'Of course Muto will get through,' thought Kaiba as Yugi entered the door
with the other three duelists. 'It never ceases to amaze how someone that
beat me got into all these high-class tournaments.'
"Now let's continue on with the third preliminary match, shall we?" Croquet asked the remaining duelists.
"Now for the four duelists to be dueling behind Door III," the suit holding the clipboard said. "Seto Kaiba..."
Kaiba smirked and thought, 'Give me any of these second-rate duelists. I don't care who it is.'
"Jonathan Winston..."
The English duelist let out a chuckle, getting the one duelist he wanted to duel. His hair was brown and cut short with a few bangs hanging in front of his face. He wore a light blue short-sleeved shirt with blue jeans. He walked towards the door and asked Kaiba, "I know every strategy you've done, are you ready for me?"
"You may know of my cards, but can you overcome them?" Kaiba answered back.
"Seth Akil..."
The duelist of Egypt smiled in content as he met up with his colleague at the door. His long black hair hung in the front and in the back. He wore a blue t-shirt covering a white long sleeved shirt with blue trousers. He looked over at Kaiba and told him, "You'll never know what hit you, with my deck."
"You think you can take advantage of me?" Kaiba asked. "That's hard to believe. You can try and prove me wrong on the field."
"...and Kyoji Hiraga."
The Japanese duelist grinned confidently and walked over to his other comrades. He wore a white t-shirt, a blue jacket and blue jeans. After a brief conversation with his other two colleagues he said to Kaiba, "You're done for, Kaiba. With all three of us, you don't stand a chance."
"Listen, I don't care if I had to take on ten duelists like you," Kaiba began. "I'm not about to be beaten by three nobodies who dueled some other nobodies to get here."
"We'll see," Kyoji said.
After that was said, the four duelists entered the door with the Roman numeral III. Kaiba walked in first, then Seth, then Kyoji, and Jonathan was the last and shut the door. The door locked electronically for the duration.
Kaiba turned on his Duel Disk and walked over to the far corner of the white cubed room. The Blue-Eyes White Dragon Clan took up the other three corners, each turning on their Duel Disks.
"I suppose you three want something if you happen to defeat me?" Kaiba asked the three of them.
"Yes," answered Kyoji. "If you lose, we get all three of your Blue-Eyes White Dragons."
"Okay," Kaiba said calmly. "And if I should win, I keep the two losers' decks."
"What? No way! You're crazy!" Were some of the reactions of the three.
"Your third-rate decks for three three-of-a-kind cards?" Kaiba asked. "Seems like you three would be getting the better spoils, here. The losers give up their decks or it's no deal."
After much thought, they finally decided.
"Fine," Jonathan said.
"Alright," Seth answered.
"It's not like you'll win anyway," Kyoji added.
"Very well the terms are accepted," Kaiba said, shuffling his deck, then putting it back in his Duel Disk.
"Let's duel!" The four duelists said in unison and their life points went to 8000.
"I'll begin," Kaiba said, drawing his card. "I'll first play Pot of Greed, letting me draw two cards and now I'll summon Swordstalker (2000/1600) in attack mode."
As Kaiba drew his two cards, Jonathan made a comment about his sword wielding warrior.
"Swordstalker..." he began. "First used in your deck from the very beginning. A very adequate card for this kind of tournament. And a definition of your deck: pure power."
"My, you've done your homework," Kaiba replied. "Are you sure you aren't fans of mine? If you've remember my cards from that far, you must like me."
"Don't flatter yourself," Jonathan answered. "'Know your enemy, know yourself' simple logic."
"Fine," Kaiba said. "I'll end my turn."
"I'll go next," Jonathan said, drawing his card. "I'll start by playing this magic card, Stray Lambs, to special summon two lamb tokens (0/0) to the field in defense mode and I'll end my turn placing this one magic or trap card face down."
On Jonathan's side of the field appeared two little horned lambs appeared. One had red fur and the other had white and was a bit smaller. In fact, the white lamb was resting atop the red lamb's head.
