Chapter 25: The Ultimate Wicked God
Out in front of the Spica stadium, Jaden was about to face off with the creator of the Wicked Gods, Yako Tenma. What was worse was that Tenma also wielded all three of the Wicked Gods in his deck. Other people had started coming out of the stadium to see what was going on, including Yaya and Tsubomi. The final match of the Etoile Tournament was starting to become far from everyone’s minds. Just before the duel was about to begin, Pegasus quickly ran up to Jaden.
“If you’re going to try and talk me out of this duel Mr. Pegasus, you’re wasting your time.” Jaden said without taking his eyes off of Tenma.
“I’m not going to try to stop you. I just wanted to give you something before you faced Yako.” Pegasus replied as he took something out of his pocket.
Jaden finally turned to see what the object was and saw that Pegasus was holding a card. It was a Spell card that depicted and old beat up sword that was iron grey in color. The text on the card was written in a language that Jaden couldn’t understand, but recognized as the text from the ancient tablet in the church that Pegasus was studying.
“Is this the card that you made to destroy the Wicked Gods?” Jaden asked.
“Yes, but I couldn’t translate the text.” Pegasus answered. “And when the second Wicked God was taken I decided that there was no choice but to go ahead and make the card without the translation. It seemed to work out when I made The Winged Dragon of Ra, so I thought I’d give it a try and hope for the best.”
Jaden took the card from Pegasus and shuffled it into his deck.
“Thanks Mr. Pegasus, I’m sure it will help.” Jaden said as he put his deck back into his duel disk.
“Good luck Jaden.” Pegasus said as he walked back to the entryway of the stadium to watch the duel.
“And just what card did Master Pegasus give you?” Tenma asked Jaden.
“The card that I’m going to use to beat you!” Jaden proclaimed.
“We’ll see about that.” Tenma replied. With that, both duelists activated their duel disks. With their life points set to 4000, the duel began. Tenma went first. “First I activate Graceful Charity and draw three cards! Then I discard two!”
Jaden was surprised to see that the two cards that Tenma sent to the Graveyard were The Wicked Eraser and The Wicked Dreadroot. Though it did make a little sense. All three of the Wicked Gods needed three tributes to summon, so it would make sense that Tenma would try to Special Summon them instead.
“If you’re thinking that I’m planning to summon the Wicked Gods from the Graveyard, you’re mistaken.” Tenma said with a sinister smile. “The Wicked Gods can’t be Special Summoned in any way.”
“Then why send them to the Graveyard?” Jaden asked sounding confused.
“You’ll see soon enough.” Tenma replied. “I set one card on the field and end my turn!”
Jaden drew his next card. He was eager to finish Tenma off quickly, and thought he had drawn just the card to do that. It seemed that it would be easy since Tenma only had one card on the field. Jaden decided that he needed to finish the duel before Tenma could accomplish whatever he was planning.
“First I activate Ancient Rules and summon Elemental Hero Neos from my hand!” Jaden announced. Jaden’s ace hero appeared on the field. “Neos, attack Tenma directly! Wrath of Neos!”
Neo leapt forward into the air and raised his fist to deliver a devastating punch to Tenma.
“I activate my Trap, Negate Attack!” Tenma announced. A small vortex appeared in front of Tenma and pushed Neos back. Jaden was starting to become frustrated.
“Calm down!” Yubel said as she reappeared behind Jaden. “I know you’re angry at the guy and that you don’t want him summoning those God cards, but don’t rush at him blindly like that. Otherwise you’ll end up losing.”
Jaden realized that Yubel was right. Charging heedlessly at Tenma was a dangerous and reckless move. He was lucky that Tenma’s Trap wasn’t something worse like Mirror Force. Jaden took a deep breath and looked at his hand. Unfortunately there wasn’t much of anything else he could do at the moment.
“I end my turn!” Jaden announced. Tenma drew his next card.
“That was a bold move, but not a good enough move to stop me.” Tenma commented. “Don’t feel too bad about not being able tp beat me however. Soon everyone will know how powerful a duelist I am. Even Master Pegasus will acknowledge my power.”
“…So that’s what this is all about.” Jaden said as something suddenly dawned on him. “You’re trying to prove to Mr. Pegasus that you’re stronger than your brother! You said so yourself when you said that you weren’t surprised that Mr. Pegasus thought that you lost that duel with Gekko!”
“You are right about that.” Tenma said chuckling to himself. “Gekko was always Master Pegasus’ favorite. In fact everyone including Master Pegasus called my brother ‘the perfect duelist,’ while I was only a flawed copy. I was always in my brother’s shadow, but no more! When this is over I will do what my truly weak brother would never do and avenge Master Pegasus by destroying Yugi Muto, than I will bring back Master Pegasus’ departed wife and prove both Master Pegasus and the world how powerful I am!”
“And you’re willing to do all that with this dark power?” Jaden asked. “Look at all the pain that those cards have caused! Look at all the people who’ve hurt by them! Even your brother is lying in a coma because of your Wicked Gods!”
“I have looked at them,” Tenam replied coldly, “and all of them are merely sacrifices in the name of progress.”
Everyone who was watching the duel from the sidelines that understood everything that was going on was shocked by what Tenma had said. Though none were more shocked than Pegasus. The Duel Monsters creator wanted to say something to Tenma, but he could see that his adