Well it seems that at the moment I am on a bit of a roll and have this chapter up not too long after the other one. I hope that you readers like it and as always I don't own Yugioh. I'm just a fan.
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"Ah he's so smug up there." Tea said in disgust as she glared at the young CEO. Abasi felt the same but she was more confused as to why Kaiba chose now right before Yugi could show he had earned his right to enter the castle. Unless…
Seeing Kaiba in his way seemed to piss Yugi off. "Step aside Kaiba!"
"Not till you agree to Duel me." Kaiba said unfazed.
"I'm not dueling you I don't have to." Yugi said. Abasi could hear a bit of uncertainty in his voice which made her move closer to him giving him a bit of a confidence boost, she hoped.
"So, no longer confident in your so called heart of the cards can help you win? Or are you afraid that you can't beat me without Exodia? That's it isn't it Yugi? Your just afraid that you can't beat me a second time, you coward." Kaiba snapped pissing all of them off now.
"You back off!" Tea snapped right back at him. "He doesn't have to prove anything."
"You want a duel smart mouth, I'll take you come on." Joey said clearly ready to take another go at the young CEO. Kaiba simply chuckled which pissed Joey off even more and would have jumped him if Bakura and Tristan hadn't held him back. They were reminding him that he was out smarted by Kaiba last time when Kaiba noticed that Joey had 10 star chips on his glove. Even though Kaiba insulted Joey Abasi could see he was a little surprised by this achievement on the rookie's part.
Kaiba then went on to tell them about he still wondered how Yugi, the only person who had eve beaten him at Duel Monsters, had been able to do it. "Yugi, you said you won by tapping into the Heart of the Cards and for a long time I didn't know what that meant. But now I do and it took Pegasus to show me. He gave me a reason to put my heart in the cards."
"Pegasus has put you up to this hasn't he?" Abasi suddenly said bring all the attention to herself. "It's the only way that he will let you duel him to not only save your company but to rescue Mokuba as well." The others look at her in surprise but she was focused on Kaiba who looked down at her in shock. "I don't know if the others told you but we saw him and he tried to defeat Yugi in a duel for you. We tried to help him but Pegasus's men took him. I'm sorry that we didn't protect him very well but if you just give us a chance we can help you get your brother back. You just have to let us help."
She had hoped by telling him all of this, Kaiba would rescind his challenge but he only looked like what she said was nothing. "I had heard about what you tried to do and I thank you Klashi but I don't need your help." He looked down at a pendent that he had pulled from under his shirt before he turned his attention back to Yugi. "For the first time Yugi I can duel with fire and passion in my heart."
"I can feel it." Yugi muttered but Abasi heard him and she couldn't help but agree. Though in the back of her mind she felt uneasy about this situation. That this duel was the footsteps to something bigger and she didn't need to have a vison to know that.
"Yugi you can't accept this duel." Bakura said.
"You've already earned enough star chips to get into the castle." Tea reminded him.
"I've changed, I deserve a rematch. Give me a chance to play you now Yugi, let me play you for the right reasons." Kaiba said stunning the others into silence. It surprised them at how sincere he was sounding. Abasi couldn't even think of a reason for Yugi or Yami to say no as the two switch places and Yami accepted the duel. Kaiba lead them to the top of the case by way of an outer stair case. As they headed up Abasi noticed that Tea was looking at Yami strangely. This made her wonder if finally one of their friends had started to notice that there was another who dueled with Yugi.
Well Kaiba and Yami got their decks and Kiaba's new Duel disk system ready to go Abasi and the rest of them waited off to the side. Though Abasi was excited about seeing this new dueling system that Kaiba had created in action she worried. She couldn't think a reason about why she was feeling about this duel being a very bad idea. Sure there was a risk that Yami/Yugi could loss the duel and his chance in getting into the castle to save his grandpa. Abasi felt there was something else behind her fealings. She stood silently next to Tea as the others gave Yugi/Yami a peep talk from the sidelines and the duel began.
As Kaiba played his first monster Reuka Shin, the hologram of his cards and the monster appeared Abasi couldn't help but be impressed. Though it was a prototype it was an amazing piece of work. Yami played Curse of Dragon, which was stronger the Kaiba's monster by 400 points. Kaiba of course we impressed but Yami clearly didn't want to hear it. Abasi knew that he wanted to rescue Grandpa just as much as Yugi did but she noticed something was different about the spirit in this moment. He was exceedingly angry and she couldn't see why.
"Yugi I know from playing you that you're a talented duellist but you're just not as good as I am." Kaiba said. "Listen up, only one duellist is going to challenge Pegasus and that is going to be me."
"Wrong." Yami growled.
