Lu: Sorry I didn't update yesterday, I slept over at Inwe's house, and had to do homework. So, here's the duel!

Yami Lu: Whoa, I wish I could duel as well as Yami Bakura. I'm gonna go and get him to teach me.

Lu: Fine. I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh, that is all I need say.

Chapter 13 – Duel: Yami Bakura vs Yami Yugi – Part 1

"You ready, my Pharoah?" Bakura asked with another evil grin.

"Let's duel!" shouted Yami.

They each drew 5 cards. Yami looked at his hand. Kuriboh, Joey, Multiply, Tristan and Acid Trap Hole.

"Your go, little Yami," jeered Bakura.

"I play Kuriboh, in attack mode. I also play Multiply, which duplicates my Kuriboh. I'll now play one card face down to end my turn." He placed the cards onto the minature playfield. A wall of Kuriboh appeared on the field, as well as a face down card. Bakura scowled.

"Impressive first move, Bel um Fal, but here's mine." He placed one card face down and a monster face up. "This is Seyairya. He has an attack power of 2500 and a defense power of 2300. Sure, he cannot destroy your army of Kuriboh, but it will prove to be a good defensive monster. I also play one card face down." The face down card appeared on the field, as well as a monster with blades on its arms.

Yami drew a card from his deck. It was the Dark Magician. "I play the Dark Magician in attack mode," shouted Yami, and lay the card down on the card field. His favourite card appeared on the field. "It has an attack power of 2800, so it can take out your monster."

Bakura grinned.

"But I won't attack yet." Yami continued. Bakura's face fell.

"I think I am right in saying that the face down card is a trap, and I don't want to put my friends lives on the line," said Yami.

Bakura scowled and drew a card. "I will just end my turn here." he said in a disappointed voice.

Yami drew another card to begin his turn. "Tea," he muttered as his eyes rested on her picture.

/Yugi, it's getting too dangerous. If he uses a Magic Card that causes me to discard my hand, Tea, Tristan and Joey will be sent to the graveyard./ said Yami to Yugi.

/OK, but please, be careful. These guys are like family to me/ replied Yugi.

Yami placed Joey's card on the field. "I place Joey on the field." He glanced behind him, and saw that Joey had disappeared. He swung around and saw Joey on the field, looking confused.

"What, huh, where am I? Yami, what happened?" Joey turned around and looked at Yami.

"Joey, I've played you. You have an attack power of 2800 and a defense power of 2500, so you have very little chance of being destroyed. Just stay behind the Kuribohs until I tell you to attack." said Yami very quickly. Joey nodded and turned back to the duel.

"That will end my turn," said Yami to Bakura.

Bakura drew a card and groaned. "I'll end my turn here."

"Not a good draw, eh, Bakura?" taunted Joey. Bakura scowled at Joey.

"At least my life is not about to end," he retorted. Joey fell silent.

Yami drew his next card. "The Celtic Guardian," he muttered. "I will place a monster face down on the field in defence mode."

"Tea!" Mai shouted as Tea disappeared.

"Yami, why am I down here?" asked Tea.

"I just played you," said Yami with a sigh. "I suppose I better put you face up, because now Bakura knows who it is." He turned the card over on his play field.

"Oh my gosh, Yami, I'm so sorry!" she exclaimed.

"It doesn't matter. I thought I could just give you a bit of extra protection." Yami said. "Your turn, Bakura." A/N: Hmm… protection, eh? That's what you want us to think, huh Yami?

Bakura drew a card and grinned. "Finally. I will use this magic card on my Seiyarya. It raises its attack points by 700, therefore making it stronger than your monsters. I also play this card, which allows me to deactivate any card on the field for one turn. I wish to deactivate Multiply, so I can attack your other monsters behind the wall."

The hundreds of Kuriboh vanished, leaving one Kuriboh.

Yami was shocked. He could now attack any of his friends at will, because the Kuriboh wall was the only defense between his monsters and Bakura's monsters.

"Seiyarya, attack Joey now!" "No!" Yami cried as the monster started to sprint towards his best friend. The trap card he had laid was useless against a monster with over 2000 defense points.

Joey grunted in pain as the blades on the monsters arms slashed his face, and he disappeared in a flash of light.

Yami's life points were lowered to 1600. Yami gritted his teeth. This duel was going to be more difficult than he thought.

Joey reawoke in the card graveyard. He looked around, dazed and confused.

"Yami? Yuge? Mai? Tristan? Tea? Hello? Anyone here?" he shouted. He passed his hand over the place where the Seiyarya had struck him. But he felt no wound, and when he took his hand away from his face, he saw no blood.

"Doesn't look like monster wounds last," he commented, and began exploring his surroundings. He remembered the intensity of the pain as the monster had slashed him, and yet he had come out of it with nothing. Around him he saw many tombstones, all with the names of monsters on them. He saw one that looked particularly clean, compared to the rest, and went to check it out. As he read the name on the tombstone he gave a cry of surprise - it said Joey Wheeler.

"Dis is too weird," he muttered. He turned around just in time to see the long scythe of the reaper of cards. He cried out in pain as it slashed his face.

