The Masters Tournament

by Sdrive

Its here, the 16 finalists have finally made it to the spot of the finals. The Duels are about to heat up. Who will end up being crowned the King of Games? The end is near and yet so far off. Soon the whole plot behind the tournament will be revealed.

5. Duel and Danger

Sdrive: Hey every one. I had started writing this chapter at my Aunts house and then I left her house with the Chapter stuck on her computer with no way to get it fior like two weeks.. I'm sorry. You know I have been doing some thinking. I was thinking, it just doesn't seem like a Yugioh Fic unless I have Yugi play a part in this tournament. So this Chapter will contain everyones favorite Trihaired 3 foot tall boy, Yugi. Shi!

Shi: We own nothing!

A/N: hey by way, whenever Yami is thinking, think of it like the show, where although it is Yami's voice and Yami dueling throughout the whole thing, whenever he thinks to himself it comes out as Yugi's voice. So whenever he is thinking, think of Yugi's voice. Unless it is clearly Yami who is thinking, like if he thinks something like, I must save the world, it is my destiny to help Yugi keep the evil away, if it is something like that then obviously don't use Yugi's voice. But I'm not sure if anything like that will be in there.

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Yugi Mouto had woken up about an hour ago and was heading outside with the others. "I didn't see Yamato or Sdrive when I woke up." Ryou said to them. "Do you think something might have happened to them?"

"Mina and Nari weren't in my room when I woke up either," Stephanie said.

"They all probably wanted to get a lead on the Tournament so they all probably left," Yugi said. "Besides they are all good duelists. We have nothing to worry about."

"That's exactly what I'm going ta do!" Joey exclaimed. "I wanna get on out there and win me some duels. And no ones gonna stop me!"

"Ok, I guess I'll probably head on out too." Yugi said. "Do you want to go with me Joey?"

"No thank's Yug, I wanna go alone. I'm afraid that if I hang out with you then no one will challenge me. I'm going out by myself."

"So you don't even want me to go?" Mai asked.

"No way. If I'm gonna stick up to my reputation then I gotta do it alone." And with that Joey went off to find his first challenge.

"I can sort of agree with him. I just hope he doesn't go and do anything stupid. Like lose in the first match." Mai said.

"He'll be fine." Yugi reassured her. "There's nothing to worry about."

"Yeah you're right. Well I'm going off too. Can't let him get ahead of me." And with that Mai left leaving Yugi, Tea, Stephanie, and Ryou.

"Boy I can't believe it. There are so many cool duelist's here. I think I'm going to go find Sdrive. He said he was a good Duelist. I want to see him in action. See ya." So Stephaine set out to find Sdrive. Just then Alice came down with Peace and when they saw Yugi and the others they went over to them.

"That was the most comfortable bed I ever slept on." Peace said.

"It was nice." Alice said.

"Was that Stephanie?" Peace asked?

"Yeah, she's a little strange though." Yugi said. "Well I guess I had better head off then. I don't want to miss out on any of the fun."

"I think I'm going to leave as well." Alice said.

"Me too." Peace agreed.

"What am I going to do?" Tea asked. "I don't Duel. Well not very well. And where's Tristan?"

"I'm right here. I woke up late sorry. I'll hang out with you. We'll wait for the others to wake up."

"Well I have to get out there. There are duels waiting to be won." Yugi said.

"Yeah!" Peace and Alice both said at the same time. They all went their seperate ways and left Tea and Tristan in the Lobby.

"I really want to go watch them," Tea said.

"Go ahead, I'll wait for Serenity and then I'll catch up later."

"Ok." Tea ran off after Yugi to go watch him duel.

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"There's the Battle Tower!" Yamato said as they were jogging towards it. "I'm sure we will find our answers in there."

"Let's hope so," Mina said.

When they got to the Battle Tower they were stopped by too men in black uniforms. "Hey where do you think you're going?" the first man asked. "There is no possible way you runts won 15 rare cards on the first day. Go on, Get out of here."

"We need to speak with Sayora," Yamato said calmly. "And we believe that she is in there now let us in. "

"Sorry but we are not going to let you in," the second man replied.

"But it's an emergency," Mina said.

"Too bad," the first guy said. "This is where all of the computers that keep track of the Tournament are held. We can't allow anyone in here with out a direct order from our Queen."

'I have no time for this foolishness.' Sdrive thought. 'I want my answers now. I won't let this inconvienience me. I senced strong Shadow Magic during Mina's match. I must find out why.'

"I'm sorry," the second man said, "but we are not going to let you- Queen Sayora, what are you doing out here?" Mina, Yamato, and Nari looked behind them but didn't see anyone standing there.

"You mean these 4 our your personal guests?" the first man asked.

Mina was very confused until she saw Sdrive holding the Harp behind his back and saw that it was glowing. Mina began whispering to Yamato. "Hey Yamato, check it out." she said pointing to Sdrive.

Yamato whispered back, "Yeah I noticed. That Harp has a handy little ablilty.

"Please forgive - huh?" the second man started but just then the doors from the Battle opened and Sayora stepped out. "Sayora, what are you doing there?

"Yeah, you're right there," the first man said pointing behind the group.

"I don't see anyone but those 4 kids."

'Arg, this will ruin everything unless,' "Boy you guy's must be tired," Sdrive said thinking quickly. "Hey Sayora, you might want to let these guy's go on a break or something. The heat must be getting to them."

"What are you doing here anyway?" Sayora asked them.

"We were wondering why when the life points of a duelist goes down they get hurt and when the Duel is over it all goes away," Nari explained.

