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The Orichalcos Saga
Fanfic Chapter 200: Guardian of the Cards Pt 3: Sacrifice the Light
Episode Basis: Fate of the Pharaoh Pt 3 & a little bit from Trial by Stone
Previously on Yu-Gi-Oh! Even with Timaeus and Dark Magician Girl on the field, Yami couldn't get past Raphael's Guardian monsters. Raphael then enclosed Dark Magician Girl the Dragon Knight in a crystal prison and the only way to free her was to play the Seal of Orichalcos. Despite Yugi begging and pleading with him not to use the card, Yami played the Seal of Orichalcos. Can the Pharaoh control the seal or will the seal control the Pharaoh?
Dark Magician Girl the Dragon Knight burst from the crystal prison, the seal on her forehead, her eyes glowing with a red tint.
(DMGDK: 2600-3100)
Suddenly Timaeus disappeared leaving Dark Magician Girl as she originally was.
"Timaeus!" Yami cried. He glared at Raphael. "What have you done to my dragon?"
"It's not what I've done it's what you've done. Legendary Dragon and Orichalcos magic don't mix! But my job is done your dark side has been set free!"
What have I done? Yami thought as dark power swirled around him. He hollered out in pain which even caused Weevil to jump. Yami glared daggers at Raphael. "You'll regret ever giving me this card. Now when you lose your soul will be lost for all eternity!" Raphael just smirked. "I play the magic card Hand Control. All I have to do is declare the card and if it's in your hand, I can activate it! And since I gave you Necromancy when you played Exchange, I know that is in your hand so play it!' Raphael just inserted the card into his Duel Disk. Gazelle, Berfomet, Big Shield Gardna, and Kuribabylon reappeared on the field. "Next I sacrifice Gazelle and Berfomet to summon Dark Magician! And I'll separate Kuribabylon into the Kuriboh Brothers! Now, my monsters, feel the power of the Orichalcos!"
The Dark Magician and Dark Magician Girl held their heads in pain and each let out a silent scream. Then the seal appeared on their forehead and they both had a crazed evil smile on. The other monsters were less reluctant.
(DM: 2500-3000)
(DMG: 2000-2500)
(BSG: 100-600)
(K: 300-800x5)
"Now the Kuriboh Brothers will combine again into Kuribabylon with the increased power of the Seal of Orichalcos. The seal appeared on the feral Kuriboh's head. Because the Kuriboh Brothers' individual attack points had increased, their combined attack points were much higher than it was before. And the Seal of Orichalcos increased its power even higher.
(KB: 4000-4500)
"This is all thanks to the power of the Orichalcos!"
"Nope, it's all thanks to the power of your dark heart!"
Yugi opened his eyes. He was in a black void. "Where am I?" He wondered. He looked up and saw a green force field surrounding Yami. "Pharaoh, how could you?" He asked sadly.
"Who cares where this power came from, the point is it's mine now! Kuribabylon, attack his Guardian Grarl!" Kuribabylon lunged towards Grarl and stabbed it with its horn.
(Y: 600)
(R: 1500)
Now that Raphael had a monster in his graveyard, Purity of the Cemetery was destroyed. "Now, Dark Magician, obliterate him!"
"I play a magic card called Aid to the Doomed. It repels your Dark Magician's attack by discarding two of my cards." The Dark Magician returned to his original spot looking really peeved off.
Duke's car pulled up to the mesa overlooking the duel. The driver and three passengers leapt out and ran to the edge.
"Yugi!" Joey called.
"We're here," Amara announced.
Yami turned towards them. Joey, Duke, Amara, and Tristan all gasped.
"Please tell me that's not the Seal of Orichalcos on Yugi's forehead," Amara pleaded.
"I wish I could," Duke replied.
"Why is that thing on Yugi's forehead?" Joey asked.
"Let's find out," Tristan said pulling Amara onto his back. The boys slid down the cliff edge to the ledge where Rex and Weevil are.
"You just missed the best part of the duel," Rex said.
Joey grabbed Weevil and shook him, "All right, spill it, why is my best buddy wearing that freaky thing on his forehead?"
"Unhand me, you overgrown orangutan," Weevil spat.
Tristan and Duke separated Joey and Weevil while Rex explained, "Yugi got that card from his opponent and then he played it, it's as simple as that!"
"Yugi wouldn't play that thing, he knows its evil!"
"But you can't deny that it's on the field," Amara pointed out. "And I don't see the seal on the big guy's forehead."
The boys and Amara just stared at the duel.
"How does it feel to discover your real self?" Raphael asked. "You're pure darkness, always was, always will be."
Yami smiled, "Are you jealous because the Seal of Orichalcos is working for me now? Maybe you should've thought twice before giving me such a powerful card."
