Name: Just guess

Title: Darkness vs. Darkness, Part 5

Warnings: Fighting monsters. EGAD!

Genre: Super-cool monster action.

Summary: Now the stakes are larger….Death itself (literally.)

NOTE: You'd think I'd figure out that no one reads this by now.

DARKNESS VS. DARKNESS, PART 5

Hayku was lying down, frozen with shock, as Death's cape billowed out from behind him. "So what is it going to be?" Death croaked in his deep, dark-sounding voice. "Are you, Hayku, the newest member of the Shadows, going to accept my challenge and bow down to my ultimate rule?" After a moment, Hayku rummaged up enough courage to speak to Death. "B-but I-I d-don't have a-any c-cards." Then both Death and Hayku leapt back in bewilderment as another voice entered the conversation. "That's why I'm stepping in!" Hayku looked up. The owner of the voice was a teenager, not much older than Hayku. "I Mokuba Kaiba, refuse to sand in this darkness any longer! If he leaves, I leave!" "Fine, if it's a two-on-one duel you want, then that's what you're going to get!" Death croaked. "I'm afraid that it can't be a two-on-one duel because I don't have any cards." This was in fact a lie. He still had the cards he dueled Aaron with, but he didn't wasn't to embarrass his dueling skills, nor have Death ridicule him. "Don't worry about that. I'll supply the decks!" at this, Mokuba reached into his pocket, pulled out a deck box, opened it, upended the box, and retrieve its contents. After reviewing the deck for a couple of minutes, he returned it to the deck box, and he threw the deck box at Hayku. "Whoa!" he yelled, surprised at the throw. But he still caught it flawlessly. "What kind of deck is this?" he asked. "It's a Chaos Deck." Mokuba responded calmly, as they heard a gasp escape from Death's mouth. "Wow a Chaos deck. I've heard that these can be pretty good." Hayku responded. "I don't care how good your decks are! They still can't beat me own! Hahahahaha!" Death said, his voice returning to normal. "Fine! Let's dUel!" Mokuba and Hayku yelled at the same time. As those words escaped their mouths, they heard a large sound coming from behind them. It sounded like a whirlwind, and they were in the middle of it! Moments later, they saw what was making the sound. Cards. Thousands of them. Millions even, all rushing at the threesome. They Hayku heard a dark laugh escaping Death's lips. "Not the conditions you were expecting, now were they? But this is how 'rescue' duels in the Shadow Realm go. Hahahahaha!" "Lets begin this duel!" Hayku said, as his secretly took the horrible deck that Aaron made for his out of his Duel Disk, and replaced it with the one that Mokuba had given him. "Pssst. My deck is a steam deck." Mokuba whispered to Hayku. "Oh, and whatever you do, don't play Black Luster Soldier – Envoy of the Beginning until I tell you too. I'm entrusting you with my rarest card, so submit to my will!" re continued. "I believe that it is time for you two to stop mumbling and draw your cards!" Death yelled, clearly ticked off. "Because you two took too long, I will begin. I draw." At that, he whipped his giant scythe and swiped at the air one, two, three, six times, and each time a card got stuck on the scythe. After he had swung his curved blade six times, he placed the vile-looking weapon on its sheath positioned on his back. "That is how I draw. So actually, my deck is consisted of 1 million cards!" Death yelled out, obviously ecstatic.

Mokuba 8000

Hayku 8000

Death 8000

"Now I will begin this duel by played a monster face-down on the field." Death chose a card from his hand, and threw it on the ground. "Aha! Your Death is sealed. Now, at the cost of 2000 of my Life Points, I shall play the magic card Final Countdown!" Death threw the card down onto the ground, and immediately 20 darkened orbs ascended from the card. They took their spot around the three duelists, surrounding them in a circle of orbs.

Mokuba 8000

Hayku 8000

Death 6000

1 Glowing Death Orb

"This is the card that will make this duel take very little time. With Final Countdown, this duel is shortened to 20 turns. Starting with this turn, every time some one ends their turn, 1 orb lights up. As soon as all 20 are lit, I win the duel!" Death exclaimed. "Now I end my turn." As soon as Death said this, Hayku noticed that one of the orbs started glowing. "If it is fine with you, I would like to begin my turn now." Mokuba asked Hayku. "Sure." He replied, and even before the words left his lips, Mokuba was already drawing his card. "I'll begin by playing the magic card Level Limit Area B!" Mokuba threw the card down onto his Duel Disk, and suddenly the 20 orbs rose up, and replacing where they were was a factory, with giant Egyptian-style statues moving along on conveyor belts, and disappearing into a door marked with a letter B on it. Then the circle of orbs stretched out more, so as to surround the factory now on the field. "Level Limit Area B makes it so all monsters Level 4 and above are forced to go to defense mode. Now, to compliment my Level Limit Area B, I shall play The Solar Flare Dragon (1500/1000)!" Just like the other 3 or 4 times Solar Flare Dragon was played in one of Hayku's duels, a red, scaled dragon appeared on the field, in a defensive stance, and annoyed at the storm of cards that were constantly hitting him. "I end my turn, adding 1 more glowing orb to the total of 20 and making you lose 500 Life Points." Simultaneously, 1 more orb started glowing, and the Dragon reared its ugly head back, and heaved a fire ball at Death. But unexpectedly, the Dragon turned, and also shot a fire ball at Hayku!

