Hey guys! Here's the next chapter of this lovely story. Mokuba's still in a little bit of a shock from what happened in the last trial game. Will he prevail? Let's find out! Review please!
Mokuba stared at the three monsters fighting with sweat and nervousness pouring down his neck. Mkalburti stared at his reincarnate with question in his eyes. What was wrong with Mokuba? Why didn't he answer his question? There seemed to be something bothering Mokuba.
The Monster Fish circled around the Leviathan to make it dizzy. Flying Sea Dragon recovered from the attack and began to make its attack while the Leviathan was trying to attack Monster Fish. Though, before it could make the attack, Leviathan brought out its tail and Monster Fish ran into it, bouncing and slamming into Flying Sea Dragon. Both Mkalburti and Seth had the breath knocked out of them with a sharp yelp.
"Are you guys okay?" Mokuba asked worriedly.
"You need to have your monster attack or we'll never win!" Seth snapped as Mokuba stared down in the waters with fear in his eyes.
"Y-Yeah... sure... just let me think of something," Mokuba said, stress pouring down on him.
"Think of something?" Mkalburti snapped.
"I'm nervous okay! I can't focus when I'm nervous!"
"You're not focusing at all!"
Mokuba tapped his fingers against each other while staring at the monsters fighting from the corner of his eyes. Mkalburti could finally see what was going through Mokuba's mind. He nodded, then patted Mokuba's shoulder.
"If you have an idea, we'll listen," Mkalburti said as Mokuba showed a soft smile.
"Keep them busy. I think this might work," Mokuba told the two as they nodded. He began commanding Squid Ninja in his mind.
The three monsters continued their fight underwater. Mokuba focused on the fight to be sure that Leviathan was at the right spot. Flying Sea Dragon took Leviathan by the tail with its mouth and dragged it deeper into the ocean. A smirk crossed Mokuba's face. It seemed that Leviathan was about to move to a perfect target.
"Guys, this one's gonna hurt, so hang on!" Mokuba said as the two rose two eyebrows in response.
Suddenly, there was a huge explosion from underwater. Mokuba knew Squid Ninja's ability to self destruct and destroy monsters. The impact made the ocean create an exploding wave as Seth and Mkalburti cried out in pain from the explosion of their monsters.
"Are you okay?" Mokuba asked.
"Sorta," Mkalburti muttered.
"You fools won't be for long!" A deep sinister voice responded, which brought chills down Mokuba's spine. Was that Dalor?
"Where are you? Show yourself!" Mokuba shouted, trying to sound brave when in reality, he was scared out of his mind.
"In time I will reveal myself, but until then dear Mokuba, you and your friends shall suffer my wrath!" Dalor promised as a huge wave began appearing before the boys.
"I knew this was a bad idea!" Mkalburti cried out as the boys dove into the sea to swim to Mokuba's side of the field.
Mokuba swam as fast as he could while watching a huge shadow expanding itself toward him. What kind of items does Dalor have? It's almost like he's Satan or something! Mokuba didn't care, he wanted to get away from this part as fast as he could. The shadow was catching up to him, gaining closer and closer.
The shadows began covering most of Mokuba's surroundings like a fog. Mokuba tried to escape the black fog, but it crept into his gills and he heard the terrifying laughter of that sinister voice. Before Mokuba knew it he began to choke and feeling weak and dizzy. He began coughing like it was possible to cough underwater.
"You can't win this fight, little one! No matter how hard you try!" Dalor echoed inside Mokuba's mind. Was this the end? Mokuba suddenly found himself disappearing into some sort of light. What's going on?
"I lose one life point from my shield!" Mokuba shouted from across the huge checkerboard that was the size of a disco floor. There seemed to be holographic characters of Mokuba's friends, some of them training. There was also Judai, his group, and the mermaids. Mokuba was standing on one area of this board with Pharaoh Seth and Mkalburti and moved to one square on the field where he started at when the game began, which glowed yellow. He pressed one glowing button from his shield, showing two more glowing buttons.
"You should have listened to your ancient spirit Dear Mokuba!" Dalor smirked as Mokuba glared in response.
"It's your turn to make your move, so make it!" Mokuba shouted.
"Very well. I will move Rasco and Bonsa one square to the right," Dalor declared as two holographic men moved right to the square next to them.
When Mokuba was transported into the game board inside the pyramid, he found himself inside this big room on a huge board that was like a checkerboard, only with grass, mountains, trees, water, and other things. It was like a huge map of a world. Dalor had forced Mokuba to play this shadow game or lose his friends and life for all eternity. It seemed easy at first like Age of Empires, but then it became harder and challenging. Mokuba began fearing of his near loss.
