I Am The Dark Magician Girl

By Anime2000

Disclaimer: I'm too tired to type this......... Well, no. I just don't wanna. And I'm pretty sure that you guys are smart to know that I don't and probably never will own Yu-Gi-Oh!. Rereads last sentence. Eh? Oh. That was a big waste of space. --;

Geez, when was the last time I updated? Oh yeah! Now! Hehe......... --; okay, anyways...

Wow, it's hard to believe that most of the readers preferred 'I Am the Dark Magician Girl'. blinks Apparently it's catchy. Okay, we'll keep it! No prob!

Whoo, I taped this Duel down, so I can get the dub's dialogue word for word! Bwahaha!! So that means if you don't mind almost endless chatter by both authoress and characters, then proceed.

OOH! I've settled on an ending for this fic. I was gonna make this the last chapter, but......... I was just informed me that DMG appears again! So, after the Duel between Yugi and Noa, I'll end this fic. That way, I'll be able to write the rest of the 'Magic Trilogy'. So don't get super mad at me.

A Ritual Monster. What kind of monster would he summon? If he was willing to wait out three turns and lose more than 2000 Lifepoints, it must be a really powerful one!

"It's time for me to do what my associates couldn't," Tristan said. "Defeat you two so we can all escape. You couldn't begin to imagine what monster lurks in my deck!" 'We can all escape'? Something's wrong with this picture. Maybe that's not him, but some one else?

Yami scowled. "Tell me!"

"Oh you'll find out. I'm about to summon it!" Everyone's attention soon focused on the magic card that he played three turns ago. "Thanks to my Alter of Mists, I can add any ritual magic card to my hand. And I choose this," he declared, adding the ritual card to his hand. "Dragon Revival Ritual! This card allows me to summon my all powerful five headed dragon!"

"That's not true!" Yami said as if that was against the rules. Oh, hey! It is! He doesn't have any monsters on the field to sacrifice!

"Very perceptive," 'Tristan' smirked. "I have to have five monsters, each with a different attribute!" Well, I don't see any.

"Well, I may be missin' something," Joey said in a smart-alecky way. "But I only see one monster on your side!" Couldn't have said it better myself.

"Correct!" countered our opponent. "You ARE missing something Mr. Wheeler." 'Mister'? Well, that just proved that that wasn't Tristan! "Jinzo isn't my only Deck Master, remember?"

Joey looked shocked for a moment. Then confused. "Eh? An' whaddaya mean by that, Lector?" Then he was back to shocked. "Aw! The other members of the Big Five!"

"That's right!" Yami gasped. Oh... Man, this is confusing!

"Their monsters count too! Since all five've those creeps are using Tristan's body........." I frowned as I tried to keep up. I knew that there was something like this going on, but from this Duel, can't they only get two bodies if Yami and Joey lose? Which they won't. And aren't you only allowed to have one Deck Master, even if you're sharing a body? After all, Yugi and Yami are two minds in one, right?

"My five Deck Masters; come forth! I call you all to the field!" Lector said, his smile never wavering. Each monster was summoned. "Now listen to me, my five Deck Masters! I command all of you to join together to form a creature of unparalleled strength and supreme power!" I'm pretty sure that God Cards are more powerful.

The five monsters have formed a circle. As their Duelist rambled on, the field started to glow. I don't like this. I don't like this. No I don't. Nope.

"Behold! The ultimate monster! My Five Headed Dragon!" He announced, laughing. The ground started shaking. The monster was summoned.

Wow. That's.........

A really big dragon.

With........ I count five heads. Hold on, one two three... Yes that's five. Of course.

And it's attack is 5000. Oh mannnn......... It's gonna hurt when it attacks.

"We've faced this beast before," said Yami. Well, that's good. So I can assume that they know its weaknesses, right?

"I know!" Joey said, not taking his eyes from the dragon. "How could I forget? It was the last time we fought these cyber creeps! That super dragon took out my monster! And me with it!" I must've missed that Duel. But from the expressions on the Duelists' faces, I could tell that it wasn't an easy Duel. "Let's just hope my luck's better than last time!"

"Well, the good news is Lector's dragon can't attack until his next turn!"

Joey sighed in relief. So did I. Until.........