"I have no clue what you are talking about. I suggest you all just go and get in some shade. I think you are the ones who need a break."

"I think you know exactly what's going on." Yamato said all buisness now.

"I assure you I don't, now, Arthur, Tim, will you please escort these 4 on their way." Sayora said as more of a demand than a question.

"Yes my Queen." the one apparently named Arthur said.

"Gladly," Tim said. Arthur and Tim took the 4 away from the Battle Tower.

'This is just a small set back, Watch your self Sayora, I will be back' Sdrive thought as he was walking away.

Sayora was standing at the doors watching them leave while thinking. 'Hmmm, that one boy, he's clever. But not as clever as me. I'll have too keep my eye on him. Not that I wasn't doing that already, nor was I ignoring his friend.' She walked back into the Battle Tower and the doors slammed shut.

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Seto Kaiba was wide awake with some Coffee in his hands when Mokuba woke up. "Good Morning big Brother. Today is the day you show them all isn't it?"

"That's right. Get ready. I had Room Service bring up breakfast. All I had was some Coffee. There is some cereal, you can take your pick. But you can't have the stuff on the far right."

"Ok." Mokuba went to go check out the cereal. "Sugar Coated Sugar Puffs? Now with extra Sugar? Seto? Why would I ever eat something so bad for my health?"

"Life is a mystery Mokuba."

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Yugi was walking along the road when Tea caught up to him. "I thought you were going to wait with Tristan?" Yugi asked.

"He said he would catch up later and that I shouldn't miss any action." Tea responded.

"Oh, ok."

They were walking along the road until a girl with black hair with some red highlights, and a Hazel eyes appeared in front of them. I challenge you, Yugi, to a duel." she said.

"Who are you and how do you know my name?" Yugi asked.

"My name is Akilli Astrid and everyone knows you Yugi. You are the Greatest Duelist in the entire world. But more importantly, I know you because I have been watching you."

"You have? How come?"

"Yes, yes I have. I am from a special group of people called the Magic Seekers. We are a group of people who go around the world looking for Magic. Once we find it we take it and absorb it's power. That is why I have been watching you."

"You absorb it? How?"

"You have to be very special in order to join the Magic Seekers. All the members of the Magic Seekers were born with a special gift. They have the ability to find Magic and absorb it into their body. Then they have the magic that originally in place. Our Master is a man who has been doing this longer than anyone.

"That is really weird. Who is your Master? And how do you know if you have these powers?"

"Magic Seekers are able to sense magic. We are guided to it and then we absorb it. Our Master is a wonderful man named Ron. He realized that he had a special gift and that there were others who had this gift. So he found anyone who could do this and and then assembeled the Magic Seekers to go and absorb Ancient Magic."

"Why are you here in this tournament?"

"Master Ron is aware of certain ancient, Egyptian artifacts that were created 5,000 years ago. He says they are called Sennen Items. He believes that if the Magic Seekers were to absorb the magic of these items, we would be unstoppable. We are aware that some of the Greatest Duelest's in the World have these Sennen Items. So Master Ron has sent the Magic Seekers to defeat these Sennen Holders so that we may be able to absorb their power. He knows there are at least 7. So whoever can absorb these 7 items will be next in power only to Master Ron. Master Ron has a tremendous amount of Magic. If Seven of us can get the powers of seven of the items, we will be his most trusted advisors. I wish to accomplish this task."

"And how to you plan on doing that?"

"It is a known fact to us that you have one of these Items. My job is to defeat you and claim your Sennen Item, so that Master Ron will be pleased with me."

Yugi's Sennen Puzzle glowed and then he became taller and his voice got deeper. he had turned into Yami. "I'm sorry Akilli but I can't let you defeat me in a duel. It is my destiny to keep this world safe and in order to do that I must hold onto my Sennen Puzzle. So I hope that you are ready to lose!" Yami and Akilli inserted their dueling decks and their Duel Disks went into Dueling mode.

"My rarest card is my Dark Magician!"

"As is mine." Yami said.

"I am sure that it is right to let a lady go first." she said and with that drew her opening hand. "Well this is interesting. First I will play my Red Medicine Card. It will allow me to gain 500 life points."

Akilli: 8500

Yami: 8000

"Wow. That felt really good. I feel really good."

"It wasn't a lot." Yami said.

"No, you don't understand. I mean I really do feel good. Hmm, interesting. Anyway, next I will play my 7 Colored Fish (1800/1000) in attack mode." A large fish with 7 colors on it appeared, hence it's name. "And then I will lay one card under the table and end my turn."

Yami drew his opening hand plus his card for starting his turn. "I will lay two cards under the table and next I will play my Celtic Gaurdian (1400/1200) in attack Mode! The elfin warrior appeared and pulled out his sword. "And now I will end my turn."

'That fool,' Akilli thought. 'He left put monster in attack mode.' Akilli Picked up her card. "You are going to wish you hadn't made such a mistake Yugi. I sacrifice my 7 colored fish to bring out my Summoned Skull. And now I will..."

"Not so fast, Akilli! I activate my face down card, Trap Hole, Any monster that is summoned that has an attack power over 1000 is instantly destroyed!"

"Oh well. I'll have to take a direct hit. I end my turn."

"Fine. I play Pot of Greed and draw two new cards. I will lay one card under the table and I will sacrifice my Celtic Guardian for my Dark Magician Girl (2000/1700)!" The female form of Dark Magician came onto the field, she twirled around, winked, and then put one hand on her hip and stuck out her staff with the other. "Now I will attack your Life Points Directly!"

