Chapter 6: Shadow Games Return Part 2

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In the hidden room in the abandoned dorm Takeru was staring down Infernalqueen and Terrorking Archfiend and the Pandemonium field spell with zero monsters on his side of the field. Watching him from the sidelines were Jaden, Syrus and Chumley.

Titan: 4000

Takeru: 3000

"Your destiny is set, boy! Soon my Archfiend deck will finish your monsters and my Millennium item will finish off your soul." Titan gloated holding it up.

"This duel isn't over yet. A Magician always has a few tricks up his sleeve. I play Pot of Greed which lets me draw two cards. Next I play two cards facedown." Takeru said as two cards appeared on his side of the field.

"Too bad you won't be around to use them. Allow me to show you a real card." Titan said drawing a card. "Terrorking, Locust Storm Barrage!"

Terrorking opens his chest and a swarm of locusts fly towards Takeru.

"I guess it's true when you get old the mind is the first to go because you didn't even think about my facedown cards. I activate my trap card Mirror Force! Say goodbye to all your monsters in attack mode!" Takeru said revealing his facedown.

"Now that's a trick!" Jaden smiles.

"Totally lishious! If Takeru keeps this up we'll be out of here in no time and with Alexis." Chumley smiles.

Titan watched as both Terrorking and Infernalqueen were destroyed by his trap. "How dare you!"

"Oh, please you totally had that coming." Takeru said.

"Well now you have this coming!" Titan took a card from his hand. "I activate the effect of Desrook Archfiend! By sending it to the graveyard I can resurrect Terrorking back to the field." Titan inserts the card into his graveyard and onto the field Terroking appears.

Terrorking: 2000/1500

"I'm really starting to hate that card." Takeru said.

"Now thanks to the effect of Pandemonium. It allows me to add a new Archfiend to my hand as long as it's power is less than my Terrorking, but he has more than enough power. Now let's try this again, Locust Storm Barrage!"

"Ah geez will this storm ever let up?" Chumley asks.

"Oh man this is going to hurt." Syrus said as the locusts attack Takeru.

Titan: 4000

Takeru: 1000

"Takeru are you okay?" Jaden asks as the Shadow Game took its toll on him.

"As long as I can stand I got this." Takeru said.

"Is that so?" Titan pulls out his Millennium Item. "Well I hate to tell you this, but you won't be standing for much longer. In fact, you won't be moving much of your body at all." Titan's Millennium Item glowed as shadows covered Takeru's legs, arms and most of his body.

"Man I can barely move. I gotta make this turn count." Takeru drew his next card and grinned. "I remove Defender and my Magician of Dark Illusions from the game in order to summon Chaos Sorcerer!"

Chaos Sorcerer: 2300/2000

On Takeru's field a magician covered in dark clothing appears with a black orb forming in his hands.

"Now here comes the pain. Attack with Darkness Surge!"

Chaos Sorcerer blasts Terrorking with a ball of Darkness destroying it.

Titan: 3800

Takeru: 1000

Jaden, Syrus and Chumley looked to see Titan's right arm and leg were dissolving away.

"He's disappearing too!" Syrus said.

"Think that could work on my waistline?" Chumley asks.

"It doesn't matter at all! I have another Desrook Archfiend in my hand and I'll send it to the graveyard to bring back my Terrorking! There is no escaping him, boy." Titan said as Terrorking appeared back on the field for the 3rd time.

Terrorking: 2000/1500

"That guy is really overstaying his welcome." Jaden said.

"I'll say, I summon Breaker the Magical Warrior in defense mode and I place one card facedown."

On Takeru's field a magician in red with a sword and shield appeared.

Breaker: 1900/1000

"Now bring it on! Give me your worst!" Takeru taunts.

Titan drew his next card. "Be careful what you wish for because you might just get it. I sacrifice my Terrorking to summon Skull Archfiend of Lightning!"

