Episode 3
Labyrinth Nightmare
*****
Yugi and Serenity continues to stare at the walls of the maze. The Celtic Guardian (1400/1200/2000) still remains active, standing besides Yugi and Serenity.
"Now what do we do Yugi?" Serenity asks.
"I don't know yet," Yugi tries to think. "Did you ever seen any other passages while we ran this way?"
Serenity silently shook her head, saying she never saw any.
"Then, I guess this is the only way out," Yugi said. "But if this is the Labyrinth Wall, then who knows how long we'll be here, we can't even logout unless we find a Star Crystal, and I never seen one. This game literally brings our minds into the game, so that's the only way out of here."
"But this isn't an easy maze is it?" Serenity asks.
"No," Yugi went. "Come on."
*****
In City Echo, Joey and Tristan (God of the Universe), walks through the crowd to see what Kaiba has to say.
"Man, are all these duelist really want to join Kaiba's army?" Tristan asks.
"I guess so," Joey went.
"There he is," says one of the nearby duelists.
Joey and Tristan watch from a distance, as Kaiba and Mokuba walks out of a dark room, and onto a small balcony.
"Duelists," Kaiba starts. "I am Seto Kaiba, of Kaiba Corp., and Duel Monsters champion, as well as the sponsor for this game. As you all know, gangs are being formed throughout the Virtual World. I did not brought you here for joining my gang, no. I brought you here to join my army, to support and build my empire. My empire, shall and will eliminate anyone who stands in our way, so that I can rule this game as king. Once we gain control of this game, you all shall be rewarded in this game, and in real life."
"Is he serious?" Tristan went.
"Think of this as a contest," Kaiba continues. "There will only be a few duelists who can win this contest, and only those are the ones who shall be rewarded. But I wont tell you what the contest is, so if you want a chance to win, you must obey my orders, and expand my empire. The reward is either part ownership of my company, or ten-thousand dollars. Many will enter, but very few will win."
The crowd cries out, accepting the challenge, even though it's a gamble.
"I will tell you this though," Kaiba starts to finish up. "I will not tolerate failure. Anyone who fails me, will be permanently and aggressively retired by me. So if you don't think you're up to that challenge, then don't bother signing up."
Kaiba then disappears back into the darkness behind him, followed by his little brother.
"Man, harsh," Tristan said. "He could be this games next Hitler. If you fail him, you die."
"Yeah, maybe," Joey went. "But he's after Blue-Eyes White Dragons right?"
"Yeah," Tristan went.
"So how about we beat him to the dragons then?" Joey smirks.
"Hey, that's a brilliant idea," Tristan agrees.
"Then it's agreed," Joey went. "We'll find all the Blue-Eyes White Dragons in this game before Kaiba does."
"Yeah," Tristan went. "So we can become Kaiba's generals."
Joey almost fell when Tristan said that, "you moron, I meant keep those cards for ourselves."
"Oh," Tristan went. "Okay."
*****
Yugi, Serenity, and the Celtic Guardian continues to search through the Labyrinth maze which felt like forever, even thought it only been a few minutes.
Still walking, Serenity in silence stop.
When Yugi realizes that Serenity stopped, he in turn stop to see what's going on. "What's up?"
"Yugi, isn't the Labyrinth Wall a monster card?" Serenity asks.
"Yeah," Yugi answers. Then he gets what she was saying, "but we can't attack it."
"Well, why not?" Serenity asks.
"The Labyrinth Wall should be in defense mode, which means it was the defense power of 3000. However, it's attack power is 0, and I don't have any way of switching the Labyrinth Wall into attack mode."
"I do," Serenity said.
"You do?" Yugi asks.
Serenity takes out a card from her deck, the card is a magic card called 'Stop Defense.'
"Stop Defense switches an opposing monster from defense to attack mode, right?" Serenity asks.
"Yes, of course it does," Yugi went. "That's great, but one question still remains though."
"Oh? What's that?" Serenity asks.
"Will the card work wherever he stand?" Yugi asks. "That's your only Stop Defense card isn't it?"
