First three part episode. Little peek behind the curtains. I was going to have Lila take over Joey but I wanted to write another Lila duel on her own so decided not to. Also this episode has been so hard to do because every time I try to sit down to write it, my next door neighbour decides to blast their stupid music and I can't focus and end up with a migraine.
Fifteen - Double Trouble Duel
The boys all carry one trying to push the giant boulder while the girls take a step back to give them more room, but it doesn't look good "This thing ain't budging boys and girls," Joey groans out as the three of them take a moment to breath and the blond turns to the trio watching "Looks like we're trapped."
"Come on. There's got to be another way out of this place."
"This these tunnels run everywhere," Tea disagrees "We could be lost down here forever!"
"Forever?" Tristan says absently when a noise from Bakura's ring makes him and Lila look down at it, one of the points is glowing and tugging. The two shrug and not seeing any better options, start to walk in the direction it is pointing, too Tea's confusion as she turns to watch them leave.
"Hey! Guys? What gives?" the two pause at a divergent path and glance back as Bakura explains "It seems my Millennium Ring is tugging me in this direction."
"Why?"
"Well Yugi and I think that my Millennium Ring can detect other Millennium items, and that it's been honing in on Pegasus' Millennium Eye."
"So it could be leading us right to his castle," Yugi sums up, causing everyone else to nod and follow after the white haired boy. Even a long shot it worth trying at this point since there's no way they are getting that rock to move.
"Pegasus! I can't wait to get my hands on that creep!"
"Get in line," Lila remarks, bumping in Joey's shoulder as they walk. The group stick together, not wanting to lose anyone in their group. Who knows what other traps have been set up down here after that graveyard and those coffins near the entrance.
"So we getting anywhere Bakura?" Joey asks after who knows how long walking, all the while Tea and Lila are looking around the tunnel in confusion.
"It's like we've been walking forever."
"Instead of looking like the way out, it seems like a big maze."
"That's right. And look at the walls down here," Tea remarks. The stones are more like exposed brickwork then naturally forming cave walls "All the rocks are neatly arranged. It seems... man-made."
"It looks like my kitchen back home," Lila comments in agreement "Mom spent a fortune getting this look for the walls. Dad hates it." She runs her hand along the stone, it's smooth, no roughness or jagged edges, like they've actually been sanded down. The ceiling and floor are the same, no way it's a natural formation. There's even a painted on red stripe along all the walls, about knee height. It's weird "Is it possible someone could be living down here?"
"They'd have to be mole people."
"Look at all these corridors," Yugi comments as they come to a stretch of the tunnel that splits into three separate paths along each side "There must be a dozen different directions we could go." Bakura pauses, making every stop and look around while the leading boy looks down at his item, trying to get a feel for where it's trying to lead them.
"So now what? Which way do we go?"
"This way!" Bakura says certainly before he takes off running "Follow me. The ring is pulling me this way."
"Well tell it to pull slower," Joey complains as they all have to run after him to keep up and avoid getting lost with all the sharp turns he keeps taking without warning. The almost miss one if Joey hadn't gotten a glimpse of him before he ran past it. Then the find Bakura standing in front of a bright light that after all this time down here in the darkness, it pretty blinding until their eyes are able to get accustomed to it "Bakura! What is it? Why have you stopped." The group all come to a stop behind him, the shorter members thankful to have a moment to get their breath back after struggling to keep up with their more long legged friends. When they finally get use to the light, they can see what's actually in the room. The group all gasp, it's a wide open, brightly coloured room with a duel arena right in the centre.
"What is this place?" an answer comes from seemingly out of nowhere since there doesn't seem to be anyone else around.
"You have entered-"
"Sacred ground."
"Where only duelists-"
"Can be found," the group look around with confused expressions, trying to find who's talking as Joey comments "Yeah, well, we're duelists."
"Before you pass-"
"Across this chamber," there is a flash of orange and green as two fingers doing some rather impressive back flips suddenly appear from seemingly out of nowhere. The group watches as a pair of similar looking bald men start doing a mix of gymnastics and combat sparring. They then move onto doing a pair of synchronized back flips.
"You must agree-"
"To face the danger," the group aren't quite sure what they're watching. All the know is that it's weird and frankly makes no sense. As the land they carry on to say "So let the contest-"
"No begin."
"Notify-"
"Your next of kin."
"You're trapped-"
"And the door are all locked," they do a strange pose and slam their foot on the ground with over the top cries. They then give up talking one at a time and talk in unison "You face the brothers, Paradox!" Lila blinks and shakes her head. Seriously, what is with these two? There's been some over the top people on this island but these two are a whole different level. And annoyingly, they then go back to speaking half a sentence each. As seems to be the pattern, the orange one speaks first "Employed by Pegasus as eliminators," and is then followed by the deeper voiced green one "To take all your star chip indicators."
"You gotta duel these goons Yugi?" Joey asks with a frown.
"And if," the orange one scoff "By some crazy fluke you manage to win."
"Why then, a puzzling new test shall begin."
"For over my shoulder, you see a door. And over my brother's you see-"
"One door more," there are indeed two different doors in each corner of the other wall. Each door has a symbol matching the one of the symbols on the brother's heads.
"The test a choice-"
"That you must make."
"Which of these doors, will you take?" the brother's do a dramatic poise and point at the duel arena in the middle of the room. Lila sighs and puts a hand on to her "These two are giving me a serious headache. Can't they talk normally?" The rest of the group turn their attention to the field, noticing that it looks different to the other arenas they've seen but it doesn't look too different to really be cause for concern. Of course the brother's are still talking.
"One door leads to an endless maze..."
"Where you will wander all your days."
"The other door's the path you need."
"Choose correctly and be freed."
"But which door leads out?"
"And which leads to woe?"
"That's for you to guess..."
"And the brother's Paradox to know," well at least they seem to have stopped cutting each other off. Or maybe it's just getting to the group that they're starting to get use to how these to eggheads are talking after such a short time in their company.
"So even if Yugi wins this match, we could still wind up lost in those caves forever."
"Against us, one mere duelist would be creamed."
"So you must duel, as a team," the gives the group pause as they look at each other "Two on two?"
"Like a tag team?"
"I've never heard of anyone duelling like that."
"Me neither," Lila folds her arm and places a hand under her chin as she thinks "I have no idea how that would work. Duelists build decks that work for them but you can't know how they'll work with someone else's deck. They might compliment each other or they might seriously clash. Not to mention strategies and priorities." As she's talking, she doesn't notice Yugi's puzzle activate. The spirit places a hand on her shoulder and smiles, making her look over at him. He nods to her and steps forward.
