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Fanfic Chapter 101: The Ring Pt 3: Triumph of the God, Fall of the Spirit
Episode Basis: The Dark Spirit Revealed: Yugi vs. Bakura Pt 3
Previously on Yu-Gi-Oh! Yami-Bakura activated Dark Sanctuary, a magic card that allowed him to possess any one of Yugi's monsters. The first monster was Gamma the Magnet Warrior, and then his Dark Magician Girl twice. And as Yami-Yugi continued to attack with a possessed monster, his life points went down while Yami-Bakura's went up. Additional danger came from his Ouija Board, a series of cards that would eventually spell a message and doom Yami-Yugi. Dark Sanctuary also gave him the ability to play more than five magic or trap cards and the Dark Door magic card made it so he could only attack with one monster. The evil phantasm was finally defeated with a little help from Kuriboh. Yami-Yugi then revived Dark Necrofear which deactivated Dark Sanctuary. But Yami-Bakura has one more trick up his sleeve. What do you think it is? And what part do you think Marik will play?
Yami-Bakura was laughed triumphantly (and a little maniacally). "Yugi, the card I hold in my hand will cause your strategy to fall to pieces! I summon Jowgen the Spiritualist (1) in attack mode!" A mage in colorful robes appeared.
"What's that?" Joey wondered.
"Don't you know?" Tristan asked.
"I've never seen that card before."
"I have," Harold said grimly. "And the Millennium Ring spirit is right." The spectators turned their attention towards him. "I have that card in my side deck. It can destroy all monsters that were summoned by magic, trap, or monster effect cards."
"And Yugi just used a magic card to get Dark Necrofear," Serenity realized.
"Yup," Harold confirmed.
Dark Necrofear evaporated in black smoke. The purple mist with eyes and mouths reappeared. Yami-Bakura said, "Now I can play the final letter of the Destiny Board on my next turn. But before I end this turn, I'll sacrifice Jowgen to activate Dark Sanctuary's special ability." The phantasm reappeared. "Now I'll place one card face-down and end my turn."
"Not more ghosts," Joey complained.
"Quit whining and cheer on your friend," Mai ordered.
"Don't give up, Yugi, there's always hope," Harold called out.
"Harold's right," Joey agreed. "Even if the chips may seem down, I know you'll not give up until the very end."
"The end is now!" Yami-Bakura announced. "Now that Dark Sanctuary is back, I can take control of one of your monsters!"
"I'm not afraid of your ghost. I defeated it once before and I'll defeat it again. All I have to do is figure out which one of my monsters is possessed."
"That won't help you, my face-down card is another Dark Spirit of the Silent so even in the off chance you pick the unaffected monster I'll just activate it and have the right monster attack!"
I'm really in a fix, Yami-Yugi thought. If I attack, that phantasm will drain the rest of my life points, but if I don't, he'll just play the final letter of the Destiny Board and win anyway. And I don't have anything in my hand that can help me.
"It looks like Yugi's out of options," Duke observed.
Tristan grabbed him and started shaking him again, "What have I told you about being pessimistic?"
"Actually this time Duke may be right," Mai corrected. "If Yugi attacks, that phantasm will attack him but back and with so few remaining life points…" Mai trailed off, not wanting to finish the sentence.
"Is Mai right?" Serenity asked Joey.
"We can't give up on him," Joey replied. "We've all seen Yugi bounce back before, and although it may seem grim, we can't give up on him until the very end. A true Duelist never backs down eve when losing seems to be the only way out. We have to cheer Yugi on with everything we got!"
"You're right, Joey," Mai agreed.
"Come on, Yugi, you can win," Serenity called.
"Yeah, kick his butt!" Harold agreed.
"Yugi, I know you can beat him, I know you can!" Tea shouted. The others also shouted words of encouragement.
"Get on with it!" Yami-Bakura snapped.
There's only one card in my deck that can save me now, but even if I'm lucky enough to draw it, it might be too risky to play it.
"We have to!" Little Yugi emerged in spirit form to talk to his partner. "We have to use the Egyptian God Card or we'll lose the duel!"
"You're right, and with the heart of the cards guiding us, we'll draw it."
Everyone watched with baited breath, even Kaiba.
He drew.
