Well here they are! The final two chapters of part two.

darksoul123sp: Thanks again for the card concept, but I've decided not to give it to Ryon. I have much bigger plans for it.

Disclaimer: Um, in no way do I own the show/manga.

Chapter 47: Changing Destiny Part 2

Ayato: 4000/ Ryon: 3200

"I summon Slate Warrior(1900/400) in attack mode. Destroy his Zeo the Magic Swordsman!" The Slate Warrior punches through Zeo.

Ayato: 3100/ Ryon: 3200

"Now your defenseless." Ryon says.

Ayato draws a card. "Alright I play the spell card Call to Arms! When there are no monsters on my side of the field I can special summon a four star or less monster with the name Vandorgaron in it to the field from my hand or deck."

"And I choose Vandorgaron's Servant(1000/1000)!" The small silver dragon appears on the field.

"So what, he's too weak to take on my Slate Warrior." Ryon smirks.

"I equip him with Axe of Despair! Now attack his Slate Warrior"
Vandorgaron's Servant cleaves Slate Warrior's head from his shoulders.

Ayato: 3100/ Ryon: 3100

"When Slate Warrior is destroyed by a monster in battle that monster's attack is decreased by 500 points."

"So what! My monster can attack again!" Vandorgaron's Servant slashes Ryon with the axe.

Ayato: 3100/ Ryon: 1600

"And I'll end my turn with a face down." Ayato declares.

'Damn!' Ryon looks at the next card he draws, he then looks at Ayato's monster. 'This should turn things around.' "I play the spell card Snatch Steal!"

Vandorgaron's Servant jumps over to Ryon's side of the field. Ryon smirks, it's all over for you Ayato!"

"I don't think so! I activate my trap Remove Brainwashing! Vandorgaron's Servant returns back to my side of the field."

"Just what I was expecting, I activate my face down! Anger at Betrayal!
Whenever a monster on my side of the field switches to your side of the field that monster is destroyed and I gain life points equal to that monster's attack points!"

Ayato: 3100/ Ryon: 3600

"And that's not all! I summon Newdoria in attack mode(1200/800). Now your defenseless! Attack Ayato directly Newdoria!"

The grotesque monster slashes Ayato with it's claws.

Ayato: 1900/ Ryon: 3600

"I'll end my turn with two cards face down."

'I hope Jaden's having an easier time than I am.' Ayato thinks to himself.'

Jaden: 4400/ Sartorius: 2800

"Shut up, there is no set winner in a duel!" Jaden yells. "And I'll prove it. I activate the spell R-Right Justice to destroy your Bounds of Light!"

Sartorius smiles, "Everything is going according to destiny, I activate my face-down trap, Hierophant's Wand, no card on my side of the field can be destroyed by the effects of your cards this turn. In addition you get to draw one card."

Jaden grimaces and draws a card, it's H-Heat Heart. "I summon N-Aqua Dolphin(300/800) in defense mode. Aqua Dolphin turns to Jaden. "I'm sorry Jaden, I can't bring out my real power in this boundary."

"If this keeps up Jaden won't win." Syrus says worriedly.

"I don't think so, if the future really can be read, than the Bounds of Light is a uselees card." Nico says.

Syrus and Exion turned to her, confusion evident on their faces. "The third effect of the Bounds of Light, gaining life points according to the attack of the destroyed monster is a conservative effect." Nico explains.

Syrus and Exion still don't get it. Nico further explains, "In other words, the light of ruin is instinctively afraid of Neo Spacian's power, so it has to increase it's life points for protection."

"Oh. Now I get it." Syrus and Exion say at the same time.

Nico rolls her eyes.

"Tch, I end my turn."

"My turn, my draw." Sartorius claims. He sneers at Jaden, "Your Neo Spacian seems to be suffering Jaden, that's because, like people, Neo Spacians are weak to the power of destiny."

"The Bounds of Light effect activates, in every one of my standby phases,
the Bounds of Light has to turn clockwise. If it stops at the reversed position it disappears, but if it stops at the upright position it remains on the field."

The card stops turning and it stops at the upright position. "Bounds of Light stays in effect. I summon Arcana ForceThe Emperor(1400/1400) and by the Bounds of Light he is forced to stop at the upright position! His special effect increases all Arcana Force monster's attack by 500 points!"

