Hey gang! Sorry for the day late post. Life has just been crazy. We're finishing up our project at work, and I have only one or two things left to finish up on, but still, it's time consuming, which sucks. I was going to post yesterday, but it slipped my mind, sadly. I remembered I was going to, but like I said, I got busy unfortunately, so oh well. At any rate, I did get this chapter finished and it's ready to post, so it's all good. Life otherwise for me has been just rough I suppose. I'm trying not to stress about work, but the last two or three weeks have been really taxing. I had all this stuff due on our project that I couldn't figure out and had to research, then I had normal life as well, plus trying to find time to read and write fan fics. I'll just be happy once I finish up working on this project since life should return to some sort of normalcy, I hope…

Writing wise, I've come up with plenty of ideas for future chapters, but they're more ideas in my head than anything else. We'll see where that goes. As for next week's chapter, it may or may not be on time. Ardee, like myself, has been rather busy, so it's hard for us to get it together in most recent times, which sucks for both of us. We're trying though, so have a little patience.

Moving along, time for the lone review.

Supreme-Chaos-Angel: Heh, true, Pot of Avarice doesn't belong in a Dark Attribute deck, but it was necessary to help keep his monster supply fresh, thus why it was added to this deck. There is a limit on how many he has, so don't think it's like Jaden or Yugi's deck that seems to never run out of monsters. Illidan's deck does have limitations, thus why Pot of Avarice was added to balance it back out. True, it defeats the purpose of Chaos decks as well, but like I said, it was necessary to help balance his deck out. The number of Light Attribute monsters is far less in his current deck than his previous ones, so it's not like he can spare any cards. Yep, it seems Seto is bringing his A game at last, but if that's enough, I don't know. Illidan has a resilient and tough deck that isn't easily destroyed. It is sad that Illidan appeared to kill his Chaos Emperor Dragon, only to bring it back, but it looks like the dragon has no choice in fighting this time. Heh, Lucifer's deck will be fun, trust me. Thanks for the review!

Well, that's it guys. Thanks SCA for the review. I appreciate it. At any rate, I need to run, so I hope you guys like this next chapter. Enjoy!

Stats from previous chapter:

Life Points: (Illidan 8600; Seto 7800, Haou 7400)

Monsters on the field:

Illidan: Chaos Demon Chimera – Envoy of Judgment (1000/4000), Mystic Tomato (1400/1100)

Seto: Penten the Dark Clown (500/1200) (d), Blue-Eyes White Dragon x 2 (3000/2500) (2000/2500)

Haou: Phantom Gunner (1100/800) (d), Evil Hero Malicious Edge (2600/1800) (d), Elemental Hero Clayman (800/2000) (d)

Face up Spell/Trap on the field:

Illidan: Ultimate Offering (t)

Seto: Shooting Star Bow – Ceal (s)

Haou: None

Number of cards in hand:

Illidan 2

Seto 6

Haou 6

Number of monsters in play:

Illidan 2

Seto 3

Haou 3

Number of face down Spell/Trap:

Illidan 2

Seto 2

Haou 2

Number of face up Spell/Trap:

Illidan 1

Seto 1

Haou 0

Number of Dark Attribute monsters in Illidan's Grave: 7

Number of Dark Attribute monsters in Illidan's removed from play pile: 4

Turns since Seto played Card of Demise: 2

Chapter 40

Without a word, Haou drew his card and examined his hand. "I have allowed this duel to continue on as it is for far too long. If they think that I, the Supreme King, will be ignored, they are fools."

Pointing at his blue winged creature, Haou calmly said "I begin by playing my Phantom Gunner's effect, meaning you lose another 300 life points."

Taking aim at Illidan, the small winged creature fired a single sphere of energy straight at Illidan. Like always, the blast hit, but did little damage. Instantly, the black plasma creature roared loudly while it's strength increased (1150/4000).

"What is that fool thinking!? He'll only increase the power of Illidan's creature by doing something like that!" Seto roared within his mind.

Ignoring the glare he was receiving from his partner, Haou showed a card from his hand and coldly said "Stop Defense, activate! This spell forces your monster into attack mode."

With a strangled growl, the black plasma creature slowly stood up and spread it's wings out while glaring at the monsters on the field.

"I switch my monsters all into attack mode."

One by one, the creatures before Haou stood up, with each returning the glare from the black plasma creature with one of their own.