"Then attack and find out. What's the matter Yugi not faith in your monster." Kaiba said baiting him.
"You'll see he's mightier than yours. Go Curse of Dragon! Attack Reuka Shin!" Yami ordered and as Curse of Dragon took out Kiaba's monster with no trouble along with 400 of Kaiba's life points. As Kaiba recalled his duel disk he commended Yami once again before telling him he was predictable.
"He's bluffing." Joey said confidently. "You've got Kaiba on the ropes. Alright go Yugi."
"It's still early in the duel Joey and the means it still anyone's game." Abasi reminded him though not once did she take her eyes off the duel. The way Kaiba was talking and acting as he drew his next card then played his Sword Stalker had her on edge. She was beginning to think that maybe Kaiba had something up his sleeve. Kaiba monster's attack points when up by 20 present as it gathered the life force form the monster in his graveyard surprising them all. But then as Kaiba attacked it was Yami's turn to pull a surprise as he played a Monster Replace spell card on the field. This took Curse of Dragon off the field with the monster in his hand with the highest attack power. This of course was the Dark Magician and with it Yami took out Kaiba's seconded monster with no trouble. This only took a 100 life points from Kaiba but it was a good move. Joey and the others were impressed but Abasi knew that it was not all that impressive.
"Clueless." Kaiba muttered to himself clearly disappointed in Joey's outburst. "If only those fools knew what I had in store."
Yami replayed his Cures of Dragon before he ended his turn. Kaiba played La Jinn the Mystical Genie and Yami immediately went to attack it with his Dark Magician. This triggered Kaiba's trap the Ancient Lamp, which first sucked the genie into it, protecting it. Then redirected Yami's attack right back at his Curse of Dragon, destroying it. This made their life point even and stunning the others into silence. Abasi had seen this move before, during the last Egyptian tournament, so she was less surprised but she was glad to see that Yami quickly got over his. "You may have destroyed Curse of Dragon but I still have the Dark Magician. Kaiba for all you're bragging the score is tied. We're evenly matched." He said seeming pleased and not taking notice of the smug smirk on Kaiba's face.
"This is way too intense." Tristan suddenly said breaking the silence that had fallen over the rest of them for that last few moments.
"Remember Tristan Yugi beet Kaiba once before." Bakura reminded him.
"I'd like to beat Kaiba alright." Joey growled.
"What is with Kaiba anyway?" Tea asked.
"He wants to save his brother and like Yugi he is dueling his hardest to get his chance to face Pegasus." Abasi said. "Because of that it could be anyone's duel." What she didn't say was that she was finding Kaiba's lack of trash talk disturbing. She could tell that Yami/Yugi was thinking the same thing but she didn't know how she could tell that from just the expression on his face.
"What's the matter Yugi? You look a bit worried. Finally realising that without your precious Exodia card you don't stand a chance against me?" That was the Kaiba that they knew but it wasn't like his usual insults.
"I won't need Exodia to defeat you Kaiba." Yami snapped as Kaiba recalled his duel disk and drew his next card. He equipped his genie with D-spell and used it to get rid of Yami's Swords of reviling light. Kaiba was smug about this but true to how he played the game. Yami drew and after he had resummoned his Dark Magician he played The Eye of Truth trap card. This allowed him to look at Kaiba's hand and they were all surprised to see that Kaiba already had a Blue Eyes sitting in his hand. This set off warning bell in Absai's mind and it seemed to trigger a vision.
Kaiba was laughing as he stood over Yugi with a three headed Blue eyes that was about to attack. Then Yami stepped forward and with angry look on his face. He then attacked, not only destroyed the dragon but Kaiba as well. Immediately right after Pegasus laughter filled her mind and he nearly drowned out Mokuba'a cries of anguish. Abasi came out of the vison with a violent jerk of her body that nearly sent her falling off the stone bridge they were standing on. Thankfully Tristan was able to steady her.
"Hey you alright Abasi? You look a bit pale." He asked her well she tried to get a hold of herself.
"Ya I'm alright. Just tired." It wasn't a complete lie as the vison had taken a toll, it would seem that she hadn't recover as much as she thought. She now light headed and her body felt a little heaver. As she tried to pull herself together she quickly realised that she had miss a bit well in her vison. Gone was Kaiba's Genie and in its place he had out one of his Blue Eyes. It seemed that well she was in her vison Yami had used Magical Box to destroy Kaiba's lamp, then used his Dark Magician to take out the genie. Then Kaiba played Soggie the Dark Clown which he let Yami destroy and successively infected Yami's/Yugi's deck with a crush card. Now Yami could only play magic cards and monster with 1500 or lower attack points. With this advantage Kaiba had brought Yami/Yugi's life point to 1500 as he now attacked Yami's Rathor with is Blue eyes and brought Yami's life point to 400.