Lightning danced across the sky. Yami-Yugi looked from the card to Yami-Bakura. "Prepare to face a power unlike anything you have ever seen before!" Everyone gasped. Yami-Yugi held up the card. "I sacrifice Dark Magician Girl, Gamma the Magnet Warrior, and Big-Shield Gardna so I can summon my Egyptian God Card… the almighty Slifer the Sky Dragon!" The entire blimp shook as the monster formed itself. It was so big that it couldn't even fit on the blimp. It's long coiled body wrapped around the blimp itself. Dark Sanctuary was blasted right out of existence.
Yami-Bakura sweated nervously, how can I defeat such a powerful creature? He wondered.
"What is that, Joey?" Serenity asked.
"It's the biggest Duel Monster I ever seen!" Joey replied.
"I've heard whispers of cards so powerful that nothing could stand against them," Mai said, her eyes bulging. "They called them the Egyptian God Cards."
"With a thing that enormous, it should be a god!" Harold cracked.
Amara moaned and opened her eyes. She was in her room, resting after that harrowing duel. She looked out her window and saw a piece of Slifer. "Whoa, am I dreaming? What the heck is that thing?"
Odion also noticed Slifer. Master Marik warned me that Yugi might try to play Slifer. That means we have to enact our contingency plan. He took the copy Millennium Rod that Marik gave him and left his room.
The only Battle City Duelist to not show herself to the others gazed casually out the window at the piece of Slifer. So, all three of them are now on board.
"I'll admit, your God Card is powerful," Yami-Bakura said a little nervous at Slifer's fear-retching gaze. "But it doesn't guarantee you victory."
"On the contrary, it does," Yami-Yugi corrected. "Your Dark Sanctuary is destroyed so that means that you can't play your final Destiny Board card."
Marik imposed himself onto Yami-Bakura's mind again, "To defeat Slifer, you're going to need my help."
"How?"
"Take a look at Yugi's hand and note how many cards he has." Yami-Bakura complied and saw that Yami-Yugi had three cards. "Three cards mean that Slifer has an attack power of 3000."
(SSD: 3000)
"You only have 1200 life points. A direct attack of that magnitude would mean the end of you."
"Yes, but my phantasm is still wandering the field, I'll take control of Slifer and have it destroy Yugi. Phantasm, possess Slifer!"
Slifer opened its top mouth and blasted the phantasm to nothing.
"You have a lot to learn about the power of an Egyptian God Card," Marik commented.
"Then it's true," Yami-Bakura said. "I'm helpless, there's nothing I can do."
"It's not over yet," Marik informed him. I've come up with a contingency plan for just such an emergency." Marik switched minds for a second. "Odion, it's time!"
"I am ready, Master Marik."
"Slifer, attack his life…" A jolt from the Millennium Puzzle made Yami-Yugi pause in mid-sentence.
"Not so fast, Yugi!" Everyone turned to see Odion (still disguised as Marik) walking onto the observation platform.
"Marik!"
"Why that little…" Joey prepared to storm him but Tristan and Duke held him back.
"Forget it, man."
"It's not worth losing your mind again."
"I would wait before attacking with Slifer," Odion said.
"Who do you think you are interrupting a duel?" Mokuba demanded to know.
Odion took out his fake rod, "Bakura's mind is controlled by the Millennium Ring. I'm going to use my Millennium Rod to free him."
"Whose side is this guy on?" Harold asked.
"The only way to win is to free the mind of the boy," Marik explained. "Yugi wouldn't dare destroy his friend."
"I see, an interesting idea," the spirit of the ring said as he separated his self from Bakura's mind.
Bakura dropped to his knees, blood spilling from his wounded arm. "Wh… what's going on?" He asked weakly. "What am I doing here?"
Yami-Yugi noticed it immediately. The Millennium Ring Spirit is gone!
"Now would you reconsider your attack?" Odion asked. "Without the Millennium Ring Spirit to empower him, Bakura is weak. And a direct attack from Slifer could seriously wound him or worse…"
"Only a coward would do something like this to win a duel!" Yami-Yugi spat.
"Yeah, it's a cheap trick," Joey agreed.
Odion turned and walked away. "You've done well, Odion," Marik complimented.
"Thank you, Master."
"Yugi… help… I don't feel so good," Bakura moaned.
"No, why you, why did it have to be you?"
"Forgive me, my Pharaoh, I did it… out of love."
Yami-Yugi shrugged off the audio memory. "Bakura…" He started to walk over to the weak Duelist.
"Stop where you are!" Roland commanded. "You forfeit the duel if you touch your opponent!"
"But Bakura needs help!" Yami-Yugi protested.
"No, the rules must be upheld!"
