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-Marik's POV-
I held my breath tight in my lungs, "Yugi must have sent the Pharaoh over to help little Mokuba. But . . .Mokuba isn't destined to hold the Millennium Puzzle, how can he control its power?"
My mind was fluttered with butterflies of confusion, 'This boy . . .could he actually win?'
I felt as though I was going to throw up, 'Only the Pharaoh can truly defeat me, but how can the mire brother of Seto Kaiba control the puzzle's power.'
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-Yami's POV-
My unity with Mokuba was as strong as when I duel with Yugi. I could feel Mokuba's heart racing with the rhythm of this battle, he was so anxious. /Mokuba, I can help you beat this imposter, trust me . . .like you did in Duelists Kingdom and I will not let you down./
He, unlike Yugi, seemed to feel strange at the fact that he had two minds, /You can talk to me?/
/Yes,/ My transparent hand wrapped around Mokuba's shoulder, /and I can also help you beat Marik. Now, you've done terrific so far in bringing out your brother's most prized card, the Blue Eyes White Dragon. But we still have a long way to go before he can be free of Marik's spell though . . .you must bring him back by reminding him of things of the past. You know him as better then anyone in this arena; you are the key to winning this match Mokuba./
/Let me take over./
/Ok./ I quickly went to my soul room, 'Good luck, Mokuba. The fate of the world rides on your shoulders.'
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-Mokuba's POV-
I returned to my normal state, "Seto . . ."
"I'm Marik, you fool." He hissed.
"You are Seto to me, now and forever," my voice trembled, but I mustered all of my courage. The sprit of the puzzle whispering to me in the back of my head, /have faith Mokuba, have faith. Trust your brother and yourself./
"Seto . . .what are you doing? Come on, this isn't like you."
Marik was furious; I could see smoke fusing out of his ears, "KAIBA ISN'T HERE!"
"YES HE IS! YOU MAY NOT BE ABLE TO SEE IT, BUT I CAN!" I pulled a card from my deck, "I place a card facedown and summon Kuriboh in attack mode. And Blue Eyes White Dragon, attack his life points directly!" Seto walked backwards a few steps, panting heavily.
"Ok, I play Lord of Dragons in attack mode and play Flute of the Summoning Dragon; come forth, my two Blue Eyes White Dragons! Attack-" he cut himself off.
"NO! I-I'M NOT DOING IT! GET OUT OF MY HEAD!" I recognized that voice!
"SETO!" His confused eyes met mine. A slight smirk/ smile crossed his face.
"MOKUBA!"
"SETO! YOU'VE GOTTA FIGHT IT!" Seto was in angst, and I knew it. There was a slight quiver in his voice, "I-."
Mine again, "Blue Eyes, attack Seto's Lord of Dragon!" His life points were down to 2900. I looked at the clock again, 12 minutes left till the anchor falls, "Seto, are you still in control?" Silence wiped the field clean. Seto's eyes went dark again.
"No, I'm back," he drew a card, and smirked, "HA! I've drawn the card that I needed to finish this duel! Prepare for your defeat little Mokuba!"
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-Marik's POV-
I gazed though Kaiba's eyes, "ah, the Fairy Meteor Crush. I snuck this card into Kaiba after I forced Téa into mind controlling Seto Kaiba. Speaking of Téa," I flashed the Millennium Rod; "I have no other use for her. I release her mind."
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-Téa's POV-
I blinked my eyes open, "What the? Mokuba and Kaiba?"
"Téa!" I looked around. Yugi and Joey were waving to me. I smiled, and tried to get up and run to them, but I was strapped in something.
"We're going to get you out of there! Just hang in there!" Yugi seemed more determined then usual. But then again, that was my Yugi. He worried about others more then himself, but the question was weary in my mind: if Yugi wasn't dueling, who was? I turned my attention to the battlefield, where I could see the long black hair that could only belong to Mokuba. But the other one, I knew who he was but I couldn't really believe who it was.
Seto Kaiba! Or at least I thought it was him, he looked exactly like him but without a trench coat (I know, I was werided out by it too when I first saw it) But he acted so NOT like Kaiba, though.