"Hold on!" Lector said from his place on one of the dragon's heads. "I forgot to mention: My dragon destroys every monster, magic, and trap card as soon as it's summoned. Eh......... No, that includes myself as well! Is he just making this up as he goes along?

I guess not. "Oh no!" cried Joey as the dragon opened all five of its mouths, unleashing a powerful wind at us. I closed my eyes and braced myself as best as I could, but it was pointless. I felt myself shatter painfully into hundreds of little shards. It was like little needles were being jabbed into my skin!

A moment later, I felt myself being reconstructed by the tiny pieces. I opened my eyes. An eerie mist hung in the air. Practically dead trees and grass that was barely alive were the only signs of vegetation. Tombstones. Ergh, I'm back in the Graveyard. Hopefully, the Reaper of Cards is taking a day off.

"Help!!" Ah, I knew I was wrong. And that was Mystical Elf!

"Where are you?" I yelled, looking around frantically. "Mystical Elf!"

"Dark Magician Girl!" I looked straight ahead of me. She was running towards me. The Reaper of Cards was right behind her. After two encounters or so with this guy, you'd get sick of him! I have. And he can't bully my friends or the people I care about around!

Mystical Elf ran past me. Then she stopped. "Dark Magician Girl, there you are! The Reaper of Cards is here. Run!" She blinked. "Oh wait. You have 2000 attack points and he only has 1380!"

"Is that true?" I said to the Reaper. He stopped in midair. "That means I've got more attack points than you!" And I've been running away because...?

"So?" he said, a low chuckle escaping from him. "We're already in the Graveyard. I bet you're tired like last time."

I held my wand in front of me, focusing my magic like always. He charged towards me with his scythe raised.

I waited until he swooped down. I took that to my advantage and jumped up and kicked down. "Nya!" I laughed as he fell facedown onto the ground. Attacking him from the front was too obvious! So I decided to lower his guard.

I landed. Although, it wasn't as graceful as I would have liked it to be. I threw my wand as hard as I could at that caped creep. It hit! And with so much magic stored in it, it blasted him into the air before boomeranging back to my outstretched hand. Hehe, I get much more confident and better with each Duel! And maybe a living wand isn't so bad! "So from now on, leave me alone!" I yelled, waving my wand in a farewell gesture.

"Goodbye!" Mystical Elf added as the Reaper of Cards landed a good distance away from us. She looked at me. "Thanks. I didn't think that I'd be summoned to a Duel today."

"Neither did I," I said, nodding. "Until Harpy Lady—Uh oh." A pang of alarm rang through my body. "Um, I gotta go! I've got another Duel I need to get to!" Without waiting for her reply, I ran out of the Graveyard.

A light wind blew across the field. "They didn't leave," I said, trying to convince myself that. There weren't any signs that anyone had Dueled here.

Wait. I turned my head towards my left. "Whoa!" I jumped back as a blur of claws and wings flew in front of me. "Harpy Lady!"

"Of course," she said, brushing some free feathers from her shoulder.

Someone knocked my helmet off my head. My hands shot up immediately to catch it. My face burned with embarrassment as I placed it back on my head.

"And here we thought you ran away!"

"But guess you weren't the coward we thought you were," said the other. Before I had time to react, I was pushed roughly to the ground.

"Hey! That was cheap!" I yelled at them, hastily getting up and backing away from her.

"Don't you remember what I told you?" she asked, walking closer to me. No. I almost forgot my notes to self. Shows you what I can remember, ne?

Glancing around, I noticed that the other two were nearing me too. "Graceful, Skull, where are you?" I mumbled and bit my lip. A chill went down my spine. What if they left? I was really depending on them! And the entire Duel was to find out what they did! That just makes me mad. Oh, forget them! I've got bigger problems to worry about at the moment!

Hope this works. I jumped.

Okay, I FEIGNED a jump. They took the bait and leapt up while I dove under one. By the time they landed, I was already standing. A grin lit up my face. I didn't think that they'd fall for it!

They bolted towards me. I ducked. Their Rose Whips missed me. They cooperated perfectly as a team, but they keep on using the same attacks over and over again.

So shouldn't that work to my advantage, the team thing? One would think that, hm? A shrill whistle pierced through the late afternoon air. I turned around to look at the Harpy Ladies. "What?"

