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Fanfic Chapter 85: The Final Card Pt 1: Two for One
Episode Basis: Loosely based on The Rescue

Previously on Yu-Gi-Oh! With Lumis controlling Des Guardius, he had this duel guaranteed for him and Umbra. Attacking Yugi would bring his life points down to 0 but attacking Kaiba would get rid of his Blue-Eyes White Dragon, a bigger threat than Yugi's Magnet Warriors. Kaiba willingly gave up his precious dragon to the slaughter so that Yugi could remain in the game. Yugi combined his Magnet Warriors into Valkyrion, the Magna Warrior, but the Rare Hunters were able to seize control of Yugi's powerful monster. But it was Kaiba with the trump play as he used his Soul Exchange magic card to summon Obelisk the Tormentor and clobbered Umbra. Marik took control of Lumis and told Yugi that his friends were now under his control. Mokuba, having escaped his pursuers with Harold's help, appeared in a Kaiba Corp. helicopter. Kaiba offered to help Yugi rescue his friends as compensation for Tea helping Mokuba escape and they all took off for the docks. I'm afraid to ask if Marik's cruelty can go any further.


I hope Mokuba's all right, Harold thought as he walked down the street that Kaiba Corp. was on, fresh from depositing Mokuba at Kaiba Corp. The kid seemed really desperate to find his brother. Knowing Kaiba, I'm sure he's all right.

"Just give up, you little whelp, you can't stop both of us!"

"Huh?" Harold looked around and it sounded like the voice was coming from a side street. He followed the voice until he found its source.


On board the Kaiba Corp. helicopter, Mokuba reported, "Twenty minutes to the spot where Joey is."

"I hope we hurry," Yami-Yugi said solemnly. "Who knows what sick and twisted games Marik's playing with them." He turned to Mokuba. "Mokuba, how did Tea help you escape?" Mokuba looked at his brother like he was asking permission to respond to Yugi's question. When Kaiba made it clear that it didn't matter to him whether Mokuba answered or not, Mokuba recounted the tale of the boxes. "So that's probably how we should go in."

Kaiba opened his eyes and cast an annoyed glance at Yugi. Hoping to prevent another argument between the two Duelists, Mokuba responded, "I don't think it would help, Yugi, shortly after I escaped, the boxes fell apart. If they hadn't, Tea would've escaped along with me. They probably moved Tea to another room since then."

"I see. Mokuba, did you see any other way into the place where you were being held?"

"Sorry, Yugi, no, only the entrance they brought me through and the top window are entrances that I've seen."

"I guess there's no way to enter the warehouse without alerting the Rare Hunters to our presence."

"Yugi, we're traveling in a helicopter," Mokuba pointed out. "They'll probably hear us from a mile away."

"Good point."

"Yugi," Kaiba addressed. "Is it true that Marik has the third Egyptian God Card?"

"As far as I can tell, he does, and he said that it was more powerful than Slifer or Obelisk put together."

"I doubt it," Kaiba said. "As you have proven, the way a card is used is just as effective as how strong it is. I've already learned how to master my Egyptian God Card, you should learn how to master yours."

"Maybe, but…"

"But what?" Mokuba asked.

"I guess I should tell you… the Rare Hunters are not just after the Egyptian God Cards."

"Well what else could they want?"

"This." Yami-Yugi held up his Millennium Puzzle.

The Kaiba Brothers stared at the object. "They're after a lucky neck charm?" Kaiba asked skeptically.

"It's called the Millennium Puzzle, Marik believes that obtaining it along with the three Egyptian God Cards will guarantee him infinite power."

"And if you believe that, I have some oceanfront property in Kansas you'll like."

"Mock me if you want, Kaiba, but don't take Marik likely, he is more dangerous than Pegasus."

"Pegasus was an idiot he thought taking over my company would be fun."

"According to legend, the Millennium Puzzle was too strong to remain intact. The Ancient Egyptians thought that the wrong person might gain their hands on its power, so it was ordered shattered and placed in a temple."

"And how do you know all this?" Mokuba asked.

