Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction / Final Fantasy - All Series Fan Fiction ❯ A New Path ❯ Meeting The Creator! The Al Bhed Duel: Rikku vs. Brother! ( Chapter 14 )

"Pegasus? Here?" Mokuba's eyes were wide. "But how?"

He grinned. "Well if it isn't Kaiba-Boy, Yugi-Boy, Joey-Boy and all of there friends!"

"Save it Pegasus!" Kaiba hissed. "How is it possible that you're even here!?"

Rikku asked aside to Tea. "You know this guy?"

"The creator of Duel Monsters, you could say that. He's the one who kidnapped Yugi's Grandpa's soul, just so he can go get Yugi's Millenium Item to help bring back his wife. He did the same thing to Kaiba and Mokuba's soul." She explained.

"Come now, Kaiba-Boy! Let's settle this in a civilized manner, shall we?" Pegasus suggested. "Anyways, after I failed to obtain the Millennium Puzzle, as we as losing the Millennium Eye, I went into depression. Then, one night, I had a dream which I saw my dear Cecilia. We've talked for a while and she told me to just live on with my life and stop grieving her death, but then she'd said that she would never forget me."

"Look, we don't want to hear about your fairytales." Kaiba hissed. "I already had my fill of them already!"

Pegasus glared at Kaiba then continued, "So then one day, I was thinking about what new cards I could create for Duel Monsters until I came across a very particular item. It was a like an electric sphere shaped one to be exact."

"The Transphere!" Yugi and Kaiba said at the same time.

"Yes. I pressed a small button on the bottom, and that's how I got here." Pegasus concluded. "And I had also created new cards that will shortly be up on the market!"

"What cards…" Kaiba glared.

"Rikku?" Tea called her.

She came over. "Yeah, Teyi?"

"Can I talk to you?" She asked.

"Sure."

The two girls left the bridge and walked into the hallway.

"Okay Teyi, what's up?" Rikku asked.

"I decided that I'm going to go back home. To go back to Domino." She said.

Rikku blinked, definitely not expecting this. "Really!? Why?"

"Just look at what's happened. I mean, the way Kaiba treated you, and after what the Spirit in Bakura's Millennium Item done? This wouldn't have happened if I never left Domino in the first place."

"Teyi…"

"You remember the reason why I left in the first place?" Tea reminded. "It's because I thought that my friend could care less about me. But now, I found out that it was just a misunderstanding. Rikku, I love what you've done for me. You made me a sphere hunter, and showed me the cool Garment Grid, and I love you for that."

"No, I love you for what you did for me! You introduced me to an awesome game, introduced me to your friends. And the best thing of all…"

"Yeah?"

"You introduced me to Setty!" Rikku chirped, which cause a sigh from Tea.

"Rikku…"

"Hey, Seto Kaiba can be a major jerk! But he can be nice and thoughtful too…when he wants to."

"Good point." Tea giggled with a smile. "Although Joey and Tristan may…scratch that, I know Joey and Tristan will definitely disagree…"

"THIS TIME YOU'VE GONE TOO FAR PEGASUS!" The girls heard Kaiba's loud voice from the door.

"What do you think is going on?" Rikku asked Tea.

"With Kaiba, who knows." Tea said as they rushed back inside to see Yuna and Yugi's eyes wide, Brother, Joey, and Tristan snickering, Kaiba fuming, and everyone else sighing at Kaiba's actions.

"Take it easy Kaiba." Shinra advised.

"NO I WILL NOT TAKE IT EASY!" Kaiba snapped at Al Bhed boy.

"What's wrong Kaiba?" Tea asked.

"What's wrong? WHAT'S WRONG!?" Kaiba responded. "I'LL SHOW YOU WHAT'S WRONG! IT'S BAD ENOUGH WHAT PEGASUS DID TO ME AT DUELIST KINGDOM, BUT THIS THE WORST!" Kaiba threw a card at the girls, which Rikku caught in her hand and began to examine it.

"It's the newest and first Toon Fusion monster!" Pegasus proudly said. "Blue Eyes Ultimate Toon Dragon!" That caused the laughing trio to laugh even louder.

Mokuba blinked, "It's not that funny guys…"

"DON'T YOU PEOPLE SEE?" Kaiba fumed. "IT'S…IT'S…"

"Cute!" Rikku cooed, looking at the card.

Kaiba gave a glare towards Rikku. "A Blue Eyes, let alone Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon isn't suppose to be cute! It supposed to be vicious, deadly, powerful, and it suppose to bring big mouthed losing chumps to their knees!"

