always count on Kaiba to have a Blue Eyes White Dragon up his sneaky, slimy sleeves," Joey commented. I glanced over toward the sidelines to see him glaring daggers into Kaiba.

"Kaiba sure loves his Blue Eyes," Tristan added.

"Three Blue Eyes White Dragons!" Bakura exclaimed. "That's got to be nearly impossible for Yugi to beat."

"Nice comments Bakura," I thought sarcastically.

Tea glared at him. "Yeah, well Yugi has beaten three Blue Eyes before and he'll do it again."

"Now that's more like it. I can always count on Tea to have something nice to say."

"But its still odd that Kaiba hasn't played it," Mina stated.

"My thoughts exactly. What is Kaiba up to?"

Kaiba chuckled. "So Yugi, the mundane power of your wimpy Eye of Truth granted you a sneak peek at my hand, but what good does it do you? The fact still remains that your Dark Magician can't do anything to my Genie Lajin. As long as he has his lamp to protect him you can't make a single move."

"Then I'll extinguish it through the magic of my Mystic Box!"

I watched in satisfaction as Kaiba's eyebrow raised in suspicion. "What does that do?"

"Look closely Kaiba as first my Dark Magician is sealed within the box," I said, not answering his question as the box surrounded my magician.

"A trick?" Kaiba asked.

It was my turn to snicker. "Its much more than a mere magic trick Kaiba. Now watch and be amazed as the mystic box is skewered, but have I destroyed my own magician?"

"Yugi…"

"Or," I interrupted as the first Mystic box opened, "have I magically extinguished your lamp, just as I promised?"

Kaiba stared at the remains of his Ancient Lamp in horror. "No! You destroyed my genie's lamp!"

"And the magic is only half done Kaiba," I continued, gesturing toward the second Mystic Box that had just appeared. "Now my Dark Magician emerges from the Mystic Box unharmed."

"But how?"

"You know a good magician never reveals his secrets," I replied. "Now Dark Magician, Dark Magic Attack!"

The Dark Magician sent out a blast from his scepter, instantly eliminating Kaiba's genie.

Yugi: 1500

Kaiba: 800

"It's just as you said Kaiba. Your lamp may have protected your great genie Lajin, but once it was destroyed your genie was no match for my Dark Magician."

Kaiba wasn't fazed. "Your magic show may have been entertaining, but lets not lose prospective. You know I have a Blue Eyes waiting in the wings and I know you have nothing that can stand against it."

"You know nothing," I answered. "The Eye of Truth showed me your hand, not the other way around."

Kaiba retracted his duel disk, making his visible cards disappear. "I don't need to see your hand." He drew a card and smiled. "But I think you need to be taught a lesson and I'll be happy to make my next play painfully instructive."

"Oh really?"

"Yes," Kaiba replied, flinging out his duel disk. "I summon Sagi the Dark Clown in defense mode."

Dark Clown Defense: 1200

"Sagi?" I wondered. "I was expecting Kaiba to sic his Blue Eyes White Dragon on me. He knows Sagi is no match for my Dark Magician so what is he up to? He didn't have any trap cards earlier when I got a look at his hand, but he might have drawn some new ones by now. The only way to know for sure is to attack. But I dare not risk my Dark Magician."

"Dark Magician return," I commanded, retracting my duel disk and removing my Dark Magician from the main card reader. For this turn, I'll place the magician in my hand.

I drew my next card. "Good card. Gaia the Fierce Knight." I smiled. "Gaia wiped the floor with Sagi on my first duel with Kaiba, so he should be able to again."

"I summon Gaia the Fierce Knight in attack mode!"

Gaia the Fierce Knight Attack: 2500

"Attack now!"

Gaia raced forward on his horse, clutching his lance tightly as he descended upon Sagi. The clown was destroyed in seconds, but Kaiba didn't lose life points because he was in defense mode.

Even so, at least Kaiba hadn't had a trap waiting for me.

"Your Dark Clown has been vanquished," I stated in triumph.

Kaiba still wasn't fazed. In fact, he was smiling more now than he had the entire duel. "Vanquished and sacrificed are two very different things Yugi. Look again."

"What?" I wondered. "What could he be…"

My thoughts trailed off as I gazed at my knight. I thought that it was a glitch in the holographic system because he was fading in and out of sight, but after a moment I realized that this was the trap Kaiba had been setting up for me.

"What's happening?" I asked.

Gaia disappeared from the field completely.

"Gaia!"

