Yugi ran across the soaked streets of Domino city to the Kaiba Corp duel dome. It was late into the night and it was still pouring down rain, and now there was an eerie chill in the air.
"Kaiba… what could that spoiled rich pansy have in mind?"
Ever since their first duel Kaiba had given Yugi no rest. He had become obsessed with trying to defeat him in a duel so he could regain his title as the number one duelist. But kidnapping Yugi's friends was crossing the line. He entered the duel dome and rode the elevator to the top. There stood Kaiba, oddly enough he was dressed head to toe in black and his face and hair looked a lot paler then usual.
"Ah Yugi, you made it…"
"Where are my friends!"
"Oh they're just fine… and I'll return them to you after we duel."
"He's caught up in his own little world, I have no choice." Yugi thought.
They both activated their duel disks and their life point totals went to 4000.
"Let's duel!"
Meanwhile high above the Kaiba dome a lone person was watching.
"Alright little Yugi, let's see what you're made of."
"The first turn belongs to me!" exclaimed Kaiba "I'll place one monster in defense mode and end my turn."
Yugi looked at the cards in his hand.
"Just a monster in defense mode? That's not like Kaiba… If I can destroy that monster then he's left himself defenseless." He thought.
"I summon Magical Exemplar!"
(ATK: 1700 DEF: 1400)
"Attack his face down monster!"
Magical Exemplar blasted Kaiba's face down monster with a burst of magical energy, and the monster revealed itself.
"No! It's a Giant Germ!"
Though the monster was destroyed Yugi was struck for 500 points of damage.
(Yugi: 3500)
"The first blood is mine, and that's not all… Thanks to Giant Germ's effect whenever it's destroyed in battle I can summon two more Giant Germs from my deck." said Kaiba.
(2x ATK: 1000 DEF: 100)
Kaiba now had two monsters on his side of the field. Yugi knew what use he would make of them. Luckily he had just the card in his hand to deal with it.
"I'll lay one card face down and end my turn."
"Good, now I can start ending you!"
Kaiba drew his card.
"I'll start by playing the spell card Mystical Space Typhoon, and I'll use it to destroy your facedown card!"
Yugi's Mirror Force was swept away just like that. His Magical Exemplar was defenseless.
"And now I'll sacrifice my two Giant Germs to summon my good and loyal servant! The Blue Eyes White Dragon!"
(ATK: 3000 DEF: 2500)
Kaiba's Blue Eyes descended from the sky and landed behind him.
"Yes, the monster that has been the bane of your dueling career since out first match. And now the card that will seal your doom! THE CURSE OF NOSFERATU!"
"There's no such card Kaiba!"
"I beg to differ…"
Kaiba placed the card in his duel disk and it appeared on the field. The picture on it looked like a skull with fangs.
Suddenly Kaiba's Blue Eyes started to change color, its eyes turned scarlet, and some of its razor sharp teeth turned into fangs.
"The Curse of Nosferatu turns all my monsters into vampires… and their attack points increase by 500."
(ATK: 3500)
"Blue Eyes Vampire Dragon, destroy Yugi's Magical Exemplar with Crimson Lightening!"
The Blue Eyes opened it's mouth and fired a huge burst of crimson energy that incinerated Yugi's Magical Exemplar.
(Yugi: 1700)
Suddenly Yugi started to feel like he was being drained somehow. But he shook it off.
"This time I'm out for blood Yugi…"
There wasn't a single card in Yugi's hand that could destroy Kaiba's Blue Eyes Vampire Dragon. But he could stop it from reaching his life points.
"First I summon Blockman!"
(ATK: 1000 DEF: 1500)
"Now I'll activate my Swords of Revealing Light!"
Several luminous swords fell from the sky and cut off Yugi and his monsters from Kaiba's.
"Now you will be unable to attack me for three whole turns!"
Kaiba started laughing; Yugi could almost swear he saw fangs in his mouth.
"You're the second duelist I've fought tonight, and your both pains in the neck! No matter… There are still plenty of other moves I can make… I summon Manju of the Ten Thousand Hands!"
(ATK: 1400 DEF: 1000)
"And because of the effect of The Curse of Nosferatu he becomes a Vampire and gains 500 attack points."
(ATK: 1900)
"But that's not important. His special ability allows me to take one ritual spell or monster card from my deck and add it to my hand. I choose White Dragon Ritual, and I'll use it to sacrifice my Manju to ritual summon Paladin of White Dragon."
