CH 5 Shining skull dragon

What makes a man truly great? Is it his friends? Or as most say the enemies he makes in his lifetime? If it is the former I am merely a good man, if it is the latter I am a god. As we stand in front of Kaiba's manor I think about what exactly what my next move should really be.

"Joey, Tristan alright you guys made it." Yugi Sr. said as he stepped out of the car and hugged the two "how've you guys been lately?"

"We've been fine" came another sexier voice from behind the two men.

"Mai?"

"Of course Yugi who else would it be?" Mai said as she stepped from the shadows Yugi looked her over as the others were getting out of the car. He instantly noticed the ring on her finger and the way her stomach was growing.

"How far along are you Mai?"

"Aww Yugi you spoiled the surprise I was going to announce it" Joey said and kicked a rock it bounced by Maddy as she walked up.

"Father?" Maddy said stepping closer looking into Joey's eyes.

"Okay people no time for this" Wanderer said stepping in "ultra fast and short version, these two are from the future, Yugi Jr. son of yugi Sr. and Tea, Maddy wheeler daughter of Mai and Joey. We need to send them back to there time and patch up the hole so can we like move things along now"

"Whose the grouch Yugi?" Tristan asked stepping forward more moving towards Wanderer.

"My name is Wanderer and if you've got a problem take your swing and I'll put you down." Wanderer said stepping closer staring at Tristan.

"Tristan don't, if he's telling the truth speed is of the essence," said another female voice as she stepped out of the shadows as well.

"Serenity, alright if you say so." Tristan said as he turned towards her.

"Well c'mon people we're going to need Kaiba to shell out some cash so we can get where we need to be." Wanderer said and walked up to the gate of Kaiba's mansion.

"You realize that jerk isn't going to give you any cash right?" Joey asked stepping up behind Wanderer.

"He will if I beat him in a duel."

"Is that right? You really think you'll beat Kaiba?"

"I beat yugi how much harder could Kaiba be?" Wanderer muttered as he checked the lock and pressed on the intercom.

"He beat you yugi?" Joey said turning back to talk to yugi Sr. "how did he cheat or something?"

"No I didn't cheat I just know all of his deck inside and out." Wanderer interjected before yugi could say anything. "Ahh there we go" Wanderer clicked the lock open and pushed the gates in. "he's always got the same stupid password let's go."

"Are you sure this is a good idea?" Tristan asked as wanderer stepped into the compound.

"No not really." Wanderer said looking back at them "for that matter it maybe better if you all just wait for me here."

"I don't think so we're all going with you" Yugi Jr. said following Wanderer and in turn being followed by all the others.

They walked deeper into the compound each of them looking around as they walked Wanderer stepped through an infrared laser. Alarms started blaring and suddenly bright lights blinded all of them Wanderer was a good five feet in front of the other's he pulled sun glasses out of his coat and flipping them open he put them on. The light pierced his sunglasses like they weren't even there so he took them off and put them back in his coat.

"I really don't have time for this." he said and started forwards.

"Freeze all of you!" several guards said.

"I don't have time for this!" Wanderer yelled and all the guards headed towards him. "Good none of you move do you hear me?"

"What do you mean?" Joey yelled shielding his eyes from the light.

"Just do it!" Yugi jr. yelled and froze in place as the change over took him and he became one with Atemu the spirit of the puzzle.

As one they could see even in the blinding light they watched as the seven guards closed in. wanderer stepped in close to one feinting he back flipped a kick catching the guard behind him in the chest. Wanderer rolled back then using his hands leapt up to his feet kicking a rock forward it skidded off one guards skull dropping him to the floor before knocking out a spot light. Two more guards came on wanderer stepped in grabbing and moving there arms out to the side he drove in with a clothesline taking both to the floor in an instant. The final three charged in as one and a massive spinning round house sent them all off there feet, wanderer picked up some pebbles and destroyed the last of the lights. That's when he turned back towards them and opened his eyes up.

"Did I forget to mention I know kung fu?" Wanderer asked as they all looked at the guards.

"Yeah you kinda did" Tristan said as he checked a few of the guards pulses.

"Don't worry there alive I've promised not to kill innocent people."

