Yugi awoke to find Joey still asleep but his injuries were gone and looked
a lot better from last night. Yugi then got up and was about to take off
the Millennium Tauk, but something told him not to. Yugi stood up and then
looked up to the see the morning sun rising up, but it was being covered up
by clouds, and it seemed it was going to rain.
Yugi forgot about the scars of defeat, but he still couldn't figure out how his Osiris was fake, he was sure it was real, but how did he get the fake card, he didn't know. He also wanted to get his puzzle back, but how?
Yugi sat down watching the sun rising before the clouds would block it out and sighed.
The sun suddenly shone brightly, and that seemed to wake Joey up as he yawned and awoke.
"Yuge?" Joey asked when he saw his back, and then he stood up and walked over to his best friend. "Hey what's wrong?"
Yugi sighed and said, "It's nothing."
"Hey I've known you long enough to know that it's never nothing," Joey said. "Is this about your duel last night?"
Yugi sighed again and nodded.
"Do you remember back when we were at Battle City?" Joey asked. "Well remember when I lost my duel to one of Malik's Rare Hunters? Well he beat me and took one of my strongest cards, Red-Eyes Black Dragon."
Joey flashed back to when he was dueling in the alley then watching as the Rare Hunter summoned Exodia, destroying Joey's Red-Eyes and all his life points.
"Remember what happened the next day?" Joey asked. "You dueled the same guy, kicked his ass, and got back my Red-Eyes, but I thought you would need to use it in the future. Was I right?"
"Yeah," Yugi said while nodding.
"So you lost your puzzle," Joey said. "You were a great duelist before you even had it, you've even dueled quite a few times without it, but Salazar won't be keeping it for long."
"Thanks Joey," Yugi said as he stood up. "I needed that."
"Oh how touching!" a female voice called behind them.
Yugi and Joey turned around and saw Mai.
"Mai!" both of them said.
"How long have you been standing there?" Joey asked.
"I heard the whole thing," Mai said. "Yugi, you couldn't have asked for a better friend."
Joey laughed nervously from this and said, "So, changing the subject, how've you been doin' so far?"
"Well if you must know," Mai said looking at her dueling glove. "I have the 15 star chips I need already, how about you too?"
"I have six," Yugi said.
"Eight for me," Joey said.
"Well you boys better pick up the pace," Mai said. "At 5:00 PM, the finals will be decided, and I haven't seen as many duelists as yesterday, it's like they've disappeared."
"Well I only need one more duel," Joey said. "I just gotta bet seven star chips and then I'm in."
"Yeah and I need two more duels and then I'll be in the finals, too." Yugi said looking at his star chips.
"Well I might know where some duelists are," Mai said. "You just have to find them."
"Okay then," Joey said.
The three of them walked out of the forest for good and began looking for duelists.
~Salazar's Castle, 9:14 AM~
Salazar was in his office and he was viewing two monitors of two of his three remaining eliminators. One eliminator used only magic and trap cards and was in control of the entire duel. Another eliminator had ran through his opponent's remaining life points with just one monster.
Then, Salazar pressed a button on an intercom and said, "Magi, Titan, report!"
"Master Salazar, I am pleased to inform you I have wiped out 35 duelists off the island," one of the eliminators said.
"Well I've ran through 36 duelists right now," the other duelist said.
"Well I have a mission for you," Salazar said. "You two are to duel Yugi Muto one after the other, he is off to the northwest of the island, corner him in that peninsula there so he can't escape. Do not fail me."
"Yes Master Salazar," the two of them said and they both left their dueling platforms and set out for the northwest.
Salazar turned off the intercom and looked at the Millennium Puzzle on his desk and pressed a different button on his intercom and said, "Croquet, bring in Mr. Underwood."
In a few moments, two suits brought in Weevil Underwood, he was bandaged around his waste and his left arm was in a cast.
"You two may take your leave," Salazar said to the two suits and they left the office, shutting the door.
"Mr. Underwood," Salazar began.
"Y-yes sir?" Weevil stuttered.