"Now attack his Hummingbird and Bubbbleman my two monsters!" Both of Jaden's monsters are easily crushed. "Bounds of Light's third effect activates, I gain life points equal to your destroyed monster's attack points."

Jaden: 4400/ Sartorius: 4400

'Man! My entire field has been wiped out! What am I gonna do!' Jaden thinks to himself.

Ayato: 1900/ Ryon: 3000

"I tribute my Newdoria and Marie the Fallen One to summon Maju Garzett in attack mode! His attack is equal to the combined attack of the monsters I used to summon them." Ryon declares. "So his attack is now 2900! Attack his face down card!"

The face down card is revealed to be Magician of Faith, who is cut asunder by Garzett's attack.

"I activate her special effect to get back Vandorgaron's Eye in the Sky!"

"It won't do you any good."

"That's what you think!" Ayato says as he draws a card. "I activate Vandorgaron's Eye in the Sky! Once again Ryon's hand is shown to Ayato.
I'll take that Polymerization. Activate! Fuse Dark Blade with Blade Knight to create Twilight Knight(2800/2500)!"

Ryon draws a card, examining Ayato's monster. 'What is he up to, his monster is weaker than mine, but he has no spell or traps on the field'
"Attack his Knight Maju!"

"Not so fast, I activate one of my monster's special effect, when I have more light monster's in my graveyard than dark I can activate one trap card during my opponent's battle phase at the cost of not being able to attack next turn."

"What?!" Ryon looks on in disbelief as Ayato plays Mirror Force from his hand, instantly destroying his monster.

Ayato smirks as he draws a card, "Don't look so suprised. You didn't think it'd be that easy did you?"

Ryon simply laughs, "It doesn't matter." Suddenly the room begins to rumble more violently. "If you don't manage to beat me in time, Zorc will be reborn. As a matter of fact, I'd say you have very little time, no more than five minutes."

"That's plenty of time to put you away."

"Don't be so sure."

Ayato looked at his hand quickly, "I end my turn."

Ryon draws a card and laughs. Ayato looks at him confused, "What's so funny?"

"Atem really was a fool. Sacrificing himself was a cowardly move. He didn't want to fight anymore so accepting death was an easy escape, sealing Zorc away was an added bonus. Of course history repeated itself, and your father had to help Atem defeat Zorc again. And now-"

"What are you getting at?" Ayato asked, he had had enough of this guy dissing Atem.

"All the efforts that were made so far only delayed the inevitable, if Atem hadn't been such a coward and looked for another way to defeat Zorc than you wouldn't have to carry such a heavy burden."

"Don't be an idiot, what Atem did, is what any hero would do! So what if Zorc's trying to be reborn again. It just gives me a chance to avenge Atem's death. I'm gonna win this duel no matter what! And there's no way I'm gonna let Zorc be reborn!"

"Sparkman destroy his Emperor! Shining Surge Flash!" Jaden declares.
The attack causes a massive explosion.

Jaden: 4400/ Sartorius: 5600

"I place one card face down and end my turn." Jaden smirks, "Looks like the stream of destiny is beginning to change."

"Impossible. Destiny can't be changed by just one strike." Sartorius says angrily. As he draws a card Sartorius looks at the Bounds of Light as it turns clockwise. 'As long as the Bounds of Light remains on the field destiny can't be changed.'

The Bounds of Light stops at the reversed position. The light boundary begins to fade, Sartorius looking shock all the while.

"So destiny can't be changed, huh?" Jaden mocks Sartorius.

Sartorius starts to think really hard. 'Will the Boundary of Light return next turn, why is this happening, should I just pass my turn?'

"What's the matter? You don't know what to do, do you? You've always relied on the power of destiny, that without it you don't know what to do. But that's the reason duel monsters is fun!"

Exion's sweat drops, "Huh?"

"So let's have a fun duel!" Jaden encourages Sartorius.

"Is Jaden really having fun?" Nico asks confused. "Ah don't worry Jaden will win for sure." Syrus says.

"Shut up!" Sartorius yells. "Arcana Force XXIThe World destroy his Sparkman!"

