"Don't worry, your sacrifice won't be in vain. Now, your demise will begin by the next card I draw!"
Kaiba drew a card and grinned widely. He placed two cards face down on the magic/trap field and played a card in attack mode. It was another Harpie Lady.
"Now. Can you guess what I'm about to do? Oh, that's right, you can't. I play one magic card as well. Elegant Egotist and summon my Harpie Lady Sister. But that's not it. I play this next card as well. Raigeki. Say bye bye to that summoned skull or yours."
Kaiba gave a little wave.
"Now my monsters are free to attack whichever one of you I wish. Hrm...who should it be?? I say you Tragedy!! Harpies, attack her directly!!" Shouted Kaiba.
"Nooooooo!!!" Tragedy covered her face as the two Harpie Ladies and the Harpie Lady Sisters attacked Tragedy's life points directly. It blew a good chunk of them away and her life points went down to 1950.
"How...how dare you do this to me? This is impossible! You will pay for this! But all I can do now is put these two cards face down and my turn is over."
One card appeared on the monster field and one on the magic/trap side. Kaiba looked at her and the millennium eye allowed him to look at the cards. His face grew a little harder. It was Dian Keto the Cure Master and Needle Ball. Kaiba looked at John and nodded slightly.
"I hope you have a plan up your sleeve after Comedy goes"
"Don't worry, I do."
"Good. Because I want to finish this quickly."
Comedy looked over to his partner Tragedy and saw that her Life Points were reduced to almost nothing due to Kaiba's attack. They couldn't lose to these two! They had strict orders to take the Machine Deck, Millennium Item and the Egyptian God Cards! If they failed it would mean a fate that was far worse than death. Gulping, Comedy reached down and drew a card from his deck, praying that he could pull this off.
Sighing deeply he opened his eyes as he looked at the card. "Yes! Prepare to meet your destruction!" he grins as he plays a card. "I play one monster face down on the field and I play one magic card face-down as well."
John raised a brow since he didn't like the expression on his face. That facedown monster had him worried. Especially since he had that Chorus of Sanctuary on the field zone. Could be an overly defensive monster. Shaking his head to get the thought away, John reached into his deck and pulled out one card that he hoped was going to be helpful. Sighing deep he opened his eyes at the card.
Looking up to Comedy he grinned as he played one magic card on the field. "I play...Change of Heart! Comedy, I take your face-down monster and put it on my side of the field." he place the card facedown and smiled. "But that's not it. Next I will offer your monster as tribute and summon my favorite monster, JINZO!"
As he placed the card facedown, the human monster dressed in robes and metallic armor rose up from the field. The scary looking monster raised its hand as its eyes began to glow. Shoot the beam forward, it struck Comedy's face-down card with was its DNA surgery, rendering it unusable.
"My Jinzo's special effect is that all Trap Cards become nulled on the field. And while me and Kaiba can't play any, neither can you two! And I see that no monsters are defending you're Life Points Comedy." he grinned as he played another card face-up on the field.
"Wa-wait! What're you doing?!" Comedy shouted as he looked at his empty field.
"You're weak but you think you're strong Comedy. So I'm going to knock you down a peg or two so you join your girlfriend Tragedy. I equip Jinzo with 7 Completed, raising his attack points from 2400 to 3100. Now, Jinzo! Twin-Headed Fire Dragon!! Attack Comedy's Life Points directly!!" he yelled and pointed at them.
"NOOO!!! Tragedy! Defend me!!" Comedy said as he looked over to her with a pleading voice.
Tragedy only looked over at him for a second before turning back to Kaiba. "Sorry. But I can't risk my life points being exposed. You're on your own."
Jinzo held its arms to its side, forming a large ball of black, surging energy while the Twin-Headed Fire Dragon pulled both its heads back, breathing in deep. Smoke appeared from its mouth as it suddenly lunged forward at the same time that Jinzo did, sending the pair of attacks at Comedy. The black pulsing energy of Jinzo's attack swirled around the flame attack, making it looked like a corkscrew. As it came down upon Comedy, it struck him hard and brought him to his knees.
