Chapter 5: Shadow Over Domino
An alleyway in northern Domino city. That night, 8:12 P.M. Two figures are in the alley. One is a ten-year-old boy holding crouching on the ground in fear. The other looks to be a teenager of about sixteen or seventeen.
Boy: Please, don't hurt me mister. (Holds out deck) I'll give you my deck just go away.
Teen: Your cards are pathetic! Why do you think I beat you? Now it's time to pay. (Draws out Millennium Rod and turns it into a dagger) Now it's time to meet Anubis. Don't worry, dying is painless.
Boy: (covers eyes) Mommy...Mommy!
Yami Marik: (stabs boy with dagger and transforms back into rod form) That gives me twenty kills, even. (Walks out of alley)
Man in Shadows: Good job.
Yami Marik: What's your number Bakura?
Yami Bakura: I have twenty-five.
Yami Marik: Hmm...I need to work a bit harder.
Yami Bakura: Yes, our little contest ends in two days.
Yami Marik: (puts a finger to his lips) Do you hear that?
Yami Bakura: (points at a speeding police car) Look out!
Police: (jump out of car and draw pistols) You're under arrest.
Yami Marik: How'd they know? (Turns to Bakura and raises and eyebrow)
Yami Bakura: Well, that one woman did manage to escape...
Police: Surrender. You can't escape.
Yami Bakura: I'll handle this. (Ring starts to glow) I summon forth Giant Soldier of Stone! (A large rock creature appears in front of them)
Police chief: Fire! (Police begin to shoot but the rock monster blocks the bullets)
Yami Marik: Now it's my turn. (Raises Millennium Rod)
Police: Master Marik. (Turn around and drop pistols. They run into the street and are hit by a truck)
Yami Marik: (moves finger up and down) That gives me another ten giving me 30.
Yami Bakura: I need to get to work. (Walks off)
Yami Marik: As do I. (walks opposite direction) Twenty minutes later at a restaurant in uptown Domino.
Yami Bakura: (Goes up to counter) May I have a cup of blood?
Cashier: You think you're funny or something? Get the hell out.
Yami Bakura: How about I drink yours! (Lunges at the Cashier who dodges and kicks him in the stomach)
Cashier: Next time don't try that on a Kung Fu Blackbelt.
Yami Bakura: Perhaps my physical strength isn't enough but how about dueling me to test your mental power?
Cashier: (Pulls a deck out of his pocket and puts a duel disk on his arm) Huh, ok. But if I win you gotta promise to never show your face 'round here again.
Yami Bakura: Fair enough. Let's duel.
Bakura 4000/Cashier 4000
Cashier: I only started playing a week ago so I'll go first. I set one monster.
Yami Bakura: Not a bad move. However, I'll activate the Magic Card Stop Defense! (Reveals monster)
Prevent Rat: 500/2000 (a small rat with blue-gray armor stood before the cashier)
Yami Bakura: Pitiful. I summon Goblin Zombie in attack mode!
Goblin Zombie: 1100/1050 (a small goblin with rotten brown skin snarled as he drew out a cruel blade)
Yami Bakura: Attack his monster with Undead Blade!
Goblin Zombie: (runs forward and slashes Prevent Rat in half)
Bakura 4000/Cashier 3400
Yami Bakura: I'll set one card and end my turn.
Cashier: You may think I'm just an amateur but you're about to learn! I summon Lord of Dragons in attack mode!
Lord of Dragons: 1200/1100 (A man with dark skin in dragon-bone armor emerged)
Cashier: Now I activate Flute of Summoning Dragon!
Lord of Dragons: (a horn appears and he blows it. Two monsters appear before the cashier)
Cashier: My Searyu in attack mode and the Ryu-Ran both in defense mode!
Searyu: 2500/2300. (A large, shining pink dragon appeared)
Ryu-Ran: 2200/2600 (a large dragon egg with two yellow eyes between the cracks)
Cashier: Now attack my monsters!
Cashier's monsters: (blow fire at Bakura and damage him)
Bakura 1400/Cashier 3400
Yami Bakura: Fool, you've fallen for my trap Fearful Earthbound! (A large brown mouth chomped through the Cashier's feet)
Bakura 1400/Cahsier 2400
Cashier: So what? A huge mouth? Either way I'm still ahead. Luckily it's your turn.
Yami Bakura: All right. I play card destruction. Now we must discard our hands.
Both: (discard hands and draw new cards)
Cashier: (thinking) He just helped me get one of my best cards
Yami Bakura: Well, I have a good card too.
Cashier: How'd you know?
