Chapter 19

As Joey joined the others on the sidelines, Yami Malik and Yami Bakura were allready on the dueling platform, preparing for action.

"Malik, before we begin, I want you to know more then your Egyptian God cards are on the line. When I win this match, your Rod will belong to me as well. I also wish to see the scriptures on your back. I've heared much about your upbrining when I spied on Ichizu and Joey. These scriptures may be of use, so when I win I will read them"said Yami Bakura.

"Very well Bakura, you shall get everything you've asked for if you win. You have nothing I want, so defeating you will only bring me one step closer to defeating Joey Wheeler"

"I've heared enough of your ranting for one day, let's just duel so I can get what I want"said Yami Bakura.

"As you wish Bakura"

"Duel!"

Yami Malik:4000 Yami Bakura:4000

"Well this should be interesting. A battle of body possesing freakazoids"said Joey.

"Only someone as incompitent as you would by into this whole hocus pocus nonsense Wheeler"said Kaiba.

"Just you wait Kaiba, just you wait until we duel"said Joey.

"Bakura, you make the first move"

"If that's what you wish Malik. I was hoping you would take the honor of first move, but I'll go anyway"

"Echange. Going for Orisis again would cost me the duel, so this time I'll go for Ra. Once i get him, Malik will have nothing to defeat me with"thought Yami Bakura.

"I'll place one card face down. Next I summon Terryfiying Goblin Zombie in defence"

It had an ATK of 1100 and DEF of 1050.

"C'mon Malik go on and attack my weak creature, then I'll have a suprise for you"thought Yami Bakura.

"I also place one card face down. Next I summon Labravo to the field, but in attack mode"

It had an ATK of 1600 and DEF of 1200.

"Destroy his useless Goblin!"

"You've activated my trap card Malik, a severe mistake!"

"Trap card!"

"Yes, it's called Fearful Earthbound. Every time you attack you'll lose 500 lifepoints, and I'll gain 500 lifepoints. Although not as effective as Dark Nepharioah's field, I think it'll do just fine!"

"Wow, maybe Bakura WILL win this"said Joey.

"Impressive, but I activate my facedown card as well, Remove Trap"

"No! You knew my plan then!"

"Not entirely but I wanted to be safe. So now my attack will hit, and you'll be the only one losing lifepoints!"

Yami Bakura:3500

"Ouch, guess you were right Yugi, Malik totaly flushed Bakura in that round"said Joey.

"I could care less who wins, I just want those Egyptian God monsters"thought Kaiba.

"This duel isn't over yet"said Yami Bakura drawing.

"I place 2 cards face down, then summon Girnia to defend my lifepoints. Take your turn Malik!"

It had an ATK of 1300 and DEF of 1200.

Yami Malik drew.

"Perfect"he thought.

"I play Card of Cancity. This makes both of us draw until our hand has exactly 6 cards in it, so draw!"

Yami Malik was disgusted.

"Where is Ra blast it!"he thought.

"Looks like your draw failed. My next move won't though"

He drew.

"Activate Chasm of Destruction. We both discard our entire hand and draw a new one. I loose 100 lifepoints for every card discarded, but it's a small price to pay"

Bakura:2900

"I wonder why he did that"thought Yami Malik.

"I'll place one card face down, and end my turn"

Yami Bakura drew.

"I summon Puppet Master!"

ATK and DEF 0000.

"Now, giving up 1000 lifepoints, I summon 3 monsters!Earl of Demise(ATK 2000)Headless knight(ATK 1450) and Clown Zombie(ATK 1350)

"I see, he plans to snatch Ra from me and sacrafice those monsters to summon it"

Yami Bakura:1900

"He's lost it! Look at him flush lifepoints like that!"gasped Joey.

"Well he certainly isn't afraid of his lifepoint status"said Kaiba.

"Now I activate Exchange!"

Yami Malik saw he had Ra in his hand now.

"Take it"said Yami Malik.

Yami Malik took Monster Reborn, and the 2 took their positions back at the arena.

"I'll win this in no time"thought Yami Bakura.

"I play a magic card, Vengeful Bog Spirit. This magic card prevents us from summoning a monster and attacking with it on the same turn. So any monster either of us summon has to wait a turn to attack!"

"So what, you're just prolongning your defeat. Now, I sacrafice my 3 monsters(Pupetere of course is excluded) to summon the Winged Dragon of Ra!"

"You've activated my face down card, terror strike! It will enfuse the 3 monsters you sacraficed into my lifepoints! In other words, their attack is added to my allready untouched lifepoints!"

"What!"

"His lifepoints are untouched as it is, with that card they'll raise even higher!"gasped Joey.

Yami Malik:8550

To make things worse, Ra has 0 attack points.

"Darn! Ra didn't get any power! Fine, I switch them both to defense mode"

"HA! Did you really think you could manage to control the power of Ra? Labravo, destroy his Puppet Master!"

"grr"

"You're finished!"

"Not yet! I sacrafice my Winged Dragon of Ra, to summon Dark Ruler Had des!"

IT had 2450 ATK and 1600 DEF.

"What good will that do?"

"That's not all, then I sacrafice 3 monsters from my graveyard to summon Dark Nepharioah"

Actual ATK 2200

"Then, I play Premature Burial. At the cost of 800 lifepoints, I bring back the Earl of Demise. That ends my turn since my monsters can't attack"

"Time to end this, I play Monster Reborn, to revive the Winged Dragon of Ra!"

"Idiot, it has 0 attack points, it's useless"

"That's where you're wrong. I activate Ra's Special Ability:One Turn Kill!"

"What is that!"gasped Yami Bakura.

"First, i give up all but 1 of my lifepoints"

Yami Malik:0001

"Talk about haning on by a thread"said Joey.

"If he's giving up that many lifepoints, this effect MUST be powerful"said Yugi.

"All the lifepoints I gave up go to Ra's attack power!"

"NO!"

"Oh yes, now it's ATK is over 8000 points! Attack!"

Yami Bakura:0000

"You lose boy. No card in your deck is worth deck space so keep your worthless deck for all i care"

"Man, I've seen Bakura lose, but he ust got slaughtered there"said Joey.

"This is bad, if Yami Malik could beat Bakura that easily, defeating him's gonna be tough"

"I'll worry about Yami Malik later. Right now Kaiba and I got a score to settle"thought Joey.

TBC ********************************************

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