The Apprentice of the Dark Magician was about to send out a wave of magic when Akilli started speaking. "Not so fast yourself. Now it's my turn to activate a trap. And I activate my face down Skull Dice!" An Evil looking Fairy appeared on the field holding a die. "With Skull Dice I can roll a die and whatever I roll get's subtracted from the attack and defence of your monster!" The Evil Fairy rolled the die. The die bounced on the ground until it came to a stop.

4

"I rolled a four which means that your girl friend loses 400 attack and defence which givers her an attack power of 1600 and a toughness of 1300!" The Dark Magician Girl hit Akilli with the wave of magic and her life points dropped.

Akilli: 6900

Yami: 8000

Akilli then screamed out in pain and fell to her knees. "Hey what's happening? Are you ok?" Tea asked her.

"That, that, that was so painful." Akilli answered.

"It was just a hologram you will be fin in a few seconds." Yami said calmly yet still a bit taken aback by Akilli's sudden out burst.

"That didn't feel like any Hologram I've ever encountered. That was painful. That felt like real magic had hit me. I don't know how but that hurt." Akilli said.

"Just give it a few seconds, in the mean time I end my turn and my Dark Magician Girl's stats return to normal."

Akilli drew her card. "I play Monster Reborn to bring back my Summoned Skull!" She cried. The Large Monster appeared and stood before the Mage of magic. "Summoned Skull, attack your opponent with Lightning Strike!" The Large Skull got struck by lightning and then flung it at Dark Magician Girl.

"I'm sorry to dissapoint you, but I can't allow any harm to come to my Magician Girl! So I activate Magical Cylinders which will fire your attack right back at your life points!"

"Way to go Yugi!" Tea cheered from the sidelines. Two cylinders appeared, the lightning went into one of them and then flew out the other and hit Akilli. She screamed out in a great deal of pain.

Akilli: 4400

Yami: 8000

Akilli dropped to the ground and layed there unconcious. Akilli! Are you ok?" Yami cried out to her.

"What happened?" Tea asked.

"I don't know. Maybe she wasn't joking about the attacks being painful. I am sensing a bit of Shadow Magic surrounding this duel. And I don't think it's coming from Akilli."

"Shadow Magic! Oh man, that is not good."

"Akilli! Please wake up!" Yami called out to her. Akilli moved a bit and then got up onto her knees. She looked terrible. "Are you ok?"

"I-I-I'm f-fi-fine," She said between breaths. "It's your turn."

Yami drew his card a little cautiously.'I don't know what to do,' he thought. 'I could attack her Life Points directly but she might get seriously hurt. If I don't then I might not win the Duel. And I'll lose the Puzzle forever.

"Yugi! What are you going to do? If you attack you might end up hurting her." Tea cried from the sidelines.

"I know that Tea. I end my turn for now."

Akilli drew her card. I lay one card under the table and one monster on guard and end my turn."

"I draw," Yami stated. "I lay one card under the table." 'If I don't attack she may be able to sacrifice, at least I don't have to worry about hurting her.' "Go Dark Magician Girl. attack the face down card!" The Magician girl was letting loose her attack when her attack hit an invisible barrier and the attack hit her and she blew to pieces.

"I activated Mirror Force."

"That is not good. I lay one monster on guard and end my turn." Akilli was breathing really hard. She had only a little over a half of her life points and she was feeling terrible from that summoned skull attack.

"Are you going to be ok?" Tea asked her.

"I - must - go on." Akilli drew her card and added it to her hand. "I switch my on guard monster to attack mode." A tall bug with sharp pincers appeared. "Girochin Kuwagata (1700/1000) attack Yugi's on guard monster!"

The Bug went forward to attack its hidden foe. When the card came up it turned out to be a muscular man with a large shield. "You attacked My Big Shield Gardna (100/2600)." Yami called out. The bug hit the shield and was then thrown backwards and knocked down Akilli.

Akilli: 3500

Yami: 8000

The bug scraped Akilli and she started to bleed. "Your bleeding!" Yami said stunned.

"But, but how is that possible?" Tea asked.

"It seems that as her life points goes down she get's hurt. What kind of cruel man is Ron anyway?" Yami asked enraged.

"Ow, I - I end my - my - turn." Akilli said.

"Then I will begin my turn. Since my Big Shield Gardna was attacked and got switched to attack mode I will now Switch it back to on guard and end my turn."

"My turn! I play Graceful Charity I can draw three cards and then I discard 2" She said as she placed her two cards in the discard slot. "And then I play one card under the table and end my turn."

"I will draw and end my turn."

"Well I guess its way past time that I take over this duel. I activate my Turtle Oath card which allows me to ritual summon Crab Turtle as long as I sacrifice monsters whose total stars equal 8 or more, so I will sacrifice my Girochin and My Dark Magician to bring forth Crab Turtle." A huge blue crab that had the shell of a turtle and red pincers appeared on the field (2550/2500)

"You mean you sacrificed your Dark Magician in order to bring forth a monster with 50 more attack points?" Yami asked completely appalled by such a play.

"Yes. And now I will attack your Big Shield Gardna!"

"But Big Shield Gardna has 50 more defense points," Yami stated.

"Not after I activate Graceful Dice!" A cute little fairy appeared holding a die. "Graceful Dice allows me to add on to the attack and defence of whatever number I roll by 100." The Fairy rolled the die.

6

"I rolled a 6 so that means my Crab Turtle gets an extra 600 attack and defense points bringing it to 3150 attack and 3100 defense . Go Crab Turtle attack the Big Shield Gardna!" The Crab went for the defending monster. It brought down its massive claws and destroyed it. "I end my turn."

