Final Fantasy - All Series Fan Fiction / Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Spira's Tournement ❯ The Awakening of Valefor! Tidus Returns! ( Chapter 12 )

First, I like to retract my statement about the card packs coming out. It appears that I've gotten Dark Revelations 1 mixed up with Dark Beginnings 2. The Dark Revelations 1 set only have monsters from Pharonic Guardian up to Dark Crisis, including monsters such as Kaiser Glider, the Guardian monsters, the Gravekeeper monsters, and the Archfiend monsters! Again, sorry for the mix-up!

 

MagicmanSmokegirl - Hey, that would be funny! But then again, that would've been too easy!

 

FireGoddess101 - Oh man I just noticed that now! I'll fix the typo.

 

LadyViolet24 - Tidus will return, but it's not what you think…at least not yet…

 

Chapter 12: The Awakening of Valfor! Tidus Returns!

 

“So this is where you guys traded cards?” Yugi asked as he and the gang were in the bar and grill place, which was near Luca Stadium. Fortunately, the attacks of the LeBlanc Syndicate ended! So now, Duelist Kingdom 2 continued. Since the finalists both had some time to kill, Yugi and Joey both decided to see if they could possibly buy new packs or trade some cards, hoping to make their cards stronger...in Joey's case at least. Meanwhile, Aria, Arana, and Erika watched other duels that were on TV as Serenity and Tea were worried about Yuna and the others, especially since Brother and Shinra were participating in the Tournament.

 

“Yeah!” Joey nodded. “That's where I managed to get some decent cards. I can't believe that Brother was willin' to trade me Cyber Tech Alligator, Summoned Skull, and Buster Blader! Just for a Graceful Charity! Just so he could summon Exodia!”

 

“Stranger things have happened.” Erika reminded. “Besides the whole LeBlanc Syndicate using Duel Disks as weapons. And Tea actually stop giving us the third degree!”

 

“Do you have to bring that up?” Tea replied. From the look on her face, apparently the visions she had saw earlier still plagued her mind. Just what did they all mean? She knew that the Millennium Necklace could see the future or past, but what did those visions have to do with it? She looked towards Serenity. For some reason or another, in one of those visions she was running away from a dragon that resembled Red Eyes Black Dragon, for some reason or another. “Serenity?”

 

The Auburn-haired girl turned around. “Yes Tea?”

 

“Do you really trust them?” She pointed towards the triplets. “I mean, aren't you a bit worried about them?”

 

She blinked. “They seem nice enough! Though, when I look at Aria she always has this angry look on her face. But when I ask her what's wrong, she tells me not to worry about it.”

 

“But don't you think that it's a bit odd? I mean, they just show up out of the blue one day. All of the sudden, they're so close to us now?”

 

“Tea, I'm beginning to see what Rikku meant about you being jealous.” Serenity stated as-a-matter-of-factly.

 

“Oh great, so you think that I'm just an insecure jealous bitch!”

 

“No, it's not like that! I was thinking that you're just paranoid!” Serenity corrected her. “You need to just relax! It's not like they're spies sent to keep an eye on us, then when we're not needed anymore we'll be sleepin' with the fishes!” Serenity noticed the look Tea just gave her. “I'm kidding!”

 

“I think you've been living with Joey too long…” Tea said dryly, which earned her a stuck-out tongue in response.

 

...

 

“Oh no…” Rikku mewed as she saw her Blue Eyes Toon Dragon destroyed by an Ultimate Obedient Fiend! She and Kaiba have been fighting against the Duel-Monsters-Turned-Fiends for the past 30 minutes, while Mokuba carefully stood between them! To make matters worse, more and more of these fiends kept coming, each of them stronger than the last.

 

Kaiba seethed as another Ultimate Obedient Fiend destroyed his Blue Eyes White Dragon. “Remind me to sue Shinra when all of this is over.”

 

“Oh come on Setty! It's not like it wouldn't have happened to your Duel Disks!”

 

He glared. “It wouldn't!”

 

“The last thing we need to do is argue, you guys!” Mokuba reminded, standing…more like shielding himself between Rikku and Kaiba as he let them do the fighting. “We need to find Yugi and-”

 

“We are not finding those geeks!” Kaiba said, making it loud and clear that he wanted nothing to do with them as he drew a card, then placing it facedown.

 

“Speak for yourself!” Rikku responded as she summoned Blowback Dragon to defend herself. “I'm worried about my friends!”

 

“You can go by yourself!”

 

“Stop it you guys, we need to be fighting them, not each other!”

 

“Fine…” Kaiba and Rikku both said reluctantly as the first Obedient Fiend destroyed Blowback Dragon before joining the second in advancing towards the three potential victims. Just as the Fiends went for an attack…

 

“Activate Mirror Force!” Kaiba activated the same facedown card he placed on the field as Mirror-like force field appeared around them, which deflected their attacks back at each other, destroying them both! “So much for that…”

 

“Now to find Teyi and the others!” Rikku ran off.

 

“You can go if you want, but I'm not going anywhere near them!” Kaiba declared.

 

Rikku looked back as she sighed. “Must you always be so Anti-Social?”

 

Kaiba crossed his arms. “I could care less about my social life! Much less if it involve the-Oh you got to be kidding me!” He seethed as he saw more Duel Monsters.

 

“Uh oh…” Rikku mewed as she saw a three Tyrant Dragons approach the Trio. She looked towards the Brunette. “You got another Blue Eyes on you?”

 

Kaiba ignored her as he then summoned one more card, which turned out to be the monster in question: His 2nd Blue Eyes White Dragon.

 

“Alright…good!” Rikku followed suit by summoning her 2nd Blue Eyes Toon Dragon! Looking to double team the three Dragons. “Blue Eyes Beats Tyrant Dragon, game over!”

 

“Let's just get this over with!” Kaiba glared at the Al Bhed!

