Yu-Gi-Oh! R: Duel between Yugi and Yakou
Okaaaay. Mix of custom and original awesomeness (at least I ruddy well hope so).
The main complexities will vanish, and it'll be more like the original manga duel from the end of the chapter.
On with the show.
The KaibaCorp Building.
Mokuba looked in shock at the screen as the readings twisted around. "That's unusual," he muttered, scanning the screen. "This shouldn't be happening! My brother's codes can't have failed!"
Joey looked away from the other screens. "Did somethin' else happen," he asked in surprise.
Mokuba did his best to explain. "That dirty program was loaded by the Wicked Avatar card. Now that it's been played in a duel, I don't think Seto's codes can stop it!"
Tea was still unconscious, the machine imprisoning her glowing brightly and shaking heavily. Tristan looked at the machine in surprise.
"What's happening . . . ?" he wondered.
Joey reached out. "Tea, you okay – ack!" he yelped as a spark of electricity zapped him. Joey looked sadly at the machine.
"We can't do anything," he sighed. "We can't save her."
C'mon Yug' he thought miserably. Release her from the bonds of the Wicked Gods!
At the top of the KaibaCorp building Yakou had just successfully summoned the Wicked Avatar in attack position. He smirked at Yugi's field, which would intimidate any normal duelist, with two Egyptian God monsters.
His side of the field however contained the three Wicked God monsters, all bloodthirsty for the flesh of their rivals.
"This is it, Yugi," said Yakou. "Look at this part of me carefully."
Yami Yugi looked at the massive orb of darkness, stunned. This thing was created to oppose the Winged Dragon of Ra, the god monster of the sun!
Gekkou looked up at the monster, grim-faced.
"The Wicked Avatar, the god monster that dyes Yakou's very soul with evil," he remarked with cold fury.
"Not only that, it's the wicked god that rules over all other monsters on the field," added Kaiba from beside him. Slifer raised its massive head, and fired a blast of lightning, but Avatar simply shrugged it off.
Yakou chuckled. "Wicked Avatar, metamorphose!" he called. The black orb began to twist around and change.
"This monster can continue to reign over and exceed the strength of the other monsters on the field forever!" laughed Yakou. Yugi nervously watched and gasped in shock as a figure began to form in the black swirling aura of Avatar.
"TEA!" he screamed in horror.
Indeed it was her, a dark version of her form, swirling around in the mass of the Wicked God.
"The girl's soul has been confined to the Wicked God, Yugi," explained Yakou. "You'd better hurry up if you want to see her again, or she'll disappear forever." He raised his hand. "But now to the business at hand!" he called. "The Wicked Avatar now transforms into the strongest monster on the field, and gains attack points equal to that monsters attack points plus one."
He gestured to his other monster. "In the beliefs of the Wicked Avatar, a Wicked God is stronger than an Egyptian God, so it takes the form of my Wicked Dreadroot!"
The Wicked Avatar began to twist and shift, finally taking on a black form of Dreadroot, its attack points skyrocketing to 4001.
Yugi looked in shock at the two monsters. That monster really can't be beaten, he thought in horror. Now he had two things to worry about.
"Receive my God's calamity!" yelled Yakou. "Wicked Avatar, destroys Slifer the Sky Dragon, and ends this duel!"
Avatar raised its new fists, and charged.
"Dark Fearful Knockdown!" cried Yakou.
The monsters fist slammed towards Slifer, who threw its coils futilely at Avatar.
"No!" cried Gekkou and Willa. Kaiba looked on grimly. The same combo that defeated me! he thought, remembering his defeat at Avatar's hands.
But when the monsters broke apart, Slifer was unharmed. Yugi smiled, and a card slid out of his graveyard. He held it up and showed it to Yakou.
"When I discarded a card to summon the Tricky, it was my Electromagnetic Turtle. I can remove this card to allow my monsters to end a battle at will," he explained. "So my Sky Dragon is unharmed!" he yelled.
Angrily, Yakou slipped a card into his disk facedown, and ended his turn.
Below, Willa was sweating. "Yugi barely managed to get out of that one. How is he going to keep this up?" he asked. The CEO standing next to him smiled. He had a hunch about what could happen.
"You should hurry up, Yugi," smiled Yakou. "If you don't, Tea shall disappear into the Wicked Avatar." Yugi gave him a look of fury, and placed his hand on his deck.
