Joey opened the door to the booth him and peeked his head in.

"Helloooo." Joey said as he peeked his head in.

"Hey Joey." Yugi greeted.

"Congrates on winning that duel against Mai man." Tristan said.

"That move you pulled with the Sword of the Soul Eater was brilliant." Bakura told him.

"Thanks guys." Joey said. "Listen guys, there's someone here who wants to say hi." Joey opened the door all the way and took a step back so everyone could see Mai.

Mai stepped in and said "Hi everyone."

"Hey Mai!" Yugi said.

"Long time no see!" Duke said.

"Great to see you Mai." Tea said hugging her. Mia hugged back saying it was great to see her too.

"Welcome back Mai." Grandpa said.

"It's great to be back Mr. Muto." Mai said.

"I am glad you're back Mai." Tea said. "Now I've got a female friend I can hang out with and not just the guys."

Bakura, Duke, Joey, and Bakura all gathered around Tea. "And just what is that supposed to mean?" Joey asked.

Tea scratched her head and laughed nervously. "It's just you guys are guys and I'm a girl."

"I could have told you that." Duke said as he winked.

"There's just a lot of stuff I'm into that you guys wouldn't be because you're not girls."

"Like what?" Tristan inquired.

"Name one thing." Bakura told her.

"Well I presume you guys don't go with her to beauty salons to get manicures and your hair done right?" Mai asked. "And I have a sneaking suspicion you've never really gone shopping with her either."

"Bakura said name one not half a dozen." Joey stated.

"You guys will always be my best friends." Tea reassured them. "But every once in a while I need to take a step back and do girl stuff."

The guys looked at each other, soaking in what she just said.

Bakura then said "You know what Tea, you are absolutely right."

"I am?" she asked.

"Totally!" Tristan said.

"One hundred percent correct!" Duke said.

"You defiantly need some female friends." Joey said. Tea agreed with him and then the gang started to play catch up with Mai. Yugi and Joey eventually broke away from the group and sat down in front of the viewing window.

"Ain't this great Yuge?" Joey asked. "With Mai here the gangs finally whole again."

Yugi looked down at his chest where his Millennium Puzzle would hang. Yugi placed his hand where the puzzle would have set and mumbled "Not completely whole Joey."

Joey looked over and saw what Yugi was doing and knew immediately what he was talking about. "Sorry man. Since you and Atem shared a body for so long and I could never see him unless he took control of your body, I sometimes forget that he's gone."

"Me too." Yugi said. "I know it's been almost two months but sometimes I swear I can still feel the Millennium Puzzle hanging around my neck. I keep waking up in the morning half expecting to see Atem standing there ready for whatever the day would throw at us."

"He was a great guy." Joey said. "He made a huge impact on the lives of everybody he met."

"Is this a private conversation or can anybody join in?" Mai asked as she sat down next Joey. "So what are you boys talking about?"

"Atem." Joey told her.

"I see." she said looking over to Yugi. "I just wish I could have been there for your duel with him Yugi. From what I've heard it was one of the greatest duels ever played."

"It wasn't just one of the greatest duels. It was the greatest duel ever played!" Joey said. "The two of them kept topping each other's move and not giving a single inch to the other! They were evenly matched until Yugi played his Gold Sarcophagus card to stop Atem from bring back Slifer the Sky Dragon."

"That was a great move Yugi." Mai complemented him. "You anticipated Atem's move and knew exactly how to counter it."

"Thanks Mai." Yugi said.

Yugi turned away from Mai and Joey and thought "But what if Atem hadn't used a Monster Reborn card? What if he used some other card to bring back the gods or summoned a monster to defend himself? If that would have been the case the duel would have continued on beyond that point. Would I still have won the duel or would Atem have won and still be here with all of us, waiting for his chance to leave this world?"

Outside Roland shouted over the PA system "And now for our next two duelists!"

This announcement snapped Yugi from his train of thought and back to reality. "I guess I'll never know what could have been." was his last thought on the subject.

"Our first competitor is…the great dino duelist Rex Raptor!"

