"Dark Magic Attack!"
The blast emerging from behind the couple hit Shajaki's attack just before it reached them and successfully blocked it.
"The Dark Magician's attack? How can this be?" Asked Yugi confusedly.
Yugi spun around in the direction where the attack came from. In front of him floated the Dark Magician.
"Wow! Nice timing! It's so good to see you again."
"Yes, Pharaoh Yami."
"You still remember my name after so long?"
Yami was surprised. The Dark Magician nodded.
"Excuse me to interrupt your conversation but could someone tell me how the magician can be here? I don't even have my deck?"
"Of course I do. You're the only one I accepted to obey in the Shadow Realm in my entire life."
He paused and gazed at Yugi.
"Yugi, to answer your question you do not need your deck here; we LIVE here. Since you treated your monsters respectfully, even as cards, they will help you here.
"Are you done talking already?! If there would have been only one of you, I could have killed him with that delay! Now that you are three, I'm smart enough not to attack because I know if I do, the other one will dodge it. So make your move. Next turn, I'll have enough mana to use a triple attack and destroy you all!"
"Really? Let's play a game in which mana doesn't exist and triple attacks are forbidden, shall we?" Asked Yami winking at the Dark Magician.
"Indeed. Like in the old times, Pharaoh."
He floated over to Yami and a colourful explosion of light occurred. When it subsided, a single person was there; it was Yami wearing the dark magician's outfit and wielding his staff.
He chanted some ancient words. When he stopped, numbers appeared on his forehead; 7500/4900 then they faded.
"Yugi, maybe I didn't remember how to open a portal to the Shadow Realm but I do for this. Shadow Game begins!"
"Awesome!"
Yugi had heard about the shadow games so much. She was so happy that she could finally witness one.
"What?! I never played a stupid game of duel monsters here, only in real life a few times!"
The numbers 14000/17800 blinked on Shajaki's forehead. Yami's jaw dropped before going back to completely serious.
"It is much more than the duel monsters card game as you are about to see, brother. YOU are a monster as well as I and Yugi are. I'm allied with the Dark Magician for the rest of our duel. If you didn't treat the cards with heart, no monster will ally you here and you'll remain on your own. I suggest you spare the humiliation of not being answered and not call any."
Yami grinned when Shajaki suddenly seemed angry.
Gaia, the Fierce Knight came out of nowhere and galloped to Yugi.(2300/2100)
"Hello, Yugi. I think it's time to enter the duel"
Yugi's vision got all blurry and the next thing she knew, she was mounting Gaia's horse, wearing his armour and holding his weapons. She could feel the knight's strong presence deep within her. It was similar to Yami's through the Millennium Puzzle on Earth.
"Yugi, the Female Fierce Knight!" (3800/3500)
The words slipped out of Yugi's mouth uncontrollably; they were spoken by Gaia.
The knight ordered the horse to walk and hastened towards Shajaki. When she was close enough, Yugi impaled the foe with both of her weapons. She pulled them out and went back to her original position.
Shajaki's defence dropped to 14000.
Gaia, why did he lose defence?
Because it's like Life Points here.
"What the hell!? I don't like that kind of duel! I attack with Telekinetic Blast!"
Yugi felt a psychic wave hit him. It did no damage to his defence.
"Telekinetic blast slows you down by 50%. I don't want to hurt you yet. Since I have way more attack strength than both of you, the second player can no longer dodge my attack which makes your strategy fail. Thus, I can kill AND ban you in one hit. I rather toy with you and show off my impressive spells! I'm so much greate—"
"Dark Magic Attack!"
The attack hit Shajaki, abruptly stopping his speech.
"I think that should have been 'shut up attack' " Added Yugi, giggling.
Shajaki's eyes darkened with anger.(14000/6500)
"Telekinetic Freeze!"
He directed his attack to Yami. He seemed to be frozen in invisible ice; psychic ice.
"There we go, now HE shuts up. That leaves only you, little Yugi, since he will be stuck in that for a few turns I guess."
Yugi, his spell is taking effects. We can't attack, we're too slow.
We have to! It's out only hope!
Yugi charged at Shajaki. His pace was similar to a turtle's. Shajaki simply took a few steps away to avoid the hit.
"Is that the best you can do? More torturing! Chaos Flare!"
The spirits entered Yugi stealing 2/3 of his attack AND defence.(1267/1167)
"Now, you can try one last desperate attack before I get rid of you!"
We can't do anything against him. I'm afraid we lost. Losing here costs more than in real life.
I didn't surrender yet and I won't. I remember I was told that when there is a Shadow Game, monsters, wherever they are, can hear my calls, right?
Yes, so?
Then I have a plan.
