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I've worked very hard on this special duel for Rishid! Hopefully I'll get a good review for this chap. This is probably the most difficult duel I've written (took me 'bout a week to do it!) So here's

Ch15 of: Reawakening of the Pharaoh!

A three on one battle, Rishid VS the Rare Hunters

A beaten up Rishid wearily stood up. "You will duel us, when you lose, we will have your Millennium Item cards and you will be nothing but a lifeless corpse." Pandora, the self- proclaimed Dark Magician Duelist said.

'Once we get into the finals, we'll destroy Yugi and Kaiba for beating us, Finally, we'll kill malik for toying with our minds!' Light mask thought.

"As the Ghouls' top hunters, we'll destroy you, you kiss up." Dark mask sneered.

"The rules are simple…" Pandora stated, " you will go first, then Light Mask will go, then it's your turn again, then I'll go, then you go again and then Dark Mask finishes that round."

Suddenly several torches lit up. "Let's begin, shall we?"

Rishid drew his hand and sixth card from his reconstructed deck. (Avatar of Apophis, Judgement of Anubis, Foolish Burial, Metal Reflect Slime, Metalmol pot, and Magic Jammer) "I set four cards face down and end my turn." Four cards appeared in front of Rishid; he coughed and some blood spilled out. 'I must be hurt a little more than I thought…'

Light mask looked through his hand and drew a sixth card. (Brutality Mask, Sacrifice Sealing mask, Neo the Magic Swordsman, Sonic Bird, Masked ritual, and Zolga) "I summon Zolga (1700/1200) in attack mode!" A large metal masked object with a cape around its body appeared. "Then I'll set three cards face down to end my turn!"

"My turn again," Rishid drew his next card (Makyura the Destructor). I summon, Makyura the destructor (1600/1200)!" An armored figure with the symbol of the Millennium Eye on its cover appeared. "Then I'll play, Avatar of Apophis (1600/1800) trap card!" The trap card revealed a snake with arms. And two heads, one serpent like and another like a human, which was below the snakehead. It carried a shield and a curved sword.

Pandora drew his hand and sixth card. (Magic clown Rijon, Black Magic Coffin of Revival, Thousand Knives, Decapitating blade, Crucifix of nightmares, and Ectoplasm) "I summon Magic Clown Rijon (1500/1300) to the field! And place three cards face down!" A masked clown and face- down cards appeared.

"Again I draw (Avatar of Apophis)." Rishid declared. "I set one card face down to the field."

Dark mask looked through his hand. (Demon summon, Michizure, Dark elf, Masked Hellraiser, Dark Wall of Wind, and Giant Orc) "I summon Giant Orc (2200/0) to the field in attack position." A gray beast with a face that screamed 'I'm absolutely stupid', popped out of the ground. He carried a large bone and looked like he was about to hit somebody.

"I reveal my facedown card, Another Avatar of Apophis!" Rishid said. The second snake warrior appeared. "Next, I'll play Temple of the Pharaoh." A large temple with a coffin engraved with the eye of Horus appeared. Mist began to cover the field, as he placed the card into the field card slot in his duel disk.

Light mask drew his next card (Senju of the thousand hands). "I summon Senju of the thousand hands (1400/1200)!" A stone monument burst up from the ground, thousands of hands were connected to its body, and its eyes glowed a fierce yellow to signify a spirit had taken over. "With this 'mere' idol, I can add a Ritual Monster to my hand." He took out his deck and pulled out a card (Masked Beast). "Now I play masked beast ritual! By sacrificing Senju and Zolga!" Two chamber pots appeared sucking in the souls of the two monsters, "Thanks to Zolga's effect, when sacrificed, I can gain 2000 life points! (LM: 8000)

A massive beast came out of the mist created by the two pots, its vile masked face glowed and demonic red from the eyes. (Masked beast 3200/2300) " I cannot attack this turn though…"

"I draw my next card." Rishid said. " Now I'll set one card face down in defense mode, my Makyura and both my Apophis' will also go to defense mode." A horizontal card appeared and the two snake warriors lowered themselves and held up their shields. Makyura crossed his arms and went into a kneeling position.