Yami began his turn. He looked at his card and smiled. "Perfect. I play Dark Magic Curtain. By sacrificing half of my life points I can special summon one Dark Magician from my hand or deck!"

Akilli: 3500

Yami: 4000

Suddenly Yami became very dizzy and he almost collapsed on the spot. He fell down to his knees and held himself up by keeping his hand on the ground. "What's happening to you?" Tea asked.

'I have never felt such dizziness before. This isn't just happening to Akilli, it's happening to me as well.' "I bring Dark Magician to the field and end my turn. I need to rest."

"I play Ookazi which will lower your life points by 800!" A house appeared over Yami and then went up into flames and the roof fell on him. Yami screamed in pain. His jacket caught on fire and his buckle started to burn him. He quickly took the two items off. He endured the pain of the chain from the Puzzle. He couldn't afford to take off the Puzzle.

Akilli: 3500

Yami: 3200

"Crab Turtle attack his Dark Magician!"

"I - activate - Magical Hats." The Crab Turtle flung it's claws down but just before it hit the Dark Magician, a big hat covered the Dark Magician and split in 4. The claw came down onto an empty hat.

"Grrr, I end my turn."

'I need to trust my deck' Yami thought as he pulled his next card. "YES! I have my Dark Magician leave the safety of my Magical Hats."

"Yugi Why?" Tea asked confused.

Just then Serenity and Tristan came up behind Tea. "Hey Tea," Serenity called.

"Hi Serenity" Tea said absent minded, more focused Yugi's poor dueling tactic than her friends. 'If something bad happens to him I'll never get over it' she thought to herself.

"Sorry we took so ahhh, what's going on?" Tristan said cutting himself off when he noticed the two monsters.

"Yugi's in a duel with some girl who calls herself a Magic Seeker. Every time their Life Points go down they get hurt. And they get hurt badly," Tea explained.

"That's not good. WOAH look at that, uh what is that any way?" Tristan asked.

"It's a Crab Turtle and its 50 points stronger than the Dark Magician. And Yugi just took the Magician out of the Magical hats." Tea said continuing her explanation.

"WHAT?!" Tristan asked baffledorked.

"I hope he knows what he's doing," Serenity said.

"Me too," Tea said. 'Me too.'

"I activate Thousand Knives! As long as Dark Magician is on the field I can activate this card to destroy one monster on my opponent's side of the field!" The Magician magically obtained a bunch of knives and sent them flying towards the Crab Turtle. It hit it and the Crab Turtle fell over dead. "Dark Magician, Dark Magic Attack!" The Dark Magician lifted its staff and sent a blast of magical energy at Akilli. She screamed in pain as her life points dropped to a meager 1000.

Akilli: 1000

Yami: 3200

"I forgot about that. I'm in so much pain. I end my turn."

Akilli drew her card and looked at it. She lowered her head knowing she was defeated. 'This won't save me now' "There is nothing I can do. I give up." She said as she placed her hand over her deck and the duel stopped. As the Holograms faded away they both instantly healed. Yami's Puzzle's chain stopped burning him and his burns healed. His jacket also got fixed good as new.

"I feel just like I did before I started this Duel." Yami said amazed.

"What? Why do I feel better? This doesn't make any sense. Oh well, I guess I lost. That pain just didn't feel right. I have to go apologize for failing. Here is my Dark Magician. Use it wisely." Akilli walked over to Yami and handed over her Magician and shook his hand.

"Thank you."

"I'm sorry, some times it's hard being gifted."

"I know the feeling," Yami said as the Puzzle's Eye gave off a quick flash of golden light. Akilli turned to leave but before she did her eye's glazed over and she fell to the ground. Akilli!!! Akilli! What happened?!" At that very moment Mina, Yamato, Nari, and Sdrive worked their way over to them.

"Don't tell me. You just dueled, life points went down you got hurt, person seems fine and then collapses." Sdrive said.

"Yes. How did you know?" Yami asked.

"It happened to me and Yamato," Mina explained.

"We went to go see Sayora but she's denying everything," Yamato said.

"Did you sense Shadow Magic during your duel?" Sdrive asked.

"Come to think of it yes," Yami said.

"Just as we thought. Guy's I think we have found ourselves another of the new Sennen Items," Sdrive said.

"We have to go warn the others," Yami said.

"Yeah let's go." Nari said.

"I'm going to go take her to the Hospital. I'll join up with you later," Sdrive said.

"I'll help you," Yamato offered.

"No! It's better if you go with Yami," Sdrive said.

"Wait, that was Yami dueling?" Tea asked.

"Yami always duels." Yamato said.

"Whatever." Tea said.

"I'll be fine. The hospital isn't that far and she's not that heavy."

"Ok." Yamato said.

They all left Sdrive to go find the rest of the gang. Sdrive stood there looking at the girl he was supposed to take to the hospital. "Hehehe, she is better off just staying there."

"Oh really?" said Yamato. Sdrive whirled around to see Yamato standing there.

"How did you do that? You left with the others!" He proclaimed.

"My Ribbon copies the powers of all the items. I used it to make you think I had gone with them. How does it feel, Shi?" Yamato was smirking at this point.

"What? How did you know?" Shi asked.

"I can read minds. And you have been acting strange. You're doing what Bakura does to Ryou. Make it look like its Ryou only you're really the Yami."

"Clever boy. You seem to know a lot about me. Unfortunately for you it that won't help you for much longer." Yamato then took the ribbon from his hair and whipped Shi with it. Shi fell to the ground. When he got back up he was no longer in control. "What happened?" Sdrive asked.

