They began to mount the steps of the castle. Martin carefully led Defiance
so she wouldn't fall. Suddenly he stopped walking and Defiance could feel
his grip tighten.
"What's wrong Martin?" asked Defiance, sensing his tension.
"Seto Kaiba is in front of the door... and he looks..." murmured Martin.
"Seto Kaiba! Is it the real one this time?" asked Defiance.
Martin replied affirmatively.
"What is he doing?" asked Defiance.
"He looks like he's waiting for someone," replied Martin. Martin looked down at his shoes. He hated playing twenty questions.
"Try and slip up there without him noticing us. I have to find out what's going on," said Defiance. Martin silently lead her up the stairs and they slipped into the shadows of the castle when Defiance heard footsteps.
"Come on Yug," said a familiar voice.
"Them again!" thought Defiance as Yu-Gi and his friends raced up the stairs.
"Hey! There's someone up there."
"Isn't that Kaiba?"
"Yu-Gi, I've been waiting for you. You may have beaten me before but not now. I have learned much and before you enter the castle you will have a duel with me," said Kaiba when Yu-Gi, Joe, Tristan, Tea, and a newcomer had reached the top of the castle.
"Kaiba versus Yu-Gi rematch! We are so sticking around," said Defiance.
"But what about the final round?" asked Martin.
"I'm still planning on dropping out soon, but I'm not that eager to leave the island, especially with action like this," thought Defiance, "This is more interesting."
An argument was taking place between Seto, Yu-Gi, and his friends. Yu-Gi's friends didn't want him to duel since he already had ten star chips, but Seto seemed determined to duel. At last Yu-Gi agreed.
"I have a place prepared," said Kaiba as he walked to the far side of the castle.
"Come on Martin, let's follow them," suggested Defiance and the two shadows slipped in pace behind Tea.
The place Seto Kaiba had chosen was a balcony on the edge of a high cliff that overlooked the forest.
"We'll use my new invention to duel," said Kaiba. He wasn't suggesting it, he was ordering it. Kaiba opened the briefcase he had been carrying with him and produced what looked like two fat metal Frisbees.
The disks had a place to clip you deck in and to place cards in play. Once the cards were secured the player would throw the disc like a Frisbee and it would land in front of them, producing holographic images that were a hundred times better then the holo-fields. The holo-disks also produced convincing sounds and smells. When the turn was over the duelist would pull the holo-disk back by a cord that connected the disk to the wrist.
"It's time to duel, Kaiba," said Yu-Gi. Defiance heard it again. That deep, in control voice that Yu-Gi had when he dueled Seto Kaiba's impostor. She got a sudden chill as the duel began.
Defiance leaned against the cool stone surface of the castle and cleared her head. The breeze slightly rippled her clothes.
"There is a storm coming," thought Defiance as she smelled the air.
The duel began without any moves that were exciting enough to snap Defiance out of her melancholy. Out of a window, just above Defiance looked a man. He had on dark sunglasses and an American bandanna. He had a baggy jeans and a black leather vest. He blond hair looked like it hadn't been washed in a couple of days.
"Well, this should be amusing," he thought out-loud, also spying on the duel between Kaiba and Yu-Gi.
Yu-Gi had just played a card that let him look at Kaiba's current hand.
"Oh, no! He has a Blue Eyes!" exclaimed Joe.
"Easy Joe, It isn't invisible," said the newcomer. He had platinum blond hair that seemed to go in whatever direction it wanted. He had on a neat white sweater and a pair of light green pants. Around his neck was what looked like a golden dream catcher. It had the same symbol in the middle as the upside down pyramid on Yu-Gi's neck.
"You're right, Bakura! Yu-Gi can take it," said Joe.
But to everyone's surprise Seto did not play his Blue Eyes White Dragon on the next turn, or the turn after that.
"I play Saggi the Dark Clown in attack mode, and I also play a magic card," said Kaiba, smiling slightly.
"I'll attack your Dark Clown with my Dark Magician," said Yu-Gi. The clown was destroyed, but Yu-Gi's holo-disk began to make a beeping noise.
"What!?" cried Yu-Gi.
"I combined my Dark Clown with the Crush Card, It infected your deck, making any card with an attack over 1500 unplayable," gloated Kaiba.
