At first it seemed like an eternity in the air. Nothing could touch them and they were floating with each other, then in the same instant they fell, slowly at first then faster and faster until they landed safely in the blankets that Tea, Joey, and Tristan were holding to catch them.

"Easy does it guys, lets check them out," said Tea.

"Terra, are you alright?" asked Joey.

"I'm fine, but Yuri is the problem, look at him."

"Oh no," said Tristan.

"Yuri, don't you ever do that again," said Tea.

"cough…cough I'm sorry Aunt Tea…but she is my only friend…I don't want to loose her," said Yuri.

"He breathed in a lot of smoke Tea, he needs the Doc and quick," said Joey.

"The only thing you will need is to pray for mercy," said a dark shadowy figure walking slowly towards them.

Tristan backed away in fear, Joey couldn't move as his jaw dropped. Tea recognized this dark haired man with demonic evil eyes, he stood about Tristan's height, he work a duel disk on his left arm and wore nothing but black along with a black trench coat that reached down to his ankles. This was the man that Tea worked so hard to defeat and now he was here, the one known as Shrin had found them at long last.

"It's…Shrin," said Joey

"Well it's looked like I'm remembered, I must of left an impression on you all when I sent Yugi to the shadow realm."

"You will pay for that Shrin, we will take you on in a duel, right Joey," said Tea.

"Right, and when we win we will get Yugi's soul back."

"No….you are, no match for him….leave him to me," said Yuri trying to stand.

"Yuri…no, you are in no condition to duel," said Terra pushing him back down.

"Yuri, leave it to us, we will defeat him once and for all," said Tea.

"Why should I duel you, when I can simply call upon the powers of the shadow realm and summon an Egyptian God card, and wipe all of you out," said Shrin with a laugh.

"Because you know my shadow powers," said Bakura as he walked up with Mai.

"Bakura…are you try to make another attempted to defeat me? Do you remember what happened last time? Your lucky that the power of your millennium ring was able to let you escape from me, but that won't happen this time."

"Since the last time we had faced in a duel, I have improved, so if you're ready, I will take your soul and the Egyptian God cards that you possess."

"Bakura, as long as he cough…cough holds the god cards, you can't defeat him," said Yuri.

Shrin looked at the young red haired boy that called out to Bakura and saw around his neck was the Millennium Puzzle, what he has been searching for, for what seemed like centuries. He was wounded and on the ground, the only people that stood before him and his goal were four duelists.

"This is too amusing, I would like to stay and chat about matters of the past, but seeing the Millennium puzzle around that boy's neck tells me that my destiny is waiting, and I don't like to keep things waiting, so if you don't mind, I will summon my Egyptian God card, The Winged Dragon of Ra," said Shrin as he pulled the card from his deck and threw it on his duel disk.

A big orb of light appeared above them and Shrin smiled as though as victory was now his. Everyone looked at it in fear, knowing what it was…everyone except Yuri who was grinning. Terra looked at the orb of light in amazement, even though she heard many stories about The Winged Dragon of Ra and how horrible it was, she couldn't but admit to herself, that for something so dangerous, it looked pretty.

"Now, all I have to do is recite the ancient chant, and then I will have a monster of such power that you will not live to see the light of day," laughed Shrin.

Great beast of the sky, please hear my cry, transform thyself from orb of light and bring me victory in this fight, envelop the dessert with your glow and cast your rage upon my foe, unlock your powers from deep within, so that together we may win, now appear in this shadow game as I call your name, The Winged Dragon of Ra.

Yuri even though in great pain from his leg, started to mumble something fast under his breath while Shrin was reciting the chant; he seemed to be only concentrating on the sphere of light and nothing else. Before Shrin could finish the chant, Yuri stopped mumbling to himself and finally smiled.

Ra emerged from its sphere of light, and looked down upon everyone. Shrin laughed and people started to run. Joey, Mai, Bakura and Tea got prepared for the worst by activating their duel disks. The Winged Dragon of Ra gave a great cry so it could be know to all. Shrin smiled, he waited for ten years to find them and he finally did, and with the millennium puzzle as well, he could achieve his goal for ultimate power.

"Now, Winged Dragon of Ra, destroy them all by transforming yourself into Egyptian God Phoenix," laughed Shrin with delight.

Everyone braces themselves for The Winged Dragon of Ra's transformation, but after a few moments, The Winged Dragon of Ra, not follow the orders of Shrin that were just given. Shrin grew angry at this, and started to command it again, but The Winged Dragon of Ra still did nothing.

"Hey, why didn't The Winged Dragon of Ra follow Shrin's orders?" questioned Joey at this development.

Yuri grinned even more after Joey's question, then from his grin came chuckles and from his chuckles came out bursts of uncontrollable laughter. Yuri then slowly stood up on both legs as if he was perfectly alright. Yuri then chuckled again. All of Yuri's friends looked at Yuri in this astonishing recovery.

"Yuri…I thought you couldn't move or stand?" said Terra.

"That's what I wanted you guys to think. You see when I was jumping from step to step on the burning stairs I did fall through, however even though it cut my leg up, I didn't cut that deep, my leg muscles started to stiffen up, making walking very hard, and with the smoke as thick as it was I resulted to crawling. But standing up isn't that much of a problem if I put most of my weight on my good leg."

"Fool, because you're standing or not doesn't mean anything, you're laughing because of another reason," said Shrin with a growl.