"You realize you broke several rules," Salazar said. "One: You began dueling before the eliminators were supposed to. Two: You were supposed to duel Yugi Muto yet you dueled someone else and lost..."
"I didn't have a choice, that guy made me duel him!" Weevil said.
"That is no excuse," Salazar told him. "And you knew about my zero- tolerance towards any defeated eliminators before you even left on your own."
Weevil got really nervous now, not knowing what his punishment would be.
"Now because you lost, I could either kill you or worse," Salazar said.
"Worse!?" Weevil yelped as he turned around to run away, and as he tried to open the door, but it was locked.
"Weevil Underwood, I hope your soul enjoys its permanent stay," Salazar said standing up and unveiling the Millennium Rod and his voice got dark. "To the Shadow Realm!"
Weevil let go of the door and looked behind to see the Millennium Rod pointing at him then, the blinds on the window all closed, the lights all went off and the eye on the rod emitted a blinding white light. Weevil looked down at his feet and they were being covered in pure darkness and it rose up until it covered him completely and all he saw was eternal darkness.
However, it seemed Weevil didn't leave the room at all, as he collapsed to the ground. The shutters reopened and the lights turned back on and Salazar looked down at the empty shell of Weevil Underwood.
"Now things can begin," Salazar said...
~Meanwhile~
Yugi, Joey and Mai were walking down a dirt road and off to the right side of them, the ocean crashed along the rocks. As they continued walking, they eventually arrived to a small peninsula, with waves coming from all sides. They had found some duelists, but Yugi, Joey, and Mai were all in much higher leagues than they were so they were turned down.
"Aw man," Joey said. "Sure there are plenty of duelists, but none of them wanna duel, what's the point of them being here?"
"You got me," Mai said. "They're all a bunch of cowards, they're just going to be shipped off when the time comes."
The other duelists soon left and the three of them were left alone but not for long, a tall hooded man standing about 5'11" arrived dressed in a dark blue robe with really loose sleeves, but there wasn't a bottom half to robe, but instead was loose black pants held up by a blood red belt. Some of his blue-green hair hung out from his hood and unlike Nightmare, his pale hooded face was shown and it was focused on Yugi.
"Yugi Muto," he said.
"Yeah?" Yugi asked.
"We are going to duel then," he said as he rolled up his left sleeve revealing his duel disk. "For all of your star chips."
"Hey!" shouted a gruff voice from behind the short-robed man. "No fair, Magi, I was supposed to go first!"
Another man appeared, he was enormous, almost bigger than Panik. He stood about 6'7", his head was shaved and he had tan skin much different than his counterpart and wore a long black robe but it had short sleeves and on his left arm was a duel disk.
"Well Titan," Magi said to the giant. "I got here first, so tough luck."
"Bull shit!" he shouted as he clenched his fist towards Magi. "I'm dueling Muto, or I'll knock your teeth out!"
"You talk big," Magi said. "But you got nothing to back it up."
"I'll duel you then!" Joey interjected. "Me and Yugi will take both you losers on."
Both of them looked at each other and laughed.
"I'm okay with it," Magi said. "I could take on three duelists at once and not even lose a life point. I am Salazar's strongest eliminator, I am Magi."
"Fine," Titan said. "I'll crush both you little runts. You got something wrong Magi. I am Salazar's strongest eliminator, I am Titan."
Then, an arena rose up from where they were and on each corner was a dueling platform for each duelist.
"I'm puttin' up seven star chips which will give me fifteen if I win," Joey said.
"Yes and I'll wager all six of my star chips," Yugi said.
Magi and Titan got on their dueling platforms and they rose up to the arena.
Yugi and Joey got on the opposing side and their platforms rose up as well and they faced the two eliminators.
"Let's duel!" The four duelists said in unison as their life points went up to 8000 each.
"Here's how it will go," Magi said. "The turn play will go with me, then Yugi, then Titan, then Joey, then me again and so on. On the first turn, no one can attack after that, everyone can attack. Also, if your partner is open for a direct attack, you can use one of your own monsters to defend the attack. And we can also play magic or trap cards that can power up our partner's monsters. Each of us will have 8000 life points, when both of one team is defeated, the duel is over."
