Chapter 12
Caring less if his life were in danger, Yugi ran to his fallen friend, who lay motionless and did not even gasp for air. Anubis still towered over his slayed foe, continuing to celebrate what he thought to be a victory. He had seen Yugi run to Yami, but cared not, assuming he would be of no threat to him. Yugi lifted his friend's head and held it close to him. He couldn't hear him breathing, his eyes seemingly wired shut. Silently, he cried for his friend, seeing him gone away after all the hardships.
"I ought to kill you!" Yugi looked up at Anubis.
"I would like to see you try," Anubis laughed.
"Bastard! You no good bastard!" Yugi shot a short string of curses at him, which was so out of character.
"Is that the best you can do? Bastard?" he took it as a joke. "That would be one goal off my list."
He began to skip back to the opposing side of the field. He was quite pleased with himself for what he had accomplished. Now he felt as if there was only one thing left to do...
"You!" pointed Yugi, standing up. "This isn't over!"
"Oh I think it is. Just look at the pharaoh," he stared at Yami's bloody body lying on the ground next to Yugi. "It looks to me that he is no shape to fight back."
"The duel, it is yet to be finished!"
Apparently, Yugi wished to finish the remainder of the duel with him, because to him, it was the only way to avenge his alter ego. It was a hilarious idea to Anubis, considering he had not been around for the majority of the duel and would have no idea what was going on. Not to mention he would be dueling in Yami's place, who only had fifty Life Points, one card left to draw, and no monsters on the field, while he had two powerful beasts on the field along with 1300 Life Points. Plus, he needed not to complete the duel. There would almost be no point to it.
Oh, what a small amusement it should have been.
"You want to finish the duel? You want to go head to head with the one who makes these monsters real?" Anubis had to ask, giggling under his breath.
Yugi ripped the duel disk off of Yami's wrist and put it on his. He picked up the cards that were in Yami's hand off the ground and held them as they should have been. He wiped his tears from his face and stared coldly at Anubis.
"You and I will finish this duel, and I will defeat you!" he cried.
"You are quite the fiesty one, are you not?" he laughed. "Fine, mortal. Have it your way. I shall finish this game with you."
He stood at the proper spot to duel and crossed his arms. He would need no cards to continue this game.
"I believe it is your turn," he smiled. "So go."
The only thing Yugi could really calculate was that he had only fifty Life Points and Anubis had 1300, reading the Life Points off of his and Kaiba's duel disk. He reached to draw a card from his deck, but saw he only had one card left, and he had but two other cards in his hand. He drew the last card in his deck, but it was only a magic card, and the other two cards in his hand were also magic. One of them would be no use to him, Pot of Greed, since he had no other cards to draw. His other two cards, Premature Burial and Reverse of Reverse, he did not know how to put use to them because he would have needed to be at the entire duel to know what cards to reuse.
Premature Burial to get Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon, Reverse of Reverse on his attack, then Back From a Different Dimension, he heard a familiar voice inside his head. It was Yami's voice, but Yugi was unsure how he could possibly be hearing his voice. This distracted him from the duel for a few seconds, and then he looked at his cards and understood what Yami's voice was telling him. He had seen only seen small portions of the duel, from when Anubis showed him clips from Yami's suffering, but he could recall the Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon and its devistating attack. And he knew the Back From a Different Dimension card, which belonged to Kaiba, because of the previous duel. Yugi looked over to Anubis' side of the field and saw that there was still a card face down, and it was probably the last card Kaiba played before Anubis took over. Finally, the Gods' Forsaken Tomb card seemed to give Anubis an advantage.
It was then he developed a strategy.
"I'll use Premature Burial," he placed the card in the duel disk. "I can use it to discard one card from my hand so I can reuse one card in the Graveyard."
Anubis scratched his head. He could not think of anything in the Graveyard that would be to his benefit.
"Go, Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon!" he called out the name of the ancient beast that was all too familiar to Anubis. The mythical dragon reappeared, only this time on Yugi's side of the field.
It had been his at one point, and he remembered that Kaiba had used it and sacrificed it to destroy the Gods' Forsaken Tomb card. Anubis had prevented Seto from destroying it earlier, but if Yugi was planning to attempt the same, then he would let this one slide. After all, the card had served its purpose.
"And now I'll sacrifice it to destroy Gods' Forsaken Tomb!" he demanded.
The Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon flew towards the face-up card as its body became nothing more than a stream of bright light. The bright light it had become collided directly with the Gods' Forsaken Tomb card, and the card shattered, no longer in use. Once this card was destroyed, both Andro Sphinx and Sphinx Teleia were destroyed, from the effect of Gods' Forsaken Tomb. The pyramid that surrounded them began to fade away. Light began to pour in on them once again as the dark light became dimmer and dimmer until it was completely gone.
