spiritfire: I know my other story is on hiatus for a moment but I need to post this then I can hiatus this story as well so this is my X-mas gift to you my dear reviewers

Yuen: We're not in her other story now, can we please duel???

Yaru: Fine

(Their Life Points set at 8000)

Yuen: So who goes first?

spiritfire: Let me handle this.

(A coin appeared on her right hand)

spiritfire: Yuen, heads or tails?

Yuen: Heads

(The coin is flipped but it's tails)

Yaru: So I'll go first

spiritfire: While they're doing that.....let's go to the story

LXVII. Destiny Dawn

Darkness began to cover the entire sky as Marik was sitting down on a tree branch. His eyes fell on the Lunarian Castle and frowns. So far, his plan on taking Yugi has failed time and again. First, the near destruction of the Solarian Continent, Second was at Alexandria and last is the bording line of the two powerful continents. The dark staffblade was the only thing that was on his mind and no matter what, he must not fail. Even though he wasn't the one who broke the seal, he can still claim it.

"The preparations for the war is alomost complete but I still need that powerful weapon," Marik said, his fingers were running through his chin. "If I did fail in taking that weapon, I still have an alternative plan."

He jumped down from the tree branch and smiled. "Besides, whether they want it or not, the war will happen and everything will end in his desire."

- - -

Yugi looked at the window of his own house. Dark clouds were gathering in the sky. To everyone's interpretation, it's going to rain but to the youngest magician, it wasn't. He left his room, ate his breakfast, cleaned the house and left. Mahaado's spirit suddenly emerged and he looked grim. Yugi didn't mind though.

"Are you going to the castle?" the purple mage asked.

"Yeah." Yugi replied, his lightning bangs covered a part of his face.

"Why?" Mahaado asked.

"Something interesting is going to happen and I'm betting those 'three' are coming as well. Might as well watch." Yugi replied, his white wings appeared then he flew away.

- - -

Riku stared at the dark sky. Whenever this weather pattern shows up, it reminded him of what happened two years ago. The tragedy that struck his hometown, Destiny Island.

"The door has opened." said a fifteen year old Riku.

"What do you mean and where's Kairi?" said a fourteen year old Sora.

"We can go anywhere now, Sora and Kairi's coming with us!" Riku said in a harsh tone.

The wind began to blow violently. Most of the trees and houses were destroyed. A pool of darkness appeared below the silverete.

"Come with me, Sora!" Riku said as he extended his hand. "Together we can see the worlds!"

Sora extended his hand but tendrils of darkness snatch his best friend and also the light inside his heart. The last thing he knew, he was swallowed by the darkness.

He never forgotten that incident ever. The reason for this whole mess was his fault. Given in by that temptation to be released in his island home, he opened the door to darkness. Footsteps was soon heard. Acted on instinct, the keyblade appeared on Riku's hand and was about to attack. To his surprise, it was Sora and apparently, he wasn't in a good mood. The silverete looked down at the Keyblade Master's right hand. It was the accursed Keyblade: One Winged Angel. Walking past Riku, he could have sworn he heard Sora's command.

"Let's go to the Lunarian Castle."

Riku frowned. Usually when Sora comes to see him, he would be happy and at times for some odd reason, shy. Something's up and Riku decided to heed his orders.

- - -

Kaiba was lying down on his own bed in his own room, staring at the ceiling. He didn't mind the weather though. Just then, Mokuba just came back from his class.

"Hey, big brother, what's up?" the boy asked.

The blue-eyed teen didn't answer. Instead, he got up, took his gunblade and said. "I'll be at the Lunarian Continent. You know how to contact me."

With that, he closed the door leaving Mokuba to wonder what's going on.

- - -

The halls of the Lunarian Castle are quiet, too quiet. Yami, the new ruler of the Lunarian Continent felt something odd. Well, particularly aside from the dark weather they're having. The prince just walked the castle halls until he heard something. Quickly, he ran until he saw the spiky blonde man. He glared at him coldly.

"You? What are you doing here?" Yami growled.

"Aww, can i just have a visit in your lovely palace of yours?" Marik sniggered. Yami glared at him.

