Calai'di-Sorry, this and the next chapter are rather short, but that's how my spacing went, and the last time I wrote a full duel no one reviewed on it. Hope you like this; it'll be a different ending than I was first thing of, but it works. A bit more violence, so the rating's more like PG-7. Whatever…
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"Go Headless Knight!" Bakura exclaimed, throwing a card out. Yoshiko gasped. A full suit of Knight's armor took shape in front of Bakura, but the armor didn't have a body; it was just armor, and it could move.
"Go Alpha the Magnet Warrior! Destroy his Knight!"
Again, a very strange monster appeared on the field. She'd been playing Duel Monsters for a very long time, but the monsters looked a lot different when they were real. Bakura was right about one thing though; his deck could be scary if used the right way.
"All right, I summon the Gross Ghost of Fled Dreams!"
"Go Gazelle the Mythical King of Beasts, attack his ghost! Alpha, attack him directly!"
The two went on like this for quite so time; Yami never managed to get more than one attack through to Bakura before the latter summoned another monster. But in the end, Bakura had been attacked enough times that he was kneeling on the ground, breathing heavily. Yoshiko gazed at him worriedly. She had a feeling one more hit would probably cause a considerable amount of damage to his body, and Bakura didn't have any monsters on the field. Bakura was struggling to his feet, muttering something like, "Stupid Pharaoh, how dare you try to beat me? How did you learn to use the Puzzle? If ever get my hands on you…"
"So, do you give up Bakura?" came Yami's voice. "I don't want to hurt you, but if you insist…"
"You're a sorry excuse for a yami, Pharaoh. Are you protecting Yugi back there, or Ryou?"
"You've protected Ryou before," Yami answered quietly. "And I think you should protect him again. Are you going to play any monsters, thief?"
"Yes, go Earthbound Spirits, defensive mode!"
"Is that your only option? Well then, I summon the Dark Magician Girl by sacrificing Alpha the Magnet Warrior, and because of her effect, she is 300 points stronger since I have a Dark Magician on the field. Now Dark Magician Girl, destroy his Earthbound Spirits!"
It was a good thing Bakura had played his monster in defensive mode, or he'd probably be unconscious now. As it was, he was on the ground again, and feelings of pain and distress were showing on his face. Yoshiko watched him in agony. She had to do something, or he might get killed.
"Do you give up yet?"
"You wish."
"Than you give me no choice. I hate to do this, Bakura. Dark Magician, Dark Magic Attack!"
In a split-second decision, Yoshiko raced past Ryou and onto the field into the line of fire. And it did feel like fire when the attack hit, a bitingly cold fire that surged through her body, driving away ever thought and emotion she had. Her world plunged into darkness and she fell to the ground.