First of all, I summon the Mystical elf to give me my attack and defence points back!
The elf appeared above Yugi's head and began to pray. She transformed to dust. It fell on Yugi, healing her.(3800/3500)
"Then, I call upon Curse of Dragon!"
The dragon glided to them silently.(2000/1500)
"Then, I combine our three forces together."
They fused. Yugi was now riding the mystical beast.
"Yugi, the Dragon Champion." (5500/5000)
"Still not strong enough to beat me, I'll destroy you next turn, make your move."
"That's where you make your final mistake, Shajaki. You underestimate you opponent. Have you forgotten I have the shape of my first human form? Maybe you remember she was a Wiccan. I, now, remember part of who I was back then. I call upon the Goddess of Wicca, mother moon, to give me strength!"
Yugi raised his arms towards the sky and closed his eyes. She began chanting something dedicated to the her.
"Isis Astarte Diana Hecate Demeter Kali Innana!"
She only said it three times and her attack points raised. Yugi stopped and opened her amethyst eyes.
"There! Never underestimate me again." (7000/5000)
He flew up and dove towards Shajaki. He impaled him with one weapon. Shajaki let out a scream of pain.
"Damn you! Next time, I will kill you as soon as I have a chance and not play."
"As you can see, this is no game. I ban you from this world, demon! Go meet others like you!"
Black mist appeared below Shajaki. It slowly went up, seemingly eating him up alive.
"I'll be back for you, in 10 years… but Yami is coming with me! Did you forget that most of my power comes from my mind? I do not need stupid attack points to use it. I curse my brother with Poisoned Doom. He'll die within the next 10 minute."
An evil laugh echoed long after the last bits of Shajaki's soul were gone along with the mist…
The ice broke letting Yami free.
"What happened? Where's Shajaki? …Why do I feel great pain?"
Yugi explained everything to him.
"Oh, I see."
He sighed.
"Thank you monsters for coming to our rescue. This ends the Shadow Game, you may now leave."
Everything went back to normal, leave Yugi and Yami alone, like at the beginning.
Yugi hurried to Yami.
"Are you okay?"
"No... I feel his spell infecting me, I will fade away as well."
"No!"
"Please, forget about that and spend time with me before it's too late. We might never see each other again. I don't know if I'll ever be able to come back to this world like Shajaki surely will."
He moved a strand of silver hair away from her face.
"But Yami... I can't imagine my life without you now!"
"It's okay my dear... That's how things turn out."
He wrapped his arms around her and held her tightly against his chest. Yami was awfully cold from the virus.
"No... I feel his spell infecting me, I will fade away as well."
"No!"
"Please, forget about that and spend time with me before it's too late. We might never see each other as well. I don't know if I'll ever be able to come back to this world like Shajaki surely will."
He moved a strand of silver hair away from her face.
"But Yami... I can't imagine my life without you now!"
"It's okay my dear... That's how things turned out."
He wrapped his arms around her and held her tightly against his chest. Yami was awfully cold from the virus.
Yugi felt daring as she thought to herself that it was maybe the last time of her life she could see Yami. She slightly opened his black robe and moved her hands inside.. They travelled up to his shoulders, palms barely grazing his nearly frozen chest. The touch made her shiver. She rested her head on his stomach, unshed tears filling her eyes.
"Don't be so sad. We accomplished something good. I think the price to pay to ban him is high although it is worth it."
He moved his hand up and gently stroked her hair.
"If I knew that was the price to pay to meet you, I would have never done this!"
"You couldn't know...and I couldn't"
Yami felt his feet slowly begin to desintegrate.
"Well this is it, our final goodbye."
They broke apart quickly.
Yugi reached out his left hand to touch Yami's. Their palms made contact, for one last time.
"I'll say it again, Yugi. I love you and I'll never forget about you. I'll try to watch over you if I can."
The mist moved up quickly soon taking Yami's hand away from Yugi's. He smiled one last time to her before disappearing.
"Yami..."
Yugi stared absently at the empty spot where his newfound love(kind of) stood a few seconds ago. Her hand was still in the air.
She went back to the computer room, crying and inside of her body.
Seto, excited, hurried to him.
"Are you okay!? The message on my computer screen! Did you hear me?"
Yugi stared blankly. Seto waved his hand in front of his face.
"Yugi?"
Yugi shook his head and walked away in silence. Going back to his house, holding the gold puzzle in his hand.
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Okies, note time! First of all, the wiccan chant Is really an old, traditional one that was used in real life by witches. It is still nowadays. It's just different versions of the goddess' name to honour her. Second, this is not the final part of my fic. ^^" don't worry, there will be another one and last, tell me what you think of my duel!