Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction / Final Fantasy - All Series Fan Fiction ❯ A New Path ❯ The Duel In Luca Part 3: The Conclusion ( Chapter 17 )

Magicman/Smokegirl - Your question will be answered in this chapter.

PROTOTYPE Uber Rei Model 00 - Okay, this is the last cliffy in this story as the next chapter will be the final chapter.

setoobsessive-2() - If I told you what was going to happen, I'd spoil this chapter. As for Kaiba hooking up with Rikku, expect it to happen, but don't hold your breath if you think it'll happen in this story, though…

Cloud Strife!! - Thank you. Your support means a lot and that motivates me to write good stories.

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Kaiba grinned as he saw Yuna debating with herself if she should continue on with the duel, "What will it be Yuna?! Are you going to continue and lose, or save yourself the humiliation of being beaten in front of your huge fan club and surrender?"

"I…I…" Yuna closed her eyes. Was she really going to give up? Was she really going to surrender, and tell Kaiba that he was the superior duelist? It all seemed to be occurring either way and there wasn't much she could do to stop it from happening. Kaiba still had 6300 life points while Yuna had only 400. His Crush Card was still in effect for one more turn so she couldn't summon a monster with an attack higher than 1500. Even if she could use a high-attack monster, odds are that she'd have to tribute summon a monster. Unfortunately, Kaiba's strongest monster had 2800 attack points so it'd probably be around a two-tribute monster.

"Where's your faith now, Yuna? Or have you realized that you'll never beat a duelist of my skills and instead fail. But then again Yuna, failure isn't exactly foreign to you isn't it?" Kaiba smirked cruelly. "So you defeated Sin, but you needed help to do it! But then again, you couldn't do anything on your own, can you? If you went at it alone, you'd have failed miserably!"

"KAIBA!" Yugi protested Kaiba's behavior.

"Save it Yugi! You may be able to protect your pathetic friends, but not even you can shield Yuna from the truth! That's she's just a failure without her friends and her so-called Aeons. So how's the Sphere-Hunting business, Lady Yuna? The Gullwings doesn't seem to be cutting it, are they? Maybe they should be called 'The Dullwings,' because from what I've heard, you're Sphere hunting skills are as good as your dueling skills, and we both know how good they are! Just check the life points so far?"

Rikku's eyes narrowed. "Like I said before, just when he shows that he's not such a heartless jerk, he messes up, big time!" I'm about to jump onto the field and-"

"Take a number…" Joey cut her off.

"The line's behind us!" Tristan added.

"And why did become a sphere hunter in the first place? Because everyone else was beginning to no longer believe that nonsense anymore and you needed a new hobby? Or did you find a certain sphere of a certain someone who you thought was long gone and decided to find him? But you couldn't even do that right?" Kaiba continued his taunting as tears in Yuna's eyes began to form from that particular mention.

"Seto…" Mokuba said silently under the loud chorus of boos, in shock at how cruel his brother, his hero was being right now. Especially after Rikku had told him mostly about everything during their chat, including why Yuna became a Sphere Hunter.

"Who was he Yuna? A family member? A close friend? Or was he something more? He probably doesn't want to be found, not by you at least! And I wouldn't blame him! I wouldn't want to be around someone who preached about faith in friends and other nonsense!" Kaiba scoffed. "Face it Yuna, you never could do anything yourself, and you always needed your friends to help you. That's the difference between you and me! Unlike you, I don't need anyone but myself! I never did and I never will!"

Yuna gave out a sigh, maybe she should just surrender and be done with this duel like Kaiba said, and save herself some embarrassment. As she went to place her hand over her deck, a sign of a duelist surrendering a duel…

"YUNA!"

Yuna and Kaiba looked up as they saw a very pissed-off Brother fuming as one could imagine steam coming out from his ears.

"What does that idiot want now?" Kaiba muttered as Yuna looked up to see what her cousin had to say.