"That's not all of the cards I've created for the toons..." Pegasus took out another card. "Now the Blue Eyes Toon Dragon will have a friend: Behold Red Eyes Toon Dragon!"

Joey's laughter suddenly stopped at that announcement, "WHAT!? Nobody toonifies Red Eyes!"

"Now you know how I feel about Blue Eyes Toon Dragon and Blue Eyes Ultimate Toon Dragon!" Kaiba said to Joey!"

"And now with Red Eyes' toonification, comes this card!" Pegasus showed another, let alone fusion card: Toon Skull Dragon!

"It's not so funny now, isn't it Wheeler?" Kaiba said.

"It's not, but I'll get over it!" Joey shrugged.

Serenity smiled, "Who would've thought that Kaiba and Joey would agree on something?"

"Besides their disliking for each other?" Bakura added with a chuckle.

Brother meanwhile grinned. This was the perfect time to humiliate Rikku in a duel, let alone in front of the game's creator with the power of Exodia, let alone with his two new cards which would be served as "The key to Rikku's demise." "Rikku!"

She sighed, "What now?"

"I challenge you to a duel!" He declared as Shinra snickered.

"Looking to get you hiney kicked again?" He asked.

"I'm not going to get beat this time!" He snapped before returning his attention towards his sister. "We duel…now!"

Rikku sighed, "Okay…"

"This should be interesting…" Yugi said as Pegasus watched on with interest.

'Now we'll see how the people in Spira duel…' He thought to himself.

On the deck of the Celsius, Rikku and Brother stood on opposite sides with their duel disks on. Rikku told no one not to come out since it "wouldn't take long to beat him for the millionth time."

"Okay, I'm going to whip your butt one more time." Rikku said, annoyed. "This is getting old."

"It'll be your butt that willll be whipped!" Brother retorted as the life points went set.

Rikku: 8000

Brother: 8000

"Let's Duel!" They both shouted.

"First, I'll play one card face down!" Rikku says as she placed one card on in the spell/trap zone, "Then I summon Giga Tech Wolf [1200/1400] in attack mode!" A mechanical Wolf then appeared on the field. "I end my turn!"

"Okay…" Brother grinned as he drew a card, then smiled. "I now play spell card Painful Choice, which allows me to pick five cards from my deck! You then get to pick one card that I get to keep and I'll send it to the graveyard!"

"Okay, then pick the cards!" Rikku said, wanting to get this duel over with.

"Okay…" Brother grinned as he browsed through his deck. After his selection, he showed her the cards he picked which made Rikku's heart skip a beat.

"W-what? But they're…"

"The five pieces of Exodia? I'm feeling lucky today so I can afford to send these cards to the graveyard." Brother explained. "Now Rikku, take your pick!"

"Okay okay…" She said, wondering if Brother really lost it. He had five cards which, by having in his hand, could win him the duel and now he was throwing them away? Well…four of them at least.

Pegasus, who had stepped on the deck to see the Al Bhed duel, just watched on, amused. 'So Brother-Boy's going to throw away all of his Exodia cards. That's a very foolish move but then again, what if he wants the pieces of Exodia in the graveyard?'

Kaiba decided to come out and watch too, not wanting to be in the same place as "the geeks." This whole duel was familiar to him. What was that idiot Brother thinking? He's using painful choice to get rid of-wait a minute!

Rikku shrugged, if that's what he wants… "Okay then, you can keep Exodia's head! Everything else's gotta go!"

Brother discarded the Exodia pieces save for Exodia's Head, "I now end my turn by placing one monster card face down in defense mode and another card faced down on the field." Brother concluded his turn.

"Okay…" Rikku sighed as she drew another card. "I now summon Cyber-Stein [700/500] in attack mode!" She said as Cyber Stein was summoned.

Time to activate my Cyber-Stein's special ability! Just for the small price of 5000 life points, I can special summon a fusion monster from my fusion deck!" Rikku declared as her life points began to drop.

Rikku: 3000

Brother: 8000

"And with its effect, I'll summon Metal Dragon [1850/1700]!" Rikku declared as the dragon appeared on the field, joining Giga Tech Wolf and Cyber-Stein. "Now My Giga Tech Wolf, attack Brother's facedown monster!"

The mechanical wolf ran up as it then bit the card which turned out to be Exodia's Head [1000/1000], much to Rikku's shock.

"Why did you put Exodia's head on the field?" She asked.

"You'll find out soon enough…" Brother replied as Rikku finished her turn.