It didn't matter though, Mokuba was bound to show no fear no matter what. San-Si worked just like Capsule Monsters... maybe Chess. Instead of moving Capsule Monsters, the true warrior move themselves and their friends like chess pieces. Even if Mokuba's friend were to move, pointing to the opposite direction, they'd still be going to whatever direction Mokuba would movie them to.
"Mkalburti and Seth will go one square toward me!" Mokuba declared, as his holographic friends began moving toward the castle located next to the desert squares. "Since your monster has already use its effect on destroying the person who destroys Leviathan, it can't go after my friends!"
"Sacrificing yourself to save your friends? What a foolish act! You're only wasting your precious life!" Dalor smirked.
"Sometimes sacrifice can be a skill used to win a game. Though, I suppose you wouldn't know that!"
"Don't sound so tough, Pharaoh! I can see you're scared!"
"I'm not afraid of the likes of you! You're the one who's scared, covering yourself like that!" Mokuba shouted, pointing his index finger at Dalor, who was covered by the shadows. The only picture Mokuba could make out of him was that he was tall, strong, and wore black-robed clothing, which covered everything, except his yellow eyes, sinister smile, and narrowed face with a hint of black hair. "Why would I be afraid of a coward like you?"
"Because everyone is afraid of what they cannot see and you cannot see the true picture of me."
"Well, you're not sending me chills down my spine!"
"You're lying, young one!"
Mokuba kept his glare, knowing deep in his heart that Dalor was right. He was afraid: afraid of losing, afraid of losing his friends, and afraid of this game. There seemed to be no end to the disasters that came his way. Mokuba knew he had to focus. His friends were counting on him and even if they weren't, they didn't have much of a choice. In fact, Mokuba never had a choice to play this game to begin with.
Dalor let out a demonic laugh as Mokuba watched the game board.
Mokuba woke up on the grassy plains, moaning and brushing the grass off his hair. It was only now that he noticed that his armor held glowing buttons. There were three of them before and now there were two. Mokuba wondered if these were like health tokens or something. He sighed, then began walking on his way to Judai's palace where he hoped that his two friends would be waiting for him. Pharaoh Seth and Mkalburti had played this Shadow Game before, so it wasn't like they weren't aware that Mokuba was still alive.
Eventually, Mokuba met up with Pharaoh Seth and Mkalburti and they all headed back to Judai's palace. Hopefully, Judai was prepared with his army to fight Dalor. Yugi and the others were trained and became stronger in their skills to fight. It took several days for the gang to return, but it was worth the training to get where they needed to be. Judai predicted that Mokuba, Mkalburti, and Pharaoh Seth would return and they did.
Yubel greeted the trio before their friends ran to the three of them to get some updates. Seto especially wanted to know what happened.
"Seto!" Mokuba cried out as he ran up and hugged Seto tightly. "I missed ya... even though it's only been a couple of days!"
"Same can be said here," Seto replied, then noticed something. "Your armor only has two glowing lights now."
"Huh... oh, it's nothing!" Mokuba lied, trying to not worry his brother. "It's time we headed to Dalor's territory!"
"Uh Mokuba, are you sure that's a good idea? I mean I'm not sure if the items we collected are enough," Joey wondered.
"I'm sure! I want Seth and Seto to stay with me while I check out the other items Dalor has in store on the other side. We need to weaken his chances of winning and it seems that he becomes stronger, including his monsters, by the amount of items he collects from his side!" Mokuba said in a serious tone.
"Are you mad? Dalor can easily wipe you clean if he finds you on his territory!" Yubel objected.
"I know that! That's why we're all going out at once! He'll be trying to take down our armies while I gather items to weaken Dalor and make us stronger! Besides that, I'm not just gonna be a sitting duck!"
"What about Professor Hawkins and Grandpa?" Yugi asked.
"They'll be staying with everyone else. I will join with everyone once in a while. When we hit Dalor's field, we'll separate into different groups, taking out different parts of his land. We will head back together once our mission is completed," Mokuba explained with confidence.
"This could be dangerous," Mkalburti warned.
"Then, I'll face it and slice it in half," Mokuba replied as Seto rose two eyebrows, then a smirk.
"Where's Mokuba and what have you done with him?" Seto asked rhetorically.
"He grew up," Mokuba replied with a confident smirk. "It's time to make Dalor pay dearly!"