'What do you mean?' Bakura asked his other-self. 'Don't controlled people
have different voices? I remember when Yugi was dueling Bandit Keith,
Keith's voice was different.'
'That is true,' the Spirit of the Ring told him. 'However there are two reasons why this person couldn't be controlled. One is that I would've known if he was being controlled. And the second is that Salazar isn't in any condition to be controlling anyone. His breath reeked of alcohol. Probably nursing a hangover.'
'Then how does his voice sound like that?' Bakura asked the Spirit.
'I'm not really sure but we'll find out soon,' the Spirit of the Ring told him.
Osiris roared at his former master and Nightmare laughed with great assurance.
"You have no hope for survival now Muto," Nightmare's controlled voice said.
"Oh yeah?" Joey said to Nightmare. "I remember this card's effect; it gets a thousand more attack points for every card in your hand. And I only see one. So this 'God' card's attack power is only 1000. So much for your strategy, Salazar."
"So Wheeler, even you could learn a thing or two in two years," Kaiba remarked.
"Don't push me Kaiba," Joey shot back, raising his fist.
"Joey let's just watch the duel," Mai said.
Joey simmered and ignored Kaiba watching his best friend duel.
Yugi: 7800
Nightmare: 2100
"Your friend was only half right on my cards in hand," Nightmare told Yugi. "I may have only one card in my hand, but it will soon be five. I play the Magic card Life-Shortening Treasure. Its effect allows me to draw until my hand has a total of five cards, but 5 turns after it's been activated, I discard my entire hand. I'll have already won by then." Nightmare drew five cards and Osiris's power rose to 5000/5000. "And I'll end my turn placing one card face down, lowering Osiris to 4000/4000."
Yugi's turn-
'That face down card can't be good,' Yugi thought as he drew his card. 'If I want to win, I have to keep my cool. He's been getting me angry and not thinking. But this could win it for me.'
"All right Salazar," Yugi said. "I play one card face down and I switch my two monsters to defense mode, ending my turn." Yugi's Dark Paladin kneeled down shielding itself with its sword and Curse of Dragon covered itself with its wings.
"I thought so," Kaiba said. "It seems Yugi has gotten rusty over two years."
"Shut up Kaiba," Joey said. "Yugi beat this card before and he can do it like last time."
"True, but this eliminator's using a different strategy," Kaiba said. "When Yugi was dueling Marik for this card, he put him in an infinite loop until Marik was decked out. This can't be done here."
Nightmare's turn-
"I've got you on the run now," Nightmare said drawing his card. "Osiris is now at 5000/5000 again. And it's time I dealt some real damage to you. I flip my face down card, Solemn Wishes and I'll play Stop Defense switching your Curse of Dragon to attack mode and lowering Osiris to 4000 again, still enough to kill it. Attack Osiris, Thunder Force!"
Osiris gathered a blinding white energy in his lower mouth and fired it at the much smaller dragon, atomizing it.
"One down and one to go," the controlled Nightmare said and he began laughing.
Yugi: 5800
Nightmare: 2100
Yugi's turn-
'Trap cards won't work on a God card and any other will just be destroyed as soon as I summon it. This is for you Yami,' Yugi thought and remembered the Heart of the Cards then he drew his card.
"I play the Magic card, Pot of Greed allowing me to draw two more cards," as Yugi played the magic card and drew the additional two cards. Suddenly his face went from worried to confident as he said, "I won."
"What?" Nightmare asked. "You've snapped haven't you?"
"Hardly," Yugi said. "These two cards will severely weaken Osiris enough to wipe out your life points. I first play Double Spell and by discarding my other magic card De-Fusion, I get to activate one of your magic cards in your graveyard. I choose Riryoku."
"Too bad magic cards don't affect Egyptian God cards," Nightmare said as half of his Egyptian God card's energy went to Yugi's Dark Paladin. "What? How can that be!?"
"Obviously you don't know that much about Egyptian God cards," Yugi said. "There are some Magic cards that can work on Egyptian Gods. Riryoku is one of those cards. And I'm not finished, I activate my face down card, Lightforce Sword removing one if the cards from your hand from the duel for four turns."
