From the explosion Kaiba emerged from the flaming wreckage unharmed.
"So, you survived?" asked the black robed man. "I expected as much! HA HA HA HA HA HA!"
Kaiba got up to his feet and said to the man, "You're deranged, but if you want a duel that bad, fine by me." Then Kaiba put on his Duel Disk with his deck already in it.
The black robed man threw off the robe and revealed himself. He had dark red hair and it was styled to make it look like fire, he also had dark brown eyes, and was wearing a black duster, with flames rising from the bottom to the top, as well as black flaming pants as well, his Duel Disk was mostly black and it had fire on it. He also wore two dueling gloves on each arm and he took out two of the star chips and placed them from across Kaiba.
"Those star chips will be yours if you survive," the man said.
"Survive? You're awfully sure of yourself," Kaiba said shuffling his deck and placed it back in his Duel Disk as well as the white dueling card to accommodate the new dueling rules.
"You think you're gonna make it?" the man asked pulling out a lighter and sparked it making a small fire appear. "Just in case you get scared and run away," he tossed the lighter to the edge of the dock and instantly fire caught around the docks surrounding Kaiba. "The only way out is through me."
"Fine," Kaiba said.
"I'm Kaji Inferno," the man said.
"Let's DUEL!" both the duelists said and their life points on the duel disks went up to 8000.
"I'll start," Kaji said drawing the first five cards and drew an additional attack. "I'll first play three Hinotamas!" Several fireballs rained down and altogether hit Kaiba for 1500 life points. "Then I'll play Sangan (1000/600) in attack mode." Then, a short three-eyed monster appeared on his side of the field, defending his life points. "I'll end my turn.
Kaji: 8000
Kaiba: 6500
"That pathetic weakling's defending your life points?" Kaiba asked. "I summon La Jinn (1800/1000) in attack mode and I'll attack Sangan." The green genie appeared on the field and he clapped his hands together and vanished and reappeared in front of the panicking Sangan and delivered a powerful punch to the little Sangan sending him to the graveyard. "I'll end my turn."
"Well from Sangan's effect, I get to place a card with 1500 or less attack points from my deck to my hand." He fingered through his deck and placed the card in his hand.
Kaji: 7200
Kaiba: 6500
Kaji's turn-
"I'll draw and I'll play one card face down defense mode and one magic or trap card face down and I'll end my turn." Kaji said as the two large face down cards appeared on the field.
Kaiba's turn-
"Running away already?" Kaiba asked. "I play Blood Vors (1900/1200) in attack mode and I'll have La Jinn attack your face down card." As the axe- wielding monster appeared, La Jinn clapped his hands and vanished again to reappear in front of the face down card, but as he was about to deliver a punch, Kaji flipped his face down card.
"I activate Gravity Bind," Kaji said as Kaiba's monsters suddenly got weighed down by a force of gravity. "Your monsters of levels four or higher can't attack."
"Damn," Kaiba said. "I end my turn then."
Kaji's turn-
"I draw my card, and I flip Big Eye (1200/1000) from face down defense to attack mode," as the multi-eyed fiend appeared on the field, Gravity Bind weighed it down. "I activate his effect to look at the top five cards from my deck and arrange them however I want." He did so and arranged the cards. "I also play one card face down ending my turn."
Kaiba's turn-
Kaiba drew his card and said, "I play Swordstalker (2000/1600) in attack mode," as his sword wielding monster appeared, Gravity Bind took effect. "And I'll end my turn."
Kaji's turn-
"You're biding your time to bring out Obelisk aren't you?" asked Kaji. "A very destructive card, indeed. But you'll never bring it out with what I have."
"How do you know about the Egyptian God Cards?!" asked Kaiba.
"Master Salazar told me and the other eliminators what to watch out for if we were to take on you or Yugi." Kaji said.
"Well even if you do know about my Egyptian God Card, you'd be blessed to be crushed by its power!" Kaiba said.
Kaji drew his card and smirked, "I play Burning Land now during the beginning of each of our turns, we'll lose 500 life points. And that ends my turn."
Kaiba's turn-
Right when Kaiba's turn started a wave of fire hit him, and he lost 500 life points.
"I'll draw my card," Kaiba said. "And I'll play Opticlops (1800/1700) in attack mode, and I'll end my turn."
Kaji: 7200
Kaiba: 6000
Burning Land took effect and hit Kaji for 500 life points.
"I draw and I'll play Graceful Charity," then Kaji drew three cards and discarded two of them. "One of the cards I discarded was Marie the Fallen One and because of her effect, next turn I'll only lose 300 life points. "I also play Fire Princess (1300/1500) in attack mode, but Gravity Bind prevents her from attacking so I end my turn."
