Hicky: Alright then. This chapter is another duel chapter. It's the Yugi vs Pegasus word for word so please enjoy the hard work I did. Plus there are some funny bits still. TRENT!

Trent: Hicky doesn't own Yu-Gi-Oh, and for all the homophobic people out there, you are very lucky she doesn't! Well, don't sue and enjoy!

Shadow Game

Celtic had been taken back to his room, many monster under the impression he had just eaten too much candy. A few of the monster that had carried him back stayed with him until he woke up. Dark, Gaia, Cee and Gee were all sitting somewhere in Celtic nicely sized room. Cee and Gee were on a desk, Gaia on the floor, Dark sitting on the edge of the bed. They were talking quietly. It was mostly Gaia and Dark who had a conversation, with an occasional, "It wasn't our candy that did it!" from the young guardians. Dark didn't pay much attention to them, not even a glance. To him they were just annoying pests that wouldn't leave until Celtic asked them to. Dark took the damp cloth off Celtic's forehead, wetted it, rung it out, and placed it back on the elf's head. After another fifteen minutes Celtic opened his eyes, almost reluctantly.

"You okay?" Came a calm, familiar voice.

"Dark Magician?" Celtic asked rubbing his eyes while he sat up. "I was having a great dream... I wonder what it was about...."

"How do you know it was good if you don't remember it?" Gaia asked, thinking he was so smart.

Cee and Gee snickered on the desk. "Well, maybe there is some-" Gee started.

"- physical evidence." Cee finished. Celtic was blushing quite a deep shade of pink.

"Heh... wasn't I at the party?" Celtic asked realizing that he was in his room.

"You fainted, we brought you home," Dark stated.

"Oh, alright. Thanks everyone, you can go if you'd like." Gaia gave a peace symbol as he walked out the door, Cee and Gee left too, telling Celtic to stay in touch.

"You sure you're fine?" Dark asked again.

"Yeah. I wonder why I fainted.... Nice costume," Celtic said looking again at Dark's Playboy Bunny costume.

"Yours isn't bad either... but if its alright then I'll be heading off too. I'll see you around." Dark got up and walked toward the door. For some odd reason Celtic's eyes wandered down to Dark well toned behind. His stare was broken when a strong duel vibe filled the room and Dark turned around quickly, a grin on his face. "It's time to duel." He snapped his fingers and he and Celtic were in their duelling attire. Together they hurried into the graveyard. More monsters showed up soon after, the duel was about to begin.

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Yugi and Pegasus were in the Shadow Realm. The powers of Yugi's puzzle had slightly altered his physical appearance, but mentally he was almost all Yugi. "Start the clock and make your move Pegasus." Yugi ordered his opponent.

"Certainly, let's begin... Nervous Yugi-boy? You should be... You've never faced a duellist like me before." Pegasus said to the young boy, letting him know who was in charge through words.

"You may be good..." Yugi said, not fearing Pegasus at all, skill or otherwise.

"I assure you, I am."

"But I will beat you to save my friends." Yugi looked at the cards in his hand a made the decision on which to play.

"You won't be saving anyone with that dragon card." Pegasus stated, as if mind reading was a normal thing to encounter.

Yugi was not quite as calm about it. "How?!" he asked almost shocked.

"I told you you've never faced anyone like me before... I know every move you'll make even before you can make it. Knowing every move you make gives me a distinct advantage wouldn't you say?" Pegasus continued to try and intimidate Yugi.

"What?"

Pegasus answered quickly, "For example, I can anticipate your next play and counter it with this Dragon Capture Jar. It will draw the Koumori Dragon from your card and imprison the beast... trapped, never to be played against me." As he spoke, the events he had just described happened, each in its own time. "This dark dimension we're in is known as the Shadow Realm... a mystical place were incredible things can happen and the impossible is quite possible."

"But what you're telling me can't be true," Yugi couldn't understand all of this talk. Yami was at the very back of his mind, unable to react to the information.

