Omi Vs Marik
(Omi took his place on the duel spot. Raimundo, Kimiko, Yugi, Joey and Stephanie all sat in the official Finalists seats, along with Jack Spicer, Chase Young, Hannibal Bean, Kaiba, Mai, Bakura and Pegasus.)
Roland: And introducing: the runner-up of last year's Battle City, the one who defeated Clay Bailey, the master of the Winged Dragon of Ra. Marik Ishtar!
(Half the crowd booed as Marik elevated up to his duel spot.)
Marik: Hehehe, I look forward to this duel little Omi!
Omi: You shall not win! And you shall pay for defeating Clay!
Roland: Begin!
Both: Let's duel!
Hannibal: Hehehe, baldy doesn't stand a chance.
Kimiko: Come on, Omi! You can do it!
Marik: I'll go first by summoning Makyura the Destructor (1600/1200) in attack mode. And I play two cards face-down and end my turn.
Omi: Hm, I am getting on to a good start. I summon Royal Magical Library (0/2000) in defence mode!
(A huge library surrounded them.)
Raimundo: It's gonna take a lot more than books to stop Marik, Omi!
Omi: I activate Pot of Greed! To draw two cards from within my deck. And my Library adds a counter, when three counters are on the library, I can draw one card from my deck!
Marik: Hehehe, it's going to take more than drawing cards to stop me!
Omi: I'll place two cards face-down and end my turn!
Marik: Now, let's raise the steaks and enter the Shadow Realm!
(Marik raised his Millennium Rod. The arena was engulfed in shadows that got the entire audience confused and restless.)
Marik: Would you like me to demonstrate the effects of this Shadow Game?
Omi: By all means!
Marik: Very well, I activate Hinotama! To inflict 500 life points direct damage to your life points!
(A fireball struck Omi and a piece of his arm was engulfed in shadows.)
Marik: In a nutshell, when you lose life points, a tiny portion of yourself enters the shadows! And the same goes for me!
Omi: Very well, let's resume this duel!
Marik: Alright! I'll summon Drillago (1600/1100) in attack mode!
(The fiend that nearly destroyed Clay was summoned.)
Omi: Think a second time, because my Libraries lower than 1600 attack points!
Marik: I'm well aware of that, little monk! But I'm slowly building my army to destroy you!
Yugi: He's planning to summon the Winged Dragon of Ra!
Stephanie: Omi! Take down those monsters, hurry!
Marik: I'll end my turn!
Omi: My move! I shall place a monster face-down in defence position, and end my turn!
Marik: Hehehe, I'll summon Melchid the Four-Face Beast (1500/1200) and thanks to a very special card in my hand, I sacrifice my Melchid and my Makyura, to summon Masked Beast Des Guardius! (3300/2500)
(A huge masked monster appeared.)
Stephanie: Omi's libraries' doomed!
Marik: Attack the face-down card!
(The card revealed itself to be Cyber Jar (900/900) which meant it's special ability kicked in.)
Marik: No! This cannot be!
Omi: Oh yes, Marik. Now all of our monsters will be destroyed! But my library will not be destroyed, because I activate the trap card: Spellcaster Shield! Which means if I have at least one spellcaster on the field, that card will not be destroyed by magic, trap or effect monsters for that turn!
Marik: But it still requires us to draw five new cards and summon any four star or lower monsters!
Omi: As you wish!
(The two drew five cards.)
Marik: No! I have no level four monsters or lower to defend my life points!
Omi: But I do! I summon Neo the Magic Swordsman, (1700/1000) in attack mode! Mystical Elf (800/2000) in defence mode! And Ancient Elf (1450/1200) in attack mode!
Marik: This cannot be happening! If he summons a powerful monster, then he will destroy me!
Omi: Correct!
Marik: But I do activate Nightmare Steelcage! To paralyze the both of us for two turns!
Omi: Very well, Marik! But you are only prolonging your defeat!
Marik: That shall end my turn!
(The crowd cheered for Omi.)
Joey: Omi's doin' pretty good so far!
Raimundo: Let's hope he keeps it up.
Omi: I sacrifice my Magic Swordsman and Ancient Elf to summon Sanga of the Thunder! (2600/2200)
Marik: It's a good thing I'm in this cage, otherwise I'd be destroyed!
Omi: Soon you won't be in the cage! I'll end my turn!
Marik: Grrr, still no weaker monsters to defend me! I'll end my turn by placing a card face-down!
Omi: Aha! I sacrifice my royal Magical Library and my Mystical Elf, to summon Dark Magician! (2500/2100)
(The second powerful monster rose.)
Omi: that shall end my turn!
Marik: Grrr. (He drew.) Hahahahaha! I activate Lesser Fiend Revival!
Omi: What does that do!
Marik: It will summon all your monsters that have exactly four stars from your graveyard to my side of the field. Let me see, Mystical Elf, Neo the Magic Swordsman, Royal Magical Library and Ancient Elf, all belong to me now! Ahahahahaha!
