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Willem Spring watched the monitor intently, the four people on the screen struggling to pull up the black clad young woman hanging below.
He tapped a few buttons on the keypad in front of the monitor, froze the image and brought up a magnifying glass Icon. Placing it over the left arm of the man actually holding onto the girl in peril he began to zoom.
"Very interesting, Artistic touch too," He said to himself, as he looked at the screen. On it there was an image of Robert desperately trying to pull his little sister up to safety. However the thing that piqued Willems interest wasn't the young man himself but the scar on his left bicep.
Instead of the simple two and a half inch vertical scar that had been there in the past now there was a line of red across it.
Forming, interestingly enough, a Cross.
Willem turned away from the screen and gazed intently at the Sarcophagus across the room from him, focusing his mind and closing his eyes.
No one was in the room to see the golden eye form on his forehead.
Jungle Rest Zone
"He's been out like a light for hours. They both have." Sammantha said looking into the bedroom at the two sleeping forms, each in it's own bed.
"Yeah, they have been, but it's to be expected. I mean they both went through a lot in that Duel, only half of which we were able to see." Yugi replied, taking a drink of the soda he held in his hand.
The group of Duelists had decided to just share the deluxe accommodations the Jungle Rest Zone offered.
Two bedrooms with two beds each and a pull out bed in the Sofa which Ryu and Joey were both sitting on discussing different combos that had served them well.
"Joey, I'm telling you Time Wizard isn't that great of a card. Its effect may be useful at times but the cost involved if it goes wrong is WAY too high." Ryu said taking a bit out of the sandwich on the plate before him.
"I know it's risky, but sometimes the risk is well worth the pay off." Joey shot back after downing a swig of his soda.
Sammantha looked over at the counter in the Kitchenette, the Duel Disks of all six of them rested on it, each reading a different Star Point count.
Roberts read in at twelve.
Sammanthas at nine.
Both Yugi and Joey had fifteen, and Ryu had ten.
The shocking one though was Kelly's Duel Disk which reported twenty-two Star Points, meaning she'd had thirty-one before she'd faced off against Robert.
Each of them were only a handful from qualifying for the finals. It had only been two days and the finals were just around the corner.
Sammantha shuddered, it had seemed like so much longer. The Duel with Brad. Roberts Match against his Sister whom she didn't even know about.
The match with Weevil Underwood in which Robert had dueled like never before, Weevil had been all but powerless in Roberts onslaught.
And now it was close to being over. A few more duels and the finals would begin.
'I don't even know if I'll make it into the finals. Yugi and Joey are two of the best in the world, Kelly has a vicious deck. Ryu was one of the upper class duelists, and there are still at most, twenty seven more Duelists on the island.' She thought to herself as she watched Joey and Ryu trade cards.
Yugi was looking out the window at the view of Noa's Falls it provided. A wistful look on his face as if he were in another time.
In the other room Robert tossed and turned, his dreams interrupted with flashes of things he didn't want to see.
It was dark, a swirling dark void much like the one he'd encountered when Sammantha had Dueled Brad.
Even the ground beneath him was a swirling mass.
Sammantha on her knees weeping and sobbing, her hair matted and clothes tattered.
Yugi and Joey laying unconscious behind her, their cards scattered about them some smoldering and others torn or completely shredded.
Ryu standing before her in a defensive stance, as if trying to protect her, his breathing was labored and his brow was covered in sweat.
Kelly lay with her head resting on Sammanthas lap, her face terribly pale, her eyes were squeezed shut, the muscles on her brow twitching. A large dark stain was spreading over her Purple shirt. Her Duel Disk lay shattered to her left.
Robert fought to turn his focus to the thing Ryu was trying to stand against when he noticed Ryu's left arm was up nd his Duel Disk was locked.
Ryu was in fact defending himself but he was dueling to do so.
Then Robert saw it. A tall dark humanoid shape, from what he could see the being wore a black suit but what was clearest was the glowing golden eye design on the figures forehead.
"He's the last of your mental defenses Mr. Marcus, soon he too will fall before my power." The figure held up his arm and set a card into a Duel Disk black as the darkest depths of space.
A great horned skeletal figure arose before him, clad in a blood red cloak, it's horns spearing through the decrepit fabric. The sinister glowing eyes and eternal death smile showing clearly.
"My Nosferatu Lich will burn away what's left of your walls. Then your mind will be mine. Just like your dear little sisters was." The figure spoke the eye glowing on his forehead more intensely as the wicked beast standing before him launched an attack directly on Ryu.
The black energy washed over the boy burning away parts of his clothing, His scream was one of terrible pain.
His life points dropped down to only a meager 100.
"Remember this well Mr. Marcus, you'll be seeing it again soon enough." The figure intoned while activating a magic card.
Fire Balls showered down from above, slamming into Ryu, his remaining Life Points as well as his physical form burning away.
All that was left when the attack was over was a pile of smoking ash and bits of blackened bone.
The figure turned and smiled.
Robert couldn't see the smile but he knew it was there, oily and sickeningly sliding into place on the figures face.
The form began laughing and abruptly stopped tilting its head like a dog listening to a sharp sound it said "Your turn Mr. Marcus."
