"A Fusion Monster? How on earth did the Ritual Dimension gain that?!" Mieru said in shock.

"I don't know. But this confirms my theory of foul-play from Academia in this dimension." Reiji replied with a stern response.

Yuzu looked at Kaiba and his fused dragon. It towered above anything she had in her deck and she knew this was the worst-case situation that could've happened.

"How did he get a Fusion Monster…?!" thought Yuzu as her eyes shook with fear.

"I see you fear my beast, and so you should!" Kaiba yelled. "I attack! Hyper Ultimate Burst!"

"Well it won't matter… Yuzu has her cards in defence position." Mieru said.

"Think again!" Kaiba roared. "I use my Neo's effect! Once per duel, if I have a Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon in my extra deck, this card can attack three times!"

"Three times?! Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon?!" Yuzu replied.

"I gained more than just this Fusion Card! Take out them three monsters!" Kaiba commanded as each of the three heads charged up a powerful attack. "Wipe them all out!" Each head fired out their attack one after each other and all Yuzu could do was watch as her three monsters were wiped out in an instance. The blasts were each as strong as the next and after the third hit her Mozarta, Yuzu was sent flying across the stage on her stomach.

"Yuzu!" yelled Gongenzaka and Mieru at the same time as Yuzu was now face down on the stage. The whole crowd went wild as Kaiba had destroyed three monsters in one go. They chanted his name in unison. Yuzu slowly moved as she looked up to the towering Kaiba.

"I'm fine." said Yuzu as she got back up.

"Brave, now let's get back to this duel!" Kaiba replied. "I'm playing this! Card of Sanctity!"

"Card of what?!" said Yuzu.

"You should take this as a compliment! This allows us to draw cards until we each have six in our hand. A special card made only for me!" Kaiba raised his fist and the audience followed in vocal support. Yuzu and Kaiba drew their cards until each held six more cards.

"Well at least we're now even… though my deck is now lacking Spells thanks to that Virus Canon card he played." Yuzu thought.

"I shall use my Normal Summon and summon Peten the Dark Clown!" A jester monster appeared.

Peten the Dark Clown ATK: 500 DEF: 1200 Dark/Spellcaster/LVL 3

"I shall one card and end there!"

Turn 7

Yuzu LP: 2600 Hand: 6

Kaiba LP: 3000 Hand: 4

"You'll regret giving me a new hand!" said Yuzu as she drew her seventh card. "But how on earth can I take down that dragon?!" she thought.

"It seems you're struggling to choose a move, let me make it easier for you!" said Kaiba. "My Trap Crush Card Virus will assist! I tribute one Dark Monster with 1000 or less attack and then I check your hand!"

"Why do that?" said Yuzu as Peten vanished. Yuzu showed her hand to Kaiba and he looked at it on his duel screen.

"Because of this, all monsters with 1500 or more attack you control and draw for your next three turns are destroyed! Also since Peten was sent to the graveyard, I can banish is and Special Summon another from my deck!"

"What?!" shouted Yuzu as a second clown appeared.

Peten the Dark Clown ATK: 500 DEF: 1200 Dark/Spellcaster/LVL 3

"He's locked Yuzu down even more!" yelled Gongenzaka.

"It makes no difference!" Yuzu yelled. "I've had more tougher moments then this! I have gone through things you won't imagine Kaiba!" Yuzu looked at the white school coat which Yoko had given to her as a gift. "This belongs to Yuya and I vow to find him and return it! As a matter of fact….! I'm going to need your help here Yuya!" Yuzu threw her coat off and caught it. She placed the top two buttons onto her sleeveless school outfit and flicked up the coat. Her coat had now become a cape, a Yuya cape.

"What is she doing?!" Mieru gasped. Yuzu stood tall and proud with the coat now acting as her cape, she was now mimicking Yuya.

"Now's not the time to mess around Yuzu!" Gongenzaka bleated.

"It's not messing around Gongenzaka; this is Yuya's way of being with me!"