"Tell me Yugi... do you believe there is magic in these cards?"

"Don't you know? You invented this game."

"What if I told you I didn't," Pegasus openly admitted.

"Huh!?" was all the confused fifteen year old could ask.

"In ancient times the Egyptians called this the Shadow Game. Powerful pharaohs would hold mystical duels in other dimensions, just as we're doing now. But not with cards. They battled with real monsters and real magic. Magical forces so powerful the Egyptians lost control of them and nearly destroyed the entire world."

"It's a good story Pegasus but these monsters can't be real." Yugi said obviously not taking into account that the part of the story to do with the Shadow Realm was true, so why not the monsters.

"Tell that to my Dragon Piper. As his Flute of Resurrection frees your Koumori Dragon but puts him under my control." Koumori was greatly offended that she had been called a 'him', but since most of the dragons were male, and it was the rules, she just took it.

"I have to counter attack!" Yugi said as if he was speaking to someone that actually cared. "Silver Fang!" The two monsters attack, and Silver Fang whose attack points were five hundred bellows those of Koumori, was destroyed with a fabulous fire attack. "Ah! The Heat! Arg," Was Yugi's response as the tail end of the flames flicked in his face.

"Ha! As you see Yugi, these monsters are very real," he chuckled unpleasantly before continuing. "And also quite dangerous." Another chuckle. "Ah Yugi-boy, you really are quite entertaining... the way you scowl and sneer. So defiant and yet helpless. And so completely ignorant of the power of you Millennium Puzzle."

All Yugi could say was another one word question. "What?"

"Five thousand years ago a powerful pharaoh locked the magic of the Shadow Games away."

"What's this have to do with me?" Yugi asked, getting more confused by the second. The spirit wanting to know more.

"The pharaoh captured these vast magical energies in seven mystical Millennium Items,"

"Seven items?" Yugi repeated. "You're saying my puzzle's one of them?"

"Yes and there are mystical energies locked within it. Magic that could change your life if you only knew how to unleash it."

"But why are you telling me this?"

"Why? Simply because I need you to know, but perhaps I have said too much, and since the clock is still ticking I propose we resume playing our little duel."

Yugi realized that along this telling a good story, Pegasus had wasted more than five minutes of precious duelling time. He wnet to play a card, but quickly put it back when it was welcomed by Pegasus' smile. A realization about Pegasus' weird eye occurs and Yugi changes his strategy.

"Hurry up now Yugi-boy! Time is running out for you and your friends. I already know you plan to play the Zombie Warrior, and I'm already prepared to counter it with a trap card that makes even zombies lye down and play dead!"

"Not this time," Yugi said, having confidence in his plan. "I figured out your little game Pegasus. You may be able to see the cards in my hand but you can't see the cards I pull from the deck."

"Hum?" Pegasus makes the suggestion of some surprise.

"My next card is... the Dark Magician!"

"Ooh, a big, scary Dark Magician." Pegasus mocked.

'Better believe it bud!' Dark thought, not taking to the man who, right off the bat, insulted him.

"Mock me all you like, but my magician will destroy that dragon!"

"Go right ahead if you think it'll help," not the slightest care in his voice.

"It will do more than that Pegasus. It will bring you closer to defeat, and bring me closer to saving my friends."

"If it can do all that, by all means play it." Pegasus was encouraging Yugi to attack, but Yugi didn't bother wondering why.

"Dark Magician!... Dark Magic Attack!!"

After the blast came maniacal laughter, "Nicely played. But by playing your Dark Magician you've let me manipulate you once again... By playing that card you have insured my victory."

"No." Was all Yugi could say, not believing that even without being able to see his cards, Pegasus could still counter just as easily as before.

"We shall see Yugi... Oh, a very rare card," he said drawing and then showing it off. "This is the fearsome Faceless Mage."

'Fearsome... yeah right. As the name goes, faceless. Can someone tell me why a manikin with lips and doll heads coming out of its shoulders is scary?' Dark thought as he looked at his opponent.

