Sorry for not updating. I was hoping I would be able to finish this story before the New Year, but I'm always forgetful, busy, lazy, and all that type of stuff. I just hope this will make it up to you all. Enjoy Chapter 56.

Chapter 56: Against The Dark Millennium King

Yugi stood were he was, staring deeply at the ground in front of him. Yami had defeated him with all his strength and knew he wasn't strong enough to be the pharaoh. Yami kept taking deep breaths, realizing how strong Yugi was. Yami thought if he didn't draw that magic card in time, he would've lost. But still, he was amazed by Yugi's dueling strength, as well as everyone else.

"Guess I'm still not strong enough," laughed Yugi softly.

"Yugi. You fought with amazing power. Although you lost, you still fought with great honor," said Yami, "To tell you the truth, you might be stronger than me. I was thinking this was the end for me, knowing I couldn't beat you."

"But you won pharaoh. Besides, this isn't my strength. This strength came from the darkness of Aeru's Dark Millennium Puzzle," mumbled Yugi, "So in reality, I'm still weak…"

"Yugi. You're not weak. Aeru's Dark Millennium Puzzle had nothing to do with your strength. Your true strength came from inside of you," said Yami.

"Yeah Yug! You fought hard and proud," laughed Joey.

Yugi stared at everyone behind Yami. They were all smiling towards him, glad that they had their Yugi back. Yugi then saw Téa and Téa looked back towards him. They both stared at each other deeply and everyone else couldn't help, but smile towards them, well, everyone except Bakura, Seto, Weevil, and Rex. Some just looked like they didn't care and some of them looked like they were disgusted, but everyone else were happy to see them. Yugi was about to walk towards Téa, but he felt a sharp pain in his chest and kneeled down to the ground, groaning in pain.

Everyone quickly faced towards Yugi and ran towards him, wondering what was going on. They all surrounded him and kneeled next to him, wondering what was wrong him. Yugi was grabbing his own chest towards where his heart was, groaning in agony.

"Yugi! What's wrong," yelled Yami putting his hand on his back.

"My heart….It hurts…so much," whimpered Yugi, "It feels…something is gripping it…so tightly…"

Hahahahahahaha!

"That laugh! It's Aeru's laugh," yelled Joey looking up in the ceiling.

Bravo! Bravo! I didn't expect my dear brother would win in such a duel! Bravo I must say!

"Aeru! Why are you doing to Yugi," yelled Yami towards the ceiling.

Punishing him of course. He lost the duel, but he served his purpose. It's time I put him back in the puzzle.

"You leave Yugi alone Aeru," yelled Tristan.

"We won't let you have him," yelled Téa as she wrapped Yugi with her own arms and held him tightly against her chest, trying to protect him.

"Where are you Aeru?! Show yourself," yelled Seto.

My, my, my. All of you are so protective to Yugi. How cute. If you want to face me you fools, I'll be waiting at the top. This is going to be so exciting, hahahahahaha!

"Come back Aeru! I'm not through with you yet," growled Yami.

Don't worry dear brother. I'm not going anywhere. I'll just be relaxing, counting all the souls I captured as I wait for you.

"Aeru!"

Aeru's voice was soon gone and everyone were gripping their hands tightly. Téa soon felt something odd. She almost felt like something was disappearing and as she looked at Yugi, she saw that he was slowly disappearing.

"Yugi," cried Téa.

Everyone looked towards at Téa and Yugi, and saw that he was slowly fading away. They didn't know what they could do. They tried think of something to save him, but Yugi just gave a small weak laugh.

"Don't waste your time. You know there is no other way, except beat Aeru," mumbled Yugi as he felt the pain go away.

"Man! Were so close, but we can't do anything," growled Duke as he slapped his fist to his hand.

"Come on Yugi! Fight it! Stay with us," yelled Michelle.

"Come on! Come on," yelled Joey.

Everyone else were cheering for him, trying to make him stay longer with them, but Yami knew it was pointless. Yugi was right, in order to save him and the others, they have to beat Aeru and save the world. Yugi looked at everyone and gave a small smile towards them.

