Yu-Gi-Oh!
Duels of the Actillian
Episode Fifteen
Brave Sacrifice
Previous from Last Episode
Yugi and his friends still had their hands together as they each look upwards, "Let's go guys."
"Right," said all three of them, and they and Yugi groan in pain as the red electrical surge hit them, than their bodies collapse and they're now spirits of themselves, their hands still together as they were begin to be pulled in.
Seto knew what's happening, and with the same surge that hit them, hit him and his body collapse. He now being a spirit, he looks to where his brother is, and called out, "I'll be back Mokuba, be safe and…!" He would've said more, if he wasn't being pulled upwards first before the others and the fact he sees something else different.
Behind Mokuba and on either side were black hooded cloaked beings, ten of them standing there with Mokuba, watching them? Who were they and why is his little brother standing with them?
Mokuba merely nodded to his big brother, and one of the hooded guys gave thumbs up. Seto would've called out but he then vanished into the eye.
The others heard Seto called out to Mokuba to be safe, so they didn't turned, and as Yugi, Joey, Tristan and Tea being pulled close to the eye, Yugi thought to himself, 'Hang in there Joseph, we'll stop Anubis, together.'
Episode Fifteen
Brave Sacrifice
In front of the obelisk in the valley, the maiden remained standing there, her hand out to Aurion, waiting for a response, giving a hopeful look, obviously hoping for Aurion to help her.
But as for Aurion, at first it sounded like he should help her, but the feeling has wasn't entirely true. As he looks at the maiden's eyes, seeing that hopeful look, he would've agreed, until he spotted something hidden within those deceptive eyes.
Crimson orb with a demonic eye, each one in either eye hidden in the blackest, almost pinprick in the irises of the maiden. Aurion has great eyesight, and seeing that made him doubt the maiden's words.
In fact with a saying he often hear about pretty ladies, 'roses has their thorns', this maiden is beautiful, but the feeling he is now getting from her is something bad, something truly dangerous.
He was glad his hood was still up, for if it was off, the maiden would see him looking annoyed at her. He would've demanded for the whole truth, but he couldn't, he felt most of his capabilities being locked the moment he came into this mind maze.
After some thought, he turned away, making the maiden frown slightly. Aurion wanted to avoid trouble, and maybe learn more of this maiden later on. He looks at her, "Will it be alright I take a few days to think about this? What you're asking me to do is quite troubling, so I want to think about it before doing it."
The maiden lowered her hand, and just looks at him with a sad expression. "Very well," the maiden said. "You best go find your friends, the longer you all stay here, the more the chance the host will know he has trespassers."
Aurion nodded, he turned and walked down the stone stairs, but then he stopped as he realizes something. He turns around to look at the maiden, and he asks, "By the way, who is this dangerous host? Knowing who he is might help with my decision on this?"
The maiden seemed to frown a bit, but remain with the sad expression as she slowly turned to face the obelisk, her face hidden from view. "You are right; you would need to know his name. His name is Joseph."
Aurion looked surprised a bit, wasn't expecting that. He had assumed that the thief that Gregory and DX along with Joseph and the knight were chasing was the one who was the monster. And he met Joseph, and he sounded like a good man. If what the maiden said about him, he could be a great deceiver.
If anything, he is sure going to tell the Organization of what he learned.
"Thanks for the info madam," Aurion bowed to her. "But now, I best get going…" he was about to continue till…
The skies darken with storm clouds, the maiden suddenly looked fearful. Her eyes were wide, and she gasps, "Oh no, it's too late!"
"What's too late?" Aurion asked while the very ground beneath his feet, the grasses and flowers, trees all around, turned into ashes. The ponds rapidly evaporated, and suddenly the ground revealed the horrors.
Billions of silently screaming crying human and other creature's faces, eyes and mouths were black holes. And as this happened, the maiden pushed her back against the obelisk, looking very fearful.
Then she seemed to remember he's still here, so she yelled, "Hurry! The host is sending his memory constructs to destroy you and the others!"
"Memory constructs?" asked Aurion, had a bad, really bad feeling about that.
Then out of the grounds, mostly appearing out the black gaping empty mouths of the agony beings sealed within. Beings of shadows started to rise; hundreds were rising all around, hundred three feet tall shadow creatures. These things have a vaguely humanoid body structure. Each of them has a round, spherical head with circular, glowing yellow eyes. They each also have two long, twisted antennae sprouting out of the top of their heads. Each of their hands is three clawed fingers, and their feet are large and lack any discernible digits. Their entire bodies are completely black except for their yellow round eyes.
"Heartless Shadows!" the maiden cried out.
Aurion looked at the small creatures, gave a small smirk as he cracks his knuckles, "If these things stand in my way and wanting a fight, well wish granted because I been aching for one."
He waited till one of these supposed Shadows leaped at him, with quick reflexes, he punches it hard in the head. With that punch, the Shadow was sent flying into the others, which sparked their desire to attack all at once.
"Bring it on!" yelled Aurion, as he leaped towards hundreds who then leaped at him, with his right fist held high.
The maiden watches as a battle begun.
Gregory and Dan were still walking down one of the halls of this massive maze; they were still calling out for the others. They even checked the rooms they walk pass, and just find hundreds of bizarre rooms, each one different, each containing different beings that live in those rooms.
"So far, this place is looking more like a zoo than a maze," Dan said, getting annoyed.
"Yeah, but why make this maze like that, it just doesn't make sense," Gregory replied.
"Maybe there…" Dan was about to say till he suddenly became silent. When Gregory looked to him, Dan raised his right index finger up so to tell his friend to be silent. "I hear something, Greg."
And the moment after, with a whoosh sounded, a strange creature suddenly appeared in front of them. It has a thin, sinuous body. Has a large cylindrical head with a flat top that is emblazoned with a strange symbol. Its body seems to be covered in a light grey jumpsuit. It appears to be fairly muscular, though its arms and legs are very thin. The sides of its body are lined by a black line. Its feet and hands are pointed and lack digits, and its hands each sport two black bands around them. And as for the face, it was a zipper that close shut.
Till that zipper opens up to reveal like a mouth, it undoes itself to reveal its actual, grey, sharp-toothed mouth underneath. And with that it was waving from left to right.
"Found you trespassers," said a silent voice, it sounded from everywhere and yet nowhere, till they realize it came from the individual in front of them.
"Dan, I don't think this guy is friendly," Gregory said, as he gets himself ready for a fight.
Suddenly two more whooshing sounds happen, from behind, Dan looked and he said in annoyance, "And he brought friends, looks like the only way out of this is to fight these… things."
"We are Dusks, and we come to remove you," said those silent voices, and each of them started to dance in motion around the two humans.
"Without a fight, let's go!" Gregory said, and he and Dan leaped at these Dusks as well as they leaped at them, they began their fight.
Jonathan is still walking in front of DX, who is stuck in dragon form. And every time Jonathan would go to open a door, DX stopped him and reminded him that they're supposed to find the others first, then they're to get out of here.
Jonathan was getting more and more tempted to open at least one door, so tempted that he tried to go near one.
