Double Duel Part 2

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"Now that my Blue Eyes has arrived, you're both finished." Kaiba told Lumis and Umbra, his Blue Eyes White Dragon standing beside him, snarling at both who dared harm its master's family.

"And this is just the beginning, Kaiba and I make a powerful team and you two Rare Hunters stand no chance against the combined might of our decks. And when we prevail, you will lead us to where you're holding Mokuba and the others captive." Yami told both Rare Hunters.

"I think what my partner is trying to say is that thanks to my superior dueling skills, you're both through." Kaiba said with a snide smirk, Yami looked at him and he scoffed. "Still hung up on this teamwork thing, it's getting old. I'm dueling to win this duel for me and to save my little brother. I'm going to make both these fools regret challenging the Kaiba family."

"My friends are in danger as well!" Yami told him.

"That's your problem, just don't lose this duel for us, I might be gracious enough to help if I see fit but otherwise, I'm dueling on my own." Kaiba replied, both Lumis and Umbra smirked.

"Even now they cannot work together. Our Masked Beast is 200 Attack points stronger than the Blue Eyes White Dragon, when it attacks your dragon that'll be the end of this little glimmer of hope you've managed to gain." Lumis told Kaiba.

"He's wrong Kaiba, you can destroy their monster." Yami told him.

"I can?" Kaiba questioned in disbelief.

"Look, like it or not we're a team. You're going to have to trust me on this." Yami replied. "Attack their monster and I promise I'll back you up."

"You had better not be giving me bad advice, remember you'll lose this duel too if this doesn't work." Kaiba told him. "Blue Eyes White Dragon attack now, White Lightning!"

Lumis screamed in terror as the Blue Eyes White Dragon roared before unleashing its attack at the Masked Beast, to the shock of everyone but Yami the monster was obliterated easily. "Our monster's gone!?" Umbra exclaimed.

"It actually worked." Kaiba muttered, shocked himself but he would not let Yami know it. "How did you know that would work?" he asked Yami.

"Simple, when we discarded our hands earlier, one of the cards I sent to the Graveyard was the Archfiend of Gilfer, when it is sent to the Graveyard it's special ability activates allowing it to drain 500 Attack points from any monster I choose." Yami answered with a grin.

"Their Masked Beast." Kaiba said, his eyes widening as he realised what happened. "Meaning it only had 2700 Attack points when my Blue Eyes destroyed it."

"Now in case you haven't noticed, you have no monsters to defend you." Yami said as Umbra's life-points dropped to 3700. "You need my help more than you think Kaiba, together we can win this."

"My turn is over, but this duel has just begun." Kaiba said. "And when my next turn comes around, I'll make you both beg for mercy." He promised.

"It's my turn." Lumis said, hesitantly drawing his next card. "I set this monster in defence mode, and also set two more cards face down and that shall end my turn." He said, the three cards appearing in front of him.

"It's my turn." Yami said, drawing a card as the effects of both masked Lumis still had in play sapped 1000 more of his life-points, dropping them to 1500. "I'll take a chance and attack his face down monster, with luck I'll destroy it, or force Lumis to use one of his trap cards." he thought before he made his move. "I'll set one card face down, then summon Alpha the Magnet Warrior in attack mode!"

"I can't waste my trap card on this monster, I must save it for Kaiba's Blue Eyes!" Lumis thought, awaiting the inevitable attack.

"Alpha, attack now!" Yami shouted, his monster lunged forward and slashed through Lumis' set monster.

"My Four Faced Beast, no!" Lumis thought. "We've got to turn this duel around Umbra!" he growled out into the hidden microphone in his mask to Umbra.

"I know, but we have no monsters on the field powerful enough to destroy Kaiba's dragon." Umbra told him.

"Trust me, my plan I have is guaranteed to succeed, attack his Blue Eyes and it will be destroyed." Lumis promised.

"Very well." Umbra growled out, not liking this plan one bit. He drew his next card. "I summon Rogue Doll in Attack mode." He said, a doll like monster appearing before him with 1600 Attack and 1000 Defence points.

"Aren't you too old to be playing with dolls?" Kaiba asked with a smirk.

"That's weird, why would they play a weak monster like that?" Yami thought. "Unless they have a plan."

"Alright Rogue Doll, attack his Blue Eyes White Dragon now." Umbra ordered, his monster shooting off towards the Blue Eyes White Dragon.

"This should be interesting to watch." Kaiba thought.

