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The sands rage and the storms blow! The burning desert stirs from its slumber! Synchro Summon! Come forth, Setesh the Dragon of the Red Sand (10/3200/2700)!

When the sandstorm died down it revealed a large red dragon who's head was shaped like the Egyptian Set animal, it had broad thin wings and a fork tail. It let out a a deafening roar making the entire building shake.

"3200 attack points!" Akira stepped back in shock "What the hell is that dragon!"

"It gets worse too because I activate Setesh's ability!" Lester said as a red aura surrounded him "By paying 200 life points times one of your monsters level, that monster loses attack points equal to the amount I payed." Lester pointed at Reborn Tengu "Reborn Tengu's level is 4, so I pay 800 life points for him to lose 800." A crimson red sandstorm attacked the samurai tengu relentlessly as he lost power (1700-1100)

Akira: 3400
Lester: 850

"Setesh, destroy Reborn Tengu with Sands of Destruction!" Setesh fired a crimson red beam at the tengu, destroying it with little effort and causing Akira to skid across the floor due to the shock wave it produced.

Akira: 1100
Lester: 850

Akira struggled to get up while Lester set his final card "This is going to be tough, none of the monsters I have will be able to destroy that thing. I gotta think of something fast, or I'm done for."

Ch.37 Clash of the Elements; The Dark Nightmare

Ritsu and the others made it to the upper floors when the entire building stared to shake, everyone was trying to keep their balance.

"Whoa this are getting intense down there." Terra said

Nami had a worried look on her face "Please be safe." She then felt a hand on her shoulder, she turned to see Ritsu there

"Don't worry, Akira will win." Ritsu reassured

"I know, I just can't help but worry." Nami said

"It sounds like someone has a crush." Kuraki joked causing Nami to blush and turn away.

"Well anyways, let's get going!" Kurogasa yelled as they were heading towards another set of stairs

"That's as far as you go!" They heard a female voice behind them, they turned to see Melody standing there with her duel disk ready.

"Who are you?" Satoshi asked

"My name is Melody Reinhold." Melody introduced herself "I am here to test the User of Shadows."

"Ritsu, get going. You have to make it to the top floor where Yuzuki is." Krad whispered to him

"Are you sure Krad? What about your darkness?" Ritsu asked as Keira put a hand on his shoulder

"Don't worry, I'll be with him when he duels. You just have to focus getting to the top floor." Keira said

Ritsu nodded "Good luck Krad. Let's go!" Ritsu and the other went up the stairs leaving Krad, Keira and Melody in the room

Krad activated his duel disk "Whenever your ready!" Both of them drew their opening hands

Krad/Melody: Duel!

Krad: 4000
Melody: 4000

"If you think you have the advantage over me because you have a powerful monster." Akira drew his card "Then think again! First off since my tengu left the field, I'm allowed to replace him with the final one in my deck!" The final tengu appeared "Next I activate the spell card Soul Exchange! Here's the deal, I select a monster on your side of the field and I'm allowed to use that monster for a sacrifice and what better monster to use it on that Setesh!" A white aura appeared around Setesh "So now I sacrifice Setesh in order to summon Raiza The Storm Monarch (6/2400/1000)!" A wind sphere appeared on the field it revealed a man in light green armor and a dark green cape

"Damn." Lester gritted his teeth

"Well it gets worse. Whenever Raiza is normal summoned, one card on the field is returned to the top of the deck. Care to guess which one?" Raiza sent a typhoon towards Lester's face down "Luckily for you I can't attack since I used Soul Exchange, so I'll end my turn. Your move, and if I'm correct, the card I put on the top of your deck was a trap card that needed Setesh to be on the field."

Lester growled as he drew his card "Just go."

Akira drew his card "Raiza! End this!" Raiza sent a typhoon towards Lester, taking out his remaining life points

Akira: 1100: Winner
Lester: 0

"I can't believe I lost." Lester said as he fell to his knees. He looked up and saw Akira with his hand out

"That was a good match." Akira said with a smile "Even though you lost, you still gave it your all."

"Your right." Lester got up "Akira Tanguchi, I was my mission to test you, and you passed."