Yami Bakura: That is a nice Raigeki you've drawn.
Cashier: What? How?
Yami Bakura: (holds up Millennium Eye) You are a mere mortal and have no idea of the Shadow Magic engulfing this plane. I will now play Exchange! Obviously I'll take your Raigeki.
Cashier: Then I'll take your Dark Necrofear.
Yami Bakura: Not much you can do is there? Now I play Raigeki! (A large bolt of lighting engulfed the Cashier's field. His dragons screeched as they were destroyed). And now for my finishing move. I activate Monster Reborn on your Searyu! (The field glowed as the Cashier's former monster appeared before Bakura)
Cashier: Damn you!
Yami Bakura: Now attack him directly!
Searyu: (a large multi-colored flame flew from his open mouth burning away the Cashier's final life points)
Bakura 1400/Cashier 0
Yami Bakura: (approaching Cashier) Now to get that cup of blood! (grabs a fork off a table and stabs it into Cashier's throat. He screams in pain and terror. Yami Bakura takes out a cup and uses it to catch the falling blood) Just what I wanted (takes a sip) that's twenty-six, Marik. I guess I'll get some more (heads toward restaurant patrons)
Meanwhile in an Alleyway in Domino City.
Yami Marik: (walking through alley) Where is everyone? That Bakura has probably already gotten another twenty kills.
Kid 1: Stop right there you jerk!
Kid 2: We're here to stop you!
Kid 3: Prepare to duel with...
All (kids): The Domino Dueling Dudes!
Yami Marik: (smirks) I don't have time...what a lame name too...(walks off)
Kid 1: He insulted us!
Kid 2: Get him! (Jumps onto Yami Marik)
Yami Marik: (throws him to the ground) Fine, I'll duel you three. It'll be three on one.
Kid 3: Ok, time to duel! (All three takes decks out of their pockets and put them on a table. They sit down, as does Yami Marik)
Kids (LP are added together) 12000/Marik 4000
Yami Marik: I, being at a disadvantage, shall go first. I set one monster and two other cards face down.
Kid 1: Yeah, well I summon Alpha the Magnet Warrior!
Alpha the Magnet Warrior: 1400/1700 (a gray robot with a sword and shield appeared from the card)
Kid 1: How?
Yami Marik: We're playing a Shadow Game...
Kid 2: I'm not scared! I summon Beta the Magnet Warrior in attack mode!
Beta the Magnet Warrior: 1700/1600 (a larger robot with a yellow body and magnet hands, feet and head emerged beside his ally)
Kid 3: So I'll summon Gamma the Magnet Warrior in attack mode!
Gamma the Magnet Warrior: 1500/1800 (a red robot with wings stood next to his cohorts)
Yami Marik: You're obviously trying to summon Valkyrion but that won't work. Now I activate one of my traps, Ultimate Offering! I shall now summon Harpie's Brother and Dark Blade in addition to my face down Big Shield Guardna! Now, I sacrifice them all to summon the Winged Dragon of Ra!
Winged Dragon of Ra: 3700/4800 (a large fiery yellow dragon towered over the playing field)
Yami Marik: Now I activate Shield and Sword swapping all attack with defense! Now Ra, annihilate Alpha!
Kids 8800/Marik 4000
Kid 1: Dang, now we can't summon Valkyrion! I set one monster!
Kid 2 and Kid 3: We switch ours to defense mode!
Yami Marik: Pitiful. You're all fools! Now I activate stop defense on your face down creature! (Kid 1's monster is flipped and is his Big Shield Guardna) Now I activate Ra's effect lowering my life points to 1 and adding them to his attack and defense!
Winged Dragon of Ra: 7699/8799
Yami Marik: Now attack!
Winged Dragon of Ra: (flames burst out and hit the Guardna)
Kids 1111/Marik 1
Kids: Crap! We're screwed!
Yami Marik: Now I shall play Final Flame and Sparks! (Fire covered the kids as they lost their final life points)
Kids 0/Marik 1
Yami Marik: Now to reap the benefits! (Turns Millennium Rod into dagger)
Kids: Nooo!
Yami Marik: Yes! (Delivers 3 quick stabs)
HES: What an exciting (and long) chapter. I will now give the kill counts for you sadists (I know you're reading, Tom) Yami Bakura: 30 (there were four others in the restaurant) Yami Marik: 33 Next time in Cast to the Shadows: Yugi comes home to find a strange robot in his house! It's D2! Yugi thinks he can win but with a deck made perfectly to beat him, how can he win? There's gonna be trouble on the next chapter of Cast to the Shadows!