"To who?" Serenity asked looking at the men closest to being dead.

"To my wife now c'mon I told you, we didn't have time for this." Wanderer ran forward.

"His wife?" Joey asked looking over at the two Yugi's and his daughter.

"Explain later his already way ahead of us" Yami said taking off running after Wanderer.

Out distancing the rest of them he entered Kaiba's mansion first and set off the trap waiting for intruders. "Ahh crap" he said as the floor dropped out from under him.

Yugi and the other have arrived just as Kaiba and the rest of his security team entered the room.

"Yugi what is the meaning of this!" Kaiba yelled as Yugi entered the room.

"What happened to Wanderer?" both Yugi's asked at the same time.

"What the?" Kaiba and Mokuba said when the Yugi's spoke up and showed themselves.

(One speedy explanation later)

"I'll call my guards see if he's alive still."

"What do you mean!" Yami said stepping forward.

"They're ordered to put down anyone falling into the trap if he resisted too much there authorized with lethal force." Kaiba responded before punching up a walkie talky "anyone there?"

Wanderer slide down the trap door down to a room under the mansion the lights around him died and it became pitch black he couldn't see anything at all except his wife floating there besides him as always.

"What's going on?" he asked her as he looked around.

"Four guards, black belts all, wearing night vision goggles they're coming in here to beat you down want me to help or rather do this yourself?"

"I've got it just hush k love?"

"Yeah don't want to distract you, just don't hurt them too much."

He sighed and rolled his eyes. "Fine I won't hurt them too much."

"I saw that!"

"I know no shhh love if I'm off with any blow I could kill them."

Wanderer stepped into the very center of the room his eyes closed as his senses again stretched out to sense everything in the room as he'd done in the courtyard. They came in one from each corner each a different discipline each a different style. The first moved in kicking straight forward wanderer side stepped but it was a feint he shifted his backwards and drove his foot down trying to take out the wanderer's kneecap wanderer stepped in too close to the kick to be effective and moved to attack with a kick of his own. Another guard jumped in and swung hard going for a hard body shot, wanderer flapped his coat up and around his opponents arm and tugged pulling him off balance. Wanderer drove him elbow into the man face driving him back the other way as wanderer rolled forward out of the way of the kick aimed at him, it smashed into the second guard hard putting him down and he stayed down. The first guard came in as the third and fourth positioned themselves to strike at the wanderer's back, Wanderer sidestepped the next kick and grabbing it he spun and kick the man's other leg shattering his knee and driving him to the floor a huge left hand left a mark of the wanderer's ring in the man's face. The first guard lay on the floor clutching his broken jaw and shattered knee as the other two-charged in. the third and biggest guard grabbed the wanderer up in a huge bear hug as he turned they where face-to-face. Wanderer grinned and pushed the man's head up and head butted him then again even harder the third guard dropped blood trickling from his ears. Then on came the last guard moving slowly methodically he feinted again and again moving slowly deliberately.

"Jeet Kune do, sorry to say you won't beat me with that, not when I've faced down Bruce lee himself." wanderer said and stepped in ignoring the blow coming at his head he leapt and hooked the man's shoulder with a massive drop kick he rolled backwards to his feet and landed wanderer leapt again dragon stomping his opponent.

"You know actually you've faced Bruce lee like 12 times," his wife said moving from each guard looking at each to see how badly wounded they where.

"I know and while that would have distracted him more it wouldn't have been the same."

"True."

"Anyone there?" Kaiba said into his walkie-talkie.

"Yeah I'm right here." Wanderer said as he came up the elevator set in the back of the room. "You might send some medical attention down there to check on them."

"There's no way you beat all four of my elite bodyguards." Kaiba said watching as the Wanderer stepped closer the rest of Kaiba's security got in between the two of them.

"Yeah they where good each obviously studied there craft for a lifetime, it's too bad I've had several to study every type of martial art in several existences, it was like fighting children, now then I'm sure they filled you in so are you going to help?" Wanderer said walking through Kaiba's bodyguards each of them too scared to throw a punch.

"Help yugi and his idiot group 'save the world' I think not."