Serenity nods her head yes.
"We'll have to save it, there might be a spot where we can use that, and it might only work if played there. Since the Labyrinth Wall is a level five, so I think it should have...2500 life points, which I can wipe out with my Summoned Skull, so all I had to do was sacrifice my Celtic Guardian in order to play it."
"Great, but how do we find that spot?" Serenity asks.
Yugi turns around with his back towards Serenity, thinking really hard, "we'll just have to find a sign or something."
Serenity looks up, "like that?"
Yugi looks up as well, seeing off at a distance: 0/3000/2500
"That must be it," Yugi yells out. "Good eye Serenity, come on."
Yugi leads the way, with Serenity and Celtic Guardian following from behind.
*****
"What's taking them so long?" Rex snarls.
Weevil remains in a quick silence before he said, "relax, they'll contact us whether they succeeded or not."
"Well, it's been almost an hour since we last heard from them," Rex went. "I'm starting to think we shouldn't have messed with him."
"This is our revenge for what both he and his friends did to us," Weevil yells out.
"You mean to you," Rex snarls back. "At Duelist Kingdom, Yugi defeated you even though you had a good advantage. Then at Battle City, you lost to Joey, even though you also had an advantage, let alone cheated."
Weevil growls under his breath, wanting to choke Rex.
"The only reason why I am here with you, is because we're friends," Rex explains. "Out of the two, Joey was the only one that I've dueled and lost too, I even lost my precious Red-Eyes Black Dragon to Joey also. It wasn't easy, but I got over it, you should do the same also."
"I shall never do such a thing," Weevil went.
Rex went, "just face it, Joey has a reputation of luck in extreme circumstances, and Yugi has a reputation of snatching victory away from his opponents, even when he was about to loose. Take you for example, you only brought his life points down to 50 and it even seamed hopeless, and then he beat you."
"Just shut up right now Rex," Weevil demands.
Rex thinks quietly to himself, eh, you just can't handle the truth.
*****
Yugi and Serenity followed by the Celtic Guardian turns a corner, running into yet a dead end.
"Another one?" Serenity went.
"No wait, this dead end looks different," Yugi went.
At the wall of the dead end, there's an Egyptian eye symbol on it, as the walls stats hangs above it.
"Great then," Serenity went.
"Go, Summoned Skull," Yugi commands as he takes Summoned Skull out of his deck.
Yugi's Celtic Guardian disappears, and his Summoned Skull takes the guardians place (2500/1200/3000).
"Go Stop Defense," Serenity plays, as the walls are crumbled, switching to attack mode.
"Summoned Skull, attack now," Yugi commands.
Summoned Skull raises both of its clawed hands, to absorb energy for it's electrical attack.
Just then on the wall where the eye is, Yugi spots: 1600/3000/3500)
"Summoned Skull stop," Yugi commands.
But Summoned Skull launches it's attack, as a monster appears, blocking the hit. Since the Stop Defense card didn't effect it, it's defense power is 3000, reflecting the attack back to Summoned Skull (3000).
Then the monster launches an attack of it's own, sending out a series of razor sharp waves, slicing through Yugi's Summoned Skull, dealing damages (2600).
The monster then disappears back into the wall.
"What was that thing?" Serenity asks.
"That was a Wall Shadow. It can only be played when a Labyrinth Wall is sacrificed, but I guess the rules are a little different right now."
"What are we going to do?" Serenity asks.
"I have an idea," Yugi said, taking out a card from his deck. "But I have to work quickly before the Labyrinth Wall switches back to defense mode. Summoned Skull, prepare to attack."
Summoned Skull charges up its power, forcing Wall Shadow to appear again. The bricks on the walls of the Labyrinth is starting to reform, showing that it's might be ready to go back to defense mode.
Yugi plays the card he took out, "go Brainwash."
His Brainwash magic card allows Yugi to take over the Wall Shadow, stopping it's counter attack.
Yugi acts quickly, "now, attack the labyrinth Wall, quickly."
