Can I please stop putting disclaimers at the top? After 57 chapters, I think everyone knows that I DON'T OWN YUGIOH!!!
Let's get right to the story!
Chapter 58
Yugi looked at Yami, then back at Kodai. Despite what we say, I really don't have much monsters to use. I used most of them during the attack…and they got injured. Even the Blue-Eyes is out of action. Kodai…I don't know what kind of fiendish monsters he has. Even Yami's Black Magician has taken one too many hits during the fight…and the explosion Kodai caused……I hate to say it, but we're in trouble…
"So…ready to die?" Kodai smirked, a dark energy gathering in his hand. He unleashed it at the two boys.
"Shit!" Yami swore. He, too, had noticed the problem with the cards.
Yugi was about to counter the dark force heading their way, when he was tackled from behind and sent to the ground. The beam of darkness destroyed a dying tree.
Yugi looked up and saw Washi, "What…?"
"You mustn't use your holy magic against him!" Washi stated, standing up while wincing the entire time, "Combining his dark magic with your light magic will open up a rift! It'll create a ball of chaos! If the two who created it doesn't know what they're doing, then it will destroy the entire world!"
Yugi nodded, then his eyes widened when Washi coughed up blood and collapsed to the ground. "Washi!?" He trembled as he looked over the injuries of the man. Washi was bleeding badly from his back and front…apparently, the dark energy had gone through his body when he pushed Yugi to the ground.
Yugi concentrated, "Hang on…I'll heal you…!"
"It's…too…late…" Washi smiled, his eyes unfocused.
"Look out!" Daisuke shouted.
"Dark Magician's Girl!"
Said monster appeared, and negated the dark attack with some effort that had been thrown their way.
Yami angrily stepped to the side, "Your battle is with me, Kodai! You'll pay!"
Kodai sneered, "Oh, I'm sure I will. You have no chance in hell of beating me."
Meanwhile, Yugi had tears running down his face as he tried to heal the wound, but nothing was happening.
"It's his dark powers," Daisuke whispered, kneeling over by them, "The only way to heal a wound like that is either with chaos magic or normal medicine. Unfortunately…that wound is too great for normal medicine to work." He punched the ground, "Dammit!!"
"Why'd you do that?" Yugi whispered, a tear dripping down onto Washi's face.
Washi just smiled.
"What about Jade!? You can't die!!" Yugi shouted, trying desperately to heal the wound.
"You're wasting your powers," Daisuke's voice was laden with tears, and he wouldn't look directly at the boy.
"Yugi…" Washi smiled, coughing up blood, "You…can do…it. Take…care of…Jade for me…okay?"
Yugi found himself nodding.
Washi smiled again, and his body grew limp.
Yugi bit his lip, trembling as his bangs hid his eyes, his hands clenched into fists.
A burst of dark energy suddenly made the ground shake, and Yami was thrown back, skidding to a halt next to them.
"Yami!?" Yugi turned around.
"I'm…okay…" Yami winced. He had a few scrapes here and there, but other then that, he seemed to be fine. He cursed, slowly sitting up, wrapping an arm around his obviously broken ribs, "My ribs are broken…and I may be depleted…I'm out of monsters to use…I was trying to use my powers against his……he's too strong…"
Yugi stood up, hands clenched into fists as he stared at Kodai, "You're a monster!"
Kodai raised an eyebrow, "That's a little cliché, don't you think?"
Yugi wiped his eyes, and pulled out the Silver Wolf card, throwing it out, "Silver Fang!!"
Kodai raised an eyebrow, laughter just about dancing in his eyes.
The wolf howled, and bared its fangs at Kodai.
"This wolf saved my life once…then again," Yugi whispered, his eyes flashing angrily as he concentrated his powers, "And I know she can do it once more!"
"A wimpy monster…is your only defense…?" Kodai was trying hard not to laugh.
"She's not wimpy!!" Yugi shouted, a bright light emanating from him and transferring into the wolf.
The wolf howled again as she glowed with a bright power.
"What…?!" Kodai had to shield his eyes.
Yami smirked, "Unbelievable."
"What?" Daisuke asked, bandaging Yami's scrapes while he had the chance.
"Yugi is channeling his power into the Silver Fang," Yami smirked, "And since the Silver Wolf isn't a Light monster…they don't need to be afraid of creating a void of chaos." He let out a pained laugh, "He never fails to surprise me…Yugi. He found a way to attack Kodai. He can't directly, or with his Light monsters because of the dark power Kodai is using. So, he's attacking indirectly."
