The four duelists went to the middle of the arena. Terra sat back and began to watch. Yuri looked at Terra seeing that he had to impress her some how. Then he looked at his deck and realized that he still had all three Egyptian god cards in his deck. He couldn't use them; he had to figure out a way to defeat them without them, if he could not, then he wouldn't be a worthy enough duelist to face Shrin.

"How about we start things off," said Tea.

"Alright, it looks like the order will be Tea, Mai, and Joey, and then followed by Yuri," said Tristan

"I draw," said Tea pulling a card. "First I will summon Dark Elf 2000/800 in attack mode. I then will set two cards face down and end my turn.

"My turn," said Mai, "I summon Harpy Lady 1300/1400 in attack mode, then I play Elegant Egotist, tributing my Harpy Lady to summon the Harpy Lady Sisters 1950/2100 in attack mode, I will then set two cards face down and end my turn.

"Ok, its go time," said Joey as he drew his card. "I summon Baby Dragon in attack mode 1200/700. I then will place one card face down and end my turn."

"My move," said Yuri "Hmm, well first I will play a magic card call Heavy Storm, this destroys all magic and trap cards that are on the field."

"Hold on, I will chain with my Scape Goat magic card, since it's a quick play I get my goats on the field before your effect can carry out," said Joey.

"Yeah, but as for Mai and Tea, there cards are destroyed," said Yuri with a grin.

"You destroyed my Mirror Wall, and Dust Tornado," said Mai angrily.

"The cards you destroyed were, Mirror Force and Call of the haunted," said Tea.

"Well since I got those things cleared up, my next card will be Dark Hole, this destroys all monsters on the field," said Yuri with a grin.

"You did what?" asked Joey

"That jerk, he destroyed all our face down cards as well as all of our monsters all in one turn," said Mai.

"It looks like he has been training," replied Tea to Mai's comment.

"I now will summon Skilled Dark Magician 1900/1700, in attack mode. I then will play three cards face down and end my turn."

"Yuri, I'm glad to see you have taken interests into your training, but I don't think you can defeat the combined power of three duelists," said Tea.

"If you have forgotten, Shrin defeated Yugi, and there were people who had the potential of defeating him, such as Dartz's, Kaiba, Marik, even a man named Raphael defeated Yugi, if I can't prove myself by taking down three duelists at once then I won't have any hope to defeat Shrin," said Yuri loudly.

'Even with all three Egyptian God cards,' thought Yuri to himself

"So now I activate my face down cards, Solemn Wishes, and Wall of Revealing Light," shouted Yuri.

"What do those cards do again?" asked Tristan.

"For your information Tristan, Solemn Wishes will let him gain 500 life points for every card or cards he draws, and Wall of Revealing Light prevents lets him pay a certain amount of life points multiple of 1000, and monsters of the amount he pays or lower can't attack him," explained Joey.

"Just like you said Joey and I will play 3000 of my life points, so monsters of 3000 or lower cannot attack me."

"Pretty good, but I will set one monster face down in defense, and I play the magic card, pot of greed."

"Tea, you activated my third trap card, Appropriate, since you draw outside of your draw phase, I get to draw 2 cards from my deck, and so I gain 500 life points since I drew 2 cards at the same time."

"Not bad Yuri, you have surpassed my expectations," said Tea. "But it's still my turn, and I will set 2 cards face down and I will end my turn."

"You may have surpassed Tea's expectations, but not mine kid, so I draw," said Mai. "I will play Monster Reborn, to reborn my Harpy Lady Sisters 1950/2100, and then I play Rising Air Current which increases the attack of all wind monsters by 500 and decreases their defense by 400." Harpies 2450/1700

"A good effort Mai, however with my Wall of Revealing Light on the field, you cannot attack me," grinned Yuri.

"It's my turn now," said Joey as he drew. "I will summon Gearfried the Iron Knight 1800/1600, I then will play two cards face down, and I will end my turn."

"It's my turn once again," said Yuri with a smile. "I draw, and since I drew I gain another 500 life points, I'm now at 2000 life points, and last time I checked no one has lost any life points besides me, so you all have 4000 life points."

