Chapter 176: Return of a Demon: Deceit, Part 2

The score was Bakura: 2150 and Jessica: 1250. Bakura had made a strong come back as Jess tried to take him down at once but ended up facing a stronger monster, Despair From The Darkness. But now Bakura has unleashed Carnal of God toward Jess, ready to bring her down.

Jess growled as her Dark Necrofear and Vampire Lady stood aware of the darkness while Bakura laughed as his Despair From The Darkness stood ready for any called attack.

"I'll set a card face down and then end my turn." Bakura announced.

Jess drew her next card. "Now! I shift Dark Necrofear (2200/2800) and Vampire Lady (1550/1550) into defense mode!" Jess announced as her two monsters kneeled down and guarded themselves. "I'll also set a card face down and end my turn."

"Draw..." Bakura said, drawing his next card. "Now! I summon Diabound Curse! (1800/1200)"

"Err.." Jess growled as the half snake, half human creature moved forward.

"Now! Diabound Curse, attack and destroy Vampire Lady!" Bakura yelled, pointing. The Diabound Curse blasted a sphere of fire directly at the woman, destroying her. "I'll set a card and end my turn."

Jess drew her next card. "The trap card I have down..." Jess thought, looking at it. "Relay Soul will be able to keep my life points safe but the monster I chose to summon has to be a good one, other wise I lose this."

"I'm waiting, Jessica." Bakura smiled. "The end is near. Don't keep me waiting for this event."

"So, you and your team plan to destroy this earth, why?" Jess asked.

"Whiley is Allen's dark side you know." Bakura smirked.

"What does that have to do with what I'm asking?" Jess growled.

"If Allen has a dark side, wouldn't you? Little Jessica." Bakura smiled. "He plans to bring out the evil in everyone, create it into something worth destroying, the earth."

"Why does he want to do that?" Jess asked.

"Hate is the reason. The dark side of you, and your friends have something to hate." Bakura smiled as the Millennium Ring around Jess' neck began to glow. "Oh look, looks like the ring is reacting."

"But why?" Jess said, looking down at the glowing item.

"My power is fusing into it. But don't worry, I don't tend to do damage, only to see what you hate." Bakura said as his eyes began to glow red.

"No! Get out!" Jess screamed as her mind went blank.

Bakura cowered through Jess' mind. It was just a long big tunnel with lots of rusted doors. Bakura smiled, opening up one door. "You hate the fact that you can't get any more attention?" Bakura said, looking at the image of Jess all curled up in the corner of the dark room.

"Get out!" Jess yelled from the outside.

"Why? This is too much fun." Bakura laughed, moving to another door.

"What's this?" Bakura said, seeing a statute of Daniel with something embedded at the bottom of the statue.

The words read 'Champion Duelist of the world, most strongest.'. This made Bakura laugh out loud. He knew Jessica just liked the game but never really envied anyone.

"What are you doing?!" Jess demanded to know.

"You hate the fact that you are a weak duelist. This is why you are losing, Jessica, because your afraid you aren't strong enough." Bakura said. "Lucky me, that is the fear which you will lose to."

Jess fell to her knees as Bakura regained control of his own mind. "No..." Jess growled.

"You hate being weak..." Bakura said, smiling evilly.

"I'm not weak..." Jess growled.

"Then how come you envy such a powerful duelist." Bakura asked.

"Draw!" Jess yelled, drawing her card. "You will pay for doing this to me."

Bakura's evil looked turned into a serious one as Jess showed the card which she held. "This magic card... It's called Fragile Defeat..." Jess said. "It allows me to destroy every monster on the field, giving you 200 points of damage for each monster destroyed."

"What's the price you get?" Bakura asked.

"Discarding my whole hand." Jess said, slipping her three cards into her graveyard. "Now! I activate Fragile Defeat!"

Suddenly a giant glittering whirl wind appeared, throwing up all monsters and destroying them, including Bakura's Diabound Curse.

"No..." Bakura growled, watching his two monsters exploding and reducing his life points down to 1550.

"Now! I'll activate my face down card! Jar of Greed which allows me to draw one card!" Jess yelled, drawing her card. "Now I summon Goblin Zombie! (1100/1050)"

"Damn..." Bakura growled as the creature wielding a long sword materialized onto the field.

"Now! Goblin Zombie, attack his life points directly!" Jess pointed.

The zombie lashed forward, slashing Bakura across the chest. Bakura let out a cry as his life points reduced to 450.

"My turn ends now." Jess announced.