"And now for the cards I set face down. Activate Mask of Weakness and Mask of Brutality!" Lumis shouted with a smirk.

"You already know what Mask of Brutality does, it increases Rogue Doll's Attack points by 1000." Umbra said, his monster's attack points climbing to 2600.

"As for Mask of Weakness, it is as its name suggests." Lumis said, the mask appearing on the Blue Eyes White Dragon's chest making it roar weakly. "It saps 700 attack points from your monster, making it weaker than Umbra's Rogue Doll." He explained as Blue Eyes White Dragon's attack points fell to 2300.

"Now Rogue Doll, smash his Blue Eyes White Dragon!" Umbra shouted.

"Not so fast Umbra, there's two of us remember. I activate my face down trap card, Mystical Refpanel!" Yami said with a smirk.

"What is that!?" Umbra questioned, before he saw the Mask of Brutality on his Rogue Doll vanish. "What did you do to my Rogue Doll's mask?"

"My trap card allows me to swap the target for your Mask of Brutality's effect to Kaiba's Blue Eyes white Dragon, making it far stronger than your Rogue Doll." Yami answered, the mask appearing on Kaiba's Blue Eyes White Dragon increasing its attack points to 3300.

"Blue Eyes White Dragon obliterate that doll!" Kaiba shouted, his dragon snarled and obeyed, unleashing its powerful attack destroying Rogue Doll in an instant. "I don't like relying on others to help in my victories. But I may need Yugi after all to help in this duel. But in the end, it'll be my superior deck and skills that win the day." He thought.

"Alright Rare Hunters, your monster has been destroyed!" Yami said.

"Look at what you've just done Lumis!" Umbra shouted, his life-points falling to 2000.

"What do you mean, what I've done!?" Lumis questioned.

"Because of you I'm down to 2000 life-points!" Umbra replied angrily. "That's what I mean!"

"Oh yeah, as I recall Rogue Doll was your monster!" Lumis shouted back.

"But you told me to attack, you said you had a plan!"

While this was going on Yami was watching closely. "Seems like a few cracks are beginning to form in their team." He thought.

"I refuse to let Lumis cost me this duel. I'll rely on myself from now on." Umbra thought. "I set one card face down and end my turn." He said, one card appearing face down in front of him.

Meanwhile at the train station, Tristan and Serenity who was now wearing blue jean shorts, sneakers and a yellow and pink shirt ran down the platform towards the departing train. "Sorry Serenity, I thought it was leaving later." He told the younger girl apologetically. He helped her enter the train just as the doors shut and the train began to move.

"At least we made it." Serenity said with a smile, the bandages still around her eyes but once nightfall came, she would be able to remove them.

"We should be in Battle City in no time at all." Tristan told her.

"Yeah, but I'm still nervous about removing my bandages." Serenity replied softly.

"I know, but don't worry. It'll be okay." Tristan promised, looking out the window as the train sped along the tracks. "Won't be long now, let's find a spot to sit." He said, leading the girl to find some available chairs.

Back at the skyscraper, it was Kaiba's turn and he drew his next card determined to finish this duel. "Time to end this duel, now I'm in total control once again." He thought. "Now since your Mask of Weakness lasted only one turn, my dragon's back to its full strength." Kaiba said as his dragon roared angrily. "Blue Eyes White Dragon attack Umbra's life-points directly!"

"Kaiba is making a hasty move, and a selfish one at that. He's so focused on winning this duel he's not bothered to worry about Umbra's face down card." Yami thought. He watched as Blue Eyes White Dragon roared unleashing its attack directly at Umbra.

"I thought you'd try that, which is why I'm using my face down card. Mask of Impregnability. It protects me from direct attacks for one full turn." Umbra explained, the mask which was made of metal with two large hands in front of it appeared in front of Umbra taking the attack head on and leaving Umbra safe from harm.

"Oh, nice move, but would you have done the same had I attacked Lumis?" Kaiba questioned Umbra, both Rare Hunters looking at one another. "Or would you have let him be destroyed?"

"Of course, I would have used my magic card to protect Lumis, even though I doubt he would have done the same thing for me." Umbra growled.

"That's the thing with relying on others for help, you think you can trust them but you know deep down inside you the only one you can depend on is yourself." Kaiba told them both.

"Now I get it, he's trying to make them both doubt one another's loyalty to each other." Yami thought as Lumis and Umbra continued to bicker before Lumis growled and looked away from Umbra.