"Thank you Mr. Obvious," said Mai.

"I'm just letting our viewers know what the current status is, not to mention our newest viewer since you ended your turn Mai," said Yuri as he grinned.

"Newest viewer?" asked Mai

"Yeah Mai, he has been sitting on that wall watching the duel since your last move," said Yuri pointing behind her.

The three teammate duelists turned around and looked at the top of the wall where Yuri was pointing at, only to see Bakura sitting and watching them. Bakura grinned as jumped down. He walked slowly towards the benches where Terra was watching. Bakura was grinning only because of one reason, and this time he wouldn't fail.

"Bakura, it's good to see you, I want you to see my victory over these three," said Yuri.

"Yuri, I have got to admit you have spunk, but you're insane to think you can defeat three duelists at once."

"Yeah, I must be as insane as that one duelist who nuked you, Weevil, and Rex at once with Obelisk the Tormentor."

"Watch you're tongue boy," growled Bakura.

"Just sit back and watch the show Bakura, and besides, I have to impress the lady behind you."

"Stop talking and go," said Joey loosing patience.

"Fine, I will play pot of greed, which allows me to draw two more cards and gain 500 more life points. I now will use the effect of Skilled Dark Magician, by tributing him I can summon my Dark Magician from my hand, deck or graveyard, I choose to summon him from my deck."

Yuri's dark magician faded and in its placed appeared the Dark Magician. Terra watched in amazement since this was the first duel she has ever witnessed. Terra smiled with delight as she watched Yuri play. For her it was like watching a favorite T.V. show, and getting tuned into it, she couldn't move her eyes away from the dueling field.

"The next card I play is Graceful Charity, which allows me to draw 3 cards and gain another 500 life points, but I have to discard two of the cards in my hand," said Yuri as he looked at the three cards he drew.

'Oh no,' thought Yuri. 'I forgot to take out my three Egyptian God cards; I just drew Slifer the Sky Dragon. I could discard him; however, if I do I would reveal him, because I have to announce the cards that I have to discard. It looks I have no choice but to choose two other cards besides Slifer, and having Slifer in my hand is useless since I don't want to reveal the God cards that I have. Lets see…I will choose these two.'

"The cards I choose to discard are Mirage Dragon and Spear Dragon, I now will play one card face down, and I will attack with my Dark Magician, at Mai's Harpy Lady Sister's, this should cause 50 points of damage to you."

"Not so fast Yuri, you forgot about my face down cards and it will cost you," said Joey.

"Shit," said Yuri.

"I activate Skull Dice, the higher the number the lower your Dark Magician will reduce by."

Joey's Skull Dice card appeared throwing its red dice, it rolled on the ground and slowly but finally the dice stopped revealing the number 6. Joey jumped and smiled greatly as he laughed. Yuri just grinned watching Joey's excitement.

"Alright, that will reduce your Dark Magician by 600 points. Take that sucker."

Dark magician moved and destroyed Mai's Harpy Lady Sisters, causing 150 points of damage to Mai's life points. This shocked Joey, Mai, and Tea, but it did not surprise Bakura in the least. Mai's monster disappeared from the field and into the graveyard.

"Hey, I don't get it, your monster should have been destroyed," said Joey.

"It would of if I didn't know how you play Joey, I had a feeling about your face down cards, I knew one of them was Skull Dice, you usually set Graceful Dice or Skull Dice, but you rarely set both, I had to take my chances knowing that it might be both, but highly doubtful. That's why I set my face down card, Rush Recklessly, this boosts my Dark Magician by 700 points for one turn, making him regain the power that your trap card took from him, plus an additional 100 points."

"I must admit, you have surpassed my expectations," said Joey.

"Joey, its easy to pass your expectations," said Bakura.

"Ah, shut up Bakura,"

"Sure, when you get some skill."

"I have more skill then in my pinky than in your butt."

"If you two are done arguing, I will set one card face down and I will end my turn," said Yuri.

"Well first things first, I will draw," said Tea "I now will flip up my Magician of Faith 300/400, as you know this lets me get back a magic card, and I choose the magic card Pot of Greed, in which I will play it."