"My turn," Kyoji said, drawing the top card on his deck. "I summon Twin- Headed Behemoth (1500/1200) in defense mode and one card face down, ending my turn."
A winged dragon with two heads in place of arms and behind it appeared a large face down card on Kyoji's side of the field.
Seth's turn-
"Now it's my turn," said Seth, drawing his card. "I set one monster face down in defense mode and two cards face down, ending my turn."
For Seth's first turn, three face down cards appeared. One was placed horizontally and behind it were two cards placed vertically.
Kaiba's turn-
"Now it's time to for you to feel the pain," Kaiba said to the three opposing duelists, drawing his card. "I'll set one card face down in defense mode and I'll have Swordstalker attack one of your lamb tokens, Jonathan. Shadow Sword!"
Swordstalker obeyed and charged towards the horned lambs. He swung his blade horizontally and sliced the white lamb in two.
Jonathan's turn-
"A face down card?" he questioned, drawing his card. "I'm pretty sure I know what it is."
"Then attack it," Kaiba told him.
"Why attack it when I can do this?" he began. "First I summon Royal Magic Library (0/2000) in defense mode and I flip my face down card, Nobleman of Crossout! It destroys your face down card."
An armored knight appeared and in his hands was a sword. The knight charged towards Kaiba's face down card and sliced the card in two, which revealed to be Slate Warrior.
"If the monster destroys a monster with a flip effect, all other cards will be destroyed in your deck and mine," Jonathan explained.
Kaiba didn't look the least bit worried, "That was my only Slate Warrior, so my deck is untouched."
"Fine, but Royal Magic Library gets a spell counter from me playing Nobleman of Crossout," Jonathan said. "So I'll end my turn now."
Kyoji's turn-
As soon as Kyoji drew his card he laughed a little.
"Here's a dent in your life points, Kaiba," he said to him. "I first flip my face down card, Super Rejuvenation and I'll summon Spirit Ryu (1000/1000)."
As the dragon spirit appeared, Kyoji continued his turn.
"And now I'll have him attack your Swordstalker, with Spirit Flame!"
Spirit Ryu exhaled a small wave of white flame towards Swordstalker. Before the attack could hit, Kyoji discarded his entire hand.
"With Spirit Ryu's special effect, I discard my entire hand, a hand of nothing but dragon cards to increase Spirit Ryu's attack and defense by 4000 making it a 5000/5000!"
Suddenly the dragon spirit grew enormously, and its breath of fire grew, now looming over Kaiba's Swordstalker. The flames took in Kaiba's dark warrior and was destroyed.
"And I end my turn," Kyoji said. "But as my turn ends, from Super Rejuvenation I draw the same amount of dragon cards that I discarded. So I draw four cards."
"Plus, I get another spell counter on my Royal Magic Library," Jonathan added.
'Not a big loss,' Kaiba thought. 'If I can just get the card I need, then someone's in trouble.'
Kaiba: 5000
Jonathan: 8000
Kyoji: 8000
Seth: 8000
Seth's turn-
"An excellent move," Seth commented to Kyoji, drawing a card. "Now for me to keep it up. I flip my face down card, Cobra Jar (600/300) to bring out a Poisonous Snake token (1200/1200). And I'll sacrifice my Cobra Jar to bring out Cybernetic Wyvern (2500/1600)!"
As the old clay pot revealed itself, a cobra leaped out of the pot and hissed. As soon as the cobra appeared, the pot vanished and in its place, appeared a mighty green dragon. The dragon however was armored thickly with red armor covering almost everywhere.
"Now Cybernetic Wyvern, attack his face down card! Cyber Breath!" Seth commanded.
Seth's robotic dragon obeyed and exhaled dark red flames towards Kaiba's face down card. However Kaiba's face down card flipped face up.
"Thanks for that," Kaiba said. "You attacked my Cyber Jar!"
Before Cybernetic Wyvern's flame attack could hit, Cyber Jar glowed white and created a powerful explosion, wiping out all the monsters on the field.