"Draw!" Bakura yelled with anger, drawing his next card. "Now's the time! I've summoned this ultimate monster...."

"What?" Jess said.

"Remember on the first move..." Bakura said.

Jessica remembered back and finally realized his plan. He had discarded his four death messages into his graveyard and said he only needed one card to finish the duel. She gasped, fearing what was about to happen.

"Now! I activate Emergency Provisions!" Bakura yelled. "By sacrificing my only face down card, I gain one thousand life points! (B: 1450)"

"And that face down card is..." Jess said.

"Ouija Board!" Bakura yelled as the card flipped up and exploded. "And since all five Ouija Board messages are in my graveyard... I'll activate this! Demon's Line of Death!"

"What's that?!" Jess screamed as spirits began to emerge from the card, covering the sky.

"This magic card will be the death of you! It allows me to summon Death Silenced (300/300), Death Charmer (300/300), and Death Havoc! (300/300)" Bakura yelled as three different colored demons materialized onto the field, each holding spears.

Jess took a step back, worrying a little as the three demons flew around Bakura, happily. "What do those things do?!" Jess thought as Bakura laughed.

"My turn ends now!" Bakura announced.

"Draw..." Jess announced.

"Now! I activate Death Silenced's effect!" Bakura called out as the demon laughed and it's little wings began to flap, flying in front of Jess.

"What the?!" Jess said, backing up.

"Don't worry, it won't hurt you." Bakura smirked. "But it allows me to take a level 4 or lower monster from your hand and add it to my own."

"Damn..." Jess growled, revealing her hand to the blue demon.

"And I think I'll taken Dark Jeroid." Bakura smiled. The demon thrusted it's spear through the card, flying off and giving it to Bakura. "Now! Death Charmer's effect is activated!"

Suddenly the pink demon began to laugh as it glowed. "Err.." Jess growled, getting annoyed by the little demons.

"It allows me to summon a monster from my hand, and I summon Dark Jeroid! (1200/1500)" Bakura yelled as the giant blue demon materialized onto the field. "And finally! Death Havoc's effect is activated! It will sacrifice the Dark Jeroid, which I stole from your hand, and inflict damage to your life points by half of it's attack strength!"

Bakura laughed as the yellow demon slashed at the Dark Jeroid, turning it into a ghost. The ghost then fired itself directly at Jess. Jess let out a scream as her life points reduced to 650.

"No... I can't lose. I have to use this now!" Jess said to herself, looking at her face down card.

"My turn ends now, Jessica!" Bakura announced.

Jess quickly drew her next card. "Here it comes..." She said, waiting.

"Now! I activate Death Silenced's ability!" Bakura yelled as the blue demon tossed it's spear straight forward to Jess' card. The card hologram materialized onto Bakura's field. The monster was Headless Knight. "Now Headless Knight is summoned to my side of the field! (1450/1700) Finally, I activate Death Havoc's ability by sacrificing Headless Knight to win this duel!"

"Not so fast, Bakura!" Jess yelled. "Activate trap card, Relay Soul!"

"Relay Soul?" Bakura said in confusion.

"This trap card will reduce my life points to zero." Jess explained as her life points reached 0. "But it allows me to summon a monster card from my hand, to the field and the monster I chose it Dark Ruler Hades! (2450/1600) And if it's destroyed, you win the duel."

Suddenly Bakura burst out laughing. "You've already lost this." Bakura said. "Now! Diabound Curse! Take over!"

"What are you talking about?!" Jess said. Suddenly her heart began to ache. Jess cried out as she grabbed her chest, falling to her knees.

"It doesn't matter if a dumb trap card takes away all your life points." Bakura said, walking in front of her. "As long as you have no life points in this type of game, Carnal of God will give me every command of you."

"No! This can't happen!" Jess cried out.

Suddenly Bakura's stern and evil face suddenly turned innocent. "Jessica!" He cried out diving for her. "I'm so sorry..."

"I know, you couldn't control him. I tried but I failed." Jess tried to say but the ache began to grow worse.

"To stop the pain, you have to forfeit now." Bakura said. "I'm sorry but your other friends are you and Mink's only hope."

Jess looked down at the deck of her duelist and slammed her hand on it. "I surrender..." Jess said. Just then, the aching stopped.

Suddenly the sweet innocent Bakura began to laugh. "Fool. Just like any hearty moron, you fall for anything." Bakura laughed.

"What?" Jess said, standing up.