 

“Okay, fine!” Rikku looked toward her dragon! “Blue Eyes Toon Dragon!”

 

“Blue Eyes White Dragon!”

 

“Attack with White Lightning!” They both shouted in unison as the two Blue Eyes, Original and Toon both fired at the same time, looking to take out the three Tyrant Dragons! Mokuba, meanwhile watched on in awe, seeing Kaiba and Rikku's teamwork, as where the Tyrant Dragons and the two White Lightning attacks met, an explosion occurred...

 

`Now only if Seto would just take the time to get to know Rikku more…' Mokuba thought to himself as the dust began to clear. Much to the trio's shock, the three Tyrant Dragon's were still there!

 

“…But how?” Rikku mewed. Certain that her Blue Eyes Toon Dragon was strong enough to defeat at least one of the Tyrant Dragons!

 

“Tyrant Dragon's attack points are 2900! Blue Eyes should've destroyed them…” Kaiba pondered as he looked around. Something was definitely wrong otherwise the Tyrant Dragons would've been destroyed. “This doesn't make any sense!”

 

“Umm….Setty?” Rikku pointed to the Tyrant Dragons who were ready to release their destructive blasts from their mouths, targeting at the two Blue Eyes…

 

…

 

“Go Susa Soldier!” Noah summoned the Thunder Spirit monster went to attack a few fiends as Tidus cut threw the others with his signature sword.

 

“You think that these new fiends would just give up!” The blonde commented as Susa Soldier destroyed another fiend. This one an Opticlops! “Where are they coming from, anyway?”

 

Noah drew another card. “You tell me and we'll both know!” He then summoned another monster. “Go Asura Priest!” The multi-armed Spellcaster appeared on the field. “At least my Spirit Monsters will keep them at bay.”

 

“Yeah…but for how long…” Tidus swung Brotherhood at another fiend. He clearly began to show some fatigue as sweat ran from the side of his face. “I'm not sure how much more I can take!”

 

Noah blinked as he saw both his Susa Soldier and Asura Priest destroyed by a Summoned Skull. “That does it…” Noah drew another card from his deck as he then placed it on the summoning zone of his Duel Disk. “Go Hino-Kagu-Tsuchi! Destroy Summoned Skull!” Noah ordered as the flame-haired Pyro monster went for the attack, and destroyed the Skull-like Fiend. After Summoned Skull's destruction, the Cyan-haired boy sighed.

 

Tidus dropped down. “Thank god that's over…” He sighed. “I don't know how much more I could take…”

 

“Let's hope that there isn't any more of them…” Noah deactivated his duel disk as his Spirit Monsters then disappeared. Apparently he too was tired. “Is this a typical day for you?”

 

“Oh yeah…”

 

…

 

The Celsius itself was wrapped around by the long body of the Egyptian God Osiris, making it difficult for Yuna to escape, or anyone else to come into her rescue! Even without Osiris's presence, Yuna and Shinra - under Yami Marik's mind control - were in the middle of the Shadow Game, thanks to the Eye of Horus, which meant there was no way in, and no way out! And that was just the beginning!

 

For one reason or another, the Celsius was now flying to an unknown destination. They had believed that it was on autopilot. But now due to these events, that was no longer the case.

 

“Brother, you, Tristan, and Buddy see if you can land the Celsius someplace safe.” Marik suggested.

 

“Rog-” Brother blinked. “Wait a minute! I'm the leader of the Gullwings! So I give the-”

 

“We don't have time for that now! We need to get out of the air right now!” Marik sighed, “Knowing my darker half, this might work into his own advantage to worry Yuna!”

 

“Marik's right!” Tristan added. “You should've seen this guy during Battle City!”

 

Marik continued. “Bakura, take her to the cabin to see if she's okay!” He pointed to the unconscious Paine who was limp on Brother and Buddy's shoulders!

 

Bakura nodded. “Right… But are you going to be okay?”

 

“Marik will be fine!” Tristan assured the ivory-haired boy as they all, except for the one in question, went onto the lift. “Besides, he's the only one who knows his Darker Half better than anyone, let alone how to defeat Osiris!” He explained before the door slid closed.

 

“Now Lady Yuna…” “Shinra” sneered as he looked at the Summoner, only having Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning on the field as on his own side of the field, Osiris looked down at its potential targets. If things went her way, he would win the duel on his next turn! All Yuna has is a facedown card that would be useless to her! An Egyptian God was immune to Spell or Trap Cards! “It appears that you're out of luck! I may have 300 Life Points, while you are down to your last 350, but I still have Osiris on the field! No matter what monster you summon on the field they don't stand a chance against an Egyptian God! By the way, if that's a Trap Card you have on the field, it won't have any effect on Osiris, as it is unaffected by Spell or Trap cards! Now make your last move!”

 

Yuna looked at the card she had just drew. “Here goes…Now I activate my Black Luster Soldier's Special Ability and remove Osiris The Sky Dragon from the game!”

 

“Yuna, wait!” Marik called out.

 

Black Luster Soldier proceeded to rid the field of Osiris. However, his attempts were futile, as it had no effect on the Sky Dragon! “You used his ability for nothing!” “Shinra” sneered.

 

“But that doesn't mean that I'm done!” Yuna reminded as she placed one card in the Spell/Trap Zone, and another on the monster card zone, both in facedown position. “I'll place one monster and one card facedown, and switch my Black Luster Soldier into defense mode! That ends my turn.”

