Hi my loves before we start, I changed the Millenium Fragment from an amulet to a ring. You know, the ones you put on your finger XD

I took this decision because we already have enough canon Millenium Items as necklaces and I never saw a fanon one as a ring, so I decided yeah let's do this.

Powers are still the same as its name.

If you wanna see it, visit my DeviantArt

I will change the other chapter over time, but for now, let's continue with our journey in the Duelist Kingdom.

Hope you enjoy this chapter.


Chapter 16: The Finals

Evening fell over the Duelist Kingdom, which meant it was time for dinner in Pegasus Castle.

And what a grand dinner the finalist and non-duelist were served.

It was mostly Western cuisine, but no one seemed to mind, since it tasted all wonderful.

Jonouchi and Honda even shed some manly tears of happiness.

"Please relax tonight before tomorrow's finals.", said Croquet, Pegasu's right-hand man to the duelists. "Enjoy our modest offerings for dinner."

"That is modest?", whispered Sadiye in disbelief at the number of luxury dishes.

"For Pegasus, it must be.", whispered Maja back.

Croquet continued: "I have an announcement for you. In order to participate in the final tournament, you need these cards that we gave to all entrants."

The man in sunglasses holds up two Duel Monster cards. One had no image the other showed gold and other treasures.

"You need Glory of the King's Hand and Glory of the Kin's Opposite Hand. You cannot receive the prize money without the Glory of the King's Hand. You cannot challenge Pegasus without the Glory of the King's Opposite Hand."

This worried Joey since he didn't have one of them as it did Bandit Keith.

"One more thing. Please look at your soup.", asked Croquet.

All did as he said and suddenly Millenium Eyes were in the duelist soup bowls.

Shocked gasps from nearly anyone and Anzu wondered loudly what this was.

Honda declared how in his soup was nothing, as the other non-duelists noted the same thing.

Huh?

"Hey!", shouted Jonouchi. "You were trying to make us eat them?"

"Please open them.", ignored Croquet Joey shouts.

So the duelists did this and found each a piece of paper with a single letter printed on it.

All were confused.

What was the meaning of this?

Behind Croquet a screen came down from the ceiling and he explained it would now be reveleave who shall duel who in the finals.

A) Yugi Muto Vs. B) Mai Kujaku

C) Bandit Keith Vs. D) Katsuya Jonouchi

E) Dinosaur Ryuzaki Vs. F) Kihana Schariq

G) Sehrazat Faizan Vs. H) Javier Alphonso

Of course, I have to battle HIM!, cried Sehrazat inside herself, while Javier sent her a pervy look.

Meanwhile, Joey was pumped to duel Bandit Keith, Mai and Yugi promised each other to give their best and Dinosaur Ryuzaki grinned at Kihana saying: "The Ultimate Battle Dinosaurs VS. Dragons, I will destroy you Schariq!"

Kihana just sent him a cold look with her blue eyes, which made him shake.

Jeez, that girl was scary!

After Croquet summarised who would duel who, he told them to enjoy their dinner.

Which of course they did.

Well, the most.

Sehrazat didn't eat much and then excused herself to her room.

She wouldn't stay any longer in the same room as Javier!

In her room, she closed the door with the key, before she made herself fall on the bed.

Not a second later Afya was in her spirit form sitting beside her on the bed and stroking her hair.

"Child of mine, what is wrong? What did this vermin of a boy do to you?"

Crying Sehrazat slowly told Afya her history with Javier.

When she was finished she had to stop Afya from taking over her body and murdering Javier.

(*)

Kihana listened to how Sehrazat talked with herself, but she knew she was talking to Afya.

She had wanted to comfort her best friend, but it seemed Afya's anger made Sehrazat forget her fears for a moment.

Good.

Then she could visit someone.

The white-haired beauty knocked on the door, till Asshole opened.

"Ah doll I know you couldn't-", he stopped as he was dragged back into his room and slammed against a wall.

An arm pressed down on his throat, making it difficult to breathe for him.

Fearful he stared into the blazing blue eyes of Schariq. He swerved he saw the image of the Blue Eyes White Dragon over her.

