"I believe it's now my move," laughed Marik "and its time for your demise."

"Just go Marik," said Yuri.

"I will do more than just go fool, I play one card face down, and I will set one more monster face down one the field. That will end my turn."

"I draw," said Yuri.

Yuri smiled at his Slifer the Sky Dragon, which he just drew, however, he only would have two cards in his hand if he were to use it, which would only give Slifer 2000 attack points, the problem with this was if his opponent had a monster that could block his attack he wouldn't be able to destroy it until his next turn, and with only 1500 life points left and how Marik was doing things he couldn't risk his Slifer just yet. Yuri looked back down at his cards, he didn't have anything that could destroy his spirit reaper and he had no clue what his face down card was.

"What's your move Yuri? Not like it will matter."

"Dark Magician, attack his face down monster."

"You fell for my trap, I activate Nightmare Wheel, this stops your Dark Magician's attack, and during each of my standby phases you will loose 500 of your life points."

"But you forgot about my Goblin Attack Force, He will attack and destroy your face down monster."

"Go right ahead, the monster you attacked was Masked Dragon 1400/1100, since you destroyed him I get to summon a dragon of 1500 attack points or lower and summon it to the field. The monster I choose is Armed Dragon LV 3 1200/900."

"I end my turn, and my Goblin Attack Force goes to defense mode."

"I draw, and now I can use my Armed Dragon LV 3's special ability, which I can tribute him to summon an Armed Dragon LV 5 2400/1700 from my deck."

"Aw crap."

"But that's not all; you loose 500 life points, putting yourself at 1000 life points. And now I will have some fun, I will discard the Lava Golem I got to destroy your Dark Magician by using the special ability of my Armed Dragon LV 5."

"What? How can you do that?"

"It's simple, I discard a monster, I get to destroy one monster on the field, with an attack equal to or lower than the attack of the monster I discarded, since lava golem had 3000 attack points, your dark magician is destroyed."

"My Dark Magician, you will pay Marik."

"I'm not done, now Armed Dragon, attack his Goblin Attack Force."

Marik's Dragon destroyed Yuri's monster, then the moment his monster was destroyed, Marik's dragon was destroyed and replaced by another monster. Yuri looked at this monster surprised that it was even more powerful in attack points then the monster Marik had just summoned.

"What just happened?"

"It's simple, at the end phase of my turn during a turn my Armed Dragon LV 5 destroyed a monster by means of battle, I can tribute him to summon my Armed Dragon LV 7 2800/1000

"I draw."

Yuri was in trouble, he only had 1000 life points left now. He looked at his card that he drew. It wasn't going to help him. All he could do, for now was defend his life points. Marik laughed as his all powerful dragon was on the field. Yuri looked at his dragon and knew that his monster had some special ability that it was hiding.

"I will end my turn."

"Good, it looks like you're giving up, Armed Dragon LV 7, attack his face down monster."

"The monster you destroyed was my Sinister Serpent 300/250."

"I will end my turn."

"I draw, and my sinister serpent comes back to my hand, by means of its special effect. I now play pot of greed, which allows me to draw two more cards."

"Search your deck until doomsday; you have nothing that can defeat me."

"I believe I do, for I pay 800 of my life points to play premature burial, I get back my Dark Magician, then I play Monster reborn, to revive Skilled Dark Magician, and now, I play my face down trap card, Call of the Haunted, to get back Goblin Attack Force."

"Why bring back those monsters? They are no help to you."

"But they are, as I tribute all three of them, to summon a monster you know, I Summon Slifer the Sky Dragon X000/X000, and since I have four cards in my hand, Slifer is at 4000 attack and defense points."

"That's impossible, Master Shrin has all three Egyptian God cards; how do you own Slifer?"

"That's my secret, Now Slifer, attack Armed Dragon LV 7."

Slifer blasted with its Thunder Force attack, it completely destroyed Marik's monster and it took 1200 of his life points away. Marik growled as his life points dropped to 2800. Yuri now was relaxed, since he had his favorite Egyptian God card on the field, Slifer would be a tough adversary for Marik to beat, especially since all the monsters he summons and special summons would be reduced by 2000 points in the position there summoned in, and monsters of lower than 2000 of attack or defense would automatically be destroyed.

"I will end my turn Marik.

"Slifer has taken me by surprise but there are so many ways to defeat an Egyptian God card, and I will show them to you. First I draw."

Marik drew his card, he wasn't fully satisfied with the card he drew but it would allow him to gain a card that he needed to defeat Slifer. Yuri didn't like the grin that Marik was using, he had heard all to well of the things that he did to Joey and Mai. But this time Marik didn't have The Winged Dragon of Ra to help him, so defeating Slifer would be difficult.