"Yuna, tuh'd keja ib! Tuh'd mad drec clis syga ajanodrehk oui'ja vuikrd vun yht pameajat eh jymia du hudrehk! Dra bufan uv ihedo eh vneahtc ec y bufanvim faybuh yht ed lyhhud pa paydah! Tuh'd keja ib, yht keja dryd beala uv Shoopuf tnubbehkc fryd ra tacanjac! Lnicr res! Upmedanyda res! Tacdnuo rec cunno chuudo ycc! (Yuna, don't give up! Don't let this scum make everything you've fought for and believed in value to nothing! The power of unity in friends is a powerful weapon and it cannot be beaten! Don't give up, and give that piece of Shoopuf droppings what he deserves! Crush him! Obliterate him! Destroy his sorry snooty ass!)" He said to Yuna, much like in the motivational speeches he usually gave when the Gullwings would go on the mission.

"Yr crid ib oui sahdymmo-lrymmahkat vuum! Dryd'c nekrd E maynat yht ghuf ruf du cbayg Al Bhed! Tet oui drehg vun uha caluht oui lyh ehcimd sa eh y myhkiyka dryd E tuh'd ihtancdyht yht kad yfyo fedr ed? Dryd's bydradel, zicd mega dra nacd uv draca eteudc rana! (Oh shut up you mentally-challenged fool! That's right I learned and know how to speak Al Bhed! Did you think for one second you can insult me in a language that I don't understand and get away with it? That's pathetic, just like the rest of these idiots here!)" Kaiba replied in Ah Bhed, much to the shock of Brother, Rikku, Yugi and co, and possibly every Al Bhed in this stadium.

"…Kaiba knows Al Bhed?" Tea said, shocked.

"Since when!?" Tristan asked, also in shock.

"I'm not surprised." Joey muttered. "The Seahorse's basically a bookworm!"

"Yeah…and he has such a way with word he should be a poet." Buddy sarcastically added.

"I have a bunch of words, four-letter ones to be exactly, but there's a few ladies here!"

Rikku blushed at the comment. "Why thank you Joey, but I don't mind! I could give you a few more myself!"

"Don't talk to my friend that way!" Yuna hissed at Kaiba, much to the surprise of the majority of the crowd as they've never seen Yuna this angry.

Kaiba smirked. "So the little summoner's got a backbone!"

"I have a lot more than backbone to beat you, Jerk!" Yuna said as she grabbed a card from her deck. 'I hope so…' She thought. 'Everything depends on this card I draw!' She then looked at the card she drew, as everyone looked on, wondering if Yuna drew the card she needed, or the card that'll lead to her demise. "I'll play Pot of Greed, which will allow me to draw two more cards from my deck!"

"Like that's going to help you!" Kaiba responded. "You remember my Crush Card is still in effect?"

"Who said that I was going for high level monsters?" Yuna informed as she drew two cards from her deck. "I place two cards facedown on the field! My turn is over, and so is the effect of your Crush Card." Yuna concluded as the virus then disappeared from the field.

Kaiba drew a card, "Admirable, but have you forgotten XYZ Dragon Cannon's Special Ability?" He said as he discarded a card which was the trap card Ring of Destruction! "XYZ Dragon Cannon, Destroy Yuna's left facedown card!" Kaiba ordered as the missiles were fired onto the card that was on Kaiba's left, which was revealed to be Torrential Tribute. "Hmph, were you going to activate this card as soon as I placed a monster on the field? Your traps are so obvious Yuna, and now I'm going to end this duel once and for all! Starting with you Mystical Elf! XYZ Dragon Cannon, destroy Yuna's Mystical Elf!" Kaiba ordered as the Machine Monster fired its lasers and missiles at Mystical Elf…

"Sorry Kaiba!" Yuna announced as a golden cylinder appeared in Mystical Elf's hands. The ammunition fired from XYZ Dragon Cannon went inside said cylinder. "You activated my trap card, Magic Cylinder!"

"What?!" Kaiba responded in surprise.

"That's right! Oh, and Kaiba? I think I have something that belongs to you!" Yuna said as another Cylinder appeared, followed by the ammunition that went into the first cylinder, headed directly at Kaiba, and his life points...

Kaiba: 3500

Yuna: 400

"Alright Yunie! Take that meanie down!" Rikku cheered.