"Just because he's the only well-known dinosaur deck user in the world doesn't make him that great." Tristan said.

"You can say that again." Joey told him as they high fived.

"Now Rex's opponent will be…the stylish English debonair, Devon Miles!"

Yugi looked at the picture of the British man wearing a suit and recognized him at once. "I know that guy. I meet him in the hall just after my duel with Weevil."

"Wonder what type of deck he uses?" Bakura wondered.

"I suppose we will just have to wait and see." Grandpa told him. When Devon walked out everyone couldn't help but notice he was wearing what looked like an expensive grey suit.

"Great, another foreign guy who wears fancy expensive suits to duel." Joey sighed.

"At least he's not wearing a very bright pink suit like Zigfried von Schroeder." Duke pointed out.

"Hey it takes a real man to wear pink." Tea said.

"Or just a really girly one." Joey muttered.

Yugi watched Devon step out on to the field and shuffle his deck when he started to sense a strange dark power again. "He may be wearing a normal suit but I've got a feeling there's more to this Devon Miles than meets the eye. His deck seems to be putting off some sort of dark power. If Rex isn't careful he could end up seriously hurt."

In another booth Michael Knight and Bonnie Barstow sat watching their leader about to duel. "This is pointless." Bonnie said. "This Rex Raptor hasn't won a real duel since he was defeated by Joey Wheeler during the Duelist Kingdom tournament years ago."

"If that's the case then Devon should have no trouble defeating him." Michael said. "Rex Raptor will be the first duelist to fall to the Sacred Beasts."

"A lot of good it will do. His power is so weak and low it will hardly help the Beasts power increase." Bonnie stated.

Michael chuckled a little. "You know the old saying, every little bit helps."

Back out on the field the duel had begun. "I believe I shall take the first turn." Devon said as he drew. "I place one card face down and summon Feral Imp in defense mode. That will end my turn."

"My draw." Rex said. "I use the special effect of Gilasaurus from my hand. Now I can treat its normal summoning as a special summon. And lucky me, I have two Gilasaurus's." Two small brown dinosaurs appeared on Rex's field and let off a small roar. "Of course when I summon my Gilasaurus with this effect you would normally be allowed to special summon a monster from your graveyard for each saurus. But since your grave's empty you can't play another monster."

"Isn't this the move Rex used on you when he dueled you with the Orichalcos?" Tristan asked Joey.

"Yup. It's the same move." Joey said.

"And it's quite a good move." Bakura said. "Rex special summoned two monsters that he can now easily tribute for a much stronger monster."

"Or keep around and attack this Devon guy twice." Mai added.

"But with the Feral Imps defense strength matching his dinosaurs attack power Rex must increase their strength in order to attack." Grandpa said. "Or he must destroy Feral Imp with the power of a magic card."

"Next I equip my first Gilasaurus with the Raise Body Heat magic card." Rex declared. "This will increase my dinosaurs attack points by 300 points." The Gilasaurus equipped with the spell had a flame appear on the tip of its snot and then the flame extended itself up the dinos head, down its back, and down its tail. "Now my Jurassic forces will demolish your Imp and your life points!"

The Gilasaurus equip with the flames shot a breath of fire from its mouth to disintegrate Feral Imp. After the flame destroyed the Imp the second Gilasaurus leapt into the air, landed in front of Devon and bit his arm.

"Next I tribute my two weaker dinos to summon something a little stronger." Rex said. "Say hello to my Serpent Night Dragon!" The two Gilasaurus's vanished and a sleek, black dragon swopped down around Rex and then settled down in front of him.

"Serpent Night Dragon." Duke said.

"Haven't seen that card in a long time." Tristan said.

"I thought you said Rex lost his Serpent Night Dragon to Espa Roba back in Battle City?" Tea asked Joey.

"Guess he found himself another one." Joey guessed.

"It's your move fancy pants." Rex told Devon.

"So it is." Devon said. He took hold of the top card of his deck and felt a slight shock of energy. At the same time Yugi felt it from all the way up in the booth.

"That's it! The dark power I've been sensing is a card from his deck!" Yugi thought. "But aside from the Egyptian Gods what kind of monster can have that kind of power?"