Magi's turn-
"Now I'll start," Magi said drawing five cards and one more card. "I play the magic card Wave-Motion Cannon, and I'll play four magic or trap cards face down ending my turn." As a large cannon appeared, beside it appeared four cards facing down.
Yugi's turn-
Yugi drew his five cards and an additional card and said, "I play Beta the Magnet Warrior (1700/1500) in attack mode and I'll play one card face down ending my turn."
Titan's turn-
Titan drew his first five cards and another card and said, "I play Dark Elf (2000/800) in attack mode, ending my turn." What looked like the Mystical Elf appeared and held her hands together chanting something.
Joey's turn-
Joey drew five cards then another card and said, "I play Panther Warrior (2000/1600) in attack mode and I'll lay one card face down ending my turn." A large cat in armor and wielding a sword appeared defending Joey and behind was a large face down card.
Magi's turn-
Magi drew his card, smiled and said, "I flip my face down card, Mask of Restrict," as the creepy looking horned mask appeared and Magi continued, "Now none of us can sacrifice to bring out any monster. And I'm not yet finished, I flip my other face down card, Nightmare Wheel, on your Magnet Warrior, Muto." And it was so, Beta was suddenly brought down to the ground and a bone-like contraption held a wheel that began spinning faster and faster each second. "As long as I have Nightmare Wheel out, Beta can't attack or switch positions except by effect of magic, trap or monster card, you could sacrifice it, but with Mask of Restrict out, you can't do that so Beta will have to stick around. And when my next turn begins, you'll be hit with the Nightmare Wheel. That'll end my turn."
Yugi's turn-
Yugi drew his card and sighed saying, "I play Dark Magician Girl (2000/1700) in attack mode and I'll end my turn."
Titan's turn-
Titan drew his card and laughed, "I play Jirai Gumo (2200/100) in attack mode, and I'll have Jirai Gumo attack Panther Warrior, but before I can attack, I have to flip a coin." Titan pulled out a coin. "I call Heads." He flipped the coin and as it flew high into the air, it landed back down landing on heads. "And now I'll attack Panther Warrior, Spider Venom Claw!" The large spider ran over to Joey's cat warrior, and as it claws were about to come down and strike, Joey flipped his face down card and a chain ensnared Titan's spider.
"I activated my trap card, Chained Boomerang and not only does it switch one of your attack monsters in defense mode," Joey said. "But I can also choose to equip this to one of my monsters to increase his attack to 2500, and since you attacked, Panther Warrior doesn't need a sacrifice to kill your spider. Panther Blade Slash!" With the chain still wrapped around the spider, Panther Warrior reeled it in and decapitated it.
"I'll end my turn," Titan growled.
Joey's turn-
Joey drew his card and got excited, "I play Scapegoat, summoning four little sheep to my side of the field, and I'll sacrifice one for Panther Warrior to attack your Dark Elf."
"Hold it," Magi said.
"What is it?" Joey asked.
"Forget about my Mask of Restrict?" Magi asked. " 'No matter what the situation, neither player can offer any monster as a tribute' I believe that counts for your Panther Warrior's effect."
"Then I'll end my turn," Joey groaned.
Magi's turn-
Just then, Nightmare Wheel was still spinning that whole time and it was released from the bone contraption and it shot towards Yugi, hitting him directly for 500 life points.
"I draw and I'll flip my face down card, Just Desserts to deal even more damage to you, since you have two monsters on the field, you lose 1000 life points and I'll also use my Wave-Motion Cannon to attack Joey's life points directly and its power grows by 1000 after each of my standby phases, and there have been 2, so It'll deal 2000 direct damage to you Joey," Magi said as the cannon powered up and fired a powerful blast, so powerful, it destroyed the cannon itself and the blast hit Joey from head to toe. "I'll end my turn."
Magi: 8000
Yugi: 6500
Titan: 8000
Joey: 6000
"This is just the beginning of what we're gonna do to you!" Titan said.
