Chapter Eight: Final Fate

One week later…

At the Game Shop, Grandpa Muto was wiping down the counter when Yugi entered the store, fresh from another day at school, and said, "Grandpa? I'm home!"

"Ah, good," Grandpa replied, placing the rag onto the counter. "Nobody came to attack you today, I hope."

Yugi laughed. "Nope. Everything was just normal."

His face sobered a little. "What about Spencer? Have you heard from him as of yet?"

Yugi shook his head. "No, but that's not all that strange. He usually doesn't come here unless some evil psycho comes out of his world and into ours."

"Oh, dear…" Grandpa placed his elbow on the counter and his head onto his hand. "I just want to make sure that he's truly okay with all of this, even if he knows it's for the best." He shrugged. "I mean, maybe it would have been nice if Spencer could have seen Yuri every once in a while…but perhaps not as his son…as someone else…in a way…"

Yugi blinked. "How could that be?"

Grandpa laughed. "I don't know; you're the one that's supposed to make the impossible possible."

Suddenly, a bunch of people started running down the street outside, screaming in horror. Yugi whipped around and stared as beams of red, magical light flew down from the sky and crashed into the streets.

"Um, perhaps now is a time for you and your friends to jump into action," Grandpa suggested.

"Yeah, good idea," Yugi replied. He dropped his backpack on the floor and dashed out of the shop, calling over his shoulder, "Be back soon, Grandpa!"

"You'd better be!" he replied.

Grandpa watched as Yugi dashed down the street, towards the direction of the magic rather than away from it. Knowing the world was in good hands, he returned to washing down the counter.

However, he looked up for a moment and smiled. "Must be quite exciting, being able to use magic and fight off evil almost every day. Almost makes me wish I could join them."

Suddenly, a small glow came from his overalls pocket. He looked down and stared as the necklace lifted itself up and floated out in front of him. He'd kept it on him ever since he'd come back from his former world, but he never could figure out why.

A voice suddenly came from within his head: Well, sir, you do have the power to do so, you know.

He looked up at the sky. The voice was definitely D.M.'s. Smiling, he shook his head and called out, "You always do know what's truly for the best, don't you-although you might want to make a few improvements on how exactly you ensure it happens."

Three laughs, two human and one like an animal roar, resounded throughout the shop.

Grandpa reached out and took the necklace. He eagerly fastened it around his neck.

It started to glow with light blue light. The vast amounts of energy and vitality started flowing through his body again. Grandpa closed his eyes and let the feeling wash over him…

Susiros and Resheph flew over the city of Domino, blasting out beams of black and red magic at whatever buildings and people came in their sight.

"This is oh so much fun, isn't it, Resheph love?" Susiros giggled.

"Oui, mon cher," Resheph laughed. "Eet's eh whole new town weeth practeecally no experience weeth magic. Fresh meat to destroy and extremely easy means ev doing so-eet's almost like hell!"

Suddenly, blue and green beams of magic blasted right into Susiros and Resheph's backs. The two screamed out in pain and whipped around to see the six heroes of that world floating behind them, five glowing with their respective shades of magic, and the sixth making full use of his essence stone.

"So sorry, you two, but this world is going to be far from easy for you to destroy," the Pharaoh snapped at them.

Susiros and Resheph snarled at them. "Oh, really?" Resheph replied.

"Yes, your royal craziness, really," a voice replied from behind them.

The two turned to see Spencer floating behind them, his staff clutched firmly in his hand and his outline glowing brightly with gold magic.

Susiros tossed her head. "Well, fine, if that's the way you bakas wanna play-LET'S DO THIS!"

The two turned and swooped down towards Domino High, with the heroes hot on their tail.

Once they arrived, the villains suddenly whipped around and fired out beams of red and black magic at them. The seven soared up and retaliated with their own beams-blue, green, orange, pink, grey, white lightning, and gold-which the two quickly soared away from, making a couple of craters form in the earth.

"Feh-ees zat ze best you ken do?" Resheph grinned evilly. "Well, allow me to show you a new leetle trick zat Ah've picked up." He snapped his fingers and an old, yellowed piece of paper appeared. He looked down at it and read,

Servants ev ze devil, evil beings ev darkness,

Ah ask of you, now, to fulfill my request:

Come on ep from your fiery home

End make your designated task meh own!

Thunderclouds materialized above the school. Huge bolts of lightning flashed overhead, creating an ominous atmosphere. Black and red puddles suddenly formed in the ground, and up from them came devilish, goat-like beings with glowing red eyes, curled horns, black skin with red swirls and sharp claws on both their hands and feet.

"Demons," Spencer whispered in horror.

Resheph smiled and nodded. "Oui, monsieur Spencer. Ah thought zey'd create quite en eenteresting challenge for you today." He raised his voice and called out to the demons, "TEAR ZEM LIMB FROM LIMB!"

The demons grinned, revealing sharp black teeth, and lunged out at the heroes.

Quickly, the teens jumped up and fired more beams of magic out at the demons. They were extremely fast, however, and were able to avoid almost every beam by bounding all over the place. With a couple of leaps, they were suddenly able to jump up onto the teens and pin them down to the ground, their arms behind their backs and unable to fire out magic.