"Everyone…thanks…all of you care for me very much…but it's too late…I feel so weak," mumbled Yugi as he nearly completely faded away.

"Yugi…please….please don't go. Please don't leave me cried," cried Téa as she tried to hold him longer and tighter.

"Sorry Téa…but I can't stay any longer," laughed Yugi, "…I don't…got any strength left…"

"Yugi…"

"I'm so sorry Téa…for everything. I'm sorry for hurting you…"

"It wasn't your fault…just please…don't go!"

"Téa…"

Everyone stared sadly towards Yugi and Téa tried to hold him, but she began to felt nothing and saw Yugi disappearing, only living a small sad smile behind. Téa dropped her hands to the ground and stared deeply at the ground, her tears falling to the ground. Everyone looked away in deep sadness, heck, even Bakura felt kind of sad. Mostly he would laugh at this kind of thing, but right now, he felt incredible angry. Yami grinded his teeth together and stared at the blue crystal that stood in front of them.

"His going to pay for everything," yelled Yami as he ran towards the blue floating crystal.

"Pharaoh! Wait for us," said Ishizu calling for Yami.

"Were coming too," yelled Marik.

Everyone chased after Yami and soon disappeared as they came in contact with the blue crystal. Michelle and Mai stood behind as they tried to help the poor brunette. But before anything could happen, two figures showed up behind him. Mai saw the two mysterious duelist and activated her duel-disk, preparing to fight against the intruders as Michelle tried to protect Téa, but the two females were amazed when they saw the faces of the figures.

"It's you two," yelled Mai in total surprise, "But I thought…"

"Nope. Were back," grinned the first figure.

"This time, in full strength," laughed the second figure.

Everyone tried catching up towards Yami, but he was moving to fast. They tried calling out to him to slow down, but Yami wasn't paying attention. He was focused on Aeru and planning to set everyone free he captured. He was going to pay for everything he every done and he was going to make it slow and painful for him. Yami finally reached a huge stone door in front of him. Everyone quickly caught up to him catching their breath, and soon, everyone was looking at the stone door in front of them.

"Whoa, that's one huge ass door," yelled Joey amazed looking at the door from bottom to top.

"This is the battle between the pharaoh and his brother," gasped Ishizu amazed, "I have never seen this tablet in my entire life!"

On the right side of the stone door was drawing figure of the pharaoh with his Millennium Puzzle around his next and holding a sword pointed towards the other side of the door. Above him were the three Egyptian God Cards surrounding the puzzle, Obelisk The Tormentor on the right side of the puzzle, Slifer The Sky Dragon above, and Winged Dragon of Ra on the left. Behind the pharaoh were monster figures of the Dark Magician and Dark Magician Girl. Everything else surrounding the tablet was Egyptian hieroglyphics. On the other side of the stone tablet door was an exact figure of the pharaoh who also wield the Millennium Puzzle, but it seemed to be colored in a special black color and it was seemed to be designed differently compared to the pharaoh's original puzzle. Curving sparks were attached to the side of the upside pyramid and the eye symbol looked like a snake's eye in a way. Above the twin pharaoh was the Dark Millennium Puzzle and with the three Dark Egyptian God Cards surrounding it. God Wadjet-Leviathan Sea Serpent was on top of the puzzle, God Geb-Golem the Titan on the right side of the puzzle, and God Shu-Bahamut King of Dragons on the left side of the puzzle. Behind the twin were two figure monsters, Terrorking Archfiend. The second monster was something Yami had never seen before and also it looked like part of the tablet was rotting away.

"I think we admired this piece of giant rock too long," grumbled Seto, "It's either we go in or continuing watching a rock do nothing."

"You need to learn to take a chill pill rich boy," snot Joey.

"Let's just go through and stop this ok boys," pleaded Michelle sounding annoyed.

"I agree with her. We have no time to bicker at each other," said Ishizu.

"This is it. We've come this far. There is no way were turning back now," said Duke.

"I wasn't even planning on turning back anyways," grinned Joey.

"Everyone…are you ready," asked Yami.

