After the gang once again parted from the Kaiba brothers, after some 15 minutes of Yuna reassuring Noah that she was just fine, they all headed towards Professor Hopkins house since he lives around there. He might have some information that could help them. But how are they going to get there?
Duke said it was no problem and that they can take his car. The five of them will fit.
Weevil asks what about him and Rex? Tristan wants to know what they're doing there anyway, but they just laugh nervously.
They end up riding in the open trunk with the luggage, grumbling how they should have gotten on either of the rivals good side.
Tea had the map, only now realizing just how far they were from the center of San Francisco as Tristan offers unhelpful suggestions from the back seat.
Joey was thinking of Mai and how he was going to get her back. He was still baffled with how she had treated Yuna, seeing as the two are really good friends.
Yugi spent most of the ride trying to get Yuna into a conversation about what they had learned, or in Yuna's case, confirming what she had known all along. The Duel Queen was in a much more talkative mood than when they were headed to the I2 and she explained her recent visions in full detail as well as what her theory was about what Dartz and the Three Swordsmen wanted.
They didn't talk for long, however, once Yuna finished her story and she looked out at the scenery distantly.
Yugi sighed sadly, worry overwhelming him. He was worried sick for his already stressed sister getting even more stressed out with this things that once again have to do with her ancient soul and the ''gift'' that came with it. This was the reason he called a curse more often than a gift, since it usually only got his precious sister into trouble.
He sighs once again as he sees the distant, yet guarded look in the young historian's eyes, deciding that he would do all that he could to help her with this.
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Meanwhile, in a home below a hillside dotted with wind turbines, Professor Hawkins sits at his desk studying the photos from the Atlantean ruins. One image appears over and over, he says, but what is it?
''Doma.'' He whispers as realization hits him.
Outside in the hills, Rebecca is riding her horse, Copernicus, when a helicopter flies overhead. It lands in front of their house, and she's shocked when men in black jump out and kidnap her grandfather. She tries to ride to his rescue, but arrives too late. Then, as she turns her horse to follow the helicopter, the house explodes, knocking her and her horse to the ground. A Duel Monsters card flutters to the ground beside her, and she picks it up, shouting for her grandpa.
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Later that night, Duke's car pulls up to the ruins of the Hawkins house, and the gang look around in horror at the damage, calling out for Professor Hawkins. The place was burnt to the ground, only a few wooden pillars still standing and representing what the place once was.
Rebeca shows up, says that her grandfather was taken, then flings herself onto Yugi crying. He promises that they'll find him.
Yuna glares at the ruins, not believing that they would go this far just to get to her.
They gather in the Professor's motor home. Yuna was the last to enter, sensing that something was definitely not right! She scanned the area, but entered as Joey called her in, asking what she was looking at.
As she makes tea, Téa wonders who would kidnap the Professor. Joey thinks it had to be Dartz.
Yugi has an idea, and asks Rebeca if she still has the stone he gave to her grandpa. She's wearing it on a chain around her neck, and she gives it to Yugi. Tristan says maybe that's what Dartz is after. Duke thinks they ought to find this Dartz guy, break in, and rescue Hawkins, and Rebeca wants to know how they'll find him. Yugi points out that the Professor doesn't have what Dartz' people want, so they'll probably come back.
Tea was watching the Game Mistress as the others talked, noticing how tense she was.
''Hey, what's up with you?'' She asked in a whisper, not wanting to draw unnecessary attention since she knew that Yuna wouldn't open up if it was something that would worry Yugi.
Yuna looked over to her and just sighed, motioning to the kitchen.
Once they were there, she looked Tea straight in the eyes.
''I don't like this. It's too suspicious. If they wanted the Professor, they could have easily taken him a long time ago. So why only now?''
Tea thought about it. ''Maybe they don't want you guys to know about what you're up against?''
''Then they would have taken the Professor before he talked to us, don't you think? No. He was too close to discovering something, and so they destroyed his research. But whatever he was about to find, it must have been dangerous for us to know, yet they don't know that I can easily learn about it with just a little nap. And that's good. As long as they don't know about that little fact, I have an advantage.''