"Master Marik always liked him better, I bet he just wants to take the glory for himself. But I will not let him. I can win this duel on my own!" Lumis thought. "This duel is far from over!" he shouted before drawing his next card and he smirked. "I activate Pot of Greed; this allows me to draw two new cards from my deck."

Doing just that he looked at the cards and frowned. "My hand doesn't look very promising, and with the threat of an impending Blue Eyes attack I can't risk having no monsters on the field." He thought. "I set one card face down, and now I activate Card Exchange, this let's me swap my entire hand with any duelist I choose, and I will take Umbra's cards."

"How dare you!" Umbra growled, glaring at Lumis as he walked over with a smirk.

"Since you won't use your cards to help me, I will do it myself!" Lumis told him, he then took the cards from Umbra and walked back to his spot on the field. "Next I activate the face down card, Chosen One."

"What does that do?" Yami asked as a spinning top appeared in front of Lumis along with three face down cards that Lumis set on his duel disk.

"Allow me to explain, the chooser will select one card at random, if the chooser picks one of my two magic cards all three of them go to the Graveyard." Lumis explained.

"Those are my cards you're risking!" Umbra told him.

"They're not your cards anymore." Lumis replied. "And also if the chooser selects the third card, I get to summon it to the field without the need to sacrifice weaker monsters, now my chooser, go!" he commanded, the spinning top beginning to spin as all four duelists watched and waited for the result.

The spinner soon came to a stop, when it did, Lumis cackled madly and the spinning top fired a beam of light at the selected card. "It worked, now I can summon my unstoppable monster. Behold, the Masked Beast Des Gardius!" he said, the card lifting up before It shattered and the monster within emerged.

It towered over Yami and Kaiba, two sharp talons on both feet, four sharp claws on its monstrous looking hands and around its neck was a coil with two masks, and its head was a conical shape with another mask on it and it let out a shriek. "It's unstoppable!" he told both his opponents, laughing in triumph as they saw it had 3300 Attack points and 2500 Defence points.

"It's more powerful than my Blue Eyes." Kaiba said.

"Very observant Kaiba, Des Gardius could wipe out your dragon with one swipe of its mighty claw." Lumis said.

"You're lucky the outcome of your move was successful." Umbra told him.

"Yes, and now that Des Gardius has been summoned, there is nothing they can do to stop it." Lumis said with a laugh. "Now which one of you should I attack first, I could wipe Yugi out with one attack, but then again Kaiba's Blue Eyes White Dragon would make for a hefty meal for my creature.

"It doesn't matter who you attack, they'll both be finished soon enough." Umbra told him.

"Now then, I choose you Yugi Muto." Lumis said with a grin.

"Wait, we're supposed to be a team here Lumis, why would you leave Kaiba's Blue Eyes White Dragon on the field longer than we want it to be?" Umbra asked.

"No, this is my choice alone and I choose to destroy Yugi now!" Lumis shouted with a mad gleam in his eyes.

"I knew it." Kaiba said with a smug smirk, Yami looked at him as he chuckled. "I knew you were too afraid to attack my Blue Eyes White Dragon, you're all talk and no action. Only a coward would take the easy way out and not attack my monster."

"I am no coward." Lumis growled. "Alright, change of plans. Des Gardius wipe out his Blue Eyes White Dragon now!" he commanded, his beast growled and charged at Blue Eyes and swung both its claws down at the dragon destroying it and Kaiba's life-points fell to 1800.

"Don't make me regret saving you Yugi, destroy them now!" Kaiba demanded.

"Alright." Yami replied, drawing his next card as both of Lumis' magic cards activated again bringing him down to 500 life-points. "You'll regret not attacking me, now I'll destroy you!"

"What?" Lumis yelped.

"Attacking my Blue Eyes was a big mistake, now Yugi's going to summon an even stronger monster to crush you." Kaiba told them.

"It's a lie…" Lumis whimpered.

"You can't summon high level monsters…" Umbra said.

"Your card only prevents us from sacrificing, but that's not the only way to bring out monsters Umbra, because now I play the magic card Ancient Rules, this lets me special summon one level 5 or higher normal monster from my hand to the field." Yami explained with a small smirk. "And I choose the Dark Magician!"

"Impossible!" Lumis shouted, in a flash of light Yami's ever faithful monster appeared, arms crossed with a stern glare aimed at both Rare Hunters.

"That's too weak to destroy our monster." Umbra said.

"He's not the only monster I will be summoning this turn, I now normal summon Gamma the Magnet Warrior!"

"A third magnet warrior!?" Lumis and Umbra shouted watching the third magnet warrior appear beside both other Magnet Warriors.

