Hello everyone... for the last time. At least for this fic. ASJ is over. It's been a month since I last updated... and I barely have any of chapter 47 done. I don't really have time to write, and my heart isn't in it. I wrote this fic to get over Yu-Gi-Oh! ending, and I have... and I did, a while ago. And looking back on it, I really don't like this fic. Lol, just like Return of the Gods... except I lasted quite a bit longer, which is good. Anyway, I just want to say I really appreciate all of you reading and reviewing my past 46 chapters. I hope you had fun reading this, because I had fun writing it... while I could.
Anyway, I just want to give a special thanks to Kuinra Shisa and Vyser Dragoon for letting me use their cards, and helping me with this fic. Kuinra Shisa has a really good fic, but he hasn't updated, while Vyster D has 3 awesome fics, but only 1 of them is finished... but he's still updating the other two! I highly advise all of you to check them out (if you aren't reading them all ready)
And I know that just pure A/N chapters aren't allowed, and this is pretty short, so I'll give you a chapter summary of everything that would have happened... If I just say, "A card", then it's a custom card that I didn't think of a name for.
Chapter 47 - Change of Heart: Apollo is chosen to duel over Takashi, and he goes all out against his brother Cronus. Cronus uses his field spell Map of the Stars to immediately bring out his monster White Aries and his continuous spell First House - House of Self. Apollo goes all out with his D-Heroes, but it is not enough, as every time Apollo destroys a monster, the next monster in the astrological line-up comes out, leaving no opening against Cronus. Chris and his group are amazed by the power of always having a monster. The House spell cards rotate every over turn. Apollo finally gets through Cronus' 12 monsters, when he destroys White Pisces, White Aries comes back. However, then Apollo gets his spell that lets him switch to his deck that he specially built to defeat Cronus.
Chapter 48 - Change of Hero - Reflector Ray: Apollo has a new deck, switching from D-Heroes to D-Warriors. He starts his first turn with his new deck by setting a trap, and then continuing. He doesn't activate the trap ever, no matter what Cronus does. Every time a D-Warrior destroy a monster they activate an effect, making them the perfect monsters to defeat Cronus, since he always has a monster. He goes through the 12 monsters without doing too much damage, and once again, is at Aries. However, now that the D-Warriors have destroyed 12 warriors, Apollo uses his Rite of Destiny to summon the most powerful of the D-Warriors, D-Warrior Daichi. Whenever Daichi destroys a monster in battle, he can attack once again in a row. Since Cronus keeps on summoning new monsters, Daichi has unlimited attacks. He destroys Aries, but then Cronus summons White Taurus (the next monster) in defense. However, Apollo reveals that he has planned for this all along, as he finally activates the card he first set with that deck: Final Attack Orders. This allows Apollo to use D-Warrior Daichi to win.
Chapter 49 - The Puppet Magic of Dark Ruler: They get another Millennium Item from Cronus and they go to the next room. The next room is actually a hallway, and they walk through, with Chris leading the way. However, soon a door comes down, separating Chris and Yami from everyone else. Their PDA does not work, completely shutting them off from the outside world. They continue cautiously, coming to yet another room. This is the room that the three Sacred Beasts were held in. There they meet Bakura, who uses magic to split himself into himself and Manukan. Bakura leaves the room to prepare for the opening of the gateway to the Shadow Realm with Manukan to duel Yami. Before leaving, Bakura says that they will be betting all of their Millennium Item, but since Yami only has 3 items while Bakura has 4, Yami will also have to bet his obedience to not interfere when he loses. When Bakura leaves, Yami tells Manukan that he must not duel, asking him if he knows what will happen if he loses. Manukan cryptically replies by asking Yami if he knows what will happen if he wins. Manukan activates his duel disk and refuses to say any more. They begin the duel, with Yami summoning Dark Paladin quickly. Manukan plays defensively with his Agents, but then summons The Agent of Time - Janus (with 2000 ATK and 0 DEF), who removes himself and Dark Paladin from play each turn. On his next turn, Manukan special summons his strongest monster by tributing 3 monsters: The Agent of Death - Pluto.