"How ya like them apples, Rich Boy?" Joey shouted at Kaiba. "Beat that Gambit-Wannabe Yuna!"

"Yuna's back in the game!" Tristan added.

"She may have saved her life points, but she's not out of the woods yet!" Bakura reminded.

"Bakura's right you guys!" Yugi added. "Yuna still has a fraction of life points as Kaiba and XYZ Dragon Cannon is still on the field so he could discard another card to destroy any spell, trap, or monster she would summon in his next turn."

"I don't care, just as long as Yuna beats Seto!" Mokuba said, much to the shock of everyone around him.

"Mokuba, are ya feeling okay?" Joey asked him.

"Did I just hear you just say what I think you said?" Yugi asked.

"That's right!" Mokuba said. "Seto's been nothing but a jerk ever since we got to Spira. But this time he's gone too far with what he said to Yuna! First Rikku and now her! Maybe what my brother needs is a taste of humble pie!"

In a throne-like chair in the stands meanwhile, Pegasus watched the duel. 'So the Former Summoner leaps back from the jaws a defeat into a comeback…' He mused in his mind. 'Let's see what happens and who'll be victorious: Lady Yuna or Kaiba-Boy.'

"You could attack, but that'll only cause damage to you instead, but you know that already, right Kaiba?" Yuna gave Kaiba a smile which was 15% preppy, 85% mock.

Kaiba sneered as he ended his turn, "You've may have gotten lucky Yuna, but next turn it'll be all over!"

"We'll see…" Yuna said as she drew, much to her satisfaction, it was a card that could really help her. "I play Card of Sanctity which will require us to draw until we all have six cards!" She explained as she and Kaiba both began to draw.

"Now Yuna will get a new hand and find something to take down Kaiba's XYZ Dragon Cannon." Tea explained.

"I hope she does get something…" Tristan said. "Cause if she loses, Kaiba'll never let us hear the end of it."

"But if Kaiba loses, he'll never let us hear the end of it." Joey reminded.

Kaiba nearly had a full hand prior to Card of Sanctity's effect so Kaiba didn't had to draw as many cards as Yuna did. After she had six cards, she looked at her new hand, particularly at one card…

'This'll do the trick.' Yuna looked towards her opponent. "Ready Kaiba? Because now it's time to take out your life points!"

"Make your move…" Kaiba muttered, his patience becoming thin.

"First, I like to bring back an old friend with this Spell Card, Monster Reborn! Can you guess who I'm talking about?" All Yuna got from Kaiba as a reply was a glared as she then sighed and continued. "Guardian Angel Joan, come back to the field!" Yuna ordered as Guardian Angel Joan returned to the field to join Mystical Elf! "And that's not all! For me to summon this next monster, I have to remove one light attribute monster and one dark attribute monster from the game! So I remove my dark attribute monster Opticlops and my light attribute monster Dunames Dark Witch from the game to summon Black Luster Soldier-Envoy of the Beginning [3000/2500] in attack mode!" Yuna announced as the Envoy version of Black Luster Solider was summon to the field, joining the other two light-attribute monsters. Much to Yugi's fascination as, aside from the same ATK/DEF type and attribute, this Black Luster Solider was different from the Ritual version he had in his deck. "And finally, I'll play one monster face down!" Yuna looked down at her deck as she saw the card. One of the five cards Rikku gave her prior to the duel. She already had an idea on how she wanted to beat Kaiba, especially after his insensitive ranting, but she would have to draw the right cards first. But that didn't mean that she couldn't lower his life points…or gain some for that matter…

"First, I'll activate one of my Black Luster Soldier's special abilities: To remove one of your monsters on the field from the game!"

"What?"

"Say goodbye to your XYZ Dragon Cannon!" Yuna said as with a wave of his sword, Black Luster Soldier eliminated the machine monster. "Since I removed one of your monsters, Black Luster Soldier can't attack this turn, but who said that I was finished. Guardian Angel Joan, attack Kaiba's Vorse Raider!"