''But how big of an advantage? And for how long?'' Tea might have never really been good with the girl, but this was worrisome. Yugi had told her a few times just how focused his sister could become on a single problem then on another and another until she passes out and those dreams of her's haunt her until she finds the right answer. In a situation like now, Yuna could't afford to be so vulnerable.
''Big and long enough.'' Yuna said firmly, knowing that she just needed a little more time.
Tristan says if they're going to wait, he wants something to eat. Joey says he'll whip something up, but Téa's not eating anything he cooks.
Yuna, Duke and Téa get to work cooking dinner, while Tristan sets the table and Joey raids the refrigerator, coming up with a mouthful of sausages. Tristan kicks him in the head, telling him to eat that! Then he wonders where Rex and Weevil went.
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Rex and Weevil are searching through the ruins of Professor Hawkins' house, looking for rare cards. Rex thinks he's found something, but it's just a deck of playing cards. Weevil urges him to keep looking, but Rex says the old guy doesn't have any rare cards. He's a professor, not a duelist. They complain about how hungry they are. Then they hear something, and look over the ruins to see Yugi and Rebeca, who've gone outside to talk.
Rebeca's scared, but Yugi says they'll find her grandpa. Then she shows him the card she found. It came with a note to Yuna from Rafael, telling him to come to Death Valley if he wants to see his friend again.
Yugi frowns, then asks how far away Death Valley is, and Rebeca says it's about an hour by car.
But Yugi says he has to go alone.
''What!? That note is for your sister! You have to show it to her at the very least! She'll know what to do! I just know that she will!'' The younger girl yelled as she grabbed him by his shoulders. ''Please Yugi! Just ... just don't do this!''
Yugi sighed sadly, but he knew that this was the only thing he could do to help his sister. ''Rebeca, you know that they are after Yuna more than anyone else. I resemble her enough to fool them for some time so she can think up a good plan to stop them for good. She'll be fast and she'll easily save me if something happens! And I'm not that bad a duelist myself.'' He looked her straight in the eye, and smiled a small smile. ''So don't worry, I'll be just fine, ok?'' The he frowned. ''But I will need your help to get Yuna's Deck and Duel Disk, not to mention getting my hair fixed so it resembles her style. Will you help me?''
Although teary eyed, Rebeca nodded firmly, hugging Yugi as she silently wept for both him and his sister, along with her own grandfather.
''Interesting,'' says Weevil.
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Meanwhile, Professor Hawkins awakes on the floor of a shed. Rafael, standing in the doorway, tells him he must forget everything he's discovered. The Professor protests that those ruins are part of history.
Rafael introduces himself as Rafael of Doma's Three Swordsmen. Professor Hopkins says, "Doma?"
Rafael steps inside the shed, and the Professor sees the Orichalcos stone around his neck. He asks Rafael where he got it. Rafael tells him he's too curious for his own good, and warns him again to forget his research. Then he tells the Professor that they've already burned down his laboratory and destroyed everything he found, so he's no longer a threat.
Arthur asks if there's some relationship between Doma and the ruins under the sea. And is it also related to Yuna—that is, the Nameless Pharaoh.
Rafael tells him to stop wondering. He's burned the professor's laboratory to the ground to stop him from finding out any more. Professor Hopkins says they can't stop people from studying the ruins, as long as they remain in the world.
Rafael says it's impossible, but won't explain why.
Then he tells the Professor to stop worrying, he's free.
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In the temple, Dartz tells the Leviathan that his time draws near. Soon they'll finish what they began so long ago.
He thinks about the Duel Queen as he recites something in another language. The girl was stronger than he thought her to be, but he was sure she would never be strong enough to be a real threat.
A small ship tosses on the stormy seas. Soon, it's sunk by a crashing wave.
Dartz laughs.
''Just as this little ship sinks into the dark ocean, you will sink into an ocean of Darkness, Nameless Pharaoh!''
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The gang sleep curled up in the motor home.
Yugi gets up, thinking he knows what he has to do. It's time to face those creeps. Rebeca wakes up and turns to him, but he tells her not to worry. He'll be back. Yugi goes outside where Billy, Arthur's horse, waits, saddled up. As Yugi gets into the saddle, he pulls his sister's Duel Disk onto his arm, puts on a cloak and ties his hair in a low ponytail, making it actually look like Yuna's. He himself was surprised just how different he and Yuna were, but the darkness of the night would cover it all up. He checked the tissues he and Rebeca had stuffed into one of Yuna's bras and pulled the hood of the cloak over his head.
