When the smoke cleared, Kaiba saw Kiyoji's menacing smirk towards him.
"Having fun?" Kiyoji asked, looking like he'd break out in a maniacal laugh again.
"Draw your card already," Kaiba shot back, glaring at his opponent and ending his turn.
Kaiba: 3500
Kiyoji: 3900
Kiyoji's turn-
"Very well," he replied, drawing his card. "I'll pass my turn, and my Swords of Revealing Light have two turns left."
Kaiba's turn-
I'll let him use his swords until they fade away, thought Kaiba, drawing a card for the turn. He probably has some more trap cards to defend him, but he needs to feel the wrath of a god. Obelisk will put him in his place.
"I summon Y-Dragon Head (1600/1500) in defense mode," Kaiba announced. "Since I can't attack this turn, I'll end my turn."
As the red, mechanical dragon appeared, flying over Kaiba's ship, it roared out at Kiyoji. Kiyoji smirked back at the machine, knowing it was no threat.
Kiyoji's turn-
Kiyoji looked over at Kaiba's two facedown cards that he played several turns ago and thought, you haven't used those cards yet... Ah, I see. Come now, Kaiba, you're going to need to do better than that...
Kiyoji drew his card and grinned, "Now I'll actually attack you, Kaiba. But you might not like what you'll see. I play Monster Reborn to revive one of your Blue-Eyes White Dragons!"
In a flash of light, a light blue dragon flew out of the ocean's waters. It was one of Kaiba's Blue-Eyes and it roared at its former master. Kiyoji walked over the virtual water to Kaiba, who was starting to growl in frustration.
As Kiyoji arrived in front of Kaiba he said, "I believe you have a card that I need."
Kaiba glared at him again as he pulled a Blue-Eyes out of his graveyard slot and handed it to Kiyoji. Kiyoji gladly placed the card on a slot on his Duel Disk, admiring its picture.
When he arrived to his virtual boat, Kiyoji said, "Now Blue-Eyes, attack Kaiba's Y-Dragon Head with your White Lightning!"
Saying the name of the attack, made Kiyoji grin, thinking he'd be saying those words much more often.
The light blue dragon roared as it pulled its head back charging up a blast of blinding white energy. It fired the bright blast right at Kaiba's red dragon.
"I don't think so!" Kaiba shouted, flipping over his two facedown cards. "I activate Ring of Destruction!"
With that, a metal collar wreathed with eight grenades appeared around Blue-Eyes' neck. The dragon stopped its attack with the energy blast vanishing, inches away from Y-Dragon Head's head.
"I also activate Ring of Defense to keep me from losing any life points," Kaiba added. "So you'll be the only one to lose 3000 life points."
Kiyoji began to laugh as the blue dragon exploded and the flames flew at both duelists. Almost instantly after the flames emerged, a four-bladed ring appeared in front of Kaiba and began spinning like a fan, making the flames go nowhere near Kaiba.
"Nice try, but you brought this on yourself," Kiyoji sneered, playing a card from his hand as the flames consumed him. "I play the quick-play magic card, Curse of Pain! It reverses any direct damage done to me and sends it right back to you!"
Even though the flames were engulfing Kiyoji, Kaiba was feeling the searing pain, losing another 3000 life points.
"Whoa!" Joey exclaimed. "Kiyoji hit Kaiba hard again."
"Now he's only got 500 life points left," Mai added. "Pretty much anything could take him out now."
"I'll end my turn," Kiyoji said, slipping Kaiba's Blue-Eyes into his graveyard slot. "Oh, and my Swords of Revealing Light have only one turn left."
Kaiba: 500
Kiyoji: 3900
Kaiba's turn-
I can't believe this, thought Kaiba while drawing a card. He could actually beat me... No, he can't! I've already got three monsters out, and I just need Obelisk to finish this punk off, but it won't be this turn.
"Oh, I almost forgot," Kiyoji said to Kaiba, turning his attention towards him. "I guess the impossible has happened. You said if I could knock you down to less than a thousand life points, you'd tell me your reason to be here. Start talking."
Kaiba scowled at him, but kept to his word. "Fine. You want to know why I'm here? It's not for fame or money. This is far more important. I came here to get even with Salazar. I came here to redeem myself and crush Salazar!"