"Not just Gaia Yugi."

I glanced at my Dark Magician card and it was crumbling away.

"No! My Dark Magician!" I shouted as it disappeared. "What have you done Kaiba!"

"It's really quite ingenious actually," Kaiba began. "Knowing you couldn't resist attacking my Dark Clown, I infected him with the Crush Card Virus."

"A Crush Card?"

"By destroying the infected Sagi," Kaiba continued, "you released the Crush Card Virus, a virus that is so highly contagious to duel monsters that even as I speak these words…it is infecting all but the weakest cards in your precious dueling deck."

I noted a beeping sound from my duel disk as Kaiba spoke. Upon glancing down, I saw the small screen that normally displayed my life-points flash one word.

Virus.

"No, my cards!"

"The only cards unaffected by the crush card virus are those with an attack power weaker than fifteen hundred." Kaiba began laughing. "Looks like I've broken the heart of your cards Yugi."

"Yep, he's definitely back to normal now," I thought, completely horrified that all of my best cards were gone. I couldn't use them.

"Well played, but it will take more than a virus to defeat me," I replied, though I wasn't entirely sure if I believed that statement. This situation was pretty…well for lack of better terms…bad.

"I expect that it will," Kaiba stated. "Actually I'm looking forward to subjecting you to a wide array of debilitating cards. It's your turn now Yugi, let's see how your disease ridden deck serves you now."

"You may have infected the body of my deck, but it is the heart of the cards that will see me through this contamination." I drew a card and sighed. "The Summoned Skull. A great card but I can't use him. Kaiba's crush card would infect him the second I laid him on the field."

"Face it Yugi, to continue playing in this duel you'll have to serve up your weakest monsters," Kaiba taunted. He's right though. For now…that's all I can do.

I have Silver Fang in my hand right now, so I'll just play him.

"Silver Fang, defense mode," I proclaimed. "His attack points are low enough to make him immune to your virus."

Silver Fang Attack: 1200
Silver Fang Defense: 900

"Ironic that a wolf will be the first of your sacrificial lambs, but so be it," Kaiba observed as he withdrew his duel disk. He drew a card. "Battle Ox, awaken!"

The Battle Ox appeared onto the field. This was the monster that had given Joey such a hard time.

Battle Ox Attack: 1700

"Attack!" Kaiba commanded. The Battle Ox ended up making Silver Fang look like sushi by the time he was done slicing him.

"It's cool!" Tristan shouted from the sidelines. "This is just a minor set back, no big deal."

That's pretty easy for him to say. He's not the one facing this giant, smelly, axe swinging ox.

Kaiba laughed yet again and by now I'm really starting to get sick of it. "Your pitiful defenses can't even stand the crude assaults of my Battle Ox. How do you expect to protect your life-points when your defenses are demolished and you have nothing to shield you from my more powerful monsters. I guess we'll find out soon."

He's right, but how can I defeat any monster when his Crush Card forces me to play my weakest creatures.

"You should accept your fate for now Yugi," Kaiba continued, "after all, you'll have the rest of your life to cry over this defeat."

"No, I can't give into his taunting," I told myself. "I've come here to save my grandpa and I won't let Kaiba defeat me. In order to stop Pegasus, I need to eliminate Kaiba here."

I withdrew my duel disk and quickly drew a card. A Griforn? It's compatible with the Horn of the Unicorn card I've got in my hand. It should be enough to take out that Battle Ox.

"Go Griforn, I summon you!" I shouted, flinging out the duel disk once again to reveal my Griforn, a pink gargoyle like monster that looked more like a stuffed puppy than a monster.

Griforn Attack: 1500
Griforn Defense: 1200

"A Griforn?" Kaiba asked. "I think you've made a grave miscalculation Yugi. His pathetic defenses are no match for my Battle Ox."

"Who said I played him in defense mode?" I asked.

Kaiba seemed confused. "Say what now?"

My Horn of the Unicorn card flipped around. "I'm attacking with my Griforn with the help of my Horn of the Unicorn, which increases Griforn's attack strength by seven hundred.

Griforn Attack: 2200

"Attack!"

My Griforn used the electrical power of the horn of the unicorn to blast away the crude Battle Ox.

Yugi: 1500

Kaiba: 600

"Stellar move Yugi!" Tea shouted.

"Yeah, awesome move!" Mina added.