"I don't know who this Yuya guy is, but you look silly." Kaiba replied with a smug look.

"Each to their own!" Yuzu replied confidently. "When I started this journey my confidence was nowhere near as much as it is now! And that is thanks to everyone I have meant so far on this trip. And some smug person like you won't dent that! Go my Spell, Wavering Eyes! This cards effects depend on the amount of Pendulum Monsters are destroyed in the Pendulum Zones!"

"She's gonna wipe out her own scales?" Mieru said.

"Yes I am! Go Wavering Eyes!" A red blast of wind shot through the air and wiped out Yuzu's two Pendulum Scales in an instant. "I destroyed two Pendulum Cards, so I can use two of its effects! First one is that you take 500 points of damage!"

Kaiba LP: 3000 - 2500

"Secondly I can add a Pendulum Monster from my deck to my hand. I'm adding Queen Knight: The Pendulum Warrior!" A card popped out of Yuzu's deck and she added it to her hand.

"2500 attack? My Crush Card has made it worthless!"

"Only monsters with 1500 or more attack!" Yuzu discarded the card from her hand.

"Why would she add a worthless card?" Mieru asked.

"It's worthless now but in later turns, maybe it won't be." added Reiji.

"I summon Queen Knight: The Valkyrie of the South!" Valkyrie of the South was a long haired blonde female dressed in Norse clothing. She had a long cape made of fur and black amour with golden plates

Queen Knight: The Valkyrie of the South ATK: 1000 DEF: 300 Light/Warrior/Pendulum/LVL 3 – Scale: 5

"She summoned it in attack?" said an audience member.

"I end my turn!" Yuzu declared.

"She has no scales or any set cards?!" Gongenzaka said. Reiji smirked as he had worked out Yuzu's plan.

"Don't think I don't know what's going on." Kaiba said as he pointed at Yuzu. "You have something in your hand, don't you?!"

"Well you might have it figured out, but can you stop it?!" Yuzu replied. Kaiba seemed to be surprised at Yuzu throwing down the gauntlet.

Turn 8

Yuzu LP: 2600 Hand: 5

Kaiba LP: 2500 Hand: 4

"I shall rise above you! I draw!" Kaiba declared. "I summon Assault Wyvern!" A blue dragon with purple wings appeared.

Assault Wyvern ATK: 1800 DEF: 1000 Light/Dragon/LVL 4

"Go my Wyvern, attack Valkyrie!" Wyvern powered up a dark charge within its mouth and fired it directly at Yuzu's monster.

"I send Brave Heart from my hand to the grave!"

"Brave Heart?!" Kaiba replied. Yuzu sent a Fairy Monster from her hand to the graveyard slot on her duel disk. "My Fairy Monster gains attack equal to the attack of the monster it is battling until the end of this turn!" Valkyrie glowed as the effect occurred.

Valkyrie of the South ATK: 2800

"Damn you!" said Kaiba as Valkyrie slammed a strong punch into the attacking Wyvern's beam and made it end. Valkyrie leapt up and punched Assault Wyvern on the nose, destroying it. Kaiba could only watch as his monster went out in a big explosion.

Kaiba LP: 2500 – 1500

"Yes!" Mieru cheered.

"Yuzu might actually win this!" Gongenzaka replied.

"Remember that Kaiba is the number one ranked duelist here." Reiji said. "Don't think he'll go down that easy."

"Would it kill you to get behind Yuzu?!" Gongenzaka shouted in annoyance at Reiji.

"I'm a realist, that's all." Reiji calmly replied.

"I will teach you for coming here!" Kaiba replied. "I attack with Neo Blue-Eyes! Eradicate her!" Neo Blue-Eyes charged up another three pronged attack and fired directly at the Valkyrie, wiping her out.

Yuzu LP: 2600 – 900

"I had hoped to use Brave Heart against your Neo Blue-Eyes but oh well, I will win this!" Yuzu continued to say in upbeat form.