"Is that Mokuba and Kaiba dueling?" I called to Yugi.
"Well, that's Mokuba all right but-" now Joey jumped in.
"It's sorta Kaiba but . . .not Kaiba."
"He's being controlled my Marik!" I gasped, that guy who wants Yugi's Millennium Puzzle! Speaking of which, where is it? I moved the little inch that I could only to see the small chain, and it became clear to me: MOKUBA HAS IT! 'This is so weird,' I thought to me. I rested my neck on the back of the iron chair, 'I wish I knew more.'
Then I heard a splash of ice cool water on my back, "Wha!?" I turned around just as a crane behind me fell into the water.
"I gotcha Téa!" Joey seemed to leap from the sky next to me and unlocked my chair.
"Thank you!" I looked above me; a Kaiba Corp. helicopter soared overhead.
I smiled at it, as though it was a long lost friend, 'thank you.'
Yugi stood along side him; the three of us focused our attention on the Kaiba Brother's duel.
"Tis is one ting I hoped I never see . . .the Kaiba Brothers goin' at it." Joey felt the same way I did, but there was something odd about Kaiba.
Maybe, he wasn't Seto Kaiba after all.
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-Mokuba's POV-
I cringed, Marik had a plan to destroy me but with what? /This is bad/ Yami spoke though the link.
"MAKE YOUR MOVE!"
"Fine, but before I attack that Kuriboh that you have I play a magic card. Just Desserts! Which takes away 1000 of your life points, and I attack your Kuriboh with my Blue Eyes White Dragon!" I gasped, in one move my 4000 life points went down to merely 300 points.
"And your next move shall be your last!" the empty shell laughed evilly.
I gulped, 'Well, there's not much I can do now . . .I guess.' "I place a monster in defence mode." I said though gritted teeth. 'I'm sorry, big brother I failed you.'
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-Marik's POV-
I felt like running around the room screaming, "YES! YES!" I felt a sudden tug on my Millennium Rod, "Kaiba, quit resisting you fool! I have this duel almost won!" But Kaiba's will was too strong, even my toughest magic could control his soul still, 'Kaiba's going to destroy any hopes of me winning this duel if he keeps on resisting.'
"All right, play the Fairy Meteor Crush and I will let go of your feeble little mind, Seto Kaiba. Just one more move for me, hm?" Surprisingly, he cooperated with my request and played the card. My Millennium Rod lit the sky, and Seto Kaiba was a free man once again.
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-Seto's POV-
Everything looked so fuzzy to my eye; I could only see the blue and small black dots around me. After a minute or so, I was able to focus like usual but what I saw both surprised and confused me.
"Mokuba . . ." he was across this pier from where I was standing, 'Did I fall asleep in the middle of a duel . . .or what?' Mokuba looked as though he hadn't seen me in years.
"SETO! YOU'RE BACK!"
"What do you mean, 'I'm Back'? Haven't I been 'back?" The sarcasm in my voice surprised even myself. I had NEVER acted this way to Mokuba, not in all my life. I vowed not to, even though I had never told Mokuba so.
He sighed and looked sadly down at the pier, "Seto, this weird guy . . .Marik, was somehow . . .I don't know, controlled your mind and used you to do his bidding."
As much as I did trust Mokuba, it really sounded like that was something that Yugi rammed into his head. But there was also another part of me that said, 'Maybe Yugi is right, Kaiba. Maybe you were being controlled.' Frankly, I have never fallen asleep in the middle of a duel, especially one where I'm tied to an anchor.
I looked at Mokuba's side of the field, well if I was sleeping . . .and dueling him . . .he was doing not great, but for some odd reason he had a Blue Eyes White Dragon on his side of the field. And . . . as did I.
But one card I had placed on the field, Fairy Meteor Crush, was unfamiliar to me, 'How did that get in my deck?'
"Seto! We have a time limit here; if the time goes out, both of us get dragged under the sea but . . .if one of us wins, then one of us gets out alive!" he explained to me the rules of the game that we were playing. I bit my lip till it bled warm blood.