 

“You can hide behind your monsters all you want, but that still won't save you from feeling the wrath of an Egyptian God!” “Shinra” informed as he drew a card. “Now with this card I just drew, Osiris' power rises! Now making it 6000 (6000/6000)! It'll go back to 5000 when I activate this card: Graceful Charity! I'll draw three cards, then discard two! I'll activate my 2nd Pot of Greed and draw two more cards raising Osiris' power to 8000 (8000/8000)! Osiris, destroy her Black Luster Soldier!” Her ordered as the Sky Dragon fired its devastating blast from its mouth, destroying Yuna's strongest monster on the field! “I'll reduce its power back to 7000 by playing Infinite Cards, which allow me to hold more than six cards in my hand!” He smirked, “Well Lady Yuna, it's safe to say that this duel is over! No more monsters on the field! And whatever monster you could summon would be automatically destroyed by Osiris' Second Mouth!”

 

Yuna blinked! “Second mouth!?”

 

Osiris has two more Special Abilities! For every monster that you summon, its attack is decreased by 2000! If any monsters on your side of the field that have zero attack points, then Osiris's second mouth destroys them automatically! And from the look on your face, there isn't any non-tribute monsters in your deck that are over 2000 attack points!

 

Yuna looked down. As much as he despised Yami Marik for all that he has done! For what he put Yugi and his friends through in the past, for what he's doing now to Shinra! Not to mention throughout all Spira! He was right! The strongest monsters that didn't need to be tribute summoned that were in her deck were at 1800 attack points!

 

On the bridge, the elevator door opened as Buddy and Tristan stepped out. Brother was still holding the limp body of the unconscious Paine as Bakura stayed in the lift as well.

 

“Brother come on! We don't have time for this!” Buddy reminded.

 

“Yeah, we don't know where this Airship is going, thanks to the Auto Pilot being disabled! We don't have time fooling around.” Tristan added.

 

“Listen. The reason Paine's unconscious is because of me! That's why I'm going with Bakura to make sure Paine survives this!” The Self-Proclaimed leader of the Gullwings stated.

 

“But you're the pilot!” Tristan reminded. “Buddy's the navigator! If Bakura really needs another pair of hands, I'll help! It's better that two people who actually know about this ship handle placing us back on course!”

 

“Umm…Guys?”

 

Brother, Tristan, and Bakura looked towards Buddy, who was back in the navigator's seat. “What's wrong?”

 

“For one thing, our mind-controlling guest had not only disabled the Auto Pilot, but he apparently placed a virus in the system!”

 

“So the Auto Pilot's out?” Brother asked.

 

“That's not the worse thing! Sensors are picking up that we're now in Mt. Gagazet, but with Osiris wrapped around the ship, we can hardly see a thing!” Buddy briefed.

 

“Well at least we know where we are!” Bakura mentioned, looking at the bright side of this matter.

 

“True…” Brother sighed as he looked down at the unconscious Paine. First her… now this! “Marik femm byo vun drec… (Marik will pay for this…)” He vowed…

 

Fortunately the long red body of the Egyptian God moved a bit. It was still in the way, but at least they could now see where they were heading. However, what they saw just made things go from bad to worse…

 

“Oh man…” Tristan blinked

 

As did Bakura, “We're going to hit Gagazet!”

 

Brother placed Paine's limp body into Tristan's arms. “You two take care of her!” He said to them both before rushing to the Pilot's seat, in hopes to steer the Celsius out of its seemingly-un-escapable collision with the mountain.

 

“Okay, let's get her in bed at the cabin!” Tristan suggested as the two stepped back inside of the lift.

 

The door closed as Bakura made the following suggestion. “Tristan, I'll stay at the cabin in watch Paine. “You go back to the bridge and help Brother and Buddy?”

 

Tristan blinked. “Huh? But are you sure you can handle it alone?”

 

“For one, I am good with the first aid if I say so myself! And those two fellows may need an extra hand! Besides, I've heard…stories about you and Joey!”

 

“WHAT? Where'd you get that idea from?” Tristan shouted at the outrage.

 

“Well…Yugi did mention about you two being so anxious to run after Tea, who was bathing herself while she was in trouble…”

 

“We were just worried about our friend, that's all!” He sighed, “I swear you guys always think if I'm out to save a girl it's for a perverted agenda!”

 

“Well…I've heard that you were quite the womanizer, next to Duke Devlin of course!” Bakura explained.

 

“Great…now you're comparing me to Dice-Boy!” Tristan sighed.

 

…

 

“How fast we're going?” Buddy asked as he kept watch on how close they were to colliding with the mountain.

 

“Too fast to stop!” Brother informed. “Our best chance is to pull out of the way!”

 

“Okay, just so you know, you have only about 20 seconds before we crash into Gagazet!”

 

“ (WHAT!? That's cutting it close!)”

 

“Complaining won't help anyone, so we better start turning!”

 

Brother grabbed the controls at he pulled as hard as he could to move the ship out of the way. But due to the high turbulence and the now gloomy weather, piloting proved to be difficult…

 

“15 Seconds…”

 

Brother pulled harder…

 

“12 Seconds…”

The only thing that was on his mind was the safety of everyone! Thanks to his obliviousness, Paine was already knocked out from saving him! He was not going to let everyone else get hurt because of him. Not on his watch!

 

“TEN…”

 

Brother kept at it! Not giving up this small chance of survival as Buddy counted down how much longer before the Celsius would collide…

 

“…SIX…”

 

Brother gritted his teeth as his grip became even tighter on the controls…

 

“…THREE…

 

“TWO…”

 

As Buddy continued the countdown to destruction, Brother screamed loudly as he pulled, hoping that they would move out of the way before colliding as the Celsius proceeded to turn towards another direction, moving out of the path! However, had they had moved only about a second sooner, the side of the airship wouldn't have hit the hard granite as the Celsius shook upon contact!

 

…

 

Yuna was knocked down hard to the floor as Yami Marik, though Shinra, just smirked.

 

“What's wrong Lady Yuna? Becoming too weak to even stand up?” He taunted as Yuna got back up on her feet!