"Now my Metal Dragon and Cyber-Stein, attack Brother Directly!" She ordered as Metal Dragon and Cyber-Stein fired at Brother, causing him to shield himself from the blasts.

Rikku: 3000

Brother: 6450

Brother drew a card as he then gave a wide smile. "So I could play this!" He answered as he played a spell card. "Contract With Exodia! I couldn't play this card until all the pieces of Exodia were in my graveyard. Now I'll use this to summon the unbeatable, the unstoppable…"

"Just what I thought…" Kaiba said.

"The Mighty Exodia Necross [1800/0]!" Brother announced as then a gray, dead version of Exodia was summoned. "Rikku! Prepare to be hurt by the scars of defeat! Now Exodia Necross! Destroy Rikku's monster now!"

The dead version Exodia charged up as he then with a punched Cyber-Stein...

"Activate my face down card Life-Absorbing Machine! By my next standby phase, I'll get back how many life points I've paid in the previous turn! So what if I lose 1100 life points. I'll get much more next turn."

Rikku: 1900

Brother: 6450

"And don't forget my little machine dragon is still on the field! Yer Exodia Necross is finished!" Rikku chirped.

"Oh Rikku, you'll be in for such a surprise…" Brother said in a whisper as he ended his turn.

"Rikku's a fool…" Kaiba muttered. "If she thinks that she can destroy Exodia Necross just because her Metal Dragon has higher attack points, she's lying to herself."

"First…through my Life-Absorbing Machine's effect, I get 2500 life points!" Rikku said as her life points went up.

Rikku: 4400

Brother: 6450

"WHAT!?" Brother replied in shock. "How'd you?"

"Oh brother…" Kaiba muttered at Brother's stupidity.

"You remember that I paid 5000 life points to special summon Metal Dragon through Cyber-Stein's special ability? Well thanks to Life Absorbing Machine, I get back half of that amount!" Rikku grinned as she drew a card. She knew that sacrifices needed to be made as now she had less life points than Brother. But what if Brother summoned a monster with a high attack power? She'd have to prepare for that as well. "First I place two cards face down! Then I'll play the spell card Limiter Removal. This little number doubles my Metal Dragon's attack power [3700/1700]! Although my dragon will be destroyed at the end, but it's worth the sacrifice to take down your Exodia Necross!" She said as sparks began to emit from the Metal Dragon, hinting that it may have too much power to contain and it'd explode!

"Bring it on!" Brother challenged.

"Metal Dragon attack!" She ordered as the mechanical dragon fired an electric blast from its mouth at Exodia Necross, which caused Brother's Life Points to drop.

Rikku: 4400

Brother 4550

Much to her dismay, Exodia Necross was still standing as Brother began to laugh. "Rikku! You really think that just because your Dragon had a higher attack power you could beat me? One of Exodia Necross's special abilities is that he cannot be destroyed in battle.

"Aww…" Rikku moaned. "That's not fair…"

"Life's not fair, get used to it!"

"Hmm…" Pegasus thought. "Looks like Rikku's on the ropes. It's true that Exodia Necross has a few special abilities that make it seem invincible, but there is one weakness."

Kaiba nodded, actually agreeing with Pegasus for once, "It's true that there are some cards that Exodia Necross is begging for. Let's just see if Rikku is duelist enough to figure out how to take down Exodia Necross."

Rikku ended her turn as her Metal Dragon then exploded, as the drawback of using Limiter Removal.

The attack points of Exodia Necross increased by 500 [2300/0] as Brother drew a card. "I now place one more card facedown and summon Yaiba Robo [1000/1300] in attack mode." He felt that the end was near for Rikku, and the fact that she knew that she couldn't do anything about it made it sweet. "Now Exodia Necross, attack Rikku directly!"

"Hold on, pal!" Rikku stopped him. "Activate Mirror Force! Now all of yer monsters are going to be destroyed by Exodia Necross's own attack."

Rikku was only half right, as Yaiba Robo was destroyed due to Mirror Force's special effect, but unfortunately for her, Exodia Necross was still standing, much to her dismay and Brother's enjoyment.

"Allow me to explain: Exodia cannot be destroyed in battle or by spell or trap cards! Face it Rikku, with this card I'm unstoppable! There's no way you can win! Not even with your precious Blue Eyes White Dragon!"

"Now he's acting like Gozaburo…" Kaiba seethed as he couldn't take it anymore. Brother had already annoyed Kaiba by acting like a total idiot, but now by acting like the one person he despised the most, ever more than Joey, Kaiba just wanted for him to be shut up. "Rikku!"