He felt incredibly heavy as the Millennium Puzzle hung from his neck. He knew that it was not a smart idea to wear it, but he needed to convince Rafael that he was who the man thought he was. The necklace with the aquamarine Orichalcos stone was making is mind a bit hazy, or at least he thought it was from that. The Puzzle had a far stronger effect as Yuna once said.
He sits up on the horse and rides away.
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Joey, who's been sleeping sitting in the floor, falls over on his side and wakes up. He gets up and looks around, noticing that Yugi's not there. Rebeca says she promised she wouldn't tell, as Joey asks how she could let him leave like that!
Pretty soon the whole gang's up. Téa tells Joey to take it easy on Rebeca, saying he would have done the same thing, but Tristan says he'd have talked Yugi out of it.
Only Tea and Rebeca dared to look at the older Mouto twin, only to flinch when they saw the livid rage there, mixed with antsy, worry, guilt and down right determination.
She took off towards the doors before anyone could even put a word in right after Rebeca said where Yugi was headed, Duke trying to stop her only to stare in shock when he saw the raw anger in the normally calm crimson eyes. He stepped aside and the champion ran out, leaving the others to stand and wonder at what they should do.
They heard her take off on the other horse, Copernicus, obviously not bothering with the saddle.
A few moments of stunned silence.
Joey can't stand it. He runs off after Yugi, with Tristan following him, telling him to slow down. But Joey stops outside the trailer—Professor Hawkins is making his way towards them, leaning heavily on a walking stick. Joey runs to catch him as he falls.
Rebeca runs to her grandfather, who asks her, ''Where's Yuna?''
They all look away in shame.
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Rafael waits on the far side of a suspension bridge across a chasm. He holds his deck, thinking he's ready for the Pharaoh.
Yugi rides to meet him.
The only thing on his mind was that he has to make them think that he was Yuna, a thing easier said than done. Yuna was different from everyone else. She had an aura of confidence, authority and power. Her stance was of both a fighter and royalty. Both light and shadows danced in her eyes.
She was a Pharaoh at heart.
No one was like her, no one could copy her.
She was unique.
He didn't even know how he was going to copy her damn walk!
And what about her speech?!
'This is going to be harder than I thought!'
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Duke's car zooms across the desert, flying over rocks, as Joey and Tristan urge Duke on. He tells them to hang on, shifts up and floors it, and the convertible takes to the air again. When it lands, Duke asks them if they're still in one piece... but they're gone. Saying he told them to buckle up, Duke searches the desert behind him with binoculars. Joey and Tristan are running towards the car, looking a little ragged.
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Meanwhile, Rafael waits for the Pharaoh, thinking it will be the Pharaoh's final duel.
Yugi arrives on the mesa opposite, and says "Let's do this!" He doesn't dare ride the horse down the steep walls of the mesa, so he dismounts, climbs down and walks across the suspension bridge towards Rafael.
Rafael says that while his associates are satisfied with stealing the souls of Yugi's friends, he's not.
Yugi says he's kept his part of the bargain, now Rafael must release the Professor. Rafael says he's already been set free—but since Yugi's come all this way, he might as well stay awhile.
Rafael flings off his cloak, then lifts a pair of axes and throws them towards Yugi. They pass narrowly on either side of him and hit the posts of the suspension bridge, cutting the ropes so that the ladder falls, trapping Yugi on the mesa with Rafael.
Rafael says he needs to capture the soul of the Pharaoh himself, so he can save the world.
''We don't need any paths of escape from our duel. As a True Duelist, I feel honored to duel you, Yuna.''
'Yuna' gulps but gets ready to duel.
He tried to imitate his sister's voice. ''I'll be a judge of that.''
He almost flinched at how he sounded in comparison to the real thing. It lacked all the traits that made Yuna's voice special, but it seemed that Rafael was too blind and deaf to those things.
Yugi thanked his lucky stars for that.
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Yuna was riding like the hounds of hell were at her heels, pushing the poor hoarse to it's limits.
'Yugi, you fool!'
She couldn't believe he would pull something like this at a time like this! She knew full well that he just wanted to help her, but this was not helping!
