Author's Note: We've now come to the final chapter of this story. I am aware that this thing has turned out to be a few chapters shorter than Monster World Online. But in my defense, the Fairy Dance Arc of the SAO anime was a few episodes shorter than the epic Aincrad arc that started it all.

Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh! or Sword Art Online.

Chapter 14: Leafa vs. Zorc

"Sugu, you aren't seriously going to fight this bastard on your own, are you?" Kirito asked.

"Don't worry, Kazuto. I'll be fine." Leafa assured him. "Besides, this is the least I can do for you after… what just happened."

"At least let us back you up." Asuna requested. "Bakura's a very dangerous enemy. You're going to need all the help you can get."

"No, all of you need to stay out of this." Leafa told them. "Your HP's just way to low to help me in this battle. Besides, with the way I am now, there's no way that monster can beat me."

"You sure about that?" Kirito asked.

"Trust me." Leafa replied, as she stood ready to fight. "This Goblin King's no match."

"I admire your confidence, little girl." Bakura remarked. "But don't think for a moment that this battle will be an easy one. Because now you're going to be facing my true avatar in this game… Zorc the Goblin King!"

In an instant, Bakura was enveloped in a pillar of green flames. The flames died down after a moment to reveal a seven-foot tall humanoid creature with a well-muscled build and pale-green skin. It had a skeletal face with yellow eyes, along with long pointed ears and a head of long white hair. On its back was a pair of black-feathered wings. Its torso was covered in silver armor, with pieces of attached shoulder armor in the shape of skulls. The rest of the demon's outfit consisted of a long pair of black pants and a pair of brown leather boots. From his waist hung a sword with a curved blade and a handle with a skull on the end. Eight HP gauges appeared by Zorc's head.

"Aw man! Are we sure Leafa can handle that thing?" Honda asked. "It looks as tough as monster avatar Bakura used in MWO."

"At least its got two less HP gauges." Joey pointed out.

"I don't imagine this battle taking very long." Zorc spoke as he brought up his right hand.

A large floating jack-o-lantern appeared over the palm of Zorc's hand. The goblin king threw to large flaming projectile straight at Leafa. Before it could hit though, Leafa quickly chanted a spell and hit the flaming pumpkin with a beam of golden light shot from the palm of her left hand. The beam hit the flaming jack-o-lantern and sent it right back at Zorc. The force of the impact from the pumpkin knocked Zorc back through the large window behind him, shattering it completely to pieces. The goblin managed to stay airborne, but his first HP gauge had fallen to a mere red sliver.

Before Zorc could fully recover from having his own attack shot back at him, Leafa shot towards him like a rocket and slashed him two times in the chest with her sword. His first and second HP gauges fell to zero and his third HP gauge was reduced to half.

"Damn you!" Zorc cursed. "How can a little girl like you be beating me?"

"You may be the one in control of this game, but you don't know it as well as you think you do." Leafa told him. "This game is more about skill than it is about stats. And I'm guessing if this were a kendo match in the real world, I could beat you with one hand tied behind my back."

"You insolent child!" Zorc shot back. "I will make you pay for taking me so lightly!"

With that, Zorc shot a blast of green flames from his hand. Leafa flew upwards to dodge the attack but was hit in her right leg, causing her HP gauge to drop slightly. Zorc quickly drew his sword and charged in. Leafa quickly recovered and blocked his attack with her own sword then slashed the demon in his left shoulder, causing his third HP gauge to drop further. Zorc recovered and slashed at Leafa again, but in a flash Leafa flew out of the way and came around to slash the demon from behind, causing his third HP gauge to drop to zero and his fourth to be cut in half.

Kirito and the others watched Leafa's battle with Zorc from the broken window of the ballroom. As they looked on, Klein entered the room with Ember and Kyra.

"Hey guys." Klein spoke as they approached. "Everything going okay here?"

"I guess you could say that." Anzu answered. "The final battle with Bakura's going on right now."

Klein walked up to the window and saw Leafa and Zorc clashing in the air. "Whoa! Okay, so I'm guessing that monster thing out there is Bakura. But who's the blonde that's fighting him? She's pretty hot. I may try asking her out when this whole thing's over."