"I play 1 card faced down and play the magic card Different Dimension Capsule. This allows me to remove one card from my deck out of play and on my second standby phase after I played this card, I get the card I removed. I end my turn."

"I draw, and now that I have five cards in my hand, Slifer is now at 5000 attack and defense points."

"Yes, however, my spirit reaper cannot be destroyed as a result of battle, that means even if Slifer attacks, you will do nothing to penetrate my defenses."

"Your monster is a temporary defense, I will soon break it."

"I would like to see you try."

"I will end my turn."

"See, you have nothing that you can do to penetrate my defense. I draw, but I will end, it will be so amusing to see if you can back up your words."

"I draw, and I will set one monster face down. That will end my turn."

"I draw, and I gain the card that I removed from play two turns ago. I now set two cards face down and I end."

"I draw, now Slifer has 6000 attack and defense points, and I flip up my Magician of Faith 300/400 I can now get back a magic card, and I choose Raigeki."

"Hold on, I will chain to your move, by playing my trap card Fiend Comedian, this card allows me to flip a coin, if I call it right, your graveyard is removed from play, and if I call it wrong, the number of cards you have in your graveyard will be discarded from the top of my deck to my graveyard."

"Then what's your call Marik?"

"I call heads."

Marik flipped his coin and let it land on the floor that was between them, after close examination the coin read tails and Marik had to remove eight of his cards to his deck, which he laughed as he saw each one of them were monster cards that were put into the graveyard. Yuri got back his magic card Raigeki, he played it immediately which it destroyed Marik's spirit reaper, seeing this made Marik laugh out loud.

"Now that you have no monsters to protect you, I attack with Slifer the Sky Dragon, end this duel now."

"That's where I will stop you, I play Negate Attack, and this will cancel out your dragon's attack, saving me for another turn."

"I end."

"And I draw. I set 1 monster face down, and end my turn."

"I draw, I will set 1 card face down, and Slifer will attack your face down monster."

"You attacked my Cyber Jar 900/900 and activated his special ability."

"Slifer won't be destroyed that easily, since he cannot be affected by monster effects he remains on the field."

"Yes, but his allows both of use to pick up five cards and show them to each other, monsters of…"

"I know what the card does Marik."

They showed each other the cards the picked up, Mairk had nothing but weak monster cards, Yuri on the other hand got only one monster card and the rest were magic and trap cards, Yuri's monster was too strong to be summoned since it was Buster Blader. Marik laughed out loud to what he was about to do.

"I will summon all my monsters in face up attack mode."

"Did you forget about Slifer's special ability? When a monster is summoned face up its points will be reduced by 2000, and if its points drop to zero, then your monster is destroyed, none of your monsters are strong enough to survive, so they are all destroyed."

Slifer using its second mouth destroyed all five of Marik's monsters, Marik just stood there laughing as each one was destroyed. Yuri then finally realized that this guy was more than just a nutcase, he was a total psycho, and he just nuked all of his monsters and sent them to the graveyard.

"You must have really lost it, haven't you Marik?"

"Not to worry, I will destroy Slifer momentarily," laughed Marik.

"And how do you plan on doing that?"

"Finish your turn and find out fool."'

"Fine, I end, but I have more than six cards in my hand, so I must discard five of them, to have six cards in my hand once again."

"Stand back for the fall of Slifer the Sky Dragon. I draw….I will play the magic card Painful Choice. This allows me to pick any five cards from my graveyard, and then you pick one card that goes to my hand. My choices are Giant Orc, Slate Warrior, Night Assailant, Wall of illusion, and Pitch-Black Warwolf."

"I choose Wall of illusion to go to your hand."

"So be it, the rest of my cards go to the graveyard, and I now will set one monster face down and end my turn."

"I draw, Slifer attack his monster."

Slifer attacked again with its Thunder Force attack, destroying Wall of illusion, but not its effect not effecting Slifer in anyway. Marik just laughed again. Yuri just growled a little as Marik stared at him with his evil eyes, the eyes that were once owned by a pure soul named Yugi. Yuri had to finish this duel; he only had 200 life points left, while Marik still had 2800.

"I set one card face down and end my turn."

"I draw….I will play a magic card, Graceful Charity, this allows me to draw three cards and discard any two cards in my hand. I choose to discard Sangan and Witch of the Black forest."

"Is that all?"

"No you fool, I now play the monster that will destroy your Slifer the Sky Dragon, I summon Chaos Necromancer 0/0"

"That monster has zero attack points; it's not strong enough to face Slifer's second mouth."