"Shi took control of you when you stopped Kieran. I just sent him to the Shadow Realm using the Ribbon." Yamato explained.

"Well, uh, thanks, I guess."

"What do you mean 'I guess'?"

"It will be weird without him here anymore."

"It's for the best. Come on, let's go."

"Where are we going?" Sdrive asked puzzled.

"To warn the gang about the Life Point thing."

"Oh ok. What about this girl here?"

"Hey, you, over there."

"Yeah?" Some Dude answered.

"Mind taking this girl to the Hospital for us?"

"Sure."

"Thanks." And with that they took off running.

While they were running Sdrive was thinking. 'Hahahahahahaha you fool. You underestimate the powers of the Harp. It will take a lot more than a whip from the Ribbon to defeat me. I don't want you to suspect anything so I will let my Hikari stay in control. But watch out. HAHAHAHA'

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Sdrive: Because I chose the whole 15 card thing, my chapters are going to be incredably long because I am going to be putting in two duels in each chapter for a while. So I wanted to warn you all now. I want all of you to take a break now. Let your eyes rest. Break is over. Onto the next duel.

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Peace was walking around just minding his own buisness. He was trying to find a good challenger but he was having a difficult time. "They all look to easy to beat." He kept walking until he felt a tap on his Shoulder. He turned around and Noticed Shadi was standing right behind him. "Hey, your that Sennen guardian or something like that, aren't you?"

"Yes," Shadi said. "And it has come to my attention that there is some very evil things happening here. There is evil Shadow Magic in this Tournament. Everytime a player loses life points the player will be hurt. I was going to wait for another day to give you this but I can see there is no other choice. I must give it to you now."

"Give me what?" Peace asked.

"This," Shadi said holding the Sennen Scale in his hand. "You are destined to have this Scale. It will help protect you a bit when you duel. Good Bye." And with that Shadi vanished.

"I hate it when he does that," Peace said a little weirded out. Just then he heard some one call out to him.

"Hey you there!" Standing there was some boy who looked around 17 or 18 wearing a blue jeans, a black shirt, and a large heavy coat. "I challenge you to a Duel. I have won 3 rare cards. And I'm hoping to get more."

"Unfortunatly I only have the one I started with. My Catapult Turtle.

"That's ok. I think you will have an interesting deck if it is a deck where the rarest card is a Catapult Turtle. So I will be risking the three I won plus my starter. Doesn't matter. My cards are Lava Golem, The Polite Intruding Trio, Tourture Wheel, and Jugement of Anubis.

"If you don't mind me asking, what is your name?" Peace asked.

"My name is Dais. And I'm sure that this will be a fine duel."

"The two boys put their decks into their Duel Disk and the Disk went to Duel Mode." "I think I will go first," Peace said drawing their cards. 'Oh man, I basecally own this guy' Peace thought. "I draw to start my turn," Peace said adding the card to his hand. "I will lay Two cards under the table and then I will play Gearfried the Iron Knight (1800/1600) in attack mode." A large knight covered with armor appeared on the field with a sword and shield. "And THAT my friend, will end my turn.

"And now it is my turn. First off I will get rid of your two face down cards using Harpies Feather Duster!

"Oh no!" Peace yelled as a big duster came out and destroyed Peace's two cards to pieces.

"Next I will play Pot of Greed in order to draw two new cards," dias stated as he did so. 'This is just too perfect.' Dias thought. "Next I will play Change of Heart taking control of your Gearfried! The half Angel half demon took over Gearfried and went over to Dais. "Go Gearfried, attack your former Master!" The Iron Knight went towards Peace and slammed him with his sword. Peace let out a huge scream as his Arm was nearly hacked off. It was barely hanging on

Peace: 6200

Dais: 8000

" I bet that was a surprise." Dais said. "I knew somethign like that would happen from my previous duels. After the end of the duel you will be recovered completly. But for now you just have to deal with it!"

Peace took a cloth and wrapped it around his arm. "Just finish your move."

"With pleasure. I now play Black Hole to rid the field of your Gearfried!" A black hole was punched into the center of the arena and the Iron Knight was sucked up into it. "Now I will lay one monster on guard and one card under the table and it's back to you kid."

"That was not fun. I will lay one card under the table and then one monster on guard and it's your turn."

"You are so much fun to toy with." Dais looked at drew his card and smiled. 'This will be interesting, but first,' "I flip up Cyber Jar into attack mode. The Cyber jar will destroy it's self and we draw five new cards, any monsters 4 stars or lower get put onto the field." Dais drew (Gravity Bind, Torture Wheel, Prominence Dragon, Crater Diver, UFO Turtle) and put Prominence Dragon (1500/1000) in attack mode and put the Crater Diver (1000/1200) UFO Turtle (1400/1200) on guard.

Peace drew (Wall Of Illusion, Summoned Skull, Gravity Bind, Mask of Darkness, Catupault Turtle) and placed the Wall of Illusion (1000/1850) and the Mask of Darkness (900/400) on guard.

"Now I will have you sacrifice your Mask of Darkness and your Wall of Illusion!" Dais proclaimed.

"I'm not going to do that!" Peace said angrily

" Oh yes you are, because I'm having you special summon Lava Golem (3000/2500) onto the field!" Both of Peaces monsters dissapeared and then a beast formed of lava appeared trapping Peace in a large cage.

"Why did you give me such a strong monster and why did I have to sacrifice for it?" Peace asked confused about Dais' intentions.