"Tag team it is. And I'd be honored if Joey would duel by my side."
"You got it bro."
"Joey? Wouldn't Lila be a better option, she's more experienced," Tea remarks, confused, making Lila look to the other girl and reminds her "He knows what he's doing remember. If he says Joey, then Joey's it. Besides," she walks over to the taller blonde and nudges him forward "Who am I to stand between two buddies kicking some butt."
"Alright you's brothers Paradox, me and Yugi are gonna clean your clocks," Joey threatens as all four take their places at the corners of the arena making Lila groan. Please don't let Joey get caught up in all the rhyming talk, there's only so much she can take.
"Prepare to be puzzled."
"Prepared to be fooled."
"Prepare to be baffled for on this field we rule."
"I'm gonna baffle to two of them if they don't stop rhyming," Joey glares. Glad to see I'm not the only one bother by all this. The orange one laughs annoyingly "Enough of your quips."
"Yes, time to wager star chips!" Joey and Yugi both look at their gloves and remove the amount they are willing to wager, and it seems they both pretty much have the same idea "I'll throw down two." Joey slams his two onto the side of the console.
"Plus five more, for a total of seven," Yugi adds, showing his off with a little more flare.
"Agreed!"
"This is it Joey," Yugi remarks to his friend with a confident smile "If we play our cards right, we'll both have enough star chips to gain entrance into the castle." As Yugi says that, Lila looks down at her own glove thoughtfully. But then she shakes her head and turns her attention back to the duel. Watch now, worry later "The we can finally confront Pegasus."
"Right," Joey returns the grin, but after seeing the exchange the orange brother laughs and pipes up "You fool! That's why Pegasus pays my brother and me."
"To keep you from achieving victory!"
"Okay guys. Teamwork from here on out," Tea reminds then, with Tristan tagging on "Right. We'll be the team, you do the work."
"Good luck."
"Quiet fools, time to duel," then the green one takes charge, this is probably the first time he's spoken that wasn't tagged on after the orange one of said in unison "First turn honors are mine!" He does some way over the top arm movement as he plays his first card "Labyrinth Wall." That makes both Yugi and Lila frown a little in confusion. It's a weird opening move. Seeing Yugi's slight confusion, the green on chuckles. The entire field lights up.
"What's that?"
"Look the floor," Tristan points out "Something's coming out of it,"baige coloured walls start to rise up from the lines of the grid pattern that was laid out on the field "Strike that. A whole bunch of things are coming out of it."
"A maze?"
"Quiet right, and unless you can navigate it correctly, you'll be lost in it's passageways forever."
"Guess it's a good thing Yugi picked Joey," Lila remarks as she looks over the field with a critical eye, making Bakura look at her in confusion while Tristan and Tea nod in agreement. For the white haired boy's sake, she adds on, with a smile "I suck at directions."
"Now! No more questions. No more stalls. Make your move, the labyrinth calls!" the two call out but neither of their opponents make a move as they look over the field so the two brightly coloured brothers resort to taunting, trying to egg them into making a move before thinking properly.
"Hold your horses already!" Joey snaps to get them to shut up "We don't even know how this tag team thing works."
"It's simple. We all start with two thousand life points like any duel. However if just one duelist loses those two thousand points, then his teammate loses with him," Lila nods, okay that makes sense. It encourages both players to protect their teammate's life points as well as their own. Joey looks over to Yugi a little nervously. Now he's starting to feel the pressure a bit.
"The players on each team will alternate turns with every passing round. It is simple. I will play, then Yugi, then my brother, then Joey, then back to me. Now as for the actual game play in the labyrinth arena, it to is quite simple. All monsters you summon during this match will act like pieces on a game board. As for moving, each monster can move the number of spaces equal to it's power level. And while your game pieces are moving, ours will be moving too," huh, that actually sounds pretty interesting. Would be fun to try out "Finally, it you somehow manage to get past our creatures and find your way through the maze, your reward will be a choice of two doors."
"Select the correct door and find the path to freedom and fresh air."
"Select the wrong door and find only despair."
"Wow, Pegasus must have some really good lawyers. That's two eliminators on his payroll that have basically tried to kill us. And we didn't even sign a non-disclosure agreement," Lila remarks, her eyebrows raised but her words are kind of over written by Joey's annoyed cry "I've had just about enough of all your lame brain rhymin'. And what do ya mean one door leads to despair, that's not fair!"
"Ok then."
"We'll give you a clue. While everything one of us tells you shall be true..."
"The other will speak nothing but lies to you," both the spectators and the duelists are both no less confused by all this with this new addition, in fact it makes things even more complicated.
"So you see, it is quite simple."
"To learn which of the two is the right door..."
"You have only to ask, nothing more," the orange one sounds cheerfully on the brink of laughter as he speaks.
"Wait," Yugi calls out, his face serious and his tone sharp, drawing the attention to the two "What if you're lying to me right now?"
"No, I never lie," both brothers are stood relaxed, with their crossed arms tucked into their sleeves and smirks on their faces. Yugi's eyes narrow at the green one's declaration "Don't be fool! My door is most certainly the door that will guarantee you're freed."
"Liar! Mine is the door that'll grant safe passage, if they'd only heed," Joey goes quiet for a moment as he thinks over what they've just been told. Liars and truth tellers, it sounds familiar, he just needs to think of where he heard it. He closes his eyes and tries to push his brain to think.
"Hey Yugi," the spirit looks over "I think I know riddle. It starts with a fork in the road. Check this out. There's this kid trying to get to village of truth tellers, the problem is, there's a village of liars right next to it. The kid doesn't know which way to go, so he asks a villager for directions. But he doesn't know if this villager's from Truthville or Liarsberg. So the villager guy says he'll answer one question, and that's the riddle. What should the kid ask to get to Truthville? So the kid asks the guy to take him to his own village. 'Cause a truthful would have to take him to the village of truth, on account of being truthful. And a liar would have to take him to the village of truth too, 'cause that'd be lying. So first we gotta find out which one of you tells the truth."
"Then proceed," the two brothers are still smirking.