"I'm getting annoyed with you! Why won't you break?! You should be bowing and begging for me to go easy! Do you not know who I am?!"

"No, I don't." said a smug Yuzu.

"I will teach you. I set two cards."

"But why didn't Yuzu use Valkyrie effect to change a battle position, once it's attacked, it can do that?" Gongenzaka asked.

"Yuzu must have a plan." Mieru replied.

Turn 9

Yuzu LP: 900 Hand: 4

Kaiba LP: 1500 Hand: 2

Yuzu drew her card. It was Shopina the Melodious Maestra, a 2300 attack monster so Yuzu had to send it to her graveyard.

"Yuzu lost another card…" Mieru said.

"I set two cards." said Yuzu as she placed them face down.

"Going defensive now?" said Kaiba. "Shame, you almost had me."

"And I still will!" said a determined Yuzu. "Here I go!" She ran up to the closest blue platform of the Action Field and leapt up on it. She was on the platform for barely a second before she was leaping to and from the other platforms, searching for an Action Card.

"What on earth… are you?" said Kaiba as he watched her drift in style. Yuzu saw an Action Card upon the top platform and she was within a reach of it.

"Easy!" Yuzu leapt up with a single hand out towards it and gracefully caught it, landing on a lower platform with ease afterwards. "Nice!" she said looking at it. "I end my turn!" Yuzu made her way back to the ground.

"You won't use it?!" Kaiba replied.

"I will when I need to!"

"She's got no monsters?!" Gongenzaka said.

Turn 10

Yuzu LP: 900 Hand: 3

Kaiba LP: 1500 Hand: 2

"Fine I draw!" Kaiba looked at the card in his hand. "I attack with Neo-Blue Eyes! This is your end!"

"I counter with another card in my hand!" Yuzu said. "When I'm attacked directly, I can Special Summon this from my hand! Queen Knight: Sir Kay the Defender!" A female with short pink hair appeared with purple, short sleeved amour appeared in defence position.

Queen Knight: Sir Kay the Defender ATK: 1300 DEF: 2900 Light /Warrior/LVL 5

"When she's summoned this way, the battle phase ends!" Yuzu replied as Neo Blue-Eyes was forced back to Kaiba's field.

"Phew… Yuzu survived once more." Mieru said.

"That's it!" Kaiba yelled with annoyance. "I play a Quick-Play Spell! De-Fusion!" One of Kaiba's set cards flipped up.

"De-Fusion?!" Yuzu yelled.

"This sends Neo Blue-Eyes back to my extra deck and then its Fusion Materials are Special Summoned from my graveyard!"

"Hang on… that means?!" Mieru declared.

"Kaiba gets three dragons for the price of one!" Gongenzaka added.

"Now you will have to face the power of my most powerful servants! Appear my three Blue-Eyes!" Kaiba roared as Neo disappeared and split into three dragons. Each one roared one after another and Yuzu was faced with yet another almost impossible situation.

Blue-Eyes White Dragon ATK: 3000 DEF: 2500 Light/Dragon/LVL 8 X 3

"Next I play the Ritual Spell, Chaos Form!"

"Ritual Summon again?" Yuzu questioned.

"Kaiba's ace monster!" the crowd yelled.

"Yes and watch and behold! I Tribute one Blue-Eyes to Ritual Summon!" One of the Blue-Eyes White Dragons shot into the night sky and a thunderclap shot down. Kaiba stood almighty as within the thunder, emerged his mightiest monster. "I Ritual Summon, Blue-Eyes Chaos MAX Dragon!"

Blue-Eyes Chaos MAX Dragon ATK: 4000 DEF: 0 Dark/Dragon/Ritual/LVL 8

"I play a Spell! Blue-Eyes Blast! For each Blue-Eyes on my field, you take 300 points of damage! I have exactly three, so you lose!"

"YUZU!" shouted Gongenzaka and Mieru.