A sword appeared by Yugi and it shot towards Nightmare's hand and he placed the card in a compartment reducing his Egyptian God to only 1000 attack points.
"I now switch my Dark Paladin to attack mode," Yugi said switching it from sideways to the vertical position. "By the way, from Curse of Dragon, his attack power rises to 3400 and from Riryoku; it goes even further to 5400. This duel is over. Attack Dark Paladin, Dragon Saber Strike!" Yugi's Dark Paladin focused his energy into his blade and a dragon coiled around the blade. Then armored spellcaster ran up and drove his blade into the Egyptian God's neck and dropped down making a lethal cut.
The dragon god roared out in pain as it vanished from the field and relieving Nightmare of his life points.
Yugi: 5800
Nightmare: 0
"No. This can't be happening," Nightmare said still in his controlled voice as he fell to his knees, hyperventilating.
"Okay," Yugi said walking over to the defeated eliminator. "Since I won, I get back my puzzle, my God card, and three star chips."
Nightmare suddenly stood up, turned around and ran up the stone stairs to try and get away. He ran so fast, his hood flew off revealing his short brown hair and something was tied in a knot behind his head.
"Hey, get back here!" Yugi shouted as he picked up the bag holding his broken Millennium Puzzle and three star chips from the pile of hundreds of star chips and chased after the eliminator.
As Joey and Mai were about to join Yugi in chasing him, another person came sprinting passed them and quickly up the stairs.
"Who was that?" Mai asked watching the person run quickly up the stairs.
Joey didn't answer her as he already began running up the stairs after Nightmare. Mai sighed and followed after.
Nightmare had almost made it to the top and Yugi was nowhere near to catch up with him. But the swift moving person surpassed even Yugi and closed in on Nightmare.
Nightmare had made it to the top but the fast runner was only four steps behind him. The fast runner leaned forward and grabbed one of Nightmare's ankles making him fall face forward.
Yugi caught up with the two and got a look at both of them from their backs. The fast running person was wearing a green jacket, blue jeans, and natural red spiky hair that went up and down.
"Ryan Stone," Yugi said quickly figuring it out.
"Yeah, yeah," Ryan answered and showed Yugi Nightmare's face that had a huge mouthpiece covering not only his mouth but his nose as well. "And look who's here?"
Yugi saw through the mask and gasped, "Michael?"
Michael shoved Ryan off of him and stood up.
"You were controlled by Salazar?" Yugi asked.
"Please," Michael said in a controlled voice. He then untied the mouthpiece and spoke in his normal voice. "Yugi you truly are naïve aren't you?"
Joey and Mai had arrived to the top of the stairs and were equally shocked as Yugi.
"What?" Yugi said in confusion.
"Salazar was willing to pay me five million bucks to act like your friend and steal your Egyptian God Card," Michael told him without remorse.
Yugi then remembered when he slept in Michael's extra room and when his deck was knocked over.
"You were the one that placed that phony Osiris in my deck?" Yugi asked.
"That's right," Michael answered.
"You BASTARD!" Joey shouted and threw a punch right into Michael's face.
Michael parried the blow by grabbing Joey's wrist and as he was about to punch Joey in his gut, Ryan punched Michael in his face making him release Joey.
"That's it," Joey said activating his Duel Disk. "I'm dueling you right here and now."
"No let me," Ryan said. "You've already got a full dueling glove; I need five more star chips to qualify."
"Technically," Michael said. "I'm both a duelist and an eliminator and as a duelist, I only need five star chips as well. It's 4:30 about now, do you think I can beat you in a half hour?"
"I was going to ask you the same question," Ryan said activating his Duel Disk and walked to one side of the summit.
"I beat you once, I'll beat you again," Michael said removing black robe revealing his normal clothes of a black long-sleeved shirt and blue trousers. He removed his deck out of his Duel Disk and placed another deck into the Duel Disk and activated it.
Yugi, Joey and Mai stayed in the center of the platform ready to watch a good duel.
Kaiba arrived to the top and saw the two world duelists staring at each other, "So they're going to duel? I'll beat the winner in the finals and claim my title again."
"30 minutes?" Michael scoffed. "I could beat you in five."
"We'll see," Ryan said.
