Author's note: This is a reminder that any cards highlighted in bold are not actual Yugioh cards.
Chapter 19: Kaiba Land part 4: They who fought amongst the stars
Gohan was now at the Galaxy Theatre of KaibaLand getting ready for his Duel with the mysterious Zigfried Lloyd. Of Yugi's friends in the tournament, it was down to him and Rebecca, who was facing off against the young Leon Wilson. Some time later, in came the pink-haired Duelist.
"So zis is ze little upstart eh?" he began. "I should vorn you, zis is vere your luck runs out."
"We'll just see about that, Zigfried," Gohan responded, handing his Deck to his opponent to shuffle, also receiving his Deck to do likewise. While shuffling, Gohan thought that straight after the Duel he should check on how Yugi and his Saiyan mother were getting along, as ever since Vegeta, he was slightly put off by his father's race.
The announcer revealed the matches between Gohan and Zigfried as well as Rebecca and Leon were about to start. Decks were inserted, Duel disks were activated, and there was a chant from both Gohan and Zigfried of "Let's Duel!"
Gohan took the first move playing his Galick Gun, then his Lesser Mystic Totem of Healing (0/2500) and activating Gather the Lesser Totems to bring out his Lesser Mystic Totem of Defense (0/X), it getting 1000 Defense points. The two were then sacrificed to summon Greater Mystic Totem of the Sanctuary (0/?) which gained 750 Defense points. Graceful Charity was then played, which allowed the drawing of three cards at the cost of discarding two, after which came Scapegoat, giving him four extra monsters. This brought his Totem up to 3750 Defense points. He set a card and ended his turn. Zigfried only played Pot of Greed for two extra cards, setting two.
Gohan drew, and due to his Greater Mystic Totem of the Sanctuary, he gained 3750 Life Points for a total of 7750. The totem gained a Protection Counter as well. He played Token Thanksgiving, ridding the field of his Scapegoats and giving him 2400 Life Points, so he was standing at 12150. Then he played Card of Sanctity, giving him and Zigfried a hand of six cards. After that, he summoned Lesser Mystic Totem of Offense (X/0), which gained 1000 Attack points. At that point, Zigfried activated Loge's Flame, preventing all monsters with 2000 or fewer Attack points from attacking. In response, Gohan sacrificed his Greater Totem to reform his two Lesser Totems, and he sacrificed Lesser Mystic Totem of Offense and Lesser Mystic Totem of Defense to Special Summon Greater Mystic Totem of the Fortress (?/X) which gained 1500 Attack points and 1000 Defense Points. He played his own Pot of Greed, drawing two cards, one of which was Watapon (200/300), and its effect of being Special Summoned when moved from the deck to the hand using a Magic Card put it on the field immediately. Gohan sacrificed it to summon Twin Sister of Light (1500/1500) and, due to that creature's ability, Twin Sister of Darkness (1500/1500) from his Deck as well. His Galick Gun was now at 1750 points, and his Totem at 3000 Attack and 2000 Defense points.
He attacked with his Totem, but Zigfried activated Wotan's Judgement, switching the top card of his Deck with a spell card from his hand and ending the Battle Phase. On his turn, Zigfried played Erda's guidance, setting a trap from his Graveyard at the cost of one spell card. He then played Nibelung's Treasure, gaining five cards and equipping Nibelung's Ring to Gohan's Greater Mystic Totem of the Fortress. The ring stopped the totem's ability to attack. After that came the spell cards Goddess Urd's Verdict, Goddess Verdandi's Guidance and Goddess Skuld's Oracle. The third of those cards was activated, forcing Gohan to show the top three cards of his Deck and rearrange them in any order Zigfried saw fit. The third card was placed on top, and Goddess Verdandi's Guidance was then activated. Zigfried correctly guessed that the top card of Gohan's Deck was a monster; therefore it had to be Set face-down on the field. Goddess Urd's Verdict then allowed its owner to guess the identity of the face-down monster and remove it from the game, and Zigfried correctly guessed Crane School Warrior (1000/500), albeit increasing Gohan's Galick Gun to 2250.
Gohan was forced to draw two cards due to Nibelung's Ring and show them to his opponent. He revealed Emergency Provisions and Omega the Magnet Warrior (2000/1000), the latter of which was a monster and had to be discarded. After gaining 2000 Life Points for a total of 14150, he used Spell Reproduction, sacrificing two of is spells to retrieve one spell from his Graveyard, and he activated it: Pot of Greed, hoping to draw something that could save him. As luck would have it, he drew Mystical Space Typhoon, which was promptly activated to destroy Loge's Flame, allowing his Twin Sister monsters to attack. Then, Monster Reborn was used to bring back Omega, increasing the Galick Gun to 3250 points. Gohan attacked with Omega the Magnet Warrior (2000/1000) but was stopped by the set Wotan's Judgement, which ended the Battle Phase. However, he wasn't done yet, as he fired his Galick Gun, bringing Zigfried down to 750 Life Points.