"Mah, never mind about those mindless things. Anyway, I came here to beat you up." the spiky blonde grinned at him as dark energy began to charge at his right hand. "Graviga!"

He launched a dark sphere on the prince but Yami quickly jumped out of the way and began muttering a spell. With a flick of his fingers, he quickly launched it but Marik sucked it all up. He grinned widely and cast another Graviga Spell again. One of the Millennium Items glowed and it automatically created a shield. Marik frowned at this and decide to change his tactics. He glared at the prince then he stepped forward. Suddenly, he disappeared. Yami frowned at this. The Millennium Necklace glowed and Yami sidestepped as a red energy ball nearly hit him. At the same time, it was deflected.

"Hey, Your Majesty, don't leave us behind." Riku said, smirking. He and Sora were standing there except that the silverete's weapon was fizzled with smoke.

"Leave you behind? I rather ask you guys how did you find out about this?' Yami said, shrugging.

"One-Winged Angel." Riku replied as he pointed at the weapon Sora had.

Marik brushed off the dust off his clothes and frowned. "So more of those pests are here? I guess I can entertain them."

"I'm afraid not!" Sora said. "Sonic Blade!"

Sora rushed forward as if he was a spear himself. Marik evaded though and blue energy began to gather from his hand. Sora on the other hand, raised his keyblade and made an impact from the ground. The spiky blonde then launched an ice spell on Sora.

"Reflega!" the keyblade Master yelled and a shield suddenly appeared around him as the spell bounce back at Marik. He countered it with a Fire Spell and both of them exploded. The spiky blonde frowned at this.

"Very interesting. You use the same spell as Yugi but just to let you know, his spells are more powerful." Marik said, getting interesting that the fact Sora's spells are similar to Yugi after all.

"Does it matter? The same or not, we use spells whatever we please." Sora said as he relaxed his stance. The Keyblade was glowing immensely.

"Ultimaga!" Marik yelled as the entire field began to rip the very fabric space of time. White particles began to gather around the three of them and then, it exploded. Smoke began to take over the entire castle. The spiky blonde just waited until it dies down. Slowly, the smoke was thinned out and much to his displeasure, a gunblade appeared and nearly slashed him.

"What the?!" Marik growled as the blue-eyed teen destroyed his magic.

"Do you really think that would stop me?" Kaiba said as he pointed his blade at his opponent.

"So all the actors are here, eh?" Marik grinned. "I guess that's where the fun will start then."

- - -

At the rooftop of the castle, Yugi landed on one of the windows of the castle hallway. He saw Marik and was fighting Yami, Sora, Riku, and Kaiba. The spiky-haired teen just smiled at this even Silent Magician saw this.

"You're not going to interfere?" she asked.

"Nah, these guys are strong enough plus..." Yugi replied as he looked at the prince. "It's about time that 'weapon' will arrive at his own hand and also...although he has no idea, he's much stronger than I am."

"Is it because of the ancient power he possess?" Silent Magician asked. Yugi nodded.

"But, when it arrives, I'm afraid that I'll have to interfere plus I'm going to explain them. Just be prepared." Yugi said as his eyes turned silver.

- - -

Back at the castle, Marik was now launching Fire, Ice, and Thunder spells all at once. Riku quickly tried to slash him but Marik stopped it with one finger. Next, Sora tried to attack him but the spiky blonde sidestepped a bit. Kaiba used Rough Divide but the spiky blonde countered it with Protega.

"All of you are boring." Marik yawned. "Meteor!"

Several large rocks began to descend from the sky that it destroyed the rooftop of the palace. Sora and Riku jumped out of the way. Kaiba expertly dodged it. Yami cast Barrier to shield himself from the attack.

"Grand Cross!" Yami yelled as Marik was surround by the center of very large planets. They began to collide at each other and blasted Marik, sending him flying.

"Not yet!" Marik growled. "Energy Bomb!"

A silver energy began to gather at his right hand. He launched it towords the prince but Yami sucked it all up and reflected it beck at the caster. Smoke began to cover the entire hall. Sora and the others got up and stared at the recent blast. Marik was nowhere to be seen. All of them were looking left and right, up and down but still no sign of him. One of the items, the Millennium Ring glowed and its arrows were pointing downward. True to its direction, Marik was down there and he cast Blizzaga on their feet, stopping their movements except Yami who jumped out of the way.