"Already my Blue Eyes has you cowering and this is only the beginning. Soon you will know what fear is." Kaiba said as Yami drew his next card. He then put his Soldier of Stone in defence position. Kaiba drew and the dynamics of the duel changed completely. "Yugi, when you battled my Blue eyes before they were three separate dragons. Formidable yes but not invincible. But now I've found a way to merge their power, combine their strengths to create a monster with power beyond imagining. Now I create a duel monster without fear, with attack force so great no monster can stand against it. I create that the Blue-eyes Ultimate Dragon!"
Seeing the three head monster in a vison was not as frightening as seeing it in real life as it took shape towered over all of them. "By Ra that thing is scary and beautiful at the same time." Abasi muttered but wondered as to why she had a vison about it a few moment before it was summoned to the field? What was it her gift trying to warn her about?
"Yugi Mouto, there's no escape." Kaiba said with glee. "Nothing can save you now." With attack points of 4500 Abasi feared that he may be right but that was not the defeat she had for seen. All she and the others could do was watch as Kaiba's dragon first destroyed Yami's Stone Warrior. "It doesn't matter what card you play next Yugi, you have nothing that can with stand the formidable strength of my Blue-eyes Ultimate Dragon. You might as well give up."
"That Ultimate Dragon can whip out the rest of Yugi's life points with just one breath. Kaiba has the upper hand and he knows it." Joey said. "He's just waiting for Yugi to back down."
"Which we know he won't do." Abasi muttered.
"I don't see how Yugi can pull this one out." Joey was saying as Yami looked at the card he had drawn and a look of shock came to his face. This surprised Kaiba when he saw this reaction well Joey, Tristan, Bakura and Tea looked at Abasi for the answer. She simply shrugged not sure on what Yami could have drawn to help him win in a situation where the odds were not in his favor.
Suddenly Yami laughed. "Kaiba, I just drew the card that will deafened me from your Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon."
"Imposable." Kaiba snapped.
"Watch and learn." Yami side as he pulled back his duel disk and summoned Karibo on to the field in attack mood. The little monster though cute only had 300 ATK points and 200 DEF which in Abasi and the others option not enough to defend Yami/Yugi's life points. In fact he looked more like a snack for Kaiba's beast. Kaiba seemed insulted that Yami would place such a low level monster on the same field of his Ultimate Dragon but Yami soon showed him and his friends that they were all wrong. Using Multiply, that when paired with monsters with attack powers below 500 make an endless supply of that monster. In a matter of moments Yami's side of the field was filled with an army of Karibos. "More then you bargained for eh Kaiba?" Yami asked the young CEO.
"So is this some kind of a joke?" Kaiba demanded. "
Yami laughed again. "The jokes on you Kaiba. When you attacked you thought I had one defender, but now I have many. And I'm getting more and more defended by the second."
"No matter. Have you forgotten the incredible assault power that my dragon possesses? It will burn them to a crisp." Kaiba snapped as his dragon attack Yami's still growing army of fur balls. His attack was not very affective as it only took out a few Karibos and they were quickly replaced. Yami pointed out Kaiba may have created the ultimate attacking monster, well he had the best defiance. Abasi was relieved by this turn of events but she was still uneasy as she wondered about her vision. In the few short years that she had been having her visions they had they always come true. Abasi was hoping that for once this would be one that didn't.
How wrong she was as Yami was able to fuse his undead Mammoth Graveyard with the heart of Kaiba's dragon. This of course didn't work properly as they were not compatible. So this meant that the mammoth would eat away at Blue-eye's Ultimate dragon's life points each turn. Abasi felt that this was underhanded and cruel as the Blue-eyes was a magnificent dragon. It didn't deserve to be treated this way just because of its master. She tried to use the connection spell to talk to Yami and ask what he was playing at but found that her magic was nearly depleted. This wasn't good as it meant she either had t standby and do nothing or pass out from magic exhaustion for one spell. Of course the others thought this was a good move unaware that Abasi was having an internal battle with herself.
As Kaiba tried desperately to attack Yami and each time he failed as the army of Karibos got in his way. Each turned that caused another 1200 attack points from Kaiba's dragon to be taken away and the dragon its self was decaying right before their eyes. Absei began to wonder if maybe she was just over thinking things and that maybe Kaiba deserved to see his beloved monster rot away.
"Seto!"