Yugi drew his card, and smiled. "I play a spell card!" he called. "The powerful Graceful Charity, which allows me to draw three cards and then discard two!"
He drew two cards, and then as he drew the third card, it glowed so brightly that even the other God monsters had to look away. Yugi smiled, and slid it and another card into his graveyard, leaving him with two cards in his hand.
Yakou snorted. "Are you stalling, Yugi?" he asked. "Tea might not be able to wait that long."
Yugi glared at him. "This turn . . ." he stated. "I'm not defending. I'm going to attack the Wicked Gods!"
"Now I'll play my next spell card."
He slotted the card into his Duel Disk, and the mighty crest of Monster Reborn shone out above him.
Yakou drew back in fear. No he thought. I don't have the Selection facedown!"
Yugi raised his hand.
"I give 1000 of my life points in order to summon forth the almighty Egyptian God Phoenix!" he roared, his life points dropping to 2000.
A blast of flame swarmed forth from Yugi's duel disk, and swirled around him, as Erasers attack and defence points became 3000. Kaiba, Gekkou and Willa stepped back in shock at the heat of the light. Kaiba's eyes narrowed. Ra never seemed this powerful when Marik was using it! he thought in shock.
The fire slowly took on a form. The form of a giant fiery bird, rising with an unearthly screech.
Yugi pointed at the Wicked Avatar. "Winged Dragon of Ra destroys that creature with Egyptian God Phoenix!" he roared. The giant phoenix rose up and charged with a howl.
"No!" roared Yakou. "That won't work!"
His facedown card rose up – Shift.
Yugi looked in surprise at the card.
"This card switches your target!" yelled Yakou. "And I choose for your Phoenix to target the Wicked Eraser!" he added.
Ra twisted away from Avatar, and slammed into Eraser.
Flames roared in the night. Eraser screeched in agony as its skin was eaten away, and black ash swirled onto the field. Yakou cried out in pain as flame surrounded him.
Yami Yugi looked on grimly, but behind him, Yugi turned away. I know it was necessary he thought. But no-one should have to suffer the wrath of the Egyptian Gods! Even Kaiba winced, having seen the effect that Ra had had on Joey in a Shadow Game that had nearly killed the blonde duelist.
The flames died down, and Eraser was gone, but a cloud of black, viscous ash remained. The cloud swirled around the field, and Yakou's Daybreaker was sucked into the vortex. Then it began to clutch at the other monsters, grabbing at the arms of Obelisk and Dreadroot, coiling around Slifer. Ra and Avatar hovered out of the way with slight looks of disgust as the horror below unfolded.
Yugi, Kaiba, Willa and Gekkou looked at the carnage in shock.
"Yakou!" yelled Yugi. "What's going on?"
Yakou smiled sadly.
"The Wicked Eraser is the God that erases the other Gods," he commented with a sneer. "When it gets destroyed, it takes every other card on the field with it. Ra and Avatar are higher on the pyramid ranking, so they're unaffected. Erasers powers are useless against them. But the others aren't so lucky . . ." he observed.
Slifer was fighting wildly, refusing to let its counterpart take it down. Obelisk sank stoically, its fists clenched. Dreadroot was almost gone, its arms clawing at the ground.
Then the wave of ash engulfed them, and spread to the duelists.
Yugi groaned in pain. I can't see!
The Millennium Puzzle glowed. Golden energy radiated out from the Puzzle, blasting though the black cloud.
The flames of the Winged Dragon of Ra burnt through the rest. Yugi looked up and gasped in surprise.
Standing behind Yakou was a black, bird-like dragon, colossal and powerful, with feather-like wings, and a ring connecting its shoulders. Its attack points flashed in the air: 1.
Kaiba looked on in shock as the two Ra faced off, while Gekkou and Willa could barely hold back their astonishment. Yugi ended his turn. There was nothing left he could do. Ra screeched as it returned to his graveyard in a spurt of fire. Avatar shimmered, and morphed into its base form of a dark orb.
Yakou smiled. "I've seen all your duels in this building, Yugi," he told his opponent. Ra was the only card in your deck that could stop Avatar, so I doubt that you can hold out any longer."
"It's my turn. I draw."
He drew his card, and smiled.