Yuna just hopped that she can get to him in time to save him. But who knows how long it had been since Yugi took off?!
The reincarnated Pharaoh sped up.
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Back at the motor home, Professor Hawkins is still sound asleep. Téa thinks he's got the right idea, but Rebecca's busy doing research on the web with her laptop. She's found a strange article about a cruise ship that sunk about twelve years ago.
A boy saved himself by swimming to an island, where he spent three years all alone. According to the article, he did nothing but practice Duel Monsters until he was rescued—and his name was Rafael! It's the guy who's dueling Yugi.
Rebeca jumps up to run off, but Téa grabs her arm, telling her to relax—Yugi can handle that guy.
''Besides, Yuna and the guys went after him. I'm sure he'll be just fine.''
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Rafael tells Yugi he could never understand the connection he has with his cards.
Yugi says he's mistaken—he also shares a bond with his deck, trusting and respecting every one of his cards. He hoped that his sister's deck would save him this time.
Rafael picks up his two monster cards and shows them to Yugi, who sees that the cards are almost worn out. He's played them hundreds of times, says Rafael. Even though they're falling apart, he'll never replace them. He's sworn to protect them the way they've protected him. Twelve years ago, these monsters saved his life.
Rafael tells his story. When he was a kid, he says, he was fooled into thinking that the world was a happy place, but then he discovered the truth—nothing's fair, and no one gets what they deserve. Yugi thinks that's pretty sad, and Rafael insists that life is sad, and the sooner Yugi realizes it, the better off he'll be. Rafael says that he used to have everything a kid could ever want, until one day...
''I've heard about you, you know? About the Nameless Pharaoh ... Ever since I heard of the Pharaoh, I've had a strange feeling about him. It's funny. We're both men who've been used by fate. Well, you are now a girl, I guess. But back to my story.''
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After the story, Yugi was speechless.
He, who had always had his parent's love, as well as his grandpa and sister, couldn't even fathom how Rafael must have felt all alone. He was sure both his sister and her rival would have understood him, but he couldn't. With a sister like Yuna, who sacrificed herself for the entire household even when their parents were around, he had been spared from the dirty, dark world for so long that now that he finally saw through the extent some suffer, like Seto had, he can only be left speechless.
Rafael asks the one he thought was the Pharaoh why his soul has revived after thousands of years. Why did Rafael's family disappear in a moment? Why is Rafael alone in a world full of murderous feelings?
Yugi can't answer any of the questions, since he wasn't the person hey were really meant for.
Rafael says Yuna can't answer his questions.
''There's only one way to answer fate.''
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Weevil says the match looks pretty even, so he doesn't think they missed anything too exciting. Rex wants to move closer, but Weevil says that unless they jump, they're stuck on the other side of the chasm.
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Meanwhile, Duke, Tristan and Joey continue to drive towards the duel. Tristan says the map's all wrong—there's no bridge—just as the car runs across a rickety suspension bridge, making the slats fly in all directions.
Duke just manages to get the car across before the bridge falls to pieces behind them.
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Back at the motor home, Rebeca tells Téa she's still confused about something.
''At the museum, Yuna said that all the things my grandpa told her and anything he could tell her were things she already knows. I've known for a long time that she is very gifted, but I don't get that one.''
Tea sighs and goes on, telling Rebeca what she herself had just found out a few days earlier. She was amused with the disbelieving expressions Rebeca would show every now and then, wondering what her's had been when she was being told the first time.
Rebeca says she'll never forget the day she and Yugi met. He was such a gentleman! She never met anyone as nice as Yugi.
She was soon off in her little dream world of a happy life for her and the small duelist, making Tea's left eye twitch.
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Rafael says Yuna's heart is dark, and he's about to prove it.
Yugi bristles at the thought that Yuna, a Light of Hope, can be evil!
He glares at Rafael as he thinks that Yuna has to have an abnormal amount of patience for these kind of people.
He draws two cards, sets one card face down, then activates Exchange, which allows them each to take one card from the other's hand. But they both only have one card, so they switch those cards. Yugi gives Rafael Necromancy, a magic card that allows a player to use a monster from the other's graveyard. It was useless to Yugi anyway, since Rafael has no monsters in his graveyard.