 

“What was that?” She wondered as she looked around. If it wasn't for this shadow game, which blocked out any visual contact with her true surroundings, she would've known what was happening right now! But she had other things to worry about! She had no monsters on the field, save for one card facedown. And with the fact that any monster summoned would lose 2000 attack points, along with any monster who had zero attack points would automatically be destroyed by Osiris' second mouth didn't do her any favor either! The only good thing, if any in her case, was that Osiris was unaffected by Spell cards, which thankfully included the Eye of Horus!

 

She then felt a force as if where she was standing was plummeting down. “Oh no…” What happened to the Celsius must been connected to the impact moments ago.

 

“You have more important things to worry about! Such as you're about to lose more than your soul!” “Shinra” placed a card facedown, reducing Osirus's power even more (6000/6000)! “I'll place one card facedown and end my turn!”

 

“Yuna drew a card from her hand as she looked at said card. It was Dark Elf! “This won't do me any good…” She admitted, “But at least it could still protect her life points just like her other facedown monster. “I'll place one card and another monster face down and end my turn!” Yuna simply says. Her best bet was to use Monster Reborn on Guardian Angel Joan! True, that its attack power would be reduced to 800, it was the only best chance she had, since using it on her Black Luster Soldier was impossible due to its effect!

 

“Too bad, when you place another monster facedown, you activated my Acid Trap Hole Trap Card!” “Shinra” revealed his facedown card! “Acid Trap Hole destroys any monster with 2000 or less defense points! Now let's see…” He smirked. “Which one of these monsters is sure to go? Decisions, decision…I'll pick the first monster you played facedown!” He decided as her facedown monster was revealed to be Wall of Illusions (1000/1850). Since it was under 2000, it was destroyed!

 

“Now since your turn is done, I'll draw and increase Osiris' attack power!” “Shinra” drew his card, increasing Osiris' Power once again (7000/7000) However, Osiris' attack and defense decreased back to 6000 as he summoned a monster on the field! “I now play Element Dragon (1500/1200) in attack mode!” He said as another one of Shinra's Element monsters appeared on the field! “Of Course, the Eye of Horus increases his power!” He reminded as the Eye of Horus appeared on the Dragon's head. (2000/1700)! “Now Element Dragon, destroy her facedown monster!” He ordered as the Element Dragon fired its blast, destroying the facedown monster that was Dark Elf (2000/800)! “Now Osiris, destroy the rest of Lady Yuna's Life Points and send her to the shadows!” He ordered as Sky Dragon fired its divine blast at Yuna, before it hit, a trio of Maidens appears as they produced a barrier around her! “What?”

 

“When you attacked, you activated my trap card Hollow Life Barrier!” Yuna explained as the barrier blocked the attack!

 

“But how! Trap cards shouldn't haven any effect on Osiris!”

 

“Doesn't mean that Trap Cards can't protect my Life Points!” She says. “All I have to do is discard a card, and any damage to my life points by your attack is null-and-void!”

 

“Shinra” sneered. “I end my turn, not that it'll do you any good!”

 

Yuna drew a card, hopefully something that'll get rid of his Element Dragon at least…

 

Marik, meanwhile, got back onto his feet as he continued finding a way to contact Yuna in the Shadow Realm! After all, the man that had Shinra under his control was his darker half, right? If so, he must've at least retained some shadow magic from his Yami!

 

`There must be some way…' He pondered. Then he remembered. He remembered Bakura telling him that when Yugi dueled Pegasus in the Shadow Realm, Joey, Tristan, and Tea concentrated hard to fully support him and prevented Pegasus' Millennium Item from reading his mind. Maybe if he tried doing the same thing, perhaps he could help her! He narrowed his eyes as he extended his arm to the purple plasma-like fog. “Hopefully it'll work…”

 

Yuna looked down at the card she just drew as she then heard a voice!

 

“Yuna!”

 

She blinked as she looked around. “Who's there? Marik!?”

 

“Listen! If you're going to destroy Osiris, you're going have to attack his weakness!”

 

`How can I? Every time he draws a card, it just keeps getting stronger! Thanks to Infinite Cards, he can hold as many cards as he want! Even if I do weaken his monster, any monster I summon will lose 2000 attack points! And just about all of my strongest monsters are in my graveyard!'

 

“You'll find a way! You've faced tougher challenges than this! Don't give up and don't let my darker side win!”

 

“What's taking you so long? Make your move so I can finish you off!” “Shinra” ordered as Yuna looked down. Maybe it was time to work on Osiris' power!

 

“I'll place one card and one monster facedown! That ends my turn! She explains”

 

“Shinra” drew once again, raising Osiris' attack and defense back to 7000! “You're just using the same tactics as before!” He reminded. “Now Element Dragon, destroy her facedown monster now!” He ordered as the Masked Dragon went for the attack! However, the attacked monster was revealed to be another Mystical Elf (800/2000). “Your Masked Dragon is stopped!”

 

“At least it'll survive, unlike your Mystical Elf!” “Shinra” reminded.

 

Yuna blinked. “Osiris' Second mouth!”

 

“Exactly! Now destroy her Mystical Elf!” He ordered as the Sky Dragon fired from his 2nd mouth, destroying Yuna's last line of defense “Now my great beast, wipe out the rest of her Life Points and send her to the shadows!” Osiris unleashed its attack, looking to destroy the former Summoner and send her to the shadows...

 

“Activate Negate Attack!” Yuna announced as a pink and blue void appeared on the field! “Like Hollow Barrier, it makes your attacks null and void, but it also prevents any other attacks from you for one turn!”

 

“Shinra” sneered, “Your just delaying the inevitable! I end my turn, so make your last move, because next turn, this is the end!”

 

Yuna looked down at the cards that were in her hand. Other than the last card she placed facedown, that was her last trap card. Marik said to do something about bringing down Osiris, but she needed a monster over 2000 attack points to even keep it on the field do Osiris' Second mouth! She better hope that whatever card she drew it would help her otherwise, it would be all over.

