Note To Readers: Hey everyone! So Atem is finally back. Just how will this effect everything? Especially Yugi and Kaiba. I personally wasn't satisfied with the ending of the Yugioh series though Dark Dimensions did help with closure. If only a little. I wanted a more epic ending with Atem's departure. So For all you readers out there that feel the same has I hold onto your seat this is about to get crazy! Not to mention drive Kaiba to the point of insanity! Without further to do it is my pleasure to introduce Chapter 7 of Black Magic: Hands Of Destiny!

Chapter 7: Darkness Descends

"Woah!" Bloom exclaimed as she entered the arena. It was huge! Perhaps even bigger than the stadium they had back at the Red Fountain the school for heroics and bravery where Sky and his friends Kaiba brought a suitcase over to Bloom and opened it up. Inside was a bunch of Duel Monster cards each with eye-catching designs. She noticed some were creatures and the others cards that caused effects to power up the creatures or buy time to draw more powerful monsters. "Using these cards you'll create your own deck made up of Monster, Magic and Trap cards," Kaiba told the redhead as she started to look through the cards carefully and pick out what she needed to make a deck. "Ok, I have my cards picked now what?" Bloom questioned. "Now you shuffle your deck and slide it into your duel disk like so." the blue eyed male muttered and demonstrated before Bloom followed his lead.

"The rules are simple." Kaiba began as the redhead listened. "Each player starts out with 4000 life points and you may only have six cards on the field. You may also only summon a monster once per turn and you may not use a fusion monster in the same turn as you summoned it." "What do you mean by Fusion monster?" "A fusion monster is a monster that you produce when you take two monsters or more and use a card known as Polymerization. The more you play the better you'll understand the concept." "Sounds intense..." Bloom admitted which only manifest a smirk on the CEO's face. "It can be...especially for amateurs. These rules were used for my Battle City Tournament. The loser would have to forfeit their rarest card to the other player." "Wow, Yugi wasn't kidding when he mentioned that you were dedicated to this card game." the Faerie admitted impressed. "Now. When you want to attack you place your monster in attack mode you place the card like this. Right side up...now for defense you place it horizontally...like so..." the CEO once demonstrated yet again. "In defense mode, your life points are not deducted from the monsters attack points but when they're in attack mode." "Then they are ok...I think I got it..." Bloom murmured as she went over what Kaiba had told her.

"Then they are... ok...I think I got it..." Bloom murmured as she went over what Kaiba had told her. "Good you're a fast learner but let's see how you do when faced with the real thing..." Kaiba muttered. "Bring it on! I'm ready!" the redhead exclaimed all fired up. Mokuba hurried up on the platform as he noticed Bloom and his big brother ready to face off in a duel. "Awesome!" the younger Kaiba brother exclaimed. There was no way he was going to miss this. "HEY! SETO!" Mokuba called out to Kaiba before the blue eyed male looked up only to see his little brother waving happily with a broad smile on his face. "Alright! Looks like we have an audience now!" Bloom exclaimed with a bright smile of her own. "YOU BETTER NOT GO EASY ON HER BIG BRO!" Mokuba yelled out with a chuckle. "LET'S DUEL!" both Bloom and Kiba exclaimed. "Ladies first." Kaiba teased before the whole sphere they were in suddenly turned into a city gleaming with lights and people. It was almost like the magical reality chamber.

"You asked for it!" Bloom grinned and picked up a card from her deck. "I summon Curtain of the dark ones in attack mode!" she cried before she nearly jumped backward as the monster manifested in front of her. She could have SWORN it was REAL! "Woah! That was scary!" "My move!" Kaiba exclaimed and drew his cards before he placed it in attack mode. "I summon Mystic Horsemen in attack mode! Mystic horsemen attack Curtain Of The Dark Ones NOW!" the CEO commanded before Mystic Horseman charged towards Bloom's monster and shattered it with his mighty ax. The redhead screamed as she shielded herself. "Oh no!" Bloom cried as her life points began to lower from the attack now at 2300. "Give up yet? I told you this game wasn't for the faint of heart." "No way!" the redhead exclaimed and drew a card but there was nothing she could do since it wasn't a monster card. "I end my turn." she sighed before Kaiba drew a card and grinned maliciously. Why did she not like the look on his face?

"I place scapegoat in attack mode...and then I sacrifice Lamb and Mystic Horseman to summon my Blue Eyes White Dragon!" Kaiba cried out as suddenly a bright blue light illuminated the entire sphere a large dragon with white scales and blue eyes roaring with a mighty voice to announce it's arrival. Bloom gasped as she could only look up at the powerful creature. "YEAH! GO SETO!" Mokuba cheered. "BLUE EYES WHITE LIGHTNING ATTACK!" the blue-eyed call called forth. The dragon opened it's mouth and unleashed a mighty force Bloom screaming at the ball of lightning came towards her and braced herself for impact. Though her heart was pounding from the fear she had experienced just as now she noticed that she was unharmed though her life points were down to zero. "Aw man...I lost..." the Faerie huffed before she struggled to her to her feet. Kaiba above her held out his hand. Bloom paused before she took it him helping her to her feet. "Not bad for an amateur. I think with a bit more training you'd have great potential." "You think?" "Why not? But don't let one duel with me go to your head."