"Now I'll go!" Pandora said while drawing (Kycoo the ghost destroyer). "I summon Kycoo the ghost destroyer (1800/700) and have him attack! Buddhist Exorcism Chant!" A monk with prayer beads stepped out of the darkness, he began to chant and the bead flew towards the face down monster and began to squeeze the life out of the card only to reveal… "Metalmol pot (700/600)!" A purple formless creature appeared and it circled the cave once before eating everyone's hand. "We must draw five new cards," Rishid explained, "and discard our old hand to the graveyard."

"I'll activate Heavy storm, to get rid of those pesky face down cards!" Pandora said while looking through his new hand.

"Activate trap!" Rishid said. "Magic Jammer! I discard one card to get rid of the heavy storm!" The storm died down as the circle from the trap card contained it, and eventually stopped it. "Now I'll draw. (Royal Shrine) and activate Countdown to the Apocalypse!" A virtual sky opened up and black clouds began to rumble. "I pay 2000 life points to activate this." (R: 4000) "Fat lot of good that'll do you…" Pandora snickered.

"Now I'll equip My Avatar with a Demon Axe!" One of the snake guardian's swords was replaced with an oversized axe. (2600/1800) "Avatar of Apophis, attack the magic clown with guardian blade!" The guardian slithered under the floating clown and diced it into several pieces.

"My turn," Dark mask said, "I summon La Jinn Mystical Genie of the lamp (1800/1000)!" A green genie appeared out of a lamp. "Next I'll add brutality mask to increase his attack points by 1000!" (2800/1000) "Attack Makyura!" A cloud of green smoke destroyed the defense monster, suddenly; the genie was impaled with several spikes.

" What h-happened?!"

"Destroying Makyura lets me activate trap cards from my hand! Namely Sakuretsu Armor!" he revealed.

Dark Mask swore at Rishid.

"I draw (Pyro Clock of destiny)," Rishid said. 'I have another one of these in my hand…' he thought while looking at the card. "I set two cards face down and one card into my Pharaoh's Temple." A glowing card slid into the coffin at the top of the steps.

" My turn," Light Mask said. "First I'll play another Heavy storm magic card," Another storm brewed again

" I activate, Judgement of Anubis!" A coffin with a jackal on it appeared, a jackal spirit came out and took in the hurricane. "Now I'll destroy your Masked Beast and use its attack points to decimate your lifepoints!" (LM: 4800)

Light Mask swore then said, " I summon Melkid (1500/1200) the four masked beast in attack mode… then I'll end my turn."

"I draw now (Swords of Revealing Light)," Rishid declared. " First I'll activate my two pyro clocks of destiny!" A large stone clock with fire for arms circled the clock twice. " This puts this duel two turns ahead. Now I'll play Swords of Revealing light to block my for three turns!" Light swords appeared and cut off the three rare hunters from Rishid. "Now I'll activate, Royal Shrine to summon Holy Beast of Selket (2500/2000)!"Suddenly the ground began to shake and a fissure began, when it was done a giant red scorpion like monster crawled out and stood behind Rishid. " Holy beast- Selket, attack Kycoo with Sacrifice eater!" The monster grabbed the monk with its claws and devoured him, the monster grew bigger and gained more power (3000/2000). "Now Avatar of Apophis, attack Pandora directly with Guardian blade!" The snake guard sliced into Pandora's arm, both attack left Pandora with a small amount of life points. (P: 1700)

"I activate Black magic curtain!" Pandora announced. "I pay half of my life points to summon the Black Magician (2500/2100)!" A red Black magician came out of the magic curtain after a short show of his mastery of his staff he stood ready for attack. "But that's not all! I play Black Pendant to raise his attack to 3000! " A black jewel showed up on the center of the magician's uniform. "I'll end my turn."

" I draw (Dora of fate) and set one card face down and summon Vorse Raider (1900/1200) in attack mode to end my turn." Rishid said.

"I play Archfiend soldier in attack mode." Dark mask said. "Next I'll set one card face down."