"What!" came the surprised of the spectators.
"Wow! Yu-Gi is in trouble," thought Defiance, But Seto still hasn't played his Blue Eyes. Kaiba is planning something but what? I remember reading something about this, but I can't remember what the article said. Dang it!" thought Defiance as she examined Kaiba's and Yu-Gi's strategies.
"Yu-Gi you are good, I'll give you that," said Kaiba, "But you'll never be able to beat what I have next." A few more turns had passed.
"I combined my three Blues Eyes White Dragons in a way that has never been done before," said Kaiba in a loud voice. The holo-disk blurred as the three dragons twisted and melted together.
"I create the Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon!" said Seto when the shifting had stopped. A silver metallic dragon was left. It look fierce. It had three heads that snapped and growled. It's tail whipped back and forth dangerously. Its attack was 4500!
"The Gate Guardian on the Exodia level doesn't even compare with it. Wow! I think Yu-Gi is done for," thought Defiance, completely amazed. She wasn't the only one, judging by the comments coming from Yu-Gi's friends.
The Blue Eye quickly cleared all of Yu-Gi's remaining monsters. Yu-Gi's only hope was in the next card he drew.
"I have put my heart in the cards and they have rewarded me by giving me the monster that will beat you," said Yu-Gi when he looked at his card.
"What are you talking about? No monster outside of Exodia can beat this dragon," replied Kaiba,.
"I play Kuriboh in defense mode," declared Yu-Gi with a smile as he placed his card on the holo-disk and flung it.
"What!"
"Has he gone mad!"
"What is Yu-Gi thinking?" exclaimed his friends.
"You can't possibly hope to win with a Kuriboh! It is the weakest monster in all of Duel Monsters. I never even heard of a serious duelist carrying one in their deck!" exclaimed Kaiba. And he was right about it being the weakest. Its stats only were 300 and 200.
"Yes, but I will combine it with this magic card, Multiply, to multiply it indefinitely," said Yu-Gi as he activated his magic card. Another Kuriboh appeared on the field. A couple of seconds later another appeared, then another! In under a minute there was an army of Kuribohs on Yu-Gi's half of the field.
"Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon attack!" ordered Kaiba. The dragon launched a powerful beam at the Kuriboh army, but more appeared to take the place of those destroyed. Yu-Gi's life points remained untouched.
"And now to deal with your Ultimate Dragon," said Yu-Gi on his next turn. "I play Mammoth Graveyard, Polymerization, and the Living Arrow card together. While Polymerization would let me combined any of my monsters together, the Living Arrow lets me combined it with any of your monsters, Kaiba," said Yu-Gi as he explained His complicated magic maneuver.
"I am combining it with your Ultimate Dragon. But since your Dragon is a living creature I cannot fully combine it with my zombie, Mammoth Graveyard. So instead, your dragon will lose 1200 points each turn, equal with the Mammoth Graveyard's attack points. Soon your Ultimate Dragon will just be a decayed pile of goo," finished Yu-Gi.
A flash of light shot towards Kaiba's Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon. An elephant's skull appeared in the middle of its chest, the rest or the skeleton poked out of its back. The Ultimate Dragon change color to a morbid brown and began to decay. Kaiba seemed completely shocked. He had a haunted look in his eye.
"Ultimate Dragon attack," said Kaiba. The dragon took out a few Kuribohs, but did no damage. It was down to 3300 attack.
Kaiba did the same on his next turn, getting desperate. His dragon was now at 1100 and looking bad.
"I play Celtic Guardian in attack mode," said Yu-Gi for his next turn. An elf appeared on the field. It wore green cloth armor with a matching cape and hat. It had on cool face paint and wield its sword expertly. Its attack was 1200.
"Celtic Guardian attack one of the Ultimate Dragon's heads," ordered Yu-Gi. Since the dragon was a fusion it would take two more turns to completely dispose of it. The Celtic Guardian sliced through it's neck like an overripe watermelon. The half dead head fell to the ground with a sickening thud. Their life points were now equal at 400.
Kaiba looked shocked, no horrified. He seemed really afraid of something, He spaced out with a gaping expression on his face.
"Way to go Yug!" said Joe.