"I play Card of Sanctity," he said. "Now we draw until we hold six cards."
They drew, and Yakou smiled, holding up a card.
"I summon Seraphim Blaster!" (1800 ATK) he called.
An angel holding a futuristic laser appeared, and Avatar twisted its form into a dark version of the angel, increasing to 1801 attack points. Yakou pointed at Yugi, who was scanning the cards in his hand.
"Seraphim Blaster attacks directly!" yelled Yakou.
But to his shock, a pink fluffy fairy appeared, and jumped in the way of the attack before shattering.
"My thanks for playing your Card of Sanctity, Yakou," commented Yugi. "My second Watapon can be summoned from my deck when I draw it with a card effect!"
Yakou snarled. "Avatar, attack!" he screamed.
Then a wall of fuzzy brown creatures appeared, absorbing the attack. Down below, Kaiba grimaced – he hated those furballs.
Yugi smiled. "My Kuriboh can be discarded when I would take damage in battle, and prevent that damage from touching me!"
Angrily, Yakou gritted his teeth. "I set two facedown cards!" he called. The two cards appeared in front of him. "That ends my turn."
Quickly Yugi drew his next card. I can't dodge his attacks forever. If I can't reverse my current situation, then I'll be in trouble and Tea will be gone forever. he thought grimly as he looked at his card.
Perfect! I have what I need to reassess my options.
"I play the Monster Recovery spell card!" he called, and a whirlwind appeared in the air. As he slipped his five cards into his deck he added, "This card allows me to return all the monsters on my field, and every card in my hand to my deck, then draw the same number of cards that were in my hand!"
He drew five cards with a flourish, and examined them.
Below, Gekkou was impressed.
"He drew that card at the time where its use would be the most effective!" he commented.
Willa wasn't so joyful. "But Yakou said it himself – Yugi doesn't have any monsters that could win this and beat that Wicked God."
Up on the duel platform, Yugi placed three cards facedown, and ended his turn.
"Did I see that right?" asked Gekkou. "No monsters out of all those cards?"
Yakou smiled. "Relying on facedowns to beat a god? Have you lost it Yugi?" he asked. He drew his card. "My turn."
He placed a card into his duel disk and a circle of red light appeared, smoke rising from it, and a shape forming in the smoke. "I play the Fiend's Sanctuary spell card!" he cried.
Yugi gasped. The card that Kaiba gave me to beat Marik!
A token made of reflective beads appeared, and Yugi could see his reflection in the head of the Metal Fiend Token. Yakou gave a smug smile and began to explain.
"The Metal Fiend Token reflects my opponent. Now, Yugi, for all intents and purposes, your power is reflected within this Token! And while Avatar takes on the highest attack on the field, well his form on the other hand . . . can be very choosy. It selects its form based on the highest power in play! See for yourself."
Sure enough Avatar was warping, shifting into a new form.
Yugi, Kaiba, Willa and Gekkou all gasped in shock.
Standing before them, eyes closed was a black form of Yugi Mutou. Not the spirit of the Puzzle, but the real human being himself.
Beside it, Yakou wore a self satisfied smile.
Gack.
This was so annoying to adapt. I've had to cut out two or three pretty cool monsters from the original duel, which I am kind of annoyed about. At least the gods are out of the picture (ish).
Originally I was going to have Yugi use Battle Fader to dodge that direct attack. I hadn't realised at the time that I could do what happened. (I was also going to use Battle Fader again, as of course it would have been returned by Monster Recovery). And now I've just realised that I have used two Watapon's. Oh well . . .
The real effect of Fiend's Sanctuary made this hard to adapt, but not too bad – just had to put more monsters out on the field.
When Yugi summoned Ra, Yakou was talking about what happened the last time Yugi tried this. He used the Selection to negate the special summon of Ra.
I really hope that the god face-off was cool. That was the main reason I altered the duel this much. Don't worry; fans of the original, the awesomeness of the final face-off against Avatar will be there.
It's also quite interesting to see how many fanfiction's that feature Eraser just have it blow up the field, rather than the description I gave. I am not making this up – it actually does the whole ash thing (or at least it does when Yakou sacrifices it in the original manga. Its uses its blood when Bandit Keith uses it against Joey, which I haven't seen described in a fanfiction either.)
Anyway guys please do rate and review (well more just review at the moment!)