"Because the Lava Golem's effect says that it can only be special summoned to your side of the field. I have to sacrifice two of your monsters. And during each of your standby phases you lose 1000 life points. Now I will play one card under the table and end my turn." The card appeared on Dais' field while Peace began to begin his turn. A bit of the Lava Golem's lava fell off of it and landed on Peaces back. Peaces screamed in pain as his shirt was burned off of him and his back was badly burned.

Peace: 5200

Dais: 8000

"Ok, I know what I'm going to do. I'm going to sacrifice your own monster in order to bring forth my Summoned Skull!" The Skull monster came forth.

"That is just a small set back. I'm not worried at all." Dais said.

"GO SUMMONED SKULL! ATTACK HIS PROMINENCE DRAGON!!" Peace called out as the skull began to charge up it's lightning attack.

"Not so fast!" Dais called as he flipped up the card. The holograhic card flipped up revealing a wheel with spikes. It wnt over to the skull and the skull was trapped on the wheel. "I activated this Trap Card, Torture Wheel!"

"And what exactly does that do?"

"Using Torture Wheel I can stop one of your monsters from attacking." Dais said as if everyone should know what it's supposed to do.

"Fine I lay one card under the table and then I end my turn." Peace said as his card appeared on the field.

Dais drew his card and then the Torture Wheel sucked out some of the lightning from the skull and zapped Peace with out. He let out a small scream as his life points went down.

Peace: 4700

Dais: 8000

"Oh yeah, about that Torture Wheel, during each of my Standby Phases, uh, ya lose 500 life points. Must of just slipped my mind," Dais said smiling.

"That's - not - funny," Peace said recovering his breath.

"Any way, I will lay on monster on guard and then I will end my turn."

"I have to trust my deck, I know it will give me what I need. Peace looked to see he had drawn the Change of Heart Magic Card. 'What can I do with this?' Peace asked. Peace looked at his hand and he saw the answer. "This is perfect. I play Change of Heart to take control of your-" But before he could finsih Dais interupted him.

"Not so fast! I activate this Trap Card! Jugement of Anubis. This is a special card. It allows me to destroy any Magic Card that you activate as long as I discard one card from my hand first!" Dais discarded his Gravity Bind and the top of the Anubis statue opened up and out came a dark presence. It went towards the magic card and the card blew to peices. "There is also another effect. I can destroy one of your monsters and then you lose the life points equal to the attack of the monster I destroyed. And I choose your Skull!" The dark presence went over to the skull and drained it's life force energy. No longer supported with the Calcium that bones need to stay strong in healthy they crumbled into dust. Now infused with the power of the archfiend of lightning and glowing a dark purple it shot straight out and blasted Peace and engulfed his entire body.

Peace: 2200

Dais: 8000

"I may lose the Torture Wheel but for the price of bringing you just a few steps closer to defeat it's a price I'm willing to pay.

Peace was hurting badly and he struggled to get up. He fell down. 'This is it,' he thought. I no longer have the strength to go on. Suddenly an image of his friends appeared in his mind. Yugi, Joey, Tea, Tristan, Ryou, Mina, Nari, Alice, Yamato and Sdrive. They all appeared in front of him menatlly urging him to get up. He looked up in the darkness of his mind and saw that there was another presance there. He looked like a tall muscular man. He smiled softly at Peace and placed his hand on Peace's chest. Peace was infused with an ancient power that he was not too familiar with but it gave him the strength he needed to stand up. He looked at his hand and saw the oppertunity open up. "I play Soul Exchange! With this card I can sacrifice one of your monsters and then birng forth one of mine. And I choose your middle On Gaurd monster!" Dais's UFO Turtle dissapeared in a flash of light. Peace layed a card face down horizontally on his Duel Disk and it appeared on the field. I layed my card on guard and now I will end my turn to you.

'This kid things I'm stupid. He's probalby using that dumb Labrinth Wall Card. You don't summon a high power monster on gaurd unless it's something like that.' Dais drew his card and smiled. "This is perfect, I lay one card under the table and then I end my turn."

'I'm hurting badly, I need a good monster right about now.' Peace said as he drew. Peace looked at his card and smiled. 'Awsome! This is just what I need right now,' I play-

"I activate a Trap Card!" Dais called out.

"I have just started my turn. What could you possibly be activating now?"

"THIS! The Polite Intruding Trio!" Suddenly three Ojama tokens appeared on Peace's side of the field.

"What is the meaning of this?" Peace asked.

"This card allows me to bring forth three Polite Intruding Tokens (0/1000) to your side of the field. They come in on gaurd. They can't be sacrificed to birng forth monsters. Every time one is destroyed you will lose 300 life points."

'This is not good. I could flip up the Turtle and tribute them, but the only thing that that would do is cost me life points. Life points that I can't afford to lose right now. If I did that I could summon Hysterik Fairy. Then I could Tribute them, but in the end I would only be gaining 100 lifepoints. Maybe I can stall for time.' "I have to end my turn for right now until I can think of something to do."

"Fine. In the mean time I lay one card under the table and now I will use my Prominence Dragon to destroy one of the Polite Intruding Trio Tokens."

"Not so fast! Now it's MY turn to activate a Trap. And the trap I choose to activate is one of the best traps for my deck. The monster stopping Gravity Bind! A net of energy stopped The dragon from attacking and weighted it down.

"Grr, Fine, I end my turn."

'Come on you have been good to me so far deck, let's not stop now.' Peace drew his card and started contemplating. "Ok, This will be a tad bit risky. I Flip up My Catapult Turtle!" (1000/2000) A large Mechanical Turtle came up to the field and got stuck in the net. But it's Catapult was out of the net.