In Terrorking's place an Archfiend that resembled the Summoned Skull monster appeared.

Skull Archfiend of Lightning: 2500/1200

"You wanted my worst? Well you got it and every last super charged bolt of it!" Titan roared as Skull Archfiend blasted Chaos Sorcerer with a lightning bolt destroying him.

Titan: 3800

Takeru: 800

Takeru winced as he stood up his ground taking the attack.

Titan's Millennium Item glows again. "Look into my Millennium Item and feel yourself drifting further into the shadows!" Titan said as Takeru struggled to keep his vision. "That's it boy. Your life points are all but gone and soon you will be nothing more than a soulless hollow shell. Feel yourself drifting away boy…feel yourself."

Takeru drops to his knees as everything around him became a blur. 'I'm sorry guys. I'm sorry Alexis.' Takeru thought as the shadows surrounded him.

Suddenly a ball of light forms around Takeru and the spirit of his Dark Magician appeared in front of him.

Takeru looks up in surprise. "Dark Magician? What are you doing here?"

Dark Magician takes his staff and points it to Takeru's head as a bright light forms.

There he saw a memory of a little kid version of him and an older man with black hair and tan skin.

"Remember Takeru the trick to magic is to misdirect the audience into thinking what you want them to think." His dad said.

"Wow Dad, how are you so good at magic?" Takeru asks.

"Lots of experience, after all it's how I met your mother. Just remember anyone can put on a show, but what takes real skill is seeing through the illusion." His dad said ending the memory.

'That's it! He's not a shadow duelist he's a fake!' Takeru thought as he stood up. "I've got your Shadow Game scam figured out!"

"Shadow Game scam?" Chumley asks.

"What does he mean?" Syrus asks.

Jaden was speechless as he saw the Dark Magician spirit next to Takeru. 'Whoa Takeru has a spirit of his own…just like me.' Jaden thought thinking about Winged Kuriboh.

'What's going on? Why isn't he trembling?" Titan thought as Takeru drew.

"First I activate Breaker's special effect! By dropping his attack by 300 I can destroy one spell or trap on the field! Say goodbye to Pandemonium!" Breaker charged with his sword and swings it creating a blade of magic destroying the field spell.

Gritting his teeth Titan held up his Millennium Item. "So what? You haven't destroyed this!"

"Be careful what you wish for!" Takeru picks up a stone and throws it hitting the Millennium item right in the center making it shatter into pieces.

"What…What did you do?!" Titan cried as Takeru's body returned to normal along with Titan.

"Alright Takeru, you got your body back!" Syrus shouted happily.
"I never lost it, this whole Shadow Game was just a sad magic act to fool me. It's all smoke and mirrors to make me think I was losing my soul." Takeru said.

"Man what a sham, this guy must be some out of work carny." Jaden said.

"Shut up! I could get my job back anytime I want and in case you forgot I still have the girl." Titan said.

"Oh drop the magic act, you didn't take Alexis' soul at all, so giver back." Takeru ordered.

"Yeah along with all the other kids you snatched!" Jaden adds.

"Other kids? I don't know what you're talking about and because of that Carny comment you can find your friend by yourself!" Titan threw a smoke bomb to the ground and made a run for it.

"Hey get back here!" Takeru said running through the smoke after him.

As Takeru chased after him dozens of beams of light appeared from all direction and merged together in the middle of the floor creating a huge golden eye.

"Uh what trick is this?" Jaden asks.

"I didn't do this." Titan said when all of a sudden a wind picked up and swirled around the room like a tornado covering the two of them in smoke.

When the smoke covered the both of them the smoke was replaced with a sphere of darkness.

"Takeru!" Jaden said running over.

"No Jaden!" Chumley said stopping him. "We might get trapped in their ourselves!"

"But what about Takeru?" Jaden asks.

"Let's find Alexis and then see what we can do." Syrus said.

Inside the Shadow Dome Takeru and Titan were seeing darkness everywhere.