"Indeed, I was laughing at a whole different matter, I was laughing at your stupid ness for thinking that The Winged Dragon of Ra would obey you."

"Fool, Ra has obeyed me before, I have done everything correctly, I have recited the ancient chant, and I have summoned Ra."

"Yeah you have summoned Ra…but you didn't recite the ancient chant in time."

"What do you mean…in time?"

"Well it will be better to show you then to tell you…"

"Stop speaking in riddles," shouted Shrin in a rage.

"Fine…Winged Dragon of Ra, Transform into Egyptian God Phoenix."

The Winged Dragon of Ra suddenly burst into flames slowly yet quickly transforming into Egyptian God Phoenix. Once Ra was completely transformed it flew around the small city and finally hovered behind Yuri. Yuri just grinned even more and with a look in his eyes of determination. Terra stood up seeing that Yuri's duel disk was now fully out and extended for dueling.

"That boy…of course, why didn't I see it before…you tricked me Yuri, pretending to be all weak next to that dumpster, not mentioning lying to me," said Tea.

"And the best actor award goes to Yuri," said Joey.

"You mean you're the one who blew me away?" said Bakura with a little bit of rage.

"I don't get it…what did you do?" said Tristan.

"Indeed, you were right Shrin when you recited the chant, however, when you were making your announcement to say the chant, I already started to mumble it under my breath quickly. All you have to do is recited, no one ever said that you had to be loud enough to be heard, so since I finished the chant before you did, you're Egyptian god card is under my control," said Yuri.

"This is not over…" said Shrin as he held up the millennium rod and disappeared.

"It's pretty amazing….he has captured so many souls that he has learned so many advanced moves with the millennium rod as well as the other millennium items. He also has the Millennium Necklace, so he must have seen the future of our attack, and thus he could of rewind his visions to the place where we emerged," said Yuri.

"Look, Egyptian God Phoenix is disappearing," said Tristan.

"Of course it is, he still has The Winged Dragon of Ra's card…so when he disappeared it automatically vanishes along with its card," said Yuri.

"I don't get it, I mean we never had any problems before when Bakura has attacked in the past…and measurably failed," mentioned Mai.

"That's because I'm able to block some of his visions with the power of my Millennium Ring…since we were planning to attack in the morning he could of spot the people I could not conceal with the power of my Ring," explained Bakura.

"I didn't like revealing my power over Ra…but I had no choice, if I let him gain the power of Ra, then he could of killed a lot more innocent people," said Yuri.

"Not to mention you have the power of Obelisk the Tormentor," hissed Bakura.

"You're still on that?"

"Before I didn't know it was you."

"Well we have a problem; if we stay here Shrin will just attack again, so we have to strike now, or we will loose what we worked hard for," said Tea.

"We lost a lot of people today, I mean…a lot were sent to the shadow realm, not to mention most of our buildings have been destroyed, we pretty much lost almost everything we had already," said Joey.

"Hey is it all over?" said a voice coming from some of the rubble.

"Is that you Gramps?" asked Yuri.

"Of course it's me, and don't call me gramps you little ingrate," said Pegasus coming out of hiding.

"Yeah pretty much it's over for now, and thanks a lot you were Pegasus for helping us gather the people to safety," said Tea.

"Yeah…well….everything started to cave in…yeah that's right, I tried to save them but….I have this horrible pain in my back lately."

"Right, and I'm the king of England," said Joey.

"Don't you mean Queen of England, Joey? It's because England doesn't have a king these days."

"You know what I mean."

"Well there is still something we still have…our bond of friendship guys," said Yuri.

"That's right, I have taught you well Yuri," said Tea putting her hand out.

Joey put his hand on top of Tea's followed by Mai and Tristan…followed by Yuri. With that, the Millennium Puzzle glowed a little bit, and they all felt the friendship that they always had together.

"Oh alright, why not," said Pegasus putting his hand in.

"Pegasus, after you not following my orders, right now your not in the circle of friendship until you make it up," said Tea.

"Alright, let me start by getting the rest of us together to put this fire out, I will take care of things here while you guys go fight Shrin."

"I'm no duelist, I will more than likely get in your guy's way…I will stay behind and help Pegasus," said Tristan.

"Right…so it looks like its Tea, Joey, Mai and Me," said Yuri.

"Hey, what about me?" said Terra.

"Well, you can help Tristan and Pegasus, along with Serenity, she should be helping Duke and Rebecca take care of some of the wounded," said Joey

"No way, my Yuri is hurting as it is and I need to be with him," said Terra.

"Wait…did you just say 'my Yuri'?" said Mai.

"Of course I did….he is….my best friend, so I must look after him."

"Terra it's alright, I'm fine…AHHH," said Yuri as Terra kicked his bad leg.

"See Yuri, you're wallowing in pain, I insist that I remain with you."

"That's only because you kicked me."

"I guess there is no arguing with her, she is determined," said Mai.

"Yeah, but I think it's because she likes Yuri," whispered Joey to Mai.

After some arguments, finally they gave in and Terra was part of their team, her job was to help and aid Yuri with his leg whenever he needed it. Yuri could walk, but it he limped as he walked. Yuri was not in the worst condition that he was acting before, when he saved Terra, but he wasn't in the best condition he pretended to be when he faced Shrin. They all took the stairs to the service; this was going to be the final battle that they all had waited 10 years long years for, this was going to be the final battle.