Melody could sense that Lester's duel reached it's conclusion

"So Lester was defeated." Melody said

"Wait then that means Akira won." Keira said

"Thank goodness." Krad said in relief and turned to Melody "Let's start now. You can have the first turn."

"Thank you. I draw!" Melody drew her sixth card "I activate the spell card Double Summon in order to summon twice, and I'll start with Dark Grepher (4/1700/1600) in attack mode!" A warrior appeared on the field. His skin was grey, he had white hair and had glowing red eyes "And then I'll summon Dark Valkyria (4/1800/1050) also in attack mode!" A beautiful woman appeared on the field wearing what seemed to be silverish grey wings and a pruple outfit, she had an evil smile that sent chills down Krad's spine. "I'll set two cards face down and end my turn." Two reverse cards appeared

"My move I draw!" Krad hesitated a bit, but still drew his card "I summon Dark Knight Swordmaster Zehaal (4/1800/500) in attack mode!" Krad's dark swordsman appeared on the field "The Dark Knights don't like to be all alone, so their special ability let's me special summon another Dark Knight monster, so long as it's level is different from the one on the field. Come on out Dark Knight Lancer - Legato (6/2600/900)!"

"Two monsters already." Melody looked at his field

"Now I atta-" Krad was cut off by a loud screeching noise "What the hell!"

"You triggered my Threatening Roar trap, forcing you to skip your battle phase." Melody said

"Damn it, I end my turn." Krad gritted his teeth "What am I so afriad of?"

"My turn." Melody drew her next card "Say Yubel, want to come out and play?"

Melody's duel spirit appeared behind her "Why not?"

"I sacrifice my Dark Grepher and my Dark Valkyria!" Dark Grepher and Valkyria disappeared in a cloud of smoke. "So that I can summon Yubel (10/0/0) in attack mode." Out of the dark smoke came a female demon about as tall as Melody with what looked to be silver and blue hair, she had demon wings on her back and a third eye on her forehead...wait third eye?

"0 attack points?" Krad was in shock at how low Yubel's attack points were when Belial appeared beside him

"Krad use caution. She must have a special ability." Belial said

"That's right, and why don't I show it to you! Yubel, attack Zehaal!" Yubel jumped towards Zehaal who readied his sword.

"Are you kidding me, your going to take 1800 points of damage!" Krad yelled causing Melody to smile

"No, your going to take the damage." Melody said

"What are you talking about?" Krad wondered as he saw Zehaal slash Yubel, but his sword was blocked by a wall of vines "What's going on?"

"Yubel can't be destroyed by battle and I take zero damage." Yubel repelled the sword with ease

"She negated the damage!" Keira said in shock

"And there's more, Whenever she battles, any battle damage I would've taken get's transferred to you! So take this! Nightmare Slash!" Zehaal turned around towards Krad with orange eyes and slashed him across the chest, causing him to scream in pain.

Krad: 2200
Melody: 4000

"I now play the trap card Call of the Haunted to bring back Grepher!" The dark warrior rose from his grave. "But he won't be staying on the field for long because I'm sacrificing him for Yubel to stay on the field." Dark Grepher vanished in a bright light. " And I'll end my turn there."

Krad struggled to get up "What..the...hell."

"You shouldn't be surprised. Yubel is the perfect counter against your Dark Knights because all of them have over 1700 attack points." Melody explained "You can't win with power alone."

"Enough!" Krad furiously drew his card "I activate Fissure! Since Yubel has 0 attack points, she's automatically destroyed!" Yubel feel into a deep crevice

"You shouldn't have done that." Krad wondered what she meant "Whenever Yubel is destroyed through a card effect, her second form takes her place."

"Second form?" Keira wondered

"Come forth, Yubel - Terror Incarnate (11/0/0)!" Out of the crevice came what looked to be a two headed dragon with an eye on it's chest.

"Another high level monster with 0 attack points!" Keira said

"Now what, if I attack I'll take damage, but if I don't I'll still take damage." Krad thought

"Frustrating isn't it?" Krad looked at Melody "Knowing that you can't do anything without hurting yourself or others. My master said that your Dark Knight cards really on nothing but brute force and it looks like he was right. Your not ready, your not even a challenge."

Krad started to shake with anger "I end my turn with two face downs" two reverse cards appeared.