One by one, everyone nodded their head in approve. Duke was right, there was no way they weren't going to turn back now after what they've been through and also the lives Aeru took away. Joey's sister Serenity, Rafael, Valon, Alister, Mikey, Vince, Yugi, everyone. Yami took a deep breath and pressed his hands against the stone door. The door slowly began to open and when it was wide enough, everyone began to walk through it. Once they got through, they entered a huge room filled with lit torches everywhere. Pillars were everywhere and the walls looked like they were decorated with Egyptian pictures, like it was some kind of throne room. Yami soon noticed a figure on the other side of the room sitting down on a large king chair, hiding in the darkness. Yami gave a small glare knowing who was probably sitting on that chair relaxed.

"Glad you could come dear brother of mine," laughed Aeru.

"Aeru! You're going to pay for everything you have done," yelled Yami.

"I beat you once, spared your life, and took Yugi away from you. This time, I'm going to beat you again, make sure you have a slow and painful death, and take everyone's lives you hold dear to you," laughed Aeru.

"You are so goin' pay for takin' my sis's life Aeru," snapped Joey.

"She served her purpose, I no longer need a weakling like her in my plan," grinned Aeru.

"What you said," yelled Joey even more furious.

Just then, there was a huge windstorm in the room, and everyone started to panic. Everyone was wondering if Aeru was doing this, but it seemed Aeru had nothing to do with it. As the windstorm calmed down, everyone gave a fearful look as they saw a familiar figure blocking their path to Aeru.

"It's evil Dartz," yelled Joey.

"But I thought he was dueling with that other guy that looked just like him," yelled Mako as he pointed his finger towards the sky-blue haired male.

"Huff…I never…puff…knew my light…huff…was that strong," gasped Dark Dartz as he grabbing for air.

"Come back here foul demon," yelled the good Dartz as he came into the room.

"Dartz," said Yami amazed.

"Hello dear friend," smiled Dartz as he reached to the pharaoh's side.

"What happened," asked Yami.

"Well, I was dueling that darkness of mine and when I was so close on defeating him, the coward fled away," yelled Dartz, "However, I was knocked out for no reason at all."

"You don't know how hard it is to climb this tower when you're crawling," asked Dark Dartz gasping for air.

"Well I'll defeat you right now, right here," growled Light Dartz.

"That won't be necessary," said Aeru.

Everyone focused their sight towards Aeru who seemed to be slowly getting up from his chair. He began to walk down the huge stairs towards Dark Dartz who seemed to be in fear as Aeru walked closer to him.

"A-Aeru," gasped Dark Dartz, "Let me finish them all and we can continue our plan."

"Who is this 'we' Dartz," said Aeru in a dark voice as he was only inches away from Dark Dartz.

"W-What," asked Dartz in confusion.

"Your shadow minions failed me and were defeated by the originals, you lost to the pharaoh, now you lost against your light," said Aeru, "Give me one good reason why I shouldn't send you back to the World of Darkness."

"W-Well-"

"Time's up. You served your purpose as well Dartz," yelled Aeru.

Aeru jabbed his hand at Dartz's chest and Dartz began to scream in agony. Everyone covered their eyes, disliking the scene of what Aeru was doing. Dartz began to disappear into dark mist and was slowly being absorbed by the Dark Millennium Puzzle. Once it was over, everyone re-opened their eyes to see Aeru without Dartz.

"What just happened," asked Tristan.

"He was sent to the World of Darkness," said Aeru, "Or in other words, the Neo-Shadow Realm. Much more worse than the first Shadow Realm. I had no further use of him."

"Well, at least my job was taken care of for me," blinked the good Dartz.

"Now, shall we begin," grinned Aeru.

"Not really," said a new voice.

Yami and the group turned around to see Mai, Tea, Mikey, and Vince standing in the doorway. Everyone gave a small bright smile towards them, especially towards Mikey and Vince because Yami thought they were sent to the Neo-Shadow Realm when he and Bakura defeated them.

"Mikey! Vince! I thought you two were-"

"We were Yami," grinned Mikey, "But we got a second chance."

"How did you manage to get out of the Neo-Shadow Realm," asked Joey.

"From a special friend," smiled Vince.

:Flashback:

"I'm guessing were at the place where I think we are," asked Mikey quietly as he and Vince were floating in the darkness.