Zigfried's turn began, with him also playing a Spell Reproduction, then, for a second time, Nibelung's Treasure, drawing five cards, then with its other effect, activating Dark Hole on Gohan's side of the field, destroying all the monsters. Then came Ride of the Valkyries, Special Summoning two Valkyrie Brunnhilde (1800/2000), one Valkyrie Erste (1600/1800) and two Valkyrie Dritte (1000/1600) which gained 100 points for every monster removed from play. This particular Valkyrie gained 200 from the removed Lesser Totems, and 100 from the removed Crane School Warrior, for a total of 1300 Attack points. First to act was Valkyrie Erste, removing Omega in the Graveyard from the grave to bring itself up to the removed monster's Attack points of 2000, attacking with that. Gohan dropped down to 12150 Life Points. Then the two Valkyrie Brunnhildes attacked, bringing him down to 8550. After that came the two Valkyrie Drittes, now at 1400 Attack points each, taking him further down to 5750. Gohan breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that after this, the Valkyries would be gone.
Or so he thought. Zigfried played another card called Mischief of the Time Goddess, skipping the rest of his turn and going directly to the Battle Phase of the next turn. From there, Gohan could see the Valkyries slash the rest of his Life Points away.
"A victory just vosn't in ze stars for you," Zigfried taunted. While Gohan enjoyed the Duel, this person was another story. The sooner he got away from that person, the better. He closed his eyes, and focused on Yugi's energy. Once he found it, he exited the theater and flew off to meet him.
Gohan landed to meet Yugi by a restaurant, running into Joey, Tristan, Tea, Duke and Fasha as well. He was told that Yugi's grandfather was missing from the hospital after injuring himself just after Yugi met his mother. They were paged to go to the main gate and then shown a map which demarcated the restaurant which they were outside.
Gohan concentrated, and found that Solomon's energy was definitely inside the building. As they entered, however, they were greeted with loud bang on a gong, a fireworks display, enough food to fill maybe half of Goku's appetite and the Duelist Vivian Wong. She immediately jumped down upon seeing them, and slowly descended to the floor. The strange part was that Gohan couldn't sense her using any energy.
"Step away from the rope old man!" Fasha called, her hand extended with energy gathering.
"Yes! I'm sorry Fasha!" came the panicked response of Yugi's grandfather, who had apparently been feeding rope. Upon voicing his response, he let go, and Vivian accelerated, crashing into the floor.
"You nimrod! You had one simple job!" she yelled.
"I'm sorry! Give me another-"
"Shut up Solomon." Fasha commanded, energy still gathering in her outstretched hand.
Vivian snapped her fingers, and Solomon banged on the gong again. This time, Fasha fired at that same gong, destroying it. Her blast had just missed the old man.
"Welcome to the real Grand Championship Yugi… where you and I will duke it out for the crown!" Vivian continued, despite the near obliteration of her servant.
Fasha immediately started laughing, while Yugi responded that it was against Kaiba's tournament rules, Tea saying that she had her chance and was cancelled out by Rebecca and Duke saying that only the winner of the tournament got a title shot, she already blew it.
Amid the laughter of Yugi's mother, Vivian stated that she was starting her own tournament, and the first match was Yugi against her. When the son refused, his grandfather told him he was making a mistake, the right thing to do was duel Vivian.
Fasha's laughter immediately stopped. "Bow to me now, old fool!" she boomed, malice evident in her voice.
"Wait a second, why are you doing this?" Yugi questioned
Solomon then explained that Vivian came to him in the hospital and healed him on condition that he helped her. "Had it not been for Vivian I wouldn't be standing here so I owe her a favour!"
"And I owe you a beating!" Fasha stated, cracking her knuckles.
Joey continued to say that he forgot what was important: he forgot the Heart of the Cards, after which Solomon apologized. Whether it was due to true shame, or because Fasha was making motions towards him was a mystery. Knowing that she was pretty much defeated unless she did something, Vivian then injured his back again and demanded a Duel. If Yugi won, then his grandfather would walk. If not, they would go on a date, something which annoyed Tea a lot.
Yugi, transforming into the Pharaoh, said he must accept. Meanwhile, the rest of them began consuming the food. Fasha and Gohan were the biggest consumers there, devouring plate after plate of food. If this Duel wasn't finished soon, there wouldn't be any food left for Yugi unless they bothered the Kaiba Brothers.
The Duel eventually ended in Yugi's favor, after which he told the now sulking Vivian that his grandfather was waiting for her to uphold the end of the bargain. After doing so, Fasha challenged her to a different type of Duel. After all, the area was big enough to be a ring, and she heard that this woman was a master of kung fu, some native fighting style. That meant she had to be a decent fighter.
Vivian and Fasha stood on tables at opposite ends. The two flew at each other, the former getting knocked back across the room. Fasha stood over her opponent, whom had thrust a kick at her stomach. The foot impacted, and a fairly noticeable crack was heard directly afterwards. Vivian lay where she was, with tears in her eyes, as pain had jolted up the foot she used. A moment later, however, her other leg was unleashing a flurry of kicks at Fasha… for about ten seconds, after which that foot was grabbed, and she was thrown to the other side of the restaurant.
"No, no, no, no, no…" Vivian began begging as she found her opponent standing over her, cracking her knuckles, grinning, with an evil glint in her eye.
"NOOOO!" a shout could be heard by people outside of the restaurant along with the sound of crashing amidst feeling violent shockwaves emanating from the same location.