Chapter 7: Duel of Salvation
A/N; This duel is going to have cards that were from the "Dark Crisis" series. So, these might be spoilers if you haven't heard of these cards before at all.
"It seems that you were noble to try to bring your friend back, but you are foolish to challenge my high executioner." The voice said.
"Enough, let's just get this duel started." Marik snapped as he drew his hand from his dueling deck.
"If you are so foolish and determined, then I will be happy to go first," The Pyramid Head then drew a card and added it to his hand, "I will start by summoning a monster known as the Archfiend Soldier and set one card face down. My turn ends." Then a monster with a green cape and purple armor appeared in front of Marik.
Marik then drew a card and he looked at his hand and looked at the cards that were in it. He had gotten some new cards as a inheritance when Ishizu died, however, some of the traps were the most useful to him.
"I'll start off by playing Makuya the Executioner in attack mode and I'll equip Black Pendent to raise his attack power and now I'll have him attack." Marik said as he sent out Makuya to attack Archfiend Soldier and it slashed at Archfiend, but something was wrong, very wrong.
"You pitiful fool, I will now activate my trap card called Shadow Spell to reduce Makuya's attack power down to 1400." The voice said as Pyramid Head pressed something on the duel disk and chains wrapped around Makuya, holding him down as if he was some rabid animal. (In case you forgot, Makuya is the guy with the claws from the Mai vs. Yami Marik duel)
Marik cursed himself silently for being so cocky and he only responded by laying a card face down to end his turn.
"Since you have proven how foolish a sinful soul can be, I will sacrifice my Archfiend and summon a monster known as Beast of Gilfer," The voice said as a winged black and red demon appeared, "Now, to punish you, I will now have Beast of Gilfer attack and to weaken your life points." The Beast of Gilfer then killed Makuya, causing glass like particles of Makuya to scatter like shards of glass.
Marik then noticed that something was wrong with him and part of his arm started to disappear.
"You bastard, what did you do to me?" Marik asked.
"I guess that I forgot to mention that as your life points decrease, you will slowly disappear and die," Then Pyramid Head's arm started to burn away, "what is this? How is this possible?"
"I guess that I forgot to mention that when Black Pendent leaves the playing field and goes to the graveyard, you'll loose 500 life points," Marik answered, "that's not all, since Makuya was killed, I get to activate trap cards from my hand, so I'll use rope of life to bring Makuya back from the graveyard and he also gets 800 more attack points." Then Makuya appeared out of the graveyard and slashed at Gilfer, killing it instantly and reducing the Pyramid Head's life points down to 3300 hundred and a portion of his left arm disappeared.
"Impressive dueling for salvation Marik, but when Gilfer dies and goes to hell, Makuya's attack power goes down to 1900. In other words, Makuya is now 500 points weaker than how he was when you powered him up with rope of life." The voice hissed.
Marik ignored the voice's taunting and he placed another card face down to end his turn. He just wished that he had The Winged Dragon of Ra in his deck still, but just the thought of it going out control in a shadow game didn't seem to sit well in his mind.
"Its now my turn and I will play monster reborn to revive my Beast of Gilfer in defense mode and I'll play Change of Heart on Makuya. Then, to bring further punishment for your wrongdoings, I will play Contract of the Dark Ruler ritual card to sacrifice your monsters for this ritual to summon Zork The Dark Ruler." Then a large demon with long hair holding a yellow staff appeared and attacked, but Marik had a trick up his sleeve.
"Hold it, I'll activate a card called Nightmare Wheel, preventing your monster from attacking me as long as it exists on the field and there's new addition, you lose 500 life points each turn." Marik said. It was now Marik's turn and he drew a card from his deck and it was Great Maju Grazett.
"This is a good card, but I need to sacrifice a monster and I'm in luck since I have Monster Reborn." Marik thought.
"Well Marik, I'm waiting for you to make your move so I can bring you the punishment for your sins." The voice hissed.
"Fine, but I believe that you'll be the one who's going to hell when I play monster reborn to bring back Beast of Gilfer from the graveyard and then sacrifice him to summon Great Maju Grazett, causing his ATK power to go up to 4400 and I'll have him eliminate Zork." Marik shouted as he sent out Grazett to destroy Zork, reducing Pyramid Head's LP's down to 1800 and the Pyramid Head's torso was disappearing.