"Now we all pick up five cards, any monsters with levels four or lower are special summoned to the field," Kaiba explained. "Any other cards are added to our hands."
Kaiba special summoned Vorse Raider (1900/1200) in attack mode, Giant Germ (1000/100) face down in defense mode, Kaiser Seahorse (1700/1650) in attack mode, and Lord of Dragons (1200/1100) face down in defense mode.
Jonathan special summoned Troop Dragon (700/800) face down in defense mode and Gray Wing (1300/700) also face down in defense mode.
Kyoji special summoned Cave Dragon (2000/100) in attack mode, Spear Dragon (1900/0) in attack mode and The Dragon Dwelling in the Cave (1300/2000) face down in defense mode.
Seth could only special summon Youi (500/500) in attack mode.
"Now I'll continue my turn," Seth said. "First, from Youi, I prevent one of my opponents from drawing next turn and I choose you Seto."
"Very well," Kaiba said, looking at the card he drew. "But you left that weak little lizard in attack mode. You can't even sacrifice it for anything."
"True, but I'll defend him with these," he said taking three cards out of his hands, "I place three more magic or trap cards face down, making it five. And I end my turn."
Kaiba's turn-
"Since I can't draw this turn," Kaiba began, "I'll just do this: I sacrifice Kaiser Seahorse to bring out Blue-Eyes White Dragon (3000/2500)!"
As the armored sea serpent vanished in a flash of light, the mighty dragon Kaiba was famous for appeared. It roared mightily towards its opposition as if it had never experienced fear.
The three members of the Blue-Eyes White Dragon Clan looked in awe at its immense power.
"So this is the card you three so want?" Kaiba asked. "I can understand why anyone would want it. Well don't get too attached to looking at it. I play A Wingbeat of Giant Dragon."
"Oh, no!" Seth shouted, knowing exactly what the card did.
Kaiba's Blue-Eyes roared as he removed the card from his Duel Disk and added it back to his hand. The dragon itself flapped its mighty wings creating a powerful force of wind, blowing away all of Seth's face down cards. The Blue-Eyes White Dragon took to the skies and had left the field.
"My traps..." Seth said mournfully, placing all five trap cards to the graveyard.
"That leaves you with barely any defense," Kaiba said. "Before I crush you, I'm going to play Flute of Summoning Dragon to bring back Blue-Eyes!"
Suddenly, a flute appeared with the head of a dragon in front of Kaiba's Lord of Dragons. The spellcaster grasped it firmly in his right hand and played a single note for several seconds. When he stopped, all four of the duelists heard a roar in the distance. As it got closer, they could see a white dragon fly down by Kaiba's side again.
"Now to do away with you," Kaiba told Seth. "Giant Germ, attack Youi!"
Kaiba's oversized cell shot towards Seth's multi-legged reptile encasing it completely and soon devoured it.
"Now Lord of Dragons, Vorse Raider," Kaiba shouted to two of his monsters. "Attack Seth's life points directly!"
Like a boomerang, Vorse Raider hurled his axe towards Seth's chest and it flung back to his hands. Lord of Dragons formed a translucent dragon and fired it like an energy blast towards Seth.
"I could have Blue-Eyes wipe out your life points even more, but it's time someone else felt damage," Kaiba said. "Blue-Eyes, attack Kiyoji's Spear Dragon with White Lightning!"
Kaiba's dragon obeyed as it took flight and fired a blast of bright white energy towards Kiyoji's long nosed dragon, reducing it to bits of dust.
"And now I'll place three magic or trap cards face down," Kaiba declared playing his entire hand. "And I end my turn."
Kaiba: 5000
Jonathan: 8000
Kiyoji: 5900
Seth: 4400
Jonathan's turn-
As Jonathan drew his card, he knew what to do.
"First I draw," he began, "Then I'll offer the three spell counters from Royal Magic Library to draw an additional card, putting me at nine and I'll play the magic card I drew, Pot of Greed drawing two more, putting me at 10."
