Bluerain: Here it is folks, the final chapter! Sit tight and don't forget to review!
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Chapter Seven: The Final Duel; Kagome VS Dark Yami
Kagome awoke the next morning with the now very human looking Inu-yasha just slipping out of the room.
"Just going to walk out, huh?" She asked him.
"I've got to get back without anyone seeing me. Dark Yami has more eyes than just the two in his head. He's infected a great many of the tournament officials now and they're all working for him.
"What?" Kagome asked. "Hold on, you mean that he's gotten to the sponsors too?"
"He's used his dark shadow powers to get to everyone just about it. I know because I helped him." Inu-yasha admitted. "You've got to be careful Kagome, he's out for blood, and I think that just about anyone's will do." Kagome pulled the covers up closely against her skin and Inu-yasha slipped out the door with his Ninja garb concealing him. "Tell no one that I was here." Were his lasts words to her. Now he would steal himself away from the hotel in secrecy. He could disappear pretty well now that he was a full blood. No one saw him, not the spies out front, and not even Kagome's remaining friends saw him as he snuck past them in the hallway. In fact, no one saw him again until he returned to Dark Yami's room in a hotel down the street where the Dark King of Games had set up his headquarters. Before he went in though, Inu-yasha stood in an ally and there he ripped up two more cards.
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Dark Yami sat in his room admiring his new body and the jewel shards growing from his right hand. He was quite pleased with himself and nearly everyone around him cowered in fear.
"It's nearly dawn, where is Inu-yasha." Dark Yami asked. In his demon form, Inu-yasha came slinking in with his tail between his legs. "So there you are. Did you do as I instructed you?"
"I gave her the cards that would destroy her deck." He said.
"Excellent, then I need not fear her." Dark Yami draped a cape and tunic about his bare shoulders. "Once I've taken care of Kagome Higurashi, nothing shall stop me from absorbing the souls of the entire world."
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Kagome looked at the two cards that Inu-yasha had left for her and then she put them in her deck. She hoped that they would work for her and that they would in someway help to bring the old Inu-yasha back to her. She would need all the help she could get to save Yugi, Yami, and her beloved Inu-yasha. She thought about the night they had just spent together and drew strength from the fact that no matter what, he still loved her, and she still loved him.
"Now it's time to go get Inu-yasha back." She said to herself. Tea and the others were waiting for them at the hospital and she'd promised the evening before when the ambulances came for Bakura and Kaiba that she would bring their friends back to them alive and well. She had to or else all they had endured together, all that they had fought for, and all their hopes would be for nothing. Kagome wasn't willing to let that happen. She walked to the arena in Madison Square Gardens with a look of determination burning brightly in her eyes. Her soul was never stronger, her heart never more determined, and never had she been so convicted. She would save her friends and nothing would stop her. "Yami, you're going down!" She said as she stood across the field from her opponent.
"We'll see who's soul lasts the night, for now we enter the shadow realm." Dark Yami said and stretched forth his hand. Dark energy surrounded them both and enclosed them in an orb of dark mist. "Let the duel begin and whoever's life energy survives will be the victor." He said.
"Fine, I'll go first." Kagome said and drew five cards. "I play Zolga in attack mode with three cards face down." Kagome's cards appeared on the field and then she ended her turn.
"You're pathetic cards can do nothing to stop me." Dark Yami declared. "I play Card Destruction and send my current hand to the grave yard. Now I draw five more cards and I see that I've drawn Bakura's Dark Necrofear."
"What are you doing with that card?" Kagome demanded.
"You didn't seem all that interested in the card when he dropped it on the field so I took it as well as his Call of the Haunted trap card." Dark Yami smiled wickedly.
"You cheat!" Kagome was mad now. "Okay, but you can't summon it without removed three fiends in your grave yard from play. So there."
"Ah, but when I threw my hand away, I had three fiends in my hand." Dark Yami informed her. "I send Summoned Skull, Kuriboh, and the Feral Imp out of play to summon the Dark Necorfear! I lay two cards face down and end my turn, so go ahead and draw, little good may it do you. There is nothing in your deck that can stand up to the power I control in these cards."