"In fact we'll allow you each one question," thinking he's got this solved, Joey smiles "Okay, like the kid in the riddle asked the guy to show him his village, all I have to do is ask you to show me your door. So both of ya, show the door that you're guarding," the brother both over dramatically raise a hand with a pointing finger before they both end up pointing the the green one's door "Bingo! Worked like a charm. Para's the liar and Dox tells the truth. Now Yugi just has to ask Dox which door leads out of here and we're set." Despite their riddle seeming to have been solved, the brother's haven't lost their grins. Yugi's quiet, looking the two over and thinking rather then jumping to asking questions "Yo Yuge," Joey looks over to his quiet teammate "How about a little something for the effort here?"
"I hate to disappoint you Joey, but I don't think we've solved this riddle just yet. In fact, I think we're going down the wrong road ourselves, so to speak."
"But I told ya Yuge, I heard this one before."
"Your riddle has some things in common with out present predicament, but there are some key differences, and trust me Joey, those key differences change the entire nature of the problem. In your riddle there was only one person to question at the crossroads, but in our situation we have two, Para and Dox. Now both Para and Dox have told us the exact same thing. One of them will speak nothing but the truth, and the other will speak nothing but lies. But there's a problem with that already. Because if they were, as they said, one truth teller and one liar, the liar could never admit to it, that would be telling the truth. The only way they could both make that statement is if they were both lying, and that means we can't trust Para, Dox or their riddle."
"Wow, my brain hurts."
"Don't worry about it Joey. That riddle was just meant to throw us off course. Let's duel now, and figure out the door dilemma later."
"Nice call Yuge. I do all my best problem solving on the field anyways."
"Now let's win this duel," Yugi draws "I'll go first, with my Beaver Warrior," Yugi's armored rodent appears next to his podium, not standing on any of the squares.
"A good choice. A rat for a maze."
"But his time's running out. This is the last of his days."
"We'll see about that. Beaver, forward four spaces, one for each of your level points," the monster pads along the first four squares his armoured feet making clunking noises with each step, he then stops.
"Now it's my turn, and I am merging Shadow Ghoul into the Labyrinth Wall itself by means of Polymerization," there is a snarl as a blotch of shadow appears on the walls and suddenly darts around them, easily navigating it's way around as it makes it's way to the other side of the field.
"What the-?" the green lizard like thing appears from the wall behind Yugi's monster, it's many red eyes trained on the little mammal's back. Seeming to sense something, the beaver turns and let's out a cry of fright "Wall Shadow, reaping claw slash!" The green creature reaches out with one of it's huge talons and easily slices through Yugi's monster "Good bye Beaver Warrior."
"Oh, it came out of the wall," Tea exclaims in shock "And now it's going back, where out guys can't get at it!"
"Very lethal."
"They're cheating!" Joey shouts, annoyed "It moved too many spaces!"
"On the contrary. The Wall Shadow didn't move any spaces. It moved on the wall."
"That's right, and the wall doesn't have any spaces."
"So you broke the spirit of the rule instead of the actual rule," Lila glares, crossing her arms over her chest "Still makes you cheaters." The brothers shoot the brunette a glare in return. This is there field, how dare she tell them what they shouldn't be allowed to do here, especially since she isn't even taking part "So now you know our strategy is unleashing a monster that you cannot see."
"You fools! You won't know when the Wall Shadow's about to land a blow."
"We'll see about that. Axe Raider in attack mode! And I'll also place one other card face down on the field. But since I can't see your shifty little monster, I can't attack it, so I won't advance at all this turn. I'll just keep Axe Raider as far away from the wall and your sneaky weasel as possible, and I'll still be ready to attack at any moment, right?" He glances over at Yugi, giving his teammate a pretty good idea of what card Joey's placed down along with his monster without it begin that obvious.
"Right. That's a good move Joey. As long as you keep far away from the wall, you can avoid any sneak attack by the Wall Shadow."
"Good move," Tea remarks, making Lila nod in agreement. Joey playing a trap, unfortunately, makes it pretty clear to her which card it is, he doesn't have that many but as a turn, it's still nothing to criticize. He's playing smart, something he's going to need to keep doing "I hope Joey can keep this up."
"Don't sweat it, with Yugi as his partner, Joey can't lose."
"I hope your right. This tag team stuff is tricky 'cause they can focus on attacking the weakest duelist first."
"You mean Joey."
"My turn, and I lay this card face down. Jirai Gumo," the name of the card makes Lila tilt her head. One because, why lay it face down if he's just going to tell them what it is and two, because as far as she can remember, that's a monster. But that can't be right. She must be remembering it wrong. With so many cards in the game, it can be hard to keep them all straight so she wouldn't be surprised "I'll also lay the Labyrinth Tank in attack mode and move it forward seven spaces." The monster is bright blue with exaggerated red drills all over the front of it. It also has two glowing lights that seem to imitate eyes. As it moves, there is a rumbling sound like a bulldozer moving across rough terrain.
"Good job, brother, that should help trap them within our maze."
"Thank you brother."
"It's my turn," Yugi draws his card and he and Joey glance at each other, seeming to have a spot of unspoken communication, clear understanding in the eyes of both teenagers "I play the Celtic Guardian in attack mode! Advance four paces into the maze." The green clad elf walks to the same spot Yugi's beaver occupied before it was destroyed.
"But the Celtic Guardian's attack strength is much lower then that of Wall Shadow's."
"Then he'll be wiped out," seeming to think Yugi's made an obvious mistake, the brothers let out a series of cries and do some more over the top back flips before the orange one speaks up with a smug smile "You fool! Did you not learn anything? Wall Shadow, attack Celtic Guardian now!"
"Your guardian is doomed," Dox remarks as the shadow rushes along the walls once again "And your life points with it." This time when the monster emerges from the wall, it shoots out in front of Yugi's monster. However before it can land a blow, Yugi smirks "Hm, I'm afraid not."
"What do you mean?"
"Kunai With Chain!" the chain blade shoots out and wraps around the monster.
"What is this?"
"My trap card worked!" Joey cheers, he's seen Lila use the card before and he was pretty sure he knew how to use to but it's still a great feeling to have done this without needing coaching "Reel him in Axe Raider!" Joey's monster is holding the other end of the weapon and tugs the shadow further out of a wall and keeps the chain taught to prevent it from disappearing back "Ha ha. The card I played face down before was a trap card, Kunai With Chain. It captures any opponent that attacks. I laid that trap card to help Yugi out. It raised the Celtic Guardian's attack power by five hundred, putting it's strength higher then Wall Shadow's."
"Celtic Guardian, attack Wall Shadow," the elf raises it's sword and slices through the beast with one swing, cutting it in half "So now it's lights out for our shadow." Para sweats as he looks at the field in shock. How could this happen? His monster was suppose to be untouchable!