Jaden: 2900/ Sartorius: 5600

"I activate my trap, Hero Counterattack! When a E-Hero monster is destroyed as a result of battle on my field, you have to choose a card in my hand, if it's a E-Hero monster then I can special summon it to the field and destroy one monster on your side of the field. If it's not then it goes to the graveyard."

Sartorius grimaces, Jaden only has one card in his hand. "I special summon Elemental Hero Neos(2500/2000)!" Sartorius' monster explodes.

"All right it's my draw, I summon N-Glowmoss(300/900). Now Contact Fusion, Neos, Glowmoss, become E-Hero Glow Neos(2500/2000)! His special effect activates! Destroy his Bounds of Light!"

Glow Neos creates a ball of energy and shoots the Bounds of Light with it, destroying it. "And when he destroys a spell with his effect he can attack you directly, not that you had any monster on the field but you get the idea. Go Glow Neos, attack!"

Glow Neos punches Sartorius in the stomach, dropping his life points.

Jaden: 2900/ Sartorius: 3100

Ayato: 2800/ Ryon: 1600

"One more strike and I win this duel." Ayato says confidently.

"Less than three minutes, I can feel him, compared to him, you seem to be no more than an insignificant insect."

"That's about to crush you!" Ayato says angrily.

"I wouldn't be so sure if I were you, I activate my trap card, Call of the Haunted to bring back Marie the Fallen One."

Ayato smirks, "A lot of good that will do you, my Twilight Knight is far stronger. I end my turn."

Ryon draws a card and grins when he sees it. "Finally, I have the card that will put you out of your misery. "First I play the spell card Monster Reborn to bring back Newdoria."

'What is he planning, tribute summon, fusion, ritual?' Ayato thinks to himself.

"Next I activate the spell I just drew, Contract with the Dark Master, by tributing my two monsters I can ritual summon Dark Master- Zorc(2700/1500)!"

Ayato begins to laugh, "That's him, that's Zorc! Ah man I was expecting something far stronger than that!"

"You idiot, this monster is a pale imitation of the real thing, but it will be enough to kill you."

"What are you talking about my monster is sronger."

Suddenly a wheel with numbers appears in the field. The wheel had six numbers on it. "I activate the effect of Zorc." The wheel began to spin.

Ayato looked confused, "What's going on?"

The wheel stopped on three, which caused Ayato's monster to explode.
"What-the?" Ayato blinked in confusion. The rumbling in the ground started to get worse.

"Zorc's effect, depending on what number the wheel stops on he gets an effect. 1 or 2 will destroy all your monsters on your field. Three, four, or five will destroy one monster on your field, and a six will destroy all the monster's on my side of the field."

The stone tablet started to shake violently. "The stone tablet's starting to shake." Ayato says. "You idiot, it's called the Millenium Stone, but that won't matter once I finish you off! Zorc attack!"

Zorc creates a black orb of dark energy, launching it at Ayato at blinding speed.

Ayato is knocked back several feet from the force of the blast.

Ayato: 100/ Ryon: 1600

Ayato struggles to get back to his feet as Ryon laughs. "What's the matter? I thought you were gonna beat me? You might as well give up, with less than two minutes left you can't possibly beat me!"

Ayato sits up and draws a card, it's Dark King Dragon Vandorgaron.
"I place two cards face down and end my turn." The two cards materialized next to Ayato's lone one.

Ryon draws a card, "Hmmm, traps eh? Zorc attack!"

"I don't think so I-"

"Not so fast! Mystical Space Typhoon destroy his face down card on the right!" Ryon declares.

"Hmph, I activate Magic Jammer." Ayato discards one card from his hand, negating Mystical Space Typhoon's activation.

"Your still gonna lose, Zorc finish this!" Ryon sneers.

"I special summon Dark King Dragon Vandorgaron(2800/2500) in attack mode, he deals 1500 points of direct damage to you because I stopped your spell card!"

Ayato: 100/ Ryon: 100

"What the-how did you-?"

"When I stopped your spell card I was able to special summon him because of his special effect."

"Tch, then I'll just have to call off Zorc's att-"

"I activate my other trap, Staunch Defender, now your monster must attack my monster!"