Yugi looked over at Salazar and saw him with the same smirk on his face.
'So now Kaiba wants revenge on Salazar,' Yugi thought to himself. 'So I see the vision was right.'
"I shall summon one card facedown in defense mode and place two magic or trap cards facedown," Kaiba said, placing the two cards onto his Duel Disk. "I'll also switch all my monsters, Vorse Raider, Swordstalker, and Y-Dragon Head into attack mode!"
The last move Kaiba did, surprised some of the spectators watching, including Salazar.
'A bold move, Kaiba,' Salazar thought. 'I never thought you'd ever bluff, but then again, my little puppet has you on the ropes.'
Kiyoji's turn-
"Another trap, Kaiba?" Kiyoji asked, drawing his card for the turn. "Any risk you take could be your last, you know."
"If you think it's a trap, attack me," Kaiba said, brandishing a smug smile. "Oh, wait. You won't. You like to play it safe without attacking with monsters."
Suddenly, Kiyoji began to lose his cool, "What do you mean?"
"If you defeat me with a card that deals direct damage, you'll just be proving my point," Kaiba taunted. "You're afraid to attack me head on. Because you know I'd beat you that way."
"Shut up," Kiyoji said, getting agitated. "I don't need to use any direct damage cards. I could crush you like an ant!"
"Then prove it," Kaiba demanded. "Attack me with a monster card."
Blinded by Kaiba's dare, Kiyoji said, "Fine then! I play Déjà Vu. This card allows me to bring a magic card that was sent to the graveyard on my last turn at the cost of discarding one card from my hand. I choose Monster Reborn! And I'll use Monster Reborn to revive your Blue-Eyes again!"
Out of the ocean's waters, the Blue-Eyes White Dragon that suffered an untimely fate of Ring of Destruction flew out, hovering above Kiyoji and his boat as he slipped the magic card, Ookazi into the graveyard.
"Now my Blue-Eyes White Dragon, attack—" Before Kiyoji could finish, a shrill, loud noise deafened his voice. "AGH! What's that noise?"
On the bow of Kaiba's ship, a one-headed totem pole, resembling an eagle, wings spread, was emitting the noise from its beak.
"That would be my Command Silencer," Kaiba said, unaffected by the shrill noise. "It unleashes a blast of sound deafening your monster from hearing your command. Plus, I'm allowed to draw a card."
Kaiba did so, making Kiyoji aggravated. Kiyoji had only one direct damage card in his hand: Ookazi, but he had just discarded it, confident he could beat Kaiba with brute force. If he defeated Kaiba so easily, it'd be a hollow victory for him.
"I'll place this card facedown and end my turn now," Kiyoji announced. "My Swords of Revealing Lights have ended as well."
One by one, the golden illuminating swords vanished without a trace, allowing Kaiba's monsters to attack again.
Kaiba's turn-
Good, thought Kaiba. He won't use a direct damage card for the time being. I'll need to blind him even further so he thinks he is unstoppable... but how?
Kaiba drew his card for the turn and saw it was Obelisk. Yes, this could work then! Obelisk, don't worry; we shall both get our revenge.
"Prepare yourself!" Kaiba declared. "I sacrifice Y-Dragon Head, Vorse Raider, and Swordstalker to summon The Immense Devine Soldier of Obelisk (4000/4000)!"
The black clouds began to roar near the two duelists. Lightning was striking the water in front of them and emitting roars of thunder. As the lightning continued to strike, out of the heavens, the blue Egyptian God descended and landing behind Kaiba's boat. The towering behemoth stood on the water as its presence seemed to frighten Kiyoji's Blue-Eyes.
"An Egyptian God?" Kiyoji said to himself, impressed with its size. He then said to Kaiba. "I don't care if your monster is bigger than the ocean, I'll still defeat you! Come on and attack me!"
"But I choose to not attack," Kaiba responded. "I want Obelisk to use his special technique on you. It requires two monsters to sacrifice and it will devastate you. I'll end my turn now."
Kiyoji's turn-
When Kiyoji drew his card for the turn, he grinned.