"God you are an idiot, fine I'll duel you when I win you'll pay our expenses and come with us." Wanderer said pulling his deck from the Chaos duel disk and begin shuffling it while walking towards yugi sr. and the other's.

"And when you lose?" Kaiba said motioning towards a guard who brought up a duel disk almost as sleek and well made as the two on Yugi jr. and Maddy's arms.

"I'll let you decide that but if I beat Yugi I'm sure I can beat you." Wanderer turned to the group and whispered "that is if I can get polymerization off one of you I need it to bring out the most powerful card you'll ever see."

"Sure borrow mine" Yami said handing over a card from his deck.

"Thanks man, here hold this please." Wanderer said handing back the field card yami.

"You beat yugi!" Kaiba yelled looking over at Yugi "is this true?"

"Yes Kaiba it is and I suspect I won't be the last."

"Fine I'll recapture my title by ripping it from you!" Kaiba activated his upgraded duel disk "it's time to duel!"

Wanderer drew his first five cards as Kaiba did the same sword of dragon's soul, black illusion ritual, fairy box, roulette barrel, emblem of dragon destroyer then he drew mask of darkness for his turn.

"I set these two cards face down and summon roulette barrel in defense mode!" Wanderer shouted as he set black illusion ritual and fairy box on the field.

"Oh too bad this duel ends right here!" Kaiba revealed four of the cards in his hand polymerization and his three blue eyes white dragons. "I fuse my great beasts together into blue eyes ultimate dragon! Now it's your move since my great creature cannot attack this turn"

Wanderer smiled and drew his next card monster reborn. "I set a second monster on the field and end my turn"

Kaiba drew and grinned hell smirked at wanderer "I sacrifice my great beast for an even better dragon welcome to the field my shining blue eyes! Now my great creature attack"

"You sure you want to do that?" Wanderer said smiling back his hand near the button on his duel disk.

"Of course your trap can't hurt my dragon!"

"Only if it directly targets your monster" Wanderer said "don't forget a cyber jar will kill your monster very dead."

Kaiba stopped and looked at Wanderer "I end my turn"

"Good well to let you know you should have attacked" wanderer drew cyber jar and just laughed a little "now I activate a card called emblem of dragon destroyer." wanderer's deck popped out of it's slot and he pulled out buster blader. "Sacrificing my roulette barrel and my mask of darkness I summon my buster blader! Guess what Kaiba my blader's higher then your dragon, blader destroy his shining dragon!"

Kaiba's life points dropped by 300 to 7700 and he growled loudly. "You'll pay for that."

"Somehow I doubt it now go"

"Fine I set this card face down in defense position. Go."

"Hmm no clue what that card is but I have to attack it to get at your life points and I have the card I just drew spear dragon attack!"

The dragon appeared and drove it's nose through Kaiba's hidden card and into Kaiba's guts blood oozed from the wound as suddenly the facedown card flipped up revealing cyber jar it sucked in buster blader and spear dragon before exploding.

"Crap"

Wanderer drew his five cards showing them to Kaiba. Summoned skull, shift, polymerization, bait doll, and blindly loyal goblin. Blindly loyal goblin was special summoned in face up attack mode on the field. Kaiba showed his hand vorse raider, spear dragon, opticlops, negate attack and judge man. Spear dragon vorse raider and opticlops were all special summoned in face up attack mode.

"Alright well I place these two cards face down and end my turn" wanderer said as he set shift and bait doll.

Kaiba drew "I'll sacrifice my spear dragon and my opticlops to bring out this great beast Hyozanryu. Now my vorse raider destroy his goblin."

"Not so fast Kaiba I'll play my fairy box trap card!" the box appeared bouncing around the blindly loyal goblin Kaiba's attack hit nothing but air and blindly loyal goblins return strike decapitated the raider spraying blood as it fell Kaiba's life points decreased to 5850. "Sorry Kaiba luck isn't with you this day care to try again?"

"No I set this card face down and end my turn it's your move"

"Good" wanderer drew "now I play my face down card bait doll destroying your negate attack" the card was flipped up and it shattered then wanderer added bait doll back to his deck and it was reshuffled. "Now I play the magic card pot of greed!"