The two eliminators let out a great laugh at their advantage and were sure they were going to please Salazar...
Yugi forgot about the scars of defeat, but he still couldn't figure out how his Osiris was fake, he was sure it was real, but how did he get the fake card, he didn't know. He also wanted to get his puzzle back, but how?
Yugi sat down watching the sun rising before the clouds would block it out and sighed.
The sun suddenly shone brightly, and that seemed to wake Joey up as he yawned and awoke.
"Yuge?" Joey asked when he saw his back, and then he stood up and walked over to his best friend. "Hey what's wrong?"
Yugi sighed and said, "It's nothing."
"Hey I've known you long enough to know that it's never nothing," Joey said. "Is this about your duel last night?"
Yugi sighed again and nodded.
"Do you remember back when we were at Battle City?" Joey asked. "Well remember when I lost my duel to one of Malik's Rare Hunters? Well he beat me and took one of my strongest cards, Red-Eyes Black Dragon."
Joey flashed back to when he was dueling in the alley then watching as the Rare Hunter summoned Exodia, destroying Joey's Red-Eyes and all his life points.
"Remember what happened the next day?" Joey asked. "You dueled the same guy, kicked his ass, and got back my Red-Eyes, but I thought you would need to use it in the future. Was I right?"
"Yeah," Yugi said while nodding.
"So you lost your puzzle," Joey said. "You were a great duelist before you even had it, you've even dueled quite a few times without it, but Salazar won't be keeping it for long."
"Thanks Joey," Yugi said as he stood up. "I needed that."
"Oh how touching!" a female voice called behind them.
Yugi and Joey turned around and saw Mai.
"Mai!" both of them said.
"How long have you been standing there?" Joey asked.
"I heard the whole thing," Mai said. "Yugi, you couldn't have asked for a better friend."
Joey laughed nervously from this and said, "So, changing the subject, how've you been doin' so far?"
"Well if you must know," Mai said looking at her dueling glove. "I have the 15 star chips I need already, how about you too?"
"I have six," Yugi said.
"Eight for me," Joey said.
"Well you boys better pick up the pace," Mai said. "At 5:00 PM, the finals will be decided, and I haven't seen as many duelists as yesterday, it's like they've disappeared."
"Well I only need one more duel," Joey said. "I just gotta bet seven star chips and then I'm in."
"Yeah and I need two more duels and then I'll be in the finals, too." Yugi said looking at his star chips.
"Well I might know where some duelists are," Mai said. "You just have to find them."
"Okay then," Joey said.
The three of them walked out of the forest for good and began looking for duelists.
~Salazar's Castle, 9:14 AM~
Salazar was in his office and he was viewing two monitors of two of his three remaining eliminators. One eliminator used only magic and trap cards and was in control of the entire duel. Another eliminator had ran through his opponent's remaining life points with just one monster.
Then, Salazar pressed a button on an intercom and said, "Magi, Titan, report!"
"Master Salazar, I am pleased to inform you I have wiped out 35 duelists off the island," one of the eliminators said.
"Well I've ran through 36 duelists right now," the other duelist said.
"Well I have a mission for you," Salazar said. "You two are to duel Yugi Muto one after the other, he is off to the northwest of the island, corner him in that peninsula there so he can't escape. Do not fail me."
"Yes Master Salazar," the two of them said and they both left their dueling platforms and set out for the northwest.
Salazar turned off the intercom and looked at the Millennium Puzzle on his desk and pressed a different button on his intercom and said, "Croquet, bring in Mr. Underwood."
In a few moments, two suits brought in Weevil Underwood, he was bandaged around his waste and his left arm was in a cast.
"You two may take your leave," Salazar said to the two suits and they left the office, shutting the door.
"Mr. Underwood," Salazar began.
"Y-yes sir?" Weevil stuttered.
"You realize you broke several rules," Salazar said. "One: You began dueling before the eliminators were supposed to. Two: You were supposed to duel Yugi Muto yet you dueled someone else and lost..."
