Yami Bakura: "You could have saved yourself the trouble and just handed over the God card when I arrived Seto. You were a fool to think you could beat me."
Yami Bakura starts walked towards Seto, but receives a small shock from an electric field.
Yami Bakura: "What the hell? The duel is over and I want Obelisk now! I won't be cheated out of immortality!"
Seto slowly gets to his knees, blood dropping from his mouth and his clothing torn.
Seto: Seto begins laughing. "You think this is over? You are the one who is a fool. I fight to the end no matter how hopeless it may seem. You fell for my trap."
Yami Bakura: "What? Back up what you speak!"
Seto: "You have a disease of underestimating your opponents. Only one Sword of Sealing Light is gone from my side. You have to do it twice more to win."
Yami Bakura: "Hah, no problem, with my...what's going on?" Ra disappears from the field.
Seto: "Underestimating yet again. When someone's LP reach zero, all cards on both players' fields and graveyards are removed from the game for the remainder of this duel."
Yami Bakura: "You son of a bitch! You purposely let me summon my Winged Dragon Ra so you could get rid of it!"
Seto: "As I told you, it is you who is the fool, not me."
Yami Bakura: "You dare insult me? I'll kill you for that! Let's finish this duel, it is almost over anyway."
Seto: "This duel is far from over Bakura, it has only just begun..."
At the library...
Jonouchi: "What are we looking for anyway?"
Shadow: "A book that may hold the answer to stopping the spirit of the Millenium ring once and for all."
Jonouchi: "Right...and where in this gigantic jungle of paper would we find this book?"
Shadow: "I don't know, I don't even know if it is here."
"It is here, if you know where to look."
Ishizu walks in the library and up to Jonouchi and Shadow.
Jonouchi: staring at Ishizu's wounds. "You're hurt, we have to.."
Ishizu: fighting pain "There's no time for that. Follow me to what you seek."
Ishizu leads Jonouchi and Shadow up a long spiral staircase. She points to a bookcase down the hall on the top floor. Jonouchi presses ahead as Ishizu holds Shadow back.
Ishizu: still looking ahead "Why are you here Kyo?"
Shadow: "Wha...what did you call me?"
Ishizu: "I know who you are. You knew the previous holder of the Millenium Necklace. What I want to know is why you are here."
Shadow: "I...umm...there's no time for this Ishizu. We must find what I need to know."
Shadow rushes ahead.
Ishizu: "Fight for the right reasons Kyo, not for yourself."
Shadow, Jonouchi and Ishizu arrive at the bookcase aisle at the end of the hall. They hear a voice as they turn the corner, a familiar voice...
Yami Bakura: "Well then, I believe it is your turn now. Hurry this up, I have a world to dominate."
Seto grins towards Bakura as a bit of blood drips down his chin to his neck. Seto wipes the blood in an upward motion, letting the blood build up on the tip of his finger. He then flicks it towards Yami Bakura
Seto: "You talk well more than you should Bakura. My turn, and I will now make you feel pain as you did to me. I draw..." Seto grabs a card "No monster yet, but no matter. I have all I need to finish your first life."
Yami Bakura: "Hah, good luck without a monster, fool."
Seto: "Oh, but I have a monster. On my last turn I used Dimensionhole on my own Blue Eyes White Dragon, which means that since it is my turn once more..." Seto points above him as Blue Eyes comes back into play.
Yami Bakura: "I see in the little time you've had, you have come up with a well devised plan. Bravo Seto."
Seto: "I need not your applause. Blue Eyes, teach him a lesson about what he has gotten into!"
The Blue Eyes White Dragon opens it's mouth and fires a bright blast that smashes Yami Bakura in his stomach. The impact knocks him to the ground, but he immediately gets up. Although trying to act unphased, it is obvious the attack had an effect on him.
Seto: "So you do feel pain. And here I thought someone claiming to be immortal would be impervious to such things. You disappoint me."
Yami Bakura: "Let us finish this duel and you will not be disappointed with anything about me you fool."
Seto: "We are now back at square one, full life each, only two lives left. But you only have one more god card, as do I. The playing field is much more even now."
Seto: 5000
Yami Bakura: 5000
Yami Bakura: "Right, whatever you say, I draw my next to begin the last turns of your pathetic existence. I play my second Goblin Attack Force (2300/0), and just like that your second life is nearly half done."
Seto: 2700
Yami Bakura: 5000
Seto: "Heh, how pathetic, I figured you'd think of something better than that. I draw my card...hmm...a little bit of deja vu here wouldn't you say? I summon the Spear Dragon (1900/0) in attack mode. However, to change things a bit, I will equip my dragon with the Axe of Despair. Attack him now!"