 

As Yuna placed her, might as well be, disembodied hand on her deck, a bright flash emitted… “Huh?”

 

...

 

“Impossible!” Kaiba hissed as he saw both Blue Eyes destroyed. “How could Tyrant Dragon destroy Blue Eyes?”

 

“You tell me and we'll both know!” Rikku added her two cents after seeing her Toon Blue Eyes destroyed by another Tyrant Dragon! She drew another card... “Okay, let's try this again!” Rikku placed another card on the field as her third and final Blue Eyes Toon Dragon was summoned.

 

“Rikku wait!” Mokuba warned her, but it was too late.

 

“Blue Eyes Toon Dragon, White Lightning!” She ordered as the Toon fired its attack at the Fire Attribute Dragon. However, it had little effect as all it did was pushed it back a few inches. “…what'sgoingon…?”

 

Kaiba looked around the area before suddenly stopping. Apparently he found something that may be the cause of their current predicament. A purple and red-colored, fearsome looking larvae inched closely near the two Tyrant Dragons. He glared at the bug, as it was all clear to him now.

 

“A Level Three Ultimate Insect…” He hissed. “No wonder Blue Eyes couldn't destroy those dragons, that little gnat was reduced its attack power!”

 

Rikku blinked. “It can do that?”

 

“We better destroy it!” Kaiba explained. “Every turn, that Bug will get even stronger, and more of our attack points will be lowered!” Kaiba drew another card before placing it on his duel disk. “Vorse Raider, destroy Ultimate Insect Level 3!” He ordered as the Dark Beast Warrior threw his blades at the insect. However, a Tyrant Dragon flew in the way of the attack. Apparently shielding the bug from any possible harm!

 

“Are these monsters all apart of some group or something?” Mokuba asked, puzzled at the Insect's teamwork with the dragons as a Tyrant Dragon destroyed Kaiba's Vorse Raider, again with its destructive blast!

 

Kaiba drew another card as he looked down before gritting his teeth. `Saggi The Dark Clown? This Card's useless!'

 

Rikku drew another card. Unfortunately, her luck was the same as Kaiba's: Not good. `Cyber Jar? That's not good!' She sighed. “Where's my new Perfect Machine King when I need it…”

 

“Look out!” Mokuba cried as the Tyrant Dragons went for the attack. However, before the blasts were fired, two more blasts were fired from an unknown source. Fortunately for the trio, that blast was intended for their pursuers as after the dust has settled, both the Tyrant Dragons were destroyed, save for the Level 3 Ultimate Insect! That wouldn't last much longer, as the same blast fired at and destroyed that annoying pest!

 

“Where did those blasts come from?” Rikku pondered as she looked around before she saw before her eyes: A navy-skinned, angelic being wearing angelic robes, save for two pairs of golden wings and a crown fit for a king.

 

Rikku blinked at the figure in amazement, “Is that…an Aeon?”

 

Kaiba also saw this being as he blinked in Shock. “Shinato!? There's only one person I know who could have that card in his deck!” He shook his head. “Impossible! There's no way in hell that he can still be alive, let alone be here!”

 

Mokuba saw Shinato as well. “Noah…? Is he alive?” He asked silently.

 

“Who's Noa-” Rikku remembered that incident at the Farplane where she had first saw the Kaiba brothers. “Oh…him…”

 

“Noah is not alive! Probably someone in Spira also has Shinato in his deck.” Kaiba declared. “Just like you have…excuse me…had a Blue Eyes White Dragon!”

 

“Do you really need to keep bring that up?” Rikku replied, not too thrilled with Kaiba bringing up her first, let alone humiliating, loss.

 

“But anyway, Noah's alive! I just know he is, Seto!”

 

“The Virtual World exploded, remember Mokuba?” Kaiba reminded. “Even if he did saved himself on an backup file, how could program data actually exist in the real world?”

 

“I don't know, but I think he's alive!”

 

“Yeah, Setty! Stranger things have happened! You know that-” Rikku reminded.

 

“Don't call me Setty!” Kaiba interrupted as he snapped at the Al Bhed Theif before continuing with his warning. “And if you say one word about that hocus-pocus-”

 

“Look!” Mokuba pointed towards the Angel's direction as it disappeared. Leaving two familiar figures running towards this way…at least to Rikku! While Kaiba and Mokuba did recognize one of them, despite latter's shock and the former's denial they did not know the other! “It's Noah!” He cried as he ran towards the two newcomers.

 

Rikku's eyes were open wide as well as her mouth. To say that she was in shock would be a huge understatement. “It's…it's…” A small tear formed in her right eye as she saw his slightly messy blonde hair, and his all-too-familiar Blitzball Uniform, save for his trademark Sword. “…it's him…”

 

2/3 of the Trio ran towards the new arrivals, while the third just crossed his arms, failing to believe how one of the new arrivals could actually be alive, let alone in Spira!

 

“Mokuba! Seto!” Noah cried as the younger…er…youngest Kaiba ran into his arms, hugging him.

 

“Oh Noah you're alive!” He cried, almost in tears. “I knew you'd find a way!” He looked back. “See Seto, I told ya he would find a way!”

 

Noah noticed the eldest Kaiba's reaction to all of this! “Mokuba…I don't think Seto's happy to see me!”

 

“Don't worry Noah, Seto's just having a hard time believing this!”

 

Rikku was now only a few feet away as she stopped! Tidus had stopped as well, wondering what could be on the young Al Bhed girl's mind!

 

“Is it you? Is it really you?” Rikku asked, nearly lost all control of her emotions. “Are you really alive?”

 

“Umm…yeah.” Tidus said, surprised. Not sure how to react to this as he was glomped before being knocked over.

 

“It's you! You talk and everything! It's really is you!” Rikku hugged him as she cried into his chest. “I thought that I'd never see you again…”

 

Tidus was taken back by Rikku's reaction, “Jeez Rikku! Calm down will ya? Did you cry this much when I disappeared?”