But the moment he took hold of the handle, something out of the shadows pop out and struck him hard in the gut.
"GAH!" yelled Jonathan as he fell on his back.
Here his cry of pain, DX yelled, "Jonathan! Are you alright?!"
The human groaned as he sat up, "Oh I'll be… fine? Well now, that's an odd creature." DX now became worried, considering he's blind, Jonathan still has his usual scent. But he couldn't detect another.
Jonathan seemed excited now, "Oh what a marvellous specimen. It stands three feet tall, sleek humanoid creature with blue skin. Its arms and legs end in points and have no distinct digits. It has triangular head with two long, jagged, lightning bolt-shaped antennae. And it appears to be angry, with its red eyes." He detailed it out so DX would know, "Why are you angry little fella?"
"Jonathan," DX said, sounded agitated, glad to know what the creature looked like who would dare attack his friend. "Stay away from it, it's a memory construct."
"So this thing is a memory construct, interesting," Jonathan said, seemed to not have heard his dragon friend of staying away from it. Then they hear a few noises, than Jonathan became more excited, "Oh, you have friends, nice to meet you. WHOA?!"
One of these strange creature's leap at Jonathan, and by the movement of the human's choran, he moved back. So with that motion, DX roared as he leaped forth and slashed where this creature would be and destroyed it.
"No one attacks my friend and gets away with it!" he roars out, now has his human friend behind him, and attacked these hostile memory constructs.
Joseph: 800/Pyro: 6200 VS Dark: 5000
Continuing in the duel, so far on Pyro's side of the field, he has the Dark Eradicator Warlock (ATK: 2500) and had played Swords of Revealing Light, preventing Dark's monsters to attack for three turns.
As for their opponent, Dark, he has five really strong monsters on his side; they're Andro Sphinx (ATK: 3000), Sphinx Teleia (ATK: 2500), Red-Eyes B. Dragon (ATK: 2400), Summoned Skull (ATK: 2500), and his ace and powerful monster, Dark Gaia Dragon (DEF: 7000). And he has only one faces down spell or trap card in his spell/trap card zone.
And as for Joseph, he currently has Lord of Dragons (ATK: 1200), Dragonic Knight (ATK: 2800), White Night Dragon (ATK: 3000), De Ragan (ATK: 3200), and lastly his powerful monster, Five-Headed Dragon (ATK: 5000). And he has two faces down cards in his spell/trap card zones.
And right now, he was about to tell one of his dragons to attack, till he suddenly got a headache. He groans as he holds his head with both of his hands.
"What's wrong Joseph?" Pyro asked, looking to his ally.
After the pain subsided, he replied, "It's nothing." 'The lighting of the pyramid must be giving me a migraine or something,' he thought, he then shook his head, "Now, where was I?"
"You were about to tell one of your wimps to go cry to their mamas," Dark said in annoyance.
Joseph looked annoyed at him, till he remembers the attack plan of his. He smirked, "Now I remember, it's time to end your monsters. White Night Dragon, attack Andro Sphinx with Icy Diamond Storm!"
The White Night Dragon roared as it leaped up into the air and was about to flap its wings hard. While Andro Sphinx was about to inhale, and both Pyro and Dark were confused, why do that? Both White Night Dragon and Andro Sphinx have the same attack points.
Dark was only confused for a second before he started to laugh, "You fool! You activated my trap card, go Sakuretsu Armor!" His face down card rises up to be what it was. "My Andro Sphinx is safe while your pathetic dragon is destroyed!"
But suddenly his trap card froze, confusing him even more.
"I guess it is true about old age, the mind is the first thing to go," Joseph said, now mocking Dark. "Because you obviously forgotten my Lord of Dragons."
His Lord of Dragons has his hands out towards Dark's trap card, than when he scrunch his fists, Dark's trap card shatters.
"WHAT?!" yelled Dark.
"If a spell or trap card targets a dragon while Lord of Dragons is out, their effects are negated and destroyed," Joseph said, and White Night Dragon flapped its wings hard, sending a showery storm of diamond ice spikes at Andro Sphinx.
And Andro Sphinx roared out, sending out a sound-wave attack, it went through the attack and struck White Night Dragon. Both of them roared out in pain before shattering to bits, both of them went to the graveyard.
Joseph took the card and quietly said, "Sorry White Night Dragon, your sacrifice will help us stop Dark." Then he puts the card into the graveyard, and looks to Dark while crossing his arms, "And with that, I end my turn."
"What?" asked both Dark and Pyro at the same time; each of them was confused, but Dark was more ticked, since one of his two sphinxes is destroyed by him.
"Why aren't you destroying the rest of his monsters?" asked Pyro.
Joseph smiled, "It's quite simple really; think about his only powerful monster, Dark Gaia Dragon. If I attacked his three other remaining monsters with the three of mine, his life points would go down."
Pyro's eyes widen, "And his Dark Gaia Dragon's attack points would rise, so that's why you attacked him with White Night Dragon."
Joseph chuckled and nodded to Pyro, than he smirked to Dark, "Your dragon is the only one strong among your weaklings. And by the looks of things, challenging the both of us from the start brought doom for you, not to us. So Dark, the true moronic fool around here is you!" Joseph had pointed his right index finger at Dark.
Dark seethed in rage, how this fool dare call him a moron! He will make him pay, make both he and Pyro pay for their stupidity.
Joseph: 800/Pyro: 6200 VS Dark: 5000
Dark yelled out, "You will both pay! My draw!" he then draws one card, and after looking at it, he revealed, "I play pot of greed, allowing me to draw two cards." Once he played it, he then draws two cards from his deck. After looking at them, he smirked, and took one card and put it face down in his spell/trap card slot zone, than he took the other, "Since the swords are blocking me, I will remove them, I play De-Spell!"
Once his spell card was played, the Swords of Revealing Light, the light glowing swords faded till each vanished.
In his anger, he initiated his battle phase, he yelled, "Sphinx Teleia! Avenge your fallen brother, attack his Lord of Dragons!" Sphinx Teleia was about to pounce.
"Attack me, not him! Warlock, defend!" Pyro demanded, and his Dark Eradicator Warlock went and stood in front of Lord of Dragons.
"You fool," Dark said in annoyance.
"That will not be necessary my friend," Joseph said, looking to Pyro while Teleia had made the leap, heading towards the warlock. And while so, Joseph smiled, "Dark, you've clearly lost your marbles, for you activated my trap!"
His trap card slowly revealed to be Mirror Force, and the sight of it made Pyro smile while Dark was shocked.
"No!" yelled Dark.
And a reflective mirror appeared in front of Dark Eradicator Warlock, and the moment Sphinx Teleia struck it.
"Yes!" yelled Joseph.
Sphinx Teleia's attack backfired, destroying her and the blast wave struck the rest of Dark's attack position monsters. His Summoned Skull and Red-Eyes B. Dragon were obliterated in the blast. And now the only one left standing on Dark's side of the field is his defense position Dark Gaia Dragon.
