"I'll sacrifice Vorse Raider and Lord of Dragons to summon my second Blue-
Eyes White Dragon (3000/2500) in attack mode," Kaiba announced as his
second dragon appeared to the field, roaring at its competitors.
"Now my two Blue-Eyes, attack Jonathan's face down Troop," Kaiba commanded, "White Lightning!"
His two dragons obeyed each firing a blast of white energy towards Jonathan's face down cards, wiping them both out.
"Well one of the cards you just destroyed was Troop Dragon," Jonathan said taking out a card from his deck and placing it in face up defense mode. "And as one's destroyed one more takes it place to defend my life points."
After the second dragon soldier appeared to the field, Jonathan shuffled his deck.
"Well I still have one more attacker," Kaiba told him. "Giant Germ, attack the face down Troop Dragon!"
Giant Germ charged towards Jonathan's Troop Dragon, encasing inside itself and devouring it inside itself.
"And I still have one more defender," Jonathan told him taking out his last Troop Dragon in defense mode, then shuffling his deck. "Plus, all of your monsters have attacked already."
Kaiba let out a chuckle and said, "Then I'll end my turn placing these two cards face down and end my turn."
Jonathan's turn-
"I'll draw," he began, "and I'll play Swords of Revealing Light, keeping you from attacking for three turns."
"You're only prolonging your defeat," Kaiba said as the multiple swords rained down, keeping his dragons from attacking. "Three turns is all I need to finish off both of you."
"Plus I'll play one card face down in defense mode, ending my turn," Jonathan said.
Kiyoji's turn-
"Three turns will probably buy us enough time to wipe you out Kaiba," the Japanese duelist said, drawing his card. "I play one card face down in defense mode and end my turn."
Kaiba's turn-
"This is your road to victory?" Kaiba questioned. "It looks very questionable especially when you're defending all the time."
Kaiba drew his card and smiled slightly, "I'll play Monster Reborn, reviving my Kaiser Seahorse (1700/1650) and I'll sacrifice him to bring out my final Blue-Eyes White Dragon!"
Kaiser Seahorse arose from the ground but illuminated white as he was offered for another summon. As he vanished, the third and final Blue-Eyes White Dragon appeared to field, each roaring towards Jonathan and Kiyoji.
"All three dragons..." Jonathan said as if he was dreaming.
"Good thing he can't attack," Kiyoji said.
"For now," Kaiba replied. "So I end my turn."
Jonathan's turn-
"It's now or never!" Jonathan shouted drawing his card. "I'll sacrifice my last Troop Dragon and my face down Gray Wing to summon Tri-Horned Dragon (2850/2350) in attack mode!"
As two of Jonathan's monsters vanished from the field, a vicious dark blue dragon with three horns protruding from the top of his head appeared.
"Tri-Horned Dragon, attack Giant Germ!" Jonathan ordered. "Black Fireball!"
Jonathan's dragon opened its mouth and black energy began to gather. As it grew to a devastating size, the dragon fired a powerful black fireball hurdling towards Kaiba's Giant Germ.
"Now you've fallen into my trap," Kaiba said, activating his trap. "I activate the Crush Card Virus!"
Suddenly Giant Germ began to turn purple and it soon exploded unleashing a noxious purple gas. Tri-Horned Dragon's attack missed its target and he inhaled the purple gas. The gas made him gag and fall to the ground.
"Oh no," Jonathan and Kiyoji said as their decks became infected as the virus came to them.
Tri-Horned Dragon eventually stopped its squirming and his body gave out and died.
Kiyoji's face down card revealed itself to be a Curse of Dragon (2000/1500) and the virus did away with it.
"Oh yes," Kaiba said. "It not only kills both of your monsters with more than 1500 attack points on the field, but in your hand, as well as any monster you draw. This virus lasts for three turns and that is all I need."
Kiyoji groaned in anger as he discarded his entire hand of over powerful monsters to the graveyard. Jonathan however discarded four cards, leaving him with two.
"I'll place this card face down and end my turn," Jonathan said.
Kiyoji's turn-
As Kiyoji drew his card, another Spear Dragon, he had to send it to the graveyard.
"I'll pass my turn," Kiyoji said, seeing defeat in his future.
Kaiba's turn-
"I guess I should end this," Kaiba said, drawing a card. "I'll flip my face down card, Heavy Storm!"
Suddenly, a hurricane surrounded the three duelists, taking away Jonathan's Swords of Revealing Light card from the field, causing the swords in front of Kaiba to vanish from the field.