I'm not worried, Raphael thought. I have faith in my monsters. He drew his cards. "I activate Monster Rebirth which lets me take a monster from my graveyard and return it to the top of my deck. Obviously, that's my Guardian Grarl."
"Your Grarl doesn't matter, I destroyed him once and I can do it again!"
"Next I set a card face-down and play Swords of Revealing Light keeping you from attacking for three turns." Golden swords surrounded Yami's side of the field."
"If Yugi loses, I call dibs on his Dark Magician," Weevil called.
"Show some compassion for a change, Weevil," Rex scolded. "And let me take the Dark Magician."
"Hey you two," Amara called. "Here's an American expression: shove it."
"Your swords mean nothing," Yami told Raphael. "I sacrifice Big Shield Gardna in order to summon Catapult Turtle (1)!" Just as its name suggested, Catapult Turtle was a large turtle with a rocket-launcher type catapult on its shell.
(CT: 1000-1500)
"Catapult Turtle allows me to sacrifice a monster to inflict damage to your life points equal to half the sacrificed monster's attack points."
"But I activate a trap card," Raphael countered. "Limit Tribute, which allows both of us to sacrifice only one monster per turn. Since you already sacrificed a monster to summon your reptilian launch pad, you have to end your turn now." Yami nodded and Raphael started his turn. "I play Nightmare Binding which takes 800 attack points from your fuzz ball and adds them to my life points."
(KB: 4500-3700)
(Y: 600)
(R: 2300)
Chains wrapped around Kuribabylon. Raphael explained, "Nightmare Binding also prevents the monster from being sacrificed."
"Who cares, with the Seal of Orichalcos behind me, I can't be stopped!" Yami drew a card. "Since my Dark Magician is useless, I'll sacrifice him to inflict 1500 points of direct damage to you!" The Dark Magician got onto the catapult. The catapult fired. As Dark Magician flew, he transformed into a ball of energy and hit Raphael. "Now that he's in the graveyard, he's useful again." With his destruction, Dark Magician Girl gained a power boost.
(Y: 600)
(R: 800)
(DMG: 2500-2800)
The white orb's glow grew dimmer. It almost looked weak.
"One more blast from that turtle and its over," Amara said.
Joey opened and closed his fist. This isn't like Yugi at all, that Orichalcos is messing with his mind just like it did Mai. Yugi would never throw away his monsters like that.
Raphael drew two cards. "I'll set one card face-down and end my turn."
"This is it, I only need to destroy one more monster and I choose… my worthless Dark Magician Girl!" The Dark Magician Girl actually turned around and stared at him. Even through the Seal of Orichalcos's influence, her hurt look could be seen.
Yugi pounded on the force field. "No, don't do it, Pharaoh! With the Seal of Orichalcos on the field, the monsters aren't holograms any more, they're real!" He sank to his knees. "Please, not her, not Dark Magician Girl." Tears dripped from his eyes and into the darkness beneath him.
"Go on," Yami bid. Dark Magician Girl reluctantly got onto the catapult and was fired. Just like Dark Magician, she transformed into a beam of light.
"I activate my magic card Shrink," Raphael cried out. "It cuts your monster's attack points in half."
(DMG: 2800-1400)
"Which means I only take 700 points of damage." The pink energy blast diminished significantly but still struck Raphael.
(Y: 600)
(R: 100)
"The power of the Orichalcos reveals all, this is who you truly are: wicked, greedy, and full of hate."
"What are you talking about?"
"Look around the field at what you've done to your monsters. Once they were pure, but now they are evil just as you are!"
Yami stared at the angry expressions, red eyes, and glowing seals on his two remaining monsters: Kuribabylon and Catapult Turtle. "Did I really do all this?" He wondered. "No, you deceived me!"
"You chose to play the seal even at the risk of destroying your beloved Timaeus. Now that he's no longer a threat, I can finish you off." He drew two cards. "I play Celestial Sword and Guardian Eatos (2)." A bright flash of light appeared in the sky and something descended. It was humanoid, its shape suggesting it was a woman, dressed in eagle feathers and had an eagle headdress on.
"That's the monster I've been sensing," Yami realized. Since the duel began, he had been sensing something unusual about Raphael, now he knows that it wasn't Raphael but Guardian Eatos.
"Now I activate my sword's special ability!" Yami's arm moved of its own accord up. The Dark Magician Girl card flew out. She appeared as a phantom of her former self, staring down at her former master sadly. "My sword removes all the monsters in your graveyard and adds their attack points to her own." Dark Magician's card flew out next followed by Big Shield Gardna, Berfomet, and Gazelle. "Gaze into the eyes of your monsters and know that you did this to them, by recklessly sacrificing them and letting your rage take over!" The monsters were staring at Yami, and they were clearly not too happy.