An alleyway in northern Domino city. That night, 8:12 P.M. Two figures are in the alley. One is a ten-year-old boy holding crouching on the ground in fear. The other looks to be a teenager of about sixteen or seventeen.
Boy: Please, don't hurt me mister. (Holds out deck) I'll give you my deck just go away.
Teen: Your cards are pathetic! Why do you think I beat you? Now it's time to pay. (Draws out Millennium Rod and turns it into a dagger) Now it's time to meet Anubis. Don't worry, dying is painless.
Boy: (covers eyes) Mommy...Mommy!
Yami Marik: (stabs boy with dagger and transforms back into rod form) That gives me twenty kills, even. (Walks out of alley)
Man in Shadows: Good job.
Yami Marik: What's your number Bakura?
Yami Bakura: I have twenty-five.
Yami Marik: Hmm...I need to work a bit harder.
Yami Bakura: Yes, our little contest ends in two days.
Yami Marik: (puts a finger to his lips) Do you hear that?
Yami Bakura: (points at a speeding police car) Look out!
Police: (jump out of car and draw pistols) You're under arrest.
Yami Marik: How'd they know? (Turns to Bakura and raises and eyebrow)
Yami Bakura: Well, that one woman did manage to escape...
Police: Surrender. You can't escape.
Yami Bakura: I'll handle this. (Ring starts to glow) I summon forth Giant Soldier of Stone! (A large rock creature appears in front of them)
Police chief: Fire! (Police begin to shoot but the rock monster blocks the bullets)
Yami Marik: Now it's my turn. (Raises Millennium Rod)
Police: Master Marik. (Turn around and drop pistols. They run into the street and are hit by a truck)
Yami Marik: (moves finger up and down) That gives me another ten giving me 30.
Yami Bakura: I need to get to work. (Walks off)
Yami Marik: As do I. (walks opposite direction) Twenty minutes later at a restaurant in uptown Domino.
Yami Bakura: (Goes up to counter) May I have a cup of blood?
Cashier: You think you're funny or something? Get the hell out.
Yami Bakura: How about I drink yours! (Lunges at the Cashier who dodges and kicks him in the stomach)
Cashier: Next time don't try that on a Kung Fu Blackbelt.
Yami Bakura: Perhaps my physical strength isn't enough but how about dueling me to test your mental power?
Cashier: (Pulls a deck out of his pocket and puts a duel disk on his arm) Huh, ok. But if I win you gotta promise to never show your face 'round here again.
Yami Bakura: Fair enough. Let's duel.
Bakura 4000/Cashier 4000
Cashier: I only started playing a week ago so I'll go first. I set one monster.
Yami Bakura: Not a bad move. However, I'll activate the Magic Card Stop Defense! (Reveals monster)
Prevent Rat: 500/2000 (a small rat with blue-gray armor stood before the cashier)
Yami Bakura: Pitiful. I summon Goblin Zombie in attack mode!
Goblin Zombie: 1100/1050 (a small goblin with rotten brown skin snarled as he drew out a cruel blade)
Yami Bakura: Attack his monster with Undead Blade!
Goblin Zombie: (runs forward and slashes Prevent Rat in half)
Bakura 4000/Cashier 3400
Yami Bakura: I'll set one card and end my turn.
Cashier: You may think I'm just an amateur but you're about to learn! I summon Lord of Dragons in attack mode!
Lord of Dragons: 1200/1100 (A man with dark skin in dragon-bone armor emerged)
Cashier: Now I activate Flute of Summoning Dragon!
Lord of Dragons: (a horn appears and he blows it. Two monsters appear before the cashier)
Cashier: My Searyu in attack mode and the Ryu-Ran both in defense mode!
Searyu: 2500/2300. (A large, shining pink dragon appeared)
Ryu-Ran: 2200/2600 (a large dragon egg with two yellow eyes between the cracks)
Cashier: Now attack my monsters!
Cashier's monsters: (blow fire at Bakura and damage him)
Bakura 1400/Cashier 3400
Yami Bakura: Fool, you've fallen for my trap Fearful Earthbound! (A large brown mouth chomped through the Cashier's feet)
Bakura 1400/Cahsier 2400
Cashier: So what? A huge mouth? Either way I'm still ahead. Luckily it's your turn.
Yami Bakura: All right. I play card destruction. Now we must discard our hands.
Both: (discard hands and draw new cards)
Cashier: (thinking) He just helped me get one of my best cards
Yami Bakura: Well, I have a good card too.
Cashier: How'd you know?