Deep down, Yami-Yugi was surprised that he knew it, but he chalked it up to what Ishizu said at the museum.


"If you choose to participate in this tournament, you will gradually recover your memories."

"I know this because I am not Yugi Moto."

That revelation shocked the Kaiba Brothers. "Okay," Mokuba said slowly. "If you're not Yugi Moto, then who are you?"

"The body that you are looking at is that of Yugi Moto, but when Yugi put together the Millennium Puzzle, he released me, the Spirit of a Pharaoh who existed 3000 years ago!"

Kaiba gasped as he recalled the illusions Ishizu showed him…


The doors on the opposite end burst open and a man entered. He was dressed exactly like the priest on the stone tablet, and it did look like him. Several guards rushed at him with spears but the priest just held out something that looked like a scepter and with a burst of light flung the soldiers all around the room.

"Where is the Pharaoh?" The priest demanded. Looking around, he saw the throne and stormed towards it. Suddenly a cloaked figure stepped between the priest and the throne. "Out of the way, Avatar, my battle is with the Pharaoh, not with you!"

"Never, traitor!" The one called Avatar declared. "I will stop your tyrannical campaign right here and now!"

"Stand aside!" The priest commanded and raised his gold scepter. Avatar held out his hand. Something around his wrist started to glow too.

The priest lowered his scepter. "Apparently, this shall not be decided by magic items, but by our own Spirit Guardians!"

"Agreed," Avatar said. Both combatants held out their hands and five large stone tablets, each bigger than a person appeared face-down in front of them.

"Attack," the priest commanded. A creature appeared before him.

"Arise, my Spirit Guardian," Avatar commanded and he summoned a monster as well: Winged Dragon, Guardian of the Fortress #1. The dragon obliterated the priest's creature with a fireball.

"One way or another, you will be stopped," Avatar decreed.

"Your dark forces will not stand a chance against my light!" Avatar said.

"The only dark force here is the one that's sitting behind you." The Pharaoh was unmoved by the priest's insult.

"Insolent dog!" Avatar insulted.

"Arise, La Jinn!" The priest commanded. A genie, which looked a lot like Kaiba's monster, appeared.

"I call upon the ancient spirits of the stone!" Avatar commanded. "Combine my two dragons into one! Fusion!" Two of the images on the stone tablets intermingled to form a large winged serpent monster. "Attack La Jinn!" The dragon let loose with a blast of energy that destroyed the genie.

"You will now suffer for the mistakes of your Pharaoh," the priest announced.

"The only one who will suffer here is you," Avatar retorted. "You will rot in the underworld for betraying your oath and killing your comrades!"

"I will make you see the evil of your ways in one method or another!"

"My monsters," the priest declared. "You have all served me faithfully, and I will now honor your sacrifices by calling upon you one more time!" La Jinn and the priest's first creature appeared. "Now, turn your spirits over to me so I can summon the ultimate beast of destruction!" The monsters turned into orbs of light which were absorbed by the priest's scepter. "I now sacrifice you two so I can summon the Blue-Eyes White Dragon!" The dragon seemed to rise directly from the priest. Even the Pharaoh rose from his throne in shock. "Now, my white dragon, eliminate his monsters!" All the stone tablets and monsters on Avatar's side were destroyed. "Now attack him directly! White Lightning!" The Blue-Eyes White Dragon attacked Avatar directly. The cloaked figure's hood fell off and the Pharaoh gasped. He actually held out his hand as if trying to grab Avatar from the approaching blast. But it was too late, as Avatar was disintegrated leaving nothing but a gold-colored arm band with strange symbols on it. The Pharaoh dropped to his knees. The priest aimed his scepter at the Pharaoh. "Now, Pharaoh, her murder shall be avenged!"

The Pharaoh got up and stared harshly at the priest. The priest seemed to relish in his destruction. "An eye for an eye," he said.

The Pharaoh held out his hand as the upside down pyramid around his neck started to glow.


"This is the biggest load of crap that I've ever heard," Kaiba snapped. "Yugi, I won't allow you to fill Mokuba's head with such nonsense!"

"Believe me or not, that's your decision, but I swear everything I've told you was true."