"Not anymore," Kaiba intervened. "I activate my trap card Power Balance!"
"Power Balance?" Jonathan questioned when suddenly, a large scale appeared in between him and Kaiba.
Jonathan's side of the scale was on the ground and Kaiba's high in the air.
"It's a trap card," Kaiba explained. "This can only be activated when I have zero cards in my hand. First off, you discard half the cards in your hand to the graveyard. Secondly, I draw as many cards as you discarded."
Jonathan had a hard time choosing which cards to discard but he eventually discarded five cards.
As Kaiba drew five cards, the scale became even between him and Jonathan. The scale then faded from the field.
Jonathan was baffled on what to do now.
"I'll pass my turn," Jonathan said, cursing something underneath his breath.
Kiyoji's turn-
'Damn,' thought Kiyoji as he drew his card. 'If it wasn't for that dragon I'd be ripping through Kaiba's monsters. But this will at least buy me some time.'
"I'll sacrifice Cave Dragon and The Dragon Dwelling in the Cave to summon Millennium Shield (0/3000) in defense mode and I'll end my turn." Kiyoji announced.
Seth's turn-
"I'm not defeated yet, Kaiba," Seth told him, drawing his card. "But I'll defeat you right here and now!"
"Is that so?" Kaiba asked. "You haven't even touched any of my life points."
"Well watch this," he began, "I play Premature Burial and by paying 800 of my life points, I'll bring back Cybernetic Wyvern (2500/1600) in attack mode. But I'll equip him with Megamorph, doubling his attack to 5000!"
As the red-armored dragon arose from the earth, its massive size grew further. Blue-Eyes White Dragon paled in comparison to Cybernetic Wyvern now.
"But I won't stop there," Seth said. "I'll equip him with Axe of Despair and Black Pendant, making his attack 6500!"
As the axe materialized in Cybernetic Wyvern's right claw and the pendant around his neck, Kiyoji and Jonathan looked over at Kaiba, who was smirking.
"Oh no," Jonathan and Kiyoji said in unison.
"Now Cybernetic Wyvern! Attack Kaiba's Lord of Dragons, wipe out his life points!" Seth commanded.
"Seth, stop!" Kiyoji shouted.
"It's a trap!" Jonathan added.
"What?" Seth questioned and quickly came to his senses. "Cybernetic Wyvern, stop!"
But it was too late. Cybernetic Wyvern took flight and flew towards Kaiba's spellcaster. As he was halfway there, Kaiba activated his trap card.
"Activate Trap!" he shouted. "Ring of Destruction!"
Suddenly a metal ring lined with eight grenades wreathed around Seth's monster's neck.
"Because you powered up your monster, Ring of Destruction will take all of your life points," Kaiba said.
"You forgot that it deals damage to you," Seth replied. "So you're going down with me!"
"Not when I activate my magic card Ring of Defense," Kaiba answered. "It'll shield my life points from Ring of Destruction."
Soon after, the Ring of Destruction exploded and Cybernetic Wyvern was killed immediately. The force of the explosion hit Seth; taking away all of his life points. But a metal ring appeared in front of Kaiba. The metal ring began spinning faster and faster as it opened up revealing four blades around the metal ring. Like a fan, Ring of Defense spun extremely fast, repelling away the flames and explosion from Ring of Destruction.
"You lose," Kaiba told Seth Akil, the defeated Egyptian duelist.
"No..." Seth groaned as his portion of the dueling field blacked out.
Kaiba: 4500
Jonathan: 8000
Kiyoji: 5900
Seth: 0
Kaiba's turn-
"He... beat Seth like he was nothing," Jonathan said to Kiyoji in shock.
"Seth always seemed to have the upper hand in a duel," Kiyoji reminisced. "He was never easy to defeat..."
"Well times have changed," Kaiba said, drawing his card. "You two should worry about yourselves now."
Kaiba began to play a card, knowing this duel would soon be over...