"And now all three of them are on the field together, I can combine them into another monster. Monsters combine!" Yami commanded.

"Combine into what!?" Umbra shouted.

"A monster even more powerful than your Des Gardius, behold." Yami said as the three monsters began splitting apart before reassembling into a new monster which was a result of their combined parts. "Valkyrion the Magna Warrior!"

"Oh no…" Lumis gasped seeing the combined monster now had 3500 Attack points and 3850 Defence points.

"Consider this attack a payback for destroying my Blue Eyes." Kaiba told Lumis with a smirk. "Do it Yugi, destroy Des Gardius and then finish this duel with your Dark Magician!"

"It's true that in a head to head fight my monster can destroy Des Gardius, but something doesn't sit quite right with me." Yami thought, rubbing his chin.

"What're you waiting for, stop wasting time and finish this duel!" Kaiba shouted.

"I set one card face down." Yami said, setting a card which appeared before him. "Kaiba to win this duel we need to duel intelligently. Acting out rashly and in anger will only be playing into their hands."

"That's nonsense, we're so close to finding my little brother. I refuse to wait any longer!"

"You're letting your emotions rule you Kaiba, trust me. I know we can do this but only if you calm down and work together with me on this." Yami told him with a frown.

"We can win this." Kaiba growled. "Just hurry up and attack."

"Fine." Yami replied. "First, Dark Magician attack Umbra!" Yami shouted and Umbra gasped as the Dark Magician appeared in front of him.

"Lumis help me!" Umbra pleaded stepping back from the monster.

"Sorry Umbra but I'm through helping you, you were always the dead weight." Lumis told him cruelly.

"Dark Magic Attack!" Yami called, his magician thrusting his hand forward at Umbra who screamed as he was struck by the dark magic and he felt his soul get pushed out of his body for a moment as his life-points fell to zero.

"No…no this can't be…" Umbra whimpered as he heard a beep from the bomb on his part of the glass. "You can't have defeated me!"

"I hate to break it to you, but we just did." Kaiba said with a smirk. "Maybe now you should have brought a parachute."

The bomb soon exploded and the glass beneath Umbra's feet shattered and he plummeted to the ground below, but as he fell he smirked and pulled a hidden cord in his robes causing a parachute to pool out and he floated to safety the parachute getting snagged on a flag pole inside the building.

"Ha…I did it...I'm alive…" he panted in relief before his eyes widened when he felt Marik's presence in his mind. "No master, no please, it's not my fault…" his pleas fell on deaf ears as he slumped and dangled lifelessly from the flagpole.

"Umbra!" Lumis screamed from back on the rooftop looking at the shattered glass before turning back to his two opponents.

"Now Valkyrion destroy Des Gardius now!" Yami commanded, his other monster charging towards Des Gardius and it swung its sword cutting through the monster and Lumis cried out his life-points falling to 3800, he then smirked and chuckled.

"You fell for it, you've activated Des Gardius' special ability." He said.

"What special ability?" Kaiba asked.

"When Des Gardius is sent to the Graveyard it leaves behind three masks which combine to form a new more powerful mask. The Mask of Remnants!" Lumis explained, the three masks at his feet gave off smoke before they glowed and in a flash of light combined into a new mask. "And this allows me to take control of one of your monsters, luckily for me it's one size fits all." He said, the Mask of Remnants latching on to Valkyrion and it glowed before turning to face Yami and Kaiba. "Now your monster belongs to me, on my next time I'll destroy you both."

"But before that, it's my turn." Kaiba said, drawing a card he smirked. "I play the magic card, Silver's Cry. This lets me bring back one normal dragon monster from the Graveyard."

"Your Blue Eyes White Dragon!?" Lumis shouted.

"That's right." Kaiba said, in a flash of light his dragon returned with a loud roar.

"That won't save you from my monster." Lumis told him.

"Then how about I activate my face down card, the quick-play spell De-Fusion!" Yami said with a smirk activating his face down card. "This will separate Valkyrion into its original parts and destroy your mask."

"Oh no, my monster!" Lumis said watching as Valkyrion glowed green and split apart into the original three magnet warriors which created it.

"Thanks, Yugi, now for my next move. I activate Polymerisation!" Kaiba shouted with a grin. "I'm going to combine my Blue Eyes White Dragon with Yugi's Dark Magician."

The Dark Magician jumped into the air followed by Blue Eyes flying up after him and both monsters glowed brightly before they combined in a brilliant display of rainbow lights causing Lumis to cover his eyes from the brightness.