Summoned Skull launches the attack, blasting the wall, destroying the entire maze. Since the Shadow Wall is part of the Labyrinth Wall, the creature is also destroyed.
"You did it," Serenity went.
"We did it Serenity," Yugi mentions. "I couldn't do it without your stop defense card."
"Guess you're right," Serenity agrees.
The entire room is now empty, with a light filled exit.
"That must be an exit," Yugi went.
Yugi, Serenity, and Summoned Skull runs towards the exit.
Yugi and others reaches the exit, finding it to lead to the outside.
Yugi and Serenity couldn't help but smile eternally.
"This is great," Serenity said.
"Yeah, now we can logout," Yugi said.
"Yeah, I have enough of this game for the day," Serenity.
Yugi and Serenity spotted the Star Crest and walks over to it.
As the two followed by the Summoned Skull still following them both, two figures walks in between them and the Star Crest.
"Well hi there," says Shippo.
"Oh no," Serenity went.
Yugi begins a demand, "get out of our way, we're leaving."
"You'll have to beat us first," Em said.
"You'll have to beat us in a double duel," Shippo also says. "That's the only way you'll leave this world. Challenge accepted?"
Yugi growls, very frustrated and angry, wanting to leave, but is now forced into a duel.
Yugi turns to Serenity, "are you willing to duel?"
Serenity with worried ness in her eyes, gulped. Then her eyes changed to being serious, and nods a yes.
*****
In the real world, Yugi's millennium puzzle shines as the pharaoh takes over
*****
An Egyptian eye appears on Yugi's forehead, which shocked everyone because they could see the eye.
"Challenge accepted," Yami-Yugi said.
The voice that came out of Yugi's characters mouth, shocked everyone even more.
"Man, he sounds even more different," Shippo mentions.
Serenity also shocked at the new Yugi, she thinks to herself, I never realized how different Yugi is when he's dueling. Is this what Joey meant when he said there are two sides of Yugi?
*****
Next week, Yugi and Serenity takes on Shippo and Em in a double duel
Labyrinth Nightmare
*****
Yugi and Serenity continues to stare at the walls of the maze. The Celtic Guardian (1400/1200/2000) still remains active, standing besides Yugi and Serenity.
"Now what do we do Yugi?" Serenity asks.
"I don't know yet," Yugi tries to think. "Did you ever seen any other passages while we ran this way?"
Serenity silently shook her head, saying she never saw any.
"Then, I guess this is the only way out," Yugi said. "But if this is the Labyrinth Wall, then who knows how long we'll be here, we can't even logout unless we find a Star Crystal, and I never seen one. This game literally brings our minds into the game, so that's the only way out of here."
"But this isn't an easy maze is it?" Serenity asks.
"No," Yugi went. "Come on."
*****
In City Echo, Joey and Tristan (God of the Universe), walks through the crowd to see what Kaiba has to say.
"Man, are all these duelist really want to join Kaiba's army?" Tristan asks.
"I guess so," Joey went.
"There he is," says one of the nearby duelists.
Joey and Tristan watch from a distance, as Kaiba and Mokuba walks out of a dark room, and onto a small balcony.
"Duelists," Kaiba starts. "I am Seto Kaiba, of Kaiba Corp., and Duel Monsters champion, as well as the sponsor for this game. As you all know, gangs are being formed throughout the Virtual World. I did not brought you here for joining my gang, no. I brought you here to join my army, to support and build my empire. My empire, shall and will eliminate anyone who stands in our way, so that I can rule this game as king. Once we gain control of this game, you all shall be rewarded in this game, and in real life."
"Is he serious?" Tristan went.
"Think of this as a contest," Kaiba continues. "There will only be a few duelists who can win this contest, and only those are the ones who shall be rewarded. But I wont tell you what the contest is, so if you want a chance to win, you must obey my orders, and expand my empire. The reward is either part ownership of my company, or ten-thousand dollars. Many will enter, but very few will win."
The crowd cries out, accepting the challenge, even though it's a gamble.