Kaji: 6700
Kaiba's turn-
Burning Land took effect on Kaiba burning 500 of his life points again.
"I play Battle Ox (1700/1000) in attack mode," Kaiba said as his monster was brought down by Gravity Bind. "I end my turn."
Kaiba: 5500
Kaji's turn-
From Burning Land, Kaji lost 500 life points, but from Marie the Fallen One, he gained 200 back, so he only lost 300 life points.
"Here's another combo," Kaji said. "Every time I heal my own life points, Fire Princess's deals 500 direct damage to you." As he said that, Fire Princess hurled a ball of fire directly at Kaiba.
As Kaji drew his next card and said, "I play the Magic Card, Poison of the Old Man. Now I can choose to deal another 800 direct damage to you or I could heal my Life Points by 1200. I think I'll heal my life points." As the old man appeared, the purple vial was turned completely into a gas towards Kaji and it healed him of 1200 life points. But as Kaji was healed, Fire Princess hurled another fireball directly at Kaiba again. "And I end my turn."
Kaji: 7600
Kaiba: 4500
Kaiba's turn-
Burning Land burnt Kaiba again and he lost another 500 life points.
'If I don't draw Obelisk soon, this fire-starter's going to wipe me out, either that or I need something to destroy his Gravity Bind.' Kaiba thought to himself. 'No, I can't be intimidated by Salazar's lackey, if I give up now, then Kaiba Corp will never recover.'
Kaiba drew his card and said, "I summon X Head Cannon (1800/1500), one face down card and I'll end my turn.
Kaji's turn-
Burning Wave hit him again but from Marie the Fallen One, he only lost 300 life points, but he still got healed. And from that, Fire Princess hurled another fire ball at Kaiba and lost another 500 life points.
Kaji drew his card and said, "I sacrifice my Big Eye to bring out Labyrinth Wall (0/3000) in defense mode. "And I'll also play one card face down ending my turn."
'It doesn't matter what powerful monster he'll play next turn, Ring of Destruction will annihilate it and the rest of his life points!' Kaji thought.
Kaji: 7300
Kaiba: 4000
Kaiba's turn-
Kaiba drew his card and laughed, "This duel is over, you flamer. I'll sacrifice X Head Cannon, Battle Ox and La Jinn to bring out The God of Obelisk (4000/4000)!"
"So sorry, but because of this trap card, Ring of Destruction and when it destroys Obelisk, we'll both lose 4000 life points, enough to take you out entirely! HA HA HA!!!" Kaji laughed, but as the Ring formed and spun its flame towards Obelisk, Obelisk wasn't destroyed. "WHAT HAPPENED?!"
"So sorry, but because this is an Egyptian God Card, trap cards have no effect on it so we don't lose any life points," Kaiba said.
"Oh no!" shouted Kaji as his Fire Princess hid its face in fear from Obelisk even Labyrinth Wall's stone walls shook in the God Card's presence.
"But that's not all, I'll sacrifice my other two monsters, Blood Vors and Swordstalker to use Obelisk's deadly attack." The two monsters were picked up by the God Card and their energy was sucked dry and then Obelisk pulled back his fist and threw the punch right towards Kaji and all his monsters.
KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!
Kaji's Fire Princess was easily reduced to dust and then some and Labyrinth Wall shattered to thousands of pieces that also were obliterated as well as 4000 of Kaji's life points.
"If you thought that hurt," Kaiba said. "That wasn't his actual attack, HERE'S his attack! Fist of Chaos!" The God of Obelisk hurled another deadly punch destroying the remainder of his life points to zero.
Kaji: 0
Kaiba: 4000
Kaji had fallen to his knees, in shock.
Kaiba walked over to the center that was between him and picked up the two star chips and placed them in his blue dueling glove.
"No, I can't lose," Kaji said to himself. "He'll kill me..."
"What are you mumbling about?" Kaiba asked.
"I'd rather be dead then to be controlled by him, who knows what torture he'll put me through..." Kaji said as he stood up and pulled out the remote. "Kaiba, you'd better run while you can. There's enough explosives around the docks to blow everything sky-high."
Kaji pressed the button and started counting down.
"10... 9... 8..."
Kaiba gasped and ran passed Kaji and kept on running as fast as he could.
"7... 6... 5... 4..."
Kaiba was only halfway there but he wasn't stopping for anything.
"3... 2..."
Kaiba had increased his speed greatly as kept on running and he was almost there...
"...1."