Yami sank to his knees. "Please, forgive me for what I did to you!" He pleaded.
"It's too late, there's no forgiveness for the wicked!" The monsters flew into Guardian Eatos's sword, raising her attack power.
(GE: 2200-10000)
The bystanders could only stare aghast as the sword glowed brightly. "Now, Eatos, destroy his remaining monsters and the last of his life points! Celestial Slash Attack!" Eatos swung the sword and destroyed Catapult Turtle and the ensnared Kuribabylon.
(Y: 0)
(R: 100)
"Yugi lost," the spectators said as one.
The seal was already surrounding Yami as Raphael went up to him. "Now your soul will fuel the rebirth of the Sacred Beast." He removed the Seal of Orichalcos from the Duel Disk and the pendant from Yami's neck.
"Not if I have anything to say about it," Yugi said. He picked up the Millennium Puzzle. "Millennium Puzzle, I call upon you. Use my soul energy to increase your power and release the full powers of the Shadow Realm and break the spell!" Dark lightning bolts lashed out from Yugi through the puzzle to the force field surrounding Yami. Yugi could feel the pain of the soul energy being ripped from him but had to persevere for the Pharaoh's sake. Finally the attack broke through the seal. Yugi quickly flew in and pushed Yami out.
"Yugi, what are you doing?"
"The seal can only take one of us so I'm letting it take me instead."
"Yugi, no!"
The boy stared up at the spirit, his eyes already tearing up. "You're more important to the others than I am, you're the only one who can finish this. Farewell, Pharaoh."
"YUGI! NOOOOOOOO!"
Yami had collapsed. A helicopter piloted by Alister hovered near Raphael and a rope ladder was thrown down to him. Raphael picked up Yami and held on to the rope ladder. The helicopter hovered near the others. "Here," he said throwing Yami's body to Tristan and Duke. "You can keep what's left I already have everything I need." And the helicopter pulled away.
Rex and Weevil got onto their tandem bike and peddled as fast as they could to catch up with the helicopter. They rode it right off a cliff, barely grabbing the rope ladder in time. Raphael looked down and was nonplussed about their intrusion. He reached into his boot, pulled out a knife and got ready to cut the rope ladder below his feet.
"Wait, we want to join you!" Rex protested.
"Yeah, I'm the regional champion," Weevil pointed out.
"And I'm the runner up," Rex added. "If you can accept Mai Valentine, on your team, then surely you can accept us. She only came in third at local tournaments!"
Raphael sighed, rolled his eyes and put away the dagger. Rex and Weevil breathed sighs of relief.
Back at the mesa, Joey and Tristan were trying to wake Yami up. "Come on, Yug, wake up, please tell us you're not gone," Joey pleaded.
A slight moan came from the prone boy's lips and his eyes opened. His friends sighed in relief. "All right, Yugi," Joey cheered. "I knew you could outsmart that goon."
But "Yugi" was quiet all he did was stare on the ground.
"Something wrong, Yugi?" Duke asked.
"You feeling all right?" Amara asked.
"No," Yami replied. "I'm not all right. They got him… they got Yugi!"
"Huh?" The people around him said at the same time.
"I didn't outsmart Raphael, he succeeded. Yugi is gone!"
"Wait, I'm confused," Amara said. "I thought the Seal of Orichalcos was supposed to steal the soul of the loser, so how can you be here if you lost?"
"Not me, Yugi."
"But aren't you Yugi?" Tristan asked.
Joey looked down at the Millennium Puzzle and it clicked. "You're that ghost!"
"Huh?" Tristan, Amara, and Duke all asked.
"In the Shadow Realm, Tea told us that some kind of spirit inhabits the Millennium Puzzle. The spirit takes over whenever Yugi duels. But that still doesn't explain how you could be here? At any rate, Yugi should be here and you should be stuck in a card."
"Yugi… he sacrificed himself for me… and now…" Yami dropped on all fours, sobbing. "It's not fair, it should've been me! IT SHOULD'VE BEEN ME!"
The End
Duel Monster Database
(1)
Name: Catapult Turtle
Level: 5
Type: Aqua/Effect
Attribute: Water
ATK: 1000
DEF: 2000
(2)
Name: Guardian Eatos
Level: 8
Type: Fairy/Effect
Attribute: Wind
ATK: 2500
DEF: 2000
A/N: Everyone celebrate, it's the 200th chapter of Yu-Gi-Oh! Avatar! And I can't think of a better way to spend Chapter 200 than… having Yugi's spirit ripped from his still living body. Hmmm… one would think there would be a better way to celebrate. Oh well, thank you to everyone who stuck around since the beginning. I thank everyone for their comments, suggestions, even their insults; it all made me a stronger writer. And here's to many more.