The bead burst into flames and started taking form. "SHADOWS TAKE LIFE, CREATURES BE BORN, NOW LET'S SEE HOW WELL YOU PLAY THE GAME WHEN THE GAME BECOMES REAL!"
"Forgive my understatement but this is not good," Amara commented.
"IT IS NO LONGER TIME TO DUEL, NOW IT IS TIME TO DIE!" The dark ooze took the shape of a giant dog-like beast. "NOTHING IN YOUR DECKS CAN SAVE YOU NOW!"
Pegasus gasped, "Of course, Shadi's story," he said.
"Huh?" Everyone else asked.
"The Pyramid of Light gave Anubis so much power that it mutated him beyond his human form. If Yugi and Kaiba don't get out of there…"
But before Pegasus could warn them, Anubis fired two energy bolts which destroyed Kaiba's Duel Disk and sent cards from both decks scattering.
"We have to save them," Harold said. He turned to Joey and Amara. The two nodded.
"IT APPEARS YOU ARE ONE CARD SHORT, PHARAOH," Anubis commented not knowing that it was Yugi and not Yami.
"Yeah, but we're not!" It was Joey, Harold, and Amara which stood in between Kaiba and Yugi and their opponent.
"You two ready?" Joey asked. Harold and Amara nodded. "Let's duel!" They all put on their Duel Disks. "Gilford the Lightning and Gearfried the Iron Knight! Get him!" Joey's two warriors charged Anubis.
"I'll show you who the true master of light is around here," Harold said. "Attack, Serapheem and Wingweaver!" The two fairies combined their energies into a giant orb and sent it at Anubis.
Amara also drew two cards from her deck. "I attack with Cosmo Queen and Penumbral Soldier Lady (65)!"
Anubis swept an energy blast which destroyed all of the monsters.
"Well that didn't work," Amara said. "Anybody got any more good ideas?"
"If monster cards are real in this, maybe magic and trap cards are too," Joey suggested.
"Nothing to lose, everything to gain," Harold quoted. They all drew a card from their respective decks. "I play Solar Ray!"
"Meteor of Destruction!"
"Lightning Vortex!"
The lightning wrapped itself around the meteor which was then given a boost by the solar ray. The combined attack beamed Anubis in the forehead.
Anubis didn't even feel it. But he was upset at their interference. "YOU ARE BECOMING A BOTHERSOME! NOW DIE!" Anubis launched a shadow blast at the three. The three screamed but then vanished.
"Look!"
Joey, Harold, and Amara had been saved by Pegasus's toon monsters. Toon Gemini Elf had Amara and Harold while Blue-Eyes Toon Dragon was struggling to carry Joey by the collar of his jacket. Fortunately the monsters were able to drop their passengers back onto the gantry.
"This place isn't safe," Pegasus said as the toon monsters launched attacks on Anubis. "We need to get out of here."
"This time, I think we really should get out of here," Harold said.
"Go," Yugi called out as Anubis finished off the toon monsters. "I'll handle Anubis."
"We'll handle Anubis," Kaiba corrected.
"Huh? But Kaiba…"
"This nut job was pulling my chain and now he's destroying my Duel Dome. I will not tolerate such disrespect."
"You think you can battle him with a bad arm?"
"I could battle him with two bad arms if I wanted to."
"All right."
"The emergency elevator's this way," Mokuba said. The bystanders hurried off.
Tea was the last one. She took one longing look at Yugi. "Please be careful," she murmured. Then she went into the elevator.
"THEY SHALL DIE SOON, FOR NOW I WILL DEAL WITH YOU TWO!" Anubis suddenly sprouted a pair of wings and a set of spikes on his forehead as well as a really nasty head blade. He brought his paw up and tried to crush Yugi and Kaiba. The two dove to different sides. Anubis quickly turned on Kaiba seeing him as the weaker of the two. Yugi felt something underneath his foot. He turned and saw one of his cards.
"Kaiba!" Yugi threw the card to Kaiba and Kaiba held it up just as Anubis was about to launch another barrage of black fireballs.
"Mirror Force!" Kaiba shouted. A shield bounced the fireballs away from Kaiba but they hit what was left of the roof. Anubis turned to Yugi but Yugi scampered underneath Anubis and joined Kaiba on the other side.
"How do we beat a real monster?"
"With a real monster." Kaiba threw a card to Yugi.
"What's this?" Yugi asked.
"The one card that can beat him," Kaiba replied.
Yugi looked at the card and understood. "It's time to get real with the Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon!" Yugi and Kaiba were thinking the same thing. If the monsters were real then so were their abilities including Shining Dragon's ability to destroy almost anything.
The Shining Dragon burst from its card and dispersed Anubis's dark fireball. It hovered in the air. Anubis quickly launched a dark fire blast at it but the dragon no-sold it.
On the outside, the others noticed the bright light. "It's the Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon," Pegasus realized.
"It's so beautiful," Sumi commented.
"Yeah, but is it glowing like that a good thing or a bad thing?" Joey asked.
"We're about to find out, Mister Wheeler," Pegasus replied.
"SHINING NOVA ATTACK!" Yugi and Yami cried together. Yami had put his own energy into increasing the Shining Dragon's special ability. "DESTROY ANUBIS!"
The dragon started to shine brighter than the moon. The light rained down on Anubis which burned him like an egg on a frying pan. Anubis burst into flames and started to melt at the same time. Soon all the dark ooze that was once Anubis was destroyed. The bead that was once at the heart of the Pyramid of Light and subsequently Anubis himself fell to the ground and shattered.
The Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon let out one last roar before transforming into an orb of light and disappeared into the sky. The dark clouds around the Duel Dome cleared up.
Everyone held their breath waiting for someone, anyone to emerge. Finally someone did two someones actually: Yugi and Kaiba. They were both holding their decks and Kaiba was nursing his arm but they were alive.
Moments later everyone convened by Pegasus's helicopter. Mokuba bandaged Kaiba's arm. Tea patched up Yugi's back and face.
Sumi looked up at the sky. "At last," she said more to herself than to others. "Professor, Sanford, perhaps you two can now rest in peace." She smiled then paused. She couldn't have remembered the last time she genuinely smiled. It felt like she was waking up from a nightmare and learning everything was all right.
Well right now, it seemed like everything will be all right.
"He isn't coming back again, is he?" Tea asked Pegasus.
"Oh relax, little girl, Anubis is gone. Even if he could, nobody would be willing to come back after suffering such a humiliating defeat… except Kaiba boy that is." Pegasus said that just as Kaiba came over to them. Kaiba scowled at Pegasus who just smirked, "I'm sorry did I say that out loud?"
Kaiba didn't address Pegasus but instead looked at Yugi.
"Kaiba…"
"Save your bull about friendship, Yugi. If it wasn't for that freak show crashing the party, we both know the winner of this duel would've been me. We'll duel again." And Kaiba just left. Mokuba gave Yugi a slight bow before following behind his brother.
Amara sighed, "Some people will just never be satisfied with second place."
"Kaiba doesn't get it," Yugi said solemnly. "I don't owe my success to my cards or my strategies, but to the support of the people around me." He looked around at his Grandpa, Harold, Tristan, Amara, Joey, Pegasus, Sumi, and Tea. "Because as long as you're surrounded by loved ones then in victory or defeat you're always a winner." It was then that a shooting star raced across the sky near where the Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon disappeared, attracting everyone's attention.