Thetrueazure: Alrighty guys, we're beginning to reach the end of the story, only two duels stand in the way.

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"This was truly an unexpected turn."Apollyon appeared. "To think I was fooled by a dragon slayer. I say good riddance to that worm."

Ritsu clenched his fists. "Worm? You did notjust call him a worm." Ritsu slowly rose as he became enveloped in a crimson red and azure blue aura. "His name is Krad Kenshin, heir to the Kenshin clan and wielder of Belial and Kage. He was a friend and a brother to everyone!"

"Explain to me how that's suppose to affect me."

"That was the last straw Apollyon, you want a war, you got one." Ritsu glared at Apollyon. "And this time, you won't be reawakening when I'm through with you."

Ch.69 The Final Battle Part 1

Satellizer was pacing back and forth in a nervous matter. She was the familiar of the great Apollyon, and she was almost replaced by that feeble dragon slayer. She bit her bottom lip as she kept deep in thought.

"If that fool didn't surrender, then I would have been discarded like a piece of trash…Me, the one who trounced that dragon slayer in a duel!" She clenched her fist so hard that blood started to seep out. "If it wasn't for me, he wouldn't have even had the boy to use in the first place! How could the master just treat me like that? After all I have done for him…""Dear Satellizer." Satellizer turned to see the dark sphere that was surrounding Apollyon glow. She knelt down and bowed her head. "No matter what I do, that accursed Light User doesn't want to drop dead. I've sent him to the Underworld in two different ways! And even my Abyssal Runes lacked the power to destroy him! How does he manage to survive!?"

"That is unfortunate my lord," Satellizer said. "If only that dragon slayer-" She was cut off by a deafening roar that knocked her onto her back in fright.

"DO NOT EVER MENTION THAT PEON IN FRONT OF ME AGAIN!" Apollyon roared at Satellizer who scrambled to get back onto her knees and bowed her head, not daring to look at her master in his enraged state.

"P-Please forgive me, my lord! I did not mean to upset you!" She begged.

"No matter." Apollyon growled, calming down somewhat. "It is safe to assume that the Light User and his entourage are closing in. You, my dear, shall stop them."

Satellizer looked at the dark sphere in shock. "Y-You don't mean-" Apollyon growled while Satellizer bowed her head, making her back down. "I-I understand my lord."

At the Order

Yuki was walking through the hallway, breathing a sigh of relief. She was relieved to say the least that Ritsu was able to survive against the Abyssal Rune weapons Apollyon crafted. However…

"The final battle is upon us," Yuki muttered to herself as she walked, lost in her thoughts. As she passed one of the rooms, she then looked to see Rai sitting up against a wall, staring at his deck solemnly, lost in his own thoughts.

"I-I don't know what to do anymore. Satellizer… What do I do?" He muttered to himself. However, he soon felt another presence in the room and looked up to see Yuki sitting right next to him. "Miss Himuro."

Yuki sighed before chuckling as she said with joking anger. "I swear the next person who calls me 'Miss' is going to be seeing stars." Yuki held up her fist while Rai chuckled a little bit, feeling his mood improve slightly. Yuki then asked, "You OK?"

Rai looked at his deck again, not speaking for a moment as he stared at his cards. "I don't know."

"It's about Satellizer, isn't it?" Rai flinched at her question. "You really don't know what to do…do you?"

Rai shook his head. "I really don't: if I go with Satellizer, I am reunited with the girl I loved but then I would become an enemy, but if I don't… It'll be like I killed her all over again."

"Hold up," Yuki looked at Rai in surprise. "What do you mean 'again'?"

Rai took a deep breath and set his deck down. "A couple of years ago when Satellizer was still alive, we use to be a couple… She would always mess up her words when I was around." Rai explained with a chuckle. "She always got mad because I would laugh when she did, thinking it was actually really cute." He then shook his head, trying to keep from getting nostalgic and wanting to get back to the point. "I had a big Duel coming up and she said she would see it…"

A couple of years ago.

Rai was in the middle of a Duel against an unknown opponent. Rai had no cards in his hand and one monster on the field. The monster in question was a young woman with white hair and blue eyes who wore a white magician's outfit while wielding a scepter (8/3500/1000).