"Seto," he said surprisingly coolly, "if one of us is getting out of here alive, it's going to be you."
My heart leapt 5 yards, 'I must be dreaming . . .' Loosing Mokuba was MY nightmare, but . . .I never woke up. This was my nightmare . . .come to life.
Mokuba flexed his arms wide open, "So . . .Fairy Meteor Crush . . .ATTACK ME DIRECTLY!" a flood of light aimed at Mokuba. I wanted to yell to him, but my voice box would respond. My face was tingling with sweat; Mokuba fell in a forward motion towards me.
"S-Seto . . .t-the key box will open in front of you . . .save yourself." He pulled off the duel disk. (where did Mokuba get a duel disk from?)
CLICK! Sure enough, the key box opened revealing a . . .what do you know? A KEY!
"G-Go . . .on . . .please . . ." I looked around franticly, 'There must be some way to save him? Wait!' I remembered reading in 'Duel Monsters Weekly' that Fairy Meteor Crush as another effect: that if the other player has a monster on the field, that it attacks you directly. I did a classic smirk; Mokuba wasn't going to die after all.
"BLUE EYES WHITE DRAGON, ATTACK ME DIRECTLY!" My faithful dragon looked at me then let out a powerful blast. I felt the bizarre (and rare) feeling of happiness; I felt a bit winded afterwards though. CLICK! Mokuba's key appeared.
The chain was cutting into my foot as I ran to free my younger brother from his binds. But I only got so far, the thirty seconds or so that I had to free myself had ran out as soon as I had grabbed Mokuba's key.
My body was instantly flung into the air by the ankle, "KAIBA! GRAB!" I glared in front of me; Joey Wheeler was running towards me with an outstretched hand.
"Even on death row, mutt. I'm NOT asking for your help!" And with that, I fell into the blue ocean. My body began to sink lower and lower into the water. I closed my eyes and felt as though I would fall asleep, but I couldn't because . . .
I knew that I was destined to die.
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-Marik's POV-
I held my breath tight in my lungs, "Yugi must have sent the Pharaoh over to help little Mokuba. But . . .Mokuba isn't destined to hold the Millennium Puzzle, how can he control its power?"
My mind was fluttered with butterflies of confusion, 'This boy . . .could he actually win?'
I felt as though I was going to throw up, 'Only the Pharaoh can truly defeat me, but how can the mire brother of Seto Kaiba control the puzzle's power.'
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-Yami's POV-
My unity with Mokuba was as strong as when I duel with Yugi. I could feel Mokuba's heart racing with the rhythm of this battle, he was so anxious. /Mokuba, I can help you beat this imposter, trust me . . .like you did in Duelists Kingdom and I will not let you down./
He, unlike Yugi, seemed to feel strange at the fact that he had two minds, /You can talk to me?/
/Yes,/ My transparent hand wrapped around Mokuba's shoulder, /and I can also help you beat Marik. Now, you've done terrific so far in bringing out your brother's most prized card, the Blue Eyes White Dragon. But we still have a long way to go before he can be free of Marik's spell though . . .you must bring him back by reminding him of things of the past. You know him as better then anyone in this arena; you are the key to winning this match Mokuba./
/Let me take over./
/Ok./ I quickly went to my soul room, 'Good luck, Mokuba. The fate of the world rides on your shoulders.'
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-Mokuba's POV-
I returned to my normal state, "Seto . . ."
"I'm Marik, you fool." He hissed.
"You are Seto to me, now and forever," my voice trembled, but I mustered all of my courage. The sprit of the puzzle whispering to me in the back of my head, /have faith Mokuba, have faith. Trust your brother and yourself./
"Seto . . .what are you doing? Come on, this isn't like you."
Marik was furious; I could see smoke fusing out of his ears, "KAIBA ISN'T HERE!"
"YES HE IS! YOU MAY NOT BE ABLE TO SEE IT, BUT I CAN!" I pulled a card from my deck, "I place a card facedown and summon Kuriboh in attack mode. And Blue Eyes White Dragon, attack his life points directly!" Seto walked backwards a few steps, panting heavily.