NOTE: Youi, Power Balance, and Ring of Defense are all cards seen only in the anime and I'm not sure if they're actually cards in real life.
"Now let's continue on with the third preliminary match, shall we?" Croquet asked the remaining duelists.
"Now for the four duelists to be dueling behind Door III," the suit holding the clipboard said. "Seto Kaiba..."
Kaiba smirked and thought, 'Give me any of these second-rate duelists. I don't care who it is.'
"Jonathan Winston..."
The English duelist let out a chuckle, getting the one duelist he wanted to duel. His hair was brown and cut short with a few bangs hanging in front of his face. He wore a light blue short-sleeved shirt with blue jeans. He walked towards the door and asked Kaiba, "I know every strategy you've done, are you ready for me?"
"You may know of my cards, but can you overcome them?" Kaiba answered back.
"Seth Akil..."
The duelist of Egypt smiled in content as he met up with his colleague at the door. His long black hair hung in the front and in the back. He wore a blue t-shirt covering a white long sleeved shirt with blue trousers. He looked over at Kaiba and told him, "You'll never know what hit you, with my deck."
"You think you can take advantage of me?" Kaiba asked. "That's hard to believe. You can try and prove me wrong on the field."
"...and Kyoji Hiraga."
The Japanese duelist grinned confidently and walked over to his other comrades. He wore a white t-shirt, a blue jacket and blue jeans. After a brief conversation with his other two colleagues he said to Kaiba, "You're done for, Kaiba. With all three of us, you don't stand a chance."
"Listen, I don't care if I had to take on ten duelists like you," Kaiba began. "I'm not about to be beaten by three nobodies who dueled some other nobodies to get here."
"We'll see," Kyoji said.
After that was said, the four duelists entered the door with the Roman numeral III. Kaiba walked in first, then Seth, then Kyoji, and Jonathan was the last and shut the door. The door locked electronically for the duration.
Kaiba turned on his Duel Disk and walked over to the far corner of the white cubed room. The Blue-Eyes White Dragon Clan took up the other three corners, each turning on their Duel Disks.
"I suppose you three want something if you happen to defeat me?" Kaiba asked the three of them.
"Yes," answered Kyoji. "If you lose, we get all three of your Blue-Eyes White Dragons."
"Okay," Kaiba said calmly. "And if I should win, I keep the two losers' decks."
"What? No way! You're crazy!" Were some of the reactions of the three.
"Your third-rate decks for three three-of-a-kind cards?" Kaiba asked. "Seems like you three would be getting the better spoils, here. The losers give up their decks or it's no deal."
After much thought, they finally decided.
"Fine," Jonathan said.
"Alright," Seth answered.
"It's not like you'll win anyway," Kyoji added.
"Very well the terms are accepted," Kaiba said, shuffling his deck, then putting it back in his Duel Disk.
"Let's duel!" The four duelists said in unison and their life points went to 8000.
"I'll begin," Kaiba said, drawing his card. "I'll first play Pot of Greed, letting me draw two cards and now I'll summon Swordstalker (2000/1600) in attack mode."
As Kaiba drew his two cards, Jonathan made a comment about his sword wielding warrior.
"Swordstalker..." he began. "First used in your deck from the very beginning. A very adequate card for this kind of tournament. And a definition of your deck: pure power."
"My, you've done your homework," Kaiba replied. "Are you sure you aren't fans of mine? If you've remember my cards from that far, you must like me."
"Don't flatter yourself," Jonathan answered. "'Know your enemy, know yourself' simple logic."
"Fine," Kaiba said. "I'll end my turn."
"I'll go next," Jonathan said, drawing his card. "I'll start by playing this magic card, Stray Lambs, to special summon two lamb tokens (0/0) to the field in defense mode and I'll end my turn placing this one magic or trap card face down."
On Jonathan's side of the field appeared two little horned lambs appeared. One had red fur and the other had white and was a bit smaller. In fact, the white lamb was resting atop the red lamb's head.