"It was so easy to deceive you." Bakura laughed as he tore his rubber mask away, revealing a tall man with black dangling hair.

"Who are you?!" Jess screamed.

"I am Valkon... Your rival." Valkon laughed.

"How could you!" Jess screamed crawling toward him, wanting to rip him apart.

"Sorry, but your in my total command, so stop!" Valkon yelled, pushing his hand forward. Jess fell flat on the ground, unable to get up or anything. "Once you've lost to the power of Carnal of God, you surrender your control to me! So now! Surrender your life to the power of darkness! You will make an excellent life giver to the destruction of earth!"

"No..." Jess thought, feeling herself fall through the earth and into a giant pit of darkness. Jess felt so much anger, her pit of darkness rose up in fire. She screamed, feeling burns all over her as slowly, her energy began to disappear.

Dan walked alone, in a empty street when suddenly he felt a giant burning feeling on his back. Dan cried out, falling to his knees, realizing Jess was gone. "No!" He yelled.

Valkon smiled, taking out a radio. "Two down." He said.

"Well, splendid job." Roberto said, appearing from behind the tree which Valkon stood before.

"Shouldn't you be somewhere, kid." Valkon said, putting his hat back on.

"I should but I couldn't miss this." Roberto smiled. Roberto looked down at his watch. "Well, there's my go."

Roberto walked off as Valkon went to the other way. Allen sat at a bench, wanting to search down Whiley, unaware of the lost they have suffered so far.

Dan was still in pain as he tried to get up. He could see the sun beginning to set. He felt the pain Jess was now suffering but he didn't realize he had gotten some of her memories of the duel. He remember Valkon saying that until midnight, the earth remained in terror as the destruction came down upon them.

-CARDS PLAYED-

Fragile Defeat: MAGIC / Desc: Discard all cars in your hand to activate this card. Destroy all face up monsters on the field and deal 200 points worth of damage to your opponent's life points for each monster destroyed by this card.

Jar of Greed: TRAP / Desc: Draw 1 card from your respective deck.

Goblin Zombie: Level 4 / 1100/1050/ Zombie / Desc: When this card does Battle Damage to you're Opponent's Life Points, your opponent must put the card on top of their deck, to their Graveyard. If this card is destroyed and sent to the graveyard, you may put 1 Zombie Type monster with the ATK of 1200 or less from your deck, to your hand. Your deck is then shuffled afterward

Emergency Provisions: MAGIC / Desc: Send Magic or Trap Cards on your side of the field to the Graveyard to increase your Life Points by 1000 points per card. This card is excluded.

Demon's Line of Death: MAGIC / Desc: This card can only be activated if you have "Ouija Board", "Death Message E", "Death Message A", "Death Message T", and "Death Message H" in your graveyard, Special Summon 1 "Death Silenced", "Death Charmer", and "Death Havoc" from your deck or hand, to the field.

Death Silenced: Level 1 / 300/300/ Demon / Desc: This card can only be Special Summoned by the effects of "Demon's Line of Death". During each of your opponent's turns, you can take 1 Level 4 or lower monster from your opponent's hand and add it to your own.

Death Havoc: Level 1/ 300/300/ Demon / Desc: This card can only be Special Summoned by the effects of "Demon's Line of Death". During each of your opponent's turns, Special Summon 1 Level 4 or lower Demon-Type monster from your hand, to the field.

Death Charmer: Level 1 / 300/300/ Demon / Desc: This card can only be Special Summoned by the effects of "Demon's Line of Death". During each of your opponent's turns, you can sacrifice 1 face up monster on your side of the field as a sacrifice to inflict damage to your opponent's life points by half of the sacrificed monster's ATK.

Dark Jeroid: Level 4 / 1200/1500/ Demon / Desc: When this monster is Normal summoned, Flip Summoned, or Special Summoned, select 1 face-up monster on the field and decrease its ATK by 800 points. The effect lasts until the selected card is destroyed or removed from the field.

Headless Knight: Level 4 / 1450/1700/ Demon.

Relay Soul: TRAP / Desc: Once this card is activated, reduce your life points to 0. You may then Special Summon 1 monster from your hand, to the field in either face up Attack or Defense position. If that summoned monster is removed from the field, you automatically lose the duel.

Dark Ruler Hades: Level 6 / 2450/1600/ Demon / Desc: As long as this card remains face-up on the field, negate the effects of Effect Monsters destroyed by Demon-Type monsters on your side of the field in Battle. This card cannot be Special Summoned from the Graveyard.