Daisuke nodded, and looked up.
"GO!" Yugi pointed.
The Silver Fang tore towards Kodai, the ground parting from the sheer energy she was putting out. Her silver fur was glowing, even blinding, to anyone who looked at it.
Kodai was no exception.
The combination of the Earth monster and the Light caused an explosion as the wolf was able to sink her teeth into Kodai's shoulder.
Kodai let out a scream as he fell back, then growled at the wolf, "Troublesome pest!!" He could see the string of light connecting Yugi to Silver Fang, indicating that the boy was still transferring power to the wolf. "Damn…" Gathering up dark energy in his hand, he pressed it to the ground. "Gazelle the King of Beasts! Come forth and do my bidding!"
The ground burst upwards, and a large beast appeared, its eyes glistening. It was giving off a dark aura, which was odd since it was also an Earth based monster.
Yami's eyes widened in realization, "Yugi! Call off Silver Fang! Kodai did the same thing as you! He channeled dark power into Gazelle…!!"
It was too late. With a huge clash and a swipe of its giant clawed hand, Gazelle had knocked the wolf back, causing Yugi to lose the connection. Gazelle's paw continued into the ground, causing the earth to roughly throw both the wolf and Yugi into the air.
"Yugi?!" Yami shouted, then coughed a couple times from his injured ribs.
Silver Fang glowed and returned to card form again, unable to keep her form from her injuries.
"Jellyfish!!"
There was a blue glow, and a giant, aqua-blue jellyfish appeared, catching Yugi before he hit the ground and pillowing his fall in its squishy body. Its tentacles lashed out, and electrocuted Gazelle back to bones and earth.
Yami blinked and looked over, then grinned.
Yugi opened his eyes and smiled, "Seto!"
Seto was breathing hard, but smiling. "Good…I got here in time. Yugi, your father's on the way…he and Yokan had to go back to help out someone who was injured." He went over and helped the boy off the giant jellyfish, which disappeared as soon as Yugi was off.
"Thanks, Seto!" Yugi smiled, "You saved me!"
Seto shook his head, then looked grimly at Kodai, "That's…?"
Yugi nodded, standing up straight, "Yea."
Kodai didn't look amused.
"I'm pretty worn out, to tell the truth," Seto whispered to them, "That was a low level summon…the most I can probably do now is a weak defense barrier."
"We're in trouble," Yami muttered.
Just then, a new voice broke in.
"Up to your necks in it, I see."
They turned around.
"Bakura?!" Yami shouted, trying to stand but ended up falling to his knees, an arm wrapped around his ribs as he coughed up blood. He warily looked up, "What are you doing here!?"
"Ryou?!" Yugi gasped, seeing who was in Bakura's arms.
Kodai smirked, "Ah…Bakura. Good. You can help take down these troublesome pests. I see you've already disposed of one of those insects."
Bakura stood there for a moment, then smirked, "Sorry, boss…but I'm afraid this 'insect' made a good point before he passed out." He walked over and knelt down next to Yami, gently placing Ryou on the ground.
"What are you playing at?" Yami eyed him suspiciously.
Bakura grinned and stood up, "It's more to see who I really am, bastard." He nodded to the boy behind him, "Malik…heal their monsters."
Yugi had gone over to Ryou, biting his lip, "Will he…?"
"If he's not healed, he'll probably die," Bakura stated, his eyes softening as he looked at Ryou's prone body. "That's why you need to heal him. Might as well heal that bastard you call 'Yami' while you're at it, too. Malik can heal your monsters."
"I can?" Malik frowned.
Bakura rolled his eyes, "That's what your powers are supposed to do, you fool! Ra…am I the only one who knows anything?!"
"And how are we supposed to do that, Bakura?" Yami growled, "If you haven't noticed, there's a dark psychopath standing over there, getting ready to summon a monster and finish us off!"
"I'll hold him off," Bakura stated, pulling out his deck and walking towards Kodai, "You just do what I told you to do. Defeating this asshole isn't something I can do. It isn't something anyone can do…unless chaos is formed. Chaos is the only thing that can harm him. That injury your wolf gave him…that's like a papercut to him." Bakura glanced at them again, "You'd better start thinking what you can do, because I can only hold him off for a short time."
"Bakura…" Yugi whispered.