"Let's duel!" the two rivals said as their life points rose to 8000 and they both drew their first five cards.
'That is true,' the Spirit of the Ring told him. 'However there are two reasons why this person couldn't be controlled. One is that I would've known if he was being controlled. And the second is that Salazar isn't in any condition to be controlling anyone. His breath reeked of alcohol. Probably nursing a hangover.'
'Then how does his voice sound like that?' Bakura asked the Spirit.
'I'm not really sure but we'll find out soon,' the Spirit of the Ring told him.
Osiris roared at his former master and Nightmare laughed with great assurance.
"You have no hope for survival now Muto," Nightmare's controlled voice said.
"Oh yeah?" Joey said to Nightmare. "I remember this card's effect; it gets a thousand more attack points for every card in your hand. And I only see one. So this 'God' card's attack power is only 1000. So much for your strategy, Salazar."
"So Wheeler, even you could learn a thing or two in two years," Kaiba remarked.
"Don't push me Kaiba," Joey shot back, raising his fist.
"Joey let's just watch the duel," Mai said.
Joey simmered and ignored Kaiba watching his best friend duel.
Yugi: 7800
Nightmare: 2100
"Your friend was only half right on my cards in hand," Nightmare told Yugi. "I may have only one card in my hand, but it will soon be five. I play the Magic card Life-Shortening Treasure. Its effect allows me to draw until my hand has a total of five cards, but 5 turns after it's been activated, I discard my entire hand. I'll have already won by then." Nightmare drew five cards and Osiris's power rose to 5000/5000. "And I'll end my turn placing one card face down, lowering Osiris to 4000/4000."
Yugi's turn-
'That face down card can't be good,' Yugi thought as he drew his card. 'If I want to win, I have to keep my cool. He's been getting me angry and not thinking. But this could win it for me.'
"All right Salazar," Yugi said. "I play one card face down and I switch my two monsters to defense mode, ending my turn." Yugi's Dark Paladin kneeled down shielding itself with its sword and Curse of Dragon covered itself with its wings.
"I thought so," Kaiba said. "It seems Yugi has gotten rusty over two years."
"Shut up Kaiba," Joey said. "Yugi beat this card before and he can do it like last time."
"True, but this eliminator's using a different strategy," Kaiba said. "When Yugi was dueling Marik for this card, he put him in an infinite loop until Marik was decked out. This can't be done here."
Nightmare's turn-
"I've got you on the run now," Nightmare said drawing his card. "Osiris is now at 5000/5000 again. And it's time I dealt some real damage to you. I flip my face down card, Solemn Wishes and I'll play Stop Defense switching your Curse of Dragon to attack mode and lowering Osiris to 4000 again, still enough to kill it. Attack Osiris, Thunder Force!"
Osiris gathered a blinding white energy in his lower mouth and fired it at the much smaller dragon, atomizing it.
"One down and one to go," the controlled Nightmare said and he began laughing.
Yugi: 5800
Nightmare: 2100
Yugi's turn-
'Trap cards won't work on a God card and any other will just be destroyed as soon as I summon it. This is for you Yami,' Yugi thought and remembered the Heart of the Cards then he drew his card.
"I play the Magic card, Pot of Greed allowing me to draw two more cards," as Yugi played the magic card and drew the additional two cards. Suddenly his face went from worried to confident as he said, "I won."
"What?" Nightmare asked. "You've snapped haven't you?"
"Hardly," Yugi said. "These two cards will severely weaken Osiris enough to wipe out your life points. I first play Double Spell and by discarding my other magic card De-Fusion, I get to activate one of your magic cards in your graveyard. I choose Riryoku."
"Too bad magic cards don't affect Egyptian God cards," Nightmare said as half of his Egyptian God card's energy went to Yugi's Dark Paladin. "What? How can that be!?"
"Obviously you don't know that much about Egyptian God cards," Yugi said. "There are some Magic cards that can work on Egyptian Gods. Riryoku is one of those cards. And I'm not finished, I activate my face down card, Lightforce Sword removing one if the cards from your hand from the duel for four turns."
A sword appeared by Yugi and it shot towards Nightmare's hand and he placed the card in a compartment reducing his Egyptian God to only 1000 attack points.
