Abidos the Third

Ryan and Alexis were standing near the lighthouse.

"Still no luck huh?" Ryan asked. Alexis shook her head.

"No, I'm starting to think that he's never going to wake up." She said sadly.

Ryan noticed how sad Alexis was so he put his arm around her to comfort her.

"Hey don't think about that. There's always hope." He said although he didn't believe his own words.

Alexis knew that Ryan was lying but she appreciated his attempt at cheering her up.

"Thanks." She said as she moved a little closer to Ryan and snuggled up to him.

He and Alexis stayed like this for several minutes enjoying each other's company. Finally Alexis broke the silence.

"Ryan I want to thank you for everything you've been doing." She said.

"Pardon?" He asked.

"I mean, you've done so much to help. You've saved me from that Titan guy, you helped me search for Atticus and you cheered me up when I thought that all hope was lost." Alexis said, causing him to blush.

"Ryan I think that-" Alexis said. However before she could finish her sentence something reached out of the water and grabbed her leg causing Alexis to scream and pull her leg away.

He and Alexis backed away from the water and watched as four mummies climbed out of the water and onto land.

"Go." Ryan ordered. The two turned to run away but they were stopped by six more mummies that were blocking their escape.

Ryan and Alexis backed up against the lighthouse, the two were heavily outnumbered and the mummies were slowly coming closer.

Jaden, Chazz, Syrus and Chumley were all walking back to their dorm.

"And then I played Flame Wingman and totally wiped out his life points." Jaden said as he told the others about a duel that he had won earlier today.

Syrus and Chumley were clearly enjoying the story but Chazz was extremely bored and he wanted to get back to his room as quickly as possible so he could have some peace and quiet.

"Hey what's going on there." Syrus said. The others looked at what Syrus was pointing at and saw Ryan and Alexis down by the lighthouse being surrounded by mummies.

"Are those mummies?" A terrified Chumley asked.

"This has got to have something to do with the Shadow Riders." Chazz said.

"What are we going to do Jaden?" Syrus asked.

Jaden thought quickly. He didn't want to put his friends in any danger.

"Syrus, you and Chumley need to get back to the red dorm." He said.

"What? But what about you?" Syrus asked.

"Syrus please, the Shadow Riders don't want you two, so you need to get out of here." Jaden said.

Syrus was about to protest but he was stopped by Chazz.

"Listen to him, we don't want another repeat of that Camula incident." Chazz said. Syrus was clearly disturbed by the mention of Camula but this was enough to get him to listen.

"Okay, just please be careful." Syrus said as he ran in the direction of the red dorm followed by Chumley.

"Come on, we'd better go help them." Chazz said. Jaden agreed and the two ran down towards the lighthouse to help Ryan and Alexis.

Ryan and Alexis were now completely surrounded by the mummies with no way to escape.

"Hey, do you guys need a hand." Jaden said as he and Chazz reached the lighthouse. However some of the mummies took notice of the two and they started to approach Jaden and Chazz.

"Okay, maybe we didn't think this through." Jaden said as he took a step back.

At this point one of the mummies came up behind Ryan and grabbed him by the shoulder.

"Hands off." He spun around and punched the mummy in the head.

Much to everyone's surprise Ryan's punch knocked the mummy's head clean off. It seemed that the mummies were so rotten and decayed that they were falling apart. The mummy's now headless body fell limply at his feet.

Everyone was silent for a moment until Ryan said something.

"Let's rip them apart." He declared.

Chazz smiled as he clenched his fists.

"Great idea." He said as he punched the nearest mummy leaving a nasty dent in his head.

"I don't really like fighting." Jaden said. At that moment a mummy came a little too close and Jaden kicked it in the stomach leaving a large hole.

"But I can make a exception in this case." He added.

One mummy targeted Alexis, however she performed an impressive front kick that hit the mummy in the chin sending it's head flying into the air.

"Nice kick." Ryan said, surprised that Alexis was able to do that.

"Behind you." Alexis warned. Ryan turned his head and saw a mummy sneaking up behind him. He spun around and went low delivering a sweep that sliced through both of the mummy's legs. The now legless mummy tried to reach for Ryan but he stomped on it's head crushing it.

"That is enough, my servants." A voice called. All of the remaining mummies stopped their attack and backed away from the key keepers.