"What is this place?! Where am I?" Titan panics.

"What is going on?" Takeru asks when suddenly they heard a shriek.

Looking over they saw a mass of blob like creatures heading towards them.

As the blobs attacked Titan screamed as the blob creatures started to cover every inch of his body. "Help me! Get these things off of me!" Titan yells when one muffles his scream.

Takeru was about to go help when he sees his own group of blobs heading towards him. Freaking out Takeru tries to run away bit couldn't.

As they here were about to attack a light shoots out of Takeru's deck and the Dark Magician appears in front of the blobs.

"Back away." Dark Magician said blasting them away with Dark Magic attack.

"Alright if you're here then this really isn't a hallucination." Takeru said seeing what was happening.

"Takeru…"

Takeru looks over when he heard his name and saw Titan no longer covered in blobs, but something was different. His voice was more sinister and his eyes were glowing red behind his mask.

"The shadows long for a soul and only one will survive." Titan raised his duel disk and the army of blobs formed a circle around them making sure the duel continued. "The duel will continue here in the Shadow Realm, Takeru and you will lose your soul!" He said as Skull Archfiend of Lightning and Breaker appeared.

Titan: 3800

Takeru: 800

"Not happening. I play a monster facedown in defense mode." Takeru said as a card appeared.

"Very well…my turn." Titan said drawing a card.

"By the way since you don't have Pandemonium on the field anymore you have to pay 500 points to keep your Archfiend on the field." Takeru said.

Titan: 3300

Takeru: 800

"500 points is nothing compared to a soul. Skull Archfiend of Lightning, attack!" Titan ordered as Skull Archfiend destroyed Breaker blowing him to bits.

"I place one cared facedown and I summon Desrook Archfiend in Attack Mode to end my turn." A new Archfiend appeared made of bone and red flash and looked like a rook piece.

Desrook Archfriend: 1100/1900

Dark Magician looks to Takeru who nodded. "Don't worry I've got a plan. You see he left my facedown monster alone, that was his mistake. I flip summon Magician's Valkyria!" On Takeru's field a female Magician in orange hair appeared.

Magician's Valkyria: 1600/ 1800

"And next I summon another Magician's Valkyria onto the field. With both of these out you can't attack me at all!" Takeru said as a second magician appeared.

Titan growled seeing that he could no longer attack.

"Valyria number 1 attack Desrook Archfiend with Mystic Scepter Blast!" Valkyria spins her staff and blasts Desrook destroying it.

Titan: 2800

Takeru: 800

"Coward! Your Magician's may save you from my attacks, but they won't save you from this!" Titan pressed a button and a trap revealed itself. "The trap card Battle Scarred. "Now the 500 points needed to keep my Archfiend on the field affects you as well, for as long as he stays on the field!"

Titan: 2300

Takeru: 300

As Dark Magician kept the blobs at bay Takeru had a look of panic on his face.

"It's useless boy you have no cards in your hand two weak monsters. However since I can't attack you I'll end my turn with this." Titan gloats.

'Not quite I still have one facedown but if this gonna work I need to draw the right card here and now. Here goes.' Takeru drew his card. "I activate Return from a Different Dimention!" Takeru reveals his facedowns. "By paying half my lifepoints I can summon all monsters I removed from the game!

Titan: 2300

Takeru: 150

"So say hello to Defender and Magician of Dark Illusions!" Takeru said as both Magicians appeared.

Defender: 1600/ 2000

Magician of Dark Illusions: 2100/ 2500

"Big deal no matter how many Magicians you have it won't matter if they're not strong enough to defeat me." Titan said.

"No but thanks to this last card I drew they will be! I activate the spell United We Stand! This card gives one monster 800 and defense points for every monster on my field and I have 4!" Takeru said as the energy from all his Magicians went to the Magician of Dark Illusions.

Magician of Dark Illusions: 5300/ 5700

"What?! Impossible!" Titan stared in shock.