"I now switch my Dark Paladin to attack mode," Yugi said switching it from sideways to the vertical position. "By the way, from Curse of Dragon, his attack power rises to 3400 and from Riryoku; it goes even further to 5400. This duel is over. Attack Dark Paladin, Dragon Saber Strike!" Yugi's Dark Paladin focused his energy into his blade and a dragon coiled around the blade. Then armored spellcaster ran up and drove his blade into the Egyptian God's neck and dropped down making a lethal cut.
The dragon god roared out in pain as it vanished from the field and relieving Nightmare of his life points.
Yugi: 5800
Nightmare: 0
"No. This can't be happening," Nightmare said still in his controlled voice as he fell to his knees, hyperventilating.
"Okay," Yugi said walking over to the defeated eliminator. "Since I won, I get back my puzzle, my God card, and three star chips."
Nightmare suddenly stood up, turned around and ran up the stone stairs to try and get away. He ran so fast, his hood flew off revealing his short brown hair and something was tied in a knot behind his head.
"Hey, get back here!" Yugi shouted as he picked up the bag holding his broken Millennium Puzzle and three star chips from the pile of hundreds of star chips and chased after the eliminator.
As Joey and Mai were about to join Yugi in chasing him, another person came sprinting passed them and quickly up the stairs.
"Who was that?" Mai asked watching the person run quickly up the stairs.
Joey didn't answer her as he already began running up the stairs after Nightmare. Mai sighed and followed after.
Nightmare had almost made it to the top and Yugi was nowhere near to catch up with him. But the swift moving person surpassed even Yugi and closed in on Nightmare.
Nightmare had made it to the top but the fast runner was only four steps behind him. The fast runner leaned forward and grabbed one of Nightmare's ankles making him fall face forward.
Yugi caught up with the two and got a look at both of them from their backs. The fast running person was wearing a green jacket, blue jeans, and natural red spiky hair that went up and down.
"Ryan Stone," Yugi said quickly figuring it out.
"Yeah, yeah," Ryan answered and showed Yugi Nightmare's face that had a huge mouthpiece covering not only his mouth but his nose as well. "And look who's here?"
Yugi saw through the mask and gasped, "Michael?"
Michael shoved Ryan off of him and stood up.
"You were controlled by Salazar?" Yugi asked.
"Please," Michael said in a controlled voice. He then untied the mouthpiece and spoke in his normal voice. "Yugi you truly are naïve aren't you?"
Joey and Mai had arrived to the top of the stairs and were equally shocked as Yugi.
"What?" Yugi said in confusion.
"Salazar was willing to pay me five million bucks to act like your friend and steal your Egyptian God Card," Michael told him without remorse.
Yugi then remembered when he slept in Michael's extra room and when his deck was knocked over.
"You were the one that placed that phony Osiris in my deck?" Yugi asked.
"That's right," Michael answered.
"You BASTARD!" Joey shouted and threw a punch right into Michael's face.
Michael parried the blow by grabbing Joey's wrist and as he was about to punch Joey in his gut, Ryan punched Michael in his face making him release Joey.
"That's it," Joey said activating his Duel Disk. "I'm dueling you right here and now."
"No let me," Ryan said. "You've already got a full dueling glove; I need five more star chips to qualify."
"Technically," Michael said. "I'm both a duelist and an eliminator and as a duelist, I only need five star chips as well. It's 4:30 about now, do you think I can beat you in a half hour?"
"I was going to ask you the same question," Ryan said activating his Duel Disk and walked to one side of the summit.
"I beat you once, I'll beat you again," Michael said removing black robe revealing his normal clothes of a black long-sleeved shirt and blue trousers. He removed his deck out of his Duel Disk and placed another deck into the Duel Disk and activated it.
Yugi, Joey and Mai stayed in the center of the platform ready to watch a good duel.
Kaiba arrived to the top and saw the two world duelists staring at each other, "So they're going to duel? I'll beat the winner in the finals and claim my title again."
"30 minutes?" Michael scoffed. "I could beat you in five."
"We'll see," Ryan said.
"Let's duel!" the two rivals said as their life points rose to 8000 and they both drew their first five cards.