Rafael gives Yugi his card and walks away laughing.
Yugi looks at the card in shock.
It's the Seal of Orichalcos!
'I can't use this!'
Rafael tells Yugi that the stone around his neck is already beginning to reveal his dark side.
Yugi sees that the stone is glowing, and grabs it in his fist. Rafael tells Yugi (Yuna, rather since he still didn't figure it out) that (s)he doesn't have to activate the card if (s)he doesn't want to—but he has a feeling (s)he will.
It's the ''Pharaoh's'' turn.
'No matter what, I mustn't use this card! It's evil!'
Yugi chants in his head, but the pull of that damn stone around his neck was starting to cloud his judgment! And he just couldn't throw it away!
He draws. Rafael's Purity of the Cemetery makes Yugi lose 500 life points for the five monsters in his graveyard, bringing him down to 2200.
Then Yugi uses Dark Magician Girl the Dragon Knight to destroy Guardian Grarl again, but Rafael activates Crystal Seal, sealing the dragon in a crystal prison.
Rafael tells Yugi that there's one card in his hand that will free his dragon. Is (s)he duelist enough to play it?
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Yugi gave in.
He reached for the necklace with the aquamarine stone on it, but instead grabbed the chain of the Millennium Puzzle and took it off, flinging it all the way to the other side, where his hoarse was.
He plays the Seal of Orichalcos, screaming as the Seal forms around his feet. The Seal grows to engulf the duel.A column of light shines into the sky, visible to Tristan, Joey, and Duke, still driving towards the duel.
Yuna stops, not believing that her little brother was now in such grave danger. She instantly speeds off in that direction, knowing that she only had a little more to go.
''Now,'' Rafael says, ''the Seal of Orichalcos will reveal whether you are good or evil. Nameless Pharaoh.''
The Seal appears in Yugi's forehead, and there's a grim look of anger on his face.
Since Yugi has played the Seal of Orichalcos, and it strengthens Dark Magician Girl the Dragon Knight by 500 attack points, to 3100, freeing it from its crystal seal. But to his astonishment, Timaeus disappears, leaving Dark Magician Girl alone on the field. Yugi demands to know what Rafael has done with his dragon, but Rafael says it's not what he's done, it's what Yugi's done.
''Timaeus and the Orichalcos don't mix.''
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Duke, Joey, and Tristan arrive at the top of the mesa overlooking the duel.
They jump out of the car and run to the edge, calling out to Yugi. He turns to them, but doesn't speak. Joey wonders what that Orichalcos thing is doing on Yugi's forehead. The three boys slide down the cliff to join Rex and Weevil at the edge of the chasm.
Rex tells them they just missed the best part of the duel, and Joey grabs Weevil, demanding to know why his best buddy has that freaky thing on his head. Tristan pulls Joey off of Weevil, as Rex explains that Yugi got the Seal of Orichalcos from Rafael and activated it.
Joey insists Yugi wouldn't do that—he knows that card's evil.
''Yugi knows, but that stone around his neck is now manipulating him.''
The boys jump and turn to look at the Duel Queen as she crouches and takes the Millennium Puzzle and puts it back in its rightful place around her neck. They watch in wonder as the Puzzle glows for a few seconds, before diminishing.
''What do ya mean?'' Joey asked.
Yuna never took her eyes off of the duel. She was well hidden by the horses, so the two duelists hadn't seen her yet. Good.
''It is of a mineral that emits negative energy that brings out thoughts that don't even exist in a human's mind until they come in contact with it.''
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Yugi's monsters all fly into Guardian Eatos' Sword, which absorbs their attack power, raising Eatos' attack to 10,000 points.
Then Rafael attacks, destroying Yugi's Kuribabylon and Catapult Turtle, and the rest of his life points.
The gang watch in horror as the Seal of Orichalcos shrinks around Yugi.
Yuna also watches from behind the Seal, as Rafael walks up to Yugi, telling him he sealed his own fate when he played that card. Now his life force will awaken the great beast.
Yuna had not moved since she arrived, due to Duke's rational thinking and making her stay where she was as he explained that Yugi wanted them to believe that he was, in fact, her. She didn't approve, but she couldn't do anything.
