Note: This is a Yu-Gi-Oh fic that's mostly based on the card game and not on the show. This is a tale of a girl who can never find love...

And the only love she can ever find is a love she can never have. A lot of this is truth, but some of it is highly fictional.

Also in Manga Vol 25 of Yu-Gi-Oh, the God of Sun, Dragon Ra, makes his first appearence in Malik vs. Mai on the duelship that high above Battle City. Plus the duel between them is quite different and slightly disturbing than the anime version.

In the manga version, once a player had sacrife three monsters to summon forth Ra, the deity appears on the field as huge golden orb...almost as if it was the sun itself. Then the description of God of Sun Dragon Ra's card changes to have the spell of control...written in Phoenician dilect, a langungue that hasn't been used for over 1000 years. Those who are caretakers of the Pharoah's tomb know what the words say.

Henceforth, even though Mai summoned Ra on her side, Malik had chanted the writting in the duel and had managed to reveal Ra's true form in front of everyone...

And it's not very pretty sight.

In Japan, it's almost around 41 volumes and Yami still hasn't figured a way to defeat the final deity.

Anyways, this part of a fic is loosely based on Sailor Moon S episode #110. We're near the end folks...

By the way, the chant is heard in the anime, but not in the manga. Luckily, I managed to catch and watch the entire episode without loosing my mind due to the HORRIBLE VOICE ACTING AND CHOPPY BACKGROUND MUSIC.

Ok "Merrick"/Yami Malik, if you're going to destroy humanity...could you at least start by killing off the horrible voice acting cast and pop singers who plague our world?

Pretty please? With a golden winged dragon/eagle deity on top???

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Great beast of the sky, please hear my cry,
Transform thyself from orb of light and bring me victory in this fight.
Envelope the desert with your glow and cast your rage upon my foe.
Unlock your powers deep within so that together we may win.
Appear in this Shadow Duel as I call upon your name...
Legendary Sun Dragon Ra

-Official Ritual Chant of Sun Dragon Ra from the anime series.

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All the monsters were staring at him.

There, at one of the stools that was next to the bar in this tavern, was the leather cladded blue skinned raven hair magician. He held a small glass of an acholic substance. He was the one who betrayed his master to join forces with the White Knight. If one of the monsters got in his way or disturbed him, they will never be seen again.

The three toons were also in the bar. The Toon Magician Girl was huddled between the black rabbit and the robot. She was afraid to see such a powerful creature of black magic and almost stunned by his dark beauty the mage held.

But seeing the Toons did not stir some hatred in the lovely leather suited mage.

He was staring at his glass and used his hand to move the context of his glass as a form of amusing himself.

He wasn't concern about what he was doing or spilling any of his drink on the bar table.

For he had seen the cursed beast of Light with his own violet eyes. The golden coated bird that belonged to the powerful God of the Sun, perhaps the God himself, and was the one who had finally put an end to Set.

All creatures created by Set must fear the legendary beast. For even a gaze from one of the golden bird's rubious eyes can see the darkness within a mortal. Some creatures even perish just by glancing at the legendary beast...

For he was the final creature ever created in the game of duel monsters. He had the power to let the others live or destroy everything in his entire path. The golden beast appeared when he tried to bring the "master" to the White Knight. The power the beast held had sent the mage back to this world where all the monsters lived, a world that was almost identical to mortal realm.

But it also sent the master to this world as well. Poor girl.

Everyone feared Ra, including the White Knight. That's why the White Knight will be doing everything in his power to get that stolen card back in his power...

Yet here's the amusing part. This card was now in the hands of someone who was a complete idiot and coward towards the game. Someone who never really took this game seriously like others do.

A coward was now the master of the key to destruction.

Perhaps this is why the leather cladded mage was saved instead of destroyed. Something from that stupid little girl must had caused the deity in not destroying her monsters...but what was it?

The girl, stupid and pathetic as she looks, is quite a great duelist. How she manages to get a hold on such a pretty looking powerful card is quite a mystery.