"I end my turn with a monster in defense mode and a facedown." The unknown player set a monster in facedown defense position and one reverse card, both facedowns appearing before him.

Rai: 1000
Unknown: 900

Rai looked at the stands to see where Satellizer was sitting down. She had blonde hair instead of white and blue eyes instead of red and she still wore her fancy white blouse and black silk mini skirt. She waved at Rai as he nodded, smiling widely at her boyfriend. He couldn't help the smile that came onto his face, her smile giving all the encouragement he needed.

"It's my turn! I draw!" Rai drew his lone card and looked at it, causing him to smirk. "It's over."

"What?" The unknown player asked, confused and annoyed by Rai's confidence.

"You heard me! I activate the Equip Spell Fairy Meteor Crush! Now my Silent Magician can do piercing damage!" Rai then grinned as Silent Magician's scepter was replaced with a lance that was glowing with red-hot energy. "Silent Magician, attack his facedown monster! Mystical Lance of Silence!" Silent Magician focused her magical energy into her lance and threw it at the facedown monster with all her might.

"Nice try!" The unknown duelist yelled as the lance flew through the air. "I play my Trap Card Dimension Wall!"

"W-What!?" Rai asked aghast.

"I can only activate it when you declare an attack. Now, instead of me taking the battle damage, you take it instead!" The Duelist explained as his monster revealed itself to be a strange alien creature (1/0/0). "And since Arcana Force 0 – The Fool's defense is zero; you take 3500 points of damage instead of me!" The lance vanished in a dimensional rift and appeared in front of Rai. He then instinctively dodged the redirected lance as it flew into the audience. However, Rai was unaware that in his desperation, his Psychic powers subconsciously triggered, making the lance very real.

Satellizer knew something was wrong. That lance looked way too real. And she knew Rai was still learning to master his Psychic Dueling. She then looked to her side and noticed that the lance was flying towards a little girl sitting next to her. "Oh no!" Before she knew what she did, she threw herself on top of the girl as the lance stabbed her in the back and struck her, piercing her right through the heart.

Satellizer looked at the little girl as blood dripped from her mouth. "You ok?" She asked weakly as the girl nodded frantically. "That's good," Satellizer said with a smile as more blood leaked out of her from her mouth and the wound. Her eyes almost immediately after closed.

"AAAAAHHHHH!" Rai screamed as he dashed up into the stands, his heart beating frantically. Tears were already streaming down his face as he dashed into the crowd, still screaming. "Satellizer! Satellizer! Satellizer, please! Please don't be dead!" He cried out as he hugged her, his clothes getting stained with her blood. As the EMTs rushed to her, he continued to hug her and yell, "My God, I'm sorry! Oh, my love, I'm so sorry! My God, I'm so sorry! I had no idea! I didn't mean to!" When they got to her, the EMTs had to pull him away from her to check on her, much to Rai's dismay as he fought against them, wanting to be with her right then and there…

But the truth was, as much as he hoped she could be saved, Rai knew he had accidentally killed his girlfriend…

"They said that the lance pierced her heart, killing her almost instantly and I never forgave myself after that," Rai said, finishing his story with clenched fists.

"I see." Yuki said as she gently put her hand on his shoulder. "Rai… It's not your fault. It was a freak accident. You couldn't have known that would happen."

Rai sighed; looking back at his deck as he slowly began to nod. "I know, but… Still… If I had had better control of my Psychic powers, she wouldn't have died and Apollyon would not have been able to take her!"

Yuki looked sadly at Rai, sensing how bad he was feeling. "The only one to blame for Satellizer's current state is Apollyon. He did this to her, not you."

"I don't know what do," Rai said desperately, so many thoughts racing through his mind. He then looked at Yuki and asked, "Please, tell me what I should do?"

Yuki sighed. She was silent for a few moments. Then, Yuki stood up and said, "I can't tell you what to do, Rai, but I can suggest something: Ask yourself this question 'What would she want?'"

"'What would she want?'" Rai repeated and thought about it for a few minutes. "S-She would want me to move on and to not dwell on the past."