"That was your face down card? I thought it was a Labrinth Wall." Dais said shocked.

"Nope. I don't need that type of card. Now I will Flip Up My Trap Master. A small Monster with lots of gadgets attached to it appeared. "I can flip up your face down card. If it is a Trap it is destroyed." The Card flipped up to show a Dark Curse Card.

"I was going to use that," Dais said.

"To bad, next I will use my Turtle to Catapult Launch your Token at you!" The Polite Token went on top of the Turtle and got launched.

"I lose no Life Points but you do."

Peace: 1900

Dais: 8000

"It was worth it. Becuase now I have an open spot. I bring forth my Hysteric Fairy!" A fairy that looked like a man with glasses came onto the field. "I will use it's effect to sacrifice my Trap Master and your Polite Token to gain 1000 life points."

"You will lose another 300 first."

Peace: 1600

Dais: 8000

"But now I will gain 1000 life points."

Peace: 2600

Dais: 8000

"That seemed like more trouble than it was worth." Dais said.

"Whatever. Now I will sacrifice my Fairy to my Turtle. You will lose half the attack points." The fairy climbed onto the turtle and lunched itself off and hit Dais in the chest. Dais began to bleed but there was not much damage done to him. At least none that he shared with Peace.

Peace: 2600

Dais: 7100

"Huh huh huh huh, that really hurt me," Dais said sarcastically.

"I sense sarcasm," Peace said smiling trying to put a bit of humor into the duel.

"You will sense defeat soon enough." Dais said seriously.

"Hmm, so much for humor. I end my turn."

"It's my turn and I'll lay one monster on guard and end my turn." Dais said.

Peace drew and he got a huge smile on his face. 'This is awsome!' He thought. "I lay one card under the table and one monster on guard and end my turn!"

"Now prepare for my turn as I play Sangan in attack mode!"

"You have activated my Trap Card. Just Desserts. You will lose 500 life points for everymonster that you have on the field. And you have 5!"

A hand made of fog came out and grabbed Dais's face. It sucked his energy out and dissapeared into the card.

Peace: 2600

Dais: 4600

Dais began to breathe heavily. "You twerp that actually hurt. Well I will attack your face down monster now. I could attack the Token but you would be dumb to sacrifice it to the Turtle. So I will pick your Monster!"

"And you attacked my Kiseitai (300/800)" A weird worm type monster appeared and attached itself onto the Sangan. You might be wondering what just happened. Allow me to explain. My Kiseitai will increase my life points by half of Sangan's attack points each of your Standby Phases. That's 500 life points."

"I end my turn." Dais said.

Peace drew his card and thought about it. "I will activate The Dark Door. Only one monster can attack during each of our turns. Just to tangle you up even more, and then I end my turn."

Peace: 3100

Dais: 4600

Dais drew his card and grimaced. "I pass this turn."

"Your starting to lose grip of this duel aren't you? I will lay one monster on guard and end my turn."

Peace: 3600

Dais: 4600

'That darn kid is only 1000 life points below me. I have to get rid of my Sangan.' Dais thought. "I pass this turn as well."

"Time to turn this duel around for the better. DRAW! I flip up my Penguin Soldier (750/500) and then make your Prominence Dragon go back to your hand and your face down monster!" The Crater Driver and the face down card turned into orbs of light. The went into the cards on the Duel Disk and Dais picked them off the Duel Disk adding them to his hand. "And now I will sacrifice my Penguin Soldier for My Summoned Skull. The skull came forth and got trapped in Peaces Gravity Bind that was still active.

"You fool. You can't use it to attack, so what's the point?"

"Who said anything about attacking? I'm sacrificing it to my Turtle!" The large skull got on the Turtle and got catapulted right into Dais's chest. Dais started to bleed pretty badly. He now had a large hole in his chest.

Peace: 3600

Dais: 3350

"And I end my turn."

Peace: 4100

Dais: 3350

"I will lay one card under the table and end my turn I discard becuase of the 6 card limit rule." Dais discarded his Crater Dragon from his hand."

"I begin my turn. I will play my Graceful Charity card. It allows me to gain three cards in exchange for two. Now I will discard two cards. I discard my Man Eater bug and my Sinester Serpent. I play Dark Hole to rid the Field of all monsters."

"Thank you for destroying my Sangan. I now get to search for a monster with An attack of 1500 or less from my deck to my hand. And I choose Prominence Dragon."

"And then I will play Revive Dead to bring back my Catpult Turtle. And that will end my turn."

"DRAW!" Dais shouted. "Thanks to your Dark Hole you don't gain any more life points. And becuase you played it you brought my Sinester Serpent to the Graveyard. So now I can bring it from the graveyard to my hand. And now I will lay one monster on guard and end my turn, discarding two cards. I discard Giant Germ and Prominence Dragon."

"You're starting to fall apart. I too had a Sinester Serpent on the field. So I will bring it back to my hand." Peace said. 'hmmm, there has to be a way to get this over with. Of course. The answer has been on the field the whole time.' "I activate my Magic Card Scapegoat. I gain for sheep tokens. And with that I will end my turn."

'What could he possibly be planning?' Dais thought. 'Those sheep don't have any attack points. He can't possibly be sacrificing them to the turtle. There has to be more to his plan than that.' Dais drew his card. "Ahhh Perfect. I lay one card under the table and then I lay another monster on guard and I end my turn."

Just as Peace was drawing his card, Yugi and the gang came up to him. They saw what was going on and yelled out to Peace. "Hey Peace are you ok?" Tea asked.

"Yeah, and I'm just about to finish," Peace said.