The Guardian Angel attacked the Beast Warrior as Kaiba's seethed, his life points dropping and all. Yuna's on the other hand, thanks to the ball of energy obtained from Vorse Raider's defeat, began to increase…

Kaiba: 2400

Yuna: 2300

"I end my turn by placing one card face down." Yuna said.

Kaiba was angry, angry that not only Yuna had taken out one of his strongest monsters, but also increased her life points, and lowered his down to around hers all in one turn! But then, Kaiba grew a sick smile on his face. "Yuna…"

"What Kaiba?" Yuna responded.

"How about we raise the stakes a bit?" Kaiba challenged.

Yuna blinked. "What do you mean?"

"Let's just say…whoever loses will have to do whatever the winner says!" Kaiba's grin became wider and more menacing. "So what do you say Yuna? Unless you're not duelist enough, you'll accept my challenge.

"Fine!" Yuna said, much to the dismay of her friends.

"Yunie!" Rikku protested. "Fryd yna oui drehgehk!? (What are you thinking!?)"

"Don't worry Rikku, I can take him." She assured.

"But Yunie, what if you lose?"

Kaiba began to laugh manically. "You should listen to the ditz Yuna. You have 2300 life points while I have 2400 so it's anyone's duel. And after I win, I already have in mind what I want you to do! The perfect humiliation for someone like you!"

"And what may that be?" Yuna asked.

"It's quite simple!" Kaiba said, smirking. "After you lose this duel, you will bow down to me!"

"What?"

"That's right! I want you to bow down to me on your knees, showing that I am superior to you in every way, especially to these idiots in the stands in this arena!" Kaiba said as the crowd was trying not to throw debris at him as they shouted obscenities at him instead. "As soon as they duel's over, I want you to stand directly in front of me and then get on your knees as admit that I am superior to you, and the rest of these superstitious freaks! If you need help on doing that, talk to Wheeler! He knows a lot about falling down to his knees like the whimpering dog that he is!"

"DON'T MAKE ME COME DOWN THERE AND KILL YA KAIBA!" Joey screamed as he was just about to suicide dive onto Kaiba. But Tristan, Brother, and Buddy held him back.

"It's my turn now…" Kaiba said as he drew a card, ignoring Joey's threat. "First, I'll place my Thunder Dragon to the graveyard to activate it's special ability to special summon two more Thunder Dragons from my deck to my hand!" He said, as he placed one Thunder Dragon card in his graveyard, then taking two more out from his deck, which was then shuffled. "Now, I play Polymerization which will fuse my two Thunder Dragons into one monster!" He said as the two dragons began to fuse together, and when the flash cleared, a two-headed dragon was on Kaiba's side of the field. "Behold, the Twin-Headed Thunder Dragon! [2200/1700]"

"Kaiba, you know that my Guardian Angel Joan's stronger." Yuna reminded.

"That' won't be much of a problem, once I play this!" Kaiba announced as he played a spell card. "Raigeki! Now all of your monsters will be destroyed!" He said as a bolt of lightning from above went to hit Yuna's monsters."

"Sorry Kaiba, I activate my trap card Anti-Raigeki!" Yuna said as a machine appeared on the field which redirected the lightning towards Twin-Headed Thunder Dragon. "What goes around comes around!"

Kaiba seethed as his monster was destroyed. "I'll place one monster face down and end my turn!"

"Okay!" Yuna said as she drew a card and smiled. "That's a good start, but I need the other two…" She said as she took a card from her hand. "First, I reveal my facedown monster: Magician of Faith [300/400!" She announced as a young magician girl with pink hair in a high ponytail appeared on the field. "And with her special ability activated by her flip summoning, I get to take any Spell card in my graveyard and return it! And I choose my Pot of Greed!" Yuna then took said card from her graveyard and placed it in her hand. "Next, I play the same card I just took from my graveyard and draw two more cards!" She said as she drew two more cards from her deck. "Finally, I sacrifice my Magician of Faith to summon Marie the Fallen One [1700/1500]!" The Magician of Faith was sacrificed to be replaced by the charcoal-skinned, fallen angel. "Now to get some more attack points! Guardian Angel Joan, attack Kaiba's facedown monster!" Yuna ordered as Joan went for the attack, but to Yuna's dismay and Kaiba's satisfaction, Kaiba's facedown monster was revealed to be Cyber Jar [900/900]…