If Dark wasn't angry before, he was now. His hands clenched into fists, his teeth grinding while his left eye twitching. He yelled in frustrating, "You both are getting on my nerves!"
"Sorry, but maybe you should've think first before having a two against one duel," Joseph said, crossing his arms while smirking, "so far you played Pyramid of Light, everything you've done was spiralling downhill."
"Enough!" Dark yelled, "Make your move you blasted knight."
Pyro grin as his spellcaster return to his side of the field.
Back in the mind, within the room containing the valley, mostly the airs were covered in dark black smoke. Reason for such was because of hundreds of the Heartless Shadows getting destroyed by one individual.
"YAH!" yelled Aurion as he made a jump kick at another Shadow that leaped at him, hitting it and destroyed in one blow. And as he landed, he surveyed his enemies, seeing only five Shadows left.
He smirked as he then made a leap towards them, than twirled around till he landed in the center of those five. Then with great reflexes, he struck out with punches and kicks, this lasted in seconds, and then the five Shadows evaporated into dark black smoke.
He looked around, seeing no enemies around, he grin and said, "Come on! You nimrods got to do better than that! I hardly broke a sweat, wimps."
Seeing the opportunity to leave the room, he started to head to the open door that stood further away. But just as he neared it, he was then covered in a big shadow. He grinned, now getting another challenge, he turned around.
And instantly felt fear, "Me and my big mouth…"
"This is really getting old," said Seto Kaiba, sounded very annoyed. First he ended up with the geek group in being pulled into this place, and now he is alone in this freaking huge maze with hundreds, probably thousands of doorways that lead to so many bizarre rooms.
He ignores the doors, knowing that those doors are merely the distraction for trying to get out of this place.
Just as he turned the next corner into another hall, he saw in the distance, one of those black hooded cloak guys running towards him, and if his hood wasn't up, he probably had the look of fright.
"You there, stop!" Seto demanded, he wanted questions, considering he wore the same kind of clothing of the group he saw standing by Mokuba before he came here. And the fact that this guy is also one of the eight whom first came here before him.
"Talk later! Run now!" yelled Aurion as he ran pass him. He continues on running, going down a different hall.
Confused, Seto turned to look where Aurion run from and now knew why. Thirteen beings in the same kind of clothing as Aurion, except with red heart emblems on their torsos and each one carrying different variety of weaponry while underneath their hoods glow yellow hoods.
And one of them threw yellow knives at Seto, and it struck like lightning at the wall since Seto managed to dodge. Whoever these punks are, they mean serious business. Seto ended up running off with these thirteen chasing him, and eventually Seto catches up with Aurion as they being chase.
"This is so strange, how come this place seems so familiar?" Tea asked as she walks with her friends down one of the halls in this huge maze.
"I know, this is just like last time," Tristan replied.
"Except, how can this be?" asked Yugi, sounded depress, this place brought back memories of a very good friend of his. "We're not inside the millennium puzzle, so how this place exists? It's impossible!"
"Unless, what if this place is just a mere memory for the Pyramid of Light?" asked Joey, surprising his three friends. "It happened once more, so what if from last time, this place was copied into the pyramid of light?"
Tea and the others looked surprised at Joey, and she said, "That, actually seem quite possible."
Joey crossed his arms, "Hey, even I can come up with good ideas, Tea. And if it is possible, that means we just need to remember the right direction of where Anubis's room will be."
"Except, we had something to follow last time," Tristan pointed out.
Yugi remembered, "The Life stream!" Now gained his friends attention, he said, "Remember last time, every time Atem and Seto lost life points, they lost energy, and while being in here, we would see a stream of energy that would be heading to Anubis's room."
"Then let's go find this life stream and go stop Anubis," Joey said, the others nodded, but just as they turned to go down another hall, they saw two people walking weakly towards them.
One of them was helping the other; both of them had bruises and cuts. And to the group, one of them was recognized, it was Dan.
"Dan!" Tristan said and the group came over to them, "What happened to you guys?!"
Gregory looked at them, and so did Dan, and he weakly said, "We were attacked."
"By what, mummies?" asked Joey, seeing the bruises and cuts on these two, whoever attacked them were definitely not zombies, so what could've done this?
Gregory then saw something that made his eyes widen, he pointed to what would be further behind Yugi and his friends, "Those, but… different ones!"
Yugi and the others immediately turned around, and they spotted four bizarre creatures, each of them looks the same. Each one is a thin, dragon-like creature with silver and purple skin. Their hands only have two distinct digits, while their feet have three long, purple toes each. They also have a thin, purple tail with sharp, white wings with purple tips lined by spikes resembling some kind of symbol. Each of them has the same "face" that seem to be a small, black area in what seems to be their necks, while their draconian "heads" acts as something of a helmet. Their helmets sports a jagged, open mouth at the ends, lack eyes, and is lined by thin spikes. Their upper bodies and necks are covered in magenta straps. There is also a white symbol on their left thigh. And each one of them wields a long lance as a weapon.
"These things are very flexible and fast, we got to get out of here," Dan said, than Tristan came over to help Gregory in carrying Dan.
"Whatever he said, let's go!" Tristan said, and immediately Gregory and Tristan helped Dan while running off one of the halls with the others following behind.
"We got to find Anubis's tomb and stop this!" Yugi said out loud to his friends and the others.
"First let's escape with our lives from these things!" Joey replied as he ran beside Yugi and Tea behind Tristan, Dan and Gregory.
DX roared out, destroying several of these strange things with his claws and biting them in half. But every time he destroys them, they just regenerate into new ones. And without all of his powers, this battle is just going to last much longer till the point that he's weak enough to be defeated by these things.
Seeing that there is only one way, he reach and took hold of Jonathan and moved him to his back, "Get on and hold on, time to get out of here!"
Jonathan kept his mouth shut and obeyed his friend, once DX let go of him, he got onto his dragon back and hold on.
Then DX made a slash-dash with his claws, slashing through several more and ran through. And as those things busy regenerating, DX ran off down one of the halls. DX doesn't stop running, for he knows those things are following.
But Jonathan assumes they lost them, so he spoke out, "Say DX, a thought just cross my mind."
"Not now Jonathan," DX replied, with his eyesight, it was a bit difficult of running down these halls. Except it was a bit easy since these doors glow choran, and with them like beacons, he ran by them.
"But it is important DX," Jonathan said hastily. "If we found the others, how are we going to explain about your form?"
"Depending if they survived the attacks," DX said, sounded annoyed, but hidden deep he was very worried for the others.
"If they ran instead of fighting, there's a big chance, but how are we going to explain to them about your default form?"
"We'll improvise when we find them, alright!" DX said, continue running with his friend on his back.
Joseph: 800/Pyro: 6200 VS Dark: 5000
"Alright, my draw!" said Pyro as he draws a card from his deck on his duelling shield. Once he added it to his hand, he looks at his three cards, than he grins on what he had pulled from his deck. He took hold of it once more, and inserts it into the spell/trap card slot zone.
"I play a spell!" he yelled as his new card then reveals itself to be a quick-play card called Mystical Space Typhoon. "And I'm using it on the Pyramid itself!"