Abasi blinked and stared in fear as Mokuba appeared where Yami's mammoth was meant to be. The black hair much younger boy and was desperately retching out to his big brother. "Help Seto, please help me!" Abasi felt a shiver go up her spine as her fear increased. She knew it was Kaiba's imagination she was seeing, having in some way tapped into his mind. She covered her mouth to stop herself from crying out in horror. She wanted so badly to save the poor boy that only wanted to be saved by his big brother. "Brother please you promised. You promised to help me."
A younger version of Seto Kaiba came out of his body and ran desperately towards his little brother. "Mokuba!"
"Seto hurry."
"I'm coming!" the young Seto yelled but he was too late as young Mokuba was swallowed by the rotting dragon. Then it was gone and Kaiba was up on the ledge, the cries of the two young Kaiba reverberated through Abasi's mind. He was a desperate man who only wanted to save his little brother. She made her decision in that moment that if her vison came true she would be ready to do what was needed.
"Yugi it can't end this way." Kaiba said as he looked at Yami. "If I don't defeat you in this duel Pegasus will keep Mokuba prisoner forever. I can't let that happen and even though I don't have a card that can keep you from attacking I think I have a strategy that will stop you in your tracks." He stood confidently on the wall of the castle, the ground fare below him.
"Kaiba stop this!" Yami said a bit scared now.
"What's Kaiba up to now?" Joey asked. "Does he think that this cheap stunt is going to stop Yugi from winning the match and saving his grandpa?"
"Your move Yugi. You can attack my blue eyes and take out the rest of my life point. But if you do the resulting shockwaves may cause me to lose my balance." Kaiba said his voice void of fear.
"Don't tempt me." Yami snapped.
"My fate is completely in your hands Yugi. You'll decided this duel one way or another. Of course if you don't surrender I might be hurt and you wouldn't want that would you?" Kaiba asked.
"Stop it Kaiba you know this is dangers." Tea pleaded.
"Ah Kaiba's bluffing. Now come on drop this cheap ploy, come down from that ledge and play fair. You know that Yugi doesn't want to hurt you." Joey said. He was unaware that Kaiba wasn't bluffing.
When Kabia chuckle it was apparent to them that he was aware of this fact and was using Yugi's good nature against him. It was almost a stalemate as they both had to get into the castle to rescuer loved ones that were on the line. Though Kabia claimed he was ready to do anything to save his brother as he revived one of head of his Blue eyes back to full strength by way of Monster Reborn. He then challenged Yugi that he didn't have the guts to finish the duel and if that was his choice that with Celtic Guardian out and in attack mode Kaiba would end it on his next turn. Abasi watched as the conflict between Yugi and Yami happed and in a last ditched effort she gathered what was left of her strength for one last spell.
"Kaiba I've never backed away and I'm not starting now." Yami snapped as he had Celtic Guardian charge in for an attack.
As Yami's monster charged, and Tea cried out that he should attack Abasi was ready. She only had to saw two words. She gave Yami a moment to reconsider the commanded but when he didn't she spoke as her remaining power surged from deep within her. "Banishment Seal."
With that Yami was forced back in the Millennium Puzzle which gave Yugi back control. He immediately yelled at Celtic Guardian to stop his attack as he fell to his knees. At the same time Abasi clasped and would have fallen had Tristan not caught her in time. "Abasi are you alright? Absai?" Tristan tried to get her to respond but she was out cold. This was for shadowed by Yugi trembling in fear well Kaiba laughed in victory.
"Couldn't do it huh? White Lightning Attack." Kaiba commanded his dragon's only good head took out Yugi's monster and Yugi's life points fell to 0. Kaiba smugly left with five of Yugi's star chips barely sparing any of them a look as he left after gathering his prototype.
Yugi was crying as his friends surrounded him in concern. "I almost couldn't control it. This other presence deep inside of me. He was willing to go all the way against Kaiba." Yugi sobbed.
"Another presence inside of you?" Joey asked confused.
"What do you mean?" Tristan asked as he held Absai in his arms. He was surprised to find that she was much lighter then she looked. "What the heck are you talking about buddy?"
"Like me, Yugi has some sort of ancient spirit inside of him. It has something to do with our millennium items." Bakura explained.
"If it hadn't been for Absai I might never have stopped the attack in time. I'm - afraid of this spirit inside me, so afraid that I will never duel again." Yugi said.
Tea knelt in front of him. "I'm sorry. Sorry about your grandpa but you did the right thing. You couldn't hurt another person not even to save him. He wouldn't want to be saved that way." Tea said finally getting Yugi to raise his head and look at her. He saw her tears and when he turned to look at Abasi he saw that her face was also wet. Yami had hurt one to many of his friends and because of this Yugi would never have his help ever again.
A/N: There you go the rematch between Kaiba and Yugi is done as is this chapter. Please read and review as I always welcome my readers feedback.
