The duel continued on. The score was at 3800 life points to 3300, Kaiba having the upper hand life points wise. However, with Gods' Forsaken Tomb on the field, Seto was in a bit of trouble. With this card on the field, Anubis could summon some of his most powerful monsters without sacrifice. The fact that it made everything so hard to see did not help.
I've never been afraid of the dark before, even as a kid, he thought to himself. Why do I have fear now?
It was Kaiba's turn. He was face to face with a monster that now had 3850 attack points. Even a single Blue-Eyes White Dragon, having two of them in his hand, could not beat the warrior. Kaiba thought about how to weaken the monster. Knowing that the only reason its attack power was so high was because of power up magic and spell cards, Kaiba had cards in his deck that could deactivate those cards. There was one card that he was specifically was thinking about, and knew he had to draw it. He would worry about Gods' Forsaken Tomb later.
Seto drew. He had gotten the right card.
"Watch this," Seto began his turn. "First I shall use Godsend to let us draw until we have six cards!" he played his spell card. He and Anubis drew until they both held six. "Next, I will sacrifice one monster from my hand to summon Judge Man (2200/1500)."
A muscular, old man looking monster with a beard appeared on the field. It had two large wrists with bands on them used for clobbering its enemy. Judge Man was powerful, but stood no chance against Anubis' Performance of Sword.
"Finally, to destroy your sword dancer, I will use Reverse Trap!" he exclaimed. "Now all cards used to power up attack and defense are reversed! That means now your Performance of Sword only gains 200 attack points and its defense gains 1700 defense points! It only has 2150 attack points now, making it weaker than my Judge Man! Now, Judge Man, destroy his Performance of Sword!"
The monster leaped high in the air and pounded his wrists down onto Performance of Sword. The monster fell to the ground and was destroyed. Anubis growled as he lost a small 50 life points.
"Turn end!" Seto explained. He looked at his hand and was quite satisfied with what he saw.
"Draw!" Anubis drew a card to begin his turn. He looked at it and smiled. One of his great beasts would now fight with him. "Andro Sphinx (2500/3000) in attack mode! I am sure you are aware of the ability of Gods' Forsaken Tomb."
A large, dog headed yet lion bodied beast was now on Anubis' side of the field. It was a monster Seto was hoping to avoid. He knew that he would probably have to face it as long as Gods' Forsaken Tomb was on the field, but he was hoping he could find away to avoid it and destroy the trap before he could summon at least one of those sphinxes.
"Attack his Judge Man!" he ordered.
The large, for legged beast jumped onto Judge Man, who was then destroyed. Kaiba felt an irritating pain his chest as he lost 300 life points.
"It is the beginning of your fall. Every turn, you will lose more and more life points, and as a result, life," he explained to him. Kaiba was aware of the consequences. "I place a card face down. Turn end!"
Kaiba drew from his deck. He looked at the perfect, much needed spell card he had hoped to get.
"I will place Lord of Dragons (1200/1100) in defense mode!" he began. "Next, I will use Flute of Summoning Dragons to summon two dragons from my hand to the field."
A warrior, dressed in a dragon skull cape, was put on the field, holding a flute instrument shaped like a dragon head. Lord of Dragons blew in it, and a glorious horn sounded off. Right after the sound died, two Blue-Eyes White Dragons (3000/2500) were now on the field. The flute disappeared.
"Now I have two of my greatest dragons on the field. Attack!" he declared.
The two beautiful dragons, though ordered to attack, did not move. Kaiba wondered why, but then he heard an annoying screech. It was the work of Anubis' trap, Command Silencer. Kaiba's attack commands were denied, and his battle phase ended. Kaiba set a card face down and ended his turn.
In Anubis' next turn, he drew his second beast.
"Sphinx Teleia (3000/2500) in attack mode! Attack his Lord of Dragons!" he declared.
Another beast with a large cat like body yet female head with fangs appeared. The swift beast drew its claws out and swiped at Lord of Dragons, who was destroyed instantly. Kaiba knew of its special affect, being able to deduct the amount of life points as half of the destroyed monster's attack points when in defense position. He suffered a loss of 700 life points and more excruciating pain. His muscles grew weaker, his heart beat faster. A drop of sweat dropped down Kaiba's forehead.
"I will place two cards face down and end my turn," he stated. "The tables have turned. I now have the lead, and you suffer."