"No! How dare you?!" yelled Dark as the mystic space typhoon came out of the knight's card and headed for Dark's trap card.
Joseph smiled as he watches it, without that trap card, they'll stop losing energy, and without it, it may become easy to handle Dark.
"Pyramid be-gone!" yelled Pyro as the typhoon consumes the card.
Then came a shock to all three, a mystical light barrier surrounded the card, preventing the destruction of the card, making the Mystical Space Typhoon a wasted effort.
'Cannot allow it to end it like that, way too early, more things to follow,' said a strange voice, it sounded close to a whisper, and it seems like Pyro and Dark didn't heard.
Joseph sweated, feeling fear with a side of confusion, 'That did not sound like Anubis's voice.'
Dark burst out laughing, "Oh marvellous, you wasted a card you foolish knight!"
"But, how?" asked Pyro, feeling very surprised of the outcome, "It was supposed to be destroyed."
"I don't know how that did not happened," Joseph lied, he knew someone with great power protected it, just like Anubis did in the duel between Seto and Atem, the reason why so not to be viewed as crazy by the others. "But it seems that since it stays on after the destruction of the sphinxes, it'll last till the end of the game."
Dark smirked and said, "Took a while for you to figure it out!" He laughs, "now you stupid knight, end your turn so I can finish you!"
Pyro groaned, he looks at his two cards and sighed, "I end my turn."
Joseph: 800/Pyro: 6200 VS Dark: 5000
Dark wickedly laughs out, "Is that's all you can do? How pathetic, time to end you both! My draw," he then draws a card from his deck. He now only holds one card in hand, and as he looks at it, he remembers what cards he has on the field, and what his opponents hold.
Seeing an opportunity to weaken one of his opponents, he grins as he takes hold of his Dark Gaia Dragon and shifts it into attack position. "I put my dragon into attack mode," Dark grins, having a plan to further tricking one of his opponents.
Seeing their confusion made it much more the sweeter, even though his dragon's attack point is only 3700.
"With my dragon, I shall attack," Dark pause, giving some dramatic effect, than he pointed at Joseph's De Ragan. "Your ugly looking dragon, destroy it!"
Dark Gaia Dragon launches a powerful dark burst of fiery energy out of its mouth in a blazing ball of black fire; it headed straight at Joseph's De Ragan.
"NO!" yelled Joseph as he watches his dragon gets blown into smithereens. And his life points took a major blow, going down to 300. And with that, more energy was taken from Joseph's body.
Knowing how that one reacts to seeing his monsters get destroyed right in front of him, Dark grins, feeling his plan will succeed. "With that, I end my turn, your turn."
Even though because of that move, his dragon's defense goes down to 6500, but that's not important at the moment. Dark still grins while he holds one card in hand.
Joseph: 300/Pyro: 6200 VS Dark: 5000
After watching his dragon get destroyed before his eyes, the one dragon he befriended long ago, and now had watching her get killed like this. He was saddened, but then his rage started to build.
'That's right, get angry, unleash your chaotic rage,' said the same whispering voice from before.
Pyro noticed his ally's pain as well as the rage that shows, "Friend, please soothe your rage."
His voice was merely a whisper; Joseph slowly looks to Dark, his eyes burning with rage. All Dark did was merely smirked and said, "How pathetic, your dragon didn't put up much of a fight, how truly pathetic."
With his teeth clenched, he yelled, "HOW DARE YOU?! YOU SHALL BE SILENCE ONCE AND FOR ALL!" He then draws a card from his deck, signifying the start of his turn. He continued to shout, "Five-Headed Dragon! Destroy his dragon with Ultimate Oblivion!"
His Five-Headed Dragon let loose a combine roar as well as sending five streams of their fires straight at Dark's dragon. But just as it was about to be struck, a mirror barrier appeared.
"Oh now who's the foolish one, you activated my trap!" Dark said as his face down card reveals itself to be Mirror Force.
Joseph's eyes widen in shock as he realized what he had just done.
"Now your attack is bounce back!" Dark said, than he laughs out loud.
The blast of Five-Headed Dragon headed right back, and consumed all of Joseph and Pyro's attack position monsters, each of them get obliterated, and now both of them are defenseless.
"What have I done?" asked Joseph, still shocked of what he had done. He had watched all of his monsters get obliterated, as well as his partner's only monster. Seeing the devastation of his mistake, he collapses onto his hands and knees.
Pyro had seen it happened, but seeing his ally like that, he suddenly felt his battle was hopeless. But recalling what they're fighting for, not just for his card, but what Dark plans to do once he won. He looks to his ally, and he said, "Come on, get up Joseph, you can't quit now."
Joseph remained where he is, looking down at the ground in shock. Dark merely laughed, "Look at that, the great duellist who beat Kaiba is now grovelling."
Pyro ignored him, and said to his ally, "We all make mistakes, Joseph, but we still have a chance. There is still hope! Please, get up!"
Back within the maze, in the central heart of it, a huge empty space with a single ledge-like cliff, looking at all the stairway and doors.
And the first to arrive there were two groups, Yugi and his friends along with Dan and Gregory, and the other was Jonathan and DX.
The moment they came into the room, the group saw DX, not knowing who is, but Joey blurt it out, "Oh great, now we got a dragon to tangle with!" Each of them looked at DX with wide eyes, till they saw Jonathan got off and headed in front of DX.
"Hold on, he's harmless!" Jonathan spoke out.
Both Joey and Tristan stood in front of the others, since Gregory and Dan are hurt from their last fight, and Yugi and Tea don't really fight, Joey and Tristan have to defend.
"Oh yeah, than who is he?" asked Tristan.
"He's my guardian," Jonathan said, "a soul guardian if you will. He's been defending me ever since we got here."
Gregory noticed a few odd things about the dragon, having a feeling, he asks, and "Is that DX?"
"No, he goes by Default," Jonathan hastily said. "But he'll protect us, so let's get…"
But then another group arrived, Seto Kaiba and Aurion, they nearly ran into the dragon. "Oh crud it's a dragon!" yelled Aurion as nearly crashed into Default.
Seto looked surprised at the sight, and then Jonathan spoke out, "Wait, Default's friendly, he'll protect us."
"You better be right, the ones who been chasing us mean serious business," Aurion said. Then Aurion and Seto went to stand by Yugi and the others. Default urges Jonathan to go stand with the others, then he turned and faced the three halls where the three enemy groups would arrive through.
They didn't need to wait long, for from the hall that Yugi and the others came out of, ten of those dragon-like things appeared; they floated in the air, with the weapons at the read. Then out of the one that Jonathan and Default came from, thirty of those small purple devilish creatures arrived and swarmed in front of the group. Then finally, the one that Seto and Aurion came from came thirteen of those hooded warriors, each of them hold their weapons at the ready.
"Oh no," Yugi said with eyes wide.
"This is nuts, that dragon can't fight all of those!" Joey said, the others agreed to that.
Jonathan became more worried, without all of Default's powers; this battle won't go into their favour.