She looked towards Kaiba. "Huh?"

"If you want to beat Exodia Necross, you're attacking him in the wrong place!"

"CRID IB! [SHUT UP!]" Brother shouted at Kaiba. Fearing that he'll tell Rikku about Exodia Necross's one weakness.

He ignored the Al Bhed. "Attack his spirit, Rikku. That's the secret to take him down!"

Pegasus blinked at Kaiba. "Kaiba-Boy!?"

"He reminded me of Gozaburo. Anyone who even remotely reminds me of him is someone who I'll have no qualms of destroying." Kaiba simply said.

"Now, as you were doing before we were so rudely interrupted!" Brother glared at Rikku. "Exodia Necross attack Rikku's life points directly!!"

Exodia Necross made his attack with Rikku shielding herself as her life points began to drop.

Rikku: 2100

Brother: 4550

Now Rikku had to think. What did Kaiba mean by attacking the Spirit of Exodia Necross? He can't be destroyed, spell and trap cards were useless, what else could she do. The only other thing she knew that all 5 pieces of Exodia had to be in the graveyard for Exodia Necross to be summoned. Wait a minute! If the Exodia pieces needed to be in the graveyard for Exodia Necross to be summoned, what would happen if on of the pieces were no longer in the graveyard?

"Rikku! It's best to give up now, because next turn, Exodia Necross's attack power will increase again. This time Exodia Necross's attack power will go up to 2800 which will be more than enough to finish you off!"

Rikku had a smile on her face. Apparently she had a plan. "We'll just see about that! It's my turn now!" She drew a card. "First, I'm going to do something about yer Exodia Necross."

Brother laughed again, "Oui yna y vuum Rikku! (You are a fool Rikku!) Exodia Necross isn't effected by-"

"Who said I was attacking Exodia Necross?" Rikku asked. "I'm now going to borrow a card from your graveyard, thanks to this spell card Monster Reborn, which will allow me to bring back any monster sent to either graveyard! Including your graveyard! Correct me if I'm wrong, but are most of the monsters in your graveyard Exodia pieces." She asked slyly as Brother was starting to sweat. "The expression on your face says it all. You're totally wetting your pants right now!"

"Oui fuimth'd! (You wouldn't!)"

"I'll borrow Exodia's head for now." Rikku smiled. "Say goodbye to Exodia Necross!"

"NO!" Brother protested as Exoida's head appeared on Rikku's side of the field. As a result, Exodia Necross began to collapse…

Kaiba smirked. "That girl's got it. Perhaps I was wrong about her. Then again, maybe I was wrong about Wheeler, not that I'll ever admit it…"

"Now I'll sacrifice Exodia's Head to Summon Machine King [2200/2000] in attack mode!" Exodia's head was gone as it was replaced by the King of Machines. "Next, I'll equip it with the Spell Card Machine Conversion Factory that'll increase its attack and defense by 300! [2500/2300] "Now Machine King…attack Brother directly!"

Brother shielded himself as Machine King attacked him directly.

Rikku: 2100

Brother: 2050

Brother gave out a chuckle as he then burst out laughing.

"Now what…" She muttered.

"It appears that Brother-Boy's lost it." Pegasus said.

"Like he hasn't already…" Kaiba muttered.

"What are you laughing about?" Rikku demanded in annoyance.

Brother laughed, "I've thought that you might find a way to defeat Exodia Necross, so I had a backup plan!"

Rikku blinked. "What do you mean!?"

"You're not the only one who can use Monster Reborn Rikku!" Brother reminded. "Now I'll use Monster Reborn to bring back Exodia's head!" He said as Exodia's head then returned to his side of the field.

Rikku rolled her eyes. "Yer using Exodia's head to attack me?"

"Who said I was going to use this to attack, or have you forgotten about my face-down cards?" Brother reminded as Rikku blinked.

Rikku was now freaked out. "Oh no…I was so worried about Exodia Necross that I completely forgot!"

"Now my face down cards, activate!" Brother's faced-down cards were revealed…First, I activate Compulsory Evacuation Device which allows me to return one monster to my hand, which I'll use to return Exodia's head to my hand!" Exodia's head disappeared as Brother placed the card back in his hand. "And now, I activate my other two trap cards, which both of them are Back-Up Solders!

"What do those trap cards do?" She asked, panicked.