The floor beneath and around Kaji exploded killing him instantly, and the concrete docks were being blown off and Kaiba was hit with the force of the explosion and went flying forward as he hit the ground and he covered up his neck and head from any falling debris.
The explosion was heard throughout the island and made many duelists wonder what was that?
Kaiba got up and looked behind him at the smoking ruins of the dock and said, "Two explosions in the same half hour, Salazar is insane for doing this." Kaiba then walked into to the forest to the inside of duelist kingdom...
~Meanwhile, back where Yugi, Joey, and Michael were...~
"What the hell was that?" Michael said.
"I dunno," Joey said. "Thunder, maybe?"
~Salazar's Castle, 6:34~
Salazar noticed that Kaji's Duel Disk wasn't receiving a signal on a large computer monitor.
"So Kaji couldn't take the heat," Salazar said and chuckled from his joke. "Well I don't blame him for committing suicide, that's a fate better than living for him."
Salazar pressed a button on his desk showing current data on duelists and he typed in the name, Yugi Muto. "Hmmm... only four star chips? I'd expect more from Muto."
Salazar then pressed a different button with multiple surveillance cameras all over the island one of the cameras had Yugi talking to Joey and Michael, he looked off to another camera showing one of his eliminators devastating duelist dealing 6000 damage in one turn. Another eliminator had wiped out his opponent using only magic and trap cards.
"Well they seem to be dueling well," Salazar said.
Then he turned his head to camera where docks once were and said, "You're lucky you're dead, Kaji."
~Duelist Kingdom Forest, 6:47~
"Man, I'm hungry again," Joey said as his stomach growled.
"Ugh," responded Michael. "You're a bottomless pit, Wheeler."
Yugi laughed at that and said, "Maybe we should build a fire or something?"
"Okay," Michael said as he pulled out some water canteens. "I'll go find some fresh water to fill these up with."
"Then Yuge and I'll get the firewood," said Joey.
Before Michael left, he picked up a stick and stuck it deep in the ground, "That's so we remember where it is."
As they split up, Michael went north, and Yugi and Joey went off to the west.
"So Yuge," Joey said as picked up some sticks. "Michael's a nice change of pace from other World Champions, huh?"
"Yeah," Yugi said picking up some sticks as well. "I have to admit, he's a great guy."
"AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!" shouted someone not to far from where Yugi and Joey were...
"So, you survived?" asked the black robed man. "I expected as much! HA HA HA HA HA HA!"
Kaiba got up to his feet and said to the man, "You're deranged, but if you want a duel that bad, fine by me." Then Kaiba put on his Duel Disk with his deck already in it.
The black robed man threw off the robe and revealed himself. He had dark red hair and it was styled to make it look like fire, he also had dark brown eyes, and was wearing a black duster, with flames rising from the bottom to the top, as well as black flaming pants as well, his Duel Disk was mostly black and it had fire on it. He also wore two dueling gloves on each arm and he took out two of the star chips and placed them from across Kaiba.
"Those star chips will be yours if you survive," the man said.
"Survive? You're awfully sure of yourself," Kaiba said shuffling his deck and placed it back in his Duel Disk as well as the white dueling card to accommodate the new dueling rules.
"You think you're gonna make it?" the man asked pulling out a lighter and sparked it making a small fire appear. "Just in case you get scared and run away," he tossed the lighter to the edge of the dock and instantly fire caught around the docks surrounding Kaiba. "The only way out is through me."
"Fine," Kaiba said.
"I'm Kaji Inferno," the man said.
"Let's DUEL!" both the duelists said and their life points on the duel disks went up to 8000.
"I'll start," Kaji said drawing the first five cards and drew an additional attack. "I'll first play three Hinotamas!" Several fireballs rained down and altogether hit Kaiba for 1500 life points. "Then I'll play Sangan (1000/600) in attack mode." Then, a short three-eyed monster appeared on his side of the field, defending his life points. "I'll end my turn.
Kaji: 8000
Kaiba: 6500
"That pathetic weakling's defending your life points?" Kaiba asked. "I summon La Jinn (1800/1000) in attack mode and I'll attack Sangan." The green genie appeared on the field and he clapped his hands together and vanished and reappeared in front of the panicking Sangan and delivered a powerful punch to the little Sangan sending him to the graveyard. "I'll end my turn."
"Well from Sangan's effect, I get to place a card with 1500 or less attack points from my deck to my hand." He fingered through his deck and placed the card in his hand.
Kaji: 7200
Kaiba: 6500
Kaji's turn-
"I'll draw and I'll play one card face down defense mode and one magic or trap card face down and I'll end my turn." Kaji said as the two large face down cards appeared on the field.