"I sure hope so," Sdrive said. "Things aren't looking to positive for you."

"Don't worry about it."

"Ok. Kick his butt!"

"And here comes your defeat Dais. I will wipe you out if not this turn than next turn." Peace said looking at the card he drew. "And now watch as my plan to defeat you begins. First I will have my turtle launch one of the sheep tokens at you!"

"I'm afraid I won't take any damage. The score stays the same."

Peace: 4100

Dais: 3350

"Not for long," Peace said. "Not for long. I summon My Cannon Sodier (1400/1300) onto the field in attack mode. And now here is where the fun begins." The cannon shaped soldier appeared onto the field. "The Cannon Soldier allows me to sacrice monsters and in turn do 500 points of direct damage to you!"

"WHAT!!!" Dais exclaimed.

"That's right. So now I will sacrifice my sheep tokens to do 1500 points of direct damage!" Peace yelled as his sheeps energy were taken from them giving the cannon it's power. It shot out a blast of energy which caused Dais to fall down to the ground.

Peace: 4100

Dais: 2050

"And that's not all. Now I will sacrifice the Cannon Soldier to the Turtle to do 700 more points of direct damage!" The Cannon Soldier climbed on top of the Catapult Turtle and launched it at Dais.

Peace: 4100

Dais: 1350

"Next I will sacrifice the Turtle itself and do 500 more points of damage." The Turtle's feet went inside the shell. Out came Rocket Boosters that propelled it right into Dais.

Peace: 4100

Dais: 850

"And then I will lay one card under the table and end my turn." Peace said finally finishing his turn.

"I - draw," Dais could barley even talk. Dais drew Mystical Space Typhoon. "I-"

"I activate Just Desserts. You have two monster so you lose 1000 life points. And that is the end of the Duel!"

Peace: 4100

Dais: 0

"Wow Peace owned that guy," Sdrive said.

"No he didn't," Yamato said.

"What do you mean?" Sdrive asked.

"I'll tell you later."

The damage of the duel was healed. "Good Job. You had me running for my money. I salute you. Here are my cards. HA!" Suddenly the Sennen Symbol Appeared on him.

"What's going on?" Peace demanded

Suddenly the voice of Marik came out of Dais's mouth. "So you have seemed to be a worthy opponent. I guess when we meet up I will have to make you a mind slave."

"What happened to you I thought we were friends now," Yugi said.

"And how are you controlling him anyway?" Peace asked. "He wasn't a Rare Hunter!"

"I am everywhere, I am watching all of your duels. As for that fool of a Hikari, I am in control again. I will not allow you to deny my my destiny. I will soon take everything you have ever had Pharaoh. Mark my w-" And with that Dais fell over.

"It happened again. The duelist's soul was sent to the Shadow Realm."

"You seemed to be holding up pretty good. How?" Yugi asked a bit curious as to how Peace did so well.

"Shadi gave me the Sennen Scale." Peace said simply

"WHAT!!" They all said togther.

"I'll tell you the story." Peace said.

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Meanwhile in another part of town we see a robed girl dueling a random duelist. "You thought that you were actually a Match for me?" The girl asked sneering at him.

"I'm in the lead with 3850 life points to your 2300 life points," the man said as if reminding her that he was winning.

"Not for long," she said as she held up a card in her hand. "In order to play this next card I have to remove one Light and one Dark Monster from my Graveyard. In order to summon the Chaos Emperor Dragon!"

"What is that?" the man said in utter confusion.

A huge Dragon with armor and blue skin appeared on teh field. "The Chaos Emeror Dragon has another part of it's effect. If I sacrifice 1000 life points I can destroy all cards on the field and in our hands. For everycard destroyed in this way you will lose 300 life points!" She proclaimed laughing evily.

"No, That's 13 cards. that means I lose 3900 life points!"

Man: 0

Robed Girl: 1300

"Now hand over your rare cards. HAHAHAHAHAHA..."

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Meanwhile back with the gang Peace had just finished telling the story when the Sennen Item Symbol started to glow on Sdrive's forehead.

"It can't be. Could it?" Sdrive asked to himself.

"What?" Peace asked his friend.

"I've finally found you," Sdrive said talking to himself. Suddenly Sdrive started running out into the streets.

"What do you think is going on?" Yugi asked Yamato.

"He left to fast. I wasn't able to read his mind. Let's follow him." Yamato responded.

"What about Dais?" Yugi asked.

"I'll take him to the hospital." Peace said. "He was my opponent after all, I'll catch up to you guys soon."

"Thanks," Yugi said to Peace and with that they chased after Sdrive into the streets of Australlia.

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Sdrive: And that is the end of this chapter. So now you are probably wondering, What's wrong with Sdrive, What does he mean, I've finally found you, who is the Robed Girl? And will Some Dude be making another apperaence? I can only answer one questio without spoiling the story. Some Dude has once again appeared into a story. He won't be having a major roll. Just a guy who pops in and out.

Lazy Revier response time:

Peace: There you go. You dueled, you almost got owned and then you owned. I hope people wonder where you came from. Good job Peace.

Zenryo: Good Eye. Thanks

Nari: YAY! Thanks for reading.

Mina: Thanks for the Info. I'm being lazy. I used the sOldger of stone thing for you. Ja!

Dais: Sorry for making you lose. Thanks for the deck info. YAY Dais. You have a deck that helped me right a really cool duel. Thanks bunches.

Sdrive: I will hopefully be updating this soon again. From the desktop of Sdrive

Shi: And Shi.

Sdrive: Whatever. Power to the Hikari's