"I've never seen that card before. But my Dark Magician is one of the strongest magic cards in the game."

At this point Dark wanted to turn around and ask Yugi when last he was used as a magic card. 'Maybe the Shadow Realm's a bit too much for him..... Oh Gods, we're in the Shadow Realm....'

"But how will he fair once I combine my Faceless Mage with the equally rare Eye of Illusion?"

"Dark Magician, Dark Magic Attack!"

'Gladly Master Yugi.' He attacked, but as the smoke cleared the other mage was still standing. 'What the fuck?!'

Pegasus chuckles again while Yugi contemplated what has just transpired.

"His Faceless Mage should have been destroyed-"

'Yeah!'

"- but it's still standing and I'm running out of time." Yugi drifted back into thought while Pegasus took control of his Dark Magician. "I attack your combo with the Celtic Guardian. This mighty warrior will cut your Faceless Mage down to size."

'Yeah, he knows what I am.... wait, didn't Dark just come here a second ago?... where is he?' Celtic thought.

"True your Guardian is mighty but you have once again underestimated the incredible power of my Eye of Illusion... Dark Magic Attack!"

'Dark Magic Attack??? What the- Arg!' Celtic did a perfect monster scream, the only sound allowed, before disappearing, and reappearing in the graveyard.

"But that's impossible!" Yugi almost yelled, "The Faceless Mage doesn't have a Dark Magic Attack1. Oh no!" Yugi quickly realized that it had been his own monster that had attacked him.

"Well Yugi, our time is nearly up, and as I have more life points than you, it appears I am the victor."

"Time's not up just yet Pegasus, and you've left your Faceless Mage vulnerable to a physical assault," Yugi wasted his precious time before actually calling the monster and the attack. "Summon Skull! Attack!"

Just before his attack Skull had a quick thought on how his attack was elemental, not physical, and that Yugi needs some sleep. By the time he went for the attack time ran out and the duel was over.

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Dark stood in the graveyard concentrating on where he had just been, filtering the extra strong duel vibe into words that all the monsters could hear.

First Pegasus' voice came, surrounding them all. "Well, we've run out of time, but how close was that? If you had been able to complete that attack I would have lost. But I didn't, did I?! I have taken the measure of your talents this day Yugi Moto and when next we duel, we shall play for much higher stakes."

Yugi's voice came next. "I'm done with your games!"

Pegasus again. "You assume I'm giving you a choice in the matter, but I'm not. Fore I too possess one of the seven Millennium Items... the all powerful Millennium Eye!"

Yugi again. "A Millennium Eye?"

Pegasus. "That's right Yugi-boy, and now I'll show you the true extent of its magic. You see, I have found that, given the proper incentive anyone can be made to play my game."

Suddenly an odd feeling came over them. A feeling that something was coming to the Shadow Realm that was don't supposed to be there.

A faint cry was heard, "Yugi......"

And an answer, "Grandpa!!"

The duel vibe dissipated and the monsters were free to go about doing whatever they wanted. Dark stood pondering for a moment. "Um, just who did everyone get destroyed by?"

Silver Fang answered first, "Koumori got me."

"And you got me Dark," said Koumori.

"You got me too," Celtic stated, slightly sad by what had happened, though not truly understanding why.

"So, did we just all destroy each other?" Dark asked them.

"Yeah, I guess we did."

"Well, that is probably the oddest and funniest duels I've ever been in. But I must apologize. It never feels right to destroy a team mate from the field, whether you fine or under control."

Other apologizes were exchanged and accepted. Then the monsters all went back to what they had been doing before.

1) Hicky- Did he not just say a little while ago that he didn't know the Faceless Mage, so how all of a sudden does he know what attacks it does and doesn't have?

Hicky: Okay! That was fun to write. I transcribed it, and wrote it in one night. Good for me! TRENT I need a pant on the back.

Trent: pants Hicky on the back

Hicky: hehehe, now I want a massage!

Trent: Yes your writership.

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