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Chapter #18: Final Showdown
*~*~*In the Dungeon-Reader's POV*~*~*
"Big Brother? Oh please wake up! Wake up!" Mokuba shook Seto's body gently as he kneeled down beside him.
After Dieen had left, the group made a clearing and placed Seto's body down. He was still alive, Teresa said, he had a strong pulse, but he wasn't breathing. She then got a sheet of paper that she found in her purse and began to fan it in front of his face.
"Will he make it?" Mokuba asked with the tears welling up in his eyes.
"I don't know." Teresa answered. Suddenly, as she continued to fan his face, his chest began to go up and down.
"Look! He's breathing! I think he's waking up!" Téa let out a sigh of relief.
"He's waking up? You sure that that's a good thing?" Joey muttered silently.
Kaiba's eyes fluttered and finally opened to see Joey, Tristan, Téa, Mokuba, Yugi's grandfather, and someone who he guessed to be Elaya's mom kneeling around him. [Where am I?] He thought.
"Big Brother!" Mokuba exclaimed as he hugged him.
"Mokuba, are you alright?" He asked, sitting up slowly.
"I'm okay."
"Uh, Kaiba?" Joey asked slowly.
"What is it Wheeler?" he asked. [Great.] he thought. [I'm stuck in a cage with that idiot.]
"Here." Joey gave him his deck. Kaiba was shocked to find that it was ruined AND that one of his Blue Eyes was missing.
"What did you do?" He asked angrily.
"Seto, no!" Mokuba said, holding him back. "Joey didn't do anything; it was Dieen who did it! She took one of your Blue Eyes for keeps!" Kaiba didn't respond to that. He took his deck and stared at it. [Good thing that this is only virtual. My real deck is fine. This just means that I can't use it to summon anything.]
"She took my duel disk too, right?"
"Yeah" Mokuba nodded. "How did you get here?"
Kaiba explained to all of them that Dieen was going to show him where Mokuba was, but instead she lead him astray from the others, wrapped him up in her tentacles and made him fall unconscious. Tristan said that it wasn't a smart move to trust the enemy no matter what plan you have. Kaiba then said that his plan was to wait until she showed him where the others were, and then spring a monster or a magic card on her to save his brother.
"That's almost what I did the last time we were here." Mokuba said. He also got captured on purpose and when he was in that room with his brother pretending to be knocked out, and then he summoned a monster to destroy the Witty Phantom that was holding them prisoner. Only difference was that his plan worked.
"What do we do now?" Teresa asked.
"We wait for Yugi and Elaya, that's what we do." Kaiba replied.
*~*~*In the Darkness-Reader's POV*~*~*
"I think that we are officially lost." Elaya declared.
"Don't give up hope just yet. I'm sure that the others are around here somewhere." Yami said. They continued their walk in the darkness in silence, when, once again, Dieen paid them a little visit.
"Bad thing about Vortexes is that you don't know where you'll end up." She said with a grin.
"What did you do to Kaiba?!" Yami asked.
Ignoring his question, she continued. "Bad thing about this Vortex is that I decide where you'll end up."
"Dieen---" Yami started
"And I decide that you'll come with me." The two remaining teens looked down and noticed that they where dissolving into the darkness. Soon after, they found themselves in a dark blue corridor, with no way to go but straight ahead. Elaya's Pixies were no longer with them, and lucky for her, they were in defence mode. She thought that she saw an Earl of Demise (2000/700) come out and attack them just before Yami and her got transported.
The two teens walked up slowly. Suddenly, they both heard loud, pounding, footsteps coming towards them.
"What could that be?" Elaya asked.
"Most likely another one of Dieen's tricks!" Yami answered. Then, out of no where, two Beasts of Talwar (2400/2150) appeared in front of them.
"You cannot pass." They both said. "You must be destroyed." Just as one of them was about to slash Yami, Elaya cried out, "I summon Summoned Skull! (2500/1200) Now quick, attack before they double up on you!" The Skull let loose an all powerful lightning attack that destroyed one of the Beasts.