"I've got just the card to deal with your Dark Necrofear, and it's one that I got from Tea." Kagome said drawing a card. "I play my face down, quick play magic card, Offerings to the Doomed. This allows me to destroy one monster on the field as long as I skip my next draw phase." She said. "Bye bye dark Necrrfear."
"Foolish girl, you've activated my card's special ability. Now I gain control of one of your monsters." Dark Yami said.
"Not when I activate this face down card. Remove Brainwashing." Kagome said and flipped yet another card face up.
"NO! Now my life points are wide open!" Dark Yami exclaimed as he took a direct hit of 1700 attack points from Kagome's Zolga, dropping him down to 2300 points.
"And that's not then do of it," Kagome said. "Now I play Pot of Greed, and get two cards. And now, I summon a one of kind, not to be found anywhere else on the face of the earth, card!"
"What are you talking about?" Dark Yami demanded, "The only cards like that are the Egyptian God Cards, and I have all three."
"It's a special, and it's called Kitsune, The Mischievous Fox Child! A gift from my dear friend Shippo, who got it from Pegasus." And with POP and poof of smoke appeared a creature that looked exactly like Shippo, except that his clothes were purple and orange. The little fox danced around a second, then made a face at Dark Yami.
"What good is a ridiculous card with only 300 attack points?" Dark Yami asked.
"You'll see, soon enough, when I activate one of his many special abilities. Like being able to draw five cards from my deck as long as I discard three. Now, I play another card given to me by a friend… Reinforcement of Army!"
"What!?!" Dark Yami yelled. "I know that card! Inu-yasha, you betrayed me!" Behind him the enormous hound just let out a loud, annoyed, bark, and turned around to face the other direction.
"Don't ignore me, you worthless, flea ridden mongrel!" Dark Yami cried out, his eyes glowing red with rage.
"Hey, are you gonna duel, or stand around yelling at everything in sight?" Kagome asked.
"Oh, I intend to duel," Dark Yami replied. "Are you finished yet?"
"Geez, learn some patience," she said, "Now I lay a card face down, and end my turn."
"I play Mystical Elf in attack mode," said Dark Yami, "She's my weakest card, but she'll do to get rid of that annoying little Fox."
As Mystical Elf approached to attack, she called, "Activate A Hero Emerges! You have to pick a card from my hand, but if you pick a monster, it goes to the field and takes the attack. Now choose!" She held the three cards in her hand up for Dark Yami to see.
He considered, and said, "I choose… the middle card."
"Tough luck, pal," she said, "You just summoned a world of hurt. Enter, my Command Knight, from Sango!" Command Knight appeared, and as Mystical Elf threw an orb of white light towards her, Command Knight brought up her sword, parrying it, and sending it right pack, destroying the Elf.
"I play Premature Burial, to get back my Dark Magician!" Dark Yami said, his Magician appearing on the field.
"How'd that get in your graveyard!?!" Kagome cried.
"Don't you remember when I discarded my hand? I had 5 monsters in my hand at the time, so now my Magician can defend my life points, and on my next turn he'll destroy one of your monster."
'Great,' Kagome thought with worry, 'What am I gonna do?' She couldn't draw, so she laid one of the last tow cards in her hand on the field. "I play Pixie Knight and lay a card face down on the field. And next, I play Spellcaster's Arsenal, which lets me get a Spellcaster from my deck to the field, as long as I sacrifice two monsters. And I send Zolga and Pixie Knight out of play to summon Kycoo, the Ghost Destroyer, the card Miroku gave me." The Fairies disappeared, and the masked monk took their places. "That's it for my turn."
"Your monsters are still too weak to withstand my Magician," Dark Yami said, "I summon King's Knight, and order Dark Magician to attack Command Knight!"
Dark Magician raised his staff above his head, but just as he was about to fire, Kagome said, "I activate Life Saving Defense! It switches all my monsters into defense mode, and raises their defense my 100 points per magic and trap card in both player's graveyards." Dark Magician fired, and as his blast came at them, Command Knight raised her sword, and holding it in front of her, repelled the dark magic.
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"I wonder how Kagome's doing," Tea said as she and the rest of her friends sat in the hospital cafeteria.
"She'll be fine," Shippo said, "I know it. Kagome's gonna win!"