"Now my dragons are free to attack," Kaiba said. "My three Blue-Eyes White Dragons, Attack Jonathan and his Royal Magic Library, White Lightning!"
The first dragon fired its blast of white energy towards Jonathan's Royal Magic Library destroying it causing the shelves to fall over and vanish to the graveyard. The remaining two dragons fired their blasts of energy directly at the English duelist for devastating 6000 life point loss.
"And I'll end my turn placing one card face down, ending my turn," he said.
Kaiba: 4500
Jonathan: 2000
Kiyoji: 5900
Jonathan's turn-
As Jonathan drew his card he groaned as the virus took it to graveyard.
"There's only one thing I can do," he said in a forlorn tone. "I play Monster Reborn, reviving my Tri-Horned Dragon in defense mode."
As his strongest dragon arose from the graveyard, both Jonathan and his dragon seemed to know what was to come.
"I'll end my turn," he said.
Kyoji's turn-
'So this is it?' he thought. "This is the end? It can't end this way... it wasn't supposed to go this way...'
"Will you draw your last card?" Kaiba asked him.
"Fine," Kyoji said drawing his strongest card, Tyrant Dragon, but the virus made him put it in the graveyard. I'll... pass my turn.
Kaiba's turn-
"This duel's over," said Kaiba, not bothering to draw his card. "I first flip my face down card, Dragon's Rage, giving my three Blue-Eyes White Dragons just what they need to crush you."
Jonathan and Kyoji looked at each other then back at the opponent they underestimated for so many years.
"So you guys like Blue-Eyes White Dragon so much," Kaiba began. "Well I'm sure you've never seen the likes of this."
'What's he talking about?' thought Kyoji.
"Here is the power of three Blue-Eyes White Dragons combined!" Kaiba declared. "I play Polymerization fusing my three Blue-Eyes White Dragons into the Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon (4500/3800)!"
As the three mighty dragons merged together, what emerged was an enormous dragon, much larger than any Blue-Eyes White Dragon. This dragon however had three heads each unleashing a deafening roar capable of shattering glass if there was any in the room.
Jonathan, Kyoji and even Seth who was still watching the duel looked at it in horror.
"Looks like you don't know all there is about my dragons," Kaiba told them. "You three could never unlock the potential of such a dragon. Because of that, you will never have what it takes to own even one Blue-Eyes White Dragon. Now Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, wipe out Jonathan's life points, Neutron Blast!"
The three heads of the dragon each powered up, gathering energy for one final blow. Then, each head fired a devastating blast of white and blue towards Jonathan's far weaker Tri-Horned Dragon. The attack atomized his dragon and the rest of his life points with an explosion.
"This duel is over," Kaiba said as his Ultimate Dragon roared triumphantly.
Kaiba: 4500
Jonathan: 0
Kyoji: 5900
As the duel ended, the lights lit up and all of Kaiba's opponents were grief-stricken looking down at the ground.
"As part of the deal, here's my deck," Seth said taking his out of his Duel Disk and any in his graveyard.
"And... mine too," Jonathan said taking his deck out as well including in the graveyard.
They walked towards him presenting their decks.
"Keep them," Kaiba told them. "I do not need nor want any cards in your decks."
The two of them gave a silent sigh of relief, placing their decks back in their Duel Disks.
"As for you," Kaiba turned to Kyoji. "Consider yourself lucky that you get to move on to the actual tournament. If it was up to me, I'd have crushed you along with your friends. However if you manage to duel me, I won't go as easy on you as I did now."
'He was going easy on me?' thought Kyoji.
Kaiba walked towards the door while Kyoji's colleagues tried to cheer him up.
"Take him out Kyoji," Seth said to him.
"You can beat him," Jonathan said.
"But what about that Ultimate Dragon?" Kyoji asked them. "We never knew about it before."
"Every card has its weaknesses," Seth said to him. "You're the toughest one of us and we know you'll find something."
"Kaiba's had our dragons for too long," Jonathan said to him. "You can keep my dragon when you beat him. I just want to see Kaiba squirm."
"Uh... sure," Kyoji said.
"Now go out there ready for any duelist until you crush Seto Kaiba," Seth said to him.
"Right!" he said nodding to them both in readiness.
With that, the three of them walked to the door several feet behind Seto Kaiba.
'What am I going to do?' thought Kyoji. 'If I duel Kaiba again I'm going to get beat even faster. I'm going to let Justin, Seth and Jonathan down. Kaiba was right. My deck is third-rate. Could it be I've just gotten lucky through this whole tournament?'