"Now, I summon, Dark Magician! Attack with Dark Magic Attack!" Yami called as the final Beast was destroyed.
"Thank you, Elaya."
"No prob." She answered.
"I've never seen a card like that." Yami said slowly.
"It's pretty rare-but I have it." Elaya said.
"Really?"
"Yeah. It's a good card." Yami nodded and they continued, cautiously, on their way.
They began to walk up the pathway and soon they heard voices, they sounded very familiar. It was their friends and family. They ran the rest of the way and finally arrived at the dungeon where the others were.
"Yug!" Joey exclaimed. "You're here!"
"Joey! Tristan! Téa! Grandpa! Mokuba! Kaiba!" Yugi cried. He and Yami had switched when they got transported. "Are you guys alright?"
"We're fine now that you guys are here!" Téa said, as all seven of them ran to the front.
"Mom! Guys!" Elaya said loudly. "Oh honey, I'm so glad you're alright!"
"Hate to break the reunion, but we're still in the Nightmare Cage. Yugi, my deck is unusable, so, do you mind getting us out?" Kaiba asked.
"Well, if Nightmare Cage is a Magic Card.." he started.
"Then, I'll use my own Dust Tornado!" Elaya said as she drew the card. "Since it destroys Magic Cards, I'll make it destroy the Cage!" The Cage broke apart in a million pieces, and they were finally free. After some hugs and thanks, Teresa asked the group. "Now, how do we get out of here?"
"By duelling me. And I have finally chosen my opponent." Dieen called from in front of them. Suddenly, the walls of the dungeon broke apart and revealed a darker blue open space. There, standing on a large rectangular platform, stood Dieen, in her past-life human form. She still had black hair, but it wasn't wispy anymore. It was straight and thick. Her eyes were blood red, but they had some life in them. She had dark tan skin, and was wearing an off white dress-the one she wore the day she got taken away-with a jewelled collar. She also wore a smile.
"Justika? I have chosen you to duel. Like old times, no?" In a flash, Elaya became Justi but she didn't know what to say. She slowly walked towards her sister.
"No, Justi!" Yami shouted from behind her. "Dieen, if it's my Puzzle you want, you better duel me for it."
"Why duel you and risk losing it than probably winning a duel and sending you all to the Shadows?" she asked. "And let me remind you, if you forfeit or choose not to accept, you'll never escape this virtual realm. Until you duel me, you may have that one chance to escape. Are you ready my sister?"
The group fell silent. Dieen had clearly made up her mind. She wanted an easy duel. Kaiba was about to suggest that she should duel him instead, but then he remembered that he had no deck, or a disk to play cards on. Only Yugi and Elaya had the disks.
Justi finally understood. That creature really was her sister. When Yami's father sent her to the Shadows, part of her soul-a part that was good-got sent along with all the other evils that invaded her sister's body and mind. That one part was being held captive inside the evils. She wished that she could free that part before anyone got hurt.
"I am." Justi answered.
"Elaya?" a voice said from behind her. It was Joey. "This is a real important duel, so here. Take my Flame Swordsman. He's my favourite card and he's gotten me out of a few jams before." The memory of his second trip to the Virtual World, when the Big Five came back during Battle City, flooded his mind. The Swordsman had been his chief card during one of the Big Five's duels.
Justi took the card out of his hand. "Thank you Joseph." That's when she noticed Yugi-Yami and him had switched again-holding out his Dark Magician.
"Joey's right..you have a lot riding on this duel. I've had similar duels and my Dark Magician had always come out to help me." Yugi remembered his duels at Duellist Kingdom, with Duke Devlin, and with Kaiba at Battle City. "Put your faith and heart in your deck, and it will reward you."
"I've always have." Justi responded.
"Good luck." Téa and Mokuba said. "We're behind you 100%!"
"You can do this Elaya. Just believe." Yugi's grandfather said.