"Go my Action Card, Damage Reverse! Any effect damage I would take, increases my lifepoints instead!"

"They can be used during either turn?! Not fair!" Kaiba yelled. Yuzu glowed as she gained lifepoints.

Yuzu LP: 900 – 1800

"Whatever you throw at me Kaiba, I'll throw right back, harder!" Yuzu declared. Kaiba looked above and saw an Action Card. To the audience's surprise, Kaiba leapt up from the platforms and grabbed one as well.

"Not bad…" said Yuzu.

"I play the Action Spell, Trap Set! I can set a Trap from my deck to the field! I set one card and end my turn."

"I wonder what he set?" Reiji thought.

Turn 11

Yuzu LP: 1800 Hand: 2

Kaiba LP: 1500 Hand: 0

"I draw!" Yuzu declared. "Now to end this!"

"You can't end me." Kaiba replied.

"With this I can! First of all, I play one of my Traps, Reborn of the Fairies! When you control more monsters then I do, I can Special Summon one Fairy Monster from my graveyard!"

"But Crush Card will destroy any high attack monsters you control until the end of this turn?!" Kaiba yelled back.

"You didn't let me finish! It's unaffected by card effects until the end of the turn!"

"Just go!" Kaiba responded.

"I summon my Queen Knight: The Pendulum Warrior!" A pink long haired female appeared with red, old style amour on with a red cape.

Queen Knight: The Pendulum Warrior ATK: 2500 DEF: 2000 Light/Warrior/Pendulum/LVL 7 – Scale 4

"Chaos MAX cannot be targeted or destroyed by monster effects! Looks like your effort has just gone to waste!"

"I wasn't planning for that!"

"Well let's see your grand plan!" Kaiba replied."Let's see how your precious Pendulum can take me down!"

"Pendulum is not only mine, it is also from Yuya. And it is one of the links that unites us! Although he is not here, he will be with us in spirit! And not only Yuya, Rin also stand by me and fights for us and all those innocents involved in this war! Gongenzaka, Mieru… heck even Reiji… at times is behind me! I won't lose to a egotistical person like you!"

"Go Yuzu!" cheered Gongenzaka and Mieru.

"Before you do anything, I use a Continuous Trap! Final Attack Orders!"

"Final what?!" replied Yuzu.

"This forces all monsters into attack position and they cannot be changed, next up, we must take three cards from our decks and send the rest of our decks into the grave! We place the remaining three cards in any order back into our decks."
"I need to pick three cards?!" Yuzu replied.

"Yes, I will continue to lock you down until you beg me for mercy!"

"That won't happen!" Yuzu yelled as she and Kaiba choose their three cards. The rest of their decks were sent away. "Now I play a Spell! Fairy Life! I target a level five or higher Fairy Monster and double its attack until the end phase! It's would be banished during your standby phase.

The Pendulum Warrior ATK: 5000

"Ok Pendulum Warrior END THIS! You take damage equal to the destroyed monsters attack! Wipe out Chaos MAX!" Warrior picked up her sword and charged down towards the Ritual Dragon.

"Go my Trap! Negate Attack!" Kaiba declared as Warrior was sent back to Yuzu's field.

"Damnit!" Yuzu said. "I set one card."

Turn 12

Yuzu LP: 1800 Hand: 2

Kaiba LP: 1500 Hand: 0

As the turn begun, Pendulum Warrior was banished.

"Now I shall end this! You had your chance and failed!" Kaiba drew a card from his black duel disk. "I attack with Chaos Max! Wipe out Sir Kay!"

"Go my Trap! Last Knight! I negate destruction and all damage involving that monster this turn is reduced to zero!" A force field blocked Sir Kay from harm. "But you can draw a card!"

"Fine!" said Kaiba as he drew. His deck was down to one card. "I still have enough to beat you though! I have two other Blue-Eyes!"

"Not with my final Trap! Pendulum Set! I send two cards from my hand and then I can set two Pendulum Cards which are face up in my extra deck!"