"Dark Fusion, activate."

"Again!?" Illidan asked with a gruff voice.

Not acknowledging Illidan, Haou showed another card from his hand, saying "Elemental Hero Sparkman (1600/1400) and Clayman, dark fuse."

A small electrical storm without warning flared up, from which a blue and gold armored warrior with wing like structures on his back appeared. He wore a blue helmet with gold trim that hid his entire face.

The two suddenly began swirling together, creating a black vortex. From the vortex, several bolts of electricity began flashing around a dangerous looking new creature. It was a large, sleek, mostly blue-green armored creature, with purple stripes on it's arms, chest, and legs. On it's chest was a large red half sphere, which was also on each of the creature's knuckles. Golden lightning bolt like blades ran off the creature's shoulders, while it also had purple spikes sticking up. The creature's head was covered with a blue glass like visor, except for his mouth. His fingers were massive and golden colored as well. Letting out a small roar, the creature glared out at the other monsters on the field.

"Come, Evil Hero Lightning Golem (2400/1500). And now, his effect activates. He destroys once monster on the field once per a turn. Crush his pathetic Demon Chimera!"

Pointing it's hand at the black plasma creature, the dark green armored creature released a sphere of pure electricity at the plasma monster. The blast struck the creature hard, making it howl out in pain, but before the blast could pierce through it's body, it used it's tail to knock the blast away into a nearby tree, which caught fire instantly while leaving the plasma creature unharmed.

Darkly chuckling, Illidan held his hand out to his Graveyard Slot while a card from within it slowly slid out. Taking hold of it, he showed it to Haou, saying "My Demon Chimera isn't so easily destroyed. By removing from play a Light or Dark Attribute monster in my Graveyard, I can negate it's destruction. I choose to remove this, one of my Mystic Tomato's, so sorry but your attempt has failed."

"Malicious Edge, crush his creature!"

Leaping into the air, the needle throwing creature flung all of it's needles at the black plasma creature. Each needle hit their target, making the creature wail out loudly.

Holding his hand over his Graveyard Slot once more, Illidan picked up a card that slid out and showed it to Haou, smugly saying "I remove from play this, my second Mystic Tomato, allowing my creature to remain on the field. And let's not forget, you just dealt me damage, meaning my creature gains more power (1875/4000)."

Pondering for a moment on his next move, Haou glanced at the plasma creature on the field. "Should I attack with Lightning Golem, that creature will have a little over 2100 attack points, plus Illidan will remove from play another card to keep it in play. Next turn, he'll target Phantom Gunner, thus granting his creature even more points and making it the second strongest creature next to Kaiba's Blue-Eyes White Dragon. Then there is the possibility that he'll summon another card…"

"Still, he will have only five monsters left in his Graveyard should I attack. That means eventually, he will run out of cards to remove from play. I have to rely on Kaiba to attack that thing, and force Illidan to give up another monster. He'll run out of cards soon enough."

Shaking his head, he added "No, I cannot rely on anyone. I am the Supreme King, I need no one!"

"Lightning Golem, attack that thing!"

Raising it's hands, the blue green creature began shoving energy into it's palms. After a moment, yellow lightning began forming at it's palms. Slowly, a sphere of yellow energy formed and the creature pushed it away, sending it hurtling onwards towards the weaker black plasma creature. The blast slammed heavily into the creature, making it howl out in pain like before.

Sighing, Illidan shook his head, saying "You just don't learn, do you? I remove from play this, my Vampire's Curse to keep my creature on the field, which grows stronger (2137/4000)."

The creature let out a massive roar and shook the blast off easily.

"I end my move." (Illidan 6325; Seto 7800, Haou 7400)

Picking up a new card, Illidan smirked. Pointing at his plasma creature, he smartly said "It's time I revealed to you two fools another of my mighty Chaos Demon Chimera's special abilities."

Reaching out from the hatches on the body of the black plasma creature were several tendrils that began pooling together and slowly began forming a series of shapes till finally the shape took a vaguely humanoid form. The form slowly began to gain color, with it revealing blue skin on the creature, wearing black tight fitting armor with a mage's hat and long black staff in hand.

Eyes widening a fraction, Seto mumbled "No way…"

"As I'm sure you already know, this is my Dark Magician of Chaos (2800/2600)." Illidan informed the duo. "By sacrificing half of Chaos Demon Chimera's attack points, I can special summon one Chaos monster from my Graveyard (1068/4000)."