"AHHHH!!!!" he yelled as his Life Points were nearly dropped to nothing, falling from 6300 to 1000. He gasped and held his chest. His life points were undefended...and it was Kaiba's turn.
John only glared at him as he stood across. "We warned you! Now you'll suffer for threatening my friends." Turning he sighed deeply and gave Kaiba thumbs up. "I believe it's your turn."
Kaiba grinned widely.
"Good move John. But this duel ends now. Since you were so interested in the god cards, let's see if you can deal with one. But can I draw it right now? Let's see. I discard my hand, and draw five new cards."
Kaiba put his card into the graveyard part of the duel disk and drew 5 new cards.
"Well...you're screwed now, I drew the god card. But, let's have a little fun while we are at it as well. I play a magic card, another Elegant Egotist, pulling out my second Harpie Lady Sisters."
He pulled the card from the deck and placed the second one on the duel disk and the sisters appeared, all of them grouped together, forming one giant group, staring evilly at Tragedy and Comedy.
"Although, I need to sacrifice three of my monsters, I shall!"
Kaiba started to chant a verse in some foreign language and the two Harpie Ladies and one group of sisters started to chant as well as they started to turn into smoke and raise into the sky. Soon an extremely large golden dragon appeared behind Kaiba. John, Tragedy, and Comedy stared at it with mouths and eyes as wide as possible. Kaiba kept chanting but this time it was a different verse of a song. All of his life points disappeared except for one. The golden dragon seemed to grow larger as it absorbed the energy of the three sacrifices and the energy from the life points. Kaiba then stopped chanting.
"Meet, the Winged Dragon of Ra. He now has 7900 attack points. I could have given him more if I wanted, but I chose not to. I also play these two magic cards. One, is Red Medicine which boosts my life points back up and this next one is a big doosey. Since my life points are lower then yours, this card is going to make me even stronger."
Kaiba flipped it over. It was Megamorph.
"NO!" Screamed out Comedy and Tragedy.
"What does Megamorph do?" asked John.
"Simple. If my life points are lower then the enemies, then any monster I equip this to, has its original attack power doubled. If higher then the enemies, it's cut in half. So this will raise Ra's power to 15,800. No monster can defeat this! So prepare yourself Comedy, you're dead! Finish him off Ra!"
The Winged Dragon of Ra reared it's head back then let loose an amazing blast that covered the entire sky and the area around them. When it was over, a huge hole was were Comedy was. In the middle was a mangled form of Comedy.
"Comedy, are you still alive?!" yelled Tragedy.
"I'm afraid he is, but not for long. For when I am done with you, I will make your master's threat seem like child's play!!"
Kaiba had the scariest, angriest look on his face. His hair had somehow changed. It was all spiked about, going up and down and backwards. The millennium eye was glowing with power and the Winged Dragon of Ra was glowing as well.
"You're turn Tragedy. Or are you afraid?"
"I...I...I don't know what to do...Comedy...oh god Comedy...."
"Then your turn is over. Go John."
John nodded and swallowed hard.
"I play Wall of Illusion in defense mode. And I have Jinzo attack your face down card."
Jinzo created the ball of energy and shot it at the card. The Needle Ball formed for a second before being ripped to pieces.
"I now have my twin-headed fire dragon attack your life points directly, which brings you down to zero. You're finish Tragedy, hand over the key now."
"F..fine!"
She tossed the key at John who hurriedly grabbed it and went down to free Tea. Kaiba stood there, glaring at Tragedy.
"You lost, but more then just this duel. I have not finished with you! Nor have I begun to start!!"
Ra let out another devastating blast that engulfed the area. After it calmed down, Kaiba still glared at the area. He walked over and found Comedy and Tragedy lying next to each other, groaning in pain. He raised his hand and pointed at the two.
"You kidnapped my friend, you endangered her life, and you dared to take what is not yours! That is undismissable. The highest punishment ever....BANISHMENT!!!!"