"Now let's end this Magicain of Dark Illusions attack Skull Archfiend of Lightning with Illusionary Shockwave!"

Takeru's Magicain spins his staff and fires a blast of darkness destroying Titan's monster and creating a big explosion.

Titan: 0

Takeru: 300

"NOO!" Titan screamed as the horde of blobs attacked him. "Help me! Get them off me! Tell my kids…I love them!" Titan said as disappeared under the blobs.

Takeru cringed at the sight when Dark Magician opened a way out of the Shadow Realm. "Thanks buddy, let's get outta here." Takeru said running as fast as he could.

Outside the dome Jaden, Syrus and Chumley were with an unconscious Alexis.

"Hey guys look!" Chumley points to a little cut and from it Takeru dived out.

"Takeru!" Syrus cheered.

"I knew you could do it!" Jaden smiles.

"What happened in there?" Syrus asks.

Before Takeru could say anything the dark orb that held Takeru and Titan imploded in particles.

"Whoa." Takeru said when Jaden stood up and clapped.

"Wow talk about a magic trick that was amazing." Jaden said.

"Magic Trick?" Syrus asks.

"Yeah it's like Takeru said, it was all mirrors and fog machines." Jaden said.

Takeru looks over to the sleeping Alexis and picks her up Bridal style.

"Come on guys let's get outta here." Takeru said as they all got up and followed him.

Later on, Crolwer walked through the hallway of the Abandoned dorm. "Little Jaden must be paralyzed with fear by now. Oh, Titan where are you my friend? I'd like to hear every detail about what…" Crowler noticed a card on the ground and picked it up.

It was Pandemonium. "Titan would never leave this behind unless…he lost! Jaden Yuki and his friends have outwitted me again! But this is not over yet, not by a long shot!"

Crowler storms out in a huff.

When Alexis awoke, she found herself in the forest with Jaden, Takeru, Syrus and Chumley. "Where am I?" She asks.

"Good morning sleepyhead." Jaden said.

"What are you doing here?" Alexis asks.

"Hey, what kind of thanks is that? Jaden asks. "We're here because Takeru had to fight a bad guy, win the duel and save the damsel in distress."

"Oh yeah, that strange man snatched me, but how did you know I was in trouble?" She asks.

"We found this." Jaden hands her Etolie Cyber card.

"And we also found this." Takeru shows Alexis the photo they found earlier causing her eyes to widen.

"It's…my brother. This is the first trace of him I've seen in a long time." Alexis said.

"Well we brought to let you know we wanna help you find your brother." Takeru said.

"Besides we can't have you locked in anymore tombs." Jaden smirks.

"You were really worried about me, weren't you?" Alexis asks.

"Of course, I was I didn't want anything bad to happen to you." Takeru said causing Alexis to blush.

Behind them the sun started to come up.

"Looks like we better bail before anyone sees us! Takeru can you take Alexis back?" Jaden asks.

"Uh sure." Takeru said as the Slifers ran off.

"Hey Takeru, I really want to thank you for what you did back there and that was really sweet what you said." Alexis said.

"Well uh would mind if I walked you back to your dorm?" Takeru offers.

"I'd like that." Alexis smiles.

As she walked towards him her foot gets caught in a tree root and she falls forward crashing into Takeru.

Takeru's eyes widen as he sees his lips touching Alexis' leaving both of them speechless.

"Uh." Takeru said blushing

"Takeru can you do me one small favor?" Alexis as bright red as him. "Can you move your hands?"

Takeru's eyes widen as he sees his hands were squeezing her rear.

"Oh my god! I am so sorry! I did not do that on purpose." Takeru panics.

"No no it was an accident." Alexis said getting up.

For a few minutes there was an uncomfortable silence between them.

"So uh dorms?" Takeru points.

"Sure." Alexis nods.

The two of them walk back to the Obelisk dorms in silence, but on the inside new feelings for the other rose from that simple accident.