"I play Card of Demise," Kiyoji said, "It allows me to draw cards until I have five. Five turns from now, I'll have to discard my hand however. But I doubt I'll reach there."
When Kiyoji drew four cards, he looked at them and began laughing hysterically.
"It's over Kaiba," he proclaimed. "All over! You should've destroyed my Blue-Eyes when you had the chance! Here's my winning combo! I first play Autonomous Action Unit; by paying 1500 life points, I can summon a monster from your graveyard! And I choose another Blue-Eyes White Dragon!"
As Kiyoji's life points dropped to 2400, many different robots appeared floating in front of his boat. They flew towards into the ocean and attached to something. The attached thing arose from the ocean's waters, revealing to be another Blue-Eyes White Dragon. The only thing keeping this dragon alive were the machines attached to him like a life support machine.
"Next, I'll flip my facedown card, Time Machine!" Kiyoji exclaimed. "It can bring back a monster card from the graveyard before in the same mode before it was destroyed. I choose to bring back your last Blue-Eyes!"
To Kiyoji's right, a cloud of smoke appeared. The winds blew the cloud away to reveal a metal machine, resembling a closet. The door opened up and two piercing Blue-Eyes looked out at Kaiba. Out of it flew Kaiba's last dragon, but attached to the dragon's chest was Blast Sphere.
"Since this dragon was destroyed by way of Blast Sphere, it remains attached to him, about to explode as I end my turn," Kiyoji informed Kaiba. "But it won't explode. Because I play this: Polymerization! Now my dragons, fuse together to form the almighty Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon (4500/3800)!"
All three of the dragons roared at Kaiba, as if regretting what they were about to do. They each illuminated white and flew high into the black clouds. Lightning flashed as they collided together, fusing together. What emerged from the clouds was a massive, blue dragon, with three fearsome heads and two mighty wings that looked like they could destroy several houses with one flap.
"Your God Card may be strong," Kiyoji began. "But my dragon is even stronger! Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, destroy Obelisk and wipe out the rest of your old master's life points! Neutron Blast!"
The three heads of the dragon obeyed each one gathering energy into its mouths. When enough brilliant white energy was gathered, they fired their blasts at Obelisk. The three blasts merged together, but still didn't look like it could destroy the Egyptian God. Before the blasts would hit, a mystical elf appeared in front of Kaiba and began chanting. The blasts hit their mark, but it took about took a few seconds of the blast to make Obelisk give in. The energy overwhelmed him and blasted a huge hole through his chest. Obelisk then fell into the ocean as the Mystical Elf gave Kaiba a ball of white energy and he accepted it. A huge cloud of smoke was surrounding Kaiba and his boat, making Kiyoji think he was wiped out.
"Farewell, Kaiba," Kiyoji taunted, grinning over his victory.
However, when he discovered the stormy duel field they were playing on was still as it was, he knew the duel wasn't over.
"What's going on?" he asked. "I wiped out the rest of your life points. This duel should be over!"
As the smoke cleared, Kaiba and the boat he stood on were still in the ocean.
"It would've been, but I had a little card help me out," Kaiba explained, revealing the facedown card he had on the field. "Before Obelisk was attacked, I played Gift of the Mystical Elf. It increases my life points by 300 for each monster on the field. That gives me 600 life points left."
Aggravated, Kiyoji growled, "Damn it... I end my turn..."
Kaiba: 600
Kiyoji: 2400
Kaiba's turn-
When Kaiba looked at his drawn card, he sighed to himself.
"This has been an interesting duel, Kiyoji, but I'm going to end it," Kaiba said. "I first play the magic card, Nightmare Binding, playing it on Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon."
As the magic card was played, dark energy ensnared the massive, three-headed dragon, causing it to roar in pain for a few seconds, then the dark energy moved to Kaiba, relaxing him slightly.
"Nightmare Binding depletes one monster card's attack points by 800 and those attack points get added to my life points, giving me 1400," Kaiba explained as he was playing another card. "And now I have enough to play Bond of Brothers. By paying 1000 of my life points, I can special summon two monsters of the same name from my deck to the field."
As Kaiba's life points dropped to 400, he looked through his deck and picked out two cards and placed them on the field, making two winged, green dragons fly in front of him.