"Listen to me you piece of shit.", growled Schariq not sounding human at all. "If you do something in your duel with Sehrazat if so much as speak about what you did with her out loud, I will come for you...and end you!"

Nearly pissing his pants he nodded.

This was not a girl, but a dragon ready to eat him alive right now!

"Good.", hissed Schariq and let go of him.

As fast as she had come to his room, as fast she was gone.

(*)

Afya looked sadly at her poor Sehrazat.

She had brought her descendent inside her Soul Chamber, into the deepest bed chamber of her palast so she could sleep.

What Javier had done to her...!

The former queen of Egypt would make him suffer!

(*)

Sadiye opened her eyes as her sister crawled into bed with her.

"Did you scare him, Nee-San?"

"So much, he needs to change his pants."

Both sisters laughed and then fell asleep.

(*)

Maja was sleeping like a baby, not hearing how Honda and Ryou knocked on her door.

Well, seems like only Anzu remained for their little investigation.

(*)

The morning of the Semi-Finals came sooner than expected.

Our duelists, Yami, Afya, Joey and Kihana were walking with their group to the room where all the duelists had to wait for their matches.

All wished them four luck and promised to watch and cheer on them from the Terrance.

The four duelists thanked them and entered.

Mai was the only one who greeted them friendly.

Bandith Keith leaned arrogant on a wall, Dinosaur Ryuzaki was looking at his cards and Javier needed one look at Kihana and this different-looking Sehrazat, who with her orange eyes screamed murder, to look down in fear.

Since the first match was between Mai and Yami, the beautiful blond said: "Yugi, it's now time that we settle things."

Yami gave a simple nod.

"Jonouchi, thanks for coming so that I can defeat you.", mocked Bandit Keith.

"Keith, you may be a former U.S. champion, but I'll crush a cheater like you with my cards!", retorted Joey calmly back.

The Pegasus on the door, the mythical being, which leads to the Duel Ring, its eyes light up and Croquet's voice comes from the speakers. "To the duelists participating in the semi-finals, thank you for your patience. Please proceed to the duelling area."

The door opened and they were on the terrace on the same height as the Duel Ring.

On the other side of the Dueling Ring was also a terrace but with a throne.

Out of this door came Pegasus with Croquet and Hair-Guy by his side.

"Honored duelists, welcome to the sacred battlefield.", began Pegausu and sat down on his throne-like chair. "I hereby declare the start of the Duelist Kingdom Championship Tournament! The winner of the tournament will receive a large monetary prize. And the winner will also earn the right to challenge me."

That's when Honda calls from the higher-up terrace, asking what would happen if Pegasus was defeated.

Calm Pegasus said that whoever would defeat him the creator of Duel Monster would be recognised as the first Duelist King or Queen, meaning everyone had to acknowledge this person as the number 1 in the whole world.

"Every duelist here wants the title more than the prize money.", stated Pegasus. "Am I wrong?"

Bandit Keith laughed: "How interesting."

"I'm gonna win!", stated Jonouchi.

"Please, I will win you just had luck, Jonouchi!", said Dinosaur Ryuzaki.

"I wonder which one of you will win the final tournament and challenge me.", mussed Pegasus.

Afya and Yami thought the same thing, they would defeat Pegasus and free the imprisoned souls.

Now it was for the First Match: Yami VS. Mai.

As they both stepped into the Duel Ring, Joey, Kihana and Afya joined the non-duelist on the terrace to watch the duel better.

The Duel between Mai and Yugi was in the beginning in Mai's favour, since Yami only thought about getting to Pegasus and not concentrating on his opponent.

After Mai's words reached him, Yami finally played right and defeated Mai's Harpie Pet Dragon with the legendary strongest knight Black Luster Soldier.

Since the woman didn't want to see her Harpies destroyed she put her hand on her deck, meaning she gave up.

Yami won and came into the next round.

Now it was Jonouchi VS. Bandit Keith.

In the beginning, Joey had nearly a heart attack not finding his card to qualify him for the duel, but Mai was so kind to give him her.

