"The Seal of Orycalcos?" Yami says as he looks down towards the ground at the strange circle. Tea, Tristan, Joey, and Alyssa have been pushed outside of the circle. They can not seem to break into it. "Yes- the Seal of Orycalcos." The hooded stranger replies. "It has a few nice effects to it. For one thing, it allows my monsters to gain an extra five hundred attack points!" he shouts, as his monsters grow stronger.
"Then I'll use this to get rid of it!" the pharaoh shouts as he places down a card. "My card allows me to remove any magic card from play, and I choose your Seal." The card has the picture of a tornado on it. It begins to go to the circumference of the circle. All wait to see the magical card of the hooded man destroyed.
But it isn't. It remains. It appears that the card played did nothing to remove it. "The seal is a magic far older then time itself. It can't be destroyed by the use of a simple magic card."
"You should know I am no stranger to ancient magic myself." Yami says. "Witness the power of my millennium puzzle!" He says. The puzzle that hangs around his neck begins to glow, and a strange, eye like mark appears on his forehead. It goes to dispel the strange circle, but it fails and is broken instead.
"What's going on?" the Pharaoh says, confused. "I've told you. The Orycalcos is the strongest magic ever known. It can not be beaten. Not by a card, and not by your silly millennium puzzle." The man says smugly. "And now, I grow tired of this duel, which seems to not offer any challenge. And so I shall finish it up now- with this!" "Is this guy nuts?" Joey says to his friends on the sidelines. "Yugi's got the strongest monster on the field. Heck- the only thing that could beat him now would be-" At this he realizes what's going on. "No! Not the…Egyptian God Cards!"
"That's right! The man says." "The gods can only be used by certain duelists." Yami warns him. "You can not use them." "I can use them, and I will. The strongest of the Egyptian God Cards is now infused by the power of the Orycalcos. Nothing can beat it! It is invincible!"
"Nothing is invincible. Yami explains to the hooded man. "Each card has its strengths, and each card has its weaknesses." "Nothing can beat the power of an Egyptian God Card- not when it is infused with the power of the Orycalcos!" The man shouts, but he seems to be a little unsteady on his feet. He puts a hand up to his aching head. The Orycalcos doesn't mix well with the God cards.
"Your monster has four thousand attack points. I haven't a monster on the field with that much. But I can still take it down if I use this!" he says, holding up a card. "Brave attack! First, I have to sacrifice some of my monsters." Some of his monsters disappear. "To bring back one of my monsters from the graveyard!" One of his monsters returns. "Now I separate my monsters into the three they were that made it up." They separate, and he sends the first two in to attack.
"Hah!" the bearded man laughs. "Your monster is too weak. It won't even scratch Obelisk." "Actually, I see a very big scratch." Yami says. "Brave attack adds the points of the monsters attacking together. Your monster has 4000- that means I still need 1500. And that's exactly what I have left! Go Beta- the magna warrior!"
His monster goes in and with a slash adds his points to the other. And the Egyptian God Obelisk has once more been brought down by the pharaoh. "No! This is impossible!" the bearded man shouts. "Oh well. I'm not out yet."
He plays another few cards and all of a sudden he has ten monsters on the field. "Hey! That's cheatin' pal!" Joey shouts again. "Read the duelist handbook- only five monsters are allowed out on the field at one time!" he says, reciting the page and paragraph number as well. "The Seal allows me to double the number of monsters I have out on the field." He says to Joey. "And the other beauty of this is you can't attack my back row of monsters until you get through my front row!" he laughs. The duel proceeds a little bit longer, and it looks worse and worse for our pharaoh as each turn passes. But it all changes when he draws another card. His deck always seems to pull through for him.
Our pharaoh draws a card that allows his dark magician girl to attack, her power growing in strength with each monster she destroys. She not only gets through the front row, but through the back row as well. And of course, her attack hits the arrogant, bearded man who never should have challenged the King of Games.
"No! Master- have mercy!" He shouts, as the Seal of the Orycalcos begins to shrink. An odd green light descends down over the man as his life points reach zero. The Seal encloses around him. "Take Obelisk!" He shouts to his companions, who merely sit there and watch the proceedings. He throws it to them, and they catch it. The Seal disappears as the man slumps to the ground, motionless.
The group runs up to him He is breathing, but he is unresponsive. The pharaoh looks up. "I believe you have something that belongs to me." He says. "And what would that be?" The deep voiced, blonde haired one says. "Give him back his cards!" Joey shouts, shaking a fist in the air. "We had a deal." The pharaoh says angrily. "Really? Our deal was that you had to beat all of us. Not just one of us. If you want the Egyptian God Cards, you'll have to take us all down in a duel." "I like the blonde one." The Australian man with the accent says. "He reminds me of me self, only more stupid and less attractive."
"I don't care. You're mine though, pharaoh. It'll be fun to take you down." The Blonde haired one says. "Shouldn't we be going?" Another asks, with ruby shaded hair. They begin to walk towards their bikes.
"Wait a second- where's Alyssa?" Yugi says as he peers around the group. "I don't know." Yami says back to him. Above them, they hear a "Hey- What the-"
They turn to look up and see the silhouettes of the three bikers and one smaller one. "She's gonna get herself killed!" Tristan says. "I dunno" Joey says as he sees her swing a roundhouse kick into the stomach of the ruby haired one. "She looks like she's doing pretty good to me."
The three circle around her. "We need to find a way up there!" Tea shouts. Two of them rush in. She dodges to the back, as they hit into each other. "Maybe she is doing okay." Tristan says.
The blonde haired one is not as dumb as the others though. He doesn't leave himself vulnerable to the attacks. Indeed he blocks a good few of them. Behind her, the Australian one gets up as the blonde haired one rushes her. She dodges out of the way…and gets her arms caught by the Australian. The ruby haired one is up now too. "Or maybe we should get in there." Joey says.
As they come nearer, she lashes out with a foot that catches the ruby in the chin. The sudden extra weight causes the Australian to fall. She rolls out and stands up. Her back is to the edge of the building's roof. The blonde one helps the others up. "Why do you persist in being so annoying?" He asks. "Those cards don't belong to you." She says, getting into another fighting stance. "He needs those cards. And I suggest you give them back."
"Would you mind calling off your little friend, pharaoh?" The brown haired one calls out. "We don't want to be seeing anyone get hurt now, do we?" "Of course not." She says. "And you won't be getting hurt if you just return those cards." This makes him angry, and he tries to knock her down. She bends backwards, missing his push, and kicks, hitting him squarely in the back. Then, quick as lightening, she kicks the deck out of the belt of the one who has the stolen cards. It's a lot worse then fifty two pick up.
Unfortunately, this maneuver left her off balance and she falls to the ground. The other two jump on the cards on the ground, looking for the precious three and trying to pick them up at the same time. It's a little too late though. Searching through the cards, she finds the trio. Rolling over backwards, she stands up on one leg, dangerously close to the edge of the roof. A shot rings out. The blonde haired one has pulled out a hidden revolver and has unloaded a round into the sky above.
"Alyssa!" the group shouts from below. "I'm fine" she calls back, turned to face the man once more. "Give me back the cards." He says in a cold, calm voice. "Unless you want me to fire another round into your flesh." "In that case, you can go right ahead. I'm not giving up these cards and I'm not afraid of you…or your gun."
He points the gun at her head. "I'll give you one last chance." He says, cocking the pistol. 'Alyssa! Just give him the cards! It's not worth losing your life over. We'll get them back later." Yami calls up. "But you need them!" She shouts back, not taking her eyes off the man standing before her. "That wasn't a request." the Pharaoh shouts. "That was an order. From your pharaoh."
She stands momentarily. Then, slowly, she walks up and hands the cards back to the man. She grips onto them still, and he has to pull them to get them out of her hand. "I'm so glad you see the light." He teases her.
"I only handed them to you because I refuse to disrespect the Gods. I didn't want to give them back. I did that because I was told to." "Never the less" he says, turning around.
Suddenly, he turns and swings a kick into her stomach, knocking her off of the roof. Thinking quickly, she grabs onto the hook of the crane. The group runs towards her. "Hold on!" Yami shouts. "There's something on it-" she says as she tries to get a better grip on the hook, which her hands keep sliding off of. "I can't hold on!" she says. And with that, her hands slip off entirely and she falls towards the ground.
The pharaoh speeds up and catches her just in time. The force from the long drop causes the pair to fall down backwards. "Are you okay?" he asks, concerned. "I'm fine." She mumbles. "Just a little sha- you're arm!" she stops. "What?" Yami says, looking at his arm. There is a small cut on it where his elbow hit the pavement. Blood dribbles out. "You're hurt." She says. "It's just a little cut." He says. "It'll heal in a few days."
"You shouldn't have caught me." She says, standing up. "If I didn't you could have broken something or worse." He says. "But you're hurt!" she repeats. "It's nothing." He says. "It's a little scrape. You're over reacting." "I thank you for your help. But I've been around long enough. And I'm sorry about your arm." She adds on, looking away. "I think that I should get going now."
She begins to walk off. The pharaoh reaches out to grab her arm and pull her back, but she avoids his grasp. Running now, she disappears down the fire escape on the side of the building. They walk over to the edge to look for her, but the alley is clear, and there is no sign of her.
"No offense, Yugi" says Joey. But that girl's a little strange."