"I will tell you this though," Kaiba starts to finish up. "I will not tolerate failure. Anyone who fails me, will be permanently and aggressively retired by me. So if you don't think you're up to that challenge, then don't bother signing up."
Kaiba then disappears back into the darkness behind him, followed by his little brother.
"Man, harsh," Tristan said. "He could be this games next Hitler. If you fail him, you die."
"Yeah, maybe," Joey went. "But he's after Blue-Eyes White Dragons right?"
"Yeah," Tristan went.
"So how about we beat him to the dragons then?" Joey smirks.
"Hey, that's a brilliant idea," Tristan agrees.
"Then it's agreed," Joey went. "We'll find all the Blue-Eyes White Dragons in this game before Kaiba does."
"Yeah," Tristan went. "So we can become Kaiba's generals."
Joey almost fell when Tristan said that, "you moron, I meant keep those cards for ourselves."
"Oh," Tristan went. "Okay."
*****
Yugi, Serenity, and the Celtic Guardian continues to search through the Labyrinth maze which felt like forever, even thought it only been a few minutes.
Still walking, Serenity in silence stop.
When Yugi realizes that Serenity stopped, he in turn stop to see what's going on. "What's up?"
"Yugi, isn't the Labyrinth Wall a monster card?" Serenity asks.
"Yeah," Yugi answers. Then he gets what she was saying, "but we can't attack it."
"Well, why not?" Serenity asks.
"The Labyrinth Wall should be in defense mode, which means it was the defense power of 3000. However, it's attack power is 0, and I don't have any way of switching the Labyrinth Wall into attack mode."
"I do," Serenity said.
"You do?" Yugi asks.
Serenity takes out a card from her deck, the card is a magic card called 'Stop Defense.'
"Stop Defense switches an opposing monster from defense to attack mode, right?" Serenity asks.
"Yes, of course it does," Yugi went. "That's great, but one question still remains though."
"Oh? What's that?" Serenity asks.
"Will the card work wherever he stand?" Yugi asks. "That's your only Stop Defense card isn't it?"
Serenity nods her head yes.
"We'll have to save it, there might be a spot where we can use that, and it might only work if played there. Since the Labyrinth Wall is a level five, so I think it should have...2500 life points, which I can wipe out with my Summoned Skull, so all I had to do was sacrifice my Celtic Guardian in order to play it."
"Great, but how do we find that spot?" Serenity asks.
Yugi turns around with his back towards Serenity, thinking really hard, "we'll just have to find a sign or something."
Serenity looks up, "like that?"
Yugi looks up as well, seeing off at a distance: 0/3000/2500
"That must be it," Yugi yells out. "Good eye Serenity, come on."
Yugi leads the way, with Serenity and Celtic Guardian following from behind.
*****
"What's taking them so long?" Rex snarls.
Weevil remains in a quick silence before he said, "relax, they'll contact us whether they succeeded or not."
"Well, it's been almost an hour since we last heard from them," Rex went. "I'm starting to think we shouldn't have messed with him."
"This is our revenge for what both he and his friends did to us," Weevil yells out.
"You mean to you," Rex snarls back. "At Duelist Kingdom, Yugi defeated you even though you had a good advantage. Then at Battle City, you lost to Joey, even though you also had an advantage, let alone cheated."
Weevil growls under his breath, wanting to choke Rex.
"The only reason why I am here with you, is because we're friends," Rex explains. "Out of the two, Joey was the only one that I've dueled and lost too, I even lost my precious Red-Eyes Black Dragon to Joey also. It wasn't easy, but I got over it, you should do the same also."
"I shall never do such a thing," Weevil went.
Rex went, "just face it, Joey has a reputation of luck in extreme circumstances, and Yugi has a reputation of snatching victory away from his opponents, even when he was about to loose. Take you for example, you only brought his life points down to 50 and it even seamed hopeless, and then he beat you."
"Just shut up right now Rex," Weevil demands.
Rex thinks quietly to himself, eh, you just can't handle the truth.