"Ok, I play Lord of Dragons in attack mode and play Flute of the Summoning Dragon; come forth, my two Blue Eyes White Dragons! Attack-" he cut himself off.
"NO! I-I'M NOT DOING IT! GET OUT OF MY HEAD!" I recognized that voice!
"SETO!" His confused eyes met mine. A slight smirk/ smile crossed his face.
"MOKUBA!"
"SETO! YOU'VE GOTTA FIGHT IT!" Seto was in angst, and I knew it. There was a slight quiver in his voice, "I-."
Mine again, "Blue Eyes, attack Seto's Lord of Dragon!" His life points were down to 2900. I looked at the clock again, 12 minutes left till the anchor falls, "Seto, are you still in control?" Silence wiped the field clean. Seto's eyes went dark again.
"No, I'm back," he drew a card, and smirked, "HA! I've drawn the card that I needed to finish this duel! Prepare for your defeat little Mokuba!"
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-Marik's POV-
I gazed though Kaiba's eyes, "ah, the Fairy Meteor Crush. I snuck this card into Kaiba after I forced Téa into mind controlling Seto Kaiba. Speaking of Téa," I flashed the Millennium Rod; "I have no other use for her. I release her mind."
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-Téa's POV-
I blinked my eyes open, "What the? Mokuba and Kaiba?"
"Téa!" I looked around. Yugi and Joey were waving to me. I smiled, and tried to get up and run to them, but I was strapped in something.
"We're going to get you out of there! Just hang in there!" Yugi seemed more determined then usual. But then again, that was my Yugi. He worried about others more then himself, but the question was weary in my mind: if Yugi wasn't dueling, who was? I turned my attention to the battlefield, where I could see the long black hair that could only belong to Mokuba. But the other one, I knew who he was but I couldn't really believe who it was.
Seto Kaiba! Or at least I thought it was him, he looked exactly like him but without a trench coat (I know, I was werided out by it too when I first saw it) But he acted so NOT like Kaiba, though.
"Is that Mokuba and Kaiba dueling?" I called to Yugi.
"Well, that's Mokuba all right but-" now Joey jumped in.
"It's sorta Kaiba but . . .not Kaiba."
"He's being controlled my Marik!" I gasped, that guy who wants Yugi's Millennium Puzzle! Speaking of which, where is it? I moved the little inch that I could only to see the small chain, and it became clear to me: MOKUBA HAS IT! 'This is so weird,' I thought to me. I rested my neck on the back of the iron chair, 'I wish I knew more.'
Then I heard a splash of ice cool water on my back, "Wha!?" I turned around just as a crane behind me fell into the water.
"I gotcha Téa!" Joey seemed to leap from the sky next to me and unlocked my chair.
"Thank you!" I looked above me; a Kaiba Corp. helicopter soared overhead.
I smiled at it, as though it was a long lost friend, 'thank you.'
Yugi stood along side him; the three of us focused our attention on the Kaiba Brother's duel.
"Tis is one ting I hoped I never see . . .the Kaiba Brothers goin' at it." Joey felt the same way I did, but there was something odd about Kaiba.
Maybe, he wasn't Seto Kaiba after all.
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-Mokuba's POV-
I cringed, Marik had a plan to destroy me but with what? /This is bad/ Yami spoke though the link.
"MAKE YOUR MOVE!"
"Fine, but before I attack that Kuriboh that you have I play a magic card. Just Desserts! Which takes away 1000 of your life points, and I attack your Kuriboh with my Blue Eyes White Dragon!" I gasped, in one move my 4000 life points went down to merely 300 points.
"And your next move shall be your last!" the empty shell laughed evilly.
I gulped, 'Well, there's not much I can do now . . .I guess.' "I place a monster in defence mode." I said though gritted teeth. 'I'm sorry, big brother I failed you.'