Kaiba smirked. "Impressive Yugi, using a combo to combat my virus, but I'm afraid there are some hazards in my deck that are simply inevitable." I watched him draw a card and in that moment I saw his eyes widen and his whole demeanor changed. He looked as he had earlier when he had held his gun to his head. An insane look in his eyes and a wide smile.

"Prepare yourself for ultimate annihilation Yugi, but first I'll invoke the powers of the Mystical Elf."

"The Mystical Elf?" I questioned. "Since when did he get that in his deck."

I didn't have time to process an answer as the Mystical Elf appeared. Immediately she started chanting a spell.

"Yugi if there's one thing I've learned in my matches with you," Kaiba began, "its that you have an uncanny ability for snatching victory from the jaws of defeat. However, I don't intend to give you such an opportunity today."

The Mystical Elf began to disappear in a shower of golden light.

"That is why I've summoned and sacrificed my Mystical Elf to reinforce my life-points by three hundred," he finished.

Yugi: 1500

Kaiba: 900

"I've never seen Kaiba duel so methodically before," I thought. "Every move he plays is so precise. He's leaving nothing to chance. It's clear to me now that this is more than just a game. To him, this is a battle of life and death."

Kaiba retracted his disk, that crazy look still in his eyes. I watched him set another card onto his disk. "Now, I summon…The Blue Eyes White Dragon!"

"No!"

I heard the roar of the dragon long before it actually appeared onto the field. My hands shook as a white light surrounded the field we stood on. Then, all at once the dragon arrived, ready to attack.

Blue Eyes White Dragon Attack: 3000

"Now Yugi, your fate belongs to me," Kaiba stated. "Take flight my dragon. Rise to the sky and obliterate him with White Lightning Attack!"

My Griforn was wiped out before my eyes. Now my life points were critically low.

Kaiba: 900

Yugi: 400

"Already my Blue Eyes has you cowering and this is only the beginning. Soon you will know what true fear is."

"Is he saying that I don't now?" I wondered as I retracted my duel disk. I drew a card. My Stone Soldier…otherwise known as my last defense.

"I don't fear your Blue Eyes," I proclaimed, knowing that something else had prompted me to say it because lord knows that I'm terrified right now.

Even so, I can't show fear and despite the monster I now face, I have to find a way to defeat it.

"I summon my Stone Soldier in defense mode."

Stone Soldier Defense: 2000

Kaiba drew a card then. His eyes again reflected insanity.

"Yugi, when you battled my Blue Eyes before they were three separate dragons, formidable yes, but not invincible." He retracted his disk, making his dragon disappear, if only for a short moment. "But now…I've found a way to merge their power, combine their attack points to create a monster beyond imagining."

"What are you saying?" I asked, watching in sudden horror as two of the Blue Eyes flipped over as well as a Polymerization card."

"Could it be that…"

"I now create a monster without fear, with an attack force so great that nothing can stand against him. I summon the Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon!"


Bandit Keith laughed to himself as Kaiba summoned his ultimate dragon. He was just giddy from watching a true duelist at work and couldn't wait to see him crush Yugi.

"Man, this would have been great with some popcorn or a hot dog," Keith muttered to himself. "Of course, the way this duel is going, it wouldn't have lasted enough for me to enjoy the snacks anyhow. Yugi is totally done for.

On the field, Kaiba felt triumph. Absolute ecstasy as adrenaline pumped through his veins. Long ago, long before this moment, Kaiba's mind had been completely set on freeing Mokuba. Nothing had mattered more, but the second he called upon his ultimate dragon, Kaiba got lost in the pure excitement of it all. This was his moment.

Yugi on the other hand, was completely overwhelmed by the appearance of this great, three headed beast that was before him. Each head of the dragon was roaring, screeching, demanding to feast upon the flesh of whatever monster Kaiba wanted destroyed.

"So this is why he didn't play his Blue Eyes at first," Yugi thought, astonished. "He was waiting to merge all of his dragons together."

Kaiba stared down his rival from across the field. "Yugi Muto, there's no escape. Nothing can save you now."

Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon Attack: 4500

"That monster's points are off the charts," Tea exclaimed, horrified by the situation Yugi was being faced with. She couldn't understand how Yugi could still stand where he was. She couldn't fathom how Yugi, shy and innocent Yugi, could summon the courage to stare down that ghastly creature.

Quite frankly, Joey couldn't make sense of it either. "How can anything in Yugi's deck beat that thing?"

Mina's fists clenched. "I see now, Kaiba's been setting Yugi up for that beast this whole time. And because of that crush card, Yugi doesn't have a single monster that can go up against it."