"She's setting scales during her opponents turn?!" Mieru said in shock.

"I send my two cards in my hand and set my scales! I set scale five Valkyrie of the South and scale four Mozarta!" Both monsters rose up in her Pendulum Scales.

Mozarta 4 - Valkyrie 5

"Attack Blue-Eyes number two!" Blue-Eyes fired and destroyed Sir Kay. Yuzu avoided damage however. "Now end this my third Blue-Eyes!"

"I use Valkyrie's Pendulum effect! Once per turn, during either players turn, I can switch a monsters battle position that you control" Blue Eyes #3 was forced into defence.

"Not bad, but still, only one of us will emerge as a victor! Attack Peten!" Peten punched Yuzu's duel disk.

Yuzu LP: 1800 - 1300

"Yes and that will be me! I banish a monster that I just sent to the graveyard!"

"What monster?!"

"Carreno the Melodious Maestra! When this card is sent to the graveyard from my hand or field, each of us draws one card!" "You want me to run out of cards!" Kaiba yelled in response.

"Took you long enough to work it out!" Yuzu said. "I can't beat you on brute force, so I will win another way!"

"Excellent Yuzu!" Mieru cheered. Kaiba and Yuzu each drew a card. Kaiba had pure annoyance on his face while Yuzu smirked with delight. However, just as Kaiba drew, he begun to laugh.

"What is it?!" Yuzu said in response to Kaiba's laughter.

"I can only deck out when I need to draw another card!"

"But you will get another turn, and then you shall lose!" Yuzu replied.

"Not if I do this!" Kaiba replied. "Go my Trap! Repeat Offender! I target one Spell in my graveyard and by halving my lifepoints, I can activate it!"

"What card will he activate?!" Mieru asked.

"It's obvious." Reiji replied.

Kaiba LP: 1500 – 750

"I choose…Card of Sanctity! We must both draw six cards!"

"We're going to deck out at the same time!" Yuzu cried.

"You got it!" Yuzu and Kaiba went to draw their cards but their duel disks stopped and the words "DRAW" appeared.

Yuzu Kaiba – DRAW

"They… drew?" said the stunned audience. Kaiba and Yuzu looked at each other as Crossover faded.

"Not bad kid." said Kaiba as he turned and begun to walk away.

"Hey!" Yuzu yelled back, trying to stop him.

"Oh yeah." Kaiba said. "Release her friends. It's night-time now, so go and get some rest. I want you four to come to Kaiba Corp tomorrow; I will find you again if you choose to run." Kaiba said as he walked off. Yuzu gritted her teeth. "Apparently I judged you wrong, only a few I have been able to recognize a duelist as a equal." Yuzu raised a small smirk as Kaiba walked off.

A/N

Thanks to Rom for the cards and some lines, including the final sentence. That duel was sooooo hard to write but it was I think, one of the best I wrote.

Now for the draw, I'm not fully sure of the rules in this case but let's just accept it's a rule in my stories universe.

We are now going to head to Synchro for 5 chapters. This was the end of the first arc in Ritual.

Fantasymaker76- We will see Yuya gain the other summons the more he sees his counterparts. Meteorburst Dragon was used in 43 by Yuya.

Royal2 – Thanks for the review.

Guest – It could work but no, the boys won't be brainwashed… but maybe something else though.

O.C Cards - To be added

Yuzu

Carreno the Melodious Maestra ATK: 2600 DEF: 1400 Light/Fairy/LVL 7

When this card is sent from your hand or field, you and your opponent draws one card. If this card is Special Summoned, send one random card from your opponents hand to the graveyard.

Braveheart ATK: 0 DEF: 0 Light/Fairy/LVL 1

During either player's Damage Step, when a LIGHT monster you control battles: You can send this card from your hand to the Graveyard; that monster gains ATK equal to the ATK of the opponent's monster it is battling, until the end of this turn.