Seto said nothing. He drew a card to begin his turn.
"Blue-Eyes, attack his Andro Sphinx now!" he ordered.
One of his Blue-Eyes charged up its attack and a burst of energy shot from its mouth. It was a move that was expected. Anubis revealed his trap card, Holy Barrier Mirror Force, to deflect the attack. Luckily, Seto's face down card, Negate Attack, stopped the attack from hitting his Blue-Eyes.
"Attack again, I dare you!" Anubis tempted him. Seto did not want to risk his two dragons, so he chose to find another option.
"Turn end! You will not destroy my Blue-Eyes White Dragon, only feel its wrath and power," he said.
Anubis just laughed in disbelief as he drew to begin his next turn. He laughed even harder knowing he had just fooled Seto.
"First I will shift both of my beasts to defense mode," he said as the two beasts knelt in defense mode. "Next I will activate my face down trap card: Just Deserts. Now you lose 500 life points for each monster on your side of the field."
A hand reached out towards Kaiba and grabbed him around his neck. Electricity flew from it and gave Kaiba the biggest shock he had ever felt. Smoke rose from his body after the attack was complete and Kaiba fell to one knee. He was down to 1800 life points, realizing he was losing life points more frequently.
"Your precious Blue-Eyes are only hurting you. Do you wish to continue to hurt just to keep them alive?" Anubis asked of him. He placed a card face down and ended his turn.
Weakly, Seto drew a card. He looked at it and managed to pull of a smile.
"I will bring to you my ultimate beast: Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon (4500/3000)!" he said.
He held up his Polymerization magic card and the final Blue-Eyes White Dragon in his hand. The three Blue-Eyes came together and merged. What was left was a large, white dragon with three heads.
"Attack his Sphinx Teleia!" he chose randomly one to attack.
The three heads charged up one ball of energy, and its immense power shot out at Sphinx Teleia. The female headed beast squealed and was destroyed.
"Fear it, my Ultimate Dragon!" Kaiba yelled. His confidence had risen after getting his most powerful creature on the field. "Turn end."
Anubis was not worried. He drew his card.
"You should have thought more carefully which one you destroyed," he laughed. "You destroyed the one with the weaker defense, and now you will regret it. First, I will activate the trap card, Castle Walls, raising my beast's defense to 3500."
Seto just laughed.
"Now I will use Sword in Right Hand, Shield in Left!" he called out. Seto recognized it as one of Jounouchi's card. He growled as his dragon's attack points were now 3000. "And finally, I shift Andro Sphinx to attack mode."
Seto knew what was coming now. His magnificent beast, his hope for winning, was about to be destroyed.
"Attack!" he cried. "Kill Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon!"
The beast, although significantly smaller, tackled Kaiba's dragon with ease. It bit down on the neck of the middle head, and the Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon was destroyed. Kaiba remained with only 1300 life points, and found out he could barely stand. He suddenly grew an enormous headache and his sight became blurry in an already hard to see area. He tried to shake it off, but it wouldn't work. The pain that ached all over his body stayed.
On the outside, Yugi felt as if something terrible had happened. His instinct told him Kaiba was losing the duel, and what he was feeling was his pain. Yugi finally began to worry, knowing that he would be the last one if Kaiba was defeated. He felt that once everyone was gone, he could not fight anymore. So he shut his eyes, hoping that somehow, Kaiba could turn things around.
Inside, Anubis stood tall over a stumbling Seto.
"Do you still look down on me as a duelist?" he asked Kaiba as he ended his turn, proud of what he had done. He still had 3250 life points.
Kaiba was in a jam. At that point he thought he could only play defense. He was in a state of shock that Anubis was able to destroy his magnificent dragon, arguably the strongest in the game. Losing his Blue-Eyes seemed to break him. He did not know what to do as he drew a card that could not help him.
"I summon Masked Dragon (1400/1000) in defense mode. Turn end," he cried as he held himself up. His single, red and white thick skinned monster crouched down on his side of the field.
"I laugh at your weakness. You can forfeit anytime you want," he mocked him as he drew. "I use Raise Dead to bring back Sphinx Teleia!"
The disturbing female beast was brought back to the field.
"Teleia attack his Masked Dragon!" he said.
The female beast attacked it, again using its sharp claws to cut it down. The dragon disappeared, and Kaiba, with Teleia's special ability, lost life points equal to half of his monster's attack points, which was 700.