Yuki smiled. "Now you have your answer."

Rai nodded as he stood back up and slid his Deck into his Duel Disk, proceeding to then slide that on to his arm. "Thank you, Mi- Yuki… I know what I have to do now." He then made his way out of his room, leaving Yuki standing there confused behind him.

"Where are you going?" Yuki asked.

Rai then said as he continued down the hallway, not looking back, "I'm going to free my girlfriend from Apollyon's enslavement."

Yuki just smiled as she watched him turn down the stairway. "Just like I thought you'd say…"

New Domino City

Meanwhile, Ritsu and the others made their way towards Apollyon's base of operations. While Ritsu first wanted to go and check on Yuzuki to make sure she was okay after the Duel, he knew that right now, it was more important for him and the other to finish Apollyon off once and for all. Unfortunately, while they were riding their Duel Runners, more Apollyon clones appeared in front of them in hopes of slowing them down. As soon as the dark dragon lord's doppelgangers saw them, they all began to attack.

Ritsu gripped the throttle of his Duel Runner and glared at the clones. He yelled out, "I have no time for you! Lightpulsar Dragon! Clear us a path!" He then slapped the card on his Duel Disk as the white armored dragon appeared and fired a light beam at the clones. The dragon's groaned as their blasts were pushed back, enveloping them and destroying them.

"Ritsu," Satoshi said as he drove up to Ritsu's Runner. "Calm down. Remember what happened last time you flipped out. You need to stay focused for when we fight Apollyon."

Ritsu took a deep breath. "Alright," he said, calming down a little. "You're right, I know. I just can't wait to end this war and finish off Apollyon once and for all. Too many people have suffered because of it already."

"We'll win this war, Ritsu," Nami said with a smile. "For Krad and Keira."

Ritsu nodded, a small smile coming to his face at the words of his childhood friend. "Yeah, we will."

"I beg to differ!" Satellizer's voice yelled as a massive beam of light flew down towards Ritsu who barely dodged it while everyone else skidded to a halt. Ritsu looked up at the sky to see Satellizer standing on top of a gigantic machine with three massive cannons.

"Satellizer!" Ritsu glared at her, still seething in rage at the woman who first took his friend from him. "What do you want!?"

"Hello, Light User. Strange how we keep running into each other, isn't it?" Satellizer said with an evil chuckle. "You will bother Master Apollyon no more, and I will see to it personally!"

"Oh yeah!?" Ritsu challenged as he equipped his Duel Disk. "Try and stop me!" Before Ritsu's hand even reached his deck, though, a pair of chains shot out of the ground and ensnared his arms, pulling him down and pinning him to the ground.

"Ritsu!" Everyone yelled in shock while Satellizer held up a trap card.

"I believe I just did with Fiendish Chain," Satellizer said with an evil smirk. She then pointed at her machine below her. "I'm sorry, where are my manners? Light User; meet Ally of Justice - Decisive Armor, the strongest card in the Ally of Justice archetype… And the end of your pitiful existence."

"W-What?" Ritsu shouted, eyes widening as he tried to break the chains, but it was futile. The chains restricted his movement and Decisive Armor had its cannons trained on him. He could do nothing but watch as the three particle cannons charged up, ready to obliterate him.

"Hang on, Ritsu!" Satoshi was about to bring out Apollo when Satellizer brought out Ally of Justice - Catastor who fired a laser beam near Satoshi's feet, sending him back a bit.

"Sorry, Fire User, but I just hate being interrupted. However, if you like, I can kill you next!" Satellizer then glared at Satoshi and the others. "Now, be good little imbeciles and stay there as your leader gets incinerated." Satellizer looked over at Ritsu who was still struggling. "Ally of Justice - Decisive Armor, kill the Light User so that Lord Apollyon may reign supreme! Decisive Cannon!" The massive hulk of armor fired three concentrated blasts at Ritsu when suddenly-

"SWORDS OF REVEALING LIGHT!"

- three glowing green swords deflected all three shots.