Aside from Yugi Bakura too thought he felt something.

Back in their own booth Michael and Bonnie had felt the same shock that Devon had. Along with the shock a card in both of their decks began to glow. Michael pulled out his card as it glowed red. "It has arrived." he said.

Bonnie took out her card as it glowed yellow. "The first Sacred Beast is about to be summoned."

Back on the field Devon drew the top card of his deck and smiled with an evil grin. He looked back up at Rex and said "Well Mr. Raptor I must admit I was hoping for more of a challenge from you."

"Don't worry buddy!" Rex shouted. "I'm just getting warmed up! And there's plenty of duel to go!"

"But that's just the point Mr. Raptor, there isn't any more duel to go." Devon told him.

"What do you mean?" Rex asked.

"This is where it all ends! The duel and your life! And it all begins with the Fiend Sanctuary spell card! With it I can special summon one Metal Fiend token to my field." A white circle appeared on the ground in front of Devon and raising out of the hole in the center of the circle was a small metal being. "Next I use the Multiply spell to create two more versions of my tokens."

Then two more Metal Fiend tokens seemed to tear themselves away from the original token. Then there were three of them on Devon's field.

"That's the move Atem used in his duel with Marik to summon Obelisk the Tormentor." Tea remembered.

"Looks like this guy's going to use the same move to summon something to beat Rex's Serpent Night Dragon." Duke said.

"Not just his dragon." Bakura said.

"I have a feeling whatever Devon Miles is about to summon will win him the duel this turn." Yugi said.

Joey looked from Bakura to Yugi and to Bakura again saying "What the heck are you two talking about?"

"To be honest I don't even know." Bakura told Joey.

"I have a feeling we're about to find out what you're talking about guys." Mia said.

"Ready yourself Mr. Raptor! For the monster I'm about to summon contains powers that are only rivaled by that of the Egyptian God Cards!" Devon shouted.

"A card with powers equal to that of Slifer, Ra, and Obelisk?!" Yugi thought.

The sky outside went dark and just above the duel arena; a spinning vortex seemed to have formed in the clouds. "Now by sacrificing three fiends I can summon forth my greatest creation! Quiver in fear as I play the Sacred Beast Raviel, Lord of the Phantasms!"

The three tokens become silver streams of light that ascended into the sky and was absorbed into the vortex. Then a huge burst of blue light erupted from the vortex to the ground. Two seconds later blasting up from the ground was an enormous, winged, evil looking, blue and purple creator. As the gang watched the creator raise they were shocked.

Tristan said "It looks like a weird blue and purple…"

"Demonic form of…" Joey started.

"Obelisk the Tormentor!" Yugi finished. Raviel did show a slight resemblance to Obelisk only this monsters wings were transparent with blue veins and it had blue and purple skin.

"But it can't be Obelisk." Mai said. "I thought you said the God Cards were gone Yugi?"

"They are gone. Since the god cards were no longer needed in this world Atem took them with him when he entered the Afterlife." Yugi explained.

"If that thing isn't Obelisk then what is it!?" Tristan asked.

"Trouble." Yugi answered.

Back on the duel field Rex stood bewildered at the sight of this new monster. "I can't believe what I'm seeing." he said. "This card looks like Obelisk the Tormentor. It even has 4000 attack points."

"Yes my Raviel does bear a slight resemblance to Obelisk in appearance and attack strength." Devon noted. "But my Sacred Beast holds powers much mightier than the god card."

"What powers?" Rex asked.

"I'll show you. Reveal face down trap card! March of the Archfiends!" Devon announced. "This trap card allows me to pay life points in intervals of 100 in order to special summon Archfiend monsters."

"Archfiend monsters?" Joey asked Grandpa.

"It's a new series of monster cards. The Archfiend cards incorporate high attack power and deadly special effects." Grandpa told them.

"I pay 300 life points to summon three Archfiend Soldiers." Devon told Rex. Three demon looking monsters wearing green capes and carrying swords appeared on Devon's field. "However because my soldiers were summoned with the effect of my trap card they can't attack."

