Then the holidays came...
But, even though this chapter is majorly short, I hope you enjoy it either way. ^_^
BTW- I never noticed what won the poll! Hero by Chad Kroeger feat. Josey Scott! Thanks to all who voted! ^_^
Oh, god, what now? Yugi thought desperately, and Yami, who was in control, drew a card from Yugi's well built deck. Pegasus knows my every move. He can read my thoughts, and know what I do before I even do it. It's...almost like cheating somehow! But...there's nothing I can do about it...
"Quite right, Yugi-boy," smirked Pegasus, his eye glowing, "You can't do anything about it."
Yami looked up at Pegasus, his eyes narrowed. "Don't you ever take a break, Pegasus?"
"What do you think?"
"Well, if what I think is right, then you'll be able to know what I'm thinking right now." Pegasus furrowed his brow in curiosity, as his eyes began to glow brighter. As it faded, he growled angrily. "How dare you..!" he spat out.
Yami smirked; looks like he had read his thoughts. "What, so I can't have any voice of opinion now? I don't have to right to secretly think that you're a bunch of hot gas? I'm shocked at how far you'll go in your cruelty level, really, Pegasus."
"But, it wasn't a secret," Pegasus replied.
"And who's fault was that?"
Just as it looked like Pegasus was going to start pulling his hair out in frustration with Yami, Yugi spoke to Yami through their connection. /One question- why are you provoking Pegasus?/
//*shrugs* Because, it seemed fun at the time.//
/*falls anime style* That isn't very like you, Yami...!/
//Well, I do have another reason. Now that Pegasus is over there shooting flames out of his mouth, we now have a chance to think of a plan.//
/I see...I think.../
Yami broke their mental link, and went back to concentrating on his hand. He currently had Winged Dragon Guardian of the Fortress, Curse of Dragon, Beaver Warrior, Polymerization, and an arm, which was useless to him. I've got to think of something quick, Yugi thought, With Yami's distraction in play, I've got to use this time wisely, when Pegasus cannot read my mind...but, Yami looked back up at the creator of Duel Monsters, and grunted in disapproval seeing that he was now paying full attention to him, I think time's up. Darn it... Yami closed his eyes and sighed, then reopened them and placed down Beaver Warrior in defense mode, and called out what he did to Pegasus.
Pegasus smirked, "Running scared, are we?"
"Just like before, taunting me won't work on me, Pegasus."
"Fine then," Pegasus huffed mockingly, "Then I'm guessing you won't care if I place down Summoned Skull in attack mode then. I also place one card face down, too." Yami's eyes widened as the undead duel monster was brought out on the field. "Skull, attack the beaver Warrior! Lightning strike!"
The Skull obeyed with a rumbling growl, and lightning shot out of his horns, and scorched the weak beast monster. The Beaver Warrior let out a gurgled yelp as it was destroyed. Yami narrowed his eyes, At least my lifepoints are safe...
"They won't be for long, Yugi-boyeeee," Pegasus smirked as he once again read his mind. "But right now, I can't inflict any damage to you. Because, it's your turn."
Yami grunted, as he pulled a card sharply from his deck. He glanced it over. "I play another card in defense mode, Pegasus," Yami stated, keeping the card he had just drawn from his deck in his hand, and playing Winged Dragon in defense mode.
Pegasus smirked, and drew a card from his deck. He looked at it, and an insane smile crossed his features. He laughed maliciously, making Yami raise an eyebrow. "Yugi, did you ever watch cartoons in your youth?"
Yami growled, unable to hold back his anger, "I'm still in my youth, Pegasus, but I would have watched them more often lately if I had the chance, but it's kind of hard to watch a Saturday morning cartoon when you're a slave!"
Pegasus shrugged, "I guess you're right. But I could have sworn that I ordered Croquet to get a colour TV for you and the others..." Pegasus shook his head. "But that is beside the point, did you ever watch them often?"
"What does that have to do with anything, Pegasus?"
Pegasus chuckled evilly, "Because, Yugi-boyeee, this next card is a flash from the past, my present, and your darkened future." He placed the card down letting out another twisted laugh. Then on the field appeared...a book! A pop-up book!
"What nonsense is this, Pegasus?" Yami asked in awe, staring wide-eyed in disbelief.
"It's not nonsense." stated Pegasus simply, "But it is...TOON WORLD!"
Yami wouldn't have been surprised if lightning striked right then. "I've never heard of that card before," he blinked, "Care to explain what it does?"
"Simple, really, it protects my monsters from your attacks, changes them into cartoons, AND boosts up their strength!"
Yami narrowed his crimson-violet eyes, "You strip your monsters' pride by changing them into cartoons?"
"I wouldn't call it stripping their pride, Yugi-boy, I'm just making them the ultimate monsters!" Pegasus replied with a smirk. "And now, I use the power of Toon World to turn Summoned Skull into the Toon Summoned Skull!" Pegasus laughed out again, and pointed towards the floating book. The skull let out a low growl as it was sucked into the book. It slammed shut, but then a second later, it reopened, and out popped the new(Not improved, thought Yami.) Summoned Skull. It certainly was now a cartoon, with it's big crazed eyes and innocent yet deadly sniggering, complementing the wide grin spread across it's face.
"W-what the--" Yami was cut short by Pegasus calling out to the skull to attack. It growled out, which sounded more like a giggle, and destroyed the crouching Dragon with a swift motion.
OK, new plan, Yugi thought, I have to find a way to get on the offensive! Somehow... Yugi mentally sighed to himself, as Yami drew another card from his deck. His eyes widened in surprise. "My...my blue eyes," Yami whispered to himself, "I drew my blue eyes. It helped me a lot in my duel with Seto. It wouldn't let me down... but, right now, I...don't...don't think that even the power of my blue eyes right now can help me in my current position.." Yami closed his eyes, "I'll hold onto him, for now."
"What are you mumbling about?" asked Pegasus irritably.
Yami shook his head, and said, "It matters not. But I place Mystical Elf down in defense mode."
Meanwhile...
Jounouchi watched in horror as the Toon Summoned Skull emerge from the magical book of Toon World, and destroy Mystical Elf with a bright flash of lightning. He felt himself grow dizzier and weaker by the minute as the blood continued to ooze from his knife wound. At that moment, all he wanted to do was crawl under a rock and die swiftly, instead of having to live through his immense pain. He was powerless to do anything, except hope that his friend would win the duel against the evil creator of duel monsters, and to survive until then. His pained brown eyes widened. Wait a sec', he thought in realization, Maybe, just maybe, I can do somethin'!
Tightly clutching onto his wounded shoulder, he inched his way towards the fallen Seto Kaiba in a struggling crawl. He grunted every time he moved his knees forward, but soon was right in front of him. He collapsed to the ground, breathing in and out with difficulty. After a minute, he looked up again weakly, and moved his hand which wasn't blood covered towards Seto's pocket. He search around in it for his duel monsters deck, and when he found it, he took it out, and at a slow pace, looked through it for a certain card. He soon found it, and half smiled weakly. Good, I wasn't sure if he had it or not, he thought, placing the deck back in his pocket. He then pulled out the top card his own duel monsters deck in his pocket, which he had kept safe for the whole year, and placed it with Seto's card. This better help Yugi out, or I'm out of ideas,
Jounouchi turned around towards the duel, and stared at Yami's face, which was glistening with drops of sweat. Jounouchi blinked his chocolate brown eyes a few times, and placed his attention on his green coat. He tore off his a strip of it, and wrapped it around the two cards like a birthday present, to make it heavier when it made it's journey to Yami.
Jounouchi breathed out, prayed that this would work, and threw the two wrapped up cards with all his might towards Yugi's darker half.
Jounouchi smiled weakly as it landed softly in front of Yami. Yami's face became scrunched up in confusion, wondering where it had came from. Pegasus didn't seem to notice, as he cackled like a maniac to himself.
I've done all I can, buddy, now you have to do the rest, Jounouchi thought, before he collapsed onto the hard ground, unconscious.
Yami's crimson-violet eyes widened as he stared at the cloth over cards in his hands. He recognized the cloth; it was part of Jounouchi's jacket. "Jou..." he whispered to himself, feeling watery tears well up in his eyes.
Yami carefully unwrapped the cards, and glanced then over. He gasped. Two...two Blues Eyes White Dragons?? Yami thought. He glanced then over, thinking that they were Seto's cards. Seto's going to be mad most likely... he thought with a small feeble chuckle. Until he looked at the back of both the cards. One of them had a small word to the side written on it, 'Kaiba', but the other...it said 'Jounouchi'. So...the last Blue Eyes White Dragon card...belongs to Jou? He thought in confusion. How? He shook his head, If we get out of this, I'll ask him some time. But...I know what Jou wanted me to do with this, Yami smirked to himself, as he looked up at Pegasus. "Pegasus," he announced, "I swear I will take you down, with this next move."
Pegasus frowned. "What are you trying to pull here?"
"Nothing. I merely speak the truth," Yami said, as he placed all three Blue Eyes White Dragons down on the field. "I play three Blue Eyes White Dragon down in attack mode! And, I also play the magic car, Polymerization, to form the all powerful Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon! But since I can't attack your monster while it's in Toon World, I leave my turn as is."
As the dragon formed on the field, Yami was sure the duel was in the bag for him. He could easily destroy any monster Pegasus put on the field, with the dragon formed by the friendship Seto, Yugi, and Jounouchi shared. But, when Pegasus started to laugh quietly, but grow with each passing second, Yami felt uneasy. "What's so funny?" he spat.
"Oh, nothing," Pegasus replied, "It's just that, do you remember the card I placed face down on the field when I placed Summoned Skull down?"
"Yes. What's your point?"
"My point is, that that card is the Dragon Capture Jar!"
Yami's eyes widened in horror. "No!"
"Yes," Pegasus smirked, "I activate the Dragon Capture Jar to seal the Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon in it!" Pegasus drew a card as he spoke, and the Dragon roared out as the gust of wind flew by him, and sucked him into the Jar. "But that's not all," Pegasus continued, "I play Dragon Piper in defense mode, to summon the Dragon onto my side of the field."
Yami's eyes filled with despair as the dragon formed onto Pegasus' side of the field, a death glare forming in it's eyes, as he stared down it's former master. It roared out as Pegasus cackled menacingly. Yami fell onto one knee, barely grasping onto his cards in his hand, his eyes widened. This...this cannot be happening! he thought, I've...got to win! So many people are counting on me and Yugi...
/Then we must win!/
//Aibou?//
/Like you said, many people are counting on us. So we can't let them down! Heart of the cards, remember?/
//Yes, I remember, Aibou. You're right, we have to keep going! No matter how bleak things seem, we have to keep going! The fate of the world is at stake!//
~To Be Continued...~
A/N: Another cliffy. I'm bad, aren't I? :p Well, I wanted to get this chapter out sooner, because it's been so long since I posted the last chapter. So, please review, and I'll try to get the next chapter out sooner! ^_^