"Activate Masked Dragon's special ability to summon a dragon Level four or less to the field," Kaiba said weakly. Being at 600 life points, Kaiba gave himself one last turn with this. "I summon Blackland Fire Dragon (1500/800) in defense mode."
He knew Anubis would attack with his other sphinx. The other sphinx's ability would have Kaiba's life points deducted equal to the amount of his monster's defense points. With this, he would remain with 200 life points.
Anubis did was Seto expected him to. Andro Sphinx destroyed his other dragon, and Kaiba had 200 life points left. Seto, who was hanging on by a string and no longer standing, heard Anubis continue to taunt him more and end his turn. Blood ran down his nose and his eyes were bloodshot, but he would not die until every one of his life points was gone. Kaiba breathed heavily, almost cherishing each breath he took, fearing each may be his last. He shook as he drew a card of what might have been his last turn. He waited a few moments before looking at it, praying for a miracle.
Give me…something…to fight with, he thought. I can't…lose. Not yet. I still have…something…to protect…and everything to save.
He finally looked at his card. Some strength had returned to him! He had forgotten that this card was in his deck. Seto stared at it for a minute, enjoying the moment he had drawn it before he would play it. Still, he had not the right card to play it. Observing his hand, he saw one card that would give him a chance to get what was necessary.
"Mining for Magical Stones," he played. "I can reuse one magic card by discarding two, and I choose Godsend."
He discarded two cards from his hand and retrieved Godsend from the cemetery. He had drawn just what he had hoped: a miracle.
"I'm going to destroy your thoughts of victory," he began. "First, I will use the Heavy Storm magic card to rid of your Gods' Forsaken Tomb!"
Winds blew, lightning flashed, and rain fell as the pyramid began to crumble. Light was returning to their eyes, and the dark pyramid shattered to pieces as did the trap card on Anubis' side of the field. Once the pyramid was gone, the two sphinxes cried in pain as they were destroyed, being another result of the trap card's destruction. The storm died after that.
Yugi saw Anubis and Kaiba, still dueling. He got as close as he could to the dueling field, trying to see who was winning. Seeing a nearly dead Kaiba told him that Seto was losing. Yugi became happy that Seto was still alive and fighting on, despite how weak he was. He watched on as Kaiba continued his move.
"With the destruction of my two sphinxes, a new, greater one takes their place," Anubis laughed. "Come to life, Theinen the Great Sphinx (3500/3000)!"
A beast that looked to be a combination of the two previous beasts now appeared on the field. It was absolutely gigantic, standing on two legs, yet containing two huge paws. With two heads and overwhelming attack strength, there was not much that could stand up to its strength. It was Anubis' greatest beast.
"You have not a monster on the field to defend you from it!" Anubis pointed out.
"I'm not done," he said. "And now: Raise Dead! Reborn, Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon!"
Seto played the magic card, and his three headed beast was now brought back to the field, 4500 attack points strong.
"But that is not it yet still!" Kaiba's voice grew stronger. "Now it will be sacrificed, but it will not be forgotten. It will make her stronger, as well as every other of my dragons in the grave. Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, I respectfully sacrifice you!"
The three headed Blue-Eyes disappeared, but suffered no pain.
"I bring forth the one brighter than the sun: Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon (3000/2500)!" he yelled, somehow finding strength to stand momentarily.
A bright ball of blue light appeared on Seto's side of the field. It gave a blinding glow, and what remained after the glow was a remarkably gorgeous dragon. Its wings spread widely as it gave its harmonic cry. The room became even brighter with its presence. This one headed dragon had no arms, but contained powerful white body and an extra long tail. This dragon contained jewels of sapphire on its body as well.
Anubis looked into its blue eyes and remembered. He remembered the creation of this beast of beauty, and how it seemed to bring happiness whenever he was with it. How he used to feel and still felt for this creature haunted him. He had wished for it to fight alongside him, and no one else. After he abandoned it, he never wanted to see it again and not be reminded of his past. He was shocked to not only see it again, but to come to battle with it. The idea of Kaiba having it in his deck never crossed his mind, and he regretted not preparing for it.
"It only gets greater," Seto activated its ability. "It gains 300 attack points for each dragon in my cemetery!"
Almost all the monsters Anubis had destroyed were dragon types. Total, there were eleven dragons in the grave. With those eleven dragons came an extra 3300 attack points. Adding that to an already powerful 3000 attack points gave the Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon 6300 overall. As the dragon gained attack points, it shined brighter still. It was as if the sun was in the room.