Slifer attacked with its second mouth, it hit Chaos Necromancer dead on, but it wasn't destroyed, it was only weakened. Yuri looked at his monster in surprise as it remained on the field. Marik laughed and stared at Yuri with his evil grin.

"What did you do Marik?"

"It's not what I have done, its what you and I have done, as you know I kept on throwing away monsters into my graveyard. That is because Chaos Necromancer gains 300 attack and defense points from each monster that is in my graveyard, so far I have 27 monsters giving him a total of 8100 attack points, however Slifer weakened him by 2000 points, so he still has 6100 attack points, just enough to take out half of your life points and destroy Slifer, leaving you with no monsters on the field, and once I win, I will take Slifer and any other Egyptian God cards that you may have, and I will give them to Master Shrin, so he can have even more power in conquering this world."

"My Slifer will not fall by the likes of your monster," cried Yuri in rage.

"You don't have any choice about that, now Chaos Necromancer, attack Slifer the Sky Dragon."

"Actually I do, you forgot about my face down card, I activate my trap, Mirror Force, this destroys all of your monsters that are in attack position and it negates your attack."

"No, now I don't have any cards to play."

"And that means you have no choice but to end your turn, now Slifer attack his life points directly"

Slifer attacked Marik with a blast so incredible that it made Marik fly backwards and hit the wall, he fell to the ground and Yuri walked up to him, he looked down upon his foe. Marik looked up with fear in his eyes because he knew what was about to happen. Yuri touched the Millennium Puzzle as it started to glow.

"No, please don't send me back, no."

"This time you won't come back Marik, go back to the shadow realm and stay there; Mind Crush."

Yuri hit his hand on Marik's forehead and Yugi's lifeless body fell to the ground, it was over for now. But Yuri had other challenges ahead of him. Yuri grinned at the thought what Tea would think to see Yugi again, even though it would just be his body.

Yuri then looked at his Millennium Puzzle; he thought for a moment and got an idea… 'The writing said when time is right, the pharaoh will return with his power, it must have meant that when the puzzle returns around Yugi's neck, then the pharaoh will return,' thought Yuri.

Yuri put the Millennium Puzzle around Yugi's neck; he was expecting to see the puzzle glow brightly like how it sometimes did when something mystical happens. However nothing happened as he stood there. He shook Yugi's body and called 'Pharaoh' for a while, but when nothing happened; he returned the puzzle around his neck.

"I don't get it, how come the Pharaoh won't come out? If I was aloud to enter inside the realm of the millennium puzzle I would look for him, but since I cannot, I can't do anything. This whole time I thought that I would meet the pharaoh and he would help. I talked to him once in a dream, that's when I was in my coma. But how come he hasn't contacted me since then, I'm sure there are a lot of things he would have to say about this situation. Heck I would just like him to be here so I won't be alone."

Yuri thought about it for a moment and decided that it wouldn't matter until he released Yugi from the shadow realm; which he could not do until he defeated Shrin. Yuri picked Yugi up and put him on his back. He carried him and began to walk back to the hall in which he came from, since the room he came to was a dead end.

Yuri walked back retracing his steps and he found the room which he entered once before, seeing the old door he decided not to enter before, he went and entered it. The room behind the door was a dead end, but it had more Egyptian writings on it. He stood in the middle of the room. He started to read the writings aloud.

"Destiny is often blind, for which way to find, your true path that you leave behind. If you want the truth of the eye, to know what's low and what is high, look and see your destiny is they mean the eye of truth trap card? The eye of truth knows all sees all, in the game it allows you to see your opponents hand…"

Yuri laid Yugi down on the floor and stretched a little bit. He took out some of his extra cards and found The Eye of Truth trap card. Yuri touched his Millennium Puzzle as he held the card up to his forehead where The Eye of Truth would appear. The puzzle glowed and he started to see images.

Yuri began seeing many things; first he saw the destruction of the city. He then saw Pegasus, Rebecca and Duke gathering people up to take them to another hiding place. Then Yuri saw Bakura leading Tea and the others. Yuri knew that the things he was seeing were things that were happening right now, since The Eye of Truth can only view what currently happening.

Yuri then put the card back with the other cards that he had and put them back into his small pack of belongings that he brought. He then looked the writings one more time and saw a passage that he didn't notice before. Yuri started to read it then his eyes widened. He quickly ran and picked up Yugi again and threw him over his shoulder.

"Yugi, we have no time to loose, our friends are in danger," said Yuri as he quickly ran down the hall to back where he came from.