Chapter 7) Climax of the Duel: Game King Vs Riding King

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"My spell card activates Thousand Knives!" Montage Dragon is destroyed by a thousand knives that rain from the sky to skewer the three headed Dragon.

Atlas stared down his opponent he still had his Red dragon archfiend on the field but with its Atk decreased to 2300 due to the crippling effects of Spellbinding Circle he was in trouble.

Yami stared down his opponent with his Dark Magician its Atk remained at 2500 more than strong enough to take down his opponents Dragon, but he had something else planned.

"I play Polymerization and fuse my Dark Magician with my Buster Blader to form Dark Paladin" The Dragon Slaying Spellcaster (Atk-2900) however Red Dragon Archfiend on the field, Montage Dragon and Prime Material Dragon in the graveyard, a total of three Dragons increases Buster Bladers Atk by 1500 (Atk-4400)

"I'll still have 400 life points left" states Atlas "I can still defeat you next turn"

Yugi prepares to play a spell card magic formula to boost Buster bladders Atk by a further 500 points, enough to wipe out Atlas's life-points when to both his and Atlas's mutual amazement he vanished in cloud of golden orange particles.

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In the garage Yusei handed over a card to Bakura who accepts it a curious expression on his face "here take it as a memento of our duel, consider it thanks for helping me out back there" barely having time to glance at the card and to Yusei's immense confusion and shock Bakura vanished into thin air before his very eyes.

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Back at Sector Security headquarters Trudge was berating the patrol card officers "how could he have just vanished?" he screams "how could you have let him get away?"

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Back in the present day in the Hub in Cardiff the rift manipulator was working at full power Owen sat at his station observing the real time security camera footage for outside the Hub where the three foreign teenagers had disappeared and shakes his head "it's not working" he calls back to the others "there still not back"

"Give it time" Jack instructs them running around from station to station double checking the readings "building power, building power…Now!"

As Owen watched the golden orange glow of the rift split reality through Cardiff depositing three confused and down right irritated looking teens back into the plaza above the Hub.

"There back" Owen announces "still blurry and do they ever look pissed, got all their own limbs although…" he frowns at the grainy image "…one of them seems to be handcuffed for some reason"

Tosh and Jack working together power down the rift manipulator, once it's locked into neutral Jack walks up to Owens station and glances at the screen "I think its about time we had a word with them" he says grimly.

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Yami, Ishtar and Bakura were back "Huh" growls Ishtar "I was enjoying that" he grumbles "did you know in the future they duel on motor bikes?" he informs his fellow Yamis eagerly.

"I can tell you've enjoyed yourself" comments Bakura eyeing the handcuffs dubiously, a flash of his hands and a lock pick later an Ishtar's hands were free.

Yami was uncharacteristically silent, he hated been cheated out of his victory, no doubt that Atlas guy was firmly convinced that he would have gone on to win their duel. "Tomb Robber" he finally speaks up "I demand an explanation"

"Hey don't blame me O' Royal pain in the backside" Bakura scowls at the pharaoh "Freaky stuff like this happens a dime a dozen in this city" he claims.

"Awe come on Pharaoh that was awesome" claims Marik "how often do we get a chance to duel in the future?" Bakura and Yami cease glaring at each other and turn their attention to Marik "do you really think that was some kind of futuristic mega city?" Yami asks him "Domino City in the future?" suggests Bakura.

Marik nods his head "those cops kinda proved it, seemed to think I was my Grandson" he declares.

Bakura raises an eyebrow "Time travel is possible just take a look at the Time Wizard card" Yami can't disagree with his reasoning, this time. "If this is true…" Yami shudders "the future is a scary place; I met a blond Kaiba clone"

"Come to think of it I met a duelist who reminded me a little of you even down to the impossibly abnormal hair, although he was less bombastic than you" Yami opened his mouth to form a retort but Bakura was no longer paying him any attention, tapping into the power of the Millennium Ring to boost his senses he was concentrating on an area above a paving stone near the water feature, it was just another paving stone, but at the same time…it wasn't. He looked at the paving stone through new eyes and saw…a man, a man he'd hoped he'd never see again in this world, the man from Touch Wood! Bakura felt an odd sensation it took him a few seconds to pin it down, it couldn't be…fear? Could it?

"When I say run, run" he whispered to his fellow Yamis, his voice dead serious, no trace its previous mocking tone could be found. The Touch Wood man along with two others, started to stride towards them "Run!" he screams legging it across the Plaza and down a road at random. Marik as a former Ghoul new better than to argue, he shot of after Bakura immediately. Yami having noticed the change in Bakura followed after them with only a moment's hesitation.

Owen groans as he Gwen and Jack chase after the rabbiting teens "why do they always run?" he complains to himself.

Turning a corner Yami is grabbed by Marik and Bakura who use their Millennium Items to pull all of them into the safety of the shadow realm before transporting them back to their hotel rooms.

"Well that was fun" comments Marik tossing the Millennium Rod up in the air and catching it "care to explain who exactly that was chasing us?" he points the Rod at Bakura like a wand.

"I'm not sure myself" claims Bakura earning a glare from Yami who was certain he was lying "look that man in the WW2 coat, I think I've met him before, and I don't think he likes me"

"Well who does?" Yami asks him "I don't like you but you've never run away from me, unless you're losing a duel to me of course"

Bakura grits his teeth and tries to will the urge to kill him away and succeeding "I met him a century ago and the encounter ended with my false bearers untimely demise, once more I was trapped in the Ring which returned to Egypt and I wouldn't be released until my current host obtains the item as a gift from his father"

"Wait a sec" Marik stops him "a century? He looks good considering he must be over a hundred years old; I bet he moisturizes a lot does he?"

Bakura rolls his eyes "I wouldn't know but if I remember correctly and I very well might not be I think he's practically immortal and I should know I think I killed him three or four times and witnessed another two times he died, each time he came back to life like it was nothing, wasn't all bad back then I taught this girl the art of divining the arcana, reading tarot cards" he dumbs his explanation down for Yami and Marik.

"Roll on Scotland" sighs Marik wondering what trouble they could encounter in the north of the UK.