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-Marik's POV-
I felt like running around the room screaming, "YES! YES!" I felt a sudden tug on my Millennium Rod, "Kaiba, quit resisting you fool! I have this duel almost won!" But Kaiba's will was too strong, even my toughest magic could control his soul still, 'Kaiba's going to destroy any hopes of me winning this duel if he keeps on resisting.'
"All right, play the Fairy Meteor Crush and I will let go of your feeble little mind, Seto Kaiba. Just one more move for me, hm?" Surprisingly, he cooperated with my request and played the card. My Millennium Rod lit the sky, and Seto Kaiba was a free man once again.
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-Seto's POV-
Everything looked so fuzzy to my eye; I could only see the blue and small black dots around me. After a minute or so, I was able to focus like usual but what I saw both surprised and confused me.
"Mokuba . . ." he was across this pier from where I was standing, 'Did I fall asleep in the middle of a duel . . .or what?' Mokuba looked as though he hadn't seen me in years.
"SETO! YOU'RE BACK!"
"What do you mean, 'I'm Back'? Haven't I been 'back?" The sarcasm in my voice surprised even myself. I had NEVER acted this way to Mokuba, not in all my life. I vowed not to, even though I had never told Mokuba so.
He sighed and looked sadly down at the pier, "Seto, this weird guy . . .Marik, was somehow . . .I don't know, controlled your mind and used you to do his bidding."
As much as I did trust Mokuba, it really sounded like that was something that Yugi rammed into his head. But there was also another part of me that said, 'Maybe Yugi is right, Kaiba. Maybe you were being controlled.' Frankly, I have never fallen asleep in the middle of a duel, especially one where I'm tied to an anchor.
I looked at Mokuba's side of the field, well if I was sleeping . . .and dueling him . . .he was doing not great, but for some odd reason he had a Blue Eyes White Dragon on his side of the field. And . . . as did I.
But one card I had placed on the field, Fairy Meteor Crush, was unfamiliar to me, 'How did that get in my deck?'
"Seto! We have a time limit here; if the time goes out, both of us get dragged under the sea but . . .if one of us wins, then one of us gets out alive!" he explained to me the rules of the game that we were playing. I bit my lip till it bled warm blood.
"Seto," he said surprisingly coolly, "if one of us is getting out of here alive, it's going to be you."
My heart leapt 5 yards, 'I must be dreaming . . .' Loosing Mokuba was MY nightmare, but . . .I never woke up. This was my nightmare . . .come to life.
Mokuba flexed his arms wide open, "So . . .Fairy Meteor Crush . . .ATTACK ME DIRECTLY!" a flood of light aimed at Mokuba. I wanted to yell to him, but my voice box would respond. My face was tingling with sweat; Mokuba fell in a forward motion towards me.
"S-Seto . . .t-the key box will open in front of you . . .save yourself." He pulled off the duel disk. (where did Mokuba get a duel disk from?)
CLICK! Sure enough, the key box opened revealing a . . .what do you know? A KEY!
"G-Go . . .on . . .please . . ." I looked around franticly, 'There must be some way to save him? Wait!' I remembered reading in 'Duel Monsters Weekly' that Fairy Meteor Crush as another effect: that if the other player has a monster on the field, that it attacks you directly. I did a classic smirk; Mokuba wasn't going to die after all.
"BLUE EYES WHITE DRAGON, ATTACK ME DIRECTLY!" My faithful dragon looked at me then let out a powerful blast. I felt the bizarre (and rare) feeling of happiness; I felt a bit winded afterwards though. CLICK! Mokuba's key appeared.
The chain was cutting into my foot as I ran to free my younger brother from his binds. But I only got so far, the thirty seconds or so that I had to free myself had ran out as soon as I had grabbed Mokuba's key.
My body was instantly flung into the air by the ankle, "KAIBA! GRAB!" I glared in front of me; Joey Wheeler was running towards me with an outstretched hand.
"Even on death row, mutt. I'm NOT asking for your help!" And with that, I fell into the blue ocean. My body began to sink lower and lower into the water. I closed my eyes and felt as though I would fall asleep, but I couldn't because . . .
I knew that I was destined to die.
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