He stopped moving the glass, pulling the glass towards his blue coated lips, and drank up what was remaining in this glass. All the other monsters were very quiet and staring at the Magician of Black Chaos placing his glass onto the bar.

He then look up, licking his lips and wiping off any remainning droplets of alcohol that were there. He looked down again and was staring at the empty glass in front of him.

"The master isn't like the other duelists," Chaos said, "she holds something that not even the pharoah wields himself..."

He then got up from his stool and turned himself around to face the other monsters.

"But do not put any faith or hopes in her," Chaos replied, "the master is not a saviour to us."

****

The White Knight was ready...

He was sitting at a dueling table. His deck was placed on his right side, ready to be used in another duel and give another countless victory to his owner once more. He grew tired of playing a game of monsters and magic, even though he was the creator of this game!!!

But, once he defeated that poor little girl...then he will have no one to play with him. No one who will be willing to duel for their lives or put in the effort to actually try to defeating him.

Perhaps he should let this girl live and perhaps he should not.

The puzzle dangled around his neck. Even with his eye, now as powerful as he could ever imagined, he still couldn't uncover the mysteries of it....

But a young child could. Oh well, he will have an eternity to figure it out once he defeated ever single duelist. Right now, he should get this over it.

Anyways, where the bloody hell was Chaos and the final duelist?

The golden eye then flickered the answer to him. He gave a twisted smile.

The girl was already on the dueling board, but not the dueling board he was sitting at. She was on the other one; the dueling board that was placed in the Shadow Realm that is.

The duel can truely begin and she did not know about it. Now this was quite an amusing duel he ever had anticipated. He never knew he was going to duel her like this.

It was funny really. He had the cards and whatever card he picked from his deck and placed on this board will appear to comfront the girl. All she had to do was figure a way to destroy his cards and defeat his creatures if she wanted to live. Otherwise...

So maybe the girl was worthy for a duel against him, even though her skills were awfully horrible.

He began to draw his first 5 cards from his deck. He looked at his hand of cards, wondering what cards this duelist had that could withstand his deck of cards.

He placed three cards onto the dueling board, a creature on the field in defense mode and two card in the magic/trap areas that were faced down. He grinned as he looked down onto his precious dueling board....

Now, the game had truely begun.

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Celtic was walking around the city. He was carrying a parchment of paper that contained the translation the Stern Mystic was working on. It was a way for someone who did not know the text of the ritual chant to summon forth Ra on their side, without having the deity going canabalistic on the playing fields. The Stern Mystic should have already the full chant...

But then the elven elder collasped onto the floor and died. He said that the dragon had awaken from his hidden form, without the usage of the chant.

So the Sun Dragon had finally awakened from his slumber. If that it so, then will the person who will do the same mistake the Pharoah did when this game was just new? Will this person use the Sun Dragon to destroy his or her opponents, but accidently unleashed this golden beast to destroy everything?

When Ra was unleashed in Yami's greatest duel, everything, from temples to villages and from monsters and humans, was destroyed. The only one that was remaining and still standing was the golden coated bird-like creature. Even the other deities were destroyed.

When Ra saw his remains of his brothers, he gave a shrilling cry that was heard throughout the city, hoping for someone to hear his pain of loosing those he truely cared for.

There was no one there at all. So the beast flew away and wasd never seen again...

Pharoah Yami could not control the golden beast. That's why he was forever sealed up in a puzzle, awaiting to find someone who may have the ability to defeat this creature or control it.

But found a child instead.

Celtic looked up at the darkly skies. Now the deity was stolen from the White Knight and in the hands of the girl...

Can this master actually unleashed the legendary golden beast and control it without using the spell? Does the White Knight know the spell himself?

Celtic looked down at the parchment. The chant was finally translated and was ready to be peformed to awaken the final legendary deity that can change the fate of the world by whoever controls it.

He needed to find where his Master was...NOW!!!