"The World of Darkness," mumbled Vince.

"I guess we can't ask for one more chance to fix our mistakes?"

"Guess not…"

Soon, Mikey and Vince heard demonic screams and saw millions of monsters were heading towards them. Mikey and Vince knew it was pointless to fight them since they are in their world. Even if they did try to fight back, what would they use? As Mikey and Vince began accepting their fate and the monsters were heading towards, all of a sudden, there was a huge bright light between them. The creatures screamed towards the light and fled away, leaving Mikey and Vince alone with the light. They saw a figure's hand stretching towards them and by their guess, it seemed the figure was trying to take them somewhere.

"Do you think were going there," asked Mikey.

"How the hell should I know," yelled Vince, "But I'm with the white bright light then over here."

"I'm with you," laughed Mikey.

As Mikey and Vince reached towards the light, there was yet again another bright light and soon, Mikey woke up breathing hard. He was gasping for air and realized he was in the dueling room. He rubbed his forehead trying to remember what happened and saw Vince waking up as well.

"What happened," groaned Vince as he rubbed his face with his hands.

"I don't know, but it seems were back where we dueled the pharaoh and Bakura," said Mikey as he slowly got up, rubbing his forehead at the same time.

"So, were out of the World of Darkness," asked Vince as he also got up on his two feet.

"Guess so."

"So who was that person that just saved us?"

"I don't know, but when I woke up, I saw Luna. I also saw the truth," growled Mikey as he reached the last word.

"Same here," mumbled Vince.

"I should've guessed it. I should've seen it at the beginning," yelled Mikey as he slammed his fist against the wall.

"He's going to pay for everything Mikey. Will make sure of that," said Vince.

Mikey nodded and saw his duel-disk was still attached to his arm, same with Vince. They stared at each other and nodded their heads in agreement. Soon, they ran towards the blue crystal as they headed up at the top of the tower.

:End of Flashback:

"Impressive. I never thought anybody would be able to leave the World of Darkness," laughed Aeru.

"Shut your pie hole," yelled Mikey.

"Pie hole," asked Vince.

"It's the only thing I can think of," smiled Mikey.

Aeru remained silent as he stared towards Mikey and Vince sounding annoyed by their attitudes towards him.

"Don't give me that kind of tone you two. Get rid of the pharaoh," ordered Aeru.

"We refuse," said Mikey calmly.

"You do realize you're about to screw up your chance on bringing back Luna and Vince's family right," said Aeru crossing his arms.

"Not really, knowing you caused it all," yelled Mikey.

"Heh, so you finally realized it," grinned Aeru.

"You were after us the whole time and the only way to get our attention was to take the lives of others," yelled Vince.

"Heh, took you long enough to see it," laughed Aeru.

"You mean, Aeru took Luna's life as well as Vince's family," asked Marik.

"It was so easy knowing I just had to get rid of some people," smiled Aeru.

:Flashback:

"Will be back soon ok," smiled Mrs. Phil as she waved to Vince, Mikey, and Luna as she and other family members of Vince left.

20 minutes later…

The Phil's were just heading on their way home from the hospital with their two boys sleeping silently in the car. Mrs. Phil gave a small smile as she stared deeply at her two little boys.

"Aren't they just little angels," smiled Mrs. Phil.

"Yeah, if you call two little kids striking a doctor down an angel," laughed Mr. Phil.

Just then, a figure appeared in the middle the road and Mr. Phil quickly made a sharp turn, avoiding to hit the person. As he and his wife turned their heads around, they saw the figure was gone.

"What was that in the road earlier," yelled Mr. Phil.

"I dunno, but did we hit him," asked Mrs. Phil getting scared.

As Mrs. Phil turned her head back in the road, she quickly yelled out her husband's name. As Mr. Phil brought his head back towards the road, he saw two huge lights in front of them that was honking loudly in front of them. Mr. Phil tried to turn the car, but it was too late, the huge vehicle in front of them collided with them, instantly crushing the car.

:End of Flashback:

"You see, your family didn't die from a drunk driver," laughed Aeru, "I was in the middle of the road that caused them to turn to the opposite of the road, making the truck collide with them."