"Still it felt so real...I can hardly believe that was Virtual Reality...I really thought I was going to get blasted into tiny smithereens..." "My goal at Kaiba Corp is to make the experience of Dueling as real as possible. Now that I've perfected my Virtual Reality system I'm moving on to not only seeing the monsters but experiencing their power as well..." the CEO explained. "And that's what the party is for tonight right?" "More or less. I'll be giving a demonstration of the new technology I've created though right now it's just a prototype." Kaiba admitted. "Originally I wanted to use Yugi to demonstrate my new system however now that things have changed I thought I'd just use one of the shareholders to test it out." "Um...what about me? I know that I'm not the best but it might be fun to give it a shot." "...That thought also crossed my mind but I'm not 100 percent certain that you can endure my new system...especially if you quake at just the Virtual Reality in itself." Bloom sighed. "Yeah you might have a point there..." she admitted before Kaiba paused as he heard Roland's voice and pressed the receiver on his jacket.

"Go ahead...they are, are they?...Very well let them and escort them to the 10th floor...that's where the party will be taking place...I'm headed over there as we speak." the blue eyed male muttered before he turned to look at Usagi. "The guests have started to arrive so we need to get going." "Sure and by the way thanks for the lesson it was pretty cool actually," Bloom admitted with a smile. "That's sure nothing like I've ever experienced before." though that wasn't exactly entirely true. "Naturally. I make nothing but the best technology when it comes to Duel monster or anything else for that matter...now let's go..." Kaiba muttered before Mokuba and Bloom followed him to the company's 10th floor. The redhead's eyes lit up as she walked into what almost appeared to give off the vibe of a nightclub with lots of neon including the drinks. The food was placed out and the music was rocking. Musa would absolutely love this along with Layla! It was hard to resist dancing along with the beat and everyone else. Kaiba only leaned against the wall and stayed put.

"Mokuba what's wrong with your brother?" Bloom questioned as Mokuba and her danced to the rhythm. "Oh, nothing! Seto just doesn't dance. He prefers to kinda keep to himself until someone engages him in conversation but he'll try to avoid if necessary. "Really? We'll see about that!" Bloom giggled before Mokuba only looked at the redhead in surprise as she grabbed a hold of Kaiba's hand and pulled him out into the dance floor. "Come on you!" Bloom exclaimed as the CEO nearly tripped as he was unable to react before she grabbed him. "Sorry but I DON'T dance..." Kaiba muttered. "Everyone dances! You just have to find the beat and go with it!" the faerie told the blue eyed male as she twisted him around before dancing right beside him in hopes to coax him out of his comfort zone. "Are you even listening to me?" "Nope!" Bloom giggled and took his arms moving them back and forth playfully. The two were catching quite a lot of attention before Bloom spun around and fell backward before Kaiba quickly caught her. "Are you trying to bust your head open?" the blue eyed male groaned. "Come on! Try it! It's really a lot of fun! Besides, you can't be sitting at your desk ALL day!" the redhead tried to convince him. Kaiba only let out a sigh. She had far too much energy for his taste. She could even be a match for that flea bitten dog Wheeler.

"Alright! Alright!" Kaiba finally gave in and started to dance with her pretty much following her league twisting and spinning her around before they nearly lost their footing and caught each other. "Yikes...maybe we are getting too carried away." "We? I believe you were the one who wanted to let loose." Bloom only responded with sticking her tongue out playfully. "Yeah ok so maybe I did. But it was fun right? I mean you didn't trip over your feet TOO many times." "...Heh alright, smart ass..." the CEO snickered in amusement with a ghost of a smile on his lip. "Oh look at you..." Bloom teased right back before she laughed. "Phew...all this dancing has made me way thirsty." "I'll go get you a drink. Stay there." "Sure no problem." the faerie murmured as she watched Kaiba make his way to the drinks. Now that she took a second look. Kaiba was pretty cute. Certainly, he was rough around the edges in more ways than one but what was scaring her was that she was beginning to like the blue eyed male more and more. Part of her couldn't help but feel guilty. Why was she supposed to be here anyways? She found the Blue Eyed White Dragon but now what? Maybe it was a mistake even coming to Domino in the first place. Still, there was another part of her that WANTED to be here.