"My turn," Kyoji said, drawing the top card on his deck. "I summon Twin- Headed Behemoth (1500/1200) in defense mode and one card face down, ending my turn."
A winged dragon with two heads in place of arms and behind it appeared a large face down card on Kyoji's side of the field.
Seth's turn-
"Now it's my turn," said Seth, drawing his card. "I set one monster face down in defense mode and two cards face down, ending my turn."
For Seth's first turn, three face down cards appeared. One was placed horizontally and behind it were two cards placed vertically.
Kaiba's turn-
"Now it's time to for you to feel the pain," Kaiba said to the three opposing duelists, drawing his card. "I'll set one card face down in defense mode and I'll have Swordstalker attack one of your lamb tokens, Jonathan. Shadow Sword!"
Swordstalker obeyed and charged towards the horned lambs. He swung his blade horizontally and sliced the white lamb in two.
Jonathan's turn-
"A face down card?" he questioned, drawing his card. "I'm pretty sure I know what it is."
"Then attack it," Kaiba told him.
"Why attack it when I can do this?" he began. "First I summon Royal Magic Library (0/2000) in defense mode and I flip my face down card, Nobleman of Crossout! It destroys your face down card."
An armored knight appeared and in his hands was a sword. The knight charged towards Kaiba's face down card and sliced the card in two, which revealed to be Slate Warrior.
"If the monster destroys a monster with a flip effect, all other cards will be destroyed in your deck and mine," Jonathan explained.
Kaiba didn't look the least bit worried, "That was my only Slate Warrior, so my deck is untouched."
"Fine, but Royal Magic Library gets a spell counter from me playing Nobleman of Crossout," Jonathan said. "So I'll end my turn now."
Kyoji's turn-
As soon as Kyoji drew his card he laughed a little.
"Here's a dent in your life points, Kaiba," he said to him. "I first flip my face down card, Super Rejuvenation and I'll summon Spirit Ryu (1000/1000)."
As the dragon spirit appeared, Kyoji continued his turn.
"And now I'll have him attack your Swordstalker, with Spirit Flame!"
Spirit Ryu exhaled a small wave of white flame towards Swordstalker. Before the attack could hit, Kyoji discarded his entire hand.
"With Spirit Ryu's special effect, I discard my entire hand, a hand of nothing but dragon cards to increase Spirit Ryu's attack and defense by 4000 making it a 5000/5000!"
Suddenly the dragon spirit grew enormously, and its breath of fire grew, now looming over Kaiba's Swordstalker. The flames took in Kaiba's dark warrior and was destroyed.
"And I end my turn," Kyoji said. "But as my turn ends, from Super Rejuvenation I draw the same amount of dragon cards that I discarded. So I draw four cards."
"Plus, I get another spell counter on my Royal Magic Library," Jonathan added.
'Not a big loss,' Kaiba thought. 'If I can just get the card I need, then someone's in trouble.'
Kaiba: 5000
Jonathan: 8000
Kyoji: 8000
Seth: 8000
Seth's turn-
"An excellent move," Seth commented to Kyoji, drawing a card. "Now for me to keep it up. I flip my face down card, Cobra Jar (600/300) to bring out a Poisonous Snake token (1200/1200). And I'll sacrifice my Cobra Jar to bring out Cybernetic Wyvern (2500/1600)!"
As the old clay pot revealed itself, a cobra leaped out of the pot and hissed. As soon as the cobra appeared, the pot vanished and in its place, appeared a mighty green dragon. The dragon however was armored thickly with red armor covering almost everywhere.
"Now Cybernetic Wyvern, attack his face down card! Cyber Breath!" Seth commanded.
Seth's robotic dragon obeyed and exhaled dark red flames towards Kaiba's face down card. However Kaiba's face down card flipped face up.
"Thanks for that," Kaiba said. "You attacked my Cyber Jar!"
Before Cybernetic Wyvern's flame attack could hit, Cyber Jar glowed white and created a powerful explosion, wiping out all the monsters on the field.