"Well that's a relief." Rex thought. "He could have wiped out all of my life points this turn."

Devon smiled once again. "And now Mr. Raptor I use the special effect of Raviel, Lord of Phantasms."

"And what's its ability?" Rex asked.

"I can offer Raviel the other monsters on my field and should it accept my offerings Raviel can absorb their attack strength until the end of the turn."

"No way!" Rex shouted. Raviel reached down and scoped the three Archfiend Soldiers into its claws and proceeded to crush them. As the soldiers were crushed purple waves of energy flowed from Raviel's hand and created waves of energy that went across the monsters entire body.

"He has accepted the offerings! Now Raviel's power shall grow by 1900 points per soldier!" Devon declared.

"But there were three of those Archfiends." Tristan said. "And each one had 1900 points."

"That means on top of its own 4000 points that Raviel card's going to gain 5700 extra points." Duke figured out.

"That will put its attack strength at 9700." Mia said.

After the beast was fully charged Devon looked from his monster to Rex. "I want to thank you Mr. Raptor."

"For what?"

"For the perfect opportunity to show case just what my card can do. Now prepare to feel its wrath! Raviel, Lord of Phantasms attack Serpent Night Dragon!" Raviel extended its arm towards Rex and then brought its hand down. Since the hand was just a hologram Rex found himself incased in it.

He could only stand there and watch as his Serpent Night Dragon was destroyed. But then something strange happened. Once his life points hit zero Rex looked up to see Raviel hovering over him except it looked slightly different. Instead of looking like a normal hologram Raviel looked more transparent now, sort of like a ghost or a sprit.

"What's going on?!" he inquired. "The duel's over! Why hasn't your monster vanished?!"

"Because Mr. Raptor my beast has yet to claim his prize." Devon told him.

"What prize?"

"YOUR SOUL!" Devon shouted.

The Sacred Beast wrapped its ghostly looking claws around Rex and held him in its grasp. Once Rex was trapped he felt a great pain surging through the course of his body. He could feel himself growing weaker and weaker with each passing second.

"With your life force Mr. Raptor my monsters dark powers will grow and become stronger." Devon muttered.

Back up in their booth the gang watched as Raviel made its attack. They watched the monsters hand come crashing down on Rex and his dragon.

"And with that it's all over." Tristan said.

"Rex's dragon is now flatter than a pancake." Joey pointed out.

It was at that time that Yugi and Bakura felt a small jolt through their bodies and could hear Rex screaming in pain in their ears. They both jumped out of their seats and leaned against the windows.

"What's up guys?" Duke asked.

"Something's going on down there." Bakura told them.

"Something bad is happening to Rex." Yugi said.

"How do you guys know?" Mai asked.

"We don't know how we know." Bakura said. "We just know something's happening to Rex."

Tea stood up and looked out the window with the guys. "I can't see him at all."

"That's because Rex is still in that Obelisk knock offs hand." Joey said.

Suddenly Raviel raised its hand off of Rex and then vanished off the field. Rex was left standing on his side of the field with an empty look in his eyes.

"You see Yugi, Rex is fine." Tristan told him. But then Rex fell face first into the arena floor. "Okay, not so fine."

As Devon left the duel field the KaibaCorp paramedics rushed out with a stretcher and proceeded to load Rex onto it and take him to the infirmary. Yugi and the gang watched the paramedics wheel Rex away to under the stands.

"What in the world just happened out there?" Tea wondered.

"I don't know." Joey replied. "But I know this much, it has something to do with that evil Obelisk look alike."

"Have you ever heard of a card like that Grandpa?" Yugi asked.

Grandpa shook his head. "Never Yugi. I've never seen a card like this before in my life."

"That either means it's a new card or its one of those rare one of a kind cards." Tristan said.

"Or a combination of both." Mia said.

"The dark energy that monster was emitting, it's extraordinary." Bakura said. "I've never felt power like that."

"I have." Yugi said as he thought about the shadow game he and Yami played against Yami Marik during the final duel of the Battle City tournament. "The power that monster puts off could rival the Shadow Realm."