Willem Spring watched the monitor intently, the four people on the screen struggling to pull up the black clad young woman hanging below.
He tapped a few buttons on the keypad in front of the monitor, froze the image and brought up a magnifying glass Icon. Placing it over the left arm of the man actually holding onto the girl in peril he began to zoom.
"Very interesting, Artistic touch too," He said to himself, as he looked at the screen. On it there was an image of Robert desperately trying to pull his little sister up to safety. However the thing that piqued Willems interest wasn't the young man himself but the scar on his left bicep.
Instead of the simple two and a half inch vertical scar that had been there in the past now there was a line of red across it.
Forming, interestingly enough, a Cross.
Willem turned away from the screen and gazed intently at the Sarcophagus across the room from him, focusing his mind and closing his eyes.
No one was in the room to see the golden eye form on his forehead.
Jungle Rest Zone
"He's been out like a light for hours. They both have." Sammantha said looking into the bedroom at the two sleeping forms, each in it's own bed.
"Yeah, they have been, but it's to be expected. I mean they both went through a lot in that Duel, only half of which we were able to see." Yugi replied, taking a drink of the soda he held in his hand.
The group of Duelists had decided to just share the deluxe accommodations the Jungle Rest Zone offered.
Two bedrooms with two beds each and a pull out bed in the Sofa which Ryu and Joey were both sitting on discussing different combos that had served them well.
"Joey, I'm telling you Time Wizard isn't that great of a card. Its effect may be useful at times but the cost involved if it goes wrong is WAY too high." Ryu said taking a bit out of the sandwich on the plate before him.
"I know it's risky, but sometimes the risk is well worth the pay off." Joey shot back after downing a swig of his soda.
Sammantha looked over at the counter in the Kitchenette, the Duel Disks of all six of them rested on it, each reading a different Star Point count.
Roberts read in at twelve.
Sammanthas at nine.
Both Yugi and Joey had fifteen, and Ryu had ten.
The shocking one though was Kelly's Duel Disk which reported twenty-two Star Points, meaning she'd had thirty-one before she'd faced off against Robert.
Each of them were only a handful from qualifying for the finals. It had only been two days and the finals were just around the corner.
Sammantha shuddered, it had seemed like so much longer. The Duel with Brad. Roberts Match against his Sister whom she didn't even know about.
The match with Weevil Underwood in which Robert had dueled like never before, Weevil had been all but powerless in Roberts onslaught.
And now it was close to being over. A few more duels and the finals would begin.
'I don't even know if I'll make it into the finals. Yugi and Joey are two of the best in the world, Kelly has a vicious deck. Ryu was one of the upper class duelists, and there are still at most, twenty seven more Duelists on the island.' She thought to herself as she watched Joey and Ryu trade cards.
Yugi was looking out the window at the view of Noa's Falls it provided. A wistful look on his face as if he were in another time.
In the other room Robert tossed and turned, his dreams interrupted with flashes of things he didn't want to see.
It was dark, a swirling dark void much like the one he'd encountered when Sammantha had Dueled Brad.
Even the ground beneath him was a swirling mass.
Sammantha on her knees weeping and sobbing, her hair matted and clothes tattered.
Yugi and Joey laying unconscious behind her, their cards scattered about them some smoldering and others torn or completely shredded.
Ryu standing before her in a defensive stance, as if trying to protect her, his breathing was labored and his brow was covered in sweat.
Kelly lay with her head resting on Sammanthas lap, her face terribly pale, her eyes were squeezed shut, the muscles on her brow twitching. A large dark stain was spreading over her Purple shirt. Her Duel Disk lay shattered to her left.
Robert fought to turn his focus to the thing Ryu was trying to stand against when he noticed Ryu's left arm was up nd his Duel Disk was locked.
Ryu was in fact defending himself but he was dueling to do so.
Then Robert saw it. A tall dark humanoid shape, from what he could see the being wore a black suit but what was clearest was the glowing golden eye design on the figures forehead.
"He's the last of your mental defenses Mr. Marcus, soon he too will fall before my power." The figure held up his arm and set a card into a Duel Disk black as the darkest depths of space.
A great horned skeletal figure arose before him, clad in a blood red cloak, it's horns spearing through the decrepit fabric. The sinister glowing eyes and eternal death smile showing clearly.
"My Nosferatu Lich will burn away what's left of your walls. Then your mind will be mine. Just like your dear little sisters was." The figure spoke the eye glowing on his forehead more intensely as the wicked beast standing before him launched an attack directly on Ryu.
The black energy washed over the boy burning away parts of his clothing, His scream was one of terrible pain.
His life points dropped down to only a meager 100.
"Remember this well Mr. Marcus, you'll be seeing it again soon enough." The figure intoned while activating a magic card.
Fire Balls showered down from above, slamming into Ryu, his remaining Life Points as well as his physical form burning away.
All that was left when the attack was over was a pile of smoking ash and bits of blackened bone.
The figure turned and smiled.
Robert couldn't see the smile but he knew it was there, oily and sickeningly sliding into place on the figures face.
The form began laughing and abruptly stopped tilting its head like a dog listening to a sharp sound it said "Your turn Mr. Marcus."