Ch.6
Heart of the Cards

"Go XYZ-Dragon Cannon attack his pathetic Dark Magician!"
XYZ-Dragon Cannon attacks Yugi's Dark Magician, but the attack is reflected back and destroys XYZ-Dragon Cannon.
"What? No could it be?" Guessed Kaiba.
"Yes Kaiba it is, I activated my trap card Mirror Force! You're familiar with this card! This card will redirect your attack and destroy your entire attack positioned monster!" Said Yugi revealing his trap card.
Kaiba looks in disbelief all his monsters are gone he's wide open for an attack.
"I end my turn!" Said Kaiba.
Yugi smiles.
"Draw! Now my Silent Swordsman goes up a level and its attack points go up by five hundred points! Next ill place my Dark Magician in attack mode! Go Silent Swordsman and Dark Magician attack his life pints directly!"
Silent Swordsman wields his sword and run towards Kaiba slicing him up and Dark Magician attack as well. Kaiba's life points drop from 6500 to 2500.
"I end my turn!" Says Yugi.
It's Kaiba's turn now.
"Very well Yugi! Draw! I'll activate my spell card Dark Hole! This card will destroy all monsters on the field!"
A huge hole appeared on the field destroying both of Yugi's monsters leaving him with none.
"And that concludes my turn!" Says Kaiba.
Now they're back at square one, neither one has any monsters on the field, nor any cards in their hand. The suspense can be felt through the while block. The crowd of duelists and by standees watching have gotten bigger it was as if the whole city was watching their duel. Even the TV news was their reporting the duel nationwide. Of course, thinks Yugi, this is the rematch everyone had been waiting for.
The duel is very close to end but with no monsters on either player's side of neither the field nor a hand; any one of them can be victorious. If I can summon a monster, thinks Yugi, a playable one, one that I can summon, I can win this.
"Kaiba, watch my next move!" Says Yugi. "I'll let the heart of the cards guide me! There's a way for me to turn this around with one card!"
Yugi places his hand over his deck and he can feel his will surging through his deck.
"Draw!"
He draws and doesn't look at his only card, but he plays it.
"I summon Swift Gaia the Fierce Knight!"
Sure enough Yugi called the card right and his monster is summoned. Kaiba isn't surprise but unease by Yugi's move.
"When this card is the only card in my hand I can normal summon it without tributing for it!"
No, I have no monsters to protect my life points, thinks Kaiba.
"Go Swift Gaia attack Kaiba's life points directly!"
Swift Gaia goes for the attack using his spiral to hit Kaiba. Kaiba's life points drop from 2500 to 200.
"I end my turn!" Finish Yugi.
Kaiba grinds his teeth in anger. I only one attack away from losing this duel, he thinks to himself, no cards in my hand and just one face down card. I have to make this next card count.
"Draw!" He smiles, "I special summon Chaos Emperor Dragon (atk 3000/def. 2500) by banishing one light and dark monster from my graveyard, in attack mode!"
The crowd goes wild, yet again.
"Kaiba, I must say I'm impressed you still managed to summon a strong monster!" Said Yugi.
"That's right Yugi, it's my turn now go Chaos Emperor Dragon attack Swift Gaia!" Yelled Kaiba.
His dragon blasts Yugi's monster destroying it. Yugi's life points drop from 3800 to 2900, leaving him with no monsters.
"You're move Yugi!"
"Draw!" Yells Yugi, "I'll activate my spell card Premature Burial! I pay 800 life points and I can special summon one monster from my graveyard and I choose Blue Eyes White Dragon!"
Blue Eyes appears once again on Yugi's side of the field. Both Chaos Emperor Dragon and Blue Eyes are evenly matched, both with an attack power of 3200 due to Kaiba's field spell card; Mountains.
"Kaiba, how about we start back at square one?" Asked Yugi.
Kaiba's eyes began to shake.
"You wouldn't," he begins, "you wouldn't."
Yugi laughs.
"But I will, sure attacking your monster will destroy mine too, but I have life points to spare unlike you, in my next turn even my weakest monster can defeat you!" He says pointing at Kaiba. "Now go Blue Eyes attack his Chaos Emperor Dragon!"
Blue Eyes attacks with his White Lightning Blast destroying Chaos Emperor Dragon and Blue Eyes itself due to the fact they both had the same attack points.
"I end-" starts Yugi but he stops talking when notices his life points have drop to zero and so has Kaiba's, ending the duel in a draw.
"What? But how?" Asked Yugi.
"Simple Yugi, I activated my trap card Ring of Destruction I pick a monster on your side of the field an when its destroyed we will both lose life points equal to the attacking power of the destroyed monster!" Answers Kaiba.
The crowd goes wild, even Yugi smiles.
"Very well played Kaiba instead of one of us becoming victors you made sure neither one of us will win." He says.
The duel has finally come to an end, resulting in a draw. The crowd can't stop talking among themselves, not believing how the duel ended.
"It's your lucky day Yugi! But next time I assure you only one of us will emerge victorious!" Says Kaiba walking up to Yugi petting him on the shoulder.
As soon as Kaiba touched Yugi it happened again, Yugi started seeing a vision. He sees Kaiba in Egypt back at The Valley of Kings, and he's looking for something, something he still hasn't found. But what could it be? What are you doing in Egypt Kaiba, Yugi asked himself, looking at Kaiba straight in his eyes. Kaiba begins to walk away and Yugi's vision disappears.
"I expect to see you soon, Yugi. Pay attention to tomorrow's announcement about the tournament! Starting next week, everyone will be competing for the Battle City Cup! And everyone will be after your title as the King of Games!" Says Kaiba leaving.
Yugi looks and nods his head.
"I'll be there, Kaiba I'll be there."
Kaiba smiles and walks away.
The crowd goes wild circling Yugi, some even try to chase after Kaiba but his body guards took care of them. Yet, even though everyone is celebrating, Yugi is worried now.
First he had the dream with Atem, with Flash he saw the stone slab containing a monster with such dark force, and now he envisioned Kaiba in Egypt deep in the Valley of Kings, but why surely there's nothing there.
"Yugi!"
Its Tea snapping him back to reality, he quickly cuts through from the crowd, and grabs her. He looks over at Grandpa and says-
"We'll be back Gramps!"
And begins to leave away from the crowd, holding Tea's hand. They walk till no one is in sight that would bother them.
"Yugi you did great out there!" Tea managed to say.
"I guess I did, didn't I." Yugi answered back.
"Yugi, I know it's not my place to say, after everything, but I strongly believe you should participate in this tournament. Do it. Something tells me you should." Tea says so sincerely.
Yugi just remained quiet, honesty quite, touched and motivated to join the tournament. But now he didn't want to worry Tea with what he seen and what he has experienced. No he will have to find out what's happen on his on... Starting with joining the Battle City Cup.
"Yugi, what are you thinking about?"
Once again, Tea snaps Yugi back into the real world.
"I'm thinking you're right, I should compete, and I will."
Tea smiles and it actually makes Yugi smile too. He had missed Tea much more than he thought.
"And you actually duel just for fun this time!" She says to Yugi.
Yugi quietly thinks, I hope so Tea, I hope so.