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Yuki's POV

"Time to get serious, I'll take over if there's a doubt of your safety." Cleopatra told me as we stared Marik down.

"Don't worry, just tell me what to do and I'll do it." I said.

"Hmm." Marik looked across at me and flashed his Millennium Rod.

"Planning to cheat already?" I asked.

"I won't need it." He tucked it away.

"LET'S DUEL!"

I drew five cards and the battle began.

"Ladies first." I smirked drawing another card "I'll summon Vampire Lady!"

The blue skinned blue haired purple dress wearing maiden appeared.

Vampire Lady: LVL 4 ATK 1550 DEF 1550.

"I end my turn." I closed my eyes.

"Draw." Marik took a card "I activate the Field Spell Temple of the Kings and set two cards. I end my turn."

"That's it?" I wondered to myself.

"He must be planning something with those traps." Cleopatra warned me "Play smart."

"Right…I summon Goblin Zombie!"

Goblin Zombie: LVL 4 ATK 1100 DEF 1050.

"I'd avoid an attack." She wanted.

"Right, I'll set two cards and end my turn." I nodded.

"I draw." Marik went "Set two. End Turn"

"Still no monsters…" Cleopatra glared.

"I go." I drew for my third turn "I'll summon the Soul Absorbing Bone Tower in Defense Mode."

Soul Absorbing Bone Tower- LVL 3 ATK 400 DEF 1500.

I have three monsters...now I just need to draw Anubis.

"Now I'm playing Pot Of Greed!"

"I activate Judgment of Anubis!" Marik yelled "You draw no cards and your monsters are all destroyed, and you take damage to half the ATK of your monsters."

"What?!" I gasped as my cards were all blown away and my life points dropped to 2475

"He wasn't waiting for us to attack he wanted us to play a spell." Cleopatra hissed "We fell for his trap."

"I play Card of safe Return." I played the spell "And I end my turn."

"Draw…set two." Marik did the same thing he had been.

"We need to summon Anubis and wipe out his traps." I suggested.

"And how do you expect to get the sacrifices you need? I have an idea but it won't be easy." she explained "Just Summon Vampire Baby!"

Vampire Baby: LVL 3 ATK 700 DEF 1000

"That's it." I glared

I still can't risk attacking…

Marik drew and did nothing…I did the same.

He drew once more and ended his turn.

"We can't just play the waiting game or he'll summon Ra." Cleopatra warned "Just attack him!"

"Vampire Baby Attack!" I yelled.

"I activate my trap cards." He yelled.

"Cards?!"

Three of the same trap flipped up Embodiment of Apophis!

The three traps triggered the summoning of three Naga like tomb guardians.

"Three monsters!" I gasped.

Embodiment of Apophis: LVL 4 ATK 1600 DEF 1800.

"I cancel my attack and lay a card face down." I sighed.

"Be ready…"

"But-GAH!" I grabbed my head as she took me over.

"You're turn." She hunched over.

"Attack!" Marik commanded.

"Trap Card Negate Attack!" she flipped a card.

We stopped him in his tracks and lived for another turn.

"My turn." She drew "Book of Life brings back Vampire Lady!"

My Vampire returned.

"Then I summon Pyramid Turtle!"

Pyramid Turtle: LVL 4 ATK 1200 DEF 1400

"I lay a face down and end my turn." Cleo said and started mumbling under her breath "Now do it…come on…"

"I attack!" he yelled "Destroys her monsters!"

He killed all three of my monsters and my life points fell to 650.

"This is bad!" I yelled "Even if we summon Anubis we don't have enough Life Points to use its ability!"

"I activate Pyramid Turtle's effect to summon Double Coston!" Cleopatra yelled "And the Trap Rope of Life to revive Vampire Lady with another 800 attack points!"

Double Coston: LVL 4 ATK 1700 DEF 1650.

"I…set one card inside the temple." He said "Then I activate Cup of Sealed Soul and the face down Seal of Serket! To summon Mystical Beast Serket!"

Mystical Beast Serket: LVL 6 ATK 2500 DEF 2000

He summoned a huge scorpion creature and ended his turn.

"Hmm, why didn't you summon it?" Cleopatra drew a card.

"Pardon?" he asked.

"You had three monsters, yet you didn't summon Ra, given how many cards you drew it must have been in your hand." She glared at him "You had a chance to put this away…I'll make you regret that!"

The man looked a little surprised.

"Yuki this man…" she looked to me "Do you understand?"

"I…think so." I nodded "Let's close this out."

"Okay!" she yelled "I sacrifice Double Coston and Vampire Lady for a total of three sacrifices and summon God of Death Anubis!"

The sky rumbled and the huge dog man appeared behind us.

God of Death Anubis: LVL 10 ATK 3500 DEF 4500

"Anubis!" Cleopatra roared "Attack an Embodiment of Apophis! DEATH RAY!"

The god held up his staff and let off a beam that blew away the creature.

"Do it!" Cleopatra ended our turn "Summon your God you coward! Ugh…Yuki take over, I need a moment"

"Hmm…" Marik glared.

I was put back in control.

"Are you going to summon Ra?" I asked "We figured it out you know."

"What?" he glared.

I pointed at him.

"You…are not Marik!" I yelled.

Everyone seemed a little taken back at the accusation.