With that last word, Comedy and Tragedy screamed out in horror and pain as their souls were ripped from their bodies and plunged into the shadow realm. Kaiba turned back to the image of Ra and he bowed. Ra seemed to actually acknowledge this and bowed its head in respect and flew up into the sky only to turn into a bolt of energy and seemed to be transported back into it's card. Kaiba took the deck out and put it back into the holster that was concealed by his trench coat. His hair fell down and went back to normal. He stepped down into the craters and took the two decks and walked back out. He stuffed one of them in his pocket and left the other with a little note for John. The helicopter came soaring back and picked Kaiba up and then took back off, leaving the area calm and quite except for the rustling of the chains that were being taken off of Tea and the sea.
John was wading in the water as he moved towards Tea, seeing the relieved look on her face as she saw him coming towards her he smiles as he holds up the key and dives down into the water. It was a good thing that he left his deck and dueling disk on the sand so that his cards would not get destroyed. Moving lower into the water he inserts the key into the shackles and turns the lock.
There is a click as the locks are undone and John swims back up, pulling Tea free from her bonds. The pair of them swim back to the shore and John helps her up onto the sand and settles down near his duel disk.
Coughing, John slicks his wet hair back. "Tea. Are you okay?"
Tea nods as she looks over at him. "Yeah. Exhausted but I'm fine. Y-You were able to beat them?"
"Yeah, both Kaiba Jr. and me did. I couldn't have won without him and his power though. That Egyptian God card he played. It was...I can't explain it. The power could be felt through me." he said as he stood up and pulled Tea to her feet. Slipping on the duel disk again so his cards would be okay, he walked with her back towards the pier.
"Thank you John. For coming to save me." she said as slicked her hair back. "We have to thank Kaiba too."
"Yeah. Come on. He should still be on the pier." John said as he ran up the sand and over the pier. He stops as he sees that Kaiba is not there and almost lifeless bodies of Comedy and Tragedy lying on the pier. "Where'd he go?" he asks as he walks the pier and finds the Comedy's deck laying on the ground with a note on it.
"What's that?" Tea asked as she looked down at the note.
"It's a note from Kaiba. I guess he could sta-" he was about to continue when he heard the sounds of stirring.
Slowly Tragedy's body clumsily got up from the floor, her body moving like it was nothing more than a puppet. There was a glowing golden eye shining from her forehead in front of the mask. Her voice sounded two-toned as she spoke to him with her eyes rolled up in her head.
"Congratulations Mr. Solaris. It's a shame that Kaiba left so early before we could chat." Tragedy said, her voice distorted.
"Who are you?" John asked as he pushed Tea behind him, holding his duel disk ready again, just in case.
"Put your disk down. I have no intention to duel you." the voice said speaking through Tragedy. "I only wish for you to give a message to Kaiba."
"I'm not your messenger boy." John said with a glare as he watched Tragedy.
"Not for now. But if I were there you'd have no choice. Tell Kaiba to enjoy the God Cards and Millennium Eye. They won't be his for long. Come the Virtual Reality Adventure Tournament, I will be there. Me and my legions will join that tournament and those cards will ours!" the voice said.
Suddenly Tragedy fell to ground, her soulless body just lying there on the ground, breathing very shallowly. John just stood there with Tea, staring down at the body of Tragedy. Slowly he moves Tea away and walks with her away from the pier and back towards the city. Just what was happening? As he looked at Tea, he saw the haunted look in her eyes as he walked with her.
"Tea? What's wrong?" John asked as he walked with her back to the Game Shop.
"I-I've seen that before." she whispered. "I remember back when Kaiba's father hosted the Battle City tournament. A psycho named Marik took over peoples mind's with his Millennium Rod. And spoke through them in the same manner."
"So that's who's doing this? Marik?" John asked as he walked with her along the sidewalk.
"No. That wasn't Marik's voice in the background. It...It was Yugi's..." she whispered, tears rolling down her cheek.
John was shocked as she shook his head. He remembered the legend of Yugi Moto and his dueling skills. But could he really be the one doing this? Causing all this evil and actually hurting Tea? He couldn't believe it, but he trusted Tea and her perception. If it was Yugi's voice she heard, then it was Yugi's voice. But why?
Shaking his head he walked with her back into the Game Shop, just wondering what all this was going to lead up to.