"How can you be so sure?" Mai asked, "Even Kaiba couldn't beat Dark Yami."
"You don't our Kagome," Miroku said, "She's persistent in everything she does. She doesn't give up even if the world is crumbling down around her, she stay determined, and keeps hope and faith in her heart."
"She won't let Dark Yami win," Sango said. "We know it in our hearts."
"Well, in case everything goes wrong," Joey said, his mouth stuffed with food, "I'm buyin a ticket to South America."
"You ingrate!" Tea shouted, bonking Joey on the head 20 times with his own Millennium Key.
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Soon, Dark Yami had King's Knight, Queen's Knight, and Jack's Knight on the field, while Kagome had miraculously kept her three monster, given to her by her friends, on the field. She'd had to use Joey's Skull and Graceful Dice cards to do it, but it worked. It was now Dark Yami's move.
"I play the magic card Graceful Charity," he said.
As he was about to draw the cards, Kagome yelled, "I activate Null and Void! This negates you card, and sends the cards you would have drawn to the Graveyard." Kycoo the Ghost destroyer stepped up and a undid the beads on his right hand. Suddenly a hole appeared in his hand, and sucked up the three cards Dark Yami had drawn.
"Clever," Dark Yami said, "But that won't save you from my next turn, and I have three cards in my deck that can assure me victory."
"He's right," Kagome said to herself, "How am I gonna stop him from summoning his Egyptian God Cards? Even with y monster's Defenses boosted,. The don't stand a chance." then, she drew and looked at her hand. Her heart rose. She had a chance! But it meant a big sacrifice. "I play the Magic Card Monster Return. I give up two monsters in my hand to get two put on the field. And I sacrifice Spirit of The Harp and Shining Abyss to summon Marie the Fallen One and The Forgiving Maiden. And I use polymerization to fuse them together to create St. Joan." Kagome's monster was now the strongest on the field, but Dark Yami had another trick up his sleeve.
"That activates my trap card. Turntable of Doom." He said. "Turntable of Doom activates when a fusion monster is played. It allows me to spin a wheel and then use which ever special effect the arrow stops on." The table appeared and Dark Yami spun the wheel. When the wheel stopped spinning, the arrow landed on turn table turn forwards. "Now your turn automatically ends and my turn begins. And now that it's my turn, I can draw one card, and…" He looked at his hand and laughed deviously. "You've lost!" He declared. "For now I sacrifice my three monsters, Jack's Knight, Queen's Knight, and King's Knight to summon my all powerful monster!"
Slifer the sky dragon appeared on the field with 3000 attack points and all of Kagome's monsters shuttered when they saw him.
"Can't give up." Kagome Said. "I activate the trap card Grave Robber." She said. "Another little gift from Joey. You might remember what it does. It allows me to steal any card I want from your graveyard and use it myself. I choose Turntable of doom. Kagome spun and the arrow landed on the same effect which had allowed Yami to summon his Egyptian God card. "Now it's my turn and I draw. First, I summon the Marauding Captain, and play the Silver Bow and Arrow, one of my personal favorites, to equip St. Joan and now I use the magic card Ultimate attack."
"Ultimate attack!" Dark Yami exclaimed. "It's impossible for you to have that card!"
"Then what's it doing in my deck?" Kagome asked as she played it. "Now all my monsters can attack your monster at once and with each attack your monster loosed 500 attack points. Last I looked your all powerful monster had only 3000 attack points."
"NO! This can't be!" Dark Yami cried. "NO!" Kagome's monsters all leaped forward into the sky and attacked Slifer with such intensity and furry that the scene could hardly be perceived as a game. For an instant, as Dark Yami looked on, he thought for a moment that the cards attacking him had become transformed. Instead of St. Joan, he saw Kagome. Instead of Command Knight, he saw Sango. Instead of Marauding Captain, he saw Inu-yasha, and instead of Kycoo, he saw Miroku. The first to strike was the Shippo look alike card that Pegasus had made especially for the kitsune, the next was Miroku's card, then Sango's, then Inu-yasha's, and finally, Kagome's. With St. Joan's attack, Slifer was brought down and he disappeared along with all of Dark Yami's life points.
"I did it, I beat you!" Kagome cheered. "Now release my friends!" She demanded. Dark Yami just laughed though. "What's so funny?"