"What's going on?" A confused Jaden asked. Suddenly there was a flash of light and then a boat that was decorated with gold appeared out of nowhere.

A man stepped off of the boat, he had tan skin and he was dressed like an ancient Egyptian pharaoh. He was also wearing a golden mask that hid his face. There were also several others with this man, they were all dressed in an ancient Egyptian attire as well.

The mummies approached the masked man and bowed to him.

"So, this is your handy work I take it." Ryan said as he wiped some of the mummies remains off his shoulder.

"Yes I am pharaoh Abidos the Third, the fifth Shadow Rider." The masked man said.

"Who?" Jaden asked.

"Jaden, Abidos is that undefeated pharaoh Banner told us about yesterday." Alexis said.

"Undefeated, great this will be a blast." Jaden said as he strapped his duel disk onto his arm.

"Jaden are you insane? Pharaohs like him used to duel in shadow games all the time. This guy could be on Yugi Muto's level." Ryan said.

"That's just one more reason to duel him." Jaden replied as he walked up to Abidos.

"He's dead." Ryan said.

"Very well, you shall have the honor of being the first to fall to me." Abidos said.

The duel started.

"As a pharaoh I declare that I will go first." Abidos said as he drew his first card.

"I shall summon Pharaoh's Servant in attack mode and I will place one card face down." Abidos said as he ended his turn.

Pharaoh's Servant ATK 900 DEF 0 LV2 DARK Zombie.

"Ha, do you see now that you are far outmatched." Abidos said, his voice filled with confidence.

"Not really, that monster's not really very powerful." Jaden said.

"How dare you. My Servant is an incredibly powerful monster. None has ever defeated it." Abidos said sounding very offended.

"Well I'll be the first." Jaden said.

Jaden started his turn.

"I summon Elemental Hero Wildheart in attack mode and now I'll use him to attack your monster." He said. Wildheart attacked and destroyed Pharaoh's Servant.

Elemental Hero Wildheart ATK 1500 DEF 1600 LV4 EARTH Warrior.

Abidos LP 4000 - 600 = 3400

"Incredible, no one has ever defeated one of my monsters." Abidos said in amazement.

"Wait are you being serious, that monster was really weak. Anyone could have defeated it." Jaden replied.

"What are you talking about? Out of everyone I have ever dueled not one of them could ever defeat my Pharaoh's Servant." Abidos said.

'Wow, they must have been really weak opponents.' Jaden thought.

"Well anyway, I end my turn." Jaden said.

"Not just yet, I activate The First Sarcophagus and since you're ending your turn this card allows me to activate The Second Sarcophagus from my deck." Abidos said as the second sarcophagus appeared on his side of the field.

"What do those cards do?" Jaden asked as he looked at the two cards.

"Nothing yet, but just wait and you'll see my strongest monster." Abidos laughed.

"Abidos shouldn't be sharing his strategy with Jaden." Ryan said.

"I know, it's almost as if he doesn't know what he's doing." Alexis added.

"I'm starting to wonder if he really doesn't know what he's doing." Chazz said.

Abidos's turn started.

"I summon a monster in defense mode and end my turn." He said.

Jaden started his turn.

"It's not like I've ever been one to back down. I summon Elemental Hero Sparkman in attack mode." He said.

Elemental Hero Sparkman ATK 1600 DEF 1400 LV4 LIGHT Warrior.

"Go Wildheart attack his monster." Jaden said. Wildheart attacked and destroyed Abidos's monster which was revealed to be Pharaoh's Protector.

"Now Sparkman attack him directly." Jaden ordered. Sparkman attacked Abidos directly. After this Jaden ended his turn.

Pharaoh's Protector ATK 900 DEF 0 LV2 EARTH Zombie.

Abidos LP 3400 - 1600 = 1800

Abidos was in shock.

"I don't understand. How can you be this strong?" He said.

"I don't really know what you're talking about. I haven't even summoned anything big yet." Jaden replied.

"You have even stronger monsters than those, but none of my servants have ever summoned anything that strong against me before." Abidos said.

"Wait a minute, you dueled your servants." Jaden said.

"Of course." Abidos stated.

"Haven't you ever dueled anyone who doesn't work for you?" Jaden asked.

"No, why?" Abidos questioned.

"Well then how do you know they were even trying?" Jaden asked.