"My turn now (Tomb Keeper's curser)," Rishid said. "I summon Tomb keeper's curser (800/800) in attack mode." A man with a floating wand appeared. "When he is summoned, I can inflict 800 points of damage to my opponent. I choose Dark Mask." He pointed to the taller man and the magic user mutter some words and energy hit the Rare Hunter square in the chest. (DM: 5200)

"Then I'll attack Light mask with my Vorse raider! Beast cutter slash!" The beast warrior took its sharpened staff and was about to stab the four faced demon when… "I activate Rush Recklessly to increase melkid's attack points by 700!" Dark Mask said while protecting his partner. The demon grew bigger, and swallowed the beast. (R: 3700)

"Thank you, now it's my turn I use both Archfiend soldier and Melkid the four faced beast to summon Mask Beast Death Gaurdius (3300/2500)." Light mask said. A three-faced beast taller than Rishid's Holy beast appeared in a blaze of dark sparks. "Death Guardius, attack Tomb Keeper's curser with Dark Energy Wave Crusher!" The demon unleashed three waves of smoke then tore the tomb keeper in half. (R: 1200)

Wasteland Zone

Yugi, Jounouchi, Malik and the others had met up after searching for the missing tomb keeper.

"Have you seen him?" Malik asked.

"I didn't find a thing…" Yugi said while looking down. He took out the Millennium puzzle box, 'I sure could use some help though.' He thought.

" How 'bout you Jou? Did you and Shizuka find anything? " Honda asked.

"Nothing."

Just then Anzu ran up to the rest of the gang. "I found some tracks! Come look!"

"Where?" Malik said. "Yeah show us!" Jounouchi added.

They walked over to where Anzu said she found tracks. "See? It looks like he was dragged in this direction!" She pointed west.

"I don't see any monsters in this area." Yugi said. " It doesn't look too good to duel anyway, there's a sandstorm going through here!" Wind and sand kicked up all around them as he tried to speak.

As they continued to follow the disappearing tracks they could see the border to the mountain region. " We'll go over there to rest the check in this area after the storm's over!" Malik tried to shout.

Back at the cavern

"I place one card face down in defense mode! And equip Holy beast of Selket with Horn of the Unicorn to increase his attack points by 700!" (3700/2500) "Holy beast of Selket attack dark mask with Sacrifice eater!" The large beast used its claws to grab the rare hunter and drain more life points from him. (DM: 1500)

"Yes, this will do fine…" Pandora said wickedly while looking at his drawn card. "I play Zombyra the Dark (2100/1700) in attack mode!" A skull-masked man with a cape and claws for hands jumped out of a swirling vortex. "Now I play Title of a Knight to transform my Black Magician, into Black Magician's Knight (2500/2100)!" The mage's wand was soon replaced with a sword and his armor became more like a knight's. " Oh did I mention that he automatically destroys a card once summoned?" The Selket beast disappeared in a few seconds after. "Now Black magician, attack the defense monster! Black magic Sword slash!" An ancient text began to show up on the sword and the knight sliced the defense monster in two pieces. The sliced card reformed and showed a… "Chaos pod (800/900)!" The white jar with another formless creature appeared. This time though, all the monsters were sent back to the player's decks.

"Now we must summon the same number of monster we had on the field." Rishid explained. Pandora went through a third of his deck before he summoned a level four monster. " Two Gemini elves (1900/800) in attack mode!" Two pairs of elves appeared. "Attack him directly! Twin Elvin spell!" "I counter with Waboku!" Rishid said.

"My turn! I lay one card face down on the field and play soul resurrection!" The beast of Selket returned to the field again. "Attack with sacrifice eater!" he pointed to one of the Gemini elves girls and the beast raised its attack to 3000 after eating the opposing monster. (P: 1300)

"My turn!" Dark mask said. "I summon Demon Summon (2500/1200) by sacrificing my Sangan that was summoned from the chaos pod!" The large lightning demon was about to launch an attack when…

"Activate my third Pyro clock of destiny! Turn the game ahead one turn and finish this game!" Rishid said.

"What's going on?" The three rare hunters cried.

"I've won! Look into the virtual sky!" A face with red eyes and a bright red mouth appeared in the air. Around the face twenty fireballs floated, the face roared and the fireballs began to rain down upon the three rare hunters bringing all their lifepoints to 0.

"Noooooo!"

"I've won!" Rishid screamed above the roar over the fire.