"What about the cops that were in my front door on that night," asked Vince, his tone getting angrier.

"I'm a 5000 year old Egyptian that happens to know dark magic. Does that answer your question," laughed Aeru.

"Then what about Luna's death then," yelled Mikey.

"Heh, you want the truth? Very well then," grinned Aeru.

:Flashback:

"Hey, Lunie, I'll be heading outside for a little while ok," said Mikey putting on his winter coat.

"Aw. Do you have to go," pleaded Luna, "Stay here with me…"

"I wish I could, but I need to get something from the store, I promise I'll be back soon," smiled Mikey. Luna complained, but smiled back. She gave him a small peak on the lips and wrapped her arms around his neck.

"Don't be gone too lone mister. I want you home as soon as possible," purred Luna. Mikey blushed bright and kissed her forehead and left the hotel.

After a while, there was a small knock on the door and Luna quickly ran up to the door and peaked through the hole. She was hoping it was Mikey, but to her surprise, nobody was there.

"Hm, that's weird," said Luna to herself, "I thought somebody was there."

As Luna turned around, a dark figure pinned her against the door with great strength. Luna tried to fight back, but the figure was too strong and she tried to scream, but the stranger covered her mouth with his hand. Luna was crying in tears, scared of what was going to happen to her and she felt herself losing her breath slowly. Everything was slowly going black and Luna felt like she disappearing from the world. She fell unconscious and the figure caught her with a huge grin on his face. He dropped her to the ground and his right hand began to give a fiery red glow that was taking form of a ball. He threw the fireball somewhere and the place began to burn in flames. The figure then turned his back to Luna and simply walked through the door, leaving the burning place.

:End of Flashback:

"When you left, I went to your little girlfriend's place and I just simply knocked her out," laughed Aeru, "After that, I just burnt the place down. Was that ok?"

"You killed Vince's family and took the love of my life away from me," yelled Mikey, "I will forgive you! I will break your bones into dust!"

Mikey activated his duel-disk along with Vince and both placed a card on the device. Mikey placed Earth-The Third Planet Knight while Vince summoned Sora on his side of the field. Aeru gave a small grin as he summoned Terrorking Archfiend next to him and stood his ground as he stared at his two ex-henchmen.

"You are so going down Aeru," yelled Mikey, "Earth! Attack his monster now!"

"You too Sora! Bring down his pathetic monster," ordered Vince.

Both Sora and Earth dashed towards Terrorking Archfiend with both of their swords. Terrorking brought out his huge black sword and headed towards both of his opponents.

Sora swung his keyblade at the fiend, but Aeru's monster quickly blocked it with his own sword. Earth then swooped down pointing his blade towards Terrorking, but it quickly pushed himself back, avoiding the attacking in time.

"Impressive you two," grinned Aeru, "That's why both of you are my top commanders of the Dark Force."

"Ex-commanders more like it," snapped Mikey.

"Let's finish this now! I summon Donald and Goofy to the field and play, Trinity Limit Break," yelled Vince as he placed the cards in his duel-disk.

Trinity Limit Break

(Continuous Spell)

This card can only be activated if you have Sora, Donald, and Goofy on your side of the field. Every time you end your turn and this card along with the three monsters are on your side of the field, destroy all monsters on your side of the field.

"Now it's my turn! I also play a spell card, Planet Aligned," yelled Mikey.

Planet Aligned

(Spell Card)

This card can only be activated if you have at least one planet knight on the field. Remove one planet monster from your side of the field and summon each and every planet monster you have in your deck from lowest star level to highest star level. Each planet monster instantly destroys every monster your opponent has on his/her side of the field. If no monsters exist on the field, they can attack your opponent's life points directly. No battle damage is applied and all monster effects from controller and opponent are negated.

"I give up Earth in order to summon the nine planet knights of the Solar System," yelled Mikey, "Mercury! Venus! Earth! Mars! Jupiter! Saturn! Uranus! Neptune! And Pluto! First attack, go Mercury! Destroy his Terrorking!"