"My turn then!" Melody called as she drew her fourth card, "Alright now! Yubel- Terror Incarnate attack Legato!"

"I don't think so!" Krad ordered, "I'm playing my trap card Mirror Force to stop and destroy that monster of yours!" A large mirror protected Krad and destroyed Yubel.

"Hmph, you think that's going to stop me? Now that you've destroyed Yubel's second form I'm going to summon her third and final form!" Melody explained.

"Her third and final form?" Keira said in surprise.

"Yes, when Yubel- The Terror Incarnate is destroyed, I can special summon Yubel-The Ultimate Nightmare(12/0/0)!" Melody had brought out a the final form of Yubel, who looked like a combination of an older version of Yubel's first form and Yubel's second form as it stood in front of Melody and stared down Krad and his knights.

"Darn it!" Krad grew angry at the fact that he had just made matter worse for himself. As he looked on at Melody and Yubel he heard something in his head.

"You idiot! Did you not learn from the first time you destroyed her Yubel!"Krad's darkness asked.

"Shut up.." Krad replied.

"No! You are about to lose this duel, I'm takin over!" Krad clutched his head in pain as his darkness was trying to take control.

"No you are not!" Krad yelled back as the dark aura grew.

"Shut up and watch!"With that Keira watched as Krad slowly began to give off a dark aura.

"I end my turn." Melody said, and she watched as Krad's dark aura grew larger and larger.

"Looks like his darkness is taking over."Yubel whispered.

"Yeah, this should be interesting." Melody replied.

"I draw!"Krad drew his third card.

"Krad! You have to control it!" Keira called.

"Krad is not here anymore, and I don't want to be associated with that lousy excuse of a duelist anymore! I am Shinken, the Dark Paladin!" Shinken looked over at Melody with a wicked smile, "I'm playing a facedown, then I activate Pot of Greed to draw two cards!" The Darkness was now holding four cards in his hand. "I end my turn!"

"I draw then!" Melody drew, "This duel is over." She called.

"I play my trap card! Fall of the Knight! With this by destroying one Dark Knight monster on my field I get to destroy up to two cards on your field! I'm destroying my Dark Knight-Zeehal!" Shinken yelled as Zehaal turned into a black fireball

"What!" Melody said in shock.

"Say good bye to Yubel, because her final form isn't immune to card effects!"

"No Yubel!" Melody cried out as Yubel shattered to a million pieces.

"Not only that, but I can now special summon one Dark Knight monster that has a diffrent level than your Yubel- The Ultimate Nightmare! I choose my Dark Knight Apprentice(2/1400/1400)!" Krad's signature tuner appeared

"I end my turn." Melody said in dissapointment.

"My draw then little girl! I hope you're ready Belial!" Shinken called.

"I serve Krad, not you." Belial responded.

"Wheather you like it or not, you are coming out now! I'm tuning my Dark Knight Apprentice with my Dark Knight Lancer-Legato!" Dark Knight Apprentice turned into two green stars while Legato turned into six blue stars.

"The power of the shadows will aid us in our war against evil, become the power that is stronger than darkness itself! Synchro summon! The dragon of the shadows Belial-The Dragon of The Shadows! (8/2900/2800)"

Belial had appeared with the Darkness with a saddened face, "I'm discarding all five cards to raise Belial's attack by 2000!" Shinken dropped his hand as Belial's attack rose (2900-4900)

"Belial attack with Shadow Flame Strike!"Shinken ordered and Belial began to burn with dark flames in which he then quickly charged through Melody to try and make the pain quick. Once he crashed into her the whole room began to shake with a violent wave of power knocking out Keira and Melody. Shinken broke out into maniacal laughter as his hair was half white and half black

"Krad." Keira only whispered before she passed out.

Shinken looked at his hand and smirked "Hmm, I guess I could have a little fun with this body. I'll kill all of you dragons and your masters." And with that Shinken walked off leaving Melody and Keira unconscious.

CH.37 End

Thetrueazure: I finally got this chapter done thanks to InhumanX. I would also like to take a minute to remember the people who died during the 9/11 incident, may their souls rest in peace.

Preview: This one is up to you, I have put up a poll on my profile page on who might be dueling next chapter, cast your votes and I'll have the chapter to you guys in about 2 weeks.