Elly had my wand in her hands. I now realized that I was missing it. How did she...? She tossed it back to me. "I think that you might need this. We'd like you to meet our Dragon." I heard flapping. It must have been a big pair of wings. The ground shook as the creature landed. Oh yes. Very big. I turned my head just a little, but that was all that was necessary. The Harpy's Pet Dragon.

"Um..." I gawked at it. "Hi?"

The maroon dragon stared at me in a dull way. Kinda bored. Kinda ready fight. It took in a deep breath.

And that was my cue to run like there was no tomorrow. "Fly, fly, FLY!!" I yelled at my wand, shaking it crazily. It reacted just in time to avoid the attack! Zooming underneath me, it lifted us off the ground and into the air.

I didn't get a break for too long. The dragon flapped its leathery wings and lifted itself off the ground. It opened its mouth to unleash another fiery blast at me. "Down!" I screamed. My wand obeyed, and the fire narrowly missed me.

Soon I found myself yelling "Dodge, up, faster!" and anything that sounded right. I must have said them in the right order because I didn't get hit!

Things were fine until something weird happened to my wand. It started slowing down! "Oh come on! Down!" I muttered, trying to maneuver it to avoid major injuries.

It stopped. My wand—it just stopped in mid-air! Harpy's Pet Dragon seized that moment and swiped downwards. "Wah!" Its paw struck me, slamming me to the ground.

I didn't feel anything at first, but then a wave of agony washed over me. I had my eyes shut tightly. There's no way I'm letting them have the satisfaction of seeing me cry because of them!

I let out a half surprised, half pained cry. It was trying to crush me! I could hear startled and angry yells from the Harpies. So this wasn't their idea?

I needed help! Fast! "Graceful..." I whispered through gritted teeth. "Skull Dice, where are you!?"

'Right here!' I opened my eyes to see the familiar little demonic form of Skull Dice. I felt tears spill down my cheeks. He gave me an annoying look that suggested either sympathy or anger. Knowing him, most likely anger. 'Come on!' he said, trying to sound encouraging. 'I wanna know is why you're acting like a big crybaby!' Yes, real encouraging.

"What I........." I growled, grabbing him with my free hand. "What I wanna know is where you've been during all the times I called for you!" I squeezed harder as the dragon added more of its weight on me. "RRG!" Ra, I think some of my ribs just cracked!

'Ow, ow!' he shouted, struggling to get out of my grip. 'Hey, I'm not a Scapegoat! Don't go venting all your frustration and pain out on me!!'

"Then what DO you do?!" I screamed as more tears streamed from my eyes. My arm was shaking. "I ... I'm in a much worse situation than... than you!!"

'Let go! Let go!' He yelled, amazingly freeing one of his arms. 'I'll show you!'

Instead of actually letting him go like just dropping him, I threw him up into the air. "Then go!"

I saw my wand about a foot or so away from me. I couldn't reach it. My fingertips barely touched it! I looked up. Skull was flying around the dragon's head as the Harpy Ladies screeched it furiously. Skull's red die appeared in his hands. It was bigger than usual.

'Hey, ya ugly overgrown lizard! You ugly overgrown SPOILED lizard!!'

Harpy's disobedient dragon snarled and leaned forward trying to trap him in its mouth. Since I was at the bottom, I felt the full weight. "Skull—SKULL!!" I yelled as I felt my entire body scream in objection at the weight that was put on it. The air was being pushed out of my lungs! Using my last breath, I managed a "SKULL, THIS ISN'T HELPING!!"

'Oh! Sorry,' he said in a slightly too casual manner. 'Okay, one, two, three!' He threw the red die. It bounced between the monster's eyes and fell to the ground. There it rolled for a brief moment and stopped. The dragon blinked. And then roared, making powerful, but inaccurate swipes at Skull with its other arm.

The little demon was teasing it relentlessly, flying higher and higher with each insult. I see what he's doing! He was irritating the dragon. It would want to double its chances at swatting that little fly that was buzzing around its head. I gasped as it lifted the paw that was holding me down.

'Oh, cr—AAH!!!!' The dragon hit him! He fell to the ground with a dull thud and an 'Oof!'. I grabbed my wand and started to stand up. I winced. Pain seared through my left leg. I hadn't noticed until now. Broken, no doubt.