"Say hello to the monster that will end you for good." Kaiba said. "Blue Eyes White Sorcerer!"

The monster landed in front of Kaiba and Yami as they all took in its appearance.

He stood at a height equal to the Dark Magician. Soft light blond coloured hair, bright turquoise coloured eyes. Underneath his eyes were white scales that stood contrast to his tanned skin. Adorning his hands were dark navy gloves that had a white scale pattern. A white formal jacket with darker blue buttons adored his body. On the chest of the jacket was a pin resemblance of the Blue Eyes White Dragon. White formal dress pants adorned his legs tucked into a pair of formal combat boots also white. From his back were eight similar dark blue wings with white scales. floating to his side was a sheathed broadsword. The sheath is a darker navy with white scale like pattern designs. Removing the sword revealed a beautiful white blade with the guard of the blade taking the shape of the Blue Eyes White Dragon's wings.

It also had 3500 Attack and 2900 Defence points and its sword gleamed in the sunlight. "I now activate his special ability." Kaiba said. "By dividing my life-points by three, he can attack three times in a single turn." He explained his life-points dropping to 600.

"Three times in one turn...but that means…" Lumis whispered.

"That's right, your monsters stand no chance against our combined monster." Yami said with a smile. "Excellent move Kaiba."

"Don't thank me until this scum is finished. Blue Eyes White Sorcerer attack his monsters, wipe them out!" Kaiba commanded, the fusion monster nodding as his sword glowed bright white.

With a battle cry the fusion attacked and cut through all three of the Magnet Warriors destroying them with ease and Lumis' life-points plunged to 0 and he whimpered in fear.

"We win." Kaiba said with a smirk.

"No, I won't fall to my doom!" Lumis shouted as he took off running from the glass making it off just in time as the bomb exploded shattering the glass. He had little time to celebrate though as the golden eye formed over his forehead. "No! Master Marik, please!" he screamed clutching his head.

"You and Umbra have both failed me!" Marik's voice angrily rang out through his mind. "After everything I did to ensure you would succeed, you went and failed anyway."

"Now what's going on?" Kaiba questioned. "Is he doing the same thing that reject mime pulled earlier?"

Lumis then let out a distorted chuckle, standing up both could see his eyes had rolled into the back of his head. "I see you defeated my Rare Hunters, well done." He spoke.

"What have you done with my friends Marik!?" Yami shouted.

"And where is my little brother?" Kaiba added.

"Don't worry they're all safe where they are." Marik spoke through Lumis. "I hope you enjoyed the little duel I set up for you. You fared better than I thought, but do not think you will save your friends any time soon. I have spent much time studying your decks through the eyes of my Rare Hunters and now I am ready for the next phase of my plan."

"Stop talking nonsense, this is only making me angrier." Kaiba growled and Marik chuckled.

"Careful Kaiba, you wouldn't want any harm to befall Daisuke, now would you?" he asked.

"What do you mean, what have you done to her?" Yami demanded.

"She's now working for me. Interesting how quickly alliances can change, especially when they offer up to serve me in exchange for the safety of others." Marik said.

"You coward!" Kaiba snarled, he stormed over to Lumis and lifted the Rare Hunter off his feet by his robes. "Tell me where she is right now, if you lay one hand on her I'll make you regret being born."

"So Seto Kaiba does have a heart, too bad he realized it too late to do anything to save an innocent." Marik said laughing madly before Lumis slumped and Kaiba dropped him in disgust.

"He's gone." Yami said with a sorrow expression, Kaiba grunted and dug through Lumis' robes and pulled out two Locator cards, tossing one to Yami before both heard a helicopter and looked to see one approaching them and it landed on the roof.

"Looks like White Veemon came through." Kaiba said. He walked towards the helicopter as the side door opened and his eyes widened. "Mokuba!" he gasped in relief seeing his little brother standing there beside White Veemon and Veemon.

"Guess who I found looking for you both." White Veemon said with a smile as Kaiba pulled his brother into a hug. "We know where the others are behind held, come on there is no more time to lose."

"He's right, Daisuke, Joey and Tea are in trouble!" Veemon said as Yami ran over.

"What happened to them, tell me everything." He pleaded.

"On the way. Now come on." Veemon said, the two humans jumping into the helicopter as it took off.

"Make for the docks pilot." Mokuba told the pilot who nodded before steering the helicopter off in the new direction at full speed.

The end of the chapter

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