Grinning evilly once more, he added "And since I just brought my mage back, his special ability kicks in, allowing me to add one spell from my Graveyard to my hand. I think Chaos Fusion shall do."

Hearing this, Haou let out a low grunt of annoyance. Realizing that Haou had been the one to make the sound, Illidan wagged a finger at the black armored duelist while holding his spell card in his right hand, saying "I wouldn't worry, Haou. I won't be activating Chaos Fusion for a while, yet, but it's unlikely you'll be around to see it once again."

"And now then, I activate Chaos Demon Chimera's third special ability! By giving up some of it's defense points, I can strengthen another Chaos creature. I shall give up 1500 of it's defense points, allowing me to increase Dark Magician of Chaos's strength (1068/4000 – 1500 2500) (2800 + 1500 4300/2600)."

Watching while the blue skinned mage's power increased, Seto grit his teeth. "This is not good. If he can increase the power of his Chaos creature's attack points by sacrificing that weaker creature's defense points, we'll never get the upper hand."

"Next I summon Dark Grepher (1700/1600) in defense mode."

Materializing onto the field near the blue skinned mage, plasma creature, and red-orange tomato creature was a muscular warrior with dark skin, wearing tight leather armor that had spikes coming out of it's pants legs, a chest plate that covered his lower chest that had two thick straps that had spikes on it as well, with the chest plate having red eyes painted onto it. His arms were completely exposed, with only two small gauntlets on his wrists and a black cloth covering his neck and the back of his head and his forehead. The creature's hair was sickly white and he bore red eyes. In his right hand was a mighty broad sword. Fully on the field, he took a kneeling stance and crossed his arms.

"I shall now switch Mystic Tomato to defense as well, allowing the real fun to begin." Illidan darkly commented. Pointing at the weaker blue winged creature in front of Haou, he said "Dark Magician of Chaos, crush that thing with Chaos Scepter Blast!"

Twirling his scepter around the side of his body, the mage took aim and released a black sphere of magical energy at the small demonic creature. The creature was hit hard and screamed out in pain before exploding. With the creature gone, the blast continued on and struck Haou, making him groan from the inflicted pain while his life points dropped.

"Since I just dealt you 3200 points of Battle Damage, my Chaos Demon Chimera's attack points rise by 1600 points (1068 + 1600 2668/2500). And now, Chimera, attack his pathetic Evil Hero Lightning Golem!"

Spreading it's wings, the massive plasma creature shot several tendrils of black plasma straight at the blue-green warrior. The tendrils ensnared the large creature easily, making it struggle to free itself, but quickly found it could not. Slowly, the tendrils began squeezing the warrior tightly till it could no longer move at all. Opening it's maw, the dragon began building up dark red energy within it's jaws. With enough power built up at long last, the plasma creature released a blast of the dark red energy, which easily vaporized the weaker warrior creature and damaging it's own tendrils. The tendrils slowly began to ooze their way back over to the plasma creature till finally it reached it and slid back into it's body.

"I just dealt you another 268 points of Battle Damage, making my creature 134 attack points stronger (2668 + 134 2802/2500). At that, I think I shall end my turn and allow Seto to try and do something to stop me since you seem incapable of doing anything right, Haou." (Illidan 6325; Seto 7800, Haou 3932)

Drawing a card, Seto stared at the two creatures powerful creatures before Illidan. "That idiot just gave Illidan the power to slowly pick us apart. Two out of four of his creatures have 2800 or more attack points. Only my Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon has more power than Illidan's Dark Magician of Chaos now."

"Still, he made a big mistake by leaving my two Blue-Eyes on the field. All I need is to draw once more card and he'll be back to square one. Still, till then, I'll have to hold the line. I could attack his Dark Grepher or Mystic Tomato, but doing that would only give him more monsters in his Graveyard to remove from play for his Chaos Demon Chimera, meaning it would be harder to destroy. Even if I used my weaker Blue-Eyes to direct attack, I would leave my other wide open. I can't take chances now. I have to just protect my two dragons and hope I can fend him off should he attack me."