"AGH! HEY, GET OFFA ME, YA PSYCHO FREAK!" Joey screamed out, struggling to break free from the demon's grasp. He shifted his body into diamonds, but not even the toughest substance in the world was able to get out of the demonic grip.

Resheph smiled and held out his hands. A staff similar to the Dark Magician's appeared which he clutched firmly. He walked over to the Pharaoh and Spencer, who were pinned down next to each other on the ground. "Hmm…one leetle brat who keeps me from takeeng back ze throne, ze ozer zat set heem free een ze first place. Wheech one should Ah destroy?"

He looked back and forth at the two for a few moments. Finally, he shrugged and said, "Oh, what ze heck." He raised his staff into the air. "AH'LL JUST KEEL BOTH EV YOU ET ONCE!"

Suddenly, a light blue orb of magic shot out from the sky and directly into his chest. He flew into the air and crashed so hard onto the ground that he was knocked out almost instantly. Susiros screamed out in horror and quickly dashed to Resheph's side, vainly attempting to wake him up.

Another seven orbs blasted right into the demons. The good magic destroyed them almost instantly, blasting them to thousands of black little pieces which vanished into thin air.

The heroes stood up once they were free and looked around. "So, uh, who did dat?" Joey asked.

Susiros angrily stood up and screamed out, "WHO HURT MY LOVE?!"

A voice called from above, "I did, Susie."

The heroes and villains looked up to see someone float down from the sky. He looked almost exactly like Yugi, save for his green-sleeved T-shirt and an orange bandana tied around his neck. Clutched in his hand was a staff like the Dark Magician Girl's.

The heroes' jaws dropped with shock. Susiros snarled at him, "And who exactly are you?"

The child smiled as he touched the ground. "I'm Yuri Solomon. You, though, would prefer to call me the newest little brat, I'm sure."

"Actually…" Susiros held out her hand and a green and gold staff with a violet orb at the end appeared in her hand. She pointed the staff right at the child. "I'd prefer to call you DEAD!"

She fired out a beam of red magic at Yuri; the child, however, countered it with a blast of light blue magic from his own staff. The two beams shoved back and forth in a deadly contest of magical strength.

Suddenly, beams of blue and gold joined the light blue, shoving Susiros' beam back and knocking her down to the ground. She wobbly got up, slightly dazed from the blast, and pulled a custom portal out of her cloak. She slammed it onto the ground and zapped a few sparks of red magic at it, with only one entering the opening at the top. A portal came out of it which led right to Resheph's throne room.

Susiros picked up her unconscious love and carried him towards the portal. She looked back over her shoulder and snapped, "We'll remember this, you little brats," before she stepped through and let the opening slam shut behind her.

Yuri stared after her and said, "I can't believe I ever thought that witch cared for me."

"She's Susiros Tochnow," Spencer replied, coming up from behind him. "She doesn't give a hoot about almost anyone."

The Millennium Puzzle glowed and Yugi took over his body again. He walked up to Grandpa and asked, looking up and down at him, "How did you…"

Yuri smiled. The staff in his hand glowed with blue light and shrunk back down into a charm on a chain which fastened itself around his neck. He picked the charm up in the palm of his hand and replied, "This wasn't just given to me as a memento-the gods wanted me to have it because if I put it on, I can shift back into my original form, magic and all."

"You mean…"

He nodded. "I think they want me to help you protect the world." He looked up at his grandson and said, "But I'll only do so with your permission, of course."

Yugi stared at him. "Do you really want to?"

Grandpa rolled his eyes. "Yug-I was an old guy who was living a rather unadventurous, boring life as a Game Shop owner and occasional target of evil. And now this gives me the chance to be young again and have loads and loads of more excitement and danger than I could ever have had as a mere mortal." He pulled Yugi close and, looking him right in the eyes, cried, "YES I MOST CERTAINLY WANT TO!"

"Ah…" Yugi was a bit shocked. "Well, it's okay with me if it's okay with the others."

"Of course, man," Joey nodded. "De more de merrier."

"Especially when it comes to fighting evil creeps," Tristan added.

"If it means we can get out of these insane ordeals all the more quickly…" Kaiba murmured.

Finally, all eyes fell on Spencer. Grandpa walked up to him and asked, "Are you okay with it?"

Spencer looked into his former son's eyes. He stared into them for a few moments, and then finally smiled. "Well…perhaps I'll never have you back as my son…but I'll at least settle for a good friend and ally."

Yuri smiled and nodded. "Thank you…Spencer."

Spencer blinked. "Okay, that's something I'll need a bit of time getting used to…"

Suddenly, another chorus of horrific screams and sounds of blasts came from the town.

"Aw, man…more evil creeps?" Joey cried.

"Well, c'mon, you guys," Tristan sighed, "let's go save the world once more."

Five of the eight flew up into the air and off in the direction of the screams. Yugi, Spencer, and Grandpa/Yuri stayed on the ground for one moment, staring up at them.

Yugi looked at his grandfather and said, "You ready?"

"He's a former son of a defender, Yug," Spencer laughed. "He was pretty much born ready."

Grandpa nodded, his eyes glowing with light blue light. "Let's go."

And together, the three soared up in the air and off into Domino, ready to take on whatever evil was waiting for them this time.