"So what do we do about it?" Joey asked.

Duke looked over in the corner and saw the computer. He snapped his fingers and said "I got an idea."

He walked over and turned the computer on. "Duke what are you doing?" Tea asked.

"I remember Mokuba saying that these computers were hooked up to the KaibaCorp card database." Duke explained.

"So?" Tristan asked.

"Kaiba's database has detailed files on every card ever made so odds are we just might find something on that Raviel card." Duke told them.

"Think it'll work?" Mia asked.

"It's worth a try." Yugi said. "Give it a shot Duke."

On the other side of the stadium the elevator door opened and Devon Miles walked out. He walked to his booth and was two steps away from his booth door when he stopped.

He smiled and said "I was wondering when you would show yourself Maximillion." Devon turned around and found himself face to face with Pegasus. "It is nice to see you again my friend."

"I wish I could say the same Devon." Pegasus said.

"You've come to try and take back the Sacred Beasts I presume?" Devon asked.

"I have." Pegasus replied. "And I have also come here to free you from there control."

"I'm afraid you are mistaken Maximillion. The beasts do not control me, I control them."

"Devon please, I implore you to listen to reason. In the wrong hands the Sacred Beasts can destroy all life on Earth as we now it. We must seal them away before any more innocent people are harmed."

"If I recall you said the same thing about the Egyptian God cards."

"That is completely different situation! All though I did not know it at the time I was destined to create those cards so that they would eventually be used to release the great Pharaoh from the confines of the Millennium Puzzle and regain his memories!"

"Yes but before you knew about the Pharaoh you sealed the cards away because you were afraid of them." Devon stated. "You were afraid of the gods' power. Power you could not control. A power that you, Maximillion Pegasus, were not worthy of."

"What is your trying to say Devon?" Pegasus asked.

"What I'm saying Pegasus is that just like the three Egyptian God monsters the power of the Sacred Beasts frightens you. And because of this fact you locked them away and tried to keep them away from everyone including me. Me, their creator."

"I've had enough of your dramatization! I've come for those cards and I will take them from you!"

"Is that so?"

"I did it once and I shall do it again!"

Devon chuckled a little bit and then drew the top card of his deck. He showed it to Pegasus. It was Raviel, Lord of Phantasms. "You want the Sacred Beasts back that bad Pegasus then here! Take it!"

Devon threw the card at Pegasus. Once Pegasus caught it the card glowed with a dark purple aura. The aura from the card expanded itself and engulfed Pegasus. Then strange purple bolts of energy coursed all over Pegasus body as he shouted in pain. The creator of Duel Monsters fell to his knees, doubled over in pain. After he fell to the floor Pegasus dropped Raviel's card and when he did the pain left and the dark aura retreated. As Pegasus tried to catch his breath Devon walked up to him, bent over, and picked up his card.

He stood up laughing. "It seems the beasts can tell the difference between their real masters and the imposters." Devon turned around and walked back to his booth.

Before walking in he said "Enjoy the rest of the tournament while you can Maximillion. By the time it ends so will everything else." He walked into his booth and closed the door, leaving only Pegasus in the hall.

Pegasus struggled but he managed to get back on to his feet. He stumbled his way back to the other side of the arena to get to his private booth. Croquet was standing guard outside the booth when he saw Pegasus stumbling towards him, using the wall to lean on and walk. He rushed to Pegasus side and helped him back inside the booth.

"Master Pegasus are you alright?" Croquet asked.

"Only thing that really hurts is my pride." Pegasus muttered.

"Would you like me to fix you a white wine spritzer sir?"

"Thank you Croquet." As Croquet fixed Pegasus's drink Pegasus sat on the sofa in the room. While he was trying to catch his breath Pegasus was also thinking of a plan to defeat Devon and the Sacred Beasts.

"Their power seems to have grown. Raviel's dark force is much stronger now than before it was locked away inside the vault. And if his power has increased then it is sure that Uria's and Hamon's power has grown as well." Pegasus thought. "Now in order for me to lock them away again their power must be drained and the only way to do that is by defeating them in a duel. And there are only three men I know of with the power and the skill to accomplish this task."