"Now we all pick up five cards, any monsters with levels four or lower are special summoned to the field," Kaiba explained. "Any other cards are added to our hands."
Kaiba special summoned Vorse Raider (1900/1200) in attack mode, Giant Germ (1000/100) face down in defense mode, Kaiser Seahorse (1700/1650) in attack mode, and Lord of Dragons (1200/1100) face down in defense mode.
Jonathan special summoned Troop Dragon (700/800) face down in defense mode and Gray Wing (1300/700) also face down in defense mode.
Kyoji special summoned Cave Dragon (2000/100) in attack mode, Spear Dragon (1900/0) in attack mode and The Dragon Dwelling in the Cave (1300/2000) face down in defense mode.
Seth could only special summon Youi (500/500) in attack mode.
"Now I'll continue my turn," Seth said. "First, from Youi, I prevent one of my opponents from drawing next turn and I choose you Seto."
"Very well," Kaiba said, looking at the card he drew. "But you left that weak little lizard in attack mode. You can't even sacrifice it for anything."
"True, but I'll defend him with these," he said taking three cards out of his hands, "I place three more magic or trap cards face down, making it five. And I end my turn."
Kaiba's turn-
"Since I can't draw this turn," Kaiba began, "I'll just do this: I sacrifice Kaiser Seahorse to bring out Blue-Eyes White Dragon (3000/2500)!"
As the armored sea serpent vanished in a flash of light, the mighty dragon Kaiba was famous for appeared. It roared mightily towards its opposition as if it had never experienced fear.
The three members of the Blue-Eyes White Dragon Clan looked in awe at its immense power.
"So this is the card you three so want?" Kaiba asked. "I can understand why anyone would want it. Well don't get too attached to looking at it. I play A Wingbeat of Giant Dragon."
"Oh, no!" Seth shouted, knowing exactly what the card did.
Kaiba's Blue-Eyes roared as he removed the card from his Duel Disk and added it back to his hand. The dragon itself flapped its mighty wings creating a powerful force of wind, blowing away all of Seth's face down cards. The Blue-Eyes White Dragon took to the skies and had left the field.
"My traps..." Seth said mournfully, placing all five trap cards to the graveyard.
"That leaves you with barely any defense," Kaiba said. "Before I crush you, I'm going to play Flute of Summoning Dragon to bring back Blue-Eyes!"
Suddenly, a flute appeared with the head of a dragon in front of Kaiba's Lord of Dragons. The spellcaster grasped it firmly in his right hand and played a single note for several seconds. When he stopped, all four of the duelists heard a roar in the distance. As it got closer, they could see a white dragon fly down by Kaiba's side again.
"Now to do away with you," Kaiba told Seth. "Giant Germ, attack Youi!"
Kaiba's oversized cell shot towards Seth's multi-legged reptile encasing it completely and soon devoured it.
"Now Lord of Dragons, Vorse Raider," Kaiba shouted to two of his monsters. "Attack Seth's life points directly!"
Like a boomerang, Vorse Raider hurled his axe towards Seth's chest and it flung back to his hands. Lord of Dragons formed a translucent dragon and fired it like an energy blast towards Seth.
"I could have Blue-Eyes wipe out your life points even more, but it's time someone else felt damage," Kaiba said. "Blue-Eyes, attack Kiyoji's Spear Dragon with White Lightning!"
Kaiba's dragon obeyed as it took flight and fired a blast of bright white energy towards Kiyoji's long nosed dragon, reducing it to bits of dust.
"And now I'll place three magic or trap cards face down," Kaiba declared playing his entire hand. "And I end my turn."
Kaiba: 5000
Jonathan: 8000
Kiyoji: 5900
Seth: 4400
Jonathan's turn-
As Jonathan drew his card, he knew what to do.
"First I draw," he began, "Then I'll offer the three spell counters from Royal Magic Library to draw an additional card, putting me at nine and I'll play the magic card I drew, Pot of Greed drawing two more, putting me at 10."
"Not anymore," Kaiba intervened. "I activate my trap card Power Balance!"