Harold swore fiercely, "Are your lousy rules more important than somebody's life? How can anybody so heartless still be made of flesh and bone?"
"Please, Bakura needs help," Tea pleaded.
This is perfect, Marik thought. Yugi would never attack unless he wanted to hurt his friend.
"Continue the duel," Roland commanded.
Yami-Yugi wondered what to do. He didn't want to hurt Bakura, but if he lost, there would be nothing keeping Marik from obtaining the three Egyptian God Cards and taking over the world.
"Finish him off, Yugi," Kaiba ordered.
"Is everyone at Kaiba Corp. heartless or is it just the higher-ups?" Tristan snapped.
"Come on, ref, you have to stop the duel and get a doctor up here now!" Joey said as he started to climb onto the platform.
"Get down or you'll be disqualified as well," Roland ordered.
"This isn't a Duel Monsters Tournament, it's a blood bath!" Harold complained as Tristan and Duke pulled Joey off the ring.
"Destroy him now, Yugi!" Kaiba ordered again.
"Make a move or you'll be disqualified," Roland threatened.
We're about to win, the spirit of the ring thought. Yugi wouldn't attack unless he wanted to win the duel… a horrifying thought occurred to him. What if Yugi is forced to attack, my host's body could be damaged! I can't afford that, I need the body if I'm ever going to leave this horrid plane. I have to protect it! The Spirit dove back into Bakura's body. "I'm back!" He announced.
Yami-Yugi noticed it. The Dark Spirit of the Ring is back! What's he up to now?
"This duel is yours, Yugi, make the final blow. I would not let harm befall this body, his fate is my own!"
"You asked for it," Yami-Yugi said. "Slifer, attack his life points directly with Thunder Force!" The shaft of energy fired was bigger than even Slifer, and way overkill.
"Well done, Yugi," Yami-Bakura said laughing as the blast engulfed the field.
(Y: 750)
(B: 0)
"The winner of this duel is Yugi Moto!" Roland announced. As the ring lowered, Yami-Yugi returned to normal Yugi and ran across the field. The others climbed the stairs and joined him.
"Is he…" Serenity didn't even want to finish the question.
"He's breathing," Tristan reported. "Let's get him to his room." He picked up Bakura onto his back and carried him to the elevator. Joey, Serenity, Harold, Tea, and Duke followed. Yugi started to follow suite.
"Wait," Roland called. "As per Battle City rules, as the winner you get his rarest card."
"Bakura's been through enough," Yugi said fiercely. "He can keep his cards." And without any more words, he took off.
"I knew Yugi would win," Mokuba said.
Kaiba nodded, "It wasn't a surprise, with a card as powerful as Slifer in his deck, Yugi would be difficult to beat." Unless his opponent also has an Egyptian God Card.
In the medical ward on the blimp, Yugi and his friends gathered around Bakura's bed.
"The best thing we can do for him now is let him rest," Tristan said.
"The best thing we can do for him now is try to land this blimp and get some medical attention," Duke argued. Serenity tugged on Joey's sleeve and motioned him to go with her to the hallway. Joey complied and Harold followed.
"A lot of crazy stuff happened in that duel," Duke commented. He turned to Yugi. "What happened, Yugi?"
"Well… Marik had freed the Spirit of the Millennium Ring from Bakura's body. If I had attacked with Slifer while Bakura was in that condition, he would've been seriously hurt or worse! But at the last minute, the spirit returned allowing me to attack."
"Why do you think that happened?" Tea asked.
"The Millennium Ring and my Millennium Puzzle are similar in that each houses an ancient spirit. But each spirit needs a host to perform certain functions. My guess, the Spirit of the Millennium Ring still needed Bakura for something. I just hope we never find out what."
"You should rest, Yugi, you've been through a harrowing duel," Tea commented.
"I don't think I'll be able to rest until I know Bakura… huh?"
"What's wrong?" Duke asked.
"The Millennium Ring is gone!"
The remaining members of the group gasped and looked at Bakura's neck. The Ring was indeed gone.
"That thing seems to come and go as it pleases," Tristan commented.
"We should go look for it," Yugi said. "I don't feel comfortable knowing it's out there somewhere."
"I'll stay here and look after Bakura," Tea volunteered.
"Okay, let's go!" As the guys left, they were unaware that Tea's eyes had suddenly gone blank as she held a golden round object.
The End
Duel Monster Database
(1)
Name: Jowgen the Spiritualist
Level: 3
Type: Spellcaster/Effect
Attribute: Light
ATK: 200
DEF: 1300