"Ironic, isn't it?" Kaiba moaned, smiling as he fell back to one knee. "What used to be your love and what once kept you alive has now been turned against you, all because of you, and it will destroy you."
Anubis was still suffering from a bit of a shock to see his old monster. Everything that it represented, everything it reminded him of, came back to him. He almost began to miss it, but he felt that even she could not save him. Nothing could. He had already fallen into a dark hole containing an endless tunnel of darkness, a tunnel he decided to go on.
So you guide him now, he thought to himself. Then you will have to die, too.
"Attack his sphinx now!" Kaiba demanded of his dragon.
The dragon flapped its large wings and hovered in the air. Its blue eyes glowed as it began to charge its attack. It opened its mouth and a stream of light blue grew. Once at its maximum power, the stream burst at Theinen the Great Sphinx, making an exploding sound as it was sent. The narrow attack had such a great force that it went straight through the giant right back to Anubis, who was sent flying back into the wall. Anubis lost a large portion of his remaining life points, bringing him down to a small 450. He found that he could not pull himself back up to walk back to the field. He crawled back as blood ran down from his mouth. He was not expecting to suffer so much pain.
"Well done," he gagged. "You have nearly…evened the score."
The two men were both taking heavy breaths. The duel had taken much out of them, almost to the point of death. Luckily for Seto, the duel was now in his hands. He had complete control with his 6300 attack powered beast.
"It's over," Seto told him to give up. Anubis did not have a single monster strong enough to take down the dragon. "Turn end."
You're going to win! Yugi thought. You've done it!
Anubis applauded Seto on his great accomplishment. Yet even though things were definitely not in his favor, he knew that Seto still had one weakness, and planned to attack that weakness with full force.
"I will tell you now, Seto, that all I can do is play defense until I draw one card, and my chances of drawing it are slim to none before you defeat me," he admitted. "This makes victory for me almost impossible. However, there is a single alternative that can bring me victory."
Seto laughed at him.
"There's nothing you can do. Accept defeat," Seto said.
"I will play this card in face down defense mode," he continued to play. "Turn end. I know ways you can win. All you need is another monster card, or there is one other card that can bring my defenses down."
Seto ignored him. He drew a card and ordered Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon to attack Anubis' face down monster, which was quickly and easily destroyed. Seto ended his turn. He patiently awaited a monster card or his magic card: Defense Seal.
"You know that these are not monsters of illusions, but reality, for this is a dark game," he continued. "So if directly attacked, the pain, the wound, anything that comes at the price of being attacked, will be there. However, for the two of us, the competitors, there will be no death until his life points hit zero."
"Make your move," Seto urged him to continue. He didn't understand what Anubis was getting at.
"But what about for anyone else? If these monsters and their effects are real, then even if someone outside of the duel were to get hit, they too would be affected," Anubis laughed.
Seto glanced over at Yugi, who was just as clueless as he was to as of what Anubis was talking about. Thinking that Yugi was the only other person there, Seto did not know who else he could hurt. Yugi was safe behind an invisible wall anyway, so anything from their monsters could send at him would be deflected.
"First, I use the Ancient Telescope," he played a magic card. "Now I can see the next five cards in the top of your deck."
Five cards appeared face up on Kaiba's side of the field. The cards appeared in the order which they came from draw. The card on the top of his deck was the trap, Ring of Destruction. The next card was a monster card, La Jinn the Mystical Genie. The third was a magic card, Cross Sacrifice. The fourth was Defense Seal, and finally his last was his Saggi the Dark Clown. Three of those cards would soon enough lead him to victory.
"You see now your fate: you will lose in the next two turns!" Seto complained. "You knew it was coming, so why did you waste your time playing that?"
"I was merely seeing how much time I had to knock some sense into you," he told him. "Kaiba, defeating me would be the worst thing you will ever do if that is what you intend to do."
"What the hell are you talking about?" Seto growled.
"First, I play this in face down defense mode and end my turn," Anubis said. "I can easily make you regret even accepting this duel."
"You're messing with me! You're about to lose and you're trying to find a way to make me fold," he scowled. "Whatever you're trying to do isn't going to work. Attack, Blue-Eyes!"