Kaiba's turn-
"Running away already?" Kaiba asked. "I play Blood Vors (1900/1200) in attack mode and I'll have La Jinn attack your face down card." As the axe- wielding monster appeared, La Jinn clapped his hands and vanished again to reappear in front of the face down card, but as he was about to deliver a punch, Kaji flipped his face down card.
"I activate Gravity Bind," Kaji said as Kaiba's monsters suddenly got weighed down by a force of gravity. "Your monsters of levels four or higher can't attack."
"Damn," Kaiba said. "I end my turn then."
Kaji's turn-
"I draw my card, and I flip Big Eye (1200/1000) from face down defense to attack mode," as the multi-eyed fiend appeared on the field, Gravity Bind weighed it down. "I activate his effect to look at the top five cards from my deck and arrange them however I want." He did so and arranged the cards. "I also play one card face down ending my turn."
Kaiba's turn-
Kaiba drew his card and said, "I play Swordstalker (2000/1600) in attack mode," as his sword wielding monster appeared, Gravity Bind took effect. "And I'll end my turn."
Kaji's turn-
"You're biding your time to bring out Obelisk aren't you?" asked Kaji. "A very destructive card, indeed. But you'll never bring it out with what I have."
"How do you know about the Egyptian God Cards?!" asked Kaiba.
"Master Salazar told me and the other eliminators what to watch out for if we were to take on you or Yugi." Kaji said.
"Well even if you do know about my Egyptian God Card, you'd be blessed to be crushed by its power!" Kaiba said.
Kaji drew his card and smirked, "I play Burning Land now during the beginning of each of our turns, we'll lose 500 life points. And that ends my turn."
Kaiba's turn-
Right when Kaiba's turn started a wave of fire hit him, and he lost 500 life points.
"I'll draw my card," Kaiba said. "And I'll play Opticlops (1800/1700) in attack mode, and I'll end my turn."
Kaji: 7200
Kaiba: 6000
Burning Land took effect and hit Kaji for 500 life points.
"I draw and I'll play Graceful Charity," then Kaji drew three cards and discarded two of them. "One of the cards I discarded was Marie the Fallen One and because of her effect, next turn I'll only lose 300 life points. "I also play Fire Princess (1300/1500) in attack mode, but Gravity Bind prevents her from attacking so I end my turn."
Kaji: 6700
Kaiba's turn-
Burning Land took effect on Kaiba burning 500 of his life points again.
"I play Battle Ox (1700/1000) in attack mode," Kaiba said as his monster was brought down by Gravity Bind. "I end my turn."
Kaiba: 5500
Kaji's turn-
From Burning Land, Kaji lost 500 life points, but from Marie the Fallen One, he gained 200 back, so he only lost 300 life points.
"Here's another combo," Kaji said. "Every time I heal my own life points, Fire Princess's deals 500 direct damage to you." As he said that, Fire Princess hurled a ball of fire directly at Kaiba.
As Kaji drew his next card and said, "I play the Magic Card, Poison of the Old Man. Now I can choose to deal another 800 direct damage to you or I could heal my Life Points by 1200. I think I'll heal my life points." As the old man appeared, the purple vial was turned completely into a gas towards Kaji and it healed him of 1200 life points. But as Kaji was healed, Fire Princess hurled another fireball directly at Kaiba again. "And I end my turn."
Kaji: 7600
Kaiba: 4500
Kaiba's turn-
Burning Land burnt Kaiba again and he lost another 500 life points.
'If I don't draw Obelisk soon, this fire-starter's going to wipe me out, either that or I need something to destroy his Gravity Bind.' Kaiba thought to himself. 'No, I can't be intimidated by Salazar's lackey, if I give up now, then Kaiba Corp will never recover.'
Kaiba drew his card and said, "I summon X Head Cannon (1800/1500), one face down card and I'll end my turn.
Kaji's turn-
Burning Wave hit him again but from Marie the Fallen One, he only lost 300 life points, but he still got healed. And from that, Fire Princess hurled another fire ball at Kaiba and lost another 500 life points.
Kaji drew his card and said, "I sacrifice my Big Eye to bring out Labyrinth Wall (0/3000) in defense mode. "And I'll also play one card face down ending my turn."
'It doesn't matter what powerful monster he'll play next turn, Ring of Destruction will annihilate it and the rest of his life points!' Kaji thought.
Kaji: 7300
Kaiba: 4000
Kaiba's turn-
Kaiba drew his card and laughed, "This duel is over, you flamer. I'll sacrifice X Head Cannon, Battle Ox and La Jinn to bring out The God of Obelisk (4000/4000)!"