****

Three people were in darkness. One a blonde figure with glasses, while the other two look as if they were identical to each other. All three of them were covered in darkness, covered in complete darkness.

There was no one else in this dark place but these three young duelists

"I'm so scared Yami," Yugi began.

"Don't worry," Yami replied as he placed his hands onto the young one and began to calm him down, "Vanessa will definately get us out of this."

"You think she will?"

Zero look up and staring at the darkness above him as he stared at the eternal blacken sky.

"I don't know if we can trust Vanessa with our lives," Zero muttered.

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I was walking with him, but everywhere we went was nothing but darkness that confronted us. I held onto the knife, my deck was in my pocket, and I was following the young white hair boy. He was leading the way by using his golden necklace.

I did not ask how it works, not did I care. I wanted to get out of the place. Maybe this kid knew where the White Knight was hiding. Maybe he was trying to get out of this place like I am. Maybe this is some kind of twisted nightmare that I'm in and all I have to do is wake up...

Because this world can't be real, can it?

All the walls were covered in scratched nonsense that did not make any sense, even though it was written in plain English.

I held onto the knife. It was a small weapon, but it was my only source of defending myself from what was ever that may comfront us.

Yet, there was something vaguely familiar about the decoration on the ground. I could have swore I have seen this pattern from somewhere.

The young boy stopped then stopped. If I was standing in front of him, I would have noticed his eyes were darker and his necklace was glowing once more. He began to pull out his own dueling deck from his pocket.

"So he wishes to duel us here," he began. Strange, his voice sounded a bit different, but maybe I was hearing things.

That's right Vanessa, you are going crazy. Yes, you are. Yes you truely are.

"Duel us here?!" I cried out as I looked around, "Who?!!"

Before any of us could figure out what the hell was going on or who was causing this, I was not beliving in what I was seeing. Nor was the white hair teen right next to me.

Although, he was standing in a defensive position as if he knew what was going on as he drew out his own deck from his pocket. What appeared in front of us was three enlarged face down cards and one was facing sideways. I noticed the cards were placed on some spots onto the board, realizing what we were standing on.

This wasn't a pattern...it was an enlarged dueling board we were standing on!!!

"Exactly," a voice replied.

Huh?!

Both of us stared at the direction where the voice was. Seated, was a tall thin silver haired gentleman with some of his hair covering half his face and wearing in a black suit. He was staring at us with his icy blue eye.

He was...the White Knight.

I do not know if I was seeing things, but I also saw a glimmer of gold behind his curtain of hair. What was is?

I do not know.

"Of course you don't know," Pegasus muttered, "and why should I tell you since once I defeat you, you shall see for yourself what's behind my hair."

"What?" I asked.

The white hair teen began to stand in front of me as he glared at the White Knight.

"Forget this worthless girl!" he hissed, "I want to duel you!"

"Such a temper," Pegasus began as one of his face down cards started to reveal itself, "and in front of a young lady as well. Perhaps I shall teach you such manners with this duel."

"I need no lesson from..." Before he could fished his sentance, a hole appeared underneath him and he fell into it.

What I saw and heard, I did not wish to ever see again. For the white hair teenager gave a horrid scream till he reached the bottom of the black pit. Then there was a loud cracking sound and complete silence afterwards.

Slowly and cautiously, I moved towards the pit to see what has happened. My eyes widen, my hands quickly covered my gasping mouth as I began to fall on my knees, staring at the sight within the pit.

Teenage boy.
Impaled on a rock.
Eyes as empty as shells.
Red liquid flowing down from his shirt.

His necklace dangled downwards with the young teenager on his back. The White Knight had used a trap hole. How could this happen? Why did it happened? What did his guy ever did to Pegasus?!! He had no connection with me or Zero whatsover...and now he's impaled.

I DON'T EVEN KNOW HIM!!!!

"Relax," Pegasus said, "he never intended to help you get you out of this world or getting your friends back, my dear. He only wanted to get his hands on Yugi's puzzle, so I decided to get rid of him, before he plans to get rid of all of us."