"Don't forget about my trap card Appropriate, I get to draw two cards as well, and it increases my life points by another 500," said Yuri as he drew

Tea drew her two new cards, she had mostly high level monsters in her hand and only one monster to sacrifice with, and luckily she had a monster that would rival with Yuri's Dark Magician, but could not stop it. Tea then looked at her hand carefully to consider her options on stopping Yuri. Unlike she had ever seen Yuri before, he had a serious advantage, in which she knew he had one flaw, as long as she could keep drawling outside of her draw phase Yuri would have to draw two cards, and if her luck could hold, hopefully Yuri would run out of cards in his deck, causing him to automatically loose the duel.

"Well Yuri, I will sacrifice my Magician of Faith to summon Dark Magician Girl 2000/1700. She may not be strong enough now to stop your monster, but I have a feeling she will be by the time Joey ends his turn. So I will set this card face down and end," said Tea.

"Now it's my turn," said Mai as she drew.

Mai was in a tough spot, she only had one card in her hand, the card she just drew, and she had nothing on her side of the field. Yuri had surpassed her expectations. The last time she had dueled Yuri, she stomped him in the ground. Now he has more of an advantage Joey, Tea and herself, put together for the moment. The monster card that she drew wouldn't stand one moment against the Dark Magician.

"I will set a monster face down in defense and end my turn," said Mai.

"Yuri, you're going down because now it's my turn," said Joey as he drew.

Joey looked at his hand, and what he had on the field, because he had used his Skull Dice last turn he only had one face down trap card and Gearfried the Iron Knight on the field, so far it wasn't looking good, Joey then looked at the card he just drew and smiled with delight, but at the same time it wouldn't stand up against the Dark Magician.

"Ok, Yuri here's my move, I play my face down trap card Disturbance Strategy, this forces you to put your hand back in your deck and shuffle your deck, and it forces you to draw the same amount of cards that you had in your hand," grinned Joey.

Yuri paused for a moment as if stunned, but this stunning reaction only last for a second when Yuri started to laugh. Joey didn't knew it but he just did what he wanted Joey to do, putting his hand back into the deck meant Slifer also went back to the deck, which took away his fear of someone seeing that card in his hand.

"What's so funny?" asked Joey.

"Joey, not only because of your effect causing me to draw from my deck gives my 500 more life points, but it also gives me a new hand, which I wanted, so you helped me out Joey, thanks for your help," said Yuri as he put his hand in his deck and shuffled and redrew.

"Well you think that's funny, then check this out, I sacrifice Gearfried the Iron Knight to summon Jinzo 2400/1500, which means your Wall of Revealing Light is not going to protect you anymore, but I will also play the magic card Graceful Dice, the higher the number the more increase of attack points my Jinzo gets, and all I need is a two or higher to defeat your Dark Magician without sacrificing my Jinzo."

Graceful Dice appeared and threw the dice which landed on a 6, Jinzo gained 600 attack points making it 3000 points, Joey smiled with delight at his powered up monster…until it was taken by a picture of coffin with candles on it forcing Jinzo into the coffin and the coffin disappeared under ground.

"Hey, what happened to my Jinzo?"

"I activated my face down card Offerings to the Doomed, it destroys one monster on the field, but I have to skip my next draw phase.

"I guess I will set this card face down, and end my turn," said Joey.

"I can't draw this turn, but I will play this, polymerization, which fuses my Dark Magician, and my Buster Blader that's in my hand to summon Dark Paladin 2900/2400, however he gains 1500 attack points since there are currently a total of three dragons in the graveyard, one in Joey's and two in mine, making him 4400/2400. I then will then set 1 card face down and end my turn."

"I draw," said Tea. "I play Swords of Revealing Light; this will stop any attacks that you plan to make for three turns, in which I will end my turn."

"That's all? I expected more from you Tea," said Yuri.

"I draw…I play Graceful Charity, which allows me to draw three and discard two…I discard Harpies Pet Dragon and Amazon Archer. I then will flip up my Luster Dragon 1900/1600, since it's a wind dragon he gains 500 attack points, I now will equip him with the Axe of Despair which boosts him by another thousand, making him a total of 3400/1200, however, even though he is strong enough to go past your wall, he is nothing against your paladin, so I will end my turn. Joey, I'm counting on you."