Back in the gangs booth Duke was hunched over the computer trying to use Kaiba's database to search for clues when Joey walked over. "Any luck yet Duke?"

"I'm afraid not." Duke replied. "I did a search for Raviel Lord of the Phantasms but there was nothing in then KaibaCorp computers about it. As far as Kaiba's company's concerned that card doesn't even exist."

"How's that even possible?" Tristan asked.

"Maybe we were right and it's a new card that no one's seen yet." Tea said.

"And Pegasus hired that Devon Miles to participate in the tournament to show off some new cards." Mia added.

"Then how do you explain all that dark power that Bakura and Yugi felt uh?" Joey asked them. "I'm tellin' ya there's something fishy goin' on here and to be honest I'd rather find out now what's going on rather than find out from some nut while me and Yugi are locked in a life or death duel with the guy."

Tristan paused for a moment and then said to Joey "Dude, don't be such a drama queen."

"He is right though." Bakura said. "Right when his and Yugi's life's are at risk is usually when the villain explains to them his dastardly plot."

"You see! Even Bakura gets it!" Joey told them. "And it never really happened to him!"

Outside over the PA system Roland announced "And now to choose our next two competitors!"

"The next match is starting." Grandpa said wondering over to the viewing window.

"It should be the second to last match of the first round right?" Duke asked Grandpa, who replied with a nod.

Everybody settled in front of the viewing window and as they did Joey yelled "What about that Raviel card!? Isn't anyone else worried that we're gonna end up fightin' shadow games again!?"

"Pipe down Joey!" Mia said. "We're going to watch the next duel."

"But…but…but."

"Enough of your 'buts' and sit down." Mai told him.

Joey sighed and came and sat down next to her and Yugi muttering "Don't blame me if we all wind up in the Shadow Realm."

"Our first duelist is…the famous ocean duelist Mako Tsunami!" Roland shouted.

"Awesome. Mako's dueling." Yugi proclaimed.

"And his opponent will be…the lone crusader Michael Knight!"

Joey looked at the picture of Knight and said "That pretty boy doesn't stand a chance against Mako. This duels goin' be over fast than you can say 'later'."

"Well at least this duel's going to make Joey forget all about that Raviel card." Yugi thought.

Mako walked out on to the duel field the same time Michael Knight did. As they shuffled their cards Michael was making small talk with Mako.

"The great Mako Tsunami. I've got to tell you Mako it's a real honor to duel with you." Knight said. "You were one of the biggest contenders in the Duelist Kingdom and Battle City tournaments."

"I thank you for your compliment Knight." Mako said. "But I am not concerned with my past performances in the other tournaments. I am here to duel with all my strength and win the Duel Monsters Championship."

"Well then our goals are the same." Knight said. He then activated his duel disk and said "Give me your all Mako!"

Mako activated his disk and replied "I shall take the first turn!" Knight nodded in agreement. Mako drew his first card and then looked up into the stands. He eyed all the fans cheering for either him or Knight but what caught Mako's eye was that he could see Yugi and the others in their booth.

Although he couldn't hear them Mako figured based on their arm movements that they were routing for him. "Do not worry my friends." Mako thought. "I shall conquer this little minnow as quickly as I can. After all I have bigger fish to challenge, isn't that right Yugi?"

"Hey Tsunami! Are you going to make a move or not?!" Knight asked.

"I place one card face down and one monster face down in defense mode!" Mako shouted. "And that will end my turn."

"Then it's my draw." Knight said. "I place one card face down and end my turn."

"Then it is my turn." Mako said. (Mako lifepoints-4000, hand-5/Knight lifepoints-4000, hand-5) "He didn't summon a monster card. So could his face down card be a trap or is it just a bluff?" Mako pondered. "I suppose there is but one way to find out."

"For my first move I shall activate a field spell called Umi." Mako said. Suddenly behind him a huge wave came out of nowhere and flooded the entire dueling field. "Now thanks to this small ocean all my denizens of the deep shall gain 200 attack and defense points."

