"So how far do you think it is to Shrin's layer?" asked Joey.

"It's not far," said Bakura still in the lead.

"Bakura you can give us at least a quick summary of how you got out of that abyss," said Terra.

"She's right, we thought you were a goner," said Mai.

"If you really must know, that was a shadow of myself that I produced by the power of my millennium ring, I have been searching the other areas of the premises from the moment we first walked in."

"Then how come when I fell your 'shadow' was able to catch me when I nearly killed myself in that trap back there?"

"I never said that my shadow couldn't touch or harm someone else. But that's enough talk, we are here."

They stopped in front of a very large door. Joey got a weird sensation from it just by being next to it. Tea felt the presence of the evil Yugi once faced and lost to, she knew that Shrin was behind the door. Terra was feeling fear she never felt before, it was more terrible then the fear of Shrin's monsters that had destroyed most of the home she knew of, everything seemed dark, but this is where they would stop Shrin.

"Let's go," said Joey as he opened the door.

They all walked into the vast mighty room, it was like a throne room, filled with a red carpet and everything. Joey walked forward as he saw Shrin lying in his one man chair. He looked as he finally noticed Joey and the others, Shrin laughed for a moment and hopped off from his chair.

"About time you got here, I was starting to get bored, Ah, Bakura, back again I see."

Bakura remained silent and looked at Shrin as if he was telling him something with his eyes. Shrin just laughed for a moment and walked down the steps from his chair. He stood before Joey from a distance. He looked at Joey who was fueled by anger in his eyes and the lust for revenge.

"Well if it isn't Joey, are you the one who will challenge me?"

"I will."

"Not without me Joey," said Mai as she stepped up.

"Mai, what do you think your doing."

"I'm fighting beside you, you're going to need help to face him, and he is no ordinary duelist."

"Mai, I'm not a kid anymore, I can stand up for myself."

"Joey if I were you I would take her advice, not one mere duelist would be a challenge against me," said Shrin.

"Joey, you have taught me about friendship and how were always there for each other, well you have always been there for me in these last ten years and now its time for me to return the favor," said Mai with tears starting to form.

Joey looked at her, he stared into here eyes and saw the passion that she had, the wanting to help as before when they were younger how she was a lone wolf and into herself most the time. Joey realized that they both had did a lot of growing up in the last ten years, and now this is where they were going to stand.

"Alright Shrin, it's me and Mai verses you, and were going to take you down."

"If you say so, let's duel."

"The order will be Mai, Shrin, and Joey," said Tea.

"Then let me start things off," said Mai. "I summon Cyber Harpy 1800/1300 in attack mode. That will end my turn.

"I draw…hmm I end my turn."

"My move, play cost down, I now can discard a card to lower the amount of stars my monsters have by two, so I will sacrifice Mai's monster to summon Red-Eyes Black Dragon 2400/2000 in attack mode. I end."

"Joey, I like you and all, but next time, sacrifice your own monsters unless I give you permission."

"Sorry Mai."

"It's okay, as long as we understand each other, I draw, and I play this card face down and summon another Cyber Harpy in attack mode, but that's not all I play Elegant Egotist, to summon Harpy Lady Sisters 1950/2100, now I attack your life points Shrin brining you down to 2050 life points. I end my turn."

"My turn again….hmm, I will play one monster in defense mode, and I will end my turn."

"Its go time," said Joey as he drew "I play polymerization fusing baby dragon and time wizard to summon Thousand Dragon 2400/2000, now Thousand Dragon attack his face down monster."

"You attacked Brain Jacker, with this monster I can take control of one of your monsters on the field permanently, but as long as I take control of your monster during your standby phases you gain 500 life points."

"No you can't."

"Oh yes I can, and I will, I take control of your Red-Eyes Black Dragon."

"Not Red-Eyes."

"Yes, now how does it feel Joey, having to face your favorite monster and all?"

"I end my turn."

"My move again," said Mai. "I draw…there is nothing I can do this turn, so I will end."

"I will set 1 monster face down, and Red Eyes will attack your Thousand Dragon, this destroys both of your monsters, how tragic, I end."

"Crap, he already destroyed two of my best monsters. I draw…I end."

Yuri ran as fast as he could, he got back to the spot where they split up, he ran and turned to the hall where the said they would go down, he kept on running as fast as he could, carrying Yugi over his shoulder wasn't easy, he felt like he was going to collapse, but he kept on going. He ran faster and faster until he got to a spot where a bunch of guys were on the ground unconscious and with that moment, the puzzle glowed.

"If I know Joey…and Tristan, which I do, they have been through here. But what's up with my puzzle, I never seen it glow like that, ah never mind I got to keep going, I'm running out of time, I got to get to them before anything happens to them, I have to warn them."

With those words giving him the flames of passion in his heart again he ran, faster than before, he kept on going. He ran for a little ways thinking about was written on the wall back in that room. Yuri had always guessed it, but he never paid any attention to it, he thought those days were over, but it looked like that he was just playing with them all along, he could have crushed them anytime he wanted. Yuri ran on until he reached a large door in which he kicked open, just to see that he was too late.

"F…I….N…A…L….Final….is your death," shouted a voice in the darkness.

Yuri saw that the letters that spelt final appeared, and a reaper of dark destruction came, it appeared like a figure of death and it swooped down, it first hit Joey. Joey fell down in pain as his soul was taken to the shadow realm.

"Joey," cried Yuri.

Yuri's cry for Joey caused Mai and everyone turn to Yuri. Yuri looked over at Mai to see that the creature appeared behind her, but before Yuri had the chance to warn her, it hit Mai dead on, and Mai fell down to the ground lifeless like Joey had done. The figure then appeared behind Tea. Tristan saw this and pushed Tea out of the way only to take the blow and fall lifeless to the ground.