Yami was trembling. He doubted if he would ever see Joey again. He only had one Monster Reborn in his deck, but by the time he drew it, it might be too late for Joey. And even then, what if another one of his friends was sent to the graveyard?

/Yami, you promised that they would all be alive/ said Yugi to Yami with tears in his eyes.

/I... I... I.../ stammered Yami.

/Yami, you must fix this! Please, for Joey's sake! What if Tea or Tristan or Mai is next? Please, help them! Help them, Yami/ said Yugi, crying on the ground.

/We must draw the right card to save Joey/ stated Yami. /You must help me do this Yugi./

Yugi looked up, tears still pouring from his eyes.

/Come on, Yugi, help me do this. I cannot do this without you/ said Yami, looking Yugi steadily in the eyes.

/OK, Yami/ said Yugi weakly, and got to his feet, still trembling slightly.

/We must draw Monster Reborn if we want any chance of saving Joey/ said Yami shortly and placed his hand on the deck.

/I'm with you, Yami/ said Yugi.

Yami woke up to the world around him and saw that Tea was crying, Mai crying even harder than Tea, and Tristan looked lost and confused.

"Draw your card, my Pharoah, but I wouldn't think that there was much hope for your friend," said Bakura grinning.

"I don't think so Bakura," said Yami confidently, and drew a card. "I play Monster Reborn!" shouted Yami, and slammed the card on the play field with relief.

Joey reappeared on the field, clutching his face.

"Joey, are you OK?" shouted Yami anxiously.

"I... I'm OK," stammered Joey. He took his hands off his face slowly, and Yami saw that there was a deep gash stretching from above his eye to his cheek. Blood was slowly seeping out of it.

"No you're not OK Joey, but I can't get you off the field," said Yami in a stressed voice. There was too much strain on the two souls.

"I will end my turn here. But remember, Bakura, your magic card's effect finishes this turn, so my Kuriboh mulitply again." The Kuriboh began to form another wall around his other monsters.

"You can't win dis, Bakura," said Joey slowly, straining to get every word out.

"Shut up, dweeb," snapped Bakura. "You were lucky to get out of that alive."

Joey scowled and shut his mouth. One thing he didn't want to do was to get on the bad side of Bakura, because he had been good friends with Ryou at school, and his Yami had still tried to kill him, and would have succeeded if it were not for Yami's Monster Reborn card.

Bakura drew a card. "I play one card face down," he said and placed the card on the field.

Yami drew a card. He smiled slightly as he read the name on the top of the trap card - Spellbinding Circle. "I play one card face down on the field," Yami announced. "And I play Tristan, in defence mode."

Tristan disappeared from Mai's side and appeared next to Tea.

"I'm sorry, my friends, but if Bakura was to play a card which would make me discard my hand, you would all go to the graveyard, and I can no longer risk that, because I do not have another Monster Reborn."

"We understand Yami," encouraged Tea.

Yami nodded and addressed Bakura: "Your turn Bakura."

"I am well aware of this, Bel um Fal," snapped Bakura. He drew a card, and another manic grin began to spread across his face.

"I play this magic card, which allows me to destroy any card on the field," he stated clearly and proudly. "I will use it to permanently discard Multiply."

The many Kuriboh began disappearing, until one little ball of fluff was left floating in front of Tristan. Tea gasped. Yugi's last defences were destroyed. How could he save them now?

"Seiyaryu," shouted Bakura. "Send Joey Wheeler to the graveyard once and for all." The bladed monster leapt forward at its master's bidding. Mai's scream pierced the air.

"Wait!" cried Yami.

"What?" exclaimed Bakura.

"Your attack has activated my trap card, Spellbinding Circle. Your Seiyaryu is trapped in this circle until this card is destroyed or deactivated." The monster squirmed inside the blinding circle of light.

"Alright, way to go Yami!" said Joey, trying to pretend that the gash down his face did not hurt.

"Impressive move, kid," said Mai, sounding sincere, and glad that she was not on the field.

"And that's not the only thing my circle does," said Yami, smiling and feeling stronger than ever thanks to his friends. "It also cuts the attack points of your monster by 700."

"What?" shouted Bakura. "That's right Bakura, your monster is being sent to the graveyard. Would you like to do the honours Joey?" asked Yami.

"It would be my pleasure," grinned Joey. He ran forward and punched the Seiyaryu in the gut.

"Wait one minute," smiled Bakura. "Had you forgotten about my trap cards? I now activate this trap card, which causes you to discard your hand and draw another 5 cards."

Fortunately, Yami had no cards in his hand that might cost him the match. Or his friends. He discarded the one card he had left. He then reached for the deck and drew another 5 cards while Seiyaryu disappeared in a flash of light.

Bakura's life points were brought down to 1700. Bakura looked angry at the fact that none of Yami's friends had gone to the graveyard.

Lu: I also apologize for the bad life point stuff, but I don't have the time to change it. Oh, and excuse my Yami. She's hanging out with the villain of this duel currently. And please tell me if Seiyaryu's name is spelt right. Because I don't have the internet on the computer I write this on, and I don't have time to check. Review!