"So far every time I've heard Marik speak he hasn't shut up about his evil plans but you barely talk." I pointed out "he does nothing but hype up his God Card but you haven't played it despite the fact it would have insured your victory a few turns ago! If you are who you say you are prove it, the only chance you have to win is to summon The Winged Dragon of Ra!"

"Hmm!" he glared and growled "I tribute all three of my monsters, two Embodiment of Apophis and Serket! As well as pay half my life points to summon The Winged Dragon of Ra! It's attack and defense are equal to that of the monsters tribute to summon it!"

"Holy crap." I gulped as the sky darkened and cracked, a shining golden bird descended from the sky.

"This beast…" Cleopatra gasped.

"Attack her Anubis!"

Ra floated in the sky but did…nothing.

"AH!" I yelped as bolts of sparking lightning rained down on the blimp.

"Yuki!" Cleopatra yelled.

"He can't control it!" I gasped as "Marik" was shocked with one of the bolts and fell to the ground.

"Stay back!" Cleopatra warned.

"AH!" I yelped as a bolt crashed down before me and knocked me back into the railing.


NO POV

"What…happened?" I groaned waking up in darkness.

"Yuki…wake up."

I opened my eyes.

"Shino?" I blinked a few times.

I sat up and saw my cousin sitting there.

"Where are we?" I asked "You're…"

"Don't worry about that." He laughed "I just thought I'd take a chance to say thanks, for using my deck I mean."

"I…okay." I sighed "I'm still not very good I don't do a lot Cleo does."

"No, I saw you've been doing really well." He smiled "But you can't stay here, you've got things to do, wake up."

"Servant, you have yet to complete your task." Five voices boomed as a picture of light appeared before my "You must stop this one."

"We're not done yet." A tan hand reached out "We still have work to do…partner."


Yuki's POV

"HNGH!" I suddenly stood up "AAHHH!"

I leaned to the right, my legs still shaking as I struggled to stand.

"Miss Shinonome stands!" The Judge said "She is the winner."

"I…won?" I gasped.

"Such force of will, the shock paralyzed your body and knocked you out cold rendering us unable to move." Cleopatra smiled before pouting a bit "Don't dare scare me as such again."

"Yeah…wait!" I looked over "I…saw something."

"Hmm."

I ran over to the other man.

"Who are you, who really are you?" I begged.

"I'm…sorry." He coughed.

"What are you saying?" Yugi asked.

"We were right, he isn't Marik." I told the others "HE IS!"

I turned over and pointed at the one calling himself Namu.

"GRAA!" The man was growling in the corner.

"He looks like me before Cleopatra takes over." I noted how he was grabbing his head and clutching the real Millennium Rod.

"Fine." He stepped back "I am the real Marik you've been fighting this whole time."

So he must have a Ra right…so that other was a fake…

"Mine is a cause that stretches back hundreds of years." He told us "Yugi…I will destroy you. I will do whatever I must to destroy all of you-GAH!"

"You must…stop him." The fake Marik said "Or the other one will…"

"The other one?" I asked.

"A great darkness is coming!" Cleopatra warned.

"RAAAAH!" Marik grabbed his head once more.

There was a spark of lightning in the sky as his hair stood up on end and a glowing eye appeared on his forehead.

"Ha…Haha…Hahaha!" he laughed loudly "Finally free…I no longer need to hide behind him like a shadow. Compared to me the other one is but a child, one who can never finish things properly. He's afraid of the dark and the things it hides, but I love them."

"There's another Marik." Cleopatra glared.

"Another Personality?" I glared.

"I learned something good today." He laughed "Only those with ties to the Millennium items can control the God Cards."

"I see…" Cleopatra hummed "Those connected to those events can handle the power."

"Rubbish, I have no interest in occult nonsense." Kaiba said "My God Card serves me."

Is Kaiba connected to the past like Yugi and Marik…and what about me, am I connected through Cleo?

"We'll all have our answers soon enough." Marik walked back inside the blimp "The Millennium Battle has just begun!"

"Ugh…" I fell down on to me knee.

"Yuki!" Yugi and his friends came over to me.

"I'm okay, just tried after all that." I got up on my own "I'll be okay I just need a little rest."


NO POV

"You saw them." Cleopatra looked down at the sleeping girl.

The door opened and she looked back.

"Are you angry because your friend lost and now you seek revenge on my host." She glared back at Marik as he stood in the doorway "If you lay a hand on this girl, the wrath of the Gods will rain down on you!"

"Gods…are nothing to me." He smirked "But soon…she too will be sent to the darkness."

"I won't let you." Cleopatra glared "I don't know how you know of me, see me, or how you respond but your dark plans will not succeed, you play a dangerous game Yami Marik."

He departed and Cleo floated in the room.

"I had hoped to avoid Dark Battles like this when I erased the past but it seems my predecessor's will was just too much." She sighed "I do wonder what he'll think when he awakens his memories. I know you're there watcher, I have no Millennium Item so don't waste your time on me."

"The final two battles proceeded with Marik defeating Joey and Kaiba beating Ishizu, the final four is set." Cleopatra went back to sleep within Yuki "The owners of the God Cards are going to clash, I hope you can withstand it, things are only going to get more difficult from here on. But together, we may be able to survive this Dark Battle."

"But after we complete this task what will the Gods do, will we be separated…or given new tasks?"


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