 

“Oh grow up!”

 

Rikku looked back as she saw Kaiba's icy glare, arms crossed. She gave a slight smirk. “What's wrong Setty? Are you feeling alone?”

 

“Don't flatter yourself!” He hissed before turning his attention to his reunited brothers. “How is it even possible that you're alive?”

 

“I'm not really sure, Seto! All I remember is that one moment I was in the afterlife. And the next I'm in the Farplane!” Noah explained.

 

“Farplane…” Rikku sighed. “Everything always leads back to that place…”

 

“Hmph, don't remind me…” Kaiba scoffed, remembering how one of his deep dark secrets was revealed, thanks to Shinra's Commsphere.

 

Rikku ignored Kaiba as she returned her attention to the blonde. “Oh I'm just glad that you're back! Wait till I tell Yunie!”

 

“Speaking of Yuna, how is she?”

 

“Well…it's a long story…But she'll tell ya all about it!” Rikku chirped as she activated her communicator located on her wrist! She hasn't even contacted them at all ever since she first arrived in Domino. “Hello?” No answer…apparently the transmission signals were jammed or something. “Come on…” She tried again.

 

…

 

Tristan got back up on his feet as he looked around. The door that separated the path to the door and the cabin was opened. Inside, everything looked trashed.

 

“Man, that crash trashed the cabin!” He commented as he looked back. “You okay Bakura?”

 

The boy in question slowly got back up to his feet, brushing himself off, looking a bit rattled. “Yes…That crash was rather unpleasant.”

 

Tristan rushed over to Paine. “How is she?”

 

“Her head bumped into the door during the crash!” He informed as both boys helped her into the room, before going up the steps and to the available beds. They placed her on top of the first single bed.

 

“You got this, right Bakura?” Tristan asked.

 

He nodded. “I'll take care of Paine. You see if the others are okay!”

 

“Okay, let's just hope the ship's not too damaged.” Tristan said as he proceeded to run toward the edge of the “floor” as he jump off and landed on the hardwood floor of the bottom of the cabin. He went back onto the lift to check on the other. First, to see Brother and Buddy for a damage report! Then to see Marik about Yuna's situation against his Darker Half!

 

After the lift had stopped on the bridge level, the door opened! Allowing Tristan to run to the next door as after it slid open, his eyes went wide. “Oh man…”

 

Buddy and Brother were both unconscious! At least Buddy was still in his seat! Brother, on the other hand, was tossed into the seat on the right as the result of the collision! Long story short, three people were on top of an airship without a pilot! With Bakura tending to Paine, the brunette had only one option!

 

He sat down in the pilot's seat as he grabbed the controls! Tristan now had the pleasure, or in his case, the displeasure, of being named the new pilot! “Okay, you've played a lot of flight simulator games at the arcade…you can do this…” Tristan pulled back a bit, which jerked the ship upward. “WHOA BAD MOVE! BAD MOVE!” He released the controls as he sighed. If Yami Marik wasn't going to kill them, his piloting skills, or lack thereof, would. It was then he found a communicational device.

 

…

 

“Something must be wrong!” Rikku said dejectedly as she tried one more time to contact the Celsius! However, it would soon be needless…

 

“May-day! May-day! Anyone out there?”

 

Rikku blinked. “That was Tristan's voice!” She quickly replied. “Tristan, is that you?”

 

“Rikku?”

 

“Yeah, so what's going on?” Rikku looked to the Kaiba brothers, all three of them, and Tidus. “I got through!”

 

“Oh great…” Kaiba sarcastically said.

 

“What's wrong?” Mokuba asked as they all surrounded her.

 

“Big trouble!”

 

“So you found Marik?” Rikku asked.

 

“Marik's not the problem! His dark side is back and apparently has the Millennium Rod as he has Shinra under his mind control! Now he and Yuna are in a Shadow Game!”

 

Rikku and Mokuba both blinked. “Shadow Game?”

 

Kaiba groaned. “Not that hocus-pocus crap again!”

 

“Yuna!” Tidus asked. “How is she?”

 

“Not good! The last time I saw her, she was barely there!”

 

“Oh no…Yunie…” Now Rikku was very worried.

 

“And that's not the worse part!” Tristan continued over the transmission. “Shinra has Osiris out on the field!”

 

“WHAT!?” Kaiba was enraged! “YOU MEAN THAT BRAT HAS AN EGYPTIAN GOD CARD!? YOU BETTER BE LYING TAYLOR!”

 

“Would I lie about something like this, Kaiba!?” Tristan sighed. “Now Paine, Buddy, and Brother are knocked out! Bakura's taking care of Paine, and now Marik's trying all he can to help Yuna! And I basically have to pilot the Celsius!”

 

Kaiba scoffed, “You!? A pilot? That's a laugh!”

 

“Why don't you just put it on Auto Pilot?” Rikku asked.

 

“We tried that! Apparently after he took control of Shinra, Marik's dark side sabotaged the Auto Pilot!”

 

“That's not good…” Noah looked down.

 

“Do any of you guys at least know how to pilot an Airship?”

 

“I do…Where are ya?” She asked.

 

“We just crashed through Mt. Gagazet or whatever it's called-Literally!

 

“Okay…” Rikku folded her hands together as she looked down and proceeded to panic. “Whattodowhattodowhattodo…”

 

“ARE YOU PEOPLE MAD!?” Kaiba screamed. “ARE YOU GOING TO LET HER TRY TO HELP THAT IDIOT PILOT THAT COMTRAPTION!?

 

“Hey, do you know how fly it, Setty? I didn't think so!” Rikku took a deep breath. Being now the only one who had any clue to fly a Machina Airship with everyone else either unconscious or occupied, she had to overcome her fears and nervousness and to help Tristan out. “Okay Tristan, we're almost at Luca through the Mi'hen Highroad. Here's what you need to do…”

 

“Okay…” Tristan nodded, ready and willing to listen to whatever Rikku said to do.