Trying to ignore it, I called out, "Skull! Skull, are you—"

'Dra—dragon!'

I looked back. Sure enough, there it was. Its jaws were open, flames pouring out. I lunged forward, snatched Skull, and rolled away in a quick rescue. I held him close to me and pointed my wand at the beast. I tried to take in a deep breath, but the best I could do were short pants. Every part of my body hurt! "Um... Exactly what did you do...?"

Skull looked over my shoulder. When his gaze landed on his die, he groaned, 'Absolutely nothing!'

I gave him distressed look. "What do you mean 'nothing'?!"

'The die landed on a one!' He grumbled. 'What's 2900 divided by one?'

"2900!!" I replied in a jumpy way while dodging another one of Harpy's Dragon's attacks. "Ngh!"

Soon, I found Skull wailing into my ear, 'GET GRACEFUL! GET GRACEFUL!'

"Don't you think I've tried that already?!" I cried just as the dragon let loose another gust of its scorching breath at us.

'Try again!' he said, waving his little arms madly. 'What's it gonna cost ya?!'

Nothing... All right. "Graceful Dice, I need you NOW!"

That's it. We were swallowed by flames. But it didn't hurt. 'Are we dead yet?' whimpered Skull pitifully. He really sounded as if he was going to cry.

'Don't be stupid,' the voice of Graceful Dice said as he sat himself on my helmet. Wow. It stayed on. Er... back to the Duel. 'Dark Magician Girl's battle aura saved us.'

"'Aura'?" I asked. Now that I'm paying attention, I felt it. A brilliant violet glow flared from me, dispersing the fire that had surrounded us.

'I knew that,' Skull said, trying to recover some of his lost dignity. He looked down at Graceful's die. 'A four! Multiply that to your attack points!' Oh yeah, he had thrown it at me. My attack power had multiplied to 8000. Harpy's Dragon gave me a, I could guess, confused look. As if it was wondering why I wasn't reduced to cinders.

I slowly got up, making sure to shift my weight to my undamaged leg. 'Go for it!' Graceful cheered from his perch.

I twirled my wand in my hand, letting my new magic reach every centimeter of it. "Payback time." I raised it above my head and swung it in a downward motion, releasing a falcate rush of dark magic. "Dark Burning Attack!!" My attack hit the dragon with full power, knocking it down. I held my wand up again; ready to attack again if necessary.

"Stop!" Elly ran in front of her pet with her arms stretched out. "Don't hurt him anymore!" Her sisters joined her.

I lowered my wand and managed a weak grin. That was before I collapsed to my hands and knees. "Doesn't matter. I forfeit," I whispered while Skull yelled at me to stand up. Graceful put an end to that by dropping his die on Skull's head. "I just wanted to know what Skull and Graceful's abilities were. You wanted to test your strength," I explained as Skull tackled Graceful to the ground. "I think we both got what we wanted." Those last two sentences barely made it out of my mouth.

Elly ran over to me. "Hey, Magical Girl, are you okay?" Her voice was panic-stricken. "Can you hear me?" She had grabbed my shoulders and started shaking me.

"Y—yeah," I grumbled, trying to slap her away. "I—I'm fine!"

I looked at her. She had a frown on her face and her arms were crossed. "Look, I'm not your best friend, but I'm not going to let you die here because of my dragon! I honestly don't know what's wrong with him..." She gave her pet a worried look. Then that look was directed to me. "Anyways, if I just leave you here, my conscience won't leave me alone, and Dark Magician most likely won't either."

"Most likely."

I stared behind her. "M... Master?" I asked uncertainly. This mage—no, this knight—was fully clad in purple armor and a black and red cape. In his hand was a turquoise sword. He rested its blade on his shoulder. That couldn't be him. I must be delirious.

Elly stood up and brushed some unseen dirt off of her. "Dark Magician," said acknowledging his presence.

"It's Dark Magician Knight," he corrected her coolly.

"Tch, Dark Magician Knight, Dark Magician Girl! It's all the same!" she snapped, and walked away. She stopped. "And, uh, Dark Magician Girl... Sorry. For all that trouble."

I smiled. "It's all right. But next time we Duel, how about we use Lifepoints?"