"N-No!"
"Wall Shadow is beaten," the two boys say at the same time then grin at each other when they realise it. Joey chuckles and throws his friend a thumbs up as Tea cheers in the background "What a team!"
"Yeah, they're working together to beat those wacky brothers," Bakura agrees as Tristan watches the blonde proudly. Lila looks over to the pointy haired brunette and smiles a little to herself as she comments "He's doing good huh?" Tristan nods. It's clear to both of them how much Joey has actually approved. He's actually thinking his moves through and pulling his own weight in this duel.
"Aah! To stop our decline, these two we must halt!"
"Don't look at me. It's not my fault."
"If we keep this up, we'll win this double duel and have enough star chips to enter the castle. Team work Yugi!"
"Right, but we haven't won yet. We've got to keep on our guard if we're going to beat the Paradox brothers and win out way out of this twisted underground labyrinth."
"With a trap, you stopped out attack..."
"Just as you did pledge. But with out scores..."
"Ahead of yours, we still have the edge."
"We're just getting started," Joey responds to their taunts. He draws and looks at his hand, assessing the attack and defense power their monsters provide and deciding that it needs bolstering "Now my flame swordsman will heat things up. I put it in attack mode. It's power level is five, but I'll move only four spaces. I'll also move Axe Raider forward four spaces to join him and consolidate out forces. I've already used up Kunai With Chain's trap effect, but it still works as a regular accessory card, raising Axe Raider's attack power by five hundred points. Let's see you take that on you twisted twins." The three warriors are all clustered together on the same square in the maze, the elf in the front with the other two close behind like they're there to cover his back.
"It doesn't matter if your forces are one or many, for soon..."
"There won't be any. Labyrinth Tank, advance seven more spaces. Labyrinth Tank wields futuristic weaponry. You archaic soldiers don't stand a chance, and soon they will be withing striking range."
"And somewhere in the Labyrinth lurks another trap for your unwary warriors. Do you really think you stand a chance?"
"Don't you two ever stop yakkin'?" Joey asks, voicing the headaches of those watching "You're up Yugi."
"Then I play Dark Magician in attack mode. I move him forward five spaces to defend out other warriors," while the other monsters had walked to their spot, the spell caster instead decides to show off with a much smoother front flip then those done by the brothers and stands in front of the warriors with his arms crossed.
"Cool. Nice move Yugi. Now the gangs all here. They're a team, just like you and me pal."
"Right Joey. There's strength in numbers. Together they stand a much better chance of conquering this murderous maze."
"Plus they look like the cast of a pretty cool RPG," Lila remarks stretching her arms above her head as Bakura nods with a slight chuckle, adding on "Yes, if one of your monsters was with them, they'd even had the token female character to see in a lot of these groups." Over hearing the spectators, Joey and Yugi actually smile a bit. They do have a point. The brothers however, are less then impressed with their opponents line up and let out small growls of annoyance.
"We shall see about that," Para draws and pauses to smile at his card "Quit grinning and spit it out. What is it?"
"It's a magic card, and that's cause for celebration, brother."
"Right," there is then another round of flips and showing off. Lila shakes her head. The way these two always have to break away for some kind of gymnastic display they should be circus performers not duelists "Now face the wall warping power of Magical Labyrinth!"
"What's going on?" Joey asks as the entire field rumbles and shakes like an earthquake.
"The maze, it's changing," Tea gasps, eyes wide as the group watches new walls push up from the ground while others drop, creating new paths and dead ends "And that changes the whole game!"
"On no. The maze is changing shape!"
"Yeah, but what's it all mean?" a wall then goes up between Yugi's monsters and Joey's, since Yugi's Celtic Guardian was right on the edge of his square, he was pushed forward to join the Dark Magician on the fifth square while Joey's remained on the forth "That's just great. Our guys are cut off from each other!"
"Tag teams are only as strong as their weakest link, and the link that's about to break is you!" Dox calls out to the shaken Joey. The blonde draws his next card "Oh, no. Our strategy's blown."
"Don't let them rattle you Joey."
"Right Yuge. Gotta keep calm," the blonde takes a second to take a breath to steady his nerves before he carries on "Axe Raider, Flame Swordsman, advance and regroup," He uses the interface next to him to tell his monsters which path to take "The closer our boys get to the maze exit, the closer we get to gettin' outta here." Seeing the path Joey has set his monsters on has the brothers laughing as, without paying attention to the path, Joey has his monster walking right into their trap. Something Yugi also sees.
"Wait! Joey look out!" Yugi shouts just as Axe Raider steps on a floor tile with a symbol on it.
"Too late! He activated my trap," Dox shows them the monster he'd laid as a trap "And now the land mine spider attack Axe Raider." The giant spider shoots up out of the ground and engulfs the warrior within it's legs. Like a real spider it bites down and tightens it's grip as Joey's monster struggles.
"Fend him off Axe Raider."
"He's too weak. Jirai Gumo reduces Axe Raider's attack power to it's original seventeen hundred."
"That means-"
"You Axe Raider is vanquished..." the monster shatters into pixels and the spider rests on it's legs, now the traps been sprung.
"And you lose four hundred life points," both the brother chuckle as Joey's life point counter ticks down.
"Four hundred points?!"
"You're right. Joey just walked right into that one."
"Good trap my brother."
"That's just the beginning. Labyrinth Tank advance seven more," the blue tank is now in step behind the giant spider facing off against Joey's swordsman "And then I'll lay one more card. In defense mode."
"Aren't you gonna tell us what it is?" Dox just chuckles "You have enough to worry about. My Labyrinth Tank is now within striking distance of your Flame Swordsman. It's all over for him in the next turn. Then you can worry about what other surprises I have in store." Those watching can see how stressed Joey is getting as well as just how bad the situation actually is considering his monster is up against a walls and two stronger monsters. Yugi draws and gives a small smile.
"We'll counter attack. I play the magic card Mystic Box in combination with the Dark Magician," the brothers make a startled sound as the box appears on the field and Yugi's monster steps inside "I seal my Dark Magician within the first Mystic Box as swords rain from the sky!"
"Hm what this?" Dox watches as the swords easily slot into the sides of the box, where groves have been placed to allow them "The duelist's gone mad, sacrificing his own monster."
"No wait, look."
"Another box materializing around my Jirai Gumo?" with a bright light, the first box reopens it's door and the brothers let out a cry as they see an image of Dox's monster within, swords pierced through it "My spider is skewered! And his Dark Magician is-" the second box opens to let Yugi's monster step out onto the spaces between the tank and swordsman.