"You, because you think that I would actually let a little set back determine the outcome of this tournament. I never intended on releasing your friends, nor have I relented in my scheme to capture your soul Miko." Dark Yami stretched forth his hand and the shards in his palm began to glow. "Say goodbye my dear. It's really such a shame. Maybe though, I can have some fun using your body as my puppet along with all the rest of your friends."
"Oh man, this looks like it's it for me." Kagome said, sarcastically. "You think that I'm so stupid that I wouldn't come here without a trump card to play?" Suddenly from behind him, Dark Yami was thrown to the ground and his arm was bitten into by the massive jaws of the full blood demon, Inu-yasha. As her demon lover mauled Dark Yami's arm, Kagome played St. Joan again and equipped her with the silver bow and arrow.
"What do you think you can do with that thing." Dark Yami said, throwing Inu-yasha off himself and stunning him with a blast of dark energy.
"This is the shadow realm right, so that means the monsters, and all their powers are real!" Kagome said. "St. Joan, let loose your arrow." Her monster obeyed and let the arrow fly. It struck Dark Yami in the hand and freed the crystals from his flesh. He fell to his knees in pain and a grasping the wounded hand he knelt there as Kagome came to pick up the three shards of the sacred jewel and purify them. Once this was done, Yugi's body fell to the ground soulless and inert. Inu-yasha morphed back into his human form and came to stand beside Kagome.
"Kagome." He said taking her in his arms.
"Inu-yasha, you're back to normal, well, almost." She said and held one of the shards up to his forehead. Miraculously all the dark energy was drained from Inu-yasha's body and he returned to his half-human, half-demon state.
"What about Yugi's body, and the others, they're still locked inside the shards aren't they?" The han-you asked.
"Not now, they should all be waking up." Kagome said and looked over to where Yugi's body lay. It twitched, and after a minute, or two it began to move.
"Ahhh." He cried out and grasped his wounded arm. "D---- this hurts. What did you do to my arm Kagome?" Little Yugi asked.
"Sorry." She said, helping him up. Inu-yasha wrapped himself back in his ninja garb and took Yugi's other arm. They carried out of the mists of the shadow realm, which was now beginning to dissipate, and took him to the hospital for treatment. When they arrived they were greeted by Tea and the others who were all just fine now. Bakura was up and about. Kaiba was back to normal, barking orders to the nurses, and complaining about the food. As they wheeled Yugi's bed into the room where Kaiba and Bakura were resting, Kiaba looked over and sneered.
"So I see that you finally had some sense knocked back into you." He said with a huff.
"Kaiba, that wasn't me, don't you remember being trapped in the shards with us?" He asked.
"Yes," He said shuttering. "I remember there were two of you, and I'd just assume write that off as being part of a bad dream."
"So Kagome, what are you going to do now that you're the world Duelist Champion?" Shippo asked.
"Well, it really wasn't a fair duel, so I think the first thing I'll is accept my prize, and then maybe I'll give Yugi a rematch." Kagome told them all.
"That's alright, it was fun being King for a while, Kagome. Right now though I think I'll just enjoy an early retirement. After all it's lonely at the top, but thankfully, the bottom's where all my friends were waiting to catch me when I came down." Yugi said.
"Besides, that title is going to be mine." Kaiba said. "Once the next tournament comes along, it's going to be you and me, Higurashi."
"I can't wait." Kagome said with a smile. "I like playing duel monsters, it's a lot easier than fighting demons." They all had a good laugh at that one.
"So what about us?" Inu-yasha asked as he put his arms around Kagome. "Now that I'm free of that blasted necklace I'm pretty much free of you. I could just take off right now and go do my own thing."
"Oh, I don't remember saying that you could go anywhere, Inu-yasha." Kagome said to him. She turned around and put her arms around his neck and they kissed. Everyone stared at the two love birds. Then, as Kagome pulled away, she smiled sweetly at Inu-yasha and said. "Gotcha."
"What?" Inu-yasha suddenly realized that the necklace was back around his neck and Kagome had a pretty pissed off look on her face.
"And don't think for a minuet that I forgot about how you took a swipe at me in London." She said "Sit boy." WHAM!!!
The End.