Shifting the position of two of his monster cards to horizontal positions, Seto calmly said "I switch both of my dragons to defense mode, then I shall set these two cards face down and end my move." (Illidan 6325; Seto 7800, Haou 3932)

"That seemed like a desperate move to me, Seto." Illidan coldly commented with a cruel smile. "Don't worry, I haven't forgotten about you, so enjoy your defenses, while they last."

"If you're done rattling on, it is my move." Haou declared, earning him a glare from Illidan while he drew his card. "I activate my final Dark Fusion, allowing me to fuse Evil Hero Malicious Edge and The Dark – Hex-Sealed Fusion (1000/1600) to form a new creature."

A dark swirling instantly formed above the field while a flesh like black rock creature with pink tendrils sticking out of it formed onto the field. Both the black armored creature and black rock flew into the swirling and vanished without a trace. A moment later, the black armored warrior reappeared, but with a bit of a different look. His needles were now long black claws, with black hair shooting out from behind his helmet, and his wings grew in size. An eerie dark red aura slowly emanated from the creature, who smiled evilly at the monsters on Illidan's field.

"Come forth, Evil Hero Malicious Fiend (3500/2100)." Haou commanded.

Chuckling darkly, Illidan smugly said "So, the most powerful of the Evil Heroes has arrived, eh? How delicious, Jaden."

"Do not call me that." Haou coldly remarked.

"What's wrong Jaden? Have you forgotten about your original self? Don't you remember how weak, pathetic, and so naïve you once were? You never realized that in order to achieve your goals that you had to be ruthless and cold. You cannot even begin to hope to defeat me so long as you hold onto your childish self. And you always will, for I know that there is no Supreme King, or should I say Haou, only you, Jaden Yu…"

"Jaden Yuki no longer exists!" Haou hissed with anger visibly emanating from him. "He is long gone, and only I, Haou, the Supreme King, remains!"

Darkly chuckling, Illidan replied "That's right, deny the truth and live in the illusion that you are who you say you are, but I see the truth. You may be ruthless right now, but deep down, Jaden is fighting to regain control of his mind and body, and in the end, he shall crush you under his own heel, Haou. Unless of course, I crush you first."

Angered even further, Haou yelled "I alone shall destroy you, and I shall use Malicious Fiend to do so! I equip him with the spell known as Heart of a Villain, increasing his attack points by 400 for every Evil Hero Fusion Type monster in my Graveyard. At this moment, I have two, thanks to you, who are Evil Heroes Inferno Wing and Lightning Golem (3500 + 400 2 4300/2100)!"

Spreading it's wings fully, the black leather wearing warrior let out a might howl while it's body began to glow with a dark red aura and it's claws began crackling with dark energy.

"Malicious Fiend, crush his pathetic excuse for a monster with Malicious Strike!"

Taking to the air, the black leather wearing warrior flew straight for the weak and sickly looking plasma creature. Without a second thought, the warrior swiped out at the creature, easily cutting into it's body and sending plasma leaking out onto the ground while the creature let out a shriek from the pain it felt. With the warrior retreating, the plasma on the ground slowly slid back into the plasma creature, which screeched loudly at the warrior monster.

"Not bad, Haou, but you forget, the more damage you inflict on me, the stronger my monster gets." Illidan coolly remarked. Holding his hand over his Graveyard Slot, a card slid out and he revealed it, saying "Plus, by removing my second D.D. Survivor in the Graveyard, I can keep my creature on the field. And speaking of my monster, it just gained 749 attack points (2802 + 749 3551/2500)."

In a cold, calm voice, Haou said "I set this and end my turn." (Illidan 4827; Seto 7800, Haou 3932)

"That idiot! What was he thinking!? Illidan now has two powerhouses on the field with over 3000 attack points, plus his Dark Grepher, which I have no clue to what it does. Then there is the threat of Chaos Sorcerer and Black Luster Soldier – Envoy of the Beginning still, plus the fact he still has Chaos Fusion in his hand. From here on, we have to play smarter, if we're going to survive this duel!" Kaiba declared within his mind.

Hearing a card being snapped off, Seto quickly looked up to see Illidan was drawing his new card. "Since you fools have been so good to me, allow me to thank you. First, since I have exactly three Dark Attribute monsters in my Graveyard, I can now summon a creature so powerful and hellish, you'd wish that you were never born. Welcome my Dark Armed Dragon (2800/1000)!"