This is not real Vanessa. This is just a dream. You are not on an enlarged dueling board. Your friends and that teenage boy are not dead. They are alive somewhere in the real world and you are not dueling an insane madman.

THIS IS ONLY JUST A GAME. NONE OF THIS IS REAL!!! NONE!!!

I shut my eyes as the voices kept screaming in my head as they were yelling to me that this is not actually happening.

Duel Monsters is not real.

"But that's where you are wrong..." Pegasus began, "for you see, the game existed longer than you, your historical background, and I have been alive. For this was a game played by powerful pharoahs and great spell casters. It had existed throughout the ancient times, until one firece battle between a Pharoah and his High Priest had the game lost for years. Now the two of have been reincarnated after all these years and I do believe you have meet their reincarnations."

I did?

I opened my eyes and turned my head, staring blankly at the silver haired gentleman.

"Yes Vanessa," Pegasus replied, "this duel is for real."

****

The violet coated sourcerer was walking down another section oif the city of Shadows, searching for the leather strapped and somewhat perverted Chaos Magician. Why did his Master wanted that card so badly?

All he wants to do is just gets in her pants. That's the curse for whoever owes a Magician of Black Chaos. He may be loyal to you onto the field...only if you yield to him to allow you to be an intruder to you while in bed. Otherwise, you'll have a very pissed off sexual frustrated minion of Set who glady be willing to bring his former master into so much pain for not sexually pleasing him.

Chaos is quite rare to find, yet once he's found...he's is a chaotic one to tame.

Before the Black Magician could continue, he stopped his searching and was comfronted by one of the creatures in the child from the gameshop, Yugi's deck. A black amoured soldier with a fierce curved blade behind his back. He was in front of Master's Hyozanryu, feeding the cystaline dragon with a formulated nutrians.

"Buster Blader..." Black Magician said.

The warrior and the crystal plated dragon had turned their heads to face the violet mage. The knight was staring at the magician with his golden eyes while the dragon listen to their conversation.

"I..." the dark knight began, "I am curious about your master. I heard she has the ability to bring us to the mortal realm."

"She does have this power," Black Magician replied, "yet I know nothing of where she has gotten it from."

"How is the mortal world...like from this place?"

"Quite different. There are some people out there that are amazed by our beauty and power we hold, yet most fear us as if we were monsters."

"So it's impossible to us to live among the humans."

"Perhaps, but we still have ours masters on our side. By the way, where is your young master?"

"I lost him. Perhaps somewhere in the Shadow Realm. I have taken his deck to bring with me as I search for the master, but no avail."

"What?!!! Who the hell could shove an innocent child in a world like this?!!"

Silence. Then Buster Blader began to speak while looking at the violet mage.

"The White Knight," Buster Blader replied.

****

Two people were on the rooftop. The skies were clouded in a vast of darkness as the winds began to howl out. A dark skinned woman hidden in white robes was standing as she looked at the coming darkness created by a powerful senna eye and the creatures from the Shadow Realms roaming around in the actual world. She watched the scenery as her robes were flowing with the harsh winds.

If nothing is done, the gateway of Shadow Realm shall open.

And every single human will...

Her blonde hair dark skinned violet eye brother was lying down on the rooftops, staring at the gray clouds forming in the dark skies.

"So," Malik began, "the Legendary Sun Dragon Ra shall be awaken by an idiot. Maybe letting Ra choose who he wants to serve than having a member of our family was a bad idea."

"Ra had chosen this girl for a reason, dear brother..." Isis began, "he is never wrong for chosing those who wishes to serve under him."

"She knows not the song, how the hell can she control the golden beast?!"

"She has to...or all will fall."

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Sorry for not updating this fic. I was working on my LoTR crossover, The Trouble With Elves. Plus battling depression.

Whee, we're are at the last chappies. So expect lots of alternate endings.

-The Clow Hatter