"What are you talking about? My servants would never-" Abidos said. However he became silent when he realized what Jaden was saying.

Abidos turned to his servants.

"All of you, I command you to tell me the truth. Have you always allowed me to win our duels." He said. All of the servants suddenly had looks of fear on their faces.

"Master we only-" One said.

"We thought that you would-" Another added.

"Please don't execute us." A third begged.

Abidos couldn't believe what he was hearing.

"No." He whispered. Abidos then fell to his knees in despair.

"Hey are you okay?" Jaden asked.

"My whole life has been a lie." Abidos sobbed.

"So this guy's never won a real duel in his life?" Chazz asked.

"I'm not able to tell if this is pathetic or sad." Ryan said.

"I think it might be both." Alexis added.

"Hey, aren't you going to finish the duel?" Jaden asked.

"How can I? I'm not a duelist. I've never been in a real duel before." Abidos said hopelessly.

"Well consider this to be your first duel." Jaden stated.

"What do you mean?" Abidos asked.

"Just because you've never faced a real opponent before doesn't mean that you can't start now." Jaden answered.

"You want to continue dueling me." Abidos said in confusion.

"Sure, you can finally learn what a real duel was like."

Abidos's confidence seemed to have been restored.

"Very well, this will be my first true victory but if I am going to face you then it should be face to face." He said as he stood up and removed his mask revealing the face of a young man who wasn't even twenty.

"Since you've ended your turn the effect of The First Sarcophagus will activate. This allows me to activate The Third Sarcophagus from my deck." Abidos said as The Third Sacrophagus appeared on his side of the field.

Abidos's turn started.

"Now that I have all three of my sacrophagus cards on the field I can send them all to the graveyard in order to summon my strongest monster, Spirit of the Pharaoh." Abidos said.

Spirit of the Pharaoh ATK 2500 DEF 2000 LV6 LIGHT Zombie.

"And when Spirit of the Pharaoh is summoned I can special summoned up to four normal level 2 zombie monsters from my graveyard." Abidos said as Pharaoh's Servant and Pharaoh's Protector returned to his field in defense mode.

Pharaoh's Servant ATK 900 DEF 0 LV2 DARK Zombie.

Pharaoh's Protector ATK 900 DEF 0 LV2 EARTH Zombie.

"Is that it?" Jaden asked.

"Yes, why is there something wrong?" Abidos questioned.

"No, it's just I expected more after you went through all that trouble." Jaden said.

"You're the one who's in trouble Jaden." Abidos said.

"Spirit of the Pharaoh attack his Wildheart." Abidos ordered. Spirit of the Pharaoh attacked and destroyed Wildheart. After this, Abidos ended his turn.

Jaden LP 4000 - 1000 = 3000

Jaden drew his card.

"Alright I activate Polymerization to fuse Sparkman with the Necroshade in my hand. With these two monsters I can create Elemental Hero Darkbright." Jaden said.

Elemental Hero Darkbright ATK 2000 DEF 1000 LV6 DARK Warrior.

"Now Darkbright attack his Pharaoh's Servant and when Darkbright attacks a defense position monster you take piercing damage." Jaden said. Pharaoh's Servant was destroyed.

Abidos LP 1800 - 2000 = 0

Abidos's life points dropped to 0. However he didn't seem to be saddened by this.

"Thank you Jaden for showing me the truth." He said.

"Don't worry about it." Jaden said.

Suddenly a bright golden light appeared and Abidos's servant began to disappear.

"What's going on?" Jaden asked.

"Without the power of my shadow charm me and my servants will be forced to return to the afterlife." Abidos explained.

"Wow that's kind of harsh." Jaden said.

"Jaden will you please come with me?" Abidos asked.

"Wait what." A surprised Jaden said.

"Now that I know the truth I want to learn how to truly duel and I'd like you to teach me." Abidos said.

"I'm flattered but I don't think that I'm ready to go to the afterlife just yet. Do you think that you could wait a few years." Jaden said. Abidos nodded.

"Yes I understand. When the day finally comes I look forward to meeting you as a friend rather than a rival." He said.

Abidos and his boat disappeared in a flash of golden light leaving no trace that he had ever been there.

"Well I'm looking forward to seeing that guy again in about a hundred years." Jaden said with a smile.