(ATK: 1900 DEF: 1200)
But he won't be sticking around for long, because now I'll sacrifice him to summon another Blue Eyes White Dragon!"
(ATK: 3000 DEF: 2500)
"And because of the effect of The Curse of Nosferatu he becomes a vampire and gains 500 attack points."
(ATK: 3500)
"He keeps turning his monsters into vampires with this Curse of Nosferatu. I've never even heard of this card before."
Just then Yugi noticed something odd. The skin on his arm was turning pale; he started to feel drained again. He was becoming dizzy and nauseous. He knew it was late at night, but this wasn't regular exhaustion.
"Aw what's wrong?" asked Kaiba "Is the so called King of Games feeling a little under the weather?"
Yugi looked at the cards in his hand. There was nothing he could do.
"I pass."
"Very well, since I still can't attack I'll just summon Kaiser Sea Horse in attack mode!"
(ATK: 1700 DEF: 1650)
"And don't forget, thanks to The Curse of Nosferatu it becomes a vampire and gains 500 more attack points."
(ATK: 2300)
Summoning Kaiser Sea Horse could only mean one thing, but Yugi still didn't have any cards in his hand that could do anything about it.
"I… pass." he said weakly.
"You look like you're ready to pass out. But I don't really blame you, because now I sacrifice my Kaiser Sea Horse to summon my third Blue Eyes!"
Kaiba's third Blue Eyes appeared and because of the Curse of Nosferatu it's attack points increased.
(ATK: 3500)
"Well Yugi it's been three turns, so your Swords of Revealing Light now disappear. Hope your hand is hot."
The card Yugi drew was Magical Dimension. With this spell card he could offer a Spellcaster monster from his side of the field to special summon a spellcaster from his hand and destroy one monster on the field. But he didn't have any spellcaster monsters on his side of the field, and the only spellcaster in his hand was the Mystical Elf, and even if he could destroy one of Kaiba's Blue Eyes he would still have two left. The only thing he could do was keep them from attacking his life points.
"I activate Blockman's special ability! Since he's been on the field for four turns I can sacrifice him to summon four Block Tokens!"
(4x ATK: 1000 DEF: 1500)
"I see, since you have four monsters in play you think I'll need four monsters to destroy them, but all I need is this one card, Burst Stream of Destruction! Since I have Blue Eyes White Dragon on my side of the field I can use this to destroy all the monsters you have out!"
One of Kaiba's Blue Eyes Vampire Dragons fired a huge burst of energy that destroyed all of Yugi's Block Tokens.
"Because I played Burst Stream of Destruction none of my Blue Eyes' can attack this turn, but I can easily remedy that with this card, Polymerization! Which I will use to fuse my three great beasts together to summon the Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon!"
(ATK: 4500 DEF: 3800)
"And because of the effect of The Curse of Nosferatu it becomes a vampire and gains 500 attack points!"
(ATK: 5000)
"I've been waiting a long time for this moment Yugi. My dragon is going to blast you back to the minor leagues where you belong! Ever since our first match I've dreamed of the day I'd finally defeat you and resume my rightful place as the world's number one ranked duelist! And it's finally come to fruition! Blue Eyes Ultimate Vampire Dragon, attack Yugi directly with Crimson Neutron Blast!"
A huge crimson blast erupted from each of the dragon's individual heads that they converged into one single attack that blasted Yugi, but when the smoke cleared his life points were untouched.
"WHAT!"
"Sorry Kaiba, but by discarding Kuriboh from my hand to my graveyard I can reduce all the damage inflicted by your Blue Eyes to 0."
"You're only delaying the inevitable Yugi… You may have defeated me before, oh wait I forgot… You never beat me… You were sitting on the sidelines while your precious friend the Pharaoh took care of everything… But now you're all alone… Without the Pharaoh you're nothing but a pretender."
"Pretender? You seem to forget Kaiba… I beat the Pharaoh… and he had the power of all three Egyptian god cards behind him… And I still beat him…"
"Maybe… But your precious friend the Pharaoh wouldn't be on his knees right now."
Yugi didn't know what was going on… he felt so weak… he was turning as pale as a ghost… the whole world was spinning.
"Is this duel too much for you? Face it Yugi… without your little friend you're in way over your head."
Yugi knew he had only one chance. He had to draw the right card right now if he wanted to have any chance at winning this duel. He drew his card, when he looked at it he felt a sudden rush of strength run through him and smiled, he could almost swear he saw his card wink at him.