Ryon's eyes widen in horror as Zorc continues his attack.
"Vandorgaron destroy his Zorc, Dark Pulsating Blast!" Vandorgaron's hand crackles with electricity and blue flames.

"No!"

Vandorgaron launches the blast at Zorc, destroying it and depleting the rest of Ryon's life points.

Ayato: 100/ Ryon: 0

Ryon screams in agony as he disperes into thin air, having lost the shadow game. Ayato pumps his fist in the air. "Yes!"

Suddenly the ground begins to split in two, chunks of the ceiling began to fall. Ayato looked over to the Millenium Stone. "I've gotta stop this, but how?"

Ayato ran up to the stone, 'Maybe if I pull one of the items out it'll stop.'

Ayato grabbed the Millenium Puzzle, as soon as he touched it his body began to fade. Ayato let go and his body returned to it's normal state. "?" The room shook more violently.

Ayato once again grabbed the puzzle, his body once again started to fade, but he held on this time. Ayato pulled and pulled but the puzzle didn't budge. Ayato suddenly realized something. 'This is it, this is what killed me!'

Akari ran into the room, "Ayato what's going on! What are you doing"
She asked as she saw Ayato trying to pull something out of the strange stone.

Ayato's body was starting to fade away quickly until he became almost transparent. "Ayato you have to stop! Your gonna get yourself killed!" Akari yelled, alarmed by Ayato's state of being.

"I have to do this Akari! If I don't the entire world will be destroyed!" Ayato turned to look at her, "Besides, what's one life compared to the lives of many!"

"Ayato there's nothing we can do, please we've got to go!"

Suddenly a booming voice was heard. "MY REBIRTH IS AT HAND! FINALLY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS!"

"Zorc!? I don't know who brought these Millenium Items back but I'm not gonna let you be reborn!"

"GEH, HEH, HEH, HAHAHAHAHAHA! NO MERE MORTAL CAN STOP ME!"

Dark energy burst forth from the stone engulfing Ayato, causing him to scream in agony. Ayato!" Akari called out.

"There's nothing you can say that'll change my mind Akari!" Ayato said as a bright golden aura surrounded his body, his eyes turning a vibrant gold. The Millenium Puzzle began to move as Ayato pulled harder.

The dark energy began to seep back into the stone. "NO! IT CAN'T BE!
YOU ARE, YOU ARE-!"

With one final pull the Millenium Puzzle was pulled free. Ayato stood up slowly. The golden aura that had surrounded his body vanished, his eyes once again became the usual blue. He panted as he tried to catch his breath.

Ayato looked down at his body. Tiny particles of light was emitting from his body. He was dissappearing. Akari ran towards Ayato as fast as she could. "Ayato!"

Ayato turned to her, and gave her a smile as he thought one last thought. 'I'm sorry Akari, guess I couldn't change my destiny after all...'

Ayato vanished completly the moment Akari had got to him. For a few seconds Akari just watched, tears welling up in her eyes, as the light particles that were once Ayato floated all around her.

Jaden: 300/ Sartorius: 600

"There is no way humans can oppose destiny!" Sartorius laughs.

"I won't give up until the very end! I will win! I activate Rebirth of Neos! This allows me to special summon Elemental Hero Neos!"

Sartorius laughs, "Neos power will not be enough to destroy my Light Ruler!"

"With Neo Space on the field he gains an extra 500 attack points, not only that, but the spell Rebirth of Neos gives him an extra 1000 attack points, which means his attack is 4000!"

"What!?" Sartorius says looking shocked.

"Neos, destroy his Light Ruler!" Neos slams into Sartorius' monster,
destroying it, and depleting the rest of his life points.

Jaden: 300/ Sartorius: 0

The light of ruin seperates from Sartorius' body, flies up, and scatters into a million pieces. Jaden is suprised to see Neos still on the field. "The light of ruin is destroyed, but it's not over, we have to make sure that sattelite will never be used."

Jaden nods in agreement, "Right! Destroy that sattelite Neos!" Neos nods and flies away. Jaden looks back to the unconscious form of Sartorius. 'It's finally over. I hope Ayato's okay.'

Next Time: Jaden has one more obstacle he has to overcome if he wants to claim the title of GX Champion. And Ayato is...

Well of course you'll have to read the next chapter to find out!