"For once, you're right mutt," Seto said, Joey glared at him but remain looking at the monsters.
"Oh, he's not fighting alone," Aurion said as his step forward, cracking his gloved knuckles. "I fought a thousand of those shrimp versions, even though they hold weapons, I'm sure I can handle them since now there's more room here."
"Right, we fight together," Gregory said as he had let go of Dan, who had felt better to stand by himself, and went to stand beside Aurion.
"If they think they can take them, so can we," Tristan said, standing beside Joey. "Right?" he asked Joey.
Joey nodded, "If in order to get out of here, going through these things are our only option."
They go to stand beside Gregory and Aurion, and would've stood beside Default, if not for the dragon unfolding his wings to block them.
"Hey what gives!" yelled Joey.
"He prefers to fight alone in this," Jonathan said, knowing Default so well.
"Come on big guy, let us help!" Aurion demanded.
Default ignored and blocked them.
Tea groaned and rubbed her forehead, "Talk about pride."
"It's not pride, he's following his orders to protect," Jonathan defended his friend. "Default feels compelled to protected everyone; he doesn't want to risk seeing all of us get hurt."
Aurion groaned in annoyance, "I can defend myself; so let us fight!" He took hold of Default's wing and pushes it aside, and got a receiving end of the dragon's glare. "Oh shut up, you can't fight alone on this."
"He's right pal," Tristan said, Gregory nodded.
"Let us help," Joey said.
Dan looked confused, "How come those things hadn't attacked us yet?"
Seto looked annoyed because of the argument, "They're waiting for orders."
"Yeah, but from what?" asked Yugi.
"From me," said an eerily voice. Then a new form appeared high above the thirteen soldiers.
It looks like a Phantom; it wears a long, tattered, black cloak with long sleeves that gradates into a light aqua color from the waist down. It has a long, pointed hood and it does not seem to have a face or body of any kind. Only its clawed, five-fingered hands are visible, but even they seem to be wrapped in the cloak. The apparent source of its power is an orb that contains its heart in the lower section of the cloak.
"Who the heck are you?!" yelled Joey.
"I am Heartless Phantom, one of chosen memory constructs to host their own mind," Phantom said. "I been created by my master to destroy all of you, take your souls and give them to my master to feast upon."
DX growled; he prepared to leap at the monster.
"Oh hell you're not!" yelled Aurion.
"Why do you resist?" asked the Phantom. "You all trespass into my host's mind, and my master wants to feed on your souls."
Yugi heard, he then demanded, "Anubis will never win!"
Hearing that, the Phantom burst into laughter, "You honestly think it was Anubis's fault in this?! Oh that's hilarious!" He clapped his claws, "No, it's all that Dark's fault with how he got that card, it was supposed to be destroyed after all, you saw to that, Yugi boy."
Yugi looked surprised, while Seto is getting more annoyed. "If it's not Anubis, than who is your master?" asked Yugi.
Phantom chuckled, "You honestly think I would tell you my master's name? You foolish mortals never deserve to even learn the first syllable of his name. He is the greatest being of all, even with your wimpy powers; he can kill you without hesitation."
Then he pointed with one claw towards to the upward ceiling ahead of the group, "But I digress, look over there and see your chances failing."
Seto, Tea, Dan and Jonathan turned to look at where the Phantom is pointing. Yugi, Joey, Tristan, Aurion and Gregory turned to look as well, and each of them looked surprised.
High up is a familiar blood red glowing Egyptian eye, looks the same as the one on the side of the pyramid. Default doesn't look, even if he did, he only sees choran, not knowing what the others would see.
"Behold, look at your friend's failure," Phantom said, and to the humans. Within the eye, they see what is happening in the duel.
They watched all of Joseph and Pyro's monsters get obliterated, leaving them defenseless against Dark's demonic dragon.
"Watch as his hope crumbles, watch as your only hope of your escape dwindles at his failure," the Phantom continues talking. They see through the fiery eye, seeing Joseph collapse onto his hand and knees, seeing him lose his hope. "He has given up his hope, seeing into the light, now knowing it was inevitable."
"Oh no, Joseph, get up!" yelled Dan, looking at the eye.
"Come on man, don't give up!" called out Joey.
"You can do it Joseph!" yelled Tristan. "Just don't give up!"
Aurion knows what would happen if Joseph loses, so he yells out, "Joseph! Don't give up! If you do, we're all dead!"
"Don't quit now, there are still some chances!" yelled Gregory.
"We're with you in this, Joseph, don't give up!" yelled Tea, considering they're pretty much are.
"You just need to believe in the heart of the cards," Yugi called out.
Jonathan said, "Guys, right now we still got problems we have to deal with."
Phantom snickered, "That's right, we still have a fight. Now my friends destroy them!" His allies didn't move, which confused the Phantom, "Hm?" He turns to look at his allies.
And what he saw was a huge slash that cut each of them in half in a single, clean stroke, than a long blade pointed at his orb, which the phantom flinched. As the monsters burst into nothing, everyone, including Default, looks at who destroyed them.
It was a guy, about six feet and four inches tall, and is wearing a long black coat with silver pauldrons, black boots, and black trousers. The top of his coat is open to reveal his chest, with his leather suspenders crossed over it. The guy has silver hair which is long with his bangs parted to either side of his face. The guy has green cat-like eyes, and holds a seven foot long katana that is pointed at the phantom.
"Whoa, who is this?" asked Tristan.
"No clue, maybe he's friendly for taking all those things down," said Joey, they were surprised of how this happen.
Phantom looked fearful, he stuttered, "Se-Se-Sephiroth?! How dare you interfere?"
The being known as Sephiroth merely smirked, "I am merely doing my duty as one of Host Guardians. Your master remains sealed, so as long as he is, I will bring you despair."
Phantom knowing what is about to happen next so he tried to speak out but flinched as his orb was slashed in half.
"See you in a few hours," Sephiroth said as the Phantom faded to nothing. He then sheathed his blade, and looks to the group, "So you're the trespassers, took me and the Triforce to figure out where you all were."
"Um, just who the heck are you?" asked Aurion.
Sephiroth merely gave a smirk, "I am merely one of my host Guardians; I am not the real version of who you all see, merely similar to memory construct, almost similar. I am known as Sephiroth, first rank SOLDIER."
"So you're not out to destroy us," asked Aurion.
Sephiroth nodded, than he looks towards the eye on the sealing. Seeing what's happening on the outside, he sighed and closed his eyes.
"What is he doing?" asked Tristan.
"No clue," said Joey.
Tea looked back at the eye, saw something and blurt it out, "Hey look guys!" Everyone turned to look.
Joseph remained where he was, has given up hope.
'So now looks how the mighty has fallen,' said another familiar voice, it came from his mind, which surprised Joseph a little. He knew that voice, remembering it only over a month ago.
Joseph thought to himself, 'Sephiroth? What do you want this time?'
Hearing the sound of the chuckle, 'Just to give you some support, you're not alone in this, your friends are watching, they still have hope for you to win.'
'But, there are nothing I can do,' Joseph replied in thought. 'And if you think I'm going to let you take control, I'm not that desperate.'