"I didn't have a choice, that guy made me duel him!" Weevil said.
"That is no excuse," Salazar told him. "And you knew about my zero- tolerance towards any defeated eliminators before you even left on your own."
Weevil got really nervous now, not knowing what his punishment would be.
"Now because you lost, I could either kill you or worse," Salazar said.
"Worse!?" Weevil yelped as he turned around to run away, and as he tried to open the door, but it was locked.
"Weevil Underwood, I hope your soul enjoys its permanent stay," Salazar said standing up and unveiling the Millennium Rod and his voice got dark. "To the Shadow Realm!"
Weevil let go of the door and looked behind to see the Millennium Rod pointing at him then, the blinds on the window all closed, the lights all went off and the eye on the rod emitted a blinding white light. Weevil looked down at his feet and they were being covered in pure darkness and it rose up until it covered him completely and all he saw was eternal darkness.
However, it seemed Weevil didn't leave the room at all, as he collapsed to the ground. The shutters reopened and the lights turned back on and Salazar looked down at the empty shell of Weevil Underwood.
"Now things can begin," Salazar said...
~Meanwhile~
Yugi, Joey and Mai were walking down a dirt road and off to the right side of them, the ocean crashed along the rocks. As they continued walking, they eventually arrived to a small peninsula, with waves coming from all sides. They had found some duelists, but Yugi, Joey, and Mai were all in much higher leagues than they were so they were turned down.
"Aw man," Joey said. "Sure there are plenty of duelists, but none of them wanna duel, what's the point of them being here?"
"You got me," Mai said. "They're all a bunch of cowards, they're just going to be shipped off when the time comes."
The other duelists soon left and the three of them were left alone but not for long, a tall hooded man standing about 5'11" arrived dressed in a dark blue robe with really loose sleeves, but there wasn't a bottom half to robe, but instead was loose black pants held up by a blood red belt. Some of his blue-green hair hung out from his hood and unlike Nightmare, his pale hooded face was shown and it was focused on Yugi.
"Yugi Muto," he said.
"Yeah?" Yugi asked.
"We are going to duel then," he said as he rolled up his left sleeve revealing his duel disk. "For all of your star chips."
"Hey!" shouted a gruff voice from behind the short-robed man. "No fair, Magi, I was supposed to go first!"
Another man appeared, he was enormous, almost bigger than Panik. He stood about 6'7", his head was shaved and he had tan skin much different than his counterpart and wore a long black robe but it had short sleeves and on his left arm was a duel disk.
"Well Titan," Magi said to the giant. "I got here first, so tough luck."
"Bull shit!" he shouted as he clenched his fist towards Magi. "I'm dueling Muto, or I'll knock your teeth out!"
"You talk big," Magi said. "But you got nothing to back it up."
"I'll duel you then!" Joey interjected. "Me and Yugi will take both you losers on."
Both of them looked at each other and laughed.
"I'm okay with it," Magi said. "I could take on three duelists at once and not even lose a life point. I am Salazar's strongest eliminator, I am Magi."
"Fine," Titan said. "I'll crush both you little runts. You got something wrong Magi. I am Salazar's strongest eliminator, I am Titan."
Then, an arena rose up from where they were and on each corner was a dueling platform for each duelist.
"I'm puttin' up seven star chips which will give me fifteen if I win," Joey said.
"Yes and I'll wager all six of my star chips," Yugi said.
Magi and Titan got on their dueling platforms and they rose up to the arena.
Yugi and Joey got on the opposing side and their platforms rose up as well and they faced the two eliminators.
"Let's duel!" The four duelists said in unison as their life points went up to 8000 each.
"Here's how it will go," Magi said. "The turn play will go with me, then Yugi, then Titan, then Joey, then me again and so on. On the first turn, no one can attack after that, everyone can attack. Also, if your partner is open for a direct attack, you can use one of your own monsters to defend the attack. And we can also play magic or trap cards that can power up our partner's monsters. Each of us will have 8000 life points, when both of one team is defeated, the duel is over."