"Unharmed?!"
"Right my Dark Magician magically switched his position with that of your monster, trapping him in the first Mystic Box and ending my magic act," the boxes both then disappear."
"All right, let's see cue ball top that," Yugi nods "And now for his tank. Dark Magician dark magic attack." Yugi's monster raises it's staff, electricity spiking at the top before he fires black sparks at the tank in front of him, the holograms turning negative and the monster is destroyed "Let's see what that does to your life points. Together Joey and I will overcome any obstacles that you two put in our way."
"Okay dumbo duo. Now we're gonna clean your clocks."
"Of yourself, you think too much. Show them brother, our lucky touch," Dox encourages as Para draws. The orange on the snickers as he sees the card he has just picked up "I don't like it when that goon grins." Para mumbles a little to himself as he thinks about how lucky he was to pick up this card at this moment "Quit your mumblin' no hair! Just hurry up and move."
"Not so hasty. I will lay this card face down, ending my turn," a Chinese box appears by Para's gate "Intriguing eh?"
"What could be in there?"
"I don't know, but we'll bust it open and find out when our guys get there. Flame Swordsman, advance five more spaces toward the end of the maze. We're almost there Yugi."
"Now we'll test my luck," Dox draw and gives off a sinister sounding chuckle "Looks like I've double our delights," like Para, Dox also plays a card face down and a Chinese box appears, which Tea comments on, glancing at Lila, asking for an explanation, unfortunately the other girl has nothing. Yugi barely holds back a shudder as he feels the energy radiating from the boxes. He doesn't know what it is, but he does know that it can't be good "I now play my hidden card. Dungeon Worm, return to the surface now in attack mode. And I will strengthen it with invigoration, which raises it's attack power by four hundred points." The worm is bright orange and due to the magic card grows even larger. It's gaping maw it circular and ringed by large teeth with smaller ones between them.
"What is that beast?"
"It's a burrower, and it's coming for you," the worm dives into the ground and disappears, making the boys look around the field to try and see if they can spot it "Where'd it go? Where's that thing hiding?" It shoots up out of the ground under Yugi's isolated Celtic Guardian "No! Our Celtic Guardian." With the elf caught it burrows back under ground and destroys it there "Watch your life points go slithering away."
"Hey that's not fair. That creature could pop up any place!"
"That's true, this field gives their monster all the advantage."
"That's right!"
"No one escapes the Labyrinth."
"It's up to you Yuge. You're gunna have to pull a winner out of your hat."
"Great idea. I play magical hats. Hats, materialize! As for our warriors, now you see them," a large top hat with a question mark appears above the Dark Magician and drops onto him, concealing him from view, the hat then carries along the path and swallows up Joey's swordman "Now you don't." The hat then splits into four.
"Ah the hats!"
"They're multiplying, hiding all their monsters."
"Alright Yuge, that should sure confuse that slimy worm of theirs."
"And the Dungeon Worm's attack power is only twenty two hundred while the Dark Magician's is twenty five hundred. So if the wrong choses the wrong hat and uncovers the Dark Magician, he'll only destroy himself," the brothers groan as they realise what that means, but Yugi spells it out anyway "And that garuntees your swordman's safety as well, because with the Dark Magician lying in wait, the worm dare no strike any hats."
"Ha. Your little plan is no as fool proof as you think Yugi. Monster Tamer, appear now in attack mode!" the lion tamer looking monster appears.
"Hm? The Monster Tamer?"
"Normally I couldn't control the Dungeon Worm or any other monster my brother placed on the field, but by using the Monster Tamer, I can add six hundred points to the Dungeon Worm's attack power and also make the worm follow my tamer's instructions during my turn," that boosts the burrowing worm's attack to twenty eight hundred and makes it the strongest monster on the field now, negating the Dark Magician as a deterrent "Now Monster Tamer, command my brother's Dungeon worm to destroy one of the magic hats!" The tamer cracks it's whip around and they all watch the hats until the worm shoots up out of one of the middle two hats, it's maw empty "Empty hat."
"Whoa. That was close," the worm duck back under ground. Joey looks over his partner to see him staring at the hats with gritted teeth, no doubt worrying about the next attack "Don't sweat it. I got it all figured out. You just sit back and watch me and the Flame Swordsman go," Joey taps his console and his monster appears from the hat it was protected in.
"Joey what are you doing?"
"Is Joey nuts? His swordsman was safe," as Tristan says that, Lila leans a little close to get a better look at Joey's hand then she chuckles as she spots another very familiar card. That's actually pretty smart.
"Don't worry, he knows what he's doing," she defends, throwing Joey a wink when he looks over his shoulder at he and he smiles "I play the magic card Salamandra!" The brother let out a cry of fright "That's right, you oughta be scared. It juices up any fire based blade and raises it's attack points seven hundred. Swordsman, salamandra flamestrike!" The flaming lizard swirls around the red sword and then shoots off into one of the Dungeon Worm's tunnels, tracking the monster through it's burrow.
"Where is it going?"
"Good show. Not only does Salamandra increase the swordman's attack strength, but because of the worms weakness to fire, it negates the bonus points the worm got from the Monster Tamer. Returning it's attack power to twenty two hundred."
"Less then my supercharged swordsman," the worm shoots out from it's burrow, flames surrounding it's body and it turns to ashes "Your worm turns. Or should I say burns? Top that!"
"Joey, great move. Good going," along with Yugi's praise, there are cheers from those watching too. This puts the brothers completely on edge as Para turns to his twin "You must draw the card we need."
"Indeed," Dox takes his draw "Ha! The third piece! This will seal their fate," the two brothers nod to each other "The third piece, with which we'll now create..."
"A monster who will..."
"Annihilate!"
"Against-"
"The trinity-"
"They can't defend."
"All their life points we will rend."
"Summon Kazejin, God Of Wind," a third and final Chinese box appears and the whole arena starts to rumble "Uh, Yugi, what's happening?"
"Oh no. The trinity! It's in the class of Exodia," the three boxes rumble and vibrate, then, from the symbols at the head of each box, a pillar of light shoots up into the sky and spiral together as the brothers chant "Elements of thunder, water and wind, Suijin, Sanga, Kazejin begin. Meld your powers in eternal light, show these fools your unstoppable might."
"Here it comes!"
"What is it?"
"I don't know."
"He is pain beyond description."
"He'll mark the graves with your inscription."