Mokuba 8000

Hayku 7500

Death 5500

2 Glowing Death Orbs

"What was that for!" Hayku yelled. "That is the rules of a team duel. It affects all the people on the field except for the user of the card. And unfortunately, that includes you." Mokuba replied, calm as ever. "Whatever, I'll just go." At that Hayku drew a card from his deck. "To begin my turn, I'll play the magic card Nobleman of Crossout." Hayku threw down the card into his Duel Disk, and a knight in shining armor appeared on the field. He threw his sword at Death's face-down monster, and the sword went right through it. Then, the sword continued its travel through the air, and it went right through 2 more cards from the air. "I've caught onto your plan 'Death', if that really is your name. You say that your deck is consisted of 1 million cards, but that's a lie. You probably have a vacuum sucking up all the cards, leading them through a tube, and dropping them off in front of a fan, creating a continuous stream of cards. Because if you really had '1 million cards', than my Nobleman of Crossout's second effect wouldn't have worked as quickly as it did. You see, that card lets me remove 1 face down monster from play. However, if my opponent has more copies of that card in his deck, than they get removed from play also. And if you really had '1 million cards', than it would've taken forever for my card to find the copies! Your mind games won't work on us anymore, 'Death'. Reveal yourself to us and continue like a man, without all the smoke and mirrors." Hayku said, and he was out of breath by the end of his lengthy speech. "HOW DARE YOU CRITIZIZE ME, YOUNG MORTAL!" Death yelled. "I'VE HAD ENOUGH OF YOU! ARE YOU GOING TO CONTINUE THE DUEL OR NOT!" "I will, once you put the three cards I removed from play away from the range of the vacuum." "GAHHHHHH! STOP IT! HERE, I'F YOU'RE SO WORRIED ABOUT IT, THAN TAKE CARE OF THEM YOUR SELF!" At that, Death threw the triplet of cards at Hayku, and he caught them and put them into his fastened pocket. "Gladly." He replied cunningly. "I will continue by throwing down 2 face-downs, 1 magic or trap, and one monster, and ending my turn. And because my teammate has control of the Solar Flare Dragon, I get to use it as well. Mokuba, I know you're on my team, but I believe it is time for some payback." The Dragon reared its head back again, and this time let out 2 fire balls at once, one aimed at Death, the other aimed at Mokuba. Needless to say, they both hit their mark. "But another turn has ended, so another orb needs to light up, for a total of three." Death said as the fire ball collided with him.

Mokuba 7500

Hayku 7500

Death 5000

3 Glowing Death Orbs

"I shall draw." Death swung his long scythe at the air again, adding another card to his hand. "Now I will put a monster face-down and a magic or trap face-down as well, mimicking the taller mortal's move. What is your name again?" "Konohamaru. Hayku Konohamaru. Remember it." "Thank you Hayku. I believe that it will be a shame for a lad with such a remarkable name to spend eternity in the Shadow Realm! Hahahahaha! I end, adding yet another turn to my Final Countdown." Another orb lit up. "And that makes 4."

4 Glowing Death Orbs

Mokuba said a hint of dread in his voice. "I'll draw. Ahhhh. I've got nothing to do except to place a monster face-down and ending my turn." The Dragon attacked yet again, reducing Life Points as the 5th orb lit up.

Mokuba 7500

Hayku 7000

Death 4500

5 Glowing Death Orbs

"I'll begin my move by drawing a card, and I will place another monster face-down on the field, and end my turn, making a total of 6 glowing orbs, and more life point losses occur." Hayku said quickly.

Mokuba 7000

Hayku 7000

Death 4000

6 Glowing Death Orbs

"I will begin my turn by drawing." Death said as he swung the scythe yet again. "I'll end my turn to add another glowing orb to the 6 that are already lit to ensure that the end of this duel will come in at most 13 turns."

7 Glowing Death Orbs

"I'll draw." Mokuba said. "I have the perfect hand. All I need to make this duel end in shorter than 13 turns is one more card. In the mean time, I'll end my turn to add another glowing orb and subtract another pair of 500 Life Points.

Mokuba 7000

Hayku 6500

Death 3500

8 Glowing Death Orbs

"I'll draw and end my turn."

Mokuba 6500

Hayku 6500

Death 3000

9 Glowing Death Orbs

"At this point, you'll never get to 20 orbs." Hayku said to Death. "Let's until I complete my turn to make such false judgments. I draw, and I play the magic card Snatch Steal to steal your Solar Flare Dragon." When Death threw the card down, a masked hoodlum leaped from the card, jar of water in hand, and ran right at the Dragon. The Dragon then got trapped in the jar, and the dragon-napper ran to Death's side of the field again, where he took the Solar Flare Dragon out of the jar and placed it on the field in front of Death. "I end my turn, and each of you looses 500 Life Points, but you gain 100 on each of my turns.