"I summon the Mystical Elf!"
(ATK: 800 DEF: 2000)
"Now I activate the spell card Magical Dimension! By sacrificing one spellcaster on my side of the field I can destroy one of your monsters!"
Kaiba's dragon went up in smoke.
"NO! MY ULTIMATE DRAGON!"
"And that's… not all… Now I can special summon a spellcaster type monster from my hand… And I choose… The Dark Magician Girl!"
(ATK: 2000 DEF: 1700)
"Dark Magician Girl attack… ugh… Attack Kaiba directly!"
The Dark Magician Girl blasted Kaiba.
(Kaiba: 2000)
"And I'll end my turn by placing one card face… ugh… facedown."
Kaiba glared angrily at Yugi.
"You may have destroyed my best monster, and you may have your little girlfriend on the field protecting you… But you're still doomed. First I'll play the spell card Pot of Greed and draw two more cards! Next I'll lay one card face down and summon Penten the Dark Clown!"
(ATK: 500 DEF: 1200)
"And don't forget, thanks to the Curse of Nosferatu it becomes a vampire, and it's attack points are increased by 500!"
(ATK: 1000)
"Penten the Dark Clown? Even with the Curse of Nosferatu Kaiba knows the Dark Magician Girl has more then enough attack points to… wait… I know what he's doing…Sorry Kaiba, as weak as I feel right now; I'm still not going to fall for that trick of yours again."
Yugi drew his card.
"I play Sage's Stone! When the Dark Magician Girl is in play I can use Sage's Stone to summon… oh my… to summon the Dark Magician!"
(ATK: 2500 DEF: 2100)
"You just triggered my trap! The Crush Card Virus! By sacrificing one dark monster on my side of the field with 1000 attack points or less I can…"
"Not so fast Kaiba! You just triggered my own trap card! Seven Tools of the Bandit! By paying 1000 life points I can negate the activation of one of your trap cards and destroy it!"
(Yugi: 700)
Kaiba's Crush Card was destroyed, suddenly…
"AAAGH!"
Yugi felt a sharp jolt of pain in his neck; he could feel blood running down the side of it.
"Dark Magician attack… Attack his Dark Clown!"
The Dark Magician blasted Kaiba's clown with it's Dark Magic attack.
(Kaiba: 500)
Kaiba didn't use Penten's effect to summon another one, because it wouldn't have made any difference.
"Dark Magician Girl attack… attack…"
Yugi's world was getting hazy… He was barely breathing… He couldn't even stand up… He was on his knees supported only by one hand on the ground.
"Attack… Attack Kaiba's… Attack…"
The Dark Magician Girl just looked worryingly at him.
"I'm fine… Attack Kaiba's life points directly…"
The Dark Magician Girl turned and blasted Kaiba."
(Kaiba: 0)
Though the duel was over the Dark Magician Girl didn't disappear. She knelt down beside Yugi and took him in her arms. He was turning as pale as a ghost, his pulse was dropping, and he was barely breathing. Kaiba just stood there on the other side of the arena.
"You just couldn't let me win… So… this is what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immoveable object… I think you and I were destined to do this forever… It's too bad I'll have to cut our life long rivalry short."
Kaiba started to advance towards Yugi. There was no mistaking it now, he had fangs and his eyes were scarlet. The Dark Magician Girl raised her staff ready to attack when suddenly.
"GET BACK!"
Some man in a raincoat came out from behind them and held out a golden crucifix in front of Kaiba. Kaiba hissed at the sight of it.
"Back unholy demon of the night!"
Kaiba recognized the man's face.
"Aren't you retired?"
The man's response was a small vial of liquid that he opened and hurled at Kaiba. When the liquid made contact it felt like he was on fire.
"YAAAAAAAGGGGHHHHH!"
"The power of Christ compels you! The power of Christ compels you!"
Two huge bat like wings burst out of Kaiba's back and he flew away. The man turned to Yugi, The Dark Magician Girl was still cradling him in her arms.
"We'll take it from here."
Some how she knew he was telling the truth. She disappeared back into Yugi's deck. The man checked Yugi's vital signs.
"He's still alive… Thank God."
Another man came running up to him.
"Mr. Pegasus! We found his friends, they're alive."
"Good." replied Pegasus "Bring the cars around, this boy needs medical attention now!"