"Gate Guardian!" the monster that appears seems to be made up of the other monster that were used to summon it and towers over the maze walls. It's appearance and strength has Yugi doing a double take "It has the strength of three monsters."
"Yeah. He's three guys in one. We're never gettin' out of this maze," Joey's starting to sound dejected but the spectators aren't sure how to cheer him up since it looks even worse to them and they have no idea what they can say to help the boys duelling.
"Now what do they do?"
"I don't know, this looks bad."
"Don't be so down beat Bakura. If they don't beat 'em, we'll never get out of the labyrinth."
"Tristan thanks for cheering me up mate," Lila rolls her eyes at the two of them, the way they're talking isn't going to help the boys focus on the duel. It's just going to remind them of the pressure they're under and they don't need a reminder, the whole duel has been one.
"So, you think you can beat us with your big multiple guy? Well we're not giving up. Let's go. Bring it on!" The two brothers laugh at Joey's attempt as bravado "You must be mad."
"No one's ever gotten past the Gate Guardian."
"He is composed of three parts, each controlling an elemental force."
"You'll never get past his combined power."
"You will wander the Labyrinth..."
"Lost for all eternity."
"Me and Yugi'll take on anything that you got!"
"Joey's right. We're a team. You'll never beat our combined power. Take your turn," the two brothers laugh again, as far as they're concerned, they've already won so this confidence is simply amusing to them. Despite cheers from those watching for Yugi to use his turn attacking, Yugi instead plays two cards face down saying "Nothing in my deck is powerful enough to attack the Gate Guardian. I can only play these."
"What a waste of a turn. You're frightened, for all you monsters are too weak to attack ours. Gate Guardian, use your immense power. Attack Flame Swordsman. Eliminate him from the field," the top section of the monster beings to charge it's power and Joey, seeing that he has no way to protect his monster, turns to his friend "This is it but, we're going down in a big way."
"Thunderstoke attack!"
"This is one lightning storm I don't think my swordsman's gonna weather," Joey exclaims as he and Yugi watch the light and wind that is gathering at the head of the guardian "If ya got any bright ideas, now's the time." Para calls for his guardian's attack again and Joey ducks his head to the side, closing his eyes "Can't look!"
"Ha! Now you see! Our Gate Guardian conquers all!" Para smirks annoyingly until Yugi speaks up "Not this turn." Para pulls back slightly in confusion as Yugi smirks and lifts one of the cards he had set, the move that they called a waste "Unless he's not effected by traps. Mirror Force, reflect his attack!" The glowing wall appears before Joey's monster and as Joey cheers, fires the elemental blast back at the towering monster but it doesn't destroy it "Gate Guardian defend, squall barricade!" The wind elemental in the centre lets out a huge gust of air to blow the deflected attack away, making the bald twins laugh "Our monster's not felled."
"You've been repelled," their words make Yugi chuckle "Yes, but your guardian has deflected my attack right at your Monster Tamer!" The twins cry out in shock as the energy from their attack slams into the humanoid monster standing at the guardian's side and destroys him "You've destroyed your own monster."
"Lucky move," Dox retorts as his brother's life points drop all the way to nine hundred, in total the two may still have a hundred life points over Yugi and Joey but it's still a big drop and the two friends smile at each other. Glad to have protected their monster and put and dent in their opponents.
"Way to play fellas," Tea cheers from the back "Keep it up and we'll be out of these musty old caves in no time."
"You got it Tea! Now it's my turn."
"Wait a minute Joey," Yugi calls his friend's attention "Don't make your move just yet," Joey blinks "Look at the Gate Guardian. It was created by combining three different monsters right?"
"So?"
"So that may be our ticket to dismantling him."
"Right. Section by section. Ok then. Flame Swordsman, use Salamandra' magic and attack the mid section!" the swordsman charges up the flame on his sword and the magical fire elemental appears from the blade, racing towards the weakest of the monsters that made up the brute in front of them "Atta boy! Scorch 'em good!" However before the attack can connect, much to Joey's shock, the bottom blue one shoots up a wall of water to block the fire from reaching it's target. The two teenagers watch with slight frowns as the fire dissipates and the guardian is left unharmed.
"You fool! Attack one section and the others will defend it. You wasted your turn. Now my guardian will lay waste to you!" Lila tilts her head to the side, so unlike the Dungeon Worm, because the guardian was made up of monsters they both control, they both get to command it, that's not good "Tidal surge attack!" The blue one changes the direction it's water fires, instead of up, it now fires it forwards, at the maze and the monsters within.
"Oh my," Bakura gasp "Dox is using the water elemental section of his Gate Guardian to flush out the entire maze. Everything in it's path will be attacked. The mystic properties of the magic hats will protect the magician, but I'm afraid Joey's swordsman won't be as lucky." Everyone watches with wide eyes as the water flows through the maze, following the route to the monsters, it harmlessly washes past the hats but the current sweeps up Joey's warrior. The sight makes Lila shudder, and she already didn't like water, that's not an image she needs to see.
"We have taken the lead," Dox taunts as Joey's life point counter drops.
"For now."
"Your Gate Guardian may have dampened the field, but not our spirits. For my turn, I lay this card face down and I call upon the Summoned Skull to finish the job Joey's Flame Swordsman started," the skeletal monster appears with a growl at the beginning of the maze.
"You must be joking!"
"That swordsman started nothing before he left choking," the two laugh.
"That's not quite true. If it weren't for him, the stage wouldn't be set for my Summoned Skull's attack!" there is a cry of fright from the brothers while those watching look a little confused. Then Tristan seems to catch on, remembering Yugi's duel with Weevil "The water! Yugi's gonna use it as a conductor for an electrical attack." The brother's look over the field and realise the position they've left themselves in "Summoned Skull, lightning strike!" The demon generates energy with a growl and directs it to the water on the ground, where it dancing through the maze as Tea says in amazement "The water's actually guiding the attack."
"Payback time!"
"Not yet. You may have found a watery trail leading back to our guardian, but you have yet to breach his defences, defences that we activate now!" despite the surety in his voice, the guardian doesn't react to Dox's command, leaving the twin's confused "What's wrong?"
"What's wrong is that by flooding the whole field with your tidal surge, you attacked my Magical Hats, and hidden underneath one of them was a trap!"
"What?"
"A trap that immobilises your guardian and leaves him powerless to defend himself," Yugi taunts as he holds up his card.
"No! My Gate Guardian!"
