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Summary: A dangerous new duelist arises to bring Yami to his knees!

CHAPTER 5, Duel against the Dead, Part 1

"Well good job Wheeler, I guess I'll be on my way now, one puzzle piece, one key piece, and no Darkner Card. All alone, no one to keep me company, or to cheer me on, just me, by myse-"

"We get da picture Rex, you can come along if ya want to."

"SCORE!"

Yami, Joey, Tristan, Tea, and Rex where now walking in the mansion. All together they had collected 15 of twenty puzzle pieces and between Yami defeating Dustin Dawes and Rex defeating a hired duelist they had 2 of 5 pieces to the key. They had all reasons to be confident, though soon, they would be in the clutches of death itself.

"Well Yug, da way I see it, were three fourts of da way dere wit puzzle pieces, and two fits of da way dere wit da key pieces, so we need ta find another duelist."

"Well no duh, Joey." Tea said blandly.

"Don't worry Joey, we'll find another duelist sooner or later."

"More like sooner." The five looked the direction in which the voice had came. A man stepped out of the shadows. "So we meet again, Yuugi-Tasshi!"

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAhAHAHAHAHAHA!" The youths couldn't contain their laughter at the sight of none other than WannabeKaiba #1

"Yes laugh it up fools. But I'm not who you think I am."

"And we know your not who you think you are, Mr. KaibaFan."

"HehehehahahahaHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

"Whats his problem?" Joey inquired.

"I have no idea." Yami answered warily.

Soon, his body was wreathed in a dark aura. His eyes darkened and his voice heightened, then lightened, to where it was almost a whisper.

"Behold my true form you fools."

"True form?!?" Tea shrieked.

Then the skin melted and his clothes evaporated. And a new man stood in his place. A scrawny, pale man, with long, unclean black hair, wearing little more than rags, stood up and with much noxiousness announced, "Now Nameless Pharaoh, it's time to duel!"

"Yes, I agree, on the line will be all my puzzle and key pieces, and the same for you!"

"Yes, agreed."

"But first! What the hell do I call you?"

Everyone face faulted due to the total breach of seriousness.

Getting up off the floor, the fiend said, "You may call me Noctu!"

Yami 4000

Noctu 4000

Noctu drew six cards from his deck, "I think I'll start us off with this! I lay 1 card face down and play the Headless Knight in attack mode! (1400/1250) And I end my turn." A suit of armor wielding a sword and shield, yet no head or helmet, materialized on the field.

Yami drew six cards and smirked, "You will live to regret this Noctu, I lay one card face down and I play Beta the Magnet Warrior!(1500/1000)" A man made of magnets wielding a sword and shield appeared. "Now attack and destroy his Headless Knight!"

Beta launched himself forward and cut down Noctu's Knight.

Yami 4000

Noctu 3900

"Fool, you've activated my trap card, Trap Hole! Your Magnet Man is destroyed!"

"Not so fast Noctu, I activate my trap card, Valkyrie Spirit! This allows me to revive my fallen Warrior and summon two monster of the same type or subtype as said monster! And I chose Alpha the Magnet Warrior (1300/1000) and Gamma the Magnet Warrior(1400/1000)! Now their special ability activates fusing my three monsters together to form Valkerion the Magna Warrior(3200/2500)!" A little gray magnet warrior and a medium sized pink robot appeared and the three monsters separated into parts and then combined forming a large winged man made of magnets wielding shield and sword.

"Now I attack you with my new monster, prepare to feel his wrath! Valkerion, attack his life points directly!"

Yami 4000

Noctu 700

"Your move, Noctu."

"Wow Yugi's even better than the last time I saw him duel." Rex stated excitedly.

"Ya, dese guys are pushova's Yug will make em inta mince meat."

Noctu merely drew and chuckled, "Fools, I now play the magic card, as well as the Darkner Card, Focus Power! Once played I am allowed to summon five monsters directly to the field as long as they have under 1000 attack points and have no special effect!" Five monsters materialized on Noctu's side of the field. They were generally small, and some type of fiend or zombie.

"None of your army has the strength to defeat my Magna Warrior!"

"But thanks to the power of my Darkner Card, your Valkerion is history! Once per turn before I attack I may pay 500 life points to focus all my monsters attack points on a total assault to your side of the field. NOW GO!" The five monsters raised their limbs and light emitted from them, and congregated into one ball of energy. "HAHAHA! The total amount of energy comes to exactly 3500! One 900 pointer, two 800s, one 700, and a 300! Now, watch as your monster is destroyed!" the ball of energy shot at Yami's monster, destroying it instantly.

Yami 3700

Noctu 200

"Well Noctu, you've managed to destroy one of my monsters, but you've whittled away the last of your life points, and you have very weak defenses, you are going to be destroyed in my next turn."

"Watch now, as I prove you wrong. First of all let us whittle away your life points, hehehe."

"What do you mean?"

"Well, none of my monsters have attacked yet. And you have no defenses!"

The Yuugi-Tasshi all stared with horror at Yami's empty side of the field.

"Oh no," Tea began, "Pharaoh has nothing left to protect him, and the monsters points total 3500, he'll hardly be left standing!"

"Precisely my dear. Now watch as the girls premonition comes true!" Noctu said sending his monsters on the attack, all colliding with the Ancient Ruler, attacking him with their claws weapons and teeth.

Yami: 200

Noctu: 200

Yami slowly picked himself up. He winced at the terrible pain.

'I don't think we've been hit that hard since we last dueled Marik!' Yugi thought threw the mind-link.

'Yes, but don't worry Yugi, together and with the Heart of the Cards, we will not be stopped by this low class trickster.'

Yami stood and made his confidence known, "You have managed to make our points even, but now it is my turn and almost any of the monsters in my deck could destroy you with one attack!"

"Too bad my turn isn't over Nameless Pharaoh! I now play Wobki the Healer! This magic card raises my life points by 1000!"

Yami 200

Noctu 1200

"And lastly but not lest, I play the magic card Dark Fusion! This summons the Monster Dark Mist! It is created by sacrificing all monsters with zombie, fiend, or dark subtypes. Which would incorporate all my monsters.! Dark Mist(3500/2450), come forth!" A black mist appeared and gobbled up all five of Noctu's monsters. "Unfortunately I can't waste you this turn. Take your last pathetic move!"

Yami called forth Yugi, and the two combined their minds and souls, laid their hand on their deck, then reached down deep into their gut and pull forth all their power and placed it fully into their faith in the heart of the cards, and drew. What Yami saw when he opened his eyes shocked him.

Author's Notes:

Mark: Oh man, don't hate me cause I made a cliffy! I thought it would be more dramatic this way. Anyway, please review with any praise, criticisms, duelists, strategies, or just plain want to, PLEASE DO! That button just looks so lonely, doesn't it? I bet it would make it feel warm and fuzzy inside if you'd just click it, don't you?