Mercury was the first to attack and slashed through Terrorking. After the attack, both monsters disappeared and Aeru began to grind his teeth together in anger. Mikey replied with huge grin across his face and yelled out another attack.

"Second attack, go Venus!"

Venus dashed towards Aeru and slashed across him. Aeru groaned in pain and Mikey called out another attack.

"Third attack, go Earth!"

"Fourth attack, go Mars!"

One after another, every planet monster Mikey called launched an attack on Aeru. Jupiter came and attacked, then Saturn, next came Uranus, after that, Neptune, and then it finally reached to the last planet knight.

"Ninth attack, go Pluto!"

Pluto ran towards Aeru and jabbed his sword at Aeru's chest. Aeru's eyes were wide and tried to bite his lip to fight the pain running all over his body. Pluto soon pulled it out and disappeared into dust. After that, Vince gave a huge smile knowing this was going to be over.

"Sora! Donald! Goofy! Finish this with Trinity Limit Break," ordered Vince.

Sora, Donald, and Goofy all nodded towards each other in agreement and placed their weapons together as they pointed them up in the air. There was huge white light coming from the joined weapons and soon, that white light covered everything up. As soon as the light died out, Aeru was kneeling on the ground, staring deep at the ground, his hair covering his eyes. Mikey and Vince punched their fist together in victory with a huge smile on their face.

"Whoa. That was awesome," laughed Joey.

"It's not over yet," mumbled Yami.

"Huh," asked everyone.

"Aeru won't go down that easier…I've learned that from the hard way the last time I dueled him," growled Yami.

Everyone stared deeply at Aeru, waiting to see what was going to happen next. So far, nothing happened, but eventually there was a small laugh. After a while, the laugh got louder and louder, making an echo across the room. Aeru slowly got up, a huge evil grin across his face with huge evil looking eyes.

"That was kind of ticklish, hahahaha," laughed Aeru, "But I hate to say that was quite impressive. But it's not over yet you pathetic little fools."

Behind Aeru was a huge black mist that formed into a black armored creature holding two black swords, one at each hand. It was hard to describe the beast, all you could see was the huge pale yellow eyes, giving a blankly stare at the two ex-commanders of the Dark Force. Mikey and Vince gave a small surprised look on their face, but quickly changed it to their serious face. Yami however gave a fearful look. Something about that creature made Yami, scared. Also, he knew he saw that monster somewhere, he just couldn't think of where.

"What kind of the creature is that Aeru," yelled Mikey.

"Why, this is my favorite monster, I call it, Chaos the Terror of Disaster," grinned Aeru.

"Chaos," asked Mikey in confusion.

"I don't like the look of things buddy," mumbled Vince.

"You afraid? You should be! Chaos! Destroy them," yelled Aeru.

Chaos disappeared in an instant and both duelist, Vince and Mikey, tried to find out where the creature went. Soon, Chaos reappeared in front of Vince. Vince saw the creature, but was too slow to call an attack, when Chaos swung his huge swords at him. Vince was blown away with great force and crashed hard onto the ground, causing him to go in a deep unconscious state.

"Vince! Vince," yelled Mikey trying to wake up his friend, but got no response. Soon, Mikey froze as he felt something close behind him. He slowly turned his head to see the black mist creature staring deeply at him and all he could hear was Aeru's laugh.

"Mikey, there are two rules I want to tell you," grinned Aeru evilly, "The first one is never turn your back on an enemy!"

Chaos swung both of his blades at Mikey, sending him flying straight into the wall with a powerful force. Mikey screamed in agony as he crashed into the wall and as he fell hard on the ground, landing on his face.

"Mikey! Are you alright," yelled Yami worried.

"Well what do you think," mumbled Mikey under his breath as he tried to fight pain.

"Second rule: Don't mess with me. I always win," laughed Aeru as Chaos reappeared next to his master's side, staring at everyone else with its yellow eyes.

"That's it! You've gone too far Aeru! It's time I end this duel once and for all," yelled Yami as he moved forward and activated his duel-disk.

"Remember dear brother, the fate of the world lies on your shoulders…as well as your dearly beloved friends," laughed Aeru.

"You may have beaten me once, but I will not lose twice," yelled back Yami.