Sephiroth quietly laughed, 'It would be for a good thing if you transform into me and kill Dark, but then again, you're not really a killer. So I'll just say this, look at what you still have on the field.' Then the presence of him in his mind faded.
Joseph slowly raised his head, hearing Dark laughing out while Pyro tried to tell him there is still hope. Joseph slowly looks at his side of the field, and sees one card still face down. Remembering what it was, his eyes widen in surprise.
Seeing a chance, he started to rise up and he said as he does, "This is not over."
"What do you mean, all your monsters are gone!" said Dark, he laughs. "You have nothing left, you should surrender now."
Joseph took a deep breath, and then he said, "As long as I believe in my deck, and with the help from my friends, there is still hope."
Pyro smiled while Dark look disgusted, "Hope? Friends? What kind of pit did you crawl out? I feel like puking."
"You save it for later, for now, I activate my card," Joseph said, and his face down card slowly rises up, "I play Return from Different Dimension!"
"What?!" yelled Dark as Joseph's life points were cut in half.
"Good job!" said Pyro, grinning.
Joseph's life points now down to 150, he takes out five cards that he had removed from play long ago, and played each of them onto the field in defense position. And out on front appeared three Red-Eyes B. Dragons, Horus the Black Flame Dragon LV6, and Luster Dragon #2.
Each of them appeared on the field in defense position, except Horus and Luster appeared in front of Pyro as a defense.
"My dragons shall defend us from your monstrosity," Joseph said as he ended his turn, now down to one card.
After seeing two dragons appear on his side, Pyro turned to Joseph, and said, "Thanks for the help." And Joseph nodded to him.
Joseph: 150/Pyro: 6200 VS Dark: 5000
Dark grunted in annoyance, "That changes nothing, my draw!" He then draws a card from his deck, now holds two cards. After looking at the new card he drew, he laughed out once more. "Fortune favours the wicked, for I play Raigeki!"
Both Joseph and Pyro shouted at the same time, "NO!" And lightning bolts rain down from the heavens and destroyed all of Joseph's dragons, sending them straight to the graveyard. And now they're defenseless once more.
Dark grins, "And now, to make things more interesting, I play a special equip card for my dragon." He then plays a spell, and it slowly rises up.
It reveals to be what looks like a human sitting on a back of a dragon in the picture; its name was Duel Rider.
"What does that do?" asked Pyro, than in confusion, Dark ran up his dragon's tail, and now sits on the back of Dark Gaia Dragon. Then in Pyro's and Joseph's shock, the dragon's attack points rises up by 5000, making it 8700 points strong.
Dark laughs as he sat on his life-like dragon, thanks to the pyramid making monsters real. "That equip card is only meant for dragons, fusion between dragon and duellist. Now, his attack points are my life points, and my life points are his attack points!"
"God help us," Joseph said with eyes wide, seeing how dangerous that dragon is.
"And now, since you both are defenseless, time to destroy one of you," Dark said with a grin, Pyro could tell Dark is looking at Joseph.
"Now my dragon, destroy Joseph!" Dark commanded, and the dragon reared up to unleashed a devastating dark fire blast. And it headed towards Joseph.
Joseph's eyes were wide, as the blast headed towards him.
"NO!" yelled Pyro as he ran forth and pushed Joseph aside and raised his duelling shield up to block. Joseph sent further to the left and landed on his side while Pyro was then consumed in the raging fire.
Joseph sat up and saw his friend took the hit, "NO! PYRO!"
Pyro was sent back, landing onto his back, while his armor looked a bit burst, and the last of his energy was taken.
Joseph immediately gotten up and rush over to his fallen ally, he got down on his knees. Pyro coughed while Joseph spoke, "Pyro, why? That blast was meant for me, why did you…?"
Pyro looked up at Joseph with a tired smile, "The duty was mine, protecting my friends. You are my friend, so I followed my duty." Then Pyro hold up his right gauntlet hand, "But promise me…"
Joseph took hold of his hand, and Pyro continued, "Promise me you'll save my dragon."
Knowing the fact that this all started because Dark stole Pyro's card, and it was important to Pyro. Joseph nodded, "I promise."
Pyro smiled and closed his eyes, "Have hope Joseph, your battle isn't over yet." Then his hand let go of Joseph's and fell on his chest-plate, his head resting on the ground.
Considering the power of the pyramid, it looked like Pyro died. Even though they had only met before the duel, he was a friend; Joseph closed his eyes and slowly rises up.
Dark was laughing out, "I did it! I did it! I destroyed Pyro! Oh such joy!" He continues to laugh on the back of his dragon.
Joseph moves and stood in the spot between where Joseph and Pyro's original standing spots were. He looked at Dark with much determination; he raised his duelling disk, and spoke out, "Dark! This is not over! Your dragon is now weaker than it was before!"
Since Dark Gaia Dragon's attack power bonus comes from Pyro having more life points than Dark, now it's just 2500 with Dark's added life points. If that dragon was in defense mode, it would be 150. But it is in attack mode, now it's 7500.
Dark stopped laughing and looked at Joseph, "For Pyro it is! But now, it's time to remove you!" Then he remembered, "Oh right, you still have one more turn, so make your move, my dragon is feeling a bit peckish."
Joseph: 150/Pyro: 0 VS Dark/DGD: 7500
'Your sacrifice will not be in vain, Pyro,' Joseph thought as he took hold of the top card of his deck. 'Heart of the cards, guide me, please help me stop Dark and save Pyro's dragon.'
He then draws a card from the top of his deck, and once he saw it, he immediately plays it, "I play Card of Sanctity, with it; we both draw till we hold six cards."
Dark chuckled as they draw till they each have six cards, "Your cards won't help you."
Once he hold five cards, he starts to draw his sixth card, and once he drawn it, Joseph looked surprised on what he sees. 'Another De Ragan, but how… oh it's you, the male.' Joseph thought to himself, giving a small smile, remembering how he met the male De Ragan before, who is the mate of the female De Ragan.
Then a roar from the dragon, sounded from all around, but only Joseph heard it, the roar was to confirm it was that dragon.
Then suddenly to Joseph, he was blinded by white light, as a vision came to him. A vision of the two De-Ragans flying together, than they slowly merge into one, becoming a two-headed version, the one Joseph knows as a De-Ragnus.
Once he regains his vision, he realizes what he needs to do, but first things first. He took hold of one of the two cards in hand, "I play monster reborn, reviving one of my fallen dragons. I bring back, De-Ragan!"
And out of his graveyard, his De-Ragan slowly rises up and appeared on the field in front of Joseph. She roared out defiantly at the dark dragon, with the attack power of 0.
Dark laughed, "You brought back a useless dragon, how truly stupid of you."
Joseph ignored him, and took hold of one card in hand, "Next I play Polymerization, fusing the one I have on the field with one in my hand." He played the second De-Ragan, and once it appeared, both De-Ragans fly into the air, and started to merge into one.