While Kyoji was still deep in his thoughts, Kaiba opened the door and he quickly forced a smile on his face as if he had beaten Kaiba already...
"Now my two Blue-Eyes, attack Jonathan's face down Troop," Kaiba commanded, "White Lightning!"
His two dragons obeyed each firing a blast of white energy towards Jonathan's face down cards, wiping them both out.
"Well one of the cards you just destroyed was Troop Dragon," Jonathan said taking out a card from his deck and placing it in face up defense mode. "And as one's destroyed one more takes it place to defend my life points."
After the second dragon soldier appeared to the field, Jonathan shuffled his deck.
"Well I still have one more attacker," Kaiba told him. "Giant Germ, attack the face down Troop Dragon!"
Giant Germ charged towards Jonathan's Troop Dragon, encasing inside itself and devouring it inside itself.
"And I still have one more defender," Jonathan told him taking out his last Troop Dragon in defense mode, then shuffling his deck. "Plus, all of your monsters have attacked already."
Kaiba let out a chuckle and said, "Then I'll end my turn placing these two cards face down and end my turn."
Jonathan's turn-
"I'll draw," he began, "and I'll play Swords of Revealing Light, keeping you from attacking for three turns."
"You're only prolonging your defeat," Kaiba said as the multiple swords rained down, keeping his dragons from attacking. "Three turns is all I need to finish off both of you."
"Plus I'll play one card face down in defense mode, ending my turn," Jonathan said.
Kiyoji's turn-
"Three turns will probably buy us enough time to wipe you out Kaiba," the Japanese duelist said, drawing his card. "I play one card face down in defense mode and end my turn."
Kaiba's turn-
"This is your road to victory?" Kaiba questioned. "It looks very questionable especially when you're defending all the time."
Kaiba drew his card and smiled slightly, "I'll play Monster Reborn, reviving my Kaiser Seahorse (1700/1650) and I'll sacrifice him to bring out my final Blue-Eyes White Dragon!"
Kaiser Seahorse arose from the ground but illuminated white as he was offered for another summon. As he vanished, the third and final Blue-Eyes White Dragon appeared to field, each roaring towards Jonathan and Kiyoji.
"All three dragons..." Jonathan said as if he was dreaming.
"Good thing he can't attack," Kiyoji said.
"For now," Kaiba replied. "So I end my turn."
Jonathan's turn-
"It's now or never!" Jonathan shouted drawing his card. "I'll sacrifice my last Troop Dragon and my face down Gray Wing to summon Tri-Horned Dragon (2850/2350) in attack mode!"
As two of Jonathan's monsters vanished from the field, a vicious dark blue dragon with three horns protruding from the top of his head appeared.
"Tri-Horned Dragon, attack Giant Germ!" Jonathan ordered. "Black Fireball!"
Jonathan's dragon opened its mouth and black energy began to gather. As it grew to a devastating size, the dragon fired a powerful black fireball hurdling towards Kaiba's Giant Germ.
"Now you've fallen into my trap," Kaiba said, activating his trap. "I activate the Crush Card Virus!"
Suddenly Giant Germ began to turn purple and it soon exploded unleashing a noxious purple gas. Tri-Horned Dragon's attack missed its target and he inhaled the purple gas. The gas made him gag and fall to the ground.
"Oh no," Jonathan and Kiyoji said as their decks became infected as the virus came to them.
Tri-Horned Dragon eventually stopped its squirming and his body gave out and died.
Kiyoji's face down card revealed itself to be a Curse of Dragon (2000/1500) and the virus did away with it.
"Oh yes," Kaiba said. "It not only kills both of your monsters with more than 1500 attack points on the field, but in your hand, as well as any monster you draw. This virus lasts for three turns and that is all I need."
Kiyoji groaned in anger as he discarded his entire hand of over powerful monsters to the graveyard. Jonathan however discarded four cards, leaving him with two.
"I'll place this card face down and end my turn," Jonathan said.
Kiyoji's turn-
As Kiyoji drew his card, another Spear Dragon, he had to send it to the graveyard.
"I'll pass my turn," Kiyoji said, seeing defeat in his future.
Kaiba's turn-
"I guess I should end this," Kaiba said, drawing a card. "I'll flip my face down card, Heavy Storm!"
Suddenly, a hurricane surrounded the three duelists, taking away Jonathan's Swords of Revealing Light card from the field, causing the swords in front of Kaiba to vanish from the field.
"Now my dragons are free to attack," Kaiba said. "My three Blue-Eyes White Dragons, Attack Jonathan and his Royal Magic Library, White Lightning!"