Mokuba 6000

Hayku 6000

Death 3000

10 Glowing Death Orbs

"It's my turn. I'll draw. Ahhhh. I'll end my turn!"

11 Glowing Death Orbs

"Now it's my turn. I draw, and I play Exiled Force (1000/1000) and sacrifice him to destroy your Solar Flare Dragon that is actually Mokuba's!" An angry mob stormed the field, and they rushed at the Dragon, hacking and slashing him to death, but not before the Solar Flare Dragon brought them down as well. "And I end my turn."

12 Glowing Death Orbs

"It's my turn to go." Death said as he made his scythe slice through the air again. "You two do not gain Life Points as my Snatch Steal went down with the Dragon. I have nothing to do. I end my turn."

13 Glowing Death Orbs

"I shall go. I draw and play Snatch Steal. I shall steal on of Hayku's face-down monsters. I flip up the face-down card, which turns out to be a Sangan (1000/600), and attack Hayku!" 'I know what he's trying to do.' Hayku thought. 'He wants me to play 'the card'. But how does he know that I have a Mirror Force face-down? Whatever.' "I'll activate my face-down Mirror Force. Now all the monsters on the field get sent to the graveyard, and I get to use Sangan's effect." Hayku exclaimed as he searched his deck for a suitable card. "Aha! I've got it. I play Berserk Gorilla (2000/1000), but it goes into defense mode, and it gets destroyed." "I end my turn." Mokuba said.

14 Glowing Death Orbs

"I draw." Hayku says. "I end."

15 Glowing Death Orbs

"The end is near." Death said. "I draw and end my turn."

16 Glowing Death Orbs

"My move." Mokuba said. "My hand has too many cards, so I discard it. I end."

17 Glowing Death Orbs

"I'll draw and end." Hayku said.

18 Glowing Death Orbs

"Only 2 more turns. I don't need to do anything else, so I end." Death said.

19 Glowing Death Orbs

"I'm sorry, Hayku, but I've got nothing to do. I gave you my best deck. I'm sorry." Mokuba said, with sadness in his voice. "I must end."

20 Glowing Death Orbs

"Unfortunately, you have this last turn. This is the end. Hayku Konohamaru, go." Death said. "And I've got the perfect move to do." Hayku responded. "No! You can't!" Mokuba suddenly yelled. "But it's the only chance we have!" "I don't care. Whatever you do, do not play that card!" "I don't know about you, but I don't want to live here, even if it isn't really the Shadow Realm. I have a family, and because of these freaks, I haven't seen them in a week!" Hayku was beginning to lose his temper. "I'm sick of this! I don't want to do this anymore! I've had enough! I don't want to live in this nightmare anymore! I'll do whatever it takes to end this! Even if it means I can't duel again! Now, I will take 1 dark monster and 1 light monster from my graveyard out of play to play the Chaos Emperor Dragon Envoy of the End (3000/2500)!" A giant, 4 legged behemoth of a monster appeared on the field, while Mokuba cowered in fear, crying away. "Now, I pay 1000 Life Points to destroy all the cards in our hands and on the field. For each, you lose 300 Life Points. I have 6, my friend over here has 7 and I can see that you have 9. That makes a total of 22 cards. 22 times 300 is a total of 6600 Life Points. And that means that you lose." The Dragon leapt into the air, and it crashed down, instantly ending the duel.

Mokuba 6000

Hayku 5000

Death 0

0 Glowing Death Orbs

"Brother…" Hayku heard Mokuba say. "Are you ok?" he asked him. "You! Don't talk to me! You killed my brother! Didn't you know that that card is banned? That card is too powerful. It kills the one on the receiving end of the attack! You killed my brother!" Mokuba yelled as he ran too Hayku, attempting to punch him. Then he reached into his pocket, and took out a switch blade. "I'll kill you because you killed my brother!" Mokuba yelled, totally loosing control. He managed to cut Hayku a little before a man separated them. "Mokuba, is that how you act when I'm away? I must say, I'm disappointed." The tall man said. "And you, Hayku Konohamaru, are the winner of the 1st annual Virtual Reality tournament!" "Huh?" "My name is Seto Kaiba, and I am the creator of the Virtual Reality capsule your body is in. Now, I was supposed to be here for you to claim your prize, but it seems that you've killed a bit too many of my associates. So, even though you will get recognition as being the champ, you won't win anything! Isn't that the greatest idea…idea…idea…idea?"

A young, seven year-old Hayku was skipping home from another wonderful day at school. He unlocks the door, and steps in.

"Mom, I'm home! Mom?" Hayku said that last line with a worried tone, for he now saw that the phone line had been cut. He enters his mother's room and saw her dead body, limp, with gunshot wounds to the head, chest, and neck. "MMMMMMMOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!" Crack! Crack! Crack! The gun went. And that was the end of Hayku's Konohamaru's life.

"He's pretty good isn't he, mom?" Hayku said, wings on his back, reaching over a shining railing in the sky…