"Back up soldier allows me to place up to three cards with an attack no greater than 1500 from my graveyard and back to my hand. And since I have two, I'll be able to choose up to six cards!"

"Umm…the cards you're planning to revive? They wouldn't happen to be other pieces of Exodia would it?" Rikku asked nervously.

"Thanks for reminding me! Through the effect of my Back Up Soldier, I draw four cards from my graveyard: Right Arm of the Forbidden One, Left Arm of the Forbidden One, Right Leg of the Forbidden One, and Left Leg of the Forbidden One!"

"No…" Rikku cried, knowing what was coming next.

"Yes…" Brother grabbed the rest of the Exodia pieces, "And you know what happens when a player holds all five pieces, right?"

"Oh no…"

"Oh yes!" Brother placed the Exodia Pieces onto the field. "Now Exodia…reveal your self and bring me victory at once!"

The Cards on the field got into a star formation as an outline of a star mapped them together. The lines then flashed as portals began to open. First his right arm, then his left, then his right leg, then his left! Finally the portal to the head opened as then he was whole! Exodia the Forbidden One was now summoned on the field!

"Oh no…" Rikku cried. "Exodia!"

"Looks like Brother-Boy wins." Pegasus declared. "It was a close duel, though…"

Kaiba sighed, knowing how Rikku must be feeling about facing Exodia as he could remembered that was the way Yugi beat Kaiba the first time.

"I've been waiting for a long time to say this…" Brother then ordered… "Exodia…Upmedanyda! (Exodia…Obliterate!)"

Just as Exodia was about to give her the final blow, he suddenly began to feel startled, before collapsing and then exploding into pyroflies.

"Fryd!? (What!?)" The Al Bhed siblings both exclaimed at the same time as Brother checked his duel disk. Where it should display his life points, it was blinking "Malfunction!"

"NOOOOOO!" Brother cried as he dropped down to his knees. He would've won if not for that dammed malfunctioning duel disk!

"I guess it's a draw…" Pegasus said as he headed back inside. "It was a great duel…"

Kaiba scoffed, "Serves Brother right for depending on one card to win…" He said as he walked inside as well.

Rikku, meanwhile, let out a sigh. It was true that she was done for. Technically he did win, but since they were playing with the Duel Disks, just having the pieces of Exodia in his hands wasn't good enough in this case.

Inside, Tea and Yuna were dueling as Yugi, Joey, Tristan, and Bakura were reading the Al Bhed Primers in order to learn the language.

"SHIN-RAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

From his computer, the young Al Bhed boy heard Brother's screaming as he sighed. "Oh boy…"

Tea looked up. "What's wrong Shinra?"

Buddy, from the navigator's seat, sighed as well. "Rikku whipped his butt again?"

"Not sure, but I wouldn't be surprised…" Shinra said as he got up to find their self-proclaimed leader, along with everyone else.

The sliding door opened as Brother stormed in, with Rikku behind…

"Cdibet beala uv zihg! (Stupid piece of junk!)" He slammed the duel disk on the steel floor, causing it to crack. "SHINRA!"

He walked up nervously. "Umm…yeah?"

"THIS STUPID DUEL DISK YOU CREATED MALFUNCTIONED, JUST WHEN I HAD EXODIA SUMMONED!" He screamed. "WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO SAY FOR YOURSELF?"

"Umm…I'm just a kid?" He replied.

That's it for this chapter. But don't expect the next one to be up very quickly as I'm going to have to start on a duel that supposed to take at least two chapters to finish. I did okay on the first duel I written up, but that was because of the other events that were happening. But I'll go up for the challenge. After all, if they can make a duel last 5 episodes, I could at least try to make it last, let alone interesting for at least two chapters.

Preview for next chapter:

"Seto…remember-" Mokuba tried to remind his brother, but Kaiba cut him off.

"I remember what you told me Mokuba." Kaiba glared at Rikku. "I would appreciate it if you didn't fill my brother's head with that nonsense about this 'Sin!' That ranks as much crap as this whole High Summoner garbage! A big giant monster that killed civilizations being defeated by one Summoner!? Come on! What kind of idiot do you take me for? I'll believe that Yugi was a Pharaoh and I was a High Priest in a past life before I even question if that was real or not!"

Yuna's eyes narrowed, "You will take those words back…"

"Or what, you'll summon one of your so-called Aeons against me? Ha! To these superstitious nitwits you may be the 'High Summoner that defeated Sin,' but to me you're just like everyone else: Beneath me…"

Chapter 15: The Duel in Luca Part 1: Kaiba vs. Yuna!