Seto: 2700
Yami Bakura: 2100
Seto: "Talk a bit more of your trash Bakura. I don't believe you have made yourself out to be as much of an idiot as you truly are."
Yami Bakura: "Enough talk, you have angered me beyond any point I've ever reached. I will not forget about this after I finish you in this duel. You will eternally suffer, mark my words!" Yami Bakura draws his next card "I will play the Portrait's Secret (1200/1500) and destroy your Spear Dragon with it. Take your turn."
Seto: "If you insist. I will play Vorse Raider (1900 atk) and strike down you ugly painting. Raider, attack!"
Seto: 2700
Yami Bakura: 1400
Yami Bakura: "Well, this is moving along quite quickly." Bakura draws a card from his deck "Has it puzzled you yet what I intend to do when I win this duel?"
Seto: "IF you win this duel Bakura..."
Yami Bakura: "It was spoken as I meant it. WHEN I win this duel, I will have infinite power, there is nothing in the world that can stop me. I will have all of the power imaginable, all of the millenium items and all of the gods themselves in my possession. Just imagine the things I could do! Or, if you dare, imagine the things that I will do..."
Seto: "You will have to win this duel first, and I will make sure that does not happen."
Yami Bakura: laughing to himself "Your confidence is so incredibly amusing Seto. I will play Graceful Charity, and will discard two of my fiend monsters from my hand. Now I will remove the three of them from my graveyard to summon the great Dark Necrofear (2200/2800). This is going to be ending quite soon. I will also play a La Jinn the Mystical Genie (1800/1000). Necrofear, attack the Vorse Raider!"
A Sword of Sealing Light zaps the Necrofear. He becomes ethereal.
Yami Bakura: "Oh yeah, right, damn it...I hate you so much Seto. Fine, I end my turn."
Seto: "I will end much more than a turn. I play Cost Down, and to accompany it, I will use Soul Exchange to tribute your La Jinn the Mystical Genie to summon my Blue Eyes White Dragon (3000/2500). But unlike you, I know I cannot attack this turn. So go..."
Yami Bakura: "...I have nothing to play this turn. Go."
Seto: "Are you beginning to give up hope Bakura? Come on, this is just getting fun right? After placing a Black Pendant, I order you Blue Eyes, destroy the Dark Necrofear."
Seto: 2700
Yami Bakura: 100
Seto: "I'll set a little guy in defense now, just in case."
Yami Bakura: "Cower you mutt, for you will need to. Dark Necrofear, take his Blue Eyes and make him work for me!" Blue Eyes switches sides of the field, and grows darker in color than normal.
Seto: "What are you doing to it? Stop it now!"
Yami Bakura: "Hah, I like it when you beg like that. I am making him mine, he is home now. Stop defense I now play for your pathetic defenses."
Mask of Darkness (900 atk) flips up on Seto's side of the field.
Yami Bakura: "Weakness, how unlike you Seto. Why would you play such a pathetic creature?"
A moment of silence ensues. Seto avoids any eye contact with Bakura as Bakura is thinking of the answer to his own question...
Yami Bakura: "I get it, you're believing in that heart of the cards crap now too. You believed this little guy, even though you would never really put him in your deck, would actually help you out. HAH, pathetic!"
Seto: "Why were you not attacked by my system for reading my mind...my program must be failing."
Yami Bakura: "It is your entire plan that is failing. And I did not need a power to read your mind on that one, it was quite obvious. I am sure at the moment you are wishing you never trusted such crap. Blue Eyes, destroy the weakling."
Seto: 100
Yami Bakura: 100
Yami Bakura: "One more turn and this second life of yours is gone. Then Osiris shall finish you once and for all."
Seto: "One turn is all I need, if it is fate that we meet here today, then it is fate that I will destroy you, and it is fate that my next card will turn the tide of this duel."
As Seto reaches down to draw his next card, he closes his eyes and envisions all of the times he has been beaten by Yugi Mutou. All of the times that Yugi had "luckily" drawn the one card that could possibly save him in the duel and lead him to victory. "If it truly wasn't luck as Yugi spoke of," Kaiba thought to himself, "then that same force will allow me to draw the card I wish to draw." Seto grabs a card and lifts it to his face. He opens his eyes to see what he has drawn...
Did the heart of the cards pull through for Seto, who is finally believing that such a thing exists? And even if it has, what will happen in the next part of the duel, where Yami Bakura already has the Saint Dragon Osiris in his hand, and Seto is yet to see Obelisk? The end of the duel is near, and the winner of the duel could decide the fate of the entire world. Chapter 11: As clear as water, The final part of the set?