"Energy Bomb!" Marik yelled.

"Apocalypse!" Yami countered.

The two spells began to blast each other. Much to their surprise, a dark weapon suddenly appeared. It's blades were made of pure black and it looked like an angel wing. The two of them stared for a moment then as quick as lightning, they both strecth their hands out.

"Get out of my way!" Marik yelled as he fired a high level thunder spell but Yami didn't flinched which surprised him. So the prince used Holy Cross which sending him flying and finally he laid his hands on the dark weapon. Marik slowly got up and growled. It seems that he was too late as the dark weapon glowed immensely.

"Oooh, do you really think you know how to use it?" Marik grinned at him while Yami frowned.

"I believe he can." said a familiar voice.

All of them looked up and saw Yugi descended from the sky. He furled his white wings and wore a believing smile. On his hand was his staffblade, Fate Guidance was glowing.

"You should what that is by now," Yugi said as he walked forward then kneeled down. "Your Majesty."

".... Destiny Dawn...." Yami muttered while Yugi nodded.

"What did he say? Destiny Dawn? What's that?" Sora asked in confusion.

"The opposite of Fate Guidance...Destiny Dawn....the dark staffblade which has the power of darkness. The power to change destiny." Yugi replied bluntly.

Marik glared at him. "I'll rip that weapon off of your hands!"

"Follow my lead." Yugi said as he placed his two left fingers at the tip of the staffblade. Yami did the same thing. Both of them waited for their opponent to attack. Marik frowned and launced Energy Bomb but both of them deflected it. The next thing he knew, the two teens performed a semi-arc slash then they did the same thing from left to right followed by a surround attack. Marik couldn't even dodged nor did have the time to cast any of his spells. Yugi blasted Marik above while Yami slashed him from below then they did the same routine over and over until Yugi jumped then both of their weapons struck him and send him flying.

"I'll get you for----" Marik growled angrily but Yugi blasted him with Firaja. Marik was about to say something but Yugi kept casting the same spell until he left the castle then he used the same spell again to melt the ice and evaporated the water with the same spell again.

"I must apologize for that bastard. Your Majesty. Now that you have Destiny Dawn. Marik will do anything to get it or if not, he's going to 'make it happen'." Yugi said as he kneeled down before the new ruler.

" 'Make it happen?' " Riku asked skeptically.

"Magical War." Yugi said and most of them flinched.

"What!!! Is he that crazy?! Destroying everything?!" Sora blurted.

"That crazy prick. What does he want?" Kaiba growled.

"Despair. Spread despair." Yugi said.

"Okay, he really is crazy." Riku said.

"Forgive me, this is all my fault." Yugi said which earned a surprised expression from everyone.

"I knew Marik was after me but I never thought he would go that far. The people I've associated with are getting hurt because of me. He's making me feel despair and so are the people all over the continent." he added with a sad expression on his face.

"Don't blame yourself. Everyone makes mistakes...even me!!! The biggest mistake I commited two years ago. That day, I destroyed an entire island just because of the temptation of leaving my island home." Riku said. "But they forgiven me despite the sins I've done. Don't go regretting it as I did."

Yugi closed his eyes and opened it again. "Thanks Riku and Yami, tomorrow, I have to teach you how to use Destiny Dawn."

spiritfire: There you have it! My Christmas present to you all

Yaru: (draws a card) I summon Neo the Magic Swordsman in attack mode (ATK 1700 DEF 1000). Then I placed two cards face down and that's it for my turn.

Yuen: (draws a card) I'm smashing your monster right now! I summon Shadowpriestess of Ohm in attack mode (ATK 1700 DEF 1000). Field Spell card activate: Mystic Plasma Zone. This card increase all Dark Monsters ATK by 500 but in exchange they lose 400 DEF.

Shadowpriestess of Ohm glowed with dark energy as her stats were altered (ATK 2200 DEF 600)

Yuen: Attack Neo the Magic Swordsman with Shadow Blast!

Yaru: Damn! (LP 7500)

Yuen: I set one card facedown and end my turn. This is just the beginning.

spiritfire: Guess it's up to here for a moment then see you all in 2009