*****
Yugi and Serenity followed by the Celtic Guardian turns a corner, running into yet a dead end.
"Another one?" Serenity went.
"No wait, this dead end looks different," Yugi went.
At the wall of the dead end, there's an Egyptian eye symbol on it, as the walls stats hangs above it.
"Great then," Serenity went.
"Go, Summoned Skull," Yugi commands as he takes Summoned Skull out of his deck.
Yugi's Celtic Guardian disappears, and his Summoned Skull takes the guardians place (2500/1200/3000).
"Go Stop Defense," Serenity plays, as the walls are crumbled, switching to attack mode.
"Summoned Skull, attack now," Yugi commands.
Summoned Skull raises both of its clawed hands, to absorb energy for it's electrical attack.
Just then on the wall where the eye is, Yugi spots: 1600/3000/3500)
"Summoned Skull stop," Yugi commands.
But Summoned Skull launches it's attack, as a monster appears, blocking the hit. Since the Stop Defense card didn't effect it, it's defense power is 3000, reflecting the attack back to Summoned Skull (3000).
Then the monster launches an attack of it's own, sending out a series of razor sharp waves, slicing through Yugi's Summoned Skull, dealing damages (2600).
The monster then disappears back into the wall.
"What was that thing?" Serenity asks.
"That was a Wall Shadow. It can only be played when a Labyrinth Wall is sacrificed, but I guess the rules are a little different right now."
"What are we going to do?" Serenity asks.
"I have an idea," Yugi said, taking out a card from his deck. "But I have to work quickly before the Labyrinth Wall switches back to defense mode. Summoned Skull, prepare to attack."
Summoned Skull charges up its power, forcing Wall Shadow to appear again. The bricks on the walls of the Labyrinth is starting to reform, showing that it's might be ready to go back to defense mode.
Yugi plays the card he took out, "go Brainwash."
His Brainwash magic card allows Yugi to take over the Wall Shadow, stopping it's counter attack.
Yugi acts quickly, "now, attack the labyrinth Wall, quickly."
Summoned Skull launches the attack, blasting the wall, destroying the entire maze. Since the Shadow Wall is part of the Labyrinth Wall, the creature is also destroyed.
"You did it," Serenity went.
"We did it Serenity," Yugi mentions. "I couldn't do it without your stop defense card."
"Guess you're right," Serenity agrees.
The entire room is now empty, with a light filled exit.
"That must be an exit," Yugi went.
Yugi, Serenity, and Summoned Skull runs towards the exit.
Yugi and others reaches the exit, finding it to lead to the outside.
Yugi and Serenity couldn't help but smile eternally.
"This is great," Serenity said.
"Yeah, now we can logout," Yugi said.
"Yeah, I have enough of this game for the day," Serenity.
Yugi and Serenity spotted the Star Crest and walks over to it.
As the two followed by the Summoned Skull still following them both, two figures walks in between them and the Star Crest.
"Well hi there," says Shippo.
"Oh no," Serenity went.
Yugi begins a demand, "get out of our way, we're leaving."
"You'll have to beat us first," Em said.
"You'll have to beat us in a double duel," Shippo also says. "That's the only way you'll leave this world. Challenge accepted?"
Yugi growls, very frustrated and angry, wanting to leave, but is now forced into a duel.
Yugi turns to Serenity, "are you willing to duel?"
Serenity with worried ness in her eyes, gulped. Then her eyes changed to being serious, and nods a yes.
*****
In the real world, Yugi's millennium puzzle shines as the pharaoh takes over
*****
An Egyptian eye appears on Yugi's forehead, which shocked everyone because they could see the eye.
"Challenge accepted," Yami-Yugi said.
The voice that came out of Yugi's characters mouth, shocked everyone even more.
"Man, he sounds even more different," Shippo mentions.
Serenity also shocked at the new Yugi, she thinks to herself, I never realized how different Yugi is when he's dueling. Is this what Joey meant when he said there are two sides of Yugi?
*****
Next week, Yugi and Serenity takes on Shippo and Em in a double duel