"Well during your turn you activated a couple of things. One my trap card Appropriate, so I draw two cards. Two you boosted Dark Paladin's attack by 1000 by playing two dragons, making him 5400/2400, and three, I gain 500 life points from drawing the two cards, making my current life points now 4500."

"It's my turn once again," said Joey as he drew. "I will play the magic card Pot of Greed, after drawling my two cards, I play Monster Reborn, I bring back my Jinzo, but I will tribute him to summon Great Maju Garzett, his attack depends on double the original attack of the tribute monster I used to summon him, so his attack is 4800, but now I play the Axe of Despair which boosts my monster by 1000 attack points making him 5800 attack points, 400 points stronger then your paladin."

"I will just draw the two cards from my trap and gain another 500 life points, so now I'm at 5000 life points."

"Not for long your not, Great Maju Garzett attack his Dark Paladin," said Joey.

"I don't think so Joey, because you activated my trap, DNA Surgery, this trap allows me to change any face up monster on the field, to they type of monster I want it to be, and I choose Dragon, so that means my Dark Paladin gains an additional 1000 attack points making him now 6400 attack points, enough to destroy your monster and cause 600 points of damage to your life points."

"Just great, well I'm not going to have no monsters on the field, so I activate my face down trap card, Call of the Haunted, which allows me to get back Gearfried the Iron Knight, in attack mode, and that will end my turn."

"I draw, which makes my life points now at 5500, but this duel is now over, because I play Mystical Space Typhoon, this destroys your Swords of Revealing Light Tea, and my Dark Paladin is still at 6400 attack thanks to Joey summon another monster to his side of the field. But I now I will summon my second Mirage Dragon in attack mode 1600/600, this will boost my dark paladin to 6900 attack, I then will play the magic card Diffusion Wave Motion, this will allow my Dark paladin to attack all your monsters at once, however before doing that, I will play Mage Power, which will boost my Dark Paladin by another 2500 points, making him 9400 attack.

"9400 attack, that's insane," said Tea.

"And I don't think we have anything to stop it," said Joey.

Dark Paladin raised his lance into the air as power beams emitted from it, and then with all of its force, Dark Paladin struck the ground causing a burst of light to hit all three of the duelists, Tea fell back as well as Joey and Mai. They were all defeated at the same time by Yuri. Yuri then fell to his knees exhausted.

"Yay, Yuri, I knew you could do it," said Terra running to Yuri and hugging him.

"I couldn't of done it without Joey though, he kept on helping me," said Yuri with a smile.

"Whose side were you on Wheeler?" laughed Bakura.

"Whose side did you think?" said Joey standing up.

"Hey, it was a good game, it looks like our little Yuri isn't so little anymore," said Tea.

"What you forget that it's not fully a game when it comes to the battle with Shrin so don't let this victory go to your head," said Mai.

"I don't think I would have anyone else…besides Yugi hold that thing around your neck," said Bakura pointing to the Millennium Puzzle.

"Bakura, you better not get any funny ideas," said Tea stepping between Yuri and Bakura.

"Look, I had faced Shrin before and nearly died coming back with my head on my shoulders, his shadow games are not like any of which you know, he doesn't make your body simply disappear when you loose life points or make you feel the pain of your monsters, his shadow games are literally bloody. Even though I want the Millennium Puzzle, I have more concerned things on my mind right now, such as what are the plans for attacking Shrin?"

"I guessed you changed a little Bakura, but I still don't trust you when it comes to the Millennium Puzzle, don't worry will well attack at Dawn, right now I think we all deserve a good nights rest," said Tea.

So they all went to there dorms, except for Terra who still had to sleep in the hospital until the doctor could give her a dorm room to sleep in. So everyone slept, including Bakura who for once in his life had no intentions of stealing the Millennium Puzzle. This was there last night, there last night to dream; there last night to rest before the attack, only destiny would guide them for what was to come the morning after.