"I fusion summon, De-Ragnus!" yelled Joseph as the two-headed De-Ragan version appeared on his side of the field, both heads roared out in a fury, with the attack power of 4200. The volume of their combine roar was immense that everyone within and outside of the pyramid covered their ears.
"His hope was ignited," Sephiroth spoke out, just before the group watched Joseph brought out five strong dragons onto his and Pyro's side of the field.
"Unreal, he just brought forth five strong dragons," Joey said out as they all were watching the duel through the demonic Egyptian eye within this complex maze.
"Knew he could do it," Tea cheered.
"Yeah, but all he can do is play for defense," Aurion said.
Gregory nodded, "That thief's dragon is strong, if only Joseph has a fusion card to bring out his Five-Headed Dragon."
Then they watched as the thief obliterated them all once more with Raigeki.
"Oh you got to be kidding me!" yelled Tristan, several of them were surprised.
Then they watched the thief make his dragon grow stronger with an equip card, making it more than strong enough to defeat Pyro in one move.
Each of them were shocked of what happened next, they watched Pyro sacrifice himself in defending Joseph, now giving Joseph one chance.
They couldn't hear what Pyro said to Joseph, but Sephiroth seem he could, for he said, "When Joseph makes a promise, he tends to keep it."
Then they watched as Joseph brought forth a fusion summon, seeing De-Ragnus appearing and it roared loudly with a fury.
Yugi stared at it with wide eyes and so did many others, many who had seen the power of the De-Ragan, now wonder what the De-Ragnus is capable of. "What is that card?" asked Yugi.
Seto was surprise, but his expression remains neutral as always. 'That dragon must have a good effect if it can work.'
Dark smirked, "Heh, once you're gone, I'll definitely need to make sure to take your three cards and add them to my deck." He means the two De-Ragans and De-Ragnus.
"Sorry, but you lose," Joseph said, making Dark look confused, wondering what he meant.
"Have you forgotten, my dragon is far stronger than yours," Dark sneered.
"Not for long, I activate De-Ragnus's effect," Joseph said. "By banishing one card from either my hand or graveyard, and depending on what card I banish, one of De-Ragnus's effects activates. For example, I remove Five-Headed Dragon from play."
Once that card was taken out of the graveyard slot and put into his pocket, Dark was about to question why he did it, till he gawk in shock as De-Ragnus's attack power started to rise.
It continues to rise higher and higher, till the point it reaches 8400.
"By banishing one monster, De-Ragnus's attack power doubles for one single turn," Joseph said, now grinning while Dark now looked terrified.
Everyone in the maze were clearly surprise of that, than Joey cheered out, "Oh yeah! Way to go pal, just one more attack and you'll win!"
Sephiroth chuckled and turned around, "Well then, looks like I no longer need to protect you all."
Jonathan turned to look at him, and asks out, "Wait! Will there ever be a chance we'll meet?"
Default looks at Sephiroth, he looked curious; he senses a very unusual choran of this being.
"I highly doubt it," Sephiroth said. "One my host's main defenses here is memory erase. Once you all leave, I will be forgotten, what you all seen here will be forgotten."
"WHAT?!" shouted Default.
"B-But that's impossible!" said Jonathan. The others had heard it, Aaron had turned as well, never expected that.
"If you don't believe me, then wait and see," Sephiroth said as he then walks away.
"NO! THIS CANNOT BE! MY DRAGON IS THE ULTIMATE!" shouted Dark, feeling fear.
"De-Ragnus; destroy Dark Gaia Dragon with Ultimate Burst Inferno," Joseph said, and both heads raised and let out a combine blast of two fiery inferno streams straight at the dark dragon.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" yelled Dark as he was consumed in the blast wave, and since because of his Duel Rider card, he lost all of his life points when his dragon was destroyed.
Once the smoke cleared, Dark had fallen on his back on the ground; a card in one of his pockets fell out and landed further away from Dark.
Then the holograms that had remained on the field started to fade, so did the pyramid. The light of the pyramid evaporates.
Joseph looks to De-Ragnus as both heads look to him, both smiling. "Thank you both," Joseph said, looking to them with a smile, than they purred before vanishing from sight as well.
When the pyramid evaporated, Mokuba rushed over to his friends as they started to wake up. The hooded cloaked beings that stood around the pyramid started to disappear into the shadows of the dark night.
As Mokuba helped them, Joseph walks over to where Dark was, but then spotted the card. He walks over to it and picks it up, seeing the card called, Inferno Holy Dragon, he knew it belongs to Pyro.
Then there were sounds of groans, Dark had gotten up. He glared at Joseph, "You'll pay for this!" Then with the last amount of his energy, he turned and fled, running into the darkness of the trees.
Joseph watched him go, than he remembered about Pyro. "Pyro," he said, as he turned around and rush to where the knight rest.
As Mokuba helped his big brother, Yugi and his friends and the others, no one noticed the disappearance of the three lackeys.
Joey groaned, "What happened?"
"No idea, all I remember…" Tristan started to say.
"Going into that eye thing? Speaking, of where's that pyramid?" asked Dan, interrupting them. "And why do I think I should be sore and I'm not?"
DX looked very confused, as well as disturbed, and Jonathan had noticed. But with his logic side, he spoke out, "Amazing, it seems that strange eye caused hypnosis, we all must've been asleep till the pyramid was gone."
Aurion looked confused, "Seriously, okay that was stupid."
Yugi was confused, this was different, he remembered seeing the pyramid and going into it with his friends, but after that is just a huge blank.
Seto looked to his little brother, he remembered being pulled into that freak eye thing, as well as seeing his brother standing with a bunch of weirdoes dressed like the one standing beside Gregory and the others.
"What happened, Mokuba?" asked Seto, looking down at his kid brother.
Mokuba replied, "You guys were unconscious, and the duel lasted quite a long while."
Joey and a few others, "Oh yeah, the duel, Joseph and another was duelling someone!" Then he turned to look where Joseph was, and so did everyone. Joey and Tristan would've rushed over, if it weren't for something that just happened.
The moment Joseph got down on one knee beside Pyro's unconscious form, holding one single card in right hand. When he holds it neared the knight, it started to glow a golden light, which surprised everyone, including Joseph. Then Pyro's body was glowing as well, and then the card was pulled out of Joseph's hand and landed on Pyro's armored chest.
Everyone was wondering what was happening, but the only one who was seeing it truly happen was DX. He was surprised as he watches with his eyes open wide, seeing a glowing light choran, body form of a huge dragon. One claw rested on the knight who has purple choran, and for several minutes, his choran glowed in a golden light.
'That spirit, it's that guy's guardian,' DX said, he watches it happen.
Eventually the glowing light faded, and soon after, the knight groans as his eyes slowly open. He then slowly sat up, and the first person he sees was Joseph, "Joseph, what happened? Did you win?"
Joseph smiled and chuckled, pointed down at Pyro's chest, "See for yourself comrade."
Pyro slowly looked down, and sees something stuck on his armor, a card. He picked it up, and takes a look. He gasps, "Inferno Holy Dragon!" Seeing his card back in his hand, he was relieved and so happy to have it back.