"What in the-" Kurogasa and the others looked in shock, confused. None of the group activated their Duel Disks. "Who… Who played Swords of Revealing Light?"

Satellizer then figured it out by voice alone. "Rai…"

And she was indeed correct. Leaping down to the street in front of Ritsu and the others was Rai, his Duel Disk activated and his face showing he was looking to Duel. "I'm here, Satellizer."

Satellizer looked at her beloved somewhat stunned, confused as to what he was doing. "Rai… I take it you've made your decision, but… You're choosing them? Over me?" And for the first time, the Elemental Duelists and their friends could see real emotion in the face of Apollyon's familiar. And that emotion was sorrow.

Rai shook his head, "No, I'm not choosing them over you, Satellizer… By siding with them, I am choosing you!" Everyone looked on confused as he said, "This isn't you, not the real you, anyway. I remember how you used to be. You used to love life. You used to see all the beauty in this world. And now… You want to see it all destroyed!? Why, Satellizer, why!?"

Satellizer then clenched her fist, looking down at her feet as she said in a mix of sadness and anger. "I owe Master Apollyon my life. He is the reason I am here! I will not betray him!" She then glared furiously, showing a few tears on her cheeks as she pointed at Rai and shouted, "But you, you have betrayed me! By choosing to stand with them, you've made yourself an enemy of my master, and therefore you've made yourself an enemy of me!"

Rai shook his head as he took a step forward, ignoring the warning shot Decisive Armor shot at him, "No, Satellizer, listen to me! I'm trying to save you! And the only way I can save you is by dueling you! I'm willing to bet my life that if I can defeat you that I can free you from Apollyon's control!"

No one could believe what they were hearing. "Rai, no offense, man, but that's insane! You can't take her on! She's got powers you can't even imagine!" Akira shouted at Rai.

Terra nodded in agreement as he said, "He's right, man! Besides, she's too far gone! You can't help her now!"

Rai shook his head as he said, "You guys were able to get through to the real Krad just now, weren't you?" The others looked to one another. "I know I can do this…"

Satellizer was silent for a few moments before she began laughing her head off. "You really want to do this? Fine then!" She said as Decisive Armor leaned down so she could get off of him, activating her dragon wing shaped Duel Disk. "I have some time to play with you." She then looked to Ritsu as her Fiendish Chains pulled him onto his knees. "Alright, Light User, looks like you get to live a few minutes longer. Once I have taught my ex-lover here the price of betrayal, I'll be sure to finish the job and then kill you friends." Satellizer then walked towards Rai as a circle of purple flames erupted around the two of them, signaling a Shadow Duel was about to begin. "Alright then, Rai… Let's do this."

Rai nodded as he activated his Duel Disk, his deck auto-shuffling. "Yes… Don't worry, Beautiful… You'll be free soon."

Satellizer just scoffed. "We'll see…"

"DUEL!"

Rai: 4000
Satellizer: 4000

"I'll take the first move! I draw!" Rai drew his sixth card and looked at it. "I summon Defender, the Magical Knight (4/1600/2000) in defense mode!" A magician carrying a massive shield and a dagger appeared on Rai's field as the gem on the shield began to glow. "When he's summoned I'm allowed to put 1 spell counter on him. I set two cards facedown and end my turn." Two reverse cards appeared.

"You'll regret turning your back on me, I draw!" Satellizer drew her sixth card and looked at it. "I summon Ally of Justice Unknown Crusher (3/1200/800) in attack mode!" A bright flash of light appeared on Satellizer's field as a massive mechanical mammoth appeared on the field.

"Attack mode?" Terra looked in confusion. "But why, Rai's monster is stronger in terms of both attack and defense?"

"It's not always about attack and defense Terra." Akira said.

"Unknown Crusher, attack his knight!" Unknown Crusher brought its mechanical trunk down on top of the knight, but the knight deflected the trunk and stabbed the mammoth which took a step back.

Rai: 4000
Satellizer: 3200

"Awesome! Rai's ahead!" Kuraki said in excitement.

"It's not over yet." Kurogasa said as they looked.