Kaiba stood motionless. "This was the only card spared." He handed her the magic card 'Monster Reborn.' Justi nodded in thanks. She realized that Elaya's mother was crying. She didn't know what to say. She didn't know if Elaya would get hurt, or if the game will played fairly. Justi nodded her head and walked up to the platform.
"Surprised that you showed." Dieen said. It was then that she turned back into her new state. Grey skin, wispy hair and a dress with no ends. "Let me give you the 'rules': We will be duelling my way. What are your life points at right now?"
"3850."
"And that will be your life points for the game."
"That's not fair at all. She gets a 150 LP lead!" Mokuba cried from the side lines.
"As I was saying, we'll duel my way. You'll be allowed to summon monsters that have an attack lower than 2000 without tributing. Anything higher will require one monster for every 250 ATK points higher. For example, if one of your monsters has an attack of 2500, you'll need to tribute two monsters. Anything in between you'll round it up. Therefore, monsters with ATK points between 2000-2250 will require one tribute, 2300-2500 will require 2 tributes, 2550-2750 will require three tributes and 2800+ will need four tributes. Understand?"
"Yes, of course. We used to play it like that before so I could understand." Justi said. That way the way them two used to play it. Instead of looking at the level, they would make up their own type of tributing, by ATK points.
"Very good. Are you sure that you're ready?" Justi looked back to her friends, she was doing this to help them, and Elaya, get out of here. Even if it meant hurting herself. // Justi? //
\\ Yes, Elaya? \\
// I want to switch. You need to stay in spirit form to protect my friends and family. //
\\ But..Elaya, are you sure?? Dieen may be to powerful..or bring harm to you \\
// I'm positive. I can take it. If any pain comes to my friends, I want you to cure it for them and bring it to me. Okay? //
\\ Elaya, I-- \\ Before Justi could finish, Elaya forced herself to switch.
// Justi, just do that for me, please? //
\\ Alright..as you wish. \\
"Yes. Let's duel!"
Dieen's LP: 4000
Elaya's LP: 3850
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Chapter #18: Final Showdown
*~*~*In the Dungeon-Reader's POV*~*~*
"Big Brother? Oh please wake up! Wake up!" Mokuba shook Seto's body gently as he kneeled down beside him.
After Dieen had left, the group made a clearing and placed Seto's body down. He was still alive, Teresa said, he had a strong pulse, but he wasn't breathing. She then got a sheet of paper that she found in her purse and began to fan it in front of his face.
"Will he make it?" Mokuba asked with the tears welling up in his eyes.
"I don't know." Teresa answered. Suddenly, as she continued to fan his face, his chest began to go up and down.
"Look! He's breathing! I think he's waking up!" Téa let out a sigh of relief.
"He's waking up? You sure that that's a good thing?" Joey muttered silently.
Kaiba's eyes fluttered and finally opened to see Joey, Tristan, Téa, Mokuba, Yugi's grandfather, and someone who he guessed to be Elaya's mom kneeling around him. [Where am I?] He thought.
"Big Brother!" Mokuba exclaimed as he hugged him.
"Mokuba, are you alright?" He asked, sitting up slowly.
"I'm okay."
"Uh, Kaiba?" Joey asked slowly.
"What is it Wheeler?" he asked. [Great.] he thought. [I'm stuck in a cage with that idiot.]
"Here." Joey gave him his deck. Kaiba was shocked to find that it was ruined AND that one of his Blue Eyes was missing.
"What did you do?" He asked angrily.
"Seto, no!" Mokuba said, holding him back. "Joey didn't do anything; it was Dieen who did it! She took one of your Blue Eyes for keeps!" Kaiba didn't respond to that. He took his deck and stared at it. [Good thing that this is only virtual. My real deck is fine. This just means that I can't use it to summon anything.]
"She took my duel disk too, right?"
"Yeah" Mokuba nodded. "How did you get here?"