"Yeah, that's Sugu out there fighting Zorc." Kirito told him with a warning glare.

"Oh…" Klein replied. "Well… looks like she's really kicking Bakura's ass."

"How'd things go on your end?" Kirito asked him.

"Oh, well were able to capture Yulier." Klein answered. "Agil and the others are looking after her right now. Of course we wouldn't have been able to capture her if Ember hadn't gotten Kyra to change sides."

"Don't read too much into it." The goblin woman told him. She then got a good look at the battle going on outside. "Is that an alf fighting the king?"

"Yeah, Leafa turned into one before she challenge Zorc." Asuna confirmed.

"Well, if the king is facing an alf, then this empire may be finished." Kyra assumed. "In the ancient past, it was the alfs who sealed my people beneath the earth. Your friend out there may be the only one in existence who can defeat the king."

"What I'd like to know is how Leafa was able to turn into an alf in the first place." Honda spoke.

"It was because of that user ID she used." Kirito answered. "Right now, Sugu's basically a GM. All thanks to Akihiko Kayaba."

"Yes, somehow Kayaba was able to give his ID to Sugu." Yugi spoke. "However he was able to do it, it's clear that he wants this madness to end just as much as we do."

Outside, the battle between Leafa and Zorc had paused so that the two could catch their breath. Leafa's HP gauge had dropped to half of what it was, while Zorc was down to his final four HP gauges.

"It seems we are evenly matched." Zorc observed.

"As if." Leafa replied. "I've only needed a single HP gauge for this battle, while you needed eight. But you've already lost half. The way I see it, I'm a whole lot stronger than you are."

"Don't get overconfident, little girl." Zorc told her. "You may have been lucky up until now, but in the end victory will be mine!"

"We'll see about that!" Leafa told him before flying in with her sword raised.

With one slash, Leafa managed to cut Zorc's left hand, taking out a large chunk of his fifth HP gauge. Instead of shattering into polygons though, Zorc's severed hand started to float in midair and pulse like a beating heart. To Leafa's surprise, the hand suddenly began to grow and twist in a horrific way. In moments, the severed limb had split into three large hideous bat-like monstrosities, each with its own pair of HP gauges.

"What… what is this?" Leafa asked.

"You may somehow have greater physical strength than me at the moment, but I still have a few tricks up my sleeve." Zorc told her. "Let's see how well you do against four opponents instead of one."

One of the bat creatures flew towards Leafa to attack. But just as it was about to strike, Stardust Spark Dragon flew in and blasted the creature in the face. Moonlight Rose Dragon then appeared and struck the second of the creatures with her thorn-covered tails. Dark Magician flew in next and blasted the third creature in the face with his staff.

"What?" Zorc exclaimed.

"Sugu!" Kirito called from the ballroom window, getting their attention. "We'll handle these monsters! You just worry about Zorc!"

"But… I wanted you guys to leave this battle to me!" Leafa told them.

"You told us to stay out of the battle, but you never said anything about our monsters!" Asuna pointed out.

"Leafa! We can handle Zorc's minions!" Yugi assured her. "Just focus on defeating Zorc and ending this madness!"

"You shall pay for interfering this battle!" Zorc told them as he slashed his sword through the air and sent a blade of green flames towards Yugi and the others.

Before the blade of flames could hit, Leafa quickly moved in and chanted the same spell she had used to repel Zorc's flaming pumpkin. A beam of golden light shot from Leafa's hand and sent the flame back at Zorc, hitting him in the chest and reducing his fifth HP gauge to zero. Before Zorc could recover, Leafa flew in and slashed him several more times in the chest. In a matter of moments, the goblin king's final HP gauge had fallen into the red.

"Enough!" Zorc shouted as he dropped his sword and shot Leafa in the chest with a blast of green flames.

The point-blank attack knocked Leafa back a few feet and caused her HP gauge to drop to a red sliver. After a moment, Leafa recovered and prepared herself for another attack.