Rai's knight was about to return to his position when a massive portal appeared below him and sucked him in. When that happened, Satellizer chuckled. "Hehe, Unknown Crushers ability banishes any light monster it battle's with." Satellizer looked at her nails. "I know your knight's pesky ability; by removing the counter he has, he can protect himself from destruction."

"She found a way around my knight." Rai thought. "Impressive."

"I'll set one card facedown and end my turn." One reverse card appeared.

"I draw!" Rai drew his next card. "I summon Silent Magician LV4 (4/1000/1000) in attack mode!" A small girl appeared on the field, she had white hair and blue eyes, and she wore a white magician's outfit and held a wand.

"That card." Satellizer growled.

"Next I activate my facedown card Pitch-Black Power Stone!" Rai revealed his facedown card as three orbs circled around it. "When I activate this card, I can put three spell counters on it, next I activate its effect; I transfer one spell counter to Silent Magician!" One of the orbs floated towards Silent Magician and circled around her. (SM: 1 Counter) (PBPS: 2 Counters.)

"Let me guess, since your magician has a spell counter, she gets an extra 500 attack points." As Satellizer said that Silent Magician began to glow (1000-1500/1000).

"I set one card facedown and end my turn." One reverse card appeared on the field.

"So far so good." Ritsu though.

"I draw." Satellizer drew her next card as a second orb started to float around Silent Magician (SM: 2 Counters) (1500-2000). "I sacrifice my Unknown Crusher in order to summon Penumbral Soldier Lady (6/2100/1400) in attack mode!" Unknown Crusher vanished while a beautiful woman appeared wielding a sword and shield.

"That's new." Rai thought as he prepared himself.

"Attack that pesky magician now!" Satellizer yelled as the Soldier drew her sword. "When she battles against a light monster, she gets an extra 1000 attack points."

"What in the world!" Satoshi looked in shock as the Soldiers blade began to glow (2100-3100)

"I activate my counter trap Negate Attack!" Silent Magician was enveloped in a barrier that blocked the incoming sword strike. "Sorry, but my magician isn't going anywhere!"

Satellizer growled. "Fine then, I activate the spell card (Azure) Thirst for Blood! Since my monster failed to destroy your monster in battle, you lose 1000 life points!" Penumbral Soldier Lady appeared in front of Rai and brought her sword down as Rai blocked the blade with his duel disk.

Rai: 3000
Satellizer: 3200

"I'll end my turn right there." Satellizer crossed her arms.

"I draw!" Rai drew his next card. "I activate Pitch-Black Power Stones ability! I transfer one spell counter to Silent Magician." On command, yet another orb appeared around Silent Magician (SM: 3 Counters) (PBPS: 1 Counter) "And thanks to that, my magician is even stronger!" Rai explained as Silent Magician grew more powerful (2000-2500).

Satellizer scoffed. "Please, you forget that my monster grows more powerful when she battles a light monster, you're just wasting your time!"

Rai looked at his hand. "She's right; I can't protect my magician forever." Rai gritted his teeth. "I activate the spell card Graceful Charity; I draw three cards and discard two." Rai drew three cards and then discarded two of them. "I activate the spell card Level Up!"

"Then that means-" Ritsu said.

"-Silent Magician is all grown up now!" Rai finished as Silent Magician grew up into a young woman with white hair and wearing the same outfit (8/3500/1000). "Say hello to Silent Magician LV8!"

"There it is." Satellizer growled and glared at the creature. "The card that took my life." A dark aura surrounded Satellizer. "and this is where the real match starts."

To be continued.

Thetrueazure: Sorry for the unexpected hiatus, college has been really bearing down on me. Also thanks Serpentdragon for helping me with the bit before the duel.

Kazuma: We will continue when fall semester is over so please be patient. Also, this is a 4 part finale so it will take awhile to write.

Thetrueazure: RRRAAAGHH! I'M ALL FIRED UP! COME AT ME FINALS!

Ritsu: Rai has brought out the strongest monster in his deck and Satellizer is growing more and more hateful towards Rai. Will he be able to survive against her?

Next Time: Yugioh 5D's Power of the Six Elements; Final Battle Part.2.

"Dear Rai, I will show you the pain I went through."