"Ensnared by my Spellbinding Circle," the golden circle appears around the green middle section of the guardian "And seven hundred defence points weaker because of it, leaving Suijin, your guardian's water elemental, quite vulnerable to my electrical attack!" the lightning form Yugi's monster reaches the end of the water and fires into the water feet of the guardian, shattering it on contact "One section down, two to go."
"Way to go Yuge! We'll have this ugly lug chopped down to size in no time!" Joey cheers with a laugh while Yugi smiles to himself. And no more tidal waves, Lila thinks with a sigh of relief. The other's watching all cheer loudly while the small brunette simply smiles "You did good guys," she says with a nod.
"Hey look. All the water's disappearing," Joey remarks as the holographic water starts to fade "Not only is Suijin gone, but it looks like he took all of his water with him."
"Our guardian is only damaged, not beaten. Remove trap," Para plays a spell that makes the circle around the guardian fizzle and dissolve "Even without Suijin, our guardian is still unbeatable."
"We'll see about that. It's my turn now," Joey draws, as he does so, Yugi smiles a little to himself. Teamwork has gotten them this far, he's sure it can beat their monster "All right bozo brothers! Try this on for size. The Red Eyes Black Dragon!"
"And now, with the magic of my Polymerisation card, I'll combine Joey's red eyes with my Summoned Skull," the two winged monsters are pulled into each other with a flash of bright light.
"A combo!" the brothers call out in unison.
"You now face-"
"The supreme Black Skull Dragon!" Joey calls out excitedly as their joint skeleton dragon growls loudly "Your guy ain't so unbeatable now huh?"
"Right. Let's see you labyrinth stop him," at Yugi's words, Para bursts out in laughter, with Dox joining in a moment later "What are you two clowns laughing about?"
"You fools! You think your new creature will win the match for you?"
"You're wrong. There is little that your creature can do, for there is a maze rule that you must not have known."
"A rule? Oh no!"
"Oh yes, and the rule states that the labyrinth is a no-flying zone."
"But not a no tunnelling or wall running zone? What is it with you eliminators and cheating?" Lila asks with a raised eyebrow, making the brothers growl and shoot her a dark glare.
"Aw, nuts, and my Red Eyes Black Dragon can only move by flight. These rules stink."
"Don't worry. I have an alternate plan," Yugi says calmly, to try and sooth Joey's fraying nerves. The green jacket wearing boy lets out a relieved breath "I was hoping you'd say that," he then turns to the brothers and with confidence says "Ya hear that? We got a backup plan," the only response he is met with is laughter "Uh Yugi, why don't they look worried? So what do you think the bald brothers are up to Yugi?"
"You mock us?" Lila rolls her eyes and remarks "He's been mocking you from the start you circus rejects. If you don't like it, don't make it so easy." Dox shoots the brunette another glare but she just sticks her tongue out him petulantly while Tea sighs and shakes her head, what is it with Lila and getting on the bad side of these psycho eliminators? He then draws "With this next card, I will trash your team. Riryoku!"
"Ugh. Riryoku?"
"It's all greek to my pal."
"Riryoku's a rare card that's way to over powered," Lila calls out to explain "Trust these cheats to have one."
"Riryoku's legendary power allows me to take half of my opponent's life points and add them to one of my own creature's attack points!" Now Joey can see where Lila's coming from and she's right "No fair! You might as well be stealing!"
"Stay strong!" of course the brothers decide to mock Yugi's attempt at keeping Joey's focused "Stay strong?"
"The only one on this field who will be staying strong is our Gate Guardian, for he is the one we are powering up with your life points," the guardian glows blue as it's attack points raise, one they've reached the three thousand mark, the glow fades away.
"That's like cutting their chances to win in half."
"Like I said, way to over powered," Lila crosses her arms across her chest and shakes her head. Every turn these guys are pulling some kind of bullshit, either exploiting the rules or using cards that have no right to even be in this game, regardless of who's using them.
"Luckily for you, using the Riryoku card ends out turn. But when out next move is at hand, we will use our Gate Guardian's newfound power to win this duel once and for all."
"He will turn your monsters into smears on the labyrinth walls!"
"Don't worry about them Joey. I still have a plan. First I draw. Nest step. My Dark Magician will leave the safety of the Magical Hats and return to the maze," the purple clad spell caster explodes from the hat in the corner "Then he'll move six spaces forward and out of your labyrinth!"
"You fool! Why are you moving your Dark Magician out of the maze when you know our Gate Guardian is right there just waiting to attack?"
"Does it matter? You seem certain he'll win regardless of what I do."
"Uh Yuge, not for nothing, but you want to fill me in here?"
"It's all right Joey. Trust me," the brother's laugh as Yugi's monster makes it to the end of the maze and steps out from the walls "Finally, I play this card. Reborn the monster!"
"Your plan will fail! Gate Guardian, attack the Dark Magician!" the top part of the guardian crackles with lightning while the bottom inhales deeply. The sparks travel down to surround the green orb which combines it with the air to spit out a crackling pink orb of light towards the lone spell caster.
"You attacked without waiting to see which monster I resurrected from the graveyard pile, so you couldn't know," Yugi crosses his arms across his chest "You wasted your attack," then he dramatically points at the field as he calls out "Suijin, tidal sheild!" A wall of water shoots our from the ground around Yugi's magician. Much to the shock of the brother's who watch as their attack is destroyed "Recognise the monster? You should, seeing as how it's yours." The water elemental appears from the ground right under Yugi's magician, the water fired straight up from it's maw to protect the human monster.
"He used his reborn the monster card to bring back our Suijin!"
"Only now he's not ours. He's been brought back on their side," Joey cheers as the water wall fades away "That's the play of the game!" Those watching let out their held breaths, that was too close but Yugi managed to pull it off. But can the two keep it up? "You have been lucky you little louts."
"But we promise your luck's about to run out."
"Fine," Yugi brushes off "But in the meantime, it's Joey's turn."
"Right," the blonde looks at his cards, he needs something to keep Yugi's momentum going, he draws and looks at the card he just picked up. He pauses for a moment as he thinks it through in his head, making sure he remembers it's effect right then he grins evilly "Aw man, I just got a killer idea. Here it goes. I'll use Copycat and play it as Riryoku!" Everyone, even Yugi is shocked at that, though in Yugi's case, it's in a good way, that was some smart thinking "That's right. Say adios to half of your life points, but don't worry, they're going to a good cause, my Black Skull Dragon," the dragon's eyes glow an intense red as it roars in response to the power up.
"Great move Joey."