"Did you think that you're the only one with Cyber Jar in their deck?" Kaiba reminded as all of Yuna's monsters, including Black Luster Solider and Guardian Angel Joan went to the graveyard. "Looks like we have to draw for some monsters again…" Kaiba said as he and Yuna began to draw five cards. Kaiba managed to Special Summon Battle Ox [1700/1000] and Blade Knight [1600/1000]. Unfortunately for Yuna, the only monsters she could special summon were Shadow Specter [500/200] in defense mode, Ryu-Kishin [1000/500] in attack mode, and The Forgiving Maiden [850/2000] which she also placed in defense mode. Yuna looked at the rest of her five cards she drew from Cyber Jar's effect: To her luck, they were the other two cards she needed for her plan to humble Kaiba. She had the right set of cards she needed, but she was still missing one card that was needed to complete it.

"I'll place two cards face down and end my turn!" Yuna concluded her turn.

Kaiba drew a card, "Now to finish this duel!" Kaiba said as he then played a Spell card. "I play Premature Burial! At the cost of 800 life points, I can bring back one monster sent to my graveyard! Now, come back to me Blue Eyes White Dragon!" He said as The Blue Eyes returned from the graveyard as Kaiba's life points dropped.

Kaiba: 1600

Yuna: 2300

"And that's not all!" Kaiba continued, "I sacrifice Battle Ox and Blade Knight to summon another Blue Eyes White Dragon!" He said as Blade Knight and Battle Ox were sacrificed! In their place was another one of Kaiba's Blue Eyes.

"It's over Yuna! There's no way you can protect yourself from the wrath of two Blue Eyes! Now, my great beasts, attack Yuna's Ryu-Kishin and her facedown monster on the right with White Lightning!" The two White Dragons obliged as they fired their White Lightning at Yuna's monsters, but before they could hit…

"Activate Negate Attack!" Yuna announced as she activated her facedown Trap card. The attacks were negated by an invisible force field. "Sorry Kaiba, but by activating this card, your attacks are rendered useless!"

"I place two cards face down and end my turn…" Kaiba concluded his turn as he glared. "Now make your final pathetic move!"

"My turn, and it starts, due to the effect of my Marie the Fallen One when she's in the graveyard, by me getting 200 life ponts." Yuna states as her life points went up…

Kaiba: 1600

Yuna: 2500

Next, Yuna drew a card as she then smiled. 'Good, I now have what I need to put Operation: Humility in motion.' She then played the Spell card. "I now pay 1000 life points play the Spell card Toon World!" She announced as her life points then went down…

Kaiba: 1600

Yuna: 1500

"TOON WORLD!?" Kaiba replied in shock, as well as Brother, Yugi, and the rest of them save for Rikku!

"That's not all!" Yuna said as a cartoon book appeared on the field as it then opened. "I now sacrifice my facedown monsters, Skull Servant and The Forgiving Maiden to summon Blue Eyes Toon Dragon! [3000/2500]"

"Blue Eyes Toon Dragon!?" Kaiba seethed.

"Thanks to a closest and dearest friend, I managed to summon the monster that you hate the most! But it gets worse for you…" She said. "Now I play Polymerization which will fuse my other Blue Eyes Toon Dragons in my hand with my first one!"

"You wouldn't dare!" Kaiba shouted!

"I would, and I am!" Yuna said as two more Toon Blue Eyes appeared on the field as they now proceeded to fuse together, after the flash, there stood was the Toon version of a certain Ultimate Monster. "Say hello to Blue Eyes Ultimate Toon Dragon [4500/3800]!" She announced.

Kaiba was now fuming! "Damn you Pegasus!" He glared at Pegasus who had a smug look on his face as he sipped a martini glass of red wine. "Damn you and your stupid Toons to hell!"