"You've got Kaiba on the ropes!" exclaimed Tristan.
"Yu-Gi, I can't lose this duel or Pegasus will keep my brother prisoner, Yu- Gi, I'm going to force your hand," said Kaiba snapping out of his shock. He back up until he was standing on the very edge of the balcony. "You can destroy my Ultimate Dragon if you want, but the resulting shock waves might make me lose my balance, causing me to fall. While you think about that I play Reborn the Monster to resurrect my fallen Blue Eyes." A new dragon appeared in the middle of the decaying mess of the Ultimate Dragon. "You can win this duel at the risk of hurting me. But if you don't I'm going to take you down next turn!"
"I wonder what he means about his brother. Hhhmmph! What a baby! Accept your loss and get on with it," thought Defiance. "Come on Yu-Gi! Call his bluff. At the worst he'll break a leg! It's not like you are going to kill him or something!"
Defiance felt a strange breeze blow against her face, "Yes the maelstrom is coming. And it is going to be big."
"Kaiba I've never back down before and I'm not going to stop now! Celtic Guardian attack!" order Yu-Gi.
"See that wasn't so hard," thought Defiance, "It took you long enough to make up your mind though."
"No! Yu-Gi! You can't do this!" cried Tea running to him.
"STOP!" cried Yu-Gi, dropping to his knees. The Celtic Guardian stopped moments before striking. Defiance felt a powerful zephyr slap her in the face.
"Too bad. Blue Eyes attack!" said Kaiba and the elf fell. Yu-Gi had lost the duel.
"If he had done what needed to be done he would be entering the castle now, not me," said Kaiba as he walked away. The strange figure in the upstairs window vanished also.
"Yu-Gi," said Tea, her voice full of concern. Yu-Gi hadn't moved. Tears were coming out of his eyes. He seemed to have snapped. His friends gathered around him, trying to comfort him, but he wouldn't move or say anything.
"I suppose we could enter the castle now. But I'm not that eager to follow Seto," thought Defiance as she listened to the emotional display around her. "Better stay outside while I can, the storm is coming. An it is going to be big." She felt the strange breeze again. There wasn't a cloud in the sky.
(If you remember the details of this episode please e-mail them to me.)
"What's wrong Martin?" asked Defiance, sensing his tension.
"Seto Kaiba is in front of the door... and he looks..." murmured Martin.
"Seto Kaiba! Is it the real one this time?" asked Defiance.
Martin replied affirmatively.
"What is he doing?" asked Defiance.
"He looks like he's waiting for someone," replied Martin. Martin looked down at his shoes. He hated playing twenty questions.
"Try and slip up there without him noticing us. I have to find out what's going on," said Defiance. Martin silently lead her up the stairs and they slipped into the shadows of the castle when Defiance heard footsteps.
"Come on Yug," said a familiar voice.
"Them again!" thought Defiance as Yu-Gi and his friends raced up the stairs.
"Hey! There's someone up there."
"Isn't that Kaiba?"
"Yu-Gi, I've been waiting for you. You may have beaten me before but not now. I have learned much and before you enter the castle you will have a duel with me," said Kaiba when Yu-Gi, Joe, Tristan, Tea, and a newcomer had reached the top of the castle.
"Kaiba versus Yu-Gi rematch! We are so sticking around," said Defiance.
"But what about the final round?" asked Martin.
"I'm still planning on dropping out soon, but I'm not that eager to leave the island, especially with action like this," thought Defiance, "This is more interesting."
An argument was taking place between Seto, Yu-Gi, and his friends. Yu-Gi's friends didn't want him to duel since he already had ten star chips, but Seto seemed determined to duel. At last Yu-Gi agreed.
"I have a place prepared," said Kaiba as he walked to the far side of the castle.
"Come on Martin, let's follow them," suggested Defiance and the two shadows slipped in pace behind Tea.
The place Seto Kaiba had chosen was a balcony on the edge of a high cliff that overlooked the forest.
"We'll use my new invention to duel," said Kaiba. He wasn't suggesting it, he was ordering it. Kaiba opened the briefcase he had been carrying with him and produced what looked like two fat metal Frisbees.