Now that she took a second look. Kaiba was pretty cute. Certainly, he was rough around the edges in more ways than one but what was scaring her was that she was beginning to like the blue eyed male more and more. Part of her couldn't help but feel guilty. Why was she supposed to be here anyways? She found the Blue Eyed White Dragon but now what? Maybe it was a mistake even coming to Domino in the first place. Still, there was another part of her that WANTED to be here. "Here. I hope blue raspberry alright. Not that it matters...the drinks all taste the same to me..." Kaiba muttered as he held out to her an illuminated glass with a blue liquid in it. "Yeah, that's fine thanks!" Bloom offered a smile as she sipped at it. For some reason, Kaiba could shake the feeling something was bothering her. However, he knew first hand how people hated their nose in other people's business. It was best not to bring it up for now. Suddenly the CEO found himself surrounded by the media and journalist along with shareholders trying to get the scoop on the new woman in his life and about the unveiling of his newly developed system.

"Please! Don't crowd Mr. Kaiba! You may ask your questions later! For now please step by or we will have to ask you to leave the building!" Roland and his assistant exclaimed as they pushed back the crowd. "Good grief..." Kaiba sighed in aggravated before Mokuba hurried over to Kaiba. "Mokuba are you alright?" Kaiba questioned as he noticed his little brother was out of breath. "Y-Yeah I'm fine Seto...but look..." he huffed and pointed towards Yugi and Joey who were not far behind the crowd. "Oh great...what are they doing here?" the blue eyed male questioned before Bloom hurried and tried to free Joey and Yugi frown being suffocated by the crowd. "Aw man...dat hurt..." Joey groaned. "At least you weren't stepped on..." Yugi pouted. "S-Sorry..." Bloom apologized since it was probably hers and helped them up. "Nah don't worry about i..." Joey paused as he looked at Bloom in her pretty blue dress and blushed swallowing hard.

"...Uh...Joey?...Earth to Joey come in please!" Yugi cried before Joey shook his head snapping out of it. "Huh? What? Sorry, Yug...must've zoned out or something!" the blonde laughed nervously. "Uhuh...Bloom while I'd like to talk more with you...I really need to speak to Kaiba...do you know where he is...?" Yugi questioned. "Yeah he's right over there..." the redhead pointed the way. "Thanks!" Yugi smiled and hurried through the crowd fighting to get to Kaiba. It was too late however as Kaiba took the stage. "Ladies and gentlemen! I have you all gathered here today to witness the latest revolutionary step in Duel Monsters! Introducing my new sensor system! While the monsters are about as real as they can get I've decided to take this one step further and make the monsters not only more realistic but the whole Duel Monsters experience! With this not only will the user be able to see the monsters but they'll also be able to experience their creatures power! The sensor system will allow the duelist to feel the attack just as their monsters would. I'll demonstrate this by having a volunteer from the audience! Yugi Moto! Get on up here..." Kaiba muttered before the crowd roared in excitement.

"Kaiba I NEED to talk to you!" Yugi exclaimed as he made his way up to the stage. "There's no use in delaying the-" the CEO paused as he noticed around Yugi's neck was the Millennium Puzzle gleaming in all its glory. "...Is that..." "Yes! That's what I was trying to tell you Kaiba! We need to talk!" "NO NEED! YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHAT I WANT! AND I'M NOT ALLOWING YOU TO LEAVE UNTIL I GET IT!" "WE DON'T HAVE TIME FOR THIS KAIBA!" Yugi yelled aggravated. "IF YOU WON'T BRING HIM OUT THEN I'LL MAKE YOU!" the CEO proclaimed as he directed his index finger at Yugi. "LISTEN TO ME DAMN IT!" the rival pleaded but Kaiba could no longer listen to reason before a vortex opened up unleashing purple lightning striking from above over and over. Bloom gasped as her fears were soon realized as The Wizards Of The Black Circle emerged from within the arena.

"ORGRON!" Bloom spat before Kaiba, Yugi and Joey all turned their head towards Bloom in confusion. "Ah! Bloom so lovely to see you too...do think you'd be here of all places...it seems fate has brought up together once again." Orgron purred. "SAVE IT!" the redhead cried out. "What are you doing out of the Omega dimension!?" "That's for me to know little Faerie and YOU to find out..." the Wizard muttered with a broad grin. "There's nothing here for you! Roxy is safe and the Earth faeries are free! You lost!" "Oh but that was only the beginning...in fact, there is something of even greater value to us than your little friend Roxy...but let's not play coy...you obviously know if you're here as well...SO let's just see who can cross the finish line first! Shall we!?" Orgron laughed. "Dumont! Show them what a REAL dragon looks like!" the Wizard ordered before the Wizard with the mohawk transfigured himself into a dragon that resembled one well known to the blonde duelist. "MY RED EYES!" Joey cried out in horror as the dragon charged up for an attack. Bloom bit her lip as she fought within herself as what to do. If she transformed then her secret would be out but if she didn't then everyone she cared about what be at the mercy of the Wizards.