Yugi was shaking, his stare fixed on the dragon. "Kaiba has really played a brilliant strategy, setting me up for that crush card, holding out for all three Blue Eyes, and at the same time decimating my life-points and leaving them at a sparse four hundred. Now he's got me cornered and staring down the toughest monster I've ever faced."

"Yugi, how I've savor this moment," Kaiba stated, his smile widening. "This is the moment I've been waiting for ever since you handed me my first and only Duel Monsters defeat. Prepare yourself to see the power of my creature unleashed." Kaiba's heart pounded and he took a deep breath, preparing himself for his moment of victory. "Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon, Neutron Blast Attack!"

The three dragon heads each breathed out horrific blue fire that hit the Stone Soldier all at once. The attack raged on, even after the Stone Soldier was gone. Yugi could feel the heat of the blast. The monster was a hologram yes, but the realism and terror that Yugi experienced in that moment was nothing he had ever experienced in his short life. He could feel the rage behind the attack. The rage that could only come from Seto Kaiba.

Once the ultimate dragon had finished its job, Yugi was left to stand there, utterly speechless, which gave Kaiba great satisfaction.

"Your lucky that your puny Stone Soldier was in defense mode," Kaiba proclaimed.

"That was the last of my defenses," Yugi thought in horror. He knew that he was really in a bind this time.

As for Kaiba, his thoughts were once again focused on his main goal. The adrenaline rush had ended for now.

"Soon little brother. Soon I would have completed Pegasus's twisted little task and then nothing will stop me from rescuing you. Soon, once I've defeated Yugi."

"My Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon atomized your creature to dust Yugi," Kaiba said with a laugh. "You know you have nothing to stand against my beast. You should concede."

"No way Yug!" Joey shouted.

"You can win this," Tristan added.

Yugi turned toward the sidelines and immediately saw Tea. She gave him a reassuring nod.

"Their right. We all believe in you."

"You have to remember what your fighting for," Joey continued, he himself remembering his sister.

Mina, remembering her father, picked up where Joey left off. "The heart of the cards Yugi, just like your grandpa taught you. You can't give up. You have to fight on. Don't let your grandfather down Yugi."

Yugi closed his eyes, his memories taking him back to the moment when Pegasus had taken his grandfather's soul away.

He remembered his grandfather's tormented face inside of the TV screen as he screamed out for Yugi to help him. He remembered when his grandfather's likeness had disappeared and when his body had collapsed onto the floor.

With clarity he remembered that trip to the hospital, where his grandfather's body now laid in a coma.

Tears stung his eyes, but Yugi held them back as he returned to reality. "Grandpa, I won't let you down. I have to keep fighting for you."

Yugi's gloved hand came toward his deck. He was hesitant to draw. He was afraid, but he knew, he knew that he had to keep fighting.

"Kaiba, I will never surrender!" he exclaimed, his violet eyes now filled with passion and drive. He would not lose.

"That's the kind of determination I expect from you," Kaiba encouraged. "Fight on. Gather all your strength Yugi. I prefer to take you down when you're fighting your hardest."

"Everything is riding on this last card," Yugi thought, his nerves making his hand shake, "this duel, this tournament, my grandpa…but as hopeless as it seems I still have to believe."

All eyes were on Yugi now. This was the moment of truth.

"Good luck Yugi," Tea thought, praying with all her heart that Yugi would draw the card he needed.

Yugi stared straight at the monster. He was praying also.

"You can do it pal," Tristan encouraged silently.

Yugi was still and his hand steadied as he continued to pray silently to himself.

Bakura tensed. "Believe."

Yugi continued to pray.

"Don't give up," Mina thought. "Win this."

The dragons roared.

"Kick butt Yug!" Joey exclaimed.

Kaiba smirked. "It comes down to this, so draw your card and face your fate."

Yugi closed his eyes and drew his card.

"Heart of the cards…guide me."

Violet eyes opened. "Let's finish this Kaiba!"


A/N: I know, I know. Not a lot of Mina in this chapter, but for this duel I really wanted to focus on the people playing and that's Yugi and Kaiba. Yugi was the main character of this chapter, and Kaiba was secondary to him. The others kind of fell in behind that. In the next chapter however, I'll be focusing more on Kaiba and from there it'll flip a little from Yugi to Mina and so on. Well, that's the plan anyway. So, stay tuned for the next chapter which will most likely be posted later today or tomorrow.