Magi's turn-
"Now I'll start," Magi said drawing five cards and one more card. "I play the magic card Wave-Motion Cannon, and I'll play four magic or trap cards face down ending my turn." As a large cannon appeared, beside it appeared four cards facing down.
Yugi's turn-
Yugi drew his five cards and an additional card and said, "I play Beta the Magnet Warrior (1700/1500) in attack mode and I'll play one card face down ending my turn."
Titan's turn-
Titan drew his first five cards and another card and said, "I play Dark Elf (2000/800) in attack mode, ending my turn." What looked like the Mystical Elf appeared and held her hands together chanting something.
Joey's turn-
Joey drew five cards then another card and said, "I play Panther Warrior (2000/1600) in attack mode and I'll lay one card face down ending my turn." A large cat in armor and wielding a sword appeared defending Joey and behind was a large face down card.
Magi's turn-
Magi drew his card, smiled and said, "I flip my face down card, Mask of Restrict," as the creepy looking horned mask appeared and Magi continued, "Now none of us can sacrifice to bring out any monster. And I'm not yet finished, I flip my other face down card, Nightmare Wheel, on your Magnet Warrior, Muto." And it was so, Beta was suddenly brought down to the ground and a bone-like contraption held a wheel that began spinning faster and faster each second. "As long as I have Nightmare Wheel out, Beta can't attack or switch positions except by effect of magic, trap or monster card, you could sacrifice it, but with Mask of Restrict out, you can't do that so Beta will have to stick around. And when my next turn begins, you'll be hit with the Nightmare Wheel. That'll end my turn."
Yugi's turn-
Yugi drew his card and sighed saying, "I play Dark Magician Girl (2000/1700) in attack mode and I'll end my turn."
Titan's turn-
Titan drew his card and laughed, "I play Jirai Gumo (2200/100) in attack mode, and I'll have Jirai Gumo attack Panther Warrior, but before I can attack, I have to flip a coin." Titan pulled out a coin. "I call Heads." He flipped the coin and as it flew high into the air, it landed back down landing on heads. "And now I'll attack Panther Warrior, Spider Venom Claw!" The large spider ran over to Joey's cat warrior, and as it claws were about to come down and strike, Joey flipped his face down card and a chain ensnared Titan's spider.
"I activated my trap card, Chained Boomerang and not only does it switch one of your attack monsters in defense mode," Joey said. "But I can also choose to equip this to one of my monsters to increase his attack to 2500, and since you attacked, Panther Warrior doesn't need a sacrifice to kill your spider. Panther Blade Slash!" With the chain still wrapped around the spider, Panther Warrior reeled it in and decapitated it.
"I'll end my turn," Titan growled.
Joey's turn-
Joey drew his card and got excited, "I play Scapegoat, summoning four little sheep to my side of the field, and I'll sacrifice one for Panther Warrior to attack your Dark Elf."
"Hold it," Magi said.
"What is it?" Joey asked.
"Forget about my Mask of Restrict?" Magi asked. " 'No matter what the situation, neither player can offer any monster as a tribute' I believe that counts for your Panther Warrior's effect."
"Then I'll end my turn," Joey groaned.
Magi's turn-
Just then, Nightmare Wheel was still spinning that whole time and it was released from the bone contraption and it shot towards Yugi, hitting him directly for 500 life points.
"I draw and I'll flip my face down card, Just Desserts to deal even more damage to you, since you have two monsters on the field, you lose 1000 life points and I'll also use my Wave-Motion Cannon to attack Joey's life points directly and its power grows by 1000 after each of my standby phases, and there have been 2, so It'll deal 2000 direct damage to you Joey," Magi said as the cannon powered up and fired a powerful blast, so powerful, it destroyed the cannon itself and the blast hit Joey from head to toe. "I'll end my turn."
Magi: 8000
Yugi: 6500
Titan: 8000
Joey: 6000
"This is just the beginning of what we're gonna do to you!" Titan said.
The two eliminators let out a great laugh at their advantage and were sure they were going to please Salazar...