"That's because I'm helping Yugi," mumbled Seto as he moved forward next to Yami. Yami gave a surprised look towards the CEO and Seto continued, "He brought Dartz back, who I really hate the most, messed with my company, took my brother away, and also kidnapped Michelle! I will not stand for this!"

"Kaiba…"

"Same here pharaoh," grinned Joey.

"Joey," gasped Yami in surprised.

"He messed with us and took special people we care about," yelled Joey, "Especially my Serenity. Nobody messes with my sis or else I'll pound them, ya hear that Aeru?!"

"So three of you will be facing me," grinned Aeru, "I say this will be a challenge!"

"Make that four," yelled Marik stepping in.

"Brother," gasped Ishizu.

"Master Marik," gasped Odion as well.

"The pharaoh needs us and I plan to help any possible way! I want to make my sins vanish in anyway possible and the only way is helping the pharaoh," replied Marik.

"Marik…thank you," smiled Yami slowly nodding his head to the Egyptian.

"Excuse me, but make that five," laughed Bakura evilly. Everyone gave confused looks towards the white haired male and Bakura continued, "Honestly, I would join you Aeru. But you see, this world isn't big enough for two villains to cause mayhem and destruction. Also, I'm the only villain around here and that should stay like that!"

"Bakura," gasped Yami in shock.

"I'm not doing this to save the world. I'm doing this because I want that evil-wanna-be dead," laughed Bakura.

Aeru raised an eyebrow, but then gave a small laugh under his breath. It took him a while to realize who was fighting him. He gave each of the five duelists an evil grin and began to speak again.

"I see it now. You are the five duelists I wanted to destroy at the beginning…as well as the one who took my knight cards of the world," laughed Aeru, "I must say this will now be a fair fight, hahahahahaha!"

"Fair fight? You think 5 vs. 1 is fair," asked Joey in confusion.

"Just remember this, when I was fighting against my brother, I was dueling with kitty gloves on," grinned Aeru, "But this time, I'm fighting with full power and with a new deck!"

"A new deck," asked Duke.

"I wonder what it'll be," asked Tristan.

"I just hope they'll win and end this," said Tea.

"Before we begin…I like to dress myself up," grinned Aeru.

Aeru raised his arms up towards the sky, as if he giving himself up to something. Soon, a huge dark mist began to spread around Aeru and began to take form of a black tornado with Aeru inside of it. Something soon began to spread across Aeru's body and was taking form of some kind of item. As the tornado vanished, Aeru was different from before now. He wore the Dark Millennium Necklace, Key, and Ring around his neck with his Dark Millennium Puzzle, the Dark Millennium Scale and Rod were being held around his belt at the side of his waist, and his left eye was replaced with the Dark Millennium Eye. Everyone gave shocked looks while Aeru gave a dark manic laugh.

"Every Dark Millennium Item has merged with me, making me stronger now! The darkness runs through my veins," laughed Aeru, "From here on now, just call me your Dark Millennium King! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

"Ready everyone," yelled Yami.

"Wait pharaoh," yelled Light Dartz.

The five duelists turned their heads towards the good Dartz who walked towards Seto, Joey, and Yami and gave each of them a card. The three duelists examied the card and then stared back at Dartz with confusion.

"Really," asked Joey, "Your giving us the legendary knights?"

"Of course. You three need it more than ever in this fight," smiled Dartz, "And this time they're fighting in full strength."

Yami, Joey, and Seto took back their cards and placed them inside their deck. They nodded towards each other and faced back towards Aeru who was grinning evilly at them. Yami took a deep breath and placed his hand on top of his deck ready to draw his cards.

"Ready everyone," asked Yami repeating himself.

"Ready," yelled back the other duelists.

"Then let's duel," yelled Yami.

To be continued…

Next Episode: Final Duel Against The Dark

Hopefully this time, I'll work even harder since the ending is very near and all of you are really excited to know what will happen next. It's five against 1, Bakura, Marik, Seto, Joey, and Yami against Aeru the Dark Millennium King. Will they succeed or will they fall? Find out in the next chapter of Yu-Gi-Oh! Rise of the Gods and Dark Force!