"I'll admit that you've put up a good fight, it all ends here!" Zorc declared. "Now I shall make you pay!"

"You're the one who's gonna pay!" Leafa declared. "I didn't think it would come to this, but it looks like this is the only way!"

With that, Leafa began chanting another spell. When she finished, her body started to glow with a blinding gold light that made Zorc shield his eyes. Leafa cried out as she flew towards Zorc, and with one slash she cut the goblin king in two. Zorc roared in pain before the remains of his body shattered into polygons. With Zorc dead, a brilliant beam of sunlight parted the clouds of the stormy sky above. The creatures that had been generated by Zorc's severed hand were burned to dust before Dark Magician and the two dragons could finish them off.

Meanwhile in the ballroom, Kyra suddenly turned into a wireframe and vanished, much to Ember's surprised. The other goblins in the ballroom turned into wireframes and vanished as well.

"Hey! What happened to Kato?" Ember asked.

"Don't worry. I'm sure this means she's only been logged out of the game." Anzu assured her. "Now that Bakura's been beaten, everyone he's been holding captive should be free now."

Leafa began to fly back towards the ballroom window to rejoin the others. But as she flew, her body began to turn into particles of light that drifted away through the air.

"Sugu, what's happening to you?" a concerned Kirito asked.

"That last move I used to beat Zorc was a sacrifice move that dropped my HP to zero." Leafa explained. "Don't worry, the system will just log me out. Of course next time I log back in, my character stats will be reset to what they were when I first started playing ALO. I'll just be an ordinary sylph."

"This battle could not have been won without your help, Leafa." Yugi told her. "You did well."

"I wouldn't have been able to do anything if Kayaba hadn't loaned me his ID." Leafa replied as she continued to fade away. "Oh, before I go Kazuto, Kayaba asked me to give you something."

Appearing in Leafa's hand was a small golden light that resembled an egg. The egg of light floated over to Kirito's hands.

"What is this thing?" Kirito asked.

"Kayaba called it the World Seed." Leafa answered. "He said you could delete it if you want, but if you had any love for the virtual world left you should use it."

"I'll check it out." Kirito replied.

"See you on the other side." Leafa told him. And with that, her body faded completely away.

Kirito and Asuna arrived at the hospital with Yugi and the rest of the team to check Sugu out. As they headed for Sugu's room, Anzu spotted Ember heading down the hall.

"Hey guys? Do you think you can handle things without me?" Anzu asked. "There's something I want to check up on."

"Yeah, I think we've got everything covered." Kirito answered. "It doesn't take six people to check one girl out of the hospital."

"In that case, how 'bout Honda and I go with Anzu in case she needs help?" Joey suggested.

"I guess that's okay." Anzu agreed.

With that, the team split up and Anzu managed to find the room where Ember had gone. The three of them peeked inside to find Ember kissing a young woman with long brown hair wearing a pair of glasses with large round frames. Anzu and the others quickly realized that the girl in question was the goblin formerly known as Kyra.

Ember noticed Anzu and the others looking at them and broke the kiss. "Aw, dang it! What the hell are you doing here, Mazaki?"

"Sorry. We just noticed you walking by and wanted to see how you were doing." Anzu answered. "We didn't mean to disturb you guys."

"Rika, are these friends of yours?" Kato asked in a shy voice.

"Yeah, sorta." Ember answered. "I just know 'em from school. Mizaki, this is my girlfriend, Kato."

"Um, it's nice to meet you." Kato greeted.

Suddenly a playful smirk came to Ember's face. She leaned over and whispered something in Kato's ear, pointing at Anzu at the same time. Whatever Ember was saying made Kato's face turn bright red.

"Rika, that's dirty!" Kato told her.

"I'm just kiddin' ya." Ember told her. "Besides, you know I want you all to myself."

"We'll just leave you alone now." Anzu told the couple. Though Ember and Kato were too deeply locked in another kiss to hear what she had said.

"Hey guys, was that girl in there really Kyra the goblin?" Honda quietly asked the two as they headed down the hall. "She seems totally different."

"Well, she was brainwashed by Bakura." Anzu pointed out. "I guess it's no surprised that she'd have a different personality in the game than her real self."