"Power Balance?" Jonathan questioned when suddenly, a large scale appeared in between him and Kaiba.
Jonathan's side of the scale was on the ground and Kaiba's high in the air.
"It's a trap card," Kaiba explained. "This can only be activated when I have zero cards in my hand. First off, you discard half the cards in your hand to the graveyard. Secondly, I draw as many cards as you discarded."
Jonathan had a hard time choosing which cards to discard but he eventually discarded five cards.
As Kaiba drew five cards, the scale became even between him and Jonathan. The scale then faded from the field.
Jonathan was baffled on what to do now.
"I'll pass my turn," Jonathan said, cursing something underneath his breath.
Kiyoji's turn-
'Damn,' thought Kiyoji as he drew his card. 'If it wasn't for that dragon I'd be ripping through Kaiba's monsters. But this will at least buy me some time.'
"I'll sacrifice Cave Dragon and The Dragon Dwelling in the Cave to summon Millennium Shield (0/3000) in defense mode and I'll end my turn." Kiyoji announced.
Seth's turn-
"I'm not defeated yet, Kaiba," Seth told him, drawing his card. "But I'll defeat you right here and now!"
"Is that so?" Kaiba asked. "You haven't even touched any of my life points."
"Well watch this," he began, "I play Premature Burial and by paying 800 of my life points, I'll bring back Cybernetic Wyvern (2500/1600) in attack mode. But I'll equip him with Megamorph, doubling his attack to 5000!"
As the red-armored dragon arose from the earth, its massive size grew further. Blue-Eyes White Dragon paled in comparison to Cybernetic Wyvern now.
"But I won't stop there," Seth said. "I'll equip him with Axe of Despair and Black Pendant, making his attack 6500!"
As the axe materialized in Cybernetic Wyvern's right claw and the pendant around his neck, Kiyoji and Jonathan looked over at Kaiba, who was smirking.
"Oh no," Jonathan and Kiyoji said in unison.
"Now Cybernetic Wyvern! Attack Kaiba's Lord of Dragons, wipe out his life points!" Seth commanded.
"Seth, stop!" Kiyoji shouted.
"It's a trap!" Jonathan added.
"What?" Seth questioned and quickly came to his senses. "Cybernetic Wyvern, stop!"
But it was too late. Cybernetic Wyvern took flight and flew towards Kaiba's spellcaster. As he was halfway there, Kaiba activated his trap card.
"Activate Trap!" he shouted. "Ring of Destruction!"
Suddenly a metal ring lined with eight grenades wreathed around Seth's monster's neck.
"Because you powered up your monster, Ring of Destruction will take all of your life points," Kaiba said.
"You forgot that it deals damage to you," Seth replied. "So you're going down with me!"
"Not when I activate my magic card Ring of Defense," Kaiba answered. "It'll shield my life points from Ring of Destruction."
Soon after, the Ring of Destruction exploded and Cybernetic Wyvern was killed immediately. The force of the explosion hit Seth; taking away all of his life points. But a metal ring appeared in front of Kaiba. The metal ring began spinning faster and faster as it opened up revealing four blades around the metal ring. Like a fan, Ring of Defense spun extremely fast, repelling away the flames and explosion from Ring of Destruction.
"You lose," Kaiba told Seth Akil, the defeated Egyptian duelist.
"No..." Seth groaned as his portion of the dueling field blacked out.
Kaiba: 4500
Jonathan: 8000
Kiyoji: 5900
Seth: 0
Kaiba's turn-
"He... beat Seth like he was nothing," Jonathan said to Kiyoji in shock.
"Seth always seemed to have the upper hand in a duel," Kiyoji reminisced. "He was never easy to defeat..."
"Well times have changed," Kaiba said, drawing his card. "You two should worry about yourselves now."
Kaiba began to play a card, knowing this duel would soon be over...
NOTE: Youi, Power Balance, and Ring of Defense are all cards seen only in the anime and I'm not sure if they're actually cards in real life.