Chapter 50 - Release Restraint: Yami wonders what The Agent of Death - Pluto can do, since it has no attack or defense. Yami uses Pluto's effect to give up his normal summon to summon Pluto's Hound. Normally it would have 1400 attack points, but since it was special summoned, it is boosted up to 2000! Manukan sets a card, attacks with Pluto's Hound, and ends. Yami asks where Manukan got such a powerful card. Manukan begins to explain hs story... When he was a child, his parents were rarely home. And when they were, they paid little attention to him. To make up for it, they would always get him duel monster cards. But no matter how many cards Manukan had, no matter how many decks he had, he would always lose his duels at his local playground. His best deck was the agents; he lost with them, but just not as bad. However, on his nineth birthday, Manukan recieves a strange package. It contained the Millennium Ring and The Agent of Death - Pluto. Eager to use his new card, he rusehd to the playground and engaged in a duel with the local bully. Things are going badly, but as soon as Manukan summons Pluto, the duel turns around. He wins his first duel ever. However, what he doesn't know at that time, and what he doesn't find out for a while, the bully was hospitalized. When he finds out a few weeks later, Bakura reveals himself to Manukan, and tells Manukan that unless he obeys him, everyone he duels will end up like the bully. Manukan agrees to obey Bakura, so no one else gets hurt. The flashback to Manukan's past ends with him telling Yami that he has no lost a single duel in which he has used Pluto, and despite Bakura's promise, anyone he beat Pluto with would still get a little sick. As the duel continues and Pluto is on the field, Manukan becomes increasingly more aggressive and evil. Yami realizes that Pluto must have other powers, since just summoning monsters and having no attack or defense points would not let Manukan win duels, and he wonders what the other powers are. The duel continues, with Janus continuing to prevent Dark Paladin from staying on the field, and Yami barely is able to dodge Manukan's assault. Yami keeps on trying to destroy Pluto with an effect and in battle, but Manukan uses a continuous trap card that lets him prevent Pluto's destruction each time for a few life points. Each turn Manukan summons another Pluto's Hound. When he assembles all three, on the next turn, he tributes them to summon Cerberus, Hellhound of the Underworld, with 3100 attack points. It can decrease its attack points by 1000 for a turn to gain an extra attack, making it extremely versatile. Before knowing this, Yami tries to use Scapegoat to defend himself, but Manukan decreases Cerberus' attack points to 100 to give it four attacks, destroying all the tokens. Yami finally comes back by destroying Cerberus, but this summons back all 3 Pluto's Hound. Then, on Bakura's turn, Yami uses a trap card to stop Janus' effect, keeping Dark Paladin on the field. Yami is now confident, since he has the powerful Dark Paladin, which none of Manukan's monsters, who all have 2000 attack, can beat, and he can use Dark Paladin's effect to stop all of Manukan's spells. However, Manukan uses Pluto's effect: all of Manukan's other monsters are tributed, and double their combined attack becomes Pluto's attack. However, Manukan cannot summon any other monsters as long as he has Pluto. Thus, Plot's attack skyrockets to 16000! He instantly declares an attack on Dark Paladin, but Yami uses De-Fusion to stop the attack and split Dark Paladin into Dark Magician and Buster Blader. Manukan ends his turn. Yami draws, and declares he has realized how to defeat Manukan using his own monster. He switches his monsters to attack position and uses the spell card Mystic Box; the boxes appear around Pluto and Dark Magician. Swords try to pierce the box on Yami's field, but a giant blast comes out of it from Pluto, destroying the box and the swords. Manukan says he'll just pay life points, bringing him down to 100, to keep Pluto one final time. Yami has no cards in his hand and no spells or traps on his field, and his monsters are already in attack position. However, Yami says that Mystic Box has one more effect: Manukan still gets control of Dark Magician. Yami then declares the attack of Buster Blader on Dark Magician; this deals 100 damage to Manukan, bringing him down to 0 life points. Yami has won the duel. As the holograms fade, Manukan returns to his gentle self. He loses consciousness, but as soon as he does, shadows begin to flood the room. As Yami tries to destroy the shadows in vain, he and Chris hear Bakura's voice cackling, explaining that Manukan had been holding Bakura back, limiting his power. However, now that Manukan has been sent to the Shadow Realm by Yami, Bakura has all of his power. The shadows remove the Millennium Puzzle from Chris' body, putting Chris back in control. Chris is worried as the shadows completely engulf him, leaving him alone in darkness.
