Chapter 41

Yugi found himself almost laughing in shock when Kaiba's favoured Blue Eyes White Dragon appeared on the redhead's side on the field. It was an unbelievable impossibility for anyone, other than her opponent, to be playing that card. After all, he was the owner of the only three working Blue Eyes in existence. The fact she could play it was irrelevant, all Yugi really cared about was how the hell she had it in her deck to begin with. His eyes darted towards Tristan, the look of horror on his face said it all.

'But… but… but… how?'

'I'm a dreamer,' her voice was filled with an amused calm, 'and this is a dream deck.'

'But… I don't understand; why Blue Eyes?'

'Anything's possible in a dream. You're best friend can become your worst enemy or even your murderer in a dream. It doesn't mean they are or even that they ever will be. A dream isn't reality, so I can play your Blue Eyes and I can beat you with it. Speaking of which, I think it's about time I cleared the field of you Guardian Angel Joan.' Her gaze calmly focused on him. 'Your Sanctuary in the Sky may prevent you from getting any battle damage from my attack, but at least it'll be no threat to me. Go Blue Eyes, Neutron Blast Attack.'

Yugi watched as the redhead's Blue Eyes raised its head and aimed a blast of white light at Tristan's Angel Joan. It was nuts, with only nine hundred life points remaining she'd somehow managed to summon one of the games strongest monsters to the field. All she needed to do now was find a way to get rid of Tristan's field card and she could bring his life points down to zero in a matter of turns.

'I end,' a small smile filled her face as Guardian Angel Joan disappeared.

For a few moments, Tristan just stood there in shock. Then, shaking his head and visibly gritting his teeth, he drew the top card from his deck.

'I lay two more cards face down and end my turn.'

'Good. Draw,' she swiftly drew the top card from her deck. 'Time to say goodbye to your field card,' she slotted a card into her dueldisk, 'I activate Dust Tornado.'

A whirlwind stormed across the field, destroying Sanctuary in the Sky.

'Looks like your life points are wide open now,' she laughed. 'Well, to taking damage at least. Blue Eyes attack his first Fairy Dragon.'

Doing as it was told, her monster shot another beam of white light across the field, this time hitting one of Tristan's Fairy Dragons and knocking his life points down to eight thousand.

'I end.'

'Fine,' he angrily swiping the top card from his deck, 'I start off by playing Shallow Grave,' one of his three face downs activated, 'this allows us to summon back one monster from our graveyards and play it in face down defence.'

'Helping me out now, are we?' She smirked as a face down card appeared on both sides of the field.

'Hardly,' Tristan rolled his eyes. 'Next I switch my Fairy Dragon into defence mode, lay another face down and end my turn.'

'Looks like I get to draw again,' she slid the top card off her deck. 'Nothing I can use right now, but oh well, time to blast your other Fairy Dragon I think, Blue Eyes, White Lighting attack!'

'Not so fast,' Tristan held out his right arm as a disk of light flew towards Blue Eyes and encircled it, 'I'm playing Spellbinding Circle.'

'Whatever,' she shrugged, 'I'm sure I'll be able to free my monster soon enough. But until then, I end my turn.'

'Draw.'

Kaiba let out a deep sigh of relief as he looked down at the card he'd just drawn; his third Fairy Dragon. If she thought she had the upper hand in this little duel, she was about to be proven very, very wrong. Just because she could play a Blue Eyes didn't mean she had the first idea how to use it.

'It's time for you to meet a little friend of mine known as Fairy Dragon of the Way,' he smirked as he activated his face down Polymerisation card. 'All I have to do is fuse together the two Fairy Dragons I have on the field with the one in my hand.'

As he spoke a swirl of lights appeared on the field and a waist height, three headed Fairy Dragon materialised before him.

'Might have known you used Shallow Grave to bring back your other Fairy Dragon,' the girl laughed. 'After all, a good duellist like you always knows his game.'

'Whatever,' he rolled his eyes. 'Its time to say goodbye to the rest of your life points, because with an attack strength of four thousand it looks like this duel is over.'

As his Fairy Dragon's attack connected with the redhead's Blue Eyes and her side of the field became enveloped in a cloud of dust, he couldn't help but feel smugly satisfied. There were two things he hated more than anything; losing to a clearly inferior opponent and watching anyone but him using his Blue Eyes. If given the choice he would always chose to destroy his favourite monster rather than let it destroy him.

'Did you really think that would be enough to take me out Kaiba?' The redhead gave a dark sounding chuckle as the smoke cleared from her side of the field revealing that her life points hadn't decreased.

'What the…?'

'The card I drew last turn was Kuriboh, by discarding it from my hand I reduced my battle damage to zero and thus saved my life points, yet again,' an almost shark-like grin filled her face. 'Looks like I'm still in this, huh?'

'Whatever,' he tried to keep his cool, 'I end my turn.'

'Good, my draw now,' her eyes glinted with excitement as she stared down at the card in her hand. 'Well what do you know; it's another Pot of Greed, that makes three now, lucky me, huh?' Quickly she activated the card and drew two more from her deck. 'Oh how interesting; looks like you're not the only one with the ability to fuse a monster. I use Polymerisation to fuse the Masked Dragon I have face down on the Field with the Shadow Ghoul I've just drawn, in order to create Graveyard Masked Dragon.'

'What,' Kaiba took a step back, 'there's no such thing.'

'Oh, yes there is. Well there is now,' her whole face looked almost devilish as the ghoul like dragon, with twenty six hundred attack points, appeared on the field before her. 'This is a dream deck remember? And I'm about to change the rules of the game,' as she spoke her monsters attack rose to three thousand nine hundred.

'What just happened?'

'My monster is a fusion of Shadow Ghoul and Masked Dragon, remember? So it gets a power boost from every monster in my graveyard. On top of that, every time it's destroyed as a result of battle, I get to summon it back to the field with an additional two hundred attack points. Pretty sweet, huh?' She laughed in a way which made Kaiba's skin crawl. 'Well it's too weak to destroy your Fairy Dragon now, so I'll wait till next turn to attack.'

'Who said there was going to be a next turn?'

'Oh there will be a next turn, you mark my words,' her eyes widened with dark excitement. 'But, for now at least, I end my turn.'