Bakura smirked and waved, then walked up to Kodai and his expression turned grim.
"You're turning against me, Bakura?" Kodai spat, "After I so graciously freed you from the Shadow Realm where you had been trapped? After all I've done for you? You wanted to help rule over this land."
"There are some things…" Bakura glanced at Ryou for a moment before turning his attention back to the madman in front of him, "…that are more important then your fuck'n mad ambitions."
Kodai snarled, and called forth an ugly beast radiating darkness. "Then I'll kill you slowly and painfully!"
"By all means…take your time," Bakura smirked, "…I'm just the warm-up, after all."
Away from the battle between Kodai's monsters and Bakura's monsters where both channeled their energies into their own monsters to try to get the upper hand, Seto had formed a protective barrier over the small group on the outskirts of the battle.
Yugi was healing Ryou while Malik concentrated on healing the monsters/cards.
"I didn't know you could do that," Yami commented.
"Neither did I…until Bakura said I could," Malik stated. "Yugi, I'm almost done with your monsters…Yami, I'll do yours next."
Yami nodded.
"How's Ryou?" Malik looked over anxiously.
"Don't worry," Yami smiled, "Yugi will heal him."
Daisuke was wrapping Ryou's scrapes since Yugi couldn't put his full power into healing every tiny injury if he hoped to have enough to heal Yami as well…and because he didn't know how much time they had.
"Bakura's getting beaten…" Seto was watching the battle while he held up a defense barrier, "…and badly. I don't think he can last for more then five more minutes."
"Damn," Yami swore, glancing over at Ryou, who was engulfed in a bright light.
Bakura coughed up blood and hit the ground hard, his entire body tingling. He heard a 'crack' when he hit, and found that he couldn't get up again. Is this what death is?
"Finish him."
Bakura smirked and closed his eyes, waiting the pain that would lead to his death. Instead, he heard a clash and a growl, then a loud curse and a flash of light. He opened his eyes, and blinked when he saw two men standing there. One had cast a spell that had halted the movement of the monster going in for the kill while the other had summoned a more powerful monster to destroy it.
"What…?" Bakura coughed blood and looked up warily.
Seto smiled from where he was watching, even though he was straining every time debris from the battle went flying into the barrier, "Yokan and Shinbu are back!"
Yami looked up, a grin forming on his face.
Yugi came over to him, "I'll heal you now, Yami."
Yami nodded, and closed his eyes as the pain lessened, "How's Ryou?"
"He'll be fine…Daisuke is patching up his minor injuries," Yugi stated.
"Your monsters are done, Yugi," Malik handed the deck back over, and then took Yami's deck and concentrated.
"Hurry, guys," Seto said to Malik and Yugi, "Yokan and Shinbu are making a great team…Yokan's magic and Shinbu's summons……but Kodai is just too strong for them to handle!"
"What are we going to do, though?" Yami asked, opening his eyes, "My monsters aren't powerful enough, and my dark powers just negate when they clash with Kodai's. Yugi can't use his Light powers, and if he keeps channeling his power into the monsters, the shock to his body won't be a good one. Not to mention that he can't do that for every monster…and even if he did, he could only do it for non-light attribute monsters."
"You heard Bakura…chaos," Seto said, breathing hard from using his magic powers.
"How?" Yami demanded.
"I thought you were the smart one," Seto grinned weakly, "You use dark powers, and Yugi uses light powers. The two combined creates chaos."
"But we can't just hit him with a ball of chaos…it could run wild…" Yami thought.
Yugi sat back, blowing out a breath as he finished healing Yami, "Well…we could try to put it into a monster."
"What?"
"We'll have to create a monster born out of chaos…call a monster that lives in the chaos…" Yugi mused.
"How?" Malik asked, handing Yami his deck back.
"I don't know, but you'd better do it soon," Seto dropped his barrier, falling to one knee in exhaustion, "because Yokan and Shinbu are at the ends of their ropes."
Shinbu winced and slowly got to his knees, glancing over, "You okay, Yokan?"
"I'm alive, if that's what you mean," came the pained response.
"And the boy?"
"Unconscious," Yokan glanced over, wincing.
Kodai was laughing, as even the earth around him crackled in the air with energy. The only thing that stood between him and them now was Chip.
"Kuu!" Chip crouched down into a ready position.
"NO!" Shinbu shouted, then winced, "Don't do it, Chip!"