"Why power up your dragon? He is still forbidden to fly in the maze and therefore cannot move. If you were smart, you would have used it on that treacherous water elemental, because it's him I'm attacking. Thunderstoke attack!" the green ball fires out a gust of pink energy.
"Suijin, raise tidal shield to defend," Yugi quickly commands and the water monster shoots out a blast of water to fight against the wind attack, the two cancel each other out and Para smirks "To be honest, we knew you would defend."
"Indeed. Now hit him again!" this time the top part of the guardian shoots lightning out of the Chinese symbol acting as it's face. Yugi's magician jumps from the water elemental and the lightning makes contact, sending Suijin back to the graveyard.
"What happened?" Tea asks, confused, looking to Lila and Bakura, but Lila shrugs, yeah when it comes to Gate Guardian and the cards that make it up, she's got no clue, luckily Bakura is there to explain it to the two girls "Suijin is only allowed to use his tidal defence ability once per turn. So the Paradox brothers split their attack into two waves."
"Yugi, did you really think that one elemental could stand a chance against two? That miscalculation will cost you the duel."
"I'm afraid you're mistaken," Yugi smirks in response to the orange brother's attempt at taunting "Not only did I know you could destroy Suijin, but I planned that you would."
"What do you mean?"
"Anything to draw attention away from my Dark Magician. After all," Yugi shows his spell card "If I'm to use this Monster Replace card with our Black Skull Dragon, I needed someone strategically placed to switch places with."
"No, he can't!"
"He played us for fools brother. Knowing that his dragon could not move within our labyrinth, he had his Dark Magician do it for him."
"And now Monster Replace! Exchange the Dark Magician with the Black Skull Dragon!" lights twinkle over the two monster as they fade out and fade back in, in swapped position, the magician now safely at the entrance of the maze while the mighty dragon is roaring at the two piece guardian "At first, I thought the only way to beat your Gate Guardian was piece by piece. But now, with our powered up dragon, we can finish this with on final, ferocious assault. Black Skull Dragon, molten fireball attack!" The dragon opens it's maw and a meteor begins to form, growing in size as it gains energy, burning brightly, the dragon then fires it and rapidly follows it with another two, blasting them straight into the guardian. It explodes in a bright light and as the brother's life points fall to zero, the holograms fade away "Take that."
"The duel goes to us," the watching four all cheer loudly. Then Tea pauses "Doesn't that mean..."
"Oh yeah! Ten stars!" Tristan cheers and Lila's smile drops slightly as she looks down at her still unfilled glove. Right, they have enough to enter the castle now. She shakes her head and plasters a wide smile on as she watches the boys put their newly won chips into their gloves. No, she's proud of them "All full."
"And all set to duel Pegasus."
"Not quite set," the brother's remind the two as their friends make their way over to them "Still one test yet."
"I should have known."
"What do ya mean there's another test?" Joey demands as everyone gathers on the raised podium by the two doors "Yugi and I just beat you two in a duel. Isn't that enough?"
"Enough to win our star chips, but not enough to escape this labyrinth. You still must choose a door, remember?"
"I remember. Now, which of you brothers are guarding the door that leads out of here?"
"If you cherish your lives, you will choose my way."
"Select my side or else you'll pay."
"Not this game again," Tea groans, the other brunette girl nodding in agreement "Can't you two just act normal and give us a straight answer for once?"
"I am giving you a striaght answer."
"The answer is we can't trust either of these two."
"Okay guys. Any bright ideas?" Tristan asks and Lila blinks, tilting her head to the side as she looks at the tan coat wearing boy and shrugs, saying "Call the mother ship to come pick up these two loons?" Yugi smiles and holds up two coins "We'll decide with these." The brothers both laugh and Dox asks "Okay. Heads or tails?"
"Neither," Yugi says, handing the coins to a confused Lila and motioning for her to hold her fists out in front of her. Not knowing what's going on, she goes along with it "I marked each coin to represent a different door. The coin that Lila keeps will be the door that I have chosen," a pair of large jade eyes blink as Lila looks at the spirit of the puzzle curiously. What's going on here? And why's he pulling her into this? "Ready?" The spirit moves around Lila so he's standing by her fists and he holds one hand above them, moving it between the two before he settles and opens her loose fist for her, revealing the coin marked with the symbol of the green one.
"That coin is marked for Dox's door."
"But was your choice good or was it poor?"
"What say you Dox. Shall we tell which was right?" Yugi smirks as the two brother's try to prolong the tension by bantering back and forth. With them so focused on talking, they don't see him palm at Lila's still closed first. The brunette's eyes widen as she feels him turning the coin in her hand. What's he up to now?
"In due time Para. I'm enjoying their plight."
"Come on was it Para?"
"Or was it Dox?"
"Yeah, fess up!" The brother's laugh, finding amusement in the tension from the three's voices "I say-"
"You choose wrong! It was my doorway-"
"All along!"
"So Dox's door was the right one?" Tea asks, her voice sounding devastated, Yugi picked the wrong one, now what are they going to do. Lila turns her trouble gaze to the spirit, that can't be right.
"Not quite," his remark takes the brother's by surprise and the orange one continues to insist that they've made the wrong choice "Except if we had picked it, Para's door would be the right one. You can change which door leads to which path, can't you? Ensuring that we choose wrong."
"So they are aliens?" Lila asks with a small smile that makes the spirit chuckle as Joey shouts "That's no fair. You guys cheated." Like they weren't skirting the edge of that the whole duel, Lila thinks with an eye roll.
"Too bad. To late. You chose a way and that means," the brother's smirk as they cross their arms.
"In this maze you will stay."
"Well actually, you never saw our choice," Yugi reminds, coming to stand next to Lila as she looks down at her still clenched fist, that's right, he said the choice would be which ever she kept. Slowly, she opens her first to show everyone the coin inside. Then her eyes widen, it's another Dox coin "I figured the two of you would pull a stunt like this, so I pulled a stunt of my own with these two coins. Instead of marking them both with just one door insignia, I marked the second coin with two," Yugi takes the coin and throws it up in the air, as it flips the two insignia's are clear "One insignia on each side. And I had Lila be the one to hold them so you couldn't call foul play," the spirit gives the now beaming brunette a wink "That way, we couldn't lose." The brothers glare at the coin as it lands back in the spirit's hand.
"Ha! Beat ya at your own game."
"Both of them. Now if you'll excuse us, we have a score to settle with your boss," the Dox door creak as it opens "All right then, on to Pegasus' castle."