"So sorry, but because of this trap card, Ring of Destruction and when it destroys Obelisk, we'll both lose 4000 life points, enough to take you out entirely! HA HA HA!!!" Kaji laughed, but as the Ring formed and spun its flame towards Obelisk, Obelisk wasn't destroyed. "WHAT HAPPENED?!"
"So sorry, but because this is an Egyptian God Card, trap cards have no effect on it so we don't lose any life points," Kaiba said.
"Oh no!" shouted Kaji as his Fire Princess hid its face in fear from Obelisk even Labyrinth Wall's stone walls shook in the God Card's presence.
"But that's not all, I'll sacrifice my other two monsters, Blood Vors and Swordstalker to use Obelisk's deadly attack." The two monsters were picked up by the God Card and their energy was sucked dry and then Obelisk pulled back his fist and threw the punch right towards Kaji and all his monsters.
KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!
Kaji's Fire Princess was easily reduced to dust and then some and Labyrinth Wall shattered to thousands of pieces that also were obliterated as well as 4000 of Kaji's life points.
"If you thought that hurt," Kaiba said. "That wasn't his actual attack, HERE'S his attack! Fist of Chaos!" The God of Obelisk hurled another deadly punch destroying the remainder of his life points to zero.
Kaji: 0
Kaiba: 4000
Kaji had fallen to his knees, in shock.
Kaiba walked over to the center that was between him and picked up the two star chips and placed them in his blue dueling glove.
"No, I can't lose," Kaji said to himself. "He'll kill me..."
"What are you mumbling about?" Kaiba asked.
"I'd rather be dead then to be controlled by him, who knows what torture he'll put me through..." Kaji said as he stood up and pulled out the remote. "Kaiba, you'd better run while you can. There's enough explosives around the docks to blow everything sky-high."
Kaji pressed the button and started counting down.
"10... 9... 8..."
Kaiba gasped and ran passed Kaji and kept on running as fast as he could.
"7... 6... 5... 4..."
Kaiba was only halfway there but he wasn't stopping for anything.
"3... 2..."
Kaiba had increased his speed greatly as kept on running and he was almost there...
"...1."
The floor beneath and around Kaji exploded killing him instantly, and the concrete docks were being blown off and Kaiba was hit with the force of the explosion and went flying forward as he hit the ground and he covered up his neck and head from any falling debris.
The explosion was heard throughout the island and made many duelists wonder what was that?
Kaiba got up and looked behind him at the smoking ruins of the dock and said, "Two explosions in the same half hour, Salazar is insane for doing this." Kaiba then walked into to the forest to the inside of duelist kingdom...
~Meanwhile, back where Yugi, Joey, and Michael were...~
"What the hell was that?" Michael said.
"I dunno," Joey said. "Thunder, maybe?"
~Salazar's Castle, 6:34~
Salazar noticed that Kaji's Duel Disk wasn't receiving a signal on a large computer monitor.
"So Kaji couldn't take the heat," Salazar said and chuckled from his joke. "Well I don't blame him for committing suicide, that's a fate better than living for him."
Salazar pressed a button on his desk showing current data on duelists and he typed in the name, Yugi Muto. "Hmmm... only four star chips? I'd expect more from Muto."
Salazar then pressed a different button with multiple surveillance cameras all over the island one of the cameras had Yugi talking to Joey and Michael, he looked off to another camera showing one of his eliminators devastating duelist dealing 6000 damage in one turn. Another eliminator had wiped out his opponent using only magic and trap cards.
"Well they seem to be dueling well," Salazar said.
Then he turned his head to camera where docks once were and said, "You're lucky you're dead, Kaji."
~Duelist Kingdom Forest, 6:47~
"Man, I'm hungry again," Joey said as his stomach growled.
"Ugh," responded Michael. "You're a bottomless pit, Wheeler."
Yugi laughed at that and said, "Maybe we should build a fire or something?"
"Okay," Michael said as he pulled out some water canteens. "I'll go find some fresh water to fill these up with."
"Then Yuge and I'll get the firewood," said Joey.
Before Michael left, he picked up a stick and stuck it deep in the ground, "That's so we remember where it is."
As they split up, Michael went north, and Yugi and Joey went off to the west.
"So Yuge," Joey said as picked up some sticks. "Michael's a nice change of pace from other World Champions, huh?"
"Yeah," Yugi said picking up some sticks as well. "I have to admit, he's a great guy."
"AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!" shouted someone not to far from where Yugi and Joey were...