Yugi smiles, knowing that he ahd at least helped his sister a little, and let the Seal take him instead. Yugi falls to the ground, unconscious, while the gang call to him from across the chasm.
Rafael kneels down to retrieve the Seal of Orichalcos from Yugi's Duel Disk, then takes the necklace with the Orichalcos stone from Yugi's neck. Behind him, a helicopter piloted by Amelda rises over the mesa, lowering a rope ladder for Rafael, who grabs it, carrying Yugii under his arm.
As the helicopter passes by the gang, Rafael tosses Yuna's Duel Disk with her Deck at the boys, saying that they should have it as a final memory of the ancient soul and the two bakers take off.
Joey, Tristan, and Duke worriedly try to get Yuna to talk and take her Duel Disk, but she doesn't respond.
Finally she does something.
She falls to her knees, weeping, crying out to Yugi to come back.
''It should have been me, not Yugi! It's not fair! Aibou! Aibou! [Partner!]!''
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Back at Professor Hawkins' motor home, Téa and Rebeca are waiting worriedly for the guys to return, when they see Duke's car driving up, followed by Yuna on Rebeca's horse. The Professor's horse was galloping somberly beside her, the saddle empty of the boy who had rode off just a couple hours before.
Rebeca had yet to see that, and even Tea prayed that Yugi was simply ridding in the car, but the vehicle was too quiet for a happy group coming back victorious. She gasped when she saw how Yuna's proud shoulders were hunched and that she wasn't looking higher than needed for riding her horse.
Rebeca runs up to Yuna as soon as she dismounts when she and the boys stopped and hugs her, thanking her for saving Yugi from getting hurt. She was happily chattering, but starts back at the dark look on her face. It was something between helplessness, sorrow and anger, but guilt and self hate were also very visible.
Téa asks if everything's okay. Joey says, not really. They've got a problem. Duke and Tristan explain that Yugi didn't win—he's gone. Téa can't believe it—if Yugi had lost that duel, those creeps would have taken Yugi's soul with their magic card.
''If he's lost, how could she be standing right behind her...?'' She says, pointing to the Duel Queen. ''She wouldn't have lived with that ... ''
Suddenly, she realizes what must have happened.
Rebeca asks Yuna to talk to her. Finally, head hanging, Yuna admits that they got Yugi.
Rebeca was horrified after she heard the entire story.
''No! You're lying! Yugi wouldn't play that card! You're just trying to make excuses for failing him! If you really were a great Pharaoh, you would never have done that to my Yugi!'' She pounds her chest, weeping, saying it should have been her, not Yugi.
Yuna's jaw clenched. She bows her usually proud head as she speaks after Tea took Rebeca into a hug to try and comfort her.
''Rebeca's right. I let everyone down, especially Yugi. It should have been me-''
Joey tells her to snap out of it, grabbing Yuna and telling her to get a grip. He threw a fist at her fist, but Yuna, even in her state, had faster reflexes and blocked it, sending the blond to the floor only seconds later out of pure instinct.
Joey gets up, rubbing his jaw.
''That's it! That's way better than you weeping around! If we're going to rescue Yugi, we have to move ahead, not look back. For once, I would be glad to hear one of Kaiba's speeches about the future and all that shit. What we have to do now is find out who Dartz is, and where he keeps all his souls. We still have a chance to get Yugi back. What will we do if you can't pull yourself together? Where's your honor as the Queen of Duelists?'' He grabs her blue jacket. ''Snap out off it! Yugi needs you now!''
Yuna stared at him for a moment, and then nodded. ''You're right.'' She said, but the lost, helpless look was still in her eyes. It worried Joey, but he couldn't do anything about it. No, not really.
'But I wonder if he could, that bastard?'
Duke says that's what he's been suggesting since day one! Nobody listens to him. Tristan starts to strangle him, telling him to stop thinking about himself.
Yuna tells Tristan to let Duke go.
The boy instantly listened to her, since some of the strength had already came back into her voice.
'Man, this girl is scary!'
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After Dartz revealed that Rafael had dueled Yugi and not Yuna, the true reincarnation of the Nameless Pharaoh, and Rafael apologiezed and begged for another chance, Rex and Weevil explained that they want to join Doma, so Dartz gave them a test. If they could take the Orichalcos stones, they could join them; if not, they would have the same fate as Yugi and Pegasus, who were kept in a different room, tied up, ready to be used as the bait.