Chapter 51 - Final Ritual of the Ancients: Chris wakes up in the room alone, without any Millennium Puzzles. He finds a stairwell down. While the room he was in was modern, the stairwell looked like it might have been from ancient Egypt. The scene then cuts to Bakura, in the room with the Shadow Gate. There is a circle on the ground, with places for all 7 Millennium Items. All but the Millennium Ring have been placed. Yami is helpless against Bakura. There are runes covering the floor, walls, and ceiling of the room. Bakura places the Millennium Ring in its spot, and his body fades away. All the runes and the circle begin to glow as the Shadow Gate opens. However, as the light reaches its climax from the circle, Chris finally gets down there and jumps over the circle, blocking its power. Bakura and Yami's spirit forms from Ancient Egypt appear, and Bakura says he didn't think Chris would recover so quickly. However, he's not worried since he knows that once Chris tires, the Shadow Gate will be able to fully open. Yami replies that the others may be able to get there before that and stop the ritual. Bakura then challenges Yami to one final duel: Yami's points will be tied to Chris, and Bakura's to the Millennium Ring. If Yami loses his points, Chris will have no more energy, and the ritual will complete. If Bakura loses his points, the Millennium Ring will lose its energy, and without it the ritual will not be able to continue. The duel begins, Yami using a strange deck that he's never seen before. But he says he'll use it, since it reminds him of Yugi. It is filled with strange toy monsters. It is a strong match against Bakura's Necro Deck. However, by using Cursed Necro Twins and Killing the Counterbalance, Bakura is able to deplete Yami's deck to one card. As Bakura ends his turn, he reveals to Yami that he cannot win: this is the exact duel played by Bakura and Yugi 5000 years ago. However, Bakura says that he has made sure that Yami's next card is not the card Yugi used to win. The duel is already sealed, and Bakura has planned this all along: Yami cannot win, for Yami has a single card left against all of Bakura's defenses.
Chapter 52 - Last Turn: Yami draws his last card. He then activates the card... Pot of Avarice! Yami is able to draw two cards... but after returning 5 monsters from his graveyard to his deck! And since Bakura used deck destruction, Bakura has no idea what cards Yami can use. Yami uses Breaker the Magical Warrior and Apprentice Magician to destroy Killing the Counterbalance and Narrow Cloister. However, Bakura is not worried, for the duel is slightly different from Yugi's duel... Bakura has 3 more set cards. They are Gift of the Mystical Elf, and since Cursed Necro Twins places many monsters on the field, he gains tons of life points, bringing him up to over 12000 life poitns!Yami summons the rest of the monsters, but then in defense. He then uses Zero Gravity, bringing his monsters and Bakura's weak monsters into attack. He launches a final assault, defeating Bakura. Completely exhaused, Yami and Chris faint. Chris wakes up to discover he is surrounded by Sarah, Sam, Kengake, Chancellor Casatos, Takashi, Manukan, Pan, Apollo, Zeus, and Cronus. Manukan, Pan, Apollo, Zeus, and Cronus all apologize for their actions, and Chris is given all 7 Millennium Items. To celebrate, Casatos has a party in Chris and Sam's dorm room, where Chris and Sarah get some fluff! (Yes! In the sequel I was planning for this, Chris and Sarah becomes a pairing!) That night, as Chris sleeps, the fic ends as Yami thinks to himself that Chris' journey has just begun...
Chapter 53 - Yami: Remember how I said this would have 52 chapters, and the fic was gonna end? I lied! I've been planning this mini-arc, and it was going to be a surprise! Without Chris knowing, Yami makes arrangements for him, Sarah, Chris, Kengake, Takashi, Manukan, and Casatos to go to Egypt. On an island on the coast, they go into deep ruins, to find a ruined room. Yami returns to his own body, and he walks up to the room. As he does so, he and Chris split, and the room suddenly becomes as good as new. They place the 7 Millennium Items in the Millennium Rock, and Yami explains that they must duel so he can return to the afterlife again, or else he will remain on the Earth for another 5000 years.