She laughed. It wasn't forced. "Yeah, we will." She tugged playfully on her dragon's chain. "Come on, you big oaf," she said in a good-natured but scolding way. "We're going home."

When she and her sisters—and their pet—left, my attention focused on the knight. He held out his hand to me. "Take my hand," he instructed.

"Oh... okay." I knew that he wouldn't hurt me, but to be honest, he scared me. I put my hand in his outstretched palm. Instantly, a tingling current surged through my fingertips. Before I could pull myself away, his fingers closed over mine. The feeling rushed through my arm and my entire body! It hurt in a strangely pleasant way. He pulled me up to my feet. "No, my leg—"I started to protest. The weird sensation left me. And so did pain. "—is okay?" He let go of my hand to let me test it myself.

Skull and Graceful had stopped fighting and sat peacefully on the ground, watching me hop and twirl around on my left leg. Skull finally said, 'So are you feeling okay or not? We don't have all day to watch you dance around.' Graceful nodded expectantly.

I blushed. "Uh huh." I did one last twirl and then stopped. "In fact, better than before!" I looked at Dark Magician Knight carefully. He had remained silent during my silly antics. I walked over to him. "Hmm...Is it really you?"

A surprised look appeared on his face. He took a few steps back but tripped on his cape and stumbled. He dropped his sword. Luckily, he did regain his balance. "Why... Why would you say that?" he asked, looking to his side as if he thought that tuft of grass over there was interesting. For some reason, that made all my doubts about his identity immediately vanish.

"Um, well, you look different," I said while staring at the blade he dropped. That was most likely my fault. I hadn't realized that my face had been a few inches away from his. I didn't mean it! His striking sapphire eyes lingered in my mind.

Skull started to say something, but Graceful slapped his hand across his mouth. 'Shh!' I heard him murmur. 'Pretend we're not here!'

I picked up his sword. "Uh..." Whoa, it was heavy! Struggling a little, I managed to hold it up with both arms. "Uh... Sorry... Master." It slipped from my grasp and nicked the skin on my right arm. "Ow!" Two exasperated sighs came from the two dice holders. A foolish grin appeared on my face as I handed him his sword back.

"Thanks." He examined my arm. "You get into trouble wherever you go, don't you... Apprentice?" Before I could reply, he added. "But my magic doesn't work very well with cuts—"He muttered something unfathomable and continued, "We'll have to go home to get bandages."

"Um..." My face turned crimson. "Actually, I think we might be out. But I'll be fine! It's not a deep cut, after all." I started to walk backwards. "Eh, let's just go home!" I exclaimed, clasping my hands together and tilting my head a little.

He smiled and followed me. Since he was faster than me, I ended up following him. 'Hey wait up!'

Graceful flew in front of me, panting for breath. 'You forgot your wand!'

"Oh, oops," I said, accepting it. "Thanks a lot, Graceful." I hugged him.

'You know, I don't really care, but all this armor doesn't suit you!' Skull said to Master in a criticizing tone.

"I like it," I said without delay, more to myself than Skull. "I think he looks great."

'OoooooOOOOoooo—'

"So you Dueled Harpy Lady?" Master asked, quickly changing the subject. He also gave Skull a gentle clout on the head to shut him up.

"Yup," I said, nodding. "But she really wanted a rematch with you." And apparently didn't get her Duel. Maybe she was just tired from our Duel. Maybe it was her pet. Ah, she'll probably get her rematch sooner or later.

"You did well against her and her sisters. And dragon," Master said, staring at the sky. It was starting to darken. The sun was setting.

"I gave up."

"But you would have won. You defeated the most powerful monster they had. I would know. I've Dueled her often."

'Is she your girlfriend?' asked Skull slyly.

My teacher gave him an annoyed look. "No, more of a friend."

That reminded me of that one girl that he knew. "Ah... Master?" I asked apprehensively. "How... How many female friends do you have?"

He gave me a strange look. "Why do you ask that?"

I squeezed Graceful tighter in my crushing embrace. "Oh, no reason," I said, wondering if what I was feeling was jealousy. "No reason at all."

Geez, that was the longest chapter I've ever written for this fic! Even without the 2 ½ pages for the Joey and Yugi vs Big Five Duel, it was about 8 pages. I guess the ending was boring, yes... Oh well, R&R, please!