Rex and Weevil reach for the stones. Blue light streams from the stones, as Rex and Weevil try to grasp them. Valon and Amelda agree that these twerps aren't worthy. Rex thinks maybe they should rethink this whole joining-the-bad-guys thing, but Weevil says if he fails this test, he'll be a loser his whole life. They struggle to reach for the stones, and finally grab them. The Seal of Orichalcos forms on their cards.
Dartz congratulates them and welcomes them to the family.
''Now, you are Doma's swordsmen!''
Rafael leads them to a room full of every Duel Monster card ever produced, and tells them to have a party building their new decks. Rex says they've hit the mother lode! Valon tells them they can take anything but the Egyptian God cards. When Weevil protests, Amelda tells them if these cards aren't good enough, they can use their own decks.
Weevil decides these cards are perfect.
Dartz tells Rex and Weevil that their task is to bring him the souls of the Pharaoh and her companion, Joseph Wheeler. The Orichalcos is with them. They kneel down, accepting their orders.
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Joey says they know how to stop them—they've got to go straight to the source and destroy that weapon of theirs. Téa asks if he means that weird monster-zapper in the sky, the eye of the great beast. Tristan says unfortunately, it's after more than just monsters—it's using human souls to power itself up.
Joey asks Yuna if the purpose of Doma is really to clean out human history. She says yes, that's what Rafael said. Tristan says that would be too difficult, and Tea agrees. But Joey says, no, Doma can do it. They've already seen Doma's method. Tea again remembers the great eye in the sky.
Tristan agrees, and reminds them of what Doma's three swordsmen said about their needing souls.
Joey says right now that thing's got Yugi. So he doesn't know about the rest of them, but he's going to take action!
Téa says they can't just fight it by themselves—they need help. But Rebeca says those guys burned down her grandfather's laboratory and destroyed all his research, and without evidence, no one will believe their story. Téa says they have proof, down in the underwater ruins.
Rebeca shows them what she's discovered on her laptop computer—the ruins are no longer down there.
Professor Hawkins comes in, telling them not to give up. He can help them find the information they need.
''Thousands of years ago, Atlantis was home to the most advanced civilization the world had ever known. Everyone lived in peace, until one day a dreadful creature was called forth from the depths of the earth by an evil king.''
They watched as Yuna's anger suddenly flared, not knowing that Rafael had called her ancestor an evil king when Yuna knew what really happened to him. The professor explained everything in great detail how that king drew his strength from a mysterious stone, and the stone drew its strength from another world., but Yuna wasn't even listening. All the things the blond biker had said about her very soul still angered her beyond what words could even begin to describe.
''Alright, so all we need is a ride to the museum in Florida!'' Joey excitedly declared to the distant Queen of Games.
''And in that lies the problem.'' Duke said, sighing when Tristan and Joey groaned.
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Meanwhile, back at Kaiba Corp, Kaiba is on the phone with an employee who's telling him that ever since these monster sightings began, their stock has been plummeting, and nearly half of their company has been bought up by some unknown investor. Kaiba thinks he knows who it is. But he tells the employee to trace those transactions immediately—he's sure they'll point straight to those Doma guys.
As he hangs up, Mokuba says he's not so sure it's as simple as it all seems. Noah looks up from his new laptop at that, looking between his brothers.
''Seto, what's been bothering you for the past few hours?'' Mokuba finally boldly asks, knowing that that's the only way he would find out.
The said teen leans back into his executive chair, running a hand through his brunet locks.
''I have a bad feeling that something very ... unpleasant happened and that we are just still not aware of it.''
The two younger boys exchanged looks, before their eyes widened.
''You don't mean ...?'' Mokuba began, not able to finish as the thought of it made him instantly sick.
'' ... Nee-chii?'' Noah frightfully asked, praying to anyone who would listen that she was alright.
They both felt tears sting their eyes as Seto nodded sadly.
Just then, the office phone rang.
A/N: Ha! A cliffhanger! Hope you enjoyed the little twist! I'm sorry if the chapters aren't all that detailed, but I kind of got bored while doing it with the Doma guys.
Please R&R