Yami Bakura: That is a nice Raigeki you've drawn.
Cashier: What? How?
Yami Bakura: (holds up Millennium Eye) You are a mere mortal and have no idea of the Shadow Magic engulfing this plane. I will now play Exchange! Obviously I'll take your Raigeki.
Cashier: Then I'll take your Dark Necrofear.
Yami Bakura: Not much you can do is there? Now I play Raigeki! (A large bolt of lighting engulfed the Cashier's field. His dragons screeched as they were destroyed). And now for my finishing move. I activate Monster Reborn on your Searyu! (The field glowed as the Cashier's former monster appeared before Bakura)
Cashier: Damn you!
Yami Bakura: Now attack him directly!
Searyu: (a large multi-colored flame flew from his open mouth burning away the Cashier's final life points)
Bakura 1400/Cashier 0
Yami Bakura: (approaching Cashier) Now to get that cup of blood! (grabs a fork off a table and stabs it into Cashier's throat. He screams in pain and terror. Yami Bakura takes out a cup and uses it to catch the falling blood) Just what I wanted (takes a sip) that's twenty-six, Marik. I guess I'll get some more (heads toward restaurant patrons)
Meanwhile in an Alleyway in Domino City.
Yami Marik: (walking through alley) Where is everyone? That Bakura has probably already gotten another twenty kills.
Kid 1: Stop right there you jerk!
Kid 2: We're here to stop you!
Kid 3: Prepare to duel with...
All (kids): The Domino Dueling Dudes!
Yami Marik: (smirks) I don't have time...what a lame name too...(walks off)
Kid 1: He insulted us!
Kid 2: Get him! (Jumps onto Yami Marik)
Yami Marik: (throws him to the ground) Fine, I'll duel you three. It'll be three on one.
Kid 3: Ok, time to duel! (All three takes decks out of their pockets and put them on a table. They sit down, as does Yami Marik)
Kids (LP are added together) 12000/Marik 4000
Yami Marik: I, being at a disadvantage, shall go first. I set one monster and two other cards face down.
Kid 1: Yeah, well I summon Alpha the Magnet Warrior!
Alpha the Magnet Warrior: 1400/1700 (a gray robot with a sword and shield appeared from the card)
Kid 1: How?
Yami Marik: We're playing a Shadow Game...
Kid 2: I'm not scared! I summon Beta the Magnet Warrior in attack mode!
Beta the Magnet Warrior: 1700/1600 (a larger robot with a yellow body and magnet hands, feet and head emerged beside his ally)
Kid 3: So I'll summon Gamma the Magnet Warrior in attack mode!
Gamma the Magnet Warrior: 1500/1800 (a red robot with wings stood next to his cohorts)
Yami Marik: You're obviously trying to summon Valkyrion but that won't work. Now I activate one of my traps, Ultimate Offering! I shall now summon Harpie's Brother and Dark Blade in addition to my face down Big Shield Guardna! Now, I sacrifice them all to summon the Winged Dragon of Ra!
Winged Dragon of Ra: 3700/4800 (a large fiery yellow dragon towered over the playing field)
Yami Marik: Now I activate Shield and Sword swapping all attack with defense! Now Ra, annihilate Alpha!
Kids 8800/Marik 4000
Kid 1: Dang, now we can't summon Valkyrion! I set one monster!
Kid 2 and Kid 3: We switch ours to defense mode!
Yami Marik: Pitiful. You're all fools! Now I activate stop defense on your face down creature! (Kid 1's monster is flipped and is his Big Shield Guardna) Now I activate Ra's effect lowering my life points to 1 and adding them to his attack and defense!
Winged Dragon of Ra: 7699/8799
Yami Marik: Now attack!
Winged Dragon of Ra: (flames burst out and hit the Guardna)
Kids 1111/Marik 1
Kids: Crap! We're screwed!
Yami Marik: Now I shall play Final Flame and Sparks! (Fire covered the kids as they lost their final life points)
Kids 0/Marik 1
Yami Marik: Now to reap the benefits! (Turns Millennium Rod into dagger)
Kids: Nooo!
Yami Marik: Yes! (Delivers 3 quick stabs)
HES: What an exciting (and long) chapter. I will now give the kill counts for you sadists (I know you're reading, Tom) Yami Bakura: 30 (there were four others in the restaurant) Yami Marik: 33 Next time in Cast to the Shadows: Yugi comes home to find a strange robot in his house! It's D2! Yugi thinks he can win but with a deck made perfectly to beat him, how can he win? There's gonna be trouble on the next chapter of Cast to the Shadows!