Kaiba explained to all of them that Dieen was going to show him where Mokuba was, but instead she lead him astray from the others, wrapped him up in her tentacles and made him fall unconscious. Tristan said that it wasn't a smart move to trust the enemy no matter what plan you have. Kaiba then said that his plan was to wait until she showed him where the others were, and then spring a monster or a magic card on her to save his brother.
"That's almost what I did the last time we were here." Mokuba said. He also got captured on purpose and when he was in that room with his brother pretending to be knocked out, and then he summoned a monster to destroy the Witty Phantom that was holding them prisoner. Only difference was that his plan worked.
"What do we do now?" Teresa asked.
"We wait for Yugi and Elaya, that's what we do." Kaiba replied.
*~*~*In the Darkness-Reader's POV*~*~*
"I think that we are officially lost." Elaya declared.
"Don't give up hope just yet. I'm sure that the others are around here somewhere." Yami said. They continued their walk in the darkness in silence, when, once again, Dieen paid them a little visit.
"Bad thing about Vortexes is that you don't know where you'll end up." She said with a grin.
"What did you do to Kaiba?!" Yami asked.
Ignoring his question, she continued. "Bad thing about this Vortex is that I decide where you'll end up."
"Dieen---" Yami started
"And I decide that you'll come with me." The two remaining teens looked down and noticed that they where dissolving into the darkness. Soon after, they found themselves in a dark blue corridor, with no way to go but straight ahead. Elaya's Pixies were no longer with them, and lucky for her, they were in defence mode. She thought that she saw an Earl of Demise (2000/700) come out and attack them just before Yami and her got transported.
The two teens walked up slowly. Suddenly, they both heard loud, pounding, footsteps coming towards them.
"What could that be?" Elaya asked.
"Most likely another one of Dieen's tricks!" Yami answered. Then, out of no where, two Beasts of Talwar (2400/2150) appeared in front of them.
"You cannot pass." They both said. "You must be destroyed." Just as one of them was about to slash Yami, Elaya cried out, "I summon Summoned Skull! (2500/1200) Now quick, attack before they double up on you!" The Skull let loose an all powerful lightning attack that destroyed one of the Beasts.
"Now, I summon, Dark Magician! Attack with Dark Magic Attack!" Yami called as the final Beast was destroyed.
"Thank you, Elaya."
"No prob." She answered.
"I've never seen a card like that." Yami said slowly.
"It's pretty rare-but I have it." Elaya said.
"Really?"
"Yeah. It's a good card." Yami nodded and they continued, cautiously, on their way.
They began to walk up the pathway and soon they heard voices, they sounded very familiar. It was their friends and family. They ran the rest of the way and finally arrived at the dungeon where the others were.
"Yug!" Joey exclaimed. "You're here!"
"Joey! Tristan! Téa! Grandpa! Mokuba! Kaiba!" Yugi cried. He and Yami had switched when they got transported. "Are you guys alright?"
"We're fine now that you guys are here!" Téa said, as all seven of them ran to the front.
"Mom! Guys!" Elaya said loudly. "Oh honey, I'm so glad you're alright!"
"Hate to break the reunion, but we're still in the Nightmare Cage. Yugi, my deck is unusable, so, do you mind getting us out?" Kaiba asked.
"Well, if Nightmare Cage is a Magic Card.." he started.
"Then, I'll use my own Dust Tornado!" Elaya said as she drew the card. "Since it destroys Magic Cards, I'll make it destroy the Cage!" The Cage broke apart in a million pieces, and they were finally free. After some hugs and thanks, Teresa asked the group. "Now, how do we get out of here?"
"By duelling me. And I have finally chosen my opponent." Dieen called from in front of them. Suddenly, the walls of the dungeon broke apart and revealed a darker blue open space. There, standing on a large rectangular platform, stood Dieen, in her past-life human form. She still had black hair, but it wasn't wispy anymore. It was straight and thick. Her eyes were blood red, but they had some life in them. She had dark tan skin, and was wearing an off white dress-the one she wore the day she got taken away-with a jewelled collar. She also wore a smile.