"Why Kaiba-Boy, you should be honored!" He replied. "You're the first duelist to take on such beautiful creature!" As if on cue, the three heads of the Toon version of Blue Eyes Ulimate Dragon puckered its lips on the three heads that had somehow had lipstick applied on them and showed off its long eyelashes, trying to be as glamorous as possible, much to the disdain of Kaiba. "Besides, he's quiet sensitive you know!"

"Way to go Yunie!" Rikku cheered then began to admire the Toon. "He's so cute!"

"Kaiba's expression on his face is priceless!" Tristan snickered.

"I kinda feel sorry for ole' Moneybags…almost!" Joey stated.

"Kaiba as much as you would like to fawn over the dragon all day, we still have a duel to finish!" Yuna reminded! "Since my Toon Ultimate Dragon can't attack on the same turn as it's summoned, I end my turn."

"Fine!" Kaiba drew a card and smiled. "Time to fight fire with fire! I now play Polymerization to fuse my third Blue Eyes from my hand with the two Blue Eyes already on the field!" He said as a Third Blue Eyes began to fuse with the other two Blue Eyes, forming the real (in Kaiba's opinion) Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon [4500/3800]. "Meet the one, the only and real Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon! Not that sacrilegious monstrosity of a dragon!" He smirked. "Now Yuna, let's see which Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon is superior: the real deal, or that infidelity!"

"Jeez Kaiba, it's just a card!" Yuna said, annoyed with how much of a big deal Kaiba was making about Blue Eyes Ultimate Toon Dragon.

"Yeah Setty! How can you not like him?" Rikku asked. "He's so cute!" As she said that, the Blue Eyes Ultimate Toon Dragon flexed his muscles as his biceps exploded like a Volcano.

"I don't care! A Blue Eyes, let alone an Ultimate one isn't supposed to be cute!" Kaiba roared. "And now Yuna, say goodbye to Blue Eyes Ultimate Toon Dragon, as I now play this: Harpie's Feather Duster, which will wipe out every Spell and Trap card you have on the field, including Toon World! With that, so goes Blue Eyes Ultimate Toon Dragon! Hmph, so much for Rikku's gift…"

"You're right! It will wipe out every Spell and Trap card on the field…but on your side, not mine!"

"What?" Kaiba's eyes went wide.

"You were so busy complaining about my monster that you forgot about my two trap cards, which I'll activate one of them now: Gryphon Wing!" She reminded as a wing then appeared and reflected the wind from Harpie's Feather Duster to Kaiba's Spell Cards and Traps.

'This can't be happening…' Kaiba seethed as his Spell and Trap Cards, Magic Cylinder, and Mirror Force, were destroyed, but then remembered that Yuna's other monster, Ryu-Kishin, was still in attack mode. "Yuna, you made one mistake, let alone an amateur one, and it's going to cost you! I refuse to let an amateur, let alone one who believes in ridiculous nonsense like you defeat me! Now Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon, attack Yuna's Ryu-Kishin and wipe out the rest of her life points!" He ordered as the Ultimate Dragon unleashed its blast from all three heads. "Neutron Blast!" As the Blast nearly hit Ryu-Kishin, it then let out a familiar-looking effect, much to the shock of Kaiba! "What the-"

"Did you think that you're the only one who has a Crush Card?" Yuna asked as her other face-down card was revealed to be indeed the Crush Card Virus. "And as a response…" She began to wave. "Bye-bye, Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon!"

"You bitch!" Kaiba was fuming as the now-infected Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon was sent to the graveyard, as if he wasn't insulted enough with Blue Eyes Ultimate Toon Dragon, now he felt victim of a card which he thought he was the only one to own. Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon was sent to the graveyard, as well as his other cards that were over 1500 attack points, leaving him with one card in his hand, the one card that he could used, but now due to the circumstances, it was now hopeless to use: Monster Reborn.

"A taste of yer own medicine Kaiba!" Joey shouted.

"Poor Seto…but after all he has said, he deserves this." Mokuba said honestly.

"There's no stopping Yunie now!" Rikku cheered!

"THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE! AN AMATEUR LIKE YOU CANNOT BEAT ME, LET ALONE OWN A CRUSH CARD!" Kaiba yelled as everyone else was cheering that he was now going to get "What he has coming!"

"I take it that you end your turn?" Yuna asked innocently.

"Just go!" Kaiba hissed at Yuna.

"As you wish…" Yuna said as she first, due to Marie the Fallen One's effect, gain 200 life points…

Kaiba: 1600

Yuna: 1700

Then Yuna, as a shock to everyone, went to place her hand over her deck. "I'm going to surrender…"

"WHAT?" The crowd yelled, upset that she was now surrendering when she has this duel in the bag. Rikku, Tea, and Tristan were in disbelief as Joey and Brother looked like their heads were about to explode. Even Kaiba was shocked, but hid it behind a cold smirk.

"I just wanted to teach Seto Kaiba a lesson, and I feel that I've fulfilled my task. Now I know that I can beat him…" She said simply, but before the palm of her hand touched the deck, she quickly pulled back. "But then again, I came this far, so I might as well end it with a big bang…or should I say a big Neutron Blast!"

Rikku sighed out of relief. "You had us going there Yunie."

"Err…I knew she was faking." Joey said which earned him a skeptical look from his friends.

"Right Joey, sure you did!"

"Now, I have to pay 500 life points for Blue Eyes Ultimate Toon Dragon to attack!" Yuna said as her life points went down…

Kaiba: 1600

Yuna: 1200

"Now Blue Eyes Ultimate Toon Dragon, use your Neutron Blast and attack Kaiba directly!" She ordered as the Toon version of Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon went for a direct attack with Kaiba shielding himself from the inevitable blast. However, there was no blast. Kaiba looked on the field and the Toon Dragon was gone.

Kaiba looked around as he then looked behind him, "Where is that sacri-WHOA!" He jumped back! Kaiba was almost scared out of his buckled boots as the Dragon went for a Neutron Blast, but nothing came out. He breathed in and attempted another one, but the result was still the same.

"This is pathetic! Pegasus, you dare to create a Toon version of my Ultimate Beast and it can't even-" When Kaiba looked back, he was then met with, in the face, the Neutron Blast he was expecting as the rest of his life points went down. Much to the humor and satisfaction of everyone!

Kaiba: 0

Yuna: 1200

"Now this duel's over Kaiba!" Yuna said, giving a small smirk towards him, as the duel disks were turned off. "Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't we have a bet in which the loser does whatever the winner says?" She reminded, much to the satisfaction of everyone, save for Kaiba and, to a degree, Mokuba.

"Poor Seto…" Mokuba sighed, knowing how much of Kaiba's pride, let alone his ego, is hurt right now. But then again, it wasn't like he didn't deserve it, after the way he's been acting lately, especially to Yuna and Rikku. Besides, it could've been worse though. It would've been Joey who he lost to, let alone with the stakes as high as this.

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As a wise man once said, don't count your chickens before they hatch. Kaiba done so and as a result he lost! I guess faith does prevail at the end. Anyway, so now that Kaiba has lost the duel and the bet! Now his fate is in the hands of Yuna. What will happen? Will Yuna humiliate him even more than he already has, or will she show Kaiba some mercy?

Preview for next and final chapter!

"Yuna!" Rikku and Tea both called out as they went over to congratulate her.

"That was Awesome Yunie!" Rikku said. "I mean you had Blue Eyes Ultimate Toon Dragon obliterated him! Man, Setty should've seen the look on his face when he gave him that Neutron Blast in the face! His expression was priceless."

"I've recorded the duel on this sphere so we can all see it again!" Shinra informed.

"Awesome!" Tristan smiled, as well as Joey.

"The odds were against you and you pulled through." Yugi stated. "I'm proud of you."

"I couldn't have done it without you! All of you!" Yuna reminded as she then took the three Blue Eyes Toon Dragons and Toon World from her deck, and Blue Eyes Ultimate Toon Dragon from her fusion deck. "Here are your cards!"

"Thanks!" Rikku grabbed the cards as she then gave each of them a kiss.

Chapter 18: Celebrations, Humiliations, and Departures all in one!