"Let's just go find Yugi and the others." Joey told them. "I'm sure they're waitn' for us."

Kirito and the others exited the hospital with Sugu. As soon as the got out the door, they saw Kaiba standing before them with Mokuba. Kaiba walked up to them with his cold blue eyes fixed on Yugi.

"What do you want, Kaiba?" Yugi asked.

"I only dropped by to thank you and your little friends with your help fixing the problem with ALO." Kaiba answered. "All of the players from MWO that were still trapped have woken up."

"Sugu's the one you should really be thanking." Kirito told him. "We wouldn't have been able to fix the problem without her help."

"Whatever." Kaiba indifferently replied. "I any case, I'm considering shutting down ALO. These VRMMOs have proven to be a little more trouble than they're worth. In the meantime Yugi, I expect you to take part in the Battle City Tournament. You and I still have a score to settle."

"Don't worry Kaiba, I'll be there." Yugi assured him.

"I'll be there too." Asuna revealed, surprising Kirito and the others.

"Wait, since when do you play that card game, Duel Monsters?" Kirito asked.

"I learned how to play awhile ago." Asuna answered. "I also have a duel disk, which means I plan to be in this tournament."

"Someone like you will probably be wiped out at the start of the preliminaries." Kaiba assumed. "But go ahead and enter if you want to humiliate yourself."

"Don't underestimate me." Asuna warned. "Who knows? I may be the one who humiliates you."

Kaiba's response was to turn on his heel and leave. Mokuba waved at Yugi and the others before following behind. After leaving the hospital, Yugi and the others took off and left Kirito and Asuna to escort Sugu home.

"So Asuna, what made you decide to enter this tournament of Kaiba's?" Kirito asked.

"Well… before all this stuff with ALO started, Yugi told us that this tournament might help him unlock his memories." Asuna explained. "If that's true, then I want to help him in any way I can. I figure it's the least I can after all he's done for us."

"Yeah, I feel the same way." Kirito agreed. "I don't think there's a whole lot I can do though, since I can't enter this tournament, but I'll be there to cheer both you and Yugi on."

"I'll be there too." Sugu told them, getting their attention. "I want to be there to give Yugi my support, and you too, Asuna."

"Well thanks, Sugu." Asuna replied.

"You know… I was honestly mad at you because I thought you had stolen Kazuto from me." Sugu admitted. "But I can see that the two of you are meant for each other, especially after learning what I know now."

"Wait, what's that supposed to mean?" Kirito asked.

"Oh… I'll tell you about it later." Sugu answered. "C'mon. Let's go home."

Bakura watched from around a street corner as Kirito, Asuna, and Sugu headed home. He scowled as his eyes fixed on Sugu.

"Beaten by a pathetic little girl!" Bakura spoke to himself. "This wouldn't have happened if Kayaba hadn't interfered. Well, no matter. I'll leave Kirito and his little family alone for now and focus on getting the rest of the Millennium Items. Then once I have the ultimate power, I'll make that girl pay and shroud this whole world in darkness. No one will be able to stop me!"

FAIRY MASQUERADE: END

Afterward: Thus ends another major story in my Yu-Gi-Oh! Online series. I'd like to thank everyone who's read and reviewed this little story of mine. I know that so far this crossover series hasn't been the most popular series I've ever done. This particular story ended up being a little hard to work on towards the end, partially due to the work I've had to do for this online class I've been taking for the last couple of months. But I enjoyed working on this story all the same.

So obviously this series isn't done just yet. There are still a few stories in it left to do. I'm not really sure when I'll get back to this series though. For now I'm going to spend time on some of my other projects, like my recently resurrected Digimon series. But I will get back to this series in time. The last few stories I've done brought Yugi and his friends into Kirito and Asuna's world, but in the next few stories Kirito and Asuna will be venturing into Yugi's world.

Next time, Asuna will take part in Battle City in the interlude story, The Millennium Enemies

After that comes the next major arc in this series, MWO3: Arcade Fortress

So for now, thanks again for reading and please review and let me know what you think.