"Justika? I have chosen you to duel. Like old times, no?" In a flash, Elaya became Justi but she didn't know what to say. She slowly walked towards her sister.
"No, Justi!" Yami shouted from behind her. "Dieen, if it's my Puzzle you want, you better duel me for it."
"Why duel you and risk losing it than probably winning a duel and sending you all to the Shadows?" she asked. "And let me remind you, if you forfeit or choose not to accept, you'll never escape this virtual realm. Until you duel me, you may have that one chance to escape. Are you ready my sister?"
The group fell silent. Dieen had clearly made up her mind. She wanted an easy duel. Kaiba was about to suggest that she should duel him instead, but then he remembered that he had no deck, or a disk to play cards on. Only Yugi and Elaya had the disks.
Justi finally understood. That creature really was her sister. When Yami's father sent her to the Shadows, part of her soul-a part that was good-got sent along with all the other evils that invaded her sister's body and mind. That one part was being held captive inside the evils. She wished that she could free that part before anyone got hurt.
"I am." Justi answered.
"Elaya?" a voice said from behind her. It was Joey. "This is a real important duel, so here. Take my Flame Swordsman. He's my favourite card and he's gotten me out of a few jams before." The memory of his second trip to the Virtual World, when the Big Five came back during Battle City, flooded his mind. The Swordsman had been his chief card during one of the Big Five's duels.
Justi took the card out of his hand. "Thank you Joseph." That's when she noticed Yugi-Yami and him had switched again-holding out his Dark Magician.
"Joey's right..you have a lot riding on this duel. I've had similar duels and my Dark Magician had always come out to help me." Yugi remembered his duels at Duellist Kingdom, with Duke Devlin, and with Kaiba at Battle City. "Put your faith and heart in your deck, and it will reward you."
"I've always have." Justi responded.
"Good luck." Téa and Mokuba said. "We're behind you 100%!"
"You can do this Elaya. Just believe." Yugi's grandfather said.
Kaiba stood motionless. "This was the only card spared." He handed her the magic card 'Monster Reborn.' Justi nodded in thanks. She realized that Elaya's mother was crying. She didn't know what to say. She didn't know if Elaya would get hurt, or if the game will played fairly. Justi nodded her head and walked up to the platform.
"Surprised that you showed." Dieen said. It was then that she turned back into her new state. Grey skin, wispy hair and a dress with no ends. "Let me give you the 'rules': We will be duelling my way. What are your life points at right now?"
"3850."
"And that will be your life points for the game."
"That's not fair at all. She gets a 150 LP lead!" Mokuba cried from the side lines.
"As I was saying, we'll duel my way. You'll be allowed to summon monsters that have an attack lower than 2000 without tributing. Anything higher will require one monster for every 250 ATK points higher. For example, if one of your monsters has an attack of 2500, you'll need to tribute two monsters. Anything in between you'll round it up. Therefore, monsters with ATK points between 2000-2250 will require one tribute, 2300-2500 will require 2 tributes, 2550-2750 will require three tributes and 2800+ will need four tributes. Understand?"
"Yes, of course. We used to play it like that before so I could understand." Justi said. That way the way them two used to play it. Instead of looking at the level, they would make up their own type of tributing, by ATK points.
"Very good. Are you sure that you're ready?" Justi looked back to her friends, she was doing this to help them, and Elaya, get out of here. Even if it meant hurting herself. // Justi? //
\\ Yes, Elaya? \\
// I want to switch. You need to stay in spirit form to protect my friends and family. //
\\ But..Elaya, are you sure?? Dieen may be to powerful..or bring harm to you \\
// I'm positive. I can take it. If any pain comes to my friends, I want you to cure it for them and bring it to me. Okay? //
\\ Elaya, I-- \\ Before Justi could finish, Elaya forced herself to switch.
// Justi, just do that for me, please? //
\\ Alright..as you wish. \\
"Yes. Let's duel!"
Dieen's LP: 4000
Elaya's LP: 3850
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