 

“Tristan!”

 

The brunette looked back to find Marik entering the bridge, much to his shock!” Marik, what are you doing here? Aren't you supposed to-”

 

“What is going on? Why are you piloting the-” He stopped as he noticed the unconscious Al Bhed! “What happened to them? Did this result from the crash?”

 

“Yeah…now I'm basically have to fly this thing on my own while Bakura's watching over Paine!” Tristan sighed, “This day just keeps getting better and better…”

 

…

 

Yuna looked around at her surroundings. Familiar Surroundings… Wasn't she just on top of the Celsius dueling Shinra, who was being controlled by Yami Marik, in a Shadow Game? This was no Airship, much less a shadow game! She was back in Besaid! More accurately, back in the Besaid Temple, even more accurately at the Cloister of Trials!

 

“Whatever that flash was, did it send me… to the past?” She asked herself as she began to once again wonder the halls of the trials. She completed them once more! Every puzzle that was to be solved! Every task that was to be done! It went exceptionally faster than it did the first time she tried, but she made it to the shrine! The shrine of Valfor, the first Aeon she ever received from the Fayth. But why! Why was she being brought back here? What was her purpose there?

 

“What is my purpose back here?” She wondered as she entered the shrine! Much to her shock, she managed to find an addition to the Shrine! She managed to find floating above the seal of the one who became a Fayth!

 

She grabbed the card as she examined it! Her eyes went wide! “Valfor? But how!? Did Pegasus create these?”

 

“He did!” A voice said as Yuna turned around to she a familiar, cloaked friend.

 

“Fayth?” Yuna blinked. “What going on? Why am I here! One moment I was in a middle of this Shadow Game, and now I'm back in Besaid!”

 

“You have been chosen, Lady Yuna.” The shorter woman explained. “A great evil is destined to return once again!”

 

“Great evil…Seymour! Seymour's back from the Farplane and he have brought some friends. One of them being responsible for the trouble I am currently in now!”

 

“So you understand their intentions! Their quest to revive Sin?”

 

“Sin!? But wasn't Yu Yevon responsible for Sin being reincarnated from the Fayth of the Final Aeon?”

 

“True, but it appears that the events are changing! If Seymour is not stopped, then all of Spira is doomed.”

 

“What can I do to stop him?” Yuna asked.

 

“Take this Aeon Card, The Wind of Valfor.” The Fayth insisted as Yuna looked down at the card with Valfor's picture. “Use it wisely, and you will have all the strength you need to stop Seymour, and to free Spira! Please Lady Yuna! Please save Spira, once more…”

 

Yuna examined the card as she then nodded. “Okay, I will…” She agreed as the card she had just picked up flashed…

 

…

 

“What is taking you so long, Lady Yuna?”

 

The layered voice of Shinra snapped as Yuna looked around. She was back on the Airship in this Shadow Game. But wasn't she just in Valfor's Shrine? Yuna looked down at the card she just drew as her eyes went wide. It was the card she had just received, The Wind of Valfor! A bit of hope came to the former Summoner as she decided to play it! “I now play The Wind of Valfor!”

 

“Shinra” blinked. “What!?”

 

Yuna placed the card down onto the field! “Reveal yourself! Come to me Valfor!” The familiar symbols appeared on the field as a bright beam of light then emitted from the ground upward. From the sky, came the familiar bird-like Aeon! The Aeon that was known as Valfor!

 

“What in the name of Ra is that!?”

 

New knowledge was placed into her mind, as Yuna knew what exactly to do next. “This card allows me to combine this monster I just summoned with a monster that is in my Graveyard! And I pick my Black Luster Solider!” She said as the Envoy Warrior reappeared onto the field. “Now Valfor, combine with Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning to form…” The two summoned monster began to merge together, creating a fused being!

 

Back in Guadosalam, Yami Marik was seething as he watched the creation of the new being! “What is the meaning of this!?”

 

“It appears that the monster the Summoner had summoned struck a few chords inside of you!” Yami Bakura smirked at the blonde Egyptian.

 

“I warned you not to underestimate her!” Seymour said. “Now she appears to have what she need to turn this duel around!”

 

The fusion then finished as in place of the two monsters, Yuna's Black Luster Soldier was placed on the back of Valfor as his armor instead of the blue and gold color was replaced with gold and silver! “Say hello to Black Luster Soldier the Aeon Knight (4000/4000)! However, due to Osiris's ability, his attack power was decreased (2000/4000).”

 

“Shinra” saw this new monster as he then began to laugh! “That monster's worthless to you! Osiris has 5000 more attack points than your Aeon Knight!”

 

“Have you heard of Special Abilities?” Yuna reminded. “Black Luster Soldier's Special Ability is to remove on monster on the field from the game, then that monster's Attack Points are added to his until my next turn!”

 

“Impossible!”

 

“Oh it is anything but impossible! Black Luster Soldier the Aeon Knight, banish Element Dragon from the game!” She ordered as her combined forced proceed to banish the Dragon from the game! Afterwards, the Knight's power increased, back to where it originally was (4000/4000)… “I end my turn!”

 

“With as many Life Points you had left, you wasted your entire turn!” “Shinra” laughed! “Thanks Lady Yuna! Now your soul will help us bring back Sin, stronger and badder than before!” He drew a card, which raised Osiris's power even more (8000/8000)! “Now Osiris, destroy her Aeon Knight and finish her once and for all!” He ordered as Osiris proceeded to fire it's mighty blast at Yuna's monster! However, Yuna was not concerned! In fact, she was…smiling?”

 

“I was hoping you'd attack! Because as of right now, I win!”