The dragon once again easily destroyed his defense monster. He ended his turn after that. By next turn, Kaiba would have a monster card in his hand, in which he could defeat his opponent.
"Kaiba, you are bold and you are intelligent. I will give you that, but you believe you are much better than what you really are. Your choices are not always in the best interests of anyone else other than you, whenever it may be. You try to make it so you sacrifice nothing and remain unharmed no matter what the result. This time, there will be none of that. One way or another, you will lose something most valuable to you."
Seto was silent, but was still under the impression that Anubis was playing head games with him. Being so close to winning, Seto would not let that work on him.
"My turn, and now it is do or die," he said as he drew a card. It was one of two cards he needed to defeat Seto. "First I summon this in attack mode: Masaki the Legendary Swordsman (1100/1100)."
It was a shock. He had just summoned a weak, regular level four monster in attack mode, where it would be more than annihilated by Seto's dragon.
"I'm under the assumption you're throwing in the towel," Seto said, seeing what he had just played. "Hell, the attack strength of my dragon is so much greater that it'll blast straight through your monster and go right into the wall and make a hole."
"Exactly, but it will not be just the wall," Anubis smiled.
The floor between him and his monster began to open. What rose from the ground seemed to be a large thick pole. The entire pole rose up, and at the bottom a person was tied tightly to it, unable to move. His mouth was covered, preventing him from speaking to his icon, his hero, his family member.
"Mokuba!" Seto yelled when he saw his brother tied to the pole. "You bastard! Let him go!"
"But why? This is the card that will grant me victory," he grinned, still unable to stand. "You said it yourself: your monster's power will be so overwhelming that it will surely break through my pathetic monster and destroy what is behind it."
Seto grew silently angry.
"I end my turn," he said. "It is up to you now, Seto. You can destroy Masaki and wipe out the rest of my life points, thus winning the duel. Yet at the price of winning comes your brother. Are you willing to give him up for victory?"
Yugi pounded on the invisible wall. Mokuba was not to be a card to play! He knew though, that there was nothing he could do to stop any of this. He could not save Mokuba, or help Kaiba. His friend was on his own.
Seto froze. Time stopped. Just when he thought the duel was his, everything changed and turned against him once again. His brother's life, his life, everything was on the line. He had a chance to restore everything, but at the cost at ruining his and his brother's lives. A decision had to be made now.
"Need I prove to you that what I say will happen will?" he asked. "Masaki, make a scratch in his brother with your blade!"
Masaki turned around on his toes. Holding his thin, samurai-like blade, he leaped in the air and cut a small yet deep cut into Mokuba's shoulder. Though his mouth was covered, Mokuba's scream of pain could still be heard. Masaki landed and turned back to face Kaiba, who went into an even greater state of shock seeing his brother bleeding. He shook as he watched his brother, tied helplessly to a pole, squirm from the hit. He wanted to wrap him in his arms and hold him like he was his son. Mokuba did not need to be here, nor did he deserve the part he played in Anubis' twisted game.
"What will it be? Do you have courage enough to fulfill your promise, or will you eat your own words?" Anubis was forcing him to make a decision. "Come, Seto! Use your cards to cut my throat…and his!"
The line struck a memory cord. This situation was a similar one that he had put Yugi in. Atop the castle at Duelist Kingdom, Seto had dared him to take his life. He had told him what Anubis told him.
"Use your cards to cut my throat!"
Was this me? He asked himself.
The memory in his head faded to something else. It was black, and all that was there were him and his Blue-Eyes White Dragon standing behind him. Then something else came into the picture. A younger version of Mokuba walked in. He happily waved to his brother, his face containing a huge smile on his face.
"Come on, brother!" he cheerfully called to him.
Seto's own will wanted to follow him, but he seemed to be unable to move. Mokuba continued calling his brother to come with him, but he remained still. Almost randomly, Mokuba's face became something of shock and fear. Seto didn't understand until he saw an old, war machine gun in his hand. Soon enough, he felt a hand pat his shoulder. He turned his head, and behind him was no longer the Blue-Eyes, but his step father, Kaiba Gozaburo. In his step father's left hand was a machine gun just like his. His intentions were obvious. Gozaburo put his other hand on the other handle in front of the butt of the gun, his finger on the trigger.
"No!" he cried.
"Good work, Seto," his step dad complimented him.