Kaiba scoffed at that comment.

But Mokuba's thoughts were different. I agree with Seto that something like that is hard to believe, but… he thought back to Duelist Kingdom and how Pegasus's strange eye zapped him. There are things that happened on Duelist Kingdom that I can't explain, and for a while, it did feel like I was trapped in some sort of dark place. I know Seto won't believe it, but… maybe I can give Yugi… or whoever he is… the benefit of a doubt. Mokuba checked his mini computer. "We'll land in twenty minutes, guys."


Harold finally found the source of the voice who was throwing all the insults. Two guys in purple cloaks have cornered a kid and they all were now dueling. The purple cloaked guys had two warrior monsters with 1800 attack points. The kid had a Sangan in defense mode.

The kid looked scared out of his wits.

"What kind of Duelists gang up on kids?" Harold demanded to know. He briefly recapped how the Four Horsemen cornered him. Harold didn't wish to see that happen to anybody.

"Leave us, maggot," one of the purple cloaked figure said.

"Yes, you don't know what you're dealing with," the other said.

"Two sleaze balls who think its fun to pick on those weaker than themselves!"

"Rare Hunters duel by their own standards!"

"Ah, so you're the Rare Hunters that I've heard so much about. In that case, beating you in a duel will be a snap."

"And why would we want to duel you?"

"Because I know you Rare Hunters just love collecting rare cards."

"So?" Harold showed them the card Katy gave him. "No way, that's the only one of its kind! I have to have it!"

"Yes, we'll deliver that rare card to Master Marik and he'll surely reward us!"

"Since this is a special card, why don't we do this by special rules," Harold suggested stepping around to the kid's side. "We'll each start with 8000 life points and each side will duel together. And nobody attacks until after each player has laid a monster on the field."

"We agree to your terms, right, Mary?"

"Yes, Joe, we do." Harold realized that one of them was a woman.

"All right, let's get this party started. Eject holo-emitters, duel tray transform, scan deck, life points… reset." He turned to the kid. "Hey kid, what's your name?"

"Kevin, Kevin Hunter," the kid stuttered in replying.

"Hunter… hmm… where have I heard that name before? Oh well, time to duel!"

(H&K: 8000)
(M&J: 8000)

"I'll go first," Harold volunteered. "I summon Shining Angel in defense mode! That ends my turn. All right, Kevin, you're up."

"Right," Kevin said firmly as he drew his sixth card. "I summon Witch of the Black Forest (1) in defense mode. I also place one card face-down and end my turn."

Joe laughed as he drew his sixth card. "I summon Dark Blade (2) in attack mode! I end my turn."

Now it was Mary's turn. "I activate Frontline Base that lets me summon a union monster."

"Union monster?" Harold questioned.

"You'll see, now I special summon Pitch-Dark Dragon (3). I also set one card face-down and end my turn."

"Okay, now let's really turn it up," Harold said drawing a card. "I summon Neo the Magic Swordsman in attack mode! Neo, attack her Pitch-Dark Dragon!"

"Reveal trap card: United Rebellion!" Mary announced. "This can only work when I have a union monster and ONLY a union monster on my side of the field. I can make the attacking monster attack its controller's life points directly." Neo turned and sliced Harold.

(H&K: 6300)
(M&J: 8000)

"Nuts," Harold moaned. "I end my turn."

"My move," Kevin said. "I summon Twin-Headed Behemoth (4) in defense mode and set one card face-down."

"Mary, let's show them the secret of union monsters."

"Yes, Joe, go for it."

"Right! Dark Blade and Pitch-Dark Dragon, combine your selves into one!" To Kevin and Harold's shock, the two monsters combined. Now the Dark Blade was riding on the Pitch Dark Dragon. "Once they unite, Dark Blade's attack power is increased by 400 points!"

(DB: 1800-2200)

"Plus it can inflict damage to your life points. Dark Blade, attack Witch of the Black Forest!" The Dragon dive-bombed the witch and destroyed her.

(H&K: 5300)
(M&J: 8000)

"By destroying my Witch, you allowed me to move a monster with low defense power into my hand." Kevin showed them the monster: Slate Warrior (5).