Pyro slowly gotten up, and so did Joseph, Pyro looked at him, he smiled, "Thank you for returning my card, and for this, I am in your debt."
"You don't owe me anything, just glad to help," Joseph said, he then holds out his right hand.
"No matter, when you need my help, I will help you," Pyro said, he took his hand and shook it.
Joseph would've replied, until he saw everybody looking at them, he turned to them in surprise. "When in blazes did you guys get here?"
'Whoa, what a duel, but what would happen next? What does Dark plan to do next? What is the Organization's goal? Find out next time on YuGiOh Duels of the Actillian! Wait a second, whatever happened to those three fools?'
Hidden Scene
Back in the room within the dense huge maze, the same room Aaron had fled from. The room had made another change, from a horrible nightmare to what looks like an ancient shrine.
The maiden who stayed in that room was standing in front of the shrine with what looks like three heads of demonic beasts, each head as a tongue sticking out, and on those three tongues are three cards.
With the door closed once more, the maiden remain standing, than with a grin, she changed, liked the room, she shifted to another form.
To a form of an old man, a four feet tall skinny but slight muscular body, wearing a black with gold lining vest, red sash with black baggy pants and black sandals. He has a white goatee with a long spike-like beard that goes down his chest, glowing white eyes, and has long bone white hair that is in a form of a very long ponytail.
He then sat down on his knees on a cushion, as though he was waiting. Then with some kind of sense to the outside, he chuckled and his eyes glow even brighter. He spoke out, "Cannot allow it to end it like that, way too early, more things to follow."
Then he closed his eyes just as the door to this room opens.
Larry was the one of the three who had opened the door; he looks in, "Hey guys, someone is in this room."
"Who?" asked Louie who looked in, so did Lee.
The moment all three look at the old man, he spoke out, "I been waiting for you three, please step forward."
Lee looked confused, "Does he mean us?" Larry and Louie shrugged, they seen other rooms, except this room was very different.
"Yes, I had been waiting for you three. For you see, you three are destine for greatness," said the old man, grinning while his eyes then open; now they see his glowing eyes.
Louie made motion with his right index finger by his right ear, in a way of saying this old man must be crazy or something.
The old man chuckled, "Yes, I may seem crazy to you, but I speak the truth, I been waiting for you three. For you see, you three are destine for greatness."
That got their attention; they came into the room, closing the door behind them.
"You three are destine to do great things, becoming the champions of your world," the old man continued.
The three lackeys walked over till they each stood at least five feet away from the old man, and Lee saw the three cards in the shrine. "Are those cards like those god cards?" he asked.
"Yes, they're very similar," said the old man. "But sadly, in order to control those cards, you three must truly be the chosen ones, for they must select you."
"And if we aren't?" asked Larry.
"You three will be kicked out and will never remember this place," said the old man. "The moment the gate that brought you all here, you'll never get another chance like this. For when the gate vanishes, you and all the others who came here will be kicked out, and the memories of being here will be erased.
"Of course, if these three select you three, you'll become the greatest beings that no normal being will be? You three will even be far stronger than the King of Games." The old man smiled, "If you wish to take the chance, than please, step forward and take hold of the cards."
The three lackeys were grinning, each one thinking different and yet very similar selfish reasons, the ideas of using one of those three powerful cards. They step forward, heading towards the shrine, walking pass the old man.
Once each of them stood in front of each mouth, they each reached out for their card. Each of them smiling wickedly, nearly taking hold of the cards with their greedy hands.
And as they do, the old man was grinning, and the moment they took hold of those cards, each of them was glowing brightly in dark lights, dark red light consumed Larry, dark blue light consumed Louie, and dark yellow light consumed Lee.
"You three now are my students, you may call me Elder C," said the old man, still grinning.
Outside of the pyramid, the three bodies of the lackeys faded out of the existence. This has happened while no one was watching, so when Mokuba or one of the organization members look and saw those three gone, they were greatly confused by that.
CARDS MENTION IN EPISODE 15
Dark's Cards:
Andro Sphinx: wiki/Andro_Sphinx
Sphinx Teleia: wiki/Sphinx_Teleia
Red-Eyes B. Dragon: wiki/Red-Eyes_B._Dragon
Summoned Skull: wiki/Summoned_Skull
Name: Dark Gaia Dragon
Stars: 9
Attribute: Dark
Type: Dragon
ATK: 2500
DEF: XXXX
Effect: This card cannot be normal-summoned or set, this card can be special summoned by tribute one of Dark or Earth Dragon from hand or field and sent to the graveyard, or pay 1000 Life Points. If your opponent has more life points then you, this card gains attack equal to how many more Life Points your opponent has than you. The defense is equal to your opponent's life points. You can change this card's attribute to either Dark or Earth per turn, but if use of effect, this card cannot attack the turn if the effect is used.
Sakuretsu Armor: wiki/Sakuretsu_Armor
De-Spell: wiki/De-Spell
Mirror Force: wiki/Mirror_Force
Raigeki: wiki/Raigeki
Duel Rider (New Card)
This card can only be equipped to a dragon-type monster. That monster gains the same amount of attack points equal to your life points. If the monster equipped to this card is destroyed in battle, you lose.
Pyro's Cards:
Dark Eradicator Warlock: wiki/Dark_E...icator_Warlock
Swords of Revealing Light: wiki/Swords...evealing_Light
Mystical Space Typhoon: wiki/Mystic..._Space_Typhoon
Joseph's Cards:
Lord of D. – wiki/Lord_of_D.
White Night Dragon: wiki/White_Night_Dragon
Dragonic Knight: wiki/Dragonic_Knight
Name: De-Ragan
Stars: 8
Attribute: Fire
Type: Dragon
ATK: 3000
DEF: 2500
Effect: If you have three or more Dragon-Type monsters removed from play, you can special summon this card from hand or graveyard. If special summoned, this card's ATK points are 0. You can sacrifice life points to have this card gain ATK points.
Five-Headed Dragon: wiki/Five-Headed_Dragon
Mirror Force: wiki/Mirror_Force
Return from Different Dimension: wiki/Return...rent_Dimension
Red-Eyes B. Dragon: wiki/Red-Eyes_B._Dragon
Horus the Black Flame Dragon LV6: wiki/Horus_...ame_Dragon_LV6
Luster Dragon #2: wiki/Luster_Dragon_2
Card of Sanctity: wiki/Card_of_Sanctity
Monster Reborn: wiki/Monster_Reborn
Polymerization: wiki/Polymerization
De Ragnus (New Card)
Stars: 12
Attribute: Fire
Type: Dragon
ATK: 4200
DEF: 3200
EFF: De Ragan + De Ragan
Once per turn, you can change the attribute of this card during main phase one, but by doing so, this card cannot attack in the turn its attribute was change. Once per turn, you can banish ne card from your hand or graveyard from play, depending on what type of card was banish, one of these three effects are activated.
Monster: Double the ATK and DEF of this card for one turn.
Spell: Special summon a dragon monster from your graveyard for one turn.
Trap: Destroy one face down spell or trap card.