Chapter 54 - Uhm... didn't think of a title: As the duel begins, Chris acknowledges that he should refer to Yami as Atem, since they do not share a body any more. Atem agrees, and the duel begins.
Chapter 55 - Metamorphosis: The duel continues, as Chris and Atem summon Mystic Swordsman LV6 and Dark Magician, respectively, their main monsters. However, Atem takes it to another level when he uses Metamorphosis on Dark Magician, summoning Shadow Magician, which locks Chris' traps. However, Chris still fights on.
Chatper 56 - Judgment of the Pharaoh: Chris is fighting a losing battle. Finally, after an epic duel, Atem's Shadow Magician is about to declare the final attack on Mystic Swordsman LV6 that will defeat Chris. As he declares the attack, Chris uses Mirage Cylinder; Shadow Magician can stop traps, but not spells. Atem only has 1000 life poitns left, but Atem stops the attack and Mirage Cylinder by using De-Fusion, trading Shadow Magician of Dark Magician. Atem attacks Mystic Swordsman LV6 with Dark Magician, reducing Chris' points to 0.
Chapter 57 - Impenetrable Formation: As the smoke clears, Chris reveals that he had used Soul Relay, summoning, of all monsters, Different Dimension Dragon, which he discarded earlier in the duel. Atem is puzzled at this move, but ends his turn. As Chris draws, he equips DDD with Heart of Clear Water. This combination creates an indestructible monster. With this defense, Chris begins to recover. However, Atem destroys Heart of Clear Water, and then destroys DDD in battle. To counter, Chris uses a combination of Option Hunter, The Transmigration Prophecy, and Soul Line to prevent his loss by recovering points, returning Mystic Swordsman LV4 and 6 to his deck, and summon LV4 from his deck. It is now Chris' turn. Atem has 2300 life points. He uses Level Up to get back Mystic Swordsman LV6, and then Soul Taker to destroy Dark Magician. Atem chains Dark Illusion, letting Chris draw a card, but preventing Dark Magician's destruction. Chris says he expected that, and shows how. He can now use Book of Moon on Dark Magician, flipping it face-down. Mystic Swordsman LV6 destroys Dark Magician with his effect, and then Chris uses the Assassinate spell card to give Mystic Swordsman LV6 another immediate attack, reducing Atem's points to 0 and returning him to the afterlife.
Chapter 58 - After the Struggle: It is the next day, and time for Shadow's, Brainiac's, and Sachi's 3-way graduation duel for the entire duel to see. As Casatos talks about their accomplishments, Chris bolts out, unable to listen to that as they don't talk about how he stopped Bakura, even having to lose Atem. Casatos eventually finds Chris near his dorm. He begins the conversation casually by saying that Shadow won the duel. Chris doesn't respond. Casatos then says that that still doesn't make Shadow number one in the school... as he, Brainiac, and Sachi has agreed to give up their position as 1st, 2nd, and 3rd in the school to let Chris be the first, making him the first first-year kaiser in Duel Academy. Chris is astounded by this. That night, he cannot sleep. It is his last night at Duel Academy, since he and everyone else is leaving the next day. He cannot sleep, so he goes out onto his balcony. He reflects over the past year and Atem, his first true friend. The Millennium Necklace then gives him a vision of the future, where he, Sarah, Sam, and Kengake are engaged in a 4-way duel to determine who is the world champion. (It is only a vision that it will happen, not anything that actually happens in the duel.) Chris realizes that even though he defeated Atem once, he still must grow to become a much better duelist and defeat many more opponents if he wants to be able to participate in that duel to become the world champion. As the sun rises, Chris goes back inside to prepare for the new day.
And that's all that would have happened... sorry I couldn't do it.
Oh, and remember how I said at the start that this was hello for the last time? Well, I was really lying... since I'll be doing another fic! Eventually... (once I get all the characters and plot planned out and everything). I don't know its name, or when I'll post it up, but it'll be put up eventually! Hopefully I'll be able to finish it. It won't be focused on dueling as much as this fic is; it'll be more emotional.
Anyway, once again, thank you so much for reading this and sticking with me this far. I hope you enjoyed this fanfiction, and continue to read other fanfictions and even just fictinos that you really enjoy.
This is Bad Player, signing off.