A black cloud instantly formed onto the field that obscured what the creature was that was being summoned. After a moment, a tail with four metallic looking joints that had sharp spikes on it rose from the cloud, along with two sharp clawed hands with gray skin. Large blade like wings sprouted out a second later. A few more seconds passed and the cloud dissipated to reveal the full extent of a large dark gray dragon with black metallic armor on it's body, with sharp blades sticking out from the back of it's neck. Staring down at all the monsters on it's opponents' side of the field, the dragon released a horrific roar, seemingly shaking the entire area.

"Great, another powerful monster!" Seto growled in his mind.

Staring at the new creature, Haou said nothing, but lightly smirked at the sight of the creature.

"Now then, I reveal my trap, Dark Spirit Art – Greed. By playing this trap, I can sacrifice a Dark Attribute monster on my field and then draw two cards, but there is a catch. The two of you can stop me by one of you simply discarding a spell card from your hand."

Glancing at one another, both duelists shook their heads, making Illidan smile triumphantly. "Since you can't or won't stop me, I sacrifice Mystic Tomato to use this card!"

The red-orange tomato creature instantly vanished in a flash while it's master drew two new cards. Darkly chuckling, he pointed at the dark dragon creature, saying "I now activate Dark Armed Dragon's special ability. By removing from play a Dark Attribute monster in my Grave, I can destroy one card on the field. I'll take the Mystic Tomato I just sent there out and destroy that pathetic clown to start with, Seto."

Whipping it's tail around, the dragon swiped it through the air, sending a series of needles from the end of it flying at the clown creature. The spikes easily pierced through it, leaving only the two white dragons before Seto.

"And don't think you're off the hook, Haou. I remove another card, my Cyber Jar, allowing me to take out that pathetic little equip card, Haou."

Roaring loudly, the dark gray dragon swung it's tail in the direction of Haou, sending out a shower of needs from the four columns on the tip of it's tail. The spikes easily shattered the spell card image, weakening the black leather wearing warrior immediately (3500/2100).

With a grunt, Haou harshly said "By destroying Heart of a Villain, it's secondary effect kicks in, allowing me to permanently disable one monster's effect while it's on the field. I obviously choose your Dark Armed Dragon."

Glowing with a dark black aura, the dragon roared out in pain, but settled and glowered at the black armored duelist.

Shrugging, Illidan firmly replied "It matters not, for this duel is over for you now. I give up half of Chaos Demon Chimera's attack points (1775/2500) to bring back an old friend of mine. Revive now you worthless beast, Chaos Emperor Dragon – Envoy of the End (3000/2500)!"

Black tendrils once more launched off to the side of the plasma creature and began morphing into different shapes. After a few moments, the shape finally took the shape of a large dragon. Slowly, the dragon gained color and revealed itself to be the powerful black dragon with an orange mane. Fully back on the field, the dragon let out a massive roar, seemingly shaking the area.

"I reduce Chaos Demon Chimera's defense points by 1500 (1775/2500 – 1500 1000) and donate those points to my Chaos Emperor Dragon's attack points (3000 + 1500 4500/2500). Not even your Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon can save you now, Kaiba!"

Releasing a roar nearly loud enough to be heard around Dark World, the mighty black dragon glared down at it's opponents while Seto removed his hands from his ears.

"And now then, I can sacrifice Dark Grepher for my Dark General Freed (2300/1700)!"

The white haired warrior instantly vanished from the field, only to be replaced by a warrior with dark gray hair that reached his shoulder blades in length, had blue skin, and red glowing eyes. The warrior wore black armor with gold trim on it that covered him completely except for his hands and head, and he had a green cape on his back with a sword on his right hip. Sneering at the monsters across the field, the blue skinned warrior placed his clawed hand onto the hilt of his sword.

"Great, now he has five monsters with over 2000 attack points. This doesn't bode well for either of us!" Seto muttered darkly in his mind.

"Dark Armed Dragon, erase that pathetic excuse for a dragon with Needle Tail Swipe!"

Roaring loudly at the sound of his master's words, the large dark gray skinned dragon charged forward. Coming to a stop with a few feet to the white metallic like dragon, the gray skinned dragon spun around and swung it's sharp spiked tail at the white dragon. The spiked tail easily ripped through the white dragon, making the white wyvern cry out in pain before shattering.

Growling lowly, Seto mentally declared "You will pay for disrespecting my Blue-Eyes in such a manner!"