"So those are Union monsters, monsters that can combine with other monsters without the use of Polymerization card," Harold muttered.

"I set one card face-down and separate our union monster into its two separate parts." Dark Blade leapt off of Pitch-Dark Dragon. "Next I'll tribute my Pitch-Dark Dragon to summon Kiryu (6) in attack mode!" On Joe's next turn, he can combine the two to give Dark Blade even more power.

"My move," Harold announced. "And I'll tribute my Shining Angel to summon Gyakutenno Megami (7) in defense mode."

"I'll just place a monster in defense mode and end my turn."

"This is too easy," Joe said as he started his turn. "I combine Dark Blade with Kiryu increasing Dark Blade's power by 900!"

(DB: 1800-2700)

"Dark Blade, attack his face-down card!"

"Reveal trap card: Sakuretsu Armor!" Kevin shouted. "It destroys your super Dark Blade." Both warrior and dragon were destroyed.

"I activate my face-down card, Call of the Haunted," Mary countered. "Which brings my Kiryu back to the field.

"Hey, you're pretty good," Harold said to Kevin.

"Thanks, I had a good teacher."

Whoa, déjà vu, Harold thought.

"My move," Mary said as she drew a card. "I summon Vampire Orchis (8) in attack mode. Next I activate my monster's special ability to summon Des Dendle (9) to the field. Now I'll combine the two." The new monster looked like an overgrown garden. "I end my turn."

Okay, she didn't lay any magic or trap cards out so her plant must have a special ability. I'll have to be careful, Harold thought. He drew a card. "Perfect, this'll keep our life points from going down any further. First, I play Monster Reborn to bring back my Shining Angel. Next, I'll tribute the two to summon Sanga of the Thunder!" The large orange monster appeared from the ground in a burst of lightning. Kevin, Joe, and Mary all gasped. "Sanga, attack her Vampire Orchis with Thunder Stroke!" A large burst of electricity obliterated the plant.

(H&K: 5300)
(J&M: 7100)

"I end my turn."

"Wow, how did you get such a rare card?" Kevin gawked.

"I'll tell you later, just take your turn."

"Right, I'll flip summon my face-down monster, Slate Warrior! And I activate Slate Warrior's special ability to increase its attack and defense power by 500!"

(SW: 1900-2400, 400-900)

"Slate Warrior, attack her dragon!" The Slate Warrior flew by and struck the Kiryu destroying it.

(H&K: 5300)
(J&M: 6700)

"That's the ticket," Harold said. "If we team up, we can beat these Rare Hunters and their union monsters."

"Right," Kevin agreed.

We better win this, I won't lose Katy's card that she gave up to me, I won't!

To Be Continued
Duel Monster Database

(1)
Name: Witch of the Black Forest
Level: 4
Type: Spellcaster/Effect
Attribute: Dark
ATK: 1100
DEF: 1200

(2)
Name: Dark Blade
Level: 4
Type: Warrior
Attribute: Dark
ATK: 1800
DEF: 1500

(3)
Name: Pitch-Dark Dragon
Level: 3
Type: Dragon/Union
Attribute: Dark
ATK: 900
DEF: 600

(4)
Name: Twin-Headed Behemoth
Level: 3
Type: Dragon/Effect
Attribute: Wind
ATK: 1500
DEF: 1200

(5)
Name: Slate Warrior
Level: 4
Type: Fiend/Effect
Attribute: Wind
ATK: 1900
DEF: 400

(6)
Name: Kiryu
Level: 5
Type: Dragon/Union
Attribute: Dark
ATK: 2000
DEF: 1500

(7)
Name: Gyakutenno Megami
Level: 6
Type: Fairy
Attribute: Light
ATK: 1800
DEF: 2000

(8)
Name: Vampire Orchis
Level: 4
Type: Plant/Effect
Attribute: Dark
ATK: 1700
DEF: 1000

(9)
Name: Des Dendle
Level: 4
Type: Plant/Union
Attribute: Earth
ATK: 300
DEF: 2000