The disks had a place to clip you deck in and to place cards in play. Once the cards were secured the player would throw the disc like a Frisbee and it would land in front of them, producing holographic images that were a hundred times better then the holo-fields. The holo-disks also produced convincing sounds and smells. When the turn was over the duelist would pull the holo-disk back by a cord that connected the disk to the wrist.
"It's time to duel, Kaiba," said Yu-Gi. Defiance heard it again. That deep, in control voice that Yu-Gi had when he dueled Seto Kaiba's impostor. She got a sudden chill as the duel began.
Defiance leaned against the cool stone surface of the castle and cleared her head. The breeze slightly rippled her clothes.
"There is a storm coming," thought Defiance as she smelled the air.
The duel began without any moves that were exciting enough to snap Defiance out of her melancholy. Out of a window, just above Defiance looked a man. He had on dark sunglasses and an American bandanna. He had a baggy jeans and a black leather vest. He blond hair looked like it hadn't been washed in a couple of days.
"Well, this should be amusing," he thought out-loud, also spying on the duel between Kaiba and Yu-Gi.
Yu-Gi had just played a card that let him look at Kaiba's current hand.
"Oh, no! He has a Blue Eyes!" exclaimed Joe.
"Easy Joe, It isn't invisible," said the newcomer. He had platinum blond hair that seemed to go in whatever direction it wanted. He had on a neat white sweater and a pair of light green pants. Around his neck was what looked like a golden dream catcher. It had the same symbol in the middle as the upside down pyramid on Yu-Gi's neck.
"You're right, Bakura! Yu-Gi can take it," said Joe.
But to everyone's surprise Seto did not play his Blue Eyes White Dragon on the next turn, or the turn after that.
"I play Saggi the Dark Clown in attack mode, and I also play a magic card," said Kaiba, smiling slightly.
"I'll attack your Dark Clown with my Dark Magician," said Yu-Gi. The clown was destroyed, but Yu-Gi's holo-disk began to make a beeping noise.
"What!?" cried Yu-Gi.
"I combined my Dark Clown with the Crush Card, It infected your deck, making any card with an attack over 1500 unplayable," gloated Kaiba.
"What!" came the surprised of the spectators.
"Wow! Yu-Gi is in trouble," thought Defiance, But Seto still hasn't played his Blue Eyes. Kaiba is planning something but what? I remember reading something about this, but I can't remember what the article said. Dang it!" thought Defiance as she examined Kaiba's and Yu-Gi's strategies.
"Yu-Gi you are good, I'll give you that," said Kaiba, "But you'll never be able to beat what I have next." A few more turns had passed.
"I combined my three Blues Eyes White Dragons in a way that has never been done before," said Kaiba in a loud voice. The holo-disk blurred as the three dragons twisted and melted together.
"I create the Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon!" said Seto when the shifting had stopped. A silver metallic dragon was left. It look fierce. It had three heads that snapped and growled. It's tail whipped back and forth dangerously. Its attack was 4500!
"The Gate Guardian on the Exodia level doesn't even compare with it. Wow! I think Yu-Gi is done for," thought Defiance, completely amazed. She wasn't the only one, judging by the comments coming from Yu-Gi's friends.
The Blue Eye quickly cleared all of Yu-Gi's remaining monsters. Yu-Gi's only hope was in the next card he drew.
"I have put my heart in the cards and they have rewarded me by giving me the monster that will beat you," said Yu-Gi when he looked at his card.
"What are you talking about? No monster outside of Exodia can beat this dragon," replied Kaiba,.
"I play Kuriboh in defense mode," declared Yu-Gi with a smile as he placed his card on the holo-disk and flung it.
"What!"
"Has he gone mad!"
"What is Yu-Gi thinking?" exclaimed his friends.
"You can't possibly hope to win with a Kuriboh! It is the weakest monster in all of Duel Monsters. I never even heard of a serious duelist carrying one in their deck!" exclaimed Kaiba. And he was right about it being the weakest. Its stats only were 300 and 200.
"Yes, but I will combine it with this magic card, Multiply, to multiply it indefinitely," said Yu-Gi as he activated his magic card. Another Kuriboh appeared on the field. A couple of seconds later another appeared, then another! In under a minute there was an army of Kuribohs on Yu-Gi's half of the field.
"Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon attack!" ordered Kaiba. The dragon launched a powerful beam at the Kuriboh army, but more appeared to take the place of those destroyed. Yu-Gi's life points remained untouched.
"And now to deal with your Ultimate Dragon," said Yu-Gi on his next turn. "I play Mammoth Graveyard, Polymerization, and the Living Arrow card together. While Polymerization would let me combined any of my monsters together, the Living Arrow lets me combined it with any of your monsters, Kaiba," said Yu-Gi as he explained His complicated magic maneuver.
"I am combining it with your Ultimate Dragon. But since your Dragon is a living creature I cannot fully combine it with my zombie, Mammoth Graveyard. So instead, your dragon will lose 1200 points each turn, equal with the Mammoth Graveyard's attack points. Soon your Ultimate Dragon will just be a decayed pile of goo," finished Yu-Gi.
A flash of light shot towards Kaiba's Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon. An elephant's skull appeared in the middle of its chest, the rest or the skeleton poked out of its back. The Ultimate Dragon change color to a morbid brown and began to decay. Kaiba seemed completely shocked. He had a haunted look in his eye.
"Ultimate Dragon attack," said Kaiba. The dragon took out a few Kuribohs, but did no damage. It was down to 3300 attack.
Kaiba did the same on his next turn, getting desperate. His dragon was now at 1100 and looking bad.
"I play Celtic Guardian in attack mode," said Yu-Gi for his next turn. An elf appeared on the field. It wore green cloth armor with a matching cape and hat. It had on cool face paint and wield its sword expertly. Its attack was 1200.
"Celtic Guardian attack one of the Ultimate Dragon's heads," ordered Yu-Gi. Since the dragon was a fusion it would take two more turns to completely dispose of it. The Celtic Guardian sliced through it's neck like an overripe watermelon. The half dead head fell to the ground with a sickening thud. Their life points were now equal at 400.
Kaiba looked shocked, no horrified. He seemed really afraid of something, He spaced out with a gaping expression on his face.
"Way to go Yug!" said Joe.
"You've got Kaiba on the ropes!" exclaimed Tristan.
"Yu-Gi, I can't lose this duel or Pegasus will keep my brother prisoner, Yu- Gi, I'm going to force your hand," said Kaiba snapping out of his shock. He back up until he was standing on the very edge of the balcony. "You can destroy my Ultimate Dragon if you want, but the resulting shock waves might make me lose my balance, causing me to fall. While you think about that I play Reborn the Monster to resurrect my fallen Blue Eyes." A new dragon appeared in the middle of the decaying mess of the Ultimate Dragon. "You can win this duel at the risk of hurting me. But if you don't I'm going to take you down next turn!"
"I wonder what he means about his brother. Hhhmmph! What a baby! Accept your loss and get on with it," thought Defiance. "Come on Yu-Gi! Call his bluff. At the worst he'll break a leg! It's not like you are going to kill him or something!"
Defiance felt a strange breeze blow against her face, "Yes the maelstrom is coming. And it is going to be big."
"Kaiba I've never back down before and I'm not going to stop now! Celtic Guardian attack!" order Yu-Gi.
"See that wasn't so hard," thought Defiance, "It took you long enough to make up your mind though."
"No! Yu-Gi! You can't do this!" cried Tea running to him.
"STOP!" cried Yu-Gi, dropping to his knees. The Celtic Guardian stopped moments before striking. Defiance felt a powerful zephyr slap her in the face.
"Too bad. Blue Eyes attack!" said Kaiba and the elf fell. Yu-Gi had lost the duel.
"If he had done what needed to be done he would be entering the castle now, not me," said Kaiba as he walked away. The strange figure in the upstairs window vanished also.
"Yu-Gi," said Tea, her voice full of concern. Yu-Gi hadn't moved. Tears were coming out of his eyes. He seemed to have snapped. His friends gathered around him, trying to comfort him, but he wouldn't move or say anything.
"I suppose we could enter the castle now. But I'm not that eager to follow Seto," thought Defiance as she listened to the emotional display around her. "Better stay outside while I can, the storm is coming. An it is going to be big." She felt the strange breeze again. There wasn't a cloud in the sky.
(If you remember the details of this episode please e-mail them to me.)