Omi: Think a third time! Your cage is now gone, and those monsters can't withstand the power of my Dark Magician and Sanga!
Marik: That's why I'll switch my powerful army to defence mode! And end my turn!
Omi: (Drawing, he had seen his Legendary Knight of Wisdom.) This should be a most excellent assistance, but I cannot risk my two strong monsters in the process. My monsters, attack the two highest defenders!
(The Dark Magician and Sanga attacked the Mystical Elf and Royal Magical Library.)
Omi: Do not force me to attack my monsters again, you heartless fiend!
Marik: Hm, I guess it's my move. And I have the perfect plan to spell your doom! I activate Graceful Charity! I discard two cards. (He discarded the two, which Yugi noticed was the Winged Dragon of Ra.) And draw three.
Yugi: He had the Egyptian God Card when he summoned them four monsters!
Joey: Yah sure? He woulda summoned it if he did.
Raimundo: (Using the Mind Reader Conch.) Yeah he did have it.
Kimiko: Let's hope Omi has a plan.
Marik: Now, I activate Monster Reborn!
Warriors and Duelists: No!
Marik: I summon the Winged Dragon of Ra
(The stadium started to erupt in rumbling, and then the giant bird creature was summoned, towering over Omi's monsters. But it only had 0 attack power.)
Marik: Now absorb the monsters Ra!
Omi: You cannot simply add attack power to your monsters at will.
Marik: Ra can!
(Omi's two monsters fused itself to the Winged Dragon, powering it up to 3150.)
Marik: That's not all! I sacrifice all but one life points to my Winged Dragon!
(Marik slowly disappeared as the Winged Dragon increased to 7149 attack points.)
Kimiko: (Crying) No!
Omi: Then go on then, destroy my Dark Magician.
Marik: Wait, he's expecting me to attack his Dark Magician, I bet one of those face-down cards are a Dark Magician life saver or something. Maybe I should attack Sanga of the Thunder.
Omi: What's wrong? Scared?
Marik: No, you'll be scared shortly! Egyptian God Card! Annihilate his Sanga!
(Ra let out a huge blast, which crumbled Sanga. Kimiko buried herself in Raimundo's shoulders, crying her eyes out.)
Kimiko: He lost! It should have been me! It's all my fault!
Raimundo: What are you talking about?
Kimiko: Omi lost! Look at … his…
(Omi's life points remained untouched at 3500.)
Kimiko: But how! Sanga wasn't at defence mode!
Omi: No, Kimiko! But it was Sanga of the Thunder's special ability. Whenever he is destroyed, life point deduction will not be counted. My life points are safe.
Marik: No! But you were saying to attack your Dark Magician, like if you were leading me into a trap.
Omi: I like doing reverse psychology!
(Raimundo and Kimiko burst out laughing.)
Marik: Grrrr, you think you can play mind games with me! Your sadly mistaken! I add all of Ra's attack power to my life points!
(Marik's life points increased to 7150, and Marik began to reappear.)
Joey: Ouch, Omi's facing some steep odds.
Marik: Since I didn't summon anything in that turn, I summon Koumori Dragon (1500/1200) in defence mode! Now I'll end my turn!
Omi: My move! I shall summon Witch of the Black Forest (1100/1200) in defence mode. Now I attack your Koumori Dragon with Dark Magician!
(The blast destroyed the monster.)
Marik: My move! I'll activate: Mining for Magical Stones! This allows me to discard two cards from my hand and retrieve one magic card from my graveyard!
Kimiko: Lemme guess, Monster Reborn.
Marik: Monster Reborn!
Kimiko: I knew it!
Marik: Now I activate it! To summon my Winged Dragon of Ra again!
(The giant beast was summoned.)
Omi: Hah! I prepared for a move like that, so I activate: Portal of Lost Souls!
Marik: What's that!
Omi: When a level 8 or higher monster has been summoned without tributes, I can pay 1000 of my own life points (Omi's chest disappeared.) to summon another level 8 or higher monster.
Kimiko: But Omi doesn't have level 8 or higher monsters. The highest he only has is level 7.
Raimundo: Which is Dark Magician.
Omi: I summon Legendary Knight of Wisdom! (3200/3000)
(A knight was summoned, but it took the appearance of an older Omi.)
Raimundo: There's always that too.
Omi: Now my knight, increase by 500 attack points for every spellcaster in my graveyard.
Marik: And how many spellcasters do you have?
Omi: Four! And my knight's power increases by 2000.
(The knight raised his sword and Omi's graveyard shot four balls of light that powered the knight to 5200 attack points.)
Omi: Your Winged Dragon is no match for my Legendary Knight!
Marik: Hehehe, that's why I'm going to activate Ra's final ability! By paying 1000 of my own life points! I can transform my beast into the Egyptian God Phoenix!
