A/N disclaimed and disclaimer. I move some things around this time so the one-shot should be on its own now. I hope.
On with the show.
Kiri blinked slightly confused and dazed as she stared at the fusion form of Kaiba's Lord of Dragons and Yami's Magician of Dark Chaos. She had never seen that card before, didn't even know if it was possible for that fusion to occur but then she shrugged. It shouldn't have been possible for Kaiba to be walking around as a dragon anyway so why shouldn't it be possible for the merger to occur.
"Who are they now" Jounouchi whispered to Anzu. She shook her head and held out her hands helplessly.
"Maybe we should have a naming contest and the winner gets to go out with the guy of her choice." Mokuba offered. "Or his choice, I guess is possible as well." The glare from the guys in question froze the air and Mokuba slunk behind Anzu shivering, "or maybe not."
There, rearing before the Shadow Ogre, was a big black dragon easily one and a half times larger than the ultimate blue eyes white dragon, with eyes that glowed a molten gold and his very presence exuded power and composure. Atop him was the Magician, wearing robes of all black lined with the same liquid gold as the dragon's eyes, looking every bit the powerful magician and fighter. Kiri caught Anzu staring at the Magician with a glazed look in her eyes and chuckled to herself, admitting that he didn't look half bad that way.
"Don't think that because you have become, well, whatever you are, that you will defeat me." The Master shook his fist at the guys, "I shall still defeat you and your souls will feed my darkness."
The battle began again in earnest, but the shadow ogre was over powered now and the guys took advantage of it. However the Shadow Ogre wasn't as stupid as he looked and time and time again managed to escape situations that should have finished him. Kiri swayed slightly as the guys once again cornered the Shadow Ogre. She refused to pass out until after the battle was over. If she had learned one thing from playing this game with Kaiba, it was stubbornness. She would sooner spend a week in the game with Bunny and Pegasus then she would give up. Somewhere in the back of her mind was the thought that she might not wake up if she passed out now, but she continued ignoring that soft, annoying voice that sounded way too much like her conscious.
The guys made a final attack move that left the others in awe of their prowess. It was combinations of a lightening strike, fire attack, and dark spells that wove together to crash into the Shadow Ogre and destroy him in a flash of light and butterflies. Kiri blinked twice…nope it was butterflies flying away in all directions driving back the darkness and restoring the light to the cavern. She reached up and caught one on her hand and stared at the beautiful white of its wings that reminded her of blue eyes white dragon. Another flew by with the patterns of the black magician on its wings. She looked at the Master where he knelt broken by the defeat of his champion.
The Master glared at them all "four hours, four more hours and my world would have been irreversible. Four more hours and there would have been nothing you could have done and all the power would have been mine. At midnight, the world would have changed forever." He turned to Kiri with a crazed gleam in his eyes; "this is your fault" he howled and charged at her. Kiri watched him come toward her in slow motion. She was so drained that she couldn't have moved if she wanted to, nor fought back with any hope of even being capable of winning.
A dragon's hand suddenly appeared in front of her and swatted the Master away with a brutal force into a wall. He slumped where he landed, dazedly staring at the Lord of Dragons who now stood between him and Kiri. "Mine, she is mine. No one is allowed to touch what is mine," he growled.
Kiri stomped her foot and put her hands on her hips, "wait a minute, buster, who in the heck gave you the right to claim me as your own." She stormed up to his head and glared into his eyes; "just because these stupid idiotic bracelets say Kaiba's slave does not even begin to make it true and furthermore…" she trailed off as the darkness edged in again around her vision. Anger had kept her awake longer than her body could take and she crashed hard, falling into Kaiba's arms like a damsel in distress. Somewhere in the back of her mind the thought that she was going to finish giving him what for when she woke up played out…but then darkness finished claiming her.
Yami checked her pulse and sighed thankfully. "She is still with us, just very weak. She needs rest and lots of it for the next few days but she should be alright." He put a hand to her forehead and frowned "she has a slight fever though. It will be a rough week for her."
The Master stood up and glared at them all, stumbling to his mirror. "She won't get the opportunity to wake up. None of you will." The mirror pulsed again and emitted a dark cloud that floated toward the group as the Master laughed. But then the mirror screamed a dark and ear-splitting wail of a dying thing and shattered into a thousand pieces, its magic spent and wasted by the defeats it had suffered of its conjured creatures.
The group stared in tired amazement at the anticlimactic end to the last few days of terror.
Honda shook his head "hard to believe that it's only been about three days since this started. It's only Monday tomorrow. 7 days left of vacation."
"And 4 hours left for me to show you whose the boss" Jounouchi yelled suddenly.
"What do you mean, who's the boss," Honda replied, "I can kick your butt in any form."
"Whatever" Jounouchi taunted, "you couldn't fight your way out of a rice paper bag; much less beat the incredible Jounouchi."
They argued all the way out of the building and on toward Yugi's house, with Yami watching them with a tired smile. The argument would play out until midnight with various scenarios until the mysterious sleep once again struck and the friends would awaken in the morning sprawled out on Yugi's floor and bed, once again the same as they were before this adventure began.
A/N next is the epilogue that details Kaiba's ending. And the final naming of the fusion of The Magician of Black Chaos and The Lord of Dragons…maybe.