The Pyramid Head then drew a card and the voice started to speak again, "It appears that I can only lay one monster in defense mode to end my turn."
"This one is for Aya and Ishizu. I'll summon Drillago in attack mode to attack your monster." Marik said. Then a robot with drills attacked the defense monster and destroyed it.
"I knew you would be foolish to attack my face-down monster known as Cyber Jar." The voice said and then a circular, jar shaped like robot with a mouth and one eye appeared and it exploded, destroying both Drillago and Grazett.
"What? How can this be?" Marik asked in shock.
"I knew how cocky you were since this shadow game began. Now we each draw five cards and any monsters at level 4 or lower are special summoned on the field, now my monsters are Vorse Raider and Giant Orc, I would be happy to know what your cards were." The voice said as the Pyramid Head summoned the two monsters on the field and placed the other three cards in his hand.
"Mine are not as strong as yours, but I'll summon Bowgunian and Revival Jam to the field." Marik said and a small, round, and blue creature holding a crossbow appeared and a slime like monster with a skull face appeared on the field.
"You rely on the weak to protect you from damnation? How sad you foolish sinner. I'll have Vorse Raider clear out your pitiful Bowgunian," The voice hissed as The Vorse Raider sliced Bowgunian in half, causing blood to spurt from the monster, "I am already aware of Revival Jam's effect, so I won't bother attacking it. I'll just lay these three cards face down to end my turn." Then Pyramid Head's gloved hand inserted two cards in the small slots in the duel disk.
Marik then drew a card from his deck and the card was a monster card and it appeared to look like a pile of molten lava with a mouth and two eyes and it was terrifying a silhouette of a prisoner in a cage.
"This card is perfect, but I'll have to get rid of his face down cards first and I'm lucky since I have a Heavy Storm card." Marik thought. He then looked at Pyramid Head and back at the cards in his hand. He made the decision.
He would summon Lava Golem.
"Now, I'm going to summon a monster, but first, I'll have to get rid of your trap cards by playing Heavy Storm," Marik said as he played Heavy Storm and a large twister appeared from above and destroyed the face down cards that Pyramid Head placed on the field.
"HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN? I'M LOSING CONTROL OF THIS GAME OF SALVATION." The voice said angrily.
"That's how life is and now to summon Lava Golem by sacrificing your two monsters in place of my own. You will pay for Aya's death with defeat." Marik said. Then Pyramid Head noticed that he was in an iron cage and he looked around, wondering where he was confined in.
"THIS CANNOT BE HAPPENING. MY HIGH EXECUTIONER WAS SUPPOSE TO PUNISH YOU FOR YOUR WRONGDOINGS?" The voice said angrily.
"It's over and now I will now have Lava Golem cast you in the shadows where you belong." Marik shouted. Then the Lava Golem swung a fist at Pyramid Head, causing his life points to be reduced to zero.
"Well done. As promised, The girl you call Aya will be revived to the time before she was killed by my high executioner. However, your path towards damnation or salvation won't end here because you won this little shadow game. We will meet again soon Marik and I will claim what is rightfully mine." The voice hissed and Pyramid Head fell to the ground and died.
"Good riddance." Marik thought and then he felt the world he was in starting to shift and he was back in the hallway where Aya was killed by Pyramid Head and he saw Aya and her eyes starting to open.
"I'm......alive?" She asked weakly.
Marik then wrapped her arms around her and started crying, "Aya, thank god you're alive again, you were killed by that demon."
"It's okay, I'm not one of the undead." She said, pushing Marik off of her.
"So sis, you won't do anything stupid like that again?" Mark asked, looking up at his older sister.
Aya chuckled and smiled, "No little bro, now c'mon Marik, let's go find your sister. I bet that she's probably around her somewhere."
Marik smiled, being happy that he had now fought for someone he cared for instead of fighting selfishly for wanting to become the pharaoh like he use to do months ago.
"C'mon, let's get out of here." Marik said as they ran down the set of stairs while a mysterious figure in the shadows watched them.
"Marik, you pitiful weakling, you thought you could get rid of me that easily, didn't you?" The figure thought and it retreated back into the shadows of the Brookhaven Hospital.
To Be Continued.
A/N: Okay, now that chapter 7 is done, I might be putting in the Korn song in this story I promised earlier in the next chapter. So, don't worry.