Wanderer pulled two new cards from his deck scapegoat and united we stand. "Good now I have all the card for my strategy to be revealed! I sacrifice my goblin to summon my favorite card summoned skull, then using monster reborn I bring back the most powerful card played in the game your shining dragon and I fuse them both together with polymerization! Come forth my ultimate beast come forth shining skull dragon!"

"No, that isn't possible!" Kaiba yelled as the two monster fused together melding and churning into a wholly new creature. The parts of the blue eyes shining dragon merged with summoned skull becoming more bone like the blue crystals becoming darker more evil and the wings became more bat like till finally they were one creature.

"It is possible Kaiba and now my monster original attack is 3600 and it's defense is 2500 but as you know your dragon would gain 300 for every dragon, well add 300 for every fiend and 500 for every arch fiend on the field and in our graveyards gives my shining skull dragon a total attack power of 7600 attack. And your right that's still not enough to knock you out of this duel however I activate scapegoat summoning 4 monsters to my field." the four sheep tokens appeared and floated around aimlessly. "I play the magic card united we stand adding another 4000 attack points brining my shining skull dragon up to 11600 now my shining skull attack with lightning breath attack!"

Kaiba reared back as the monster powered up lightning striking the monster everywhere then moving forward to it's mouth where the blast built and built before finally being released in a huge lightning barrage that seemed to melt Kaiba where he stood disintegrating him completely. When everyone could see again the duel was over and Kaiba lay on the floor shaking his head "I never imagined"

"Hey don't sweet it man neither did I wasn't even sure that'd work in this universe." Wanderer said putting his hand out to help Kaiba up.

Kaiba ignored it and got to his feet himself "well I guess I'll have my secretary write you up a check Mr.?"

"I'm just called wanderer make the check out to yugi or one of his friends I really don't care besides your coming with us."

"Am I?"

"Yes, yes you are" Wanderer said turning towards a door opening he saw a woman coming down the stairs. "She looks so familiar."

"Aunt Yurikai?" Yugi jr. asked moving towards the young woman.

"Aunt?" Yurikai said looking down on yugi Jr.

"Yeah he's from the future sis." Yugi sr. said

"Oh crap twins man what kind of freaked out else worlds did I fall into this time?" Wanderer said looking from one to the other and back again. "Well at least I don't see a millennium item doesn't mean she doesn't have one" he says muttering walking away from the group he grumbles at empty space those in the know realize he's talking with his wife. The family trio started chatting and wanderer sat away from them all letting them talk ignoring most of it till Kaiba came over.

"How did you know that dragon could be made?"

"Well after accidentally killing you by ripping the card your soul had been trapped in I used your deck to save the world, by the way I'm really sorry about that." Wanderer said looking up at Kaiba.

"Your telling me you killed me in another universe is that supposed to engender trust?"

"No not really just letting you know I did it once and if I have to I will again trying to get home is what I'm doing I don't care who dies along the way."

"I see I can understand that all you want is to get home to your family I understand that." Kaiba looked over at his secretary and Mokuba the look in his eyes a little softer then usual. "I have another question if you can fuse those two what about wing weaver and blue eyes?"

"Only way to find out is to try but from that look I'd say yes."

"Look what look" Kaiba said then walked away.

In that instant I gained respect for this Seto Kaiba had he opened his heart to someone? Was he really different then the arrogant ass version I was used to dealing with? Only time would tell.

Name: SHINING SKULL DRAGON
Attribute: CHAOS
Star Count: 12
ATK/DEF: 3600/2500
Type(Toon,Ritual,Union/Effect): DRAGON (ARCHFIEND) FUSION (SUMMONED SKULL, SHINING BLUE EYES.)
Effectif any: ALL THE ABILITIES OF THE SHINING BLUE EYES AND GAIN'S AN EXTRA 300 ATK POINTS FOR EVERY FIEND AND 500 FOR EVERY ARCHFIEND ON THE FIELD OR IN YOU OR YOUR OPPONENTS GRAVEYARDS
Suggested rarity: N/A
SUGGESTED OWNER: N/A
SUGGESTED PACK NAME IT COMES IN: N/A