On the outside, the entire group of Joey, Tristan, Duke, Mokuba, Pegasus and Tea stood together on Anubis' side. They had seen the black pyramid disappear and saw Yugi and Anubis facing off on the dueling field.
"Yugi!" Joey called to him, but Yugi did not respond, too concentrated on his opponent to reply.
"One card face down, and that's my turn," he said placing his last card on the field.
Anubis laughed at the fact that Yugi lacked a single monster card. His Life Points were wide open, and because Sphinx Teleia and Andro Sphinx were destroyed at the same time, he could summon his greatest beast without a sacrifice.
"With no monster cards on the field, you are open to a direct attack, and there is no better beast to destroy you with other than my mightiest creature," he told Yugi, but he was not nervous.
Anubis' black pearl glowed again, and then another monster outline began to form on the field. This monster seemed to be a mix of his two previous monsters, only with one body and much larger. Once the outline was completely, a dark light shined from the outline and glowed up to the ceiling. The light faded away and what stood there now was a monster with two vicious heads and had the ability to stand on its hind legs, its large paws having big claws and mouths having razor sharp teeth.
"Meet Theinin the Great Sphinx (3500/3000)!" he cried the name of his strongest monster. "I am thanking you for several things today, am I not? Releasing me from the puzzle, helping me at achieving my goal of backlash at the pharaoh, allowing me to summon my precious Sphinx, how many more favors are you going to do for me?"
Yugi tried not to let Anubis' taunting bother him. He felt guilty for several accounts, but he was hoping to set it right once Anubis declared his attack.
"I think 3500 attack points is just enough to take down the remainder of your Life Points, along with you as well!" he laughed, assuring himself he had won. "Theinin, attack him directly! Take out the rest of his Life Points and tear him limb from limb!"
The gigantic beast leaped highly into the air in Yugi's direction. Bearing its claws and teeth, Theinin the Great Sphinx was more than ready to take its prey down. The group on the sidelines cried out to Yugi to look out or do something, but Yugi seemed to ignore them, smiling all the while.
"I am assuming that you are happy for your death, for all the chaos you have caused, your conscience has surely beat on you enough," Anubis laughed.
"No, I'm happy for your loss," he told him. Anubis' laughter came to a sudden stop. "Reveal face down card: Reverse of Reverse!"
Anubis knew he had been fooled, but was not surprised by it nor threatened.
"I can use the last card played by my opponent, and since you didn't play any cards, I can use the last one used by Seto Kaiba," he explained. "And the last card he played was that face-down card on your side of the field."
Anubis jerked his head to the card Yugi pointed at. He had forgotten all about it, and he knew what card it was. Anubis knew he would not win this duel.
"Back From a Different Dimension!" Yugi cried out. The faced down card flipped up. "I can bring back three monsters that have been removed from play and summon them to the field. And I choose my three Egyptian God cards: Obelisk, Osiris, and Ra!"
Three spotlights, of the colors red, yellow and blue, shined down to Yugi's side of the field. Clouds formed at the ceiling again, and once the crack of thunder was heard, all three Egyptian God monsters reappeared onto the field. Together, the three ancient beasts stood together, crying their thunderous calls, towering over even Theinin the Great Sphinx.
"Now combine yourselves for infinite power!" he demanded.
The three Egyptian Gods' bodies began to glow with a flame around their bodies. A red flame surrounded Osiris, a blue flame around Obelisk, and a bright yellow around Ra, who was now in its phoenix mode. Theinin the Great Sphinx stopped in its tracks from attacking Yugi, staring blankly at the power-growing Gods. Once built to as strong of force as possible, the three Gods flew their bodies forward. As soon as they launched themselves forward, the flames that surrounded their bodies were shot off. While flying in midair, the Gods' flames merged, forming a bright pink colored flame. With great force, the combined strength of the Gods hit the Great Sphinx directly. Seconds after being hit, Theinin the Great Sphinx exploded to bits. Anubis' Life Points were now at zero, showing he had lost the duel.
"Oh yeah!" Tristan congratulated Yugi from the side as the Gods disappeared because of the ending of the duel.
"You beat 'im, Yug! You beat 'im!" Joey shouted.
Having defeating him, Yugi was expecting Anubis to disappear or be gone in some way, but Anubis remained standing on the field, continuing to laugh. He recalled the information he had learned at the museum, and finally remembered defeat caused the activation of the curse, but defeat meant death.
"This was never about completing an unfinished duel from the past," laughed Anubis. "You have done me one more favor, and that is dispose of the Gods' Forsaken Tomb card for me, because now that I am no longer trapped in there, I can unleash my wrath upon the world!"
Author's Note: I know that Premature Burial was not the correct card that was used, but I could not recall the name of the real card that was used in this situation of the movie. So for the moment, I have used the Premature Burial card name. If you know what card it was and know the name of it, please let me know and I shall correct it right away.