The first dragon fired its blast of white energy towards Jonathan's Royal Magic Library destroying it causing the shelves to fall over and vanish to the graveyard. The remaining two dragons fired their blasts of energy directly at the English duelist for devastating 6000 life point loss.
"And I'll end my turn placing one card face down, ending my turn," he said.
Kaiba: 4500
Jonathan: 2000
Kiyoji: 5900
Jonathan's turn-
As Jonathan drew his card he groaned as the virus took it to graveyard.
"There's only one thing I can do," he said in a forlorn tone. "I play Monster Reborn, reviving my Tri-Horned Dragon in defense mode."
As his strongest dragon arose from the graveyard, both Jonathan and his dragon seemed to know what was to come.
"I'll end my turn," he said.
Kyoji's turn-
'So this is it?' he thought. "This is the end? It can't end this way... it wasn't supposed to go this way...'
"Will you draw your last card?" Kaiba asked him.
"Fine," Kyoji said drawing his strongest card, Tyrant Dragon, but the virus made him put it in the graveyard. I'll... pass my turn.
Kaiba's turn-
"This duel's over," said Kaiba, not bothering to draw his card. "I first flip my face down card, Dragon's Rage, giving my three Blue-Eyes White Dragons just what they need to crush you."
Jonathan and Kyoji looked at each other then back at the opponent they underestimated for so many years.
"So you guys like Blue-Eyes White Dragon so much," Kaiba began. "Well I'm sure you've never seen the likes of this."
'What's he talking about?' thought Kyoji.
"Here is the power of three Blue-Eyes White Dragons combined!" Kaiba declared. "I play Polymerization fusing my three Blue-Eyes White Dragons into the Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon (4500/3800)!"
As the three mighty dragons merged together, what emerged was an enormous dragon, much larger than any Blue-Eyes White Dragon. This dragon however had three heads each unleashing a deafening roar capable of shattering glass if there was any in the room.
Jonathan, Kyoji and even Seth who was still watching the duel looked at it in horror.
"Looks like you don't know all there is about my dragons," Kaiba told them. "You three could never unlock the potential of such a dragon. Because of that, you will never have what it takes to own even one Blue-Eyes White Dragon. Now Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, wipe out Jonathan's life points, Neutron Blast!"
The three heads of the dragon each powered up, gathering energy for one final blow. Then, each head fired a devastating blast of white and blue towards Jonathan's far weaker Tri-Horned Dragon. The attack atomized his dragon and the rest of his life points with an explosion.
"This duel is over," Kaiba said as his Ultimate Dragon roared triumphantly.
Kaiba: 4500
Jonathan: 0
Kyoji: 5900
As the duel ended, the lights lit up and all of Kaiba's opponents were grief-stricken looking down at the ground.
"As part of the deal, here's my deck," Seth said taking his out of his Duel Disk and any in his graveyard.
"And... mine too," Jonathan said taking his deck out as well including in the graveyard.
They walked towards him presenting their decks.
"Keep them," Kaiba told them. "I do not need nor want any cards in your decks."
The two of them gave a silent sigh of relief, placing their decks back in their Duel Disks.
"As for you," Kaiba turned to Kyoji. "Consider yourself lucky that you get to move on to the actual tournament. If it was up to me, I'd have crushed you along with your friends. However if you manage to duel me, I won't go as easy on you as I did now."
'He was going easy on me?' thought Kyoji.
Kaiba walked towards the door while Kyoji's colleagues tried to cheer him up.
"Take him out Kyoji," Seth said to him.
"You can beat him," Jonathan said.
"But what about that Ultimate Dragon?" Kyoji asked them. "We never knew about it before."
"Every card has its weaknesses," Seth said to him. "You're the toughest one of us and we know you'll find something."
"Kaiba's had our dragons for too long," Jonathan said to him. "You can keep my dragon when you beat him. I just want to see Kaiba squirm."
"Uh... sure," Kyoji said.
"Now go out there ready for any duelist until you crush Seto Kaiba," Seth said to him.
"Right!" he said nodding to them both in readiness.
With that, the three of them walked to the door several feet behind Seto Kaiba.
'What am I going to do?' thought Kyoji. 'If I duel Kaiba again I'm going to get beat even faster. I'm going to let Justin, Seth and Jonathan down. Kaiba was right. My deck is third-rate. Could it be I've just gotten lucky through this whole tournament?'
While Kyoji was still deep in his thoughts, Kaiba opened the door and he quickly forced a smile on his face as if he had beaten Kaiba already...