Now he could duel against Keith.

And what a Duel it was it showed how Jonouchi had become a strong duelist, defeating Keith and his stupid machine monsters.

Bandit Keith didn't like this one bit and jumped to Pegasus holding a gun against his head, demanding the price money.

However, Pegasus with his feet touched a button and Keith fell down into a long tunnel and into the Ocean.

Joey came into the next round.

Next up was Kihanan Vs. Dinosaur Ryuzaki and well Kihana had from start to beginning the upper hand with her dragons.

The Dinosaurs with their Duelist were story...again and Kihana came to the next round.

Now came the final round of the Semi-Finals Sehrazat/Afya Vs. Javier.

Javier pissed himself as he saw the hate and loathing in Afya's eyes.

The Sehrazat he knew was always so meek and afraid of him.

She changed.

It showed how she duelled.

In 11 turns she completely demolished him!

11 turns!

This had been the fastest duel of the day.

Then came the duels, all had feared, Yami VS Joey and then Afya Vs. Kihana.

Best friends against each other.

For Yugi/Yami and Jonouchi, it would be the first time they duelled with all their forces against each other.

But only one could win and under tears it was Yami.

Afya and Kihana began their duel, which was even more brutal than the one Sehrazat and Kihana had during the European Championship.

With only a difference of 50 Life Points Afya won.

So this meant...

"The final duel of the day is between Yugi Muto and Sehrazat Faizan.", announced Croquet.

Both stand proudly on their side of the Duel Ring, not saying a word just staring at each other.

This was it.

Whoever won would face Pegasus to get the trapped souls back.

Yet who would win?

The Pharaoh or the Queen?

No one had a clue, both were equally strong.

As Maja said perfectly: "This is not a round of skills, this is who will be lucky."

"Yami.", called Afya to him. "Whoever wins, we must promise that one will give their all to defeat Pegasus as I will give my all to defeat you."

Her husband nodded determined.

"I wouldn't want it any other way Afya."

"Duel!", they shouted together.

What happened in this duel could only be described as epic.

From turn to turn the upper hand changed, they counter each other perfectly and hit each other hard.

"That's not a duel.", gasped Anzu. "That's a massacre!"

"I didn't expect any less from them. Only who is the best can beat Pegasus.", said Kihana.

"If you watch them duel, you wouldn't think these two are married.", noted Joey.

"Yeah, they are so aggressive towards each other.", agreed Ryou.

"Someone wants popcorn?", asked Maja in the round.

Huh?

Where did she get the popcorn from?

Already Sadiye and Honda were eating their own little buckets of the popped corn.

Well,...they all could use a snack to calm their nerves, so Maja gave them all a little bucket.

Then it seemed Afya would win since she drew Sacred Warrior of Isis, but as he did with Mai Yami blocked her for three turns with Swords of Reveling Light and managed again to call Black Luster Soldier.

Kihana shudder.

It was strange seeing these two monsters with Afya and Yami...they looked a bit like them.

Afya didn't manage to make a comeback and lost, but they had battled till the last Lifepoints.

"Bravo.", applaude them Pegasus. "Such a passionate and intense duel. Never have I seen such skill. Sehrazat-Girl from now on you will be the Queen of the Duelists thanks to your second place in my tournament."

The queen frowned a bit but just nodded.

A title was not more important than freeing the souls.

She and Yami met up at the Room of the Duelists and hugged each other tight.

They just needed to feel how they still were okay with each other.

"You were incredible, my love.", praised Yami, stroking loving her hair. "If I hadn't got Swords of Reveling Light you would have won."

"My darling, you managed to summon Black Luster Soldier two times in a day, you are formidable."

They looked deep into each other eyes and leaned their forehead against each other.

Oh, they would like to kiss, but these were still the bodies of Yugi and Sehrazat, they couldn't just take advantage of them like this.

"Make Pegasus pay, my darling, my pharaoh."

He nodded and kissed her forehead.

Yami would defeat Pegasus and get all the souls back!

This was a promise!

(*)


Sorry to all who wanted me to write an epic duel, I suck at them. *sweatdrop*