"Tristan," cried Tea.

The figure appeared behind Tea once again, this time hitting its original target. Terra ran to Yuri for his protection, Yuri at this time having putting Yugi down ran to Terra, they ran to each other as fast as they could and they reached out to each other, but just before their hands met Terra fell lifeless from the blow the figure gave her. Yuri caught her and held her in his arms

"Terra, Terra please speak to me."

Yuri held her, she lay lifeless like the others, and he cried holding her into his arms. He then looked at his friends, Joey, Tristan, Mai, Tea and Mokuba who had been lying away from a distance from the dueling field. They were all gone, in less then a minute Yuri had lost everyone who he cared about the most

"I should have known…I should have been here…what happened to you guys…Shrin couldn't have defeated all of you this quickly."

"No, he didn't."

Yuri looked up to see Bakura there, he was smiling. Yuri looked at him in rage and new he was not his friend but his enemy. Bakura laughed as Shrin walked over to join him. Shrin just chuckled seeing Yuri how he was. Yuri was a broken man, for he lost everything and it amused Bakura the most.

"What's so damn funny? I don't see the humor in me loosing my friends" yelled Yuri with tears in his eyes.

"Just looking how you are, is amusing, how very pathetic of you Yuri," said Bakura.

"Shut up, I don't care about your greed or your power…Terra is gone…my most precious treasure of my heart….is gone."

"It was their pathetic choice to challenge me," said Shrin.

"Yeah, and I bet you cheated too."

"Well it's not my fault what Bakura did," laughed Shrin.

"What did you do Bakura?"

"It's simple, Mai and Joey challenged Shrin here to a duel…and by using the power of my Millennium Ring, I had joined the duel without Joey and Mai knowing, they couldn't see any monsters I played because I played none, all I did was play Destiny Board. I was hidden in the shadows, and they didn't even bother to look for me. When Joey ended his turn he and Mai were defeated, and since I was standing behind Tea and Terra, they too were part of the Shadow Game, so when Joey and Mai lost the duel, not only did Joey and Mai loose their souls, but Tea and Terra also paid the price."

"I was in the room with the writings, and I read one passage that told me…."do not trust the one with the ring." I figured that it meant the Millennium Ring, and just before I read that passage I saw you were leading the others in a vision giving to me by the powers of the eye of truth….tell me Bakura, how long….how long have you been deceiving us and how long have you betrayed us."

"Deceiving you I did do, but never once have I betrayed you, because I was never once on your side… from the moment you first laid eyes upon me I was on Shrin's side, think about it, I have gone to Shrin's layer in the past….and I have returned un scathed and unmarked, all I did was pretended like I was in pain because my so called 'soul' was almost taken and what do I get, a free meal and a warm bed to sleep in."

"So then why didn't you crush us when you had the chance?"

"Easy, Tea had disassembled the Millennium Puzzle, then she hid it, I couldn't afford to have one peace taken and hidden away, I knew that someone would find it and solve it, and when that happened, we would have made our move."

"I don't get it, why did you side with Shrin in the first place, just to get the puzzle and to defeat Yugi?"

"Fool, who do you think released Shrin?"

"What?"

"You read the writings, The Dark One, that's what he was called, until the Pharaoh had split his soul and tried to imprison it into the shadow realm, however, we were stronger than that. You see the two pieces of the one soul resided with in two millennium items, the Millennium Ring, and the Millennium Rod, Shrin here had remained dormant, all I had to do was find the right type of body for him to inhabit and I released him from his prison…for we were once one, so you could call us….brothers."

"All this time…..all this time…"

"Yes…all this time you were just our pon in our plans."

Yuri looked down at Terra, which he was still holding tightly, his eyes burned as he started to tear up little by little, until he was crying. He lost every one he cared about all within a matter of moments. He kissed Terra's forehead and laid her down.

"Look Shrin, look at the little baby cry."

"BAKURA" shouted Yuri.

At that moment the Millennium Puzzle glowed brightly and it pushed Shrin and Bakura backwards. Bakura looked at Yuri and for one moment, he swore his face looked just like Yugi's. Shrin covered his eyes from how brightly the puzzle glowed. Yuri was intensified by the flames in his heart, he no longer cared what he was taught, and all he cared about was destroying Bakura.

"I WILL NEVER FORGIVE YOU FOR WHAT YOU DONE," shouted Yuri as he sent a powerful ball of destructive energy at Bakura.

Bakura using all the power of his Millennium Ring, tried to fight against the ball of energy as it head toward him, he held out his hands as he tried to propel the powerful blast away as he touched it.

"No, I will not be defeated again," said Bakura using all his strength and power to deflect the ball away from him.

"It looks like I was right Bakura," said Shrin. "He is a threat."

"I don't care how long it takes, I swear I will send both of you to the shadow realm and free my friends."

"Fine, then it's a shadow game, you versus us, it shouldn't be hard for you with your god cards, am I correct Yuri?" laughed Shrin.

"Facing your god cards will be difficult, but before we start, I have something to do."

Yuri walked over to Yugi's lifeless body. Yuri bend down to Yugi and slowly removed the Millennium puzzle from around his neck and placed it around Yugi's neck. He then walked over to Bakura and Shrin who were waiting for him.

"You remove your only source of power?" asked Shrin.

"I rather not use the Millennium Puzzle in any type of way that you two would use a Millennium Item, so from here on out, I will rely on my own instincts and trust within the heart of the cards, and I will defeat you and revive my friends."

"This will be amusing, but you are still no match for our millennium items, prepare yourself Yuri, because you alone cannot defeats us," said Bakura.

"I'm ready when you are," said Yuri as he shuffled his deck and inserted it in the duel disk.

"Then lets us duel," said Bakura and Shrin as the laughed.