"I summon my two Thunder Dragons (1600/1500) in attack mode," said Kaiba as he placed his shuffled deck back into its slot. "And now, I play my final card, Monster Reborn! And I will bring back the Immense Devine Soldier of Obelisk!"
As Kaiba slipped the card into a slot and brought out his God Card, the tempest field they were on was going insane. Waves were crashing into each other, the winds were howling, and lightning was striking the ocean near and far.
The duelists watching on the balcony all had their attention turned to the TV, also hearing the noises of the storm in stereo.
And suddenly, the water around Kaiba and Kiyoji's boats began descend, and rise up in a column around them. The water continued to do so until their boats were touching the dry ground of the ocean floor, and vanishing seconds after. Both of them looked up seeing the column tower over them by what looked like, 50 feet. The Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon and the two Thunder Dragons flew down and went on to their respective master's side. Behind Kaiba, a large and ominous figure was standing behind the wall of water, only about ten feet shorter than the column of water. As it took one step forward, the ground shook, and a part of the left foot could be seen, emerged from the water. As another step was taken, the ground shook again, and the right foot was completely out, as was some of the massive body. After one more step from the left, the entire figure emerged, shaking the ground again, and revealing the God of light and darkness: Obelisk.
He did it, thought Yugi. Kaiba won.
Kiyoji was indeed frightened by the sight of this monster now, but to him, it was still a monster and he would never show weakness to Kaiba.
"Due to Nightmare Binding, Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon is weaker than Obelisk by 300 attack points," Kaiba pointed out. "So, Obelisk, destroy Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon now! God Hand Crusher!"
Obelisk obeyed Kaiba's command, but instead of throwing his right hand forward, he struck the three-headed dragon with his left. The attack was still the same, dealing a haymaker of a blow to the dragon, shattering through its light blue armor, revealing its blood and throwing it into the ocean, making Kiyoji's life points drop to 2100.
Kiyoji's eyes widened in terror as the strongest monster he ever had had just been wiped out. He then looked at the other two dragons Kaiba possessed and together, they would destroy the remainder of his life points. He wanted to fall to his knees, but his legs were stiff. Salazar's spell over him was no longer working.
"You're mistaken if you think I'm going to have my dragons finish you off," Kaiba said to him. "I destroyed my dragon first so it wouldn't have to go through what's in store for you. You made a big mistake: you got a god angry."
Kiyoji's mouth was suddenly dry, he was short of breath, and no witty remark could save him now.
"I sacrifice my two Thunder Dragons to give Obelisk his ultimate attack: Soul Energy MAX!"
After hearing this, Salazar's smug smile faded. However, everyone else was too focused into the duel to notice.
As Obelisk grasped a dragon in each hand and turned the two dragons into pure energy. The energy was flaring red, and Obelisk's blue color began to turn a slight red, resembling purple.
"Now, Obelisk! Wipe out the last of his life points!" Kaiba commanded.
Obelisk pulled back both of his massive fists, and paused for a second, causing the virtual projection to cease function and make the room they were in white again. The cameras were still working showing Kiyoji, Kaiba, and Obelisk. Then, the god threw both his fists out, unleashing two large amounts of surging energy towards Kiyoji Hiraga. The energy collided into Kiyoji with such force, it threw him off his feet and slammed him into the wall behind.
The TVs' screens were completely white and soon what showed up was static. Salazar looked over at Croquet, and Croquet pulled out a cell phone and started talking to someone. A moment later, the virtual room they were in, opened up and the platform arose, showing Seto Kaiba standing and his opponent, Kiyoji Hiraga was lying on the ground.
Note: Command Silencer's a card seen only in the anime used in Yugi and Kaiba's duel at Battle City. I couldn't discover the card's effect anywhere except for the anime itself. Card of Demise is another card anime card used in Yugi and Kaiba's duel, Nightmare Binding is used in the Doom Saga in Yugi and Rafael's first duel, and Bond of Brothers is another card seen only in the anime.
Yeah, and Déjà Vu was a card I made up. I ran out of actual revival cards, so I made one up.
Also, I'm very sorry about my absence. I needed a break. But I promise to get this story done.