In all his anger, the duelist in a white trench coat clenched his hand tightly and yelled "What has happened to you Illidan!? I want the person I once knew as a friend back. Who you are now is far from what you truly are! Whatever possesses you is nothing more than a monster who has no concept of right and wrong! You may have all the power in the world, but you don't know what to do with it, and that makes you a little more than a mindless fool!"

"You're rambling." Illidan pointedly remarked. "I've explained myself once, and I will not do so again. Moral boundaries are for the weak, were for the weak, and will always be for the weak, so don't pester me again about them. And now, Dark Magician of Chaos, crush his remaining dragon with Chaos Scepter Blast!"

Pointing his staff at the white metallic dragon, the blue skinned mage fired a blast of black magical energy straight at the dragon, which roared loudly upon impact. A moment passed and a large explosion ensued, leaving smoke filling the air.

"Thanks to my mage, your dragon is removed from play now. With those lizards out of the way, I could eliminate you, Seto, but I have someone else to take care of, namely you, Haou! Slaughter his Malicious Fiend immediately Chaos Emperor Dragon, with Chaos Blaster!"

Roaring loudly, the black dragon spread it's wings and threw back it's head. Flinging it's head back forward, the dragon released a sphere of black flames at the weaker black leather armored warrior. The sphere impacted the warrior heavily, making him scream out in pain before shattering into millions of pixels. With the scream quieting, the plasma creature's body slowly began to glow while another tendril grew out of it's body.

"Since I did 1000 points of damage to your life points, my Chaos Demon Chimera gets 500 additional attack points (2275/1000). And at that, I'll allow him to direct attack you, Haou!"

Roaring loudly, the black plasma creature opened it's maw, revealing dark red energy spilling out of it. With no hesitation visible, the dragon released a blast of dark red energy in Haou's direction, which scored a direct hit, making the black armored duelist scream out in pain before falling to one knee.

"Lest you forget, my creature gets stronger for it's attack just now (3412/1000)." Illidan commented with a bored expression. "You're no fun Haou. This duel has been far too simple. Go back into the darkness from which you came from and live there for eternity. Finish him now Dark General Freed!"

Drawing his sword, the dark gray haired man smirked evilly at the gasping black armored figure on one knee. Letting out a small battle cry, the warrior began racing across the field while Haou's eyes widened and for the first time showed actual fear of the oncoming attack.

"Farewell my former student. You were far too overconfident that you could beat your former teacher." Illidan smartly admonished.

Preparing to swing his sword at the kneeling figure of the black armored duelist, the dark gray haired warrior suddenly stopped his movement.

Surprised at this, Illidan angrily yelled "FINISH HIM!"

With difficulty, the warrior slowly spun around, revealing glazed over eyes. Not sure what was going on, the brown haired duelist glanced around the field and saw that the white trench coat wearing duelist had revealed a face down card.

"YOU!" Illidan accusingly yelled while pointing at Seto.

In a cold, unforgiving voice, Seto nodded and replied "That's right, me. I activated my trap just in time to save Haou. Go, Attack Guidance Armor and attach yourself to his Dark Armed Dragon!"

Appearing around the dark gray skinned dragon instantly was a set of dull gray armor, which seemed to have caught the attention of the dark gray haired warrior. He stared at it longingly for a moment before finally racing forward with his sword drawn up to fight. Without a second though, he slashed out at the dragon, only to have his sword caught by the dragon and snapped in half. Stepping back hesitantly, the warrior looked at his sword, but didn't have long to contemplate the loss for the dark gray skinned dragon's spiked tail came swinging around and smashed through the warrior, shattering him completely before the armor on the dragon vanished. Watching all this, the black plasma creature's body instantly glowed with a light red aura while it's strength increased once more (3662/1000).

Growling lowly and in a dangerous tone, Illidan snarled out "You will pay for your insolence! I spared you for the time being, but if you wish to fight, then I will grind you into nothingness!"

"Too bad you have no more attacks this turn to carry out such a threat." Seto blandly replied while giving off a glare.