 

“Hmph, your inevitable trip to the Shadow Realm is making you delusional, Lady Yuna!” “Shinra” sneered as the blast was almost near the Aeon Knight.

 

“I'm serious! Because now I play this!” Yuna revealed her facedown card! “Heavy Slump!”

 

“Shinra's” eyes went wide. “Heavy Slump!?”

 

“I have to admit! If it weren't for your Infinite Cards Spell Card, I probably would've never used this! Thanks to this card, you'll have to add your hand to your deck, reshuffle, and draw two cards! And since Osiris' attack power depends on how many cards in your hands…

 

“That means that Osiris' attack power will be reduced to 2000!” Yami Marik's voice exclaimed through Shinra's head, as the mind-controlled Al Bhed placed his hand into his deck as he then proceeded to shuffle. Next, he drew only two cards!

 

“And since you have less than 1000 Life Points, you lose Marik!” Yuna declared as Black Luster Soldier the Aeon Knight fired his blast from both his sword and Valfor's mouth as it destroyed the Sky Dragon, and the rest of its controller's life points!

 

Yuna: 250
Shinra: 0

 

With the duel over, The Aeon Knight vanished as Yuna's body was recovered, while Shinra's appeared to be fading away as layered laughter came from the boy!

 

“I haven't lost anything my dear! This is just a minor setback! The only real loser in all of this is your dear friend Shinra! Thanks to you, his soul will be sent to the Shadows to be food for Sin's revival!” And with that, Yami Marik's mind control was released as Shinra blinked.

 

“Shinra!” Yuna cried as she rushed over to the vanishing boy!

 

“Y..Yuna…” Shinra called out to her, tears forming in his eyes.

 

“Shinra, hang on!”

 

“Yuna…it's too late…” He said, as the only thing left of him was his face. “Yuna…I'm sorry…” And with those last words, Shinra's body was completely gone! Just as the former Summoner has got there.

 

“No! Shinra! SHINRA!” Yuna stopped as she dropped down to her knees! She began to cry as she mourned the loss of the Young Al Bhed boy!

 

…

 

“Where are you now?” Rikku asked over the communicator as Marik, who had taken over Buddy's role as navigator, checked the map.

 

“We're over Mushroom Rock Road! We should be just there in a few moments!” He said as Tristan sighed in relief. Piloting a ship he hardly knew anything about had been torture to him.

 

“That's good…” The substitute pilot said. “Now all I need to know how to do is to land this thing!”

 

“Okay…that's easy! All you have to do is stop moving, then slowly descend to the ground!”

 

“Okay…” Tristan sighed as he looked to Marik. “Where are we now?”

 

“We're on the Mi'hen Highroad, right near the entrance to Luca!” He explained.

 

“That's cool! I guess we can start landing now! Okay Rikku make way `cause I'm gonna land this thing!”

 

“Okay!” Rikku looked up to see the Celsius slowing down! “Okay guys, he's about to land.”

 

Kaiba crossed his arms. “I hope you have insurance for when Taylor screws up!”

 

“Seto!” Mokuba crossed his arms.

 

Rikku turned to Tidus! “I can't wait for Yunie to see you again!”

 

“The feeling's neutral Rikku!” He said, obviously having a bit of an anxiety attack. “For so long I wanted to see her once again!”

 

The Celsius proceeded to land to the ground…a bit rough, but the landing was at least decent…for someone who flew an airship for the first time in his life. At first sight of the Airship, they all cringed at the damaged.

 

“What happened to the Celsius!?” Rikku cried as Kaiba smirked.

“I knew Taylor would screw this up!” He scoffed, “Let's see what else he's damaged!”

 

Rikku glared. “You're not helping!”

 

Tristan sighed, “Whew! Nice to be on the ground now! At least that's over!”

 

“Not yet!” Marik reminded. “We need to see if Yuna's alright!”

 

They didn't even need to go to the lift as the door to the hallway opened. Yuna walked into the bridge, looking down and depressed. Her tears appeared to be dried.

 

“Yuna!” Marik and Tristan ran over to the former Summoner, concern was on their faces.

 

“You're okay!” Tristan said, with a bit a cheer in his voice.

 

“No…” She simply said, which made the two boys even more concerned.

 

“Yuna, what's wrong? Where's Shinra?” Marik asked.

 

“…He's gone. They got him…”

 

“What?”

 

“Don't you understand!?” She snapped at them! “Shinra's gone!” Tears, once again began to pour from her eyes! “After all that, he still won! He took Shinra away!”

 

“Wait, Yuna what are you saying?” Marik asked, having a bad feeling of where she was going with this!

 

“Your dark side took Shinra's soul!” She said before beginning to cry again. Feeling that she had failed to protect her friends.

 

Poor Yuna. But don't worry everyone Tidus will make it better. Also, the Aeon Cards are going to work like the Legendary Dragons meaning, they won't be able to attack by themselves, but only to merge with another monster, spell, or trap card to form an attack monster.

 

The Wind of Valfor
This Monster can combine with a monster card in your graveyard into an effect monster.

 

Black Luster Soldier the Aeon Knight!
Light/Wariror
4000/4000
Effect
This monster can only be summoned by Combining The Wind of Valfor with Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning from the graveyard! You can remove one monster from the field once per turn. Add the ATK of the removed monster to this cards attack until your next turn.

 

Preview for Next Chapter:

 

“How did fiends get aboard!?” Rikku asked in panic.

 

“The same way how the Auto Pilot got ruined.” Buddy said.

 

“Once we find Yugi and the others, maybe things will brighten up!” Bakura said, looking on the brighter side of this situation.

 

Rikku just remembered about Tidus and Noah after Bakura's statement. “That reminds me! Yunie, boy do I have a surprise for you!”

 

Yuna blinked, “Really…”

 

“Yeah Yunie, you're gonna love it!”

 

Chapter 13: Yugi Trapped! The Awakening of Anima.