The Kuriboh looked sadly at its owner, and rubbed against the man's face, tears in its eyes.
"Don't!" Shinbu's eyes were wide as Chip started to glow.
"What…?" Yokan muttered.
"He's going to use his special ability……self-destruction," Shinbu whispered despondently, looking at the decaying monster that Chip was about to take on.
"Useless!" Kodai laughed, "A Kuriboh is your last line of defense? How pathetic! Go, my beast! Kill them now!"
The rotting monster roared, spraying ooze, and lunged forward.
"KUU!!" Chip shouted, and jumped in.
"NO!" Shinbu yelled.
A loud explosion that sent out waves of energy making everyone duck and sending chunks of earth in all directions followed.
When they all opened their eyes, there was a giant crater in the ground. No sign of the monster or Chip anywhere.
Tears ran down Shinbu's face, "He was…my only friend for years…"
Yokan put a hand on the man's shoulder.
Kodai looked shocked, "No…how could a mere Kuriboh take down my beast…?"
"Because," Yokan looked angrily at Kodai, tears in his eyes, "he was protecting us. And the power you gain from protecting the ones you love the most……is the second greatest power in the world."
"Oh? Then what's the greatest power?" Kodai sneered.
"Love."
They turned around and saw Yami and Yugi standing there. Yami looked angry and Yugi was wiping his eyes free of tears, looking up at Kodai in determination.
"Yugi…Yami…" Shinbu whispered.
Yugi had been the one who had spoken, "Love…that's the power of the light I can call upon. It's the greatest power in the entire world…no…the entire universe. Especially when you're with the ones you love. And that's why…you're not going to win!"
Kodai narrowed his eyes at them, then raised an eyebrow in amusement. "Oh? And what makes you so sure? You can't hurt me with your Light if you don't want to create a chaos void…"
"No…" Yugi shook his head, "Creating chaos is exactly what we're going to do."
"WHAT?!" came the collective cry of the conscious fighters.
Yugi nodded to Yami. The two closed their eyes in concentration. Yugi started to glow with a bright, golden light. Yami started to glow with a dark, navy-blue light that turned to the color of twilight.
"What are they doing…!? If they lose control of that…!!" Yokan looked anxious.
Shinbu watched in amazement. Yugi…
Yugi's eyes snapped open, and he held up his hand, calling forth a ball of light that went up from a pillar into the sky.
Yami then did the same, except his was a dark light. When the two hit each other, both vanished.
"What…?" Yokan blinked.
"Look!" Shinbu pointed.
Where the light-dark magic had clashed came a spinning vortex of an odd color that opened up like a rift in the sky.
Both Yugi and Yami seemed to be straining, then their eyes snapped open at the same time, and they clasped their hands together and raised them to the sky, towards the glowing ball of chaos.
The two boys chanted in Gaian as they stared at the crackling rift of chaotic energy swirling above them, "You who was created in chaos...and you who will return to chaos...we swear ourselves to your power! Please, help us in our time of need!!!"
What happened next, nobody seemed to have expected. The entire battle seemed to have slowed to a stop, as a booming voice called out.
"Thy wish is pure. Thy intentions are benevolent. Therefore, the power that thou wishes shall be!"
And then, out of the swirling chaos, a form clad in blue and black floated down. It was tall, and human-like, with orange-red leather wrappings on its legs and arms. A fancy, odd looking hat-like thing rested on its head, much like a magician's hat, but the appearance of it just seemed much more dangerous. In its hand was a black, blue, and red staff. It floated down until its black boots touched the ground. It looked up, its face a chaotic blue, and its eyes a piercing gold.
Everyone looked at it in shock as it turned to Yugi and Yami.
The two boys, out of breath, smiled through their shock.
"Thank you," Yugi smiled.
Yami nodded. "Will you help us?"
The humanoid looked at them, its eyes piercing as if studying their souls.
Everyone was tense as the humanoid started to move.
The humanoid knelt down in front of Yugi and Yami, bowing its head, "The Magician of Black Chaos…ready to serve."
TO BE CONTINUED…
The final battle is coming to the climax as the ultimate of ultimate monsters of chaos arrives! And for the sake of trying not to sound like an annoying end-of-the-episode narrator, I'll stop talking like that. ;p
Thanks again to everyone who's stuck with this story so far…we're almost at the end. I estimate only a couple more chapters. Hope you all enjoy them!
Arigatou gozaimasu!
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