Clenching his right fist tightly, Illidan grunted out "You're right about that. I shall end my turn, but mark my words, neither of you will be around much longer." (Illidan 4327; Seto 7800, Haou 657)

Glancing at his deck, Seto stared at the top card and moved his hand to place his fingers onto the card. "This is the moment of truth. If I don't draw the card I need, Illidan will crush both Haou and myself easily in his next turn. I can't let him win, no matter what. I have to remember what I'm fighting for: a friend, who in my heart, I know would do the same for me. No matter what happens, I won't abandon him! He has done so much for me, so it's time I returned the favor!"

Drawing his card, he looked at it and showed it to Illidan, saying "It's time I got my friend back! It starts by me activating this spell, D.D.R – Different Dimension Reincarnation! This card first forces me to discard one card from my hand to begin with, so I'll toss this card."

Selecting one card in his hand, Seto silently placed it into his Graveyard Slot, which instantly sucked it down while he smirked. "I next get to choose a monster that's been removed from play and special summon it to the field. You sent it there last turn, so welcome back my Blue-Eyes White Dragon (3000/2500)!"

Appearing above the field with a rainbow colored glow was a rift. Flying out of the rift suddenly was the familiar white metallic dragon, which roared loudly upon landing on the field.

"Big deal, Seto. I'll just send that dragon back where it came from next turn." Illidan remarked while folding his arms over his chest.

Shaking his head, Seto smartly replied "I wouldn't count on it. I activate a spell that will reshape this duel! Go Dragon's Mirror!"

Eyes widening a fraction, Illidan mumbled "That means…"

"That means your worst nightmare is about to hit the field!" Seto declared while laughing loudly. "I remove from play the Blue-Eyes White Dragon I have on the field, along with the two I have in my Graveyard in order to fuse them together! Come my dragons, rise up once more and bring me victory!"

Glowing to life, the Graveyard Slot on Seto's Duel Disk shot out two beams of white light. The twin lights twisted around one another before splitting up and coming to a stop. Together, the lights released a blinding brightness, revealing two more white metallic dragons, with each releasing a mighty roar.

With a mighty roar, the three dragons took off into the sky and went sailing into the clouds above. A blinding white light pierced through the clouds after a moment, and a much louder roar sounded off. Slowly descending out of the clouds was a large white metallic dragon with three heads, massive wings, sharp clawed hands and feet, and a massive tail. Hitting the ground, the three heads released yet another mighty roar, shaking the entire area again.

"Welcome to the field my all powerful Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon (4500/3800)!"

Staring at the dragon with an unreadable expression, Illidan firmly said "That dragon may be powerful, but let's not forget the fact that my Chaos Emperor Dragon is currently even in strength with it. This is nothing more than a stalemate, Seto, although I hold the keys to your demise."

"I wouldn't count on it Illidan!" Seto fired back. "My Blue-Eyes is powerful, but it is not the final form of the Blue-Eyes series. You learned that a year ago."

Widening his eyes a bit, Illidan quietly asked "Do you mean you're going to summon it?"

"Yes, I'm about to summon the dragon that will remove the darkness from you, once and for all, and I only think it's fitting that it's name will give light to your dark world! First though, I reveal my face down spell, Burial from a Different Dimension, allowing me to transfer the three Blue-Eyes White Dragons (3000/2500) that I removed from play back into my Graveyard."

Placing the three dragon cards into his Graveyard, Seto pulled the next to last card from his hand and slapped it onto his Duel Disk, saying "I sacrifice Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon to summon the dragon that will end this duel! Rise up now my Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon (3000/2500)!"

Cracks slowly began forming on the three headed white dragon's body, causing the dragon to roar loudly before shattering. In the wake of the dragon's destruction, a blinding white light filled the field, forcing Illidan and Haou to cover their faces from the light while Seto stared on. The glowing slowly faded, allowing the pair to look at the field once more. There before Seto hovered a new white metallic dragon, this one with a futuristic look to it. From head to toe, the dragon was covered in white metal armor, with blue half orbs sticking out of it's metal armor at different points on it's body. Like all of the previous dragon's the dragon had blue colored eyes that seemed to be all knowing. Flicking it's metallic tail behind itself, the dragon spread it's metallic wings and let out a high pitched roar.

Eyeing the metallic dragon, Illidan quietly said "Your most powerful and rarest monster. The rare appearance of this creature is quite surprising."

"Did you think I would cease to exist or allow you to remain lost in this hellish wasteland, Illidan!?" Seto demandingly asked. "I will not leave here without you, and I will use all the power of my dragon to drag you back into reality!"