The moment he pulled the trigger was in slow motion. Bullets flew fast from the gun. Seto couldn't look at what was happening to his brother. He didn't even stop to think. He drew his gun and pointed it at Gozaburo. With that done, Gozaburo disappeared. He had been a mere illusion in his mind. All he saw ahead of him was his brother, drenched in blood, holding his chest and crying.
"W-why, brother? Why…have you done this to me?" he said in almost a whisper.
Seto looked down at the gun in his hand. It was pointed directly at Mokuba. The front of the gun was warm, showing it had been used recently. He stood still, shaking with the gun in his hand.
Was it all me? Did I do this? No…I wouldn't, he thought, trying to assure himself Gozaburo was to blame somehow.
"B-brother…" Mokuba called to him again.
Lacking a sense of anything at the time, Seto ignored his call. His brother remained standing as well, even though he was seriously hurt and had lost a lot of blood.
"You've…you've let me down. You've betrayed me. You've-you've become…him," he said, tears rolling down his face.
Seto shut his eyes tightly almost in anger.
"I'm not him!" he screamed as he felt his finger pull the trigger again. More gunshots went off, and he heard his brother collapse. That's when he stopped shooting. He opened his eyes and saw Mokuba drowning in a puddle of blood. "My brother! What have I done?"
Everything became reality to him again. All this was a simple image he had thought of in his mind. Seto was on his arms and knees, breathing heavily. There was still blood running down his nose, along with sweat.
At the other end, Mokuba and Anubis stared at Seto, who had obviously been distracted by a thought for a moment or two. Mokuba wanted Seto to make the right decision, but he didn't know what that decision was. He just wanted to stop his brother's obvious pain.
"There are no forfeits," Anubis told him. "Only defeats."
Seto had made up his mind. He drew a card, his monster card that would win him the duel. Knowing what it was, and knowing what he was going to do with it, he didn't even look at it.
"I…end my turn," he said silently.
With a smile on his face, Anubis knew he would be the victor of the duel. All he had to do was wait to draw the right card.
"So, it is you that will be destroyed by what it is that you love most," he mocked him. "How ironic."
He drew a card. Not the right one. He ended his turn. He only needed one card to fulfill his destiny of victory. Seto's next turn was the same as his last. He drew and ended his turn. Come Anubis' turn. He drew and found the card he had been waiting for.
"I use Diffusion Wave Motion to reuse the magic card, Raise Dead!" he said, taking the magic card from his graveyard. "And I will use it to bring back your own Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon!"
Seto's three headed dragon returned to the field, only this time fighting for the enemy. Losing a dragon from his graveyard, the Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon lost 300 attack points, but still had 1500 points greater than that of the Ultimate Dragon.
"And the card to your defeat: Attrition!" he played the magic card. "Your monster will now lose attack points equal to my monster's attack points, which is 4500 of them!"
Losing 4500 points would bring it down to a measly 1500 attack points. As it lost attack points, the dragon cried in pain, and the brightness of it became less and less.
"Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, attack and wipe out the rest of Seto's life!" he ordered.
Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon charged its shot with its three heads, and then blasted it straight at the Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon. The blast went straight through the heart of the beast. It screeched as it took in the pain. Next to it, Seto screamed as the attack came in contact with his monster. He heard a ripping sound as his dragon disappeared, being defeated. He held his heart as his life points dropped to zero. He was able to give one look at Yugi before dying. Staring back at him, Yugi had sensed what Kaiba would say to him if he could. He wiped his tears away as he watched Kaiba collapse, dead.
With nothing more to do or say, he departed from the building, being the soul fighter left to defeat him.
Anubis regained his strength and was able to stand again. The duel was finished. The monsters had disappeared. He had won just as he had hoped to win. He walked over to a dead Seto and stood over him. He pulled out the Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon card and ripped it in half. He dropped the two pieces before him, and walked away. That card was to no longer have use or meaning, no matter what happened in the end.
As he returned to his side of the field, he saw he had left Mokuba tied to the pole. The younger Kaiba had stopped attempting to escape and wept for his brother's sacrifice. Now he didn't know what he had. To him, life had lost its meaning, and he was nothing but an empty shell. For the first time, Anubis felt remorse for one of his victims. He knew what it was like to have nothing at all; to be alone and so far away from the one he loved. Showing not his remorse for Mokuba, he walked over to Seto's little brother and wiped away his tears.
"With you, I will begin a new, better life. I will be your brother now," he said to him.