(The Egyptian God Card transformed into a huge burning fire bird. And Marik's life points fell to 6150.)
Marik: I think you know Ra's daily routine by now. I sacrifice all but one of my life points to power Ra to 6149 attack points!
Omi: If my monsters are destroyed, then my life points are vulnerable!
Marik: Well observed! Ahahahahahaha!
Stephanie: No, Omi!
Marik: Now destroy his monsters! And put the burn on little Omi!
(The bird struck down the Dark Magician and the Legendary Knight (Who was trying to fight it back but no prevail.) And struck Omi, who gave a loud scream.)
Kimiko & Raimundo: Omi!
Yugi: You can fight it, Omi!
Marik: Ahahahahaha! Can you feel the wrath of Ra!
(The inferno stopped, the God Card was brought back into the graveyard, when the smoke cleared, Omi was lying on the floor, unconscious.)
Roland: Marik wins this round!
(Horror struck Yugi, Joey, Stephanie, Raimundo and Kimiko's faces.)
Marik: Hahahahaha! You put up a good fight, but your puny monsters are no match for my God Card! Now see you in the Shadow Realm!
(Omi glowed a black aura, then the darkness was repelled with a light aura. Then the darkness around the stadium vanished.)
Kimiko: We gotta get up there!
Raimundo: Okay, hang on!
(Stephanie and Kimiko held on to Raimundo's arm.)
Raimundo: Wind!
(He blew them up to Omi's platform and raced to see if he was alright.)
Stephanie: Omi, please wake up!
(Omi's eyes started to open. He was still weakened after the blast.)
Marik: What! He should be locked away in the shadows!
Stephanie: Omi? Are you alright?
Omi: I have been better. But why am I not in the Shadow Realm, unless my eyes are being fooled by Shadow Realm spells.
Raimundo: Well, I got the definite proof. Kimiko's a hot head!
(Kimiko started tearing Raimundo apart.)
Omi: Yes, that is definitely Raimundo and Kimiko.
(Then something flashed in the middle of Omi's sight. It was the Legendary Knight of Wisdom.)
Stephanie: Oh, isn't that your knight?
Omi: Yes, how is it that you are appearing before me?
Knight: I can do many things; I am a legendary knight after all.
Omi: You were a sound for sore ears in the duel.
Raimundo: I think that's sight for sore eyes.
Knight: Thank you, Omi. Your fellow spellcasters gave me quite the boost. But all of us need to have a quick discussion.
Kimiko: Yeah, we got a lot of questions to ask, like how come Omi wasn't sealed in the Shadow Realm when he lost to Marik?
Knight: Omi was fortunate to have me by his side when he was duelling, he cannot be sealed to the Shadow Realm, when he is my master. The same with the two of you and your knights.
(Raimundo and Kimiko held up their Legendary Knights.)
Knight: Exactly. The three of you are written in an ancient prophecy.
Raimundo: Don't worry, we won't freak out, this sorta stuff happens to us a lot.
Knight: When the God Cards are separated, their masters can use them for a choice, use them for good, and bring peace, but when used for evil; their power will bring darkness to the world. It is your duty to stop the fiend that controls Ra.
Kimiko: But how? Even you weren't any match for Ra.
Knight: No, but my fellow knights could prove a match for Ra.
Raimundo: I'm sure that might come in handy.
Kimiko: But what about Clay? Isn't he part of the prophecy?
Knight: Well, he was, but since none of us were there to stop him being sealed in the Shadow Realm, we couldn't save him. So it is up to you three to stop Marik and save your friend from the Shadows. And we will be with you, and do not fear, as long as we're with you; you'll never be sealed in the shadows.
(The knight vanished.)
Kimiko: Well, that was really odd.
Omi: But I have lost the duel, and now there is only two warriors left to retrieve the magical stone.
Kimiko: It's okay, Omi.
Raimundo: The important thing is your safe.
Stephanie: And we wouldn't want it any other way.
(Yugi and Joey had finally made it up to them.)
Yugi: Omi, are you alright?
Omi: Never better, Yugi. Oh, ouch, did I say, I never better? Because what I meant was … Never worse.
Roland: The next match will be: Kimiko Tohomiko and Seto Kaiba!
Kimiko: Oh right, I forgot about that!
Raimundo: And don't forget about the promise we made before the tournament.
(A flashback scene showed how Raimundo and Kimiko promised Kaiba that either one of them will defeat Kaiba before the tournament is finished.)
Kimiko: Oh yeah! It's payback time!
(Kaiba is seen walking up a flight of stairs.)
Kimiko's thoughts: This is it, Kaiba! Time to get revenge on what you did to Rai!
(Another flashback seen Kaiba's Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon wiping out the Fiend Megacyber.)
Kaiba's thoughts: Soon I'll destroy that inferior girl, and prove to her once and for all who she's dealing with!