"Only 200 points?" Knight asked. "That doesn't sound like a whole lot."

"But it shall be enough. For now I sacrifice my facedown Flying Fish in order to summon my Amphibian Beast. And thanks to Umi his attack points increase to 2600." Mako said. "Now Amphibian Beast attack his life points directly!"

"Reveal face down card!" Knight shouted. "The Spellbinding Circle trap card! With this trap I can negate your monsters attack and snare him within the circle preventing him from attacking or switching its battle mode."

"I shall end my turn." Mako said.

"My draw." Knight said. (Mako lifepoints-4000, hand-3/Knight lifepoints-4000, hand-6) "I play the Graceful Charity spell to draw three cards. Now I can discard two cards. Finally I'll place three cards face down and one monster face down. That ends my turn."

"I draw." Mako said. (Mako lifepoints-4000, hand-4/Knight lifepoints-4000, hand-2) "I can't attack with my Amphibian so I shall sacrifice and summon a new monster."

"Sorry Mako but I can't let you do that. I play the Mask of Restrict trap card." Knight said. "This trap prevents either of us from tribute summoning our monsters for stronger ones."

"I already have two traps in my grave yard and two continuous traps on the field." Knight thought. "The time is almost at hand."

"Then I suppose it is plan B." Mako said.

"Plan B?" Knight asked.

"I shall now play a new field spell called Legendary Ocean!" Then the sea inside the arena rose until it filled up the stadium. Then behind Mako rose and ancient underwater city. "Now Legendary Ocean's effect allows all the water attribute monsters in our hands to lose one star level. And with that said I summon my Legendary Fisherman!" The familiar monster swooped out of the citadel behind Mako and floated beside him. Its attack points read 2050.

"Your fisherman's attack is supposed to be 1850. How does it have 2050?" Knight inquired.

"Legendary Ocean functions just like Umi, only it increases the attack points of all water attribute monsters by 200 points." Mako explained. "Now Legendary Fisherman attack!"

"I activate my Shadow Spell trap card! It works just like Spellbinding Circle except it lowers your monsters points by 700." Knight explained.

"I end my turn." Mako said.

"Then it is my draw." Knight said. When Knight drew his top card he sensed a spark course through him. His only thought was "It's here."

Up in their booth the entire gang was cheering for Mako's victory. Yugi and Bakura were cheering as well until they felt another shock run down their spine.

"Oh dear." Bakura muttered. "Not again."

Duke looked at Bakura and said "Don't tell me."

"I have the same feeling now like I had when Devon Miles summoned that Raviel card." Bakura said.

"That's impossible!" Joey said. "Unless…"

"Unless this Michael Knight has a power just like Devon's." Yugi said.

"But that would mean that Mako's in great danger!" Grandpa said.

"We have to stop the duel now before Mako gets hurt." Tea said.

"But how can we?" Tristan asked. "The only ones that can stop a duel is either Kaiba or Mokuba and we haven't seen them all day!"

Back out on the field Knight held the card he had just drew. He smiled and said "This has been a fun duel Mako but I'm afraid it must come to an end."

"What do you mean by that?" Mako asked.

"I'll show you by flipping my monster face up! I play the Trap Master!"

"Not that monster!" Mako shouted surprised.

"That's right and when this monster is flipped summoned I can destroy one trap card on the field." Knight explained. "And I have to say I've been curious about your facedown card. Go Trap Master, show me what Mako's card is." The Trap Master leapt onto Mako's card and forced it up to reveal Tornado Wall.

"So it is a trap after all." Knight said. "Too bad you won't get the chance to use it." And on that note the Trap Master destroyed Mako's trap and floated back to Knights side of the field.

"You may have destroyed my Tornado Wall but I still have both my Amphibian Beast and my Legendary Fisherman on the field and they are empowered with the strength of my Legendary Ocean field spell." Mako said. "To beat me this turn you will need to get past them and in order to do that you need a creature more powerful than your Trap Master. And due to the effect of Mask of Restrict you cannot sacrifice your monster for one."

Knight chuckled a little and said "You're only partially correct Mako. True my trap prevents me from sacrificing my monsters. But it doesn't say anything about sacrificing my trap cards does it?"

"What?" Mako said.

"This guy's completely nuts!" Joey declared. "You can't sacrifice trap cards to summon monsters! That's totally against the rules!"

"Now Mako prepare yourself!" Knight announced. "I sacrifice my Spellbinding Circle, my Mask of Restrict, and my Shadow Spell trap cards!" The three traps dematerialized and then there was a rumbling sound as the entire stadium shook.

"What in the name of the seven seas is happening?" Mako wondered. Then from behind Knight there erupted a huge pillar of flames and magma. The pillar seemed to stretch to the sky and as it burned the ocean created by Mako's field spell seemed to evaporate away until there wasn't any water left. Up inside their booth Yugi and the others could feel the heat being given off by the pillar of fire through the glass.

"What's the deal with this heat?" Tristan asked. "Holograms can't do this."

"I'm afraid this monster's more than just a mere hologram." Grandpa said.

Then two bat-like wings sprung out of the flames. The fire then took on the monsters form and as the flame vanished Knights monster appeared. "Behold Mako the mighty Uria, Lord of Searing Flame!" Knight shouted.

"I've never heard of this monster." Mako said. "But it looks just like Slifer the Sky Dragon."

"Compared to my monster the great Slifer the Sky Dragon is completely powerless." Knight gloated.

"I can't believe it." Mia said.

"Two god card look-a-likes in one day." Duke said.

"And to think he summoned it by sacrificing trap cards." Joey added.

"But it doesn't have any attack points." Bakura said. "So how could Knight use this monster to beat Mako?"

"I have a strange feeling we're about to find out." Yugi said.

"First I activate Uria's special effect! Uria gains 1000 attack points for every trap card that rest's in my graveyard." Knight explained. "And right now I have five traps in the graveyard. So Uria's attack points rise to 5000."

"5000 attack points?!" Mako said surprisingly. "Even so, my Legendary Fisherman's effect prevents you from targeting him with an attack. Which means the only monster your Uria can attack is my Amphibian Beast."

"Even if my beast takes an attack from a 5000 attack point monster I will still have life points left." Mako thought. "Then when my turn comes I can switch my monsters to defense mode and start to think of a plan to beat this creature."

"I told you Mako the duel's ending this turn." Knight assured him. "And to do it I'll play my final trap card."

"Another trap?!" Mako shouted.

"Activate the Ring of Destruction! With this trap I can destroy your fisherman and reduce our life points by its attack points." Knight declared.

The ring attached itself to the Legendary Fisherman. The ring detonated and blew up Mako's monster, reducing both Mako's and Knight's life points by 2050.

"And since another trap card is in my graveyard Uria gains 1000 more attack points." Knight pointed out.

"But that would make its attack power 6000." Grandpa said.

"Go Uria attack Amphibian Beast!" Knight commanded. From Uria's mouth a stream of flames erupted, completely consuming Mako and his monster. As Mako's life points dropped to zero he could be heard shouting in pain but he couldn't be seen through the flames.

Once Mako's life points hit zero something strange happened. As Mako watched a ghostly looking Uria came at him with its jaws open. The beast clamped Mako in to its jaws causing him even more pain.

"Can anybody see Mako?" Duke asked.

"No way dude." Tristan replied. "That flame's really intense."

When the flames settled down Mako came into view. "Alright! He's okay!" Joey cheered. Only then did Mako fall backwards onto the arena floor unconscious.

"Mako!" the entire gang shouted.

"First Rex and now Mako too!" Tea cried.

Yugi looked down on the field at his unconscious friend. "Mako. NOOOOOOO!"

-Sorry it took so long to update this folks. I took the summer off and when I got back to school the professors started pilling on the work. But I finally got this chapter done. I hope it was enjoyable. FYI, I went back to the previous chapters and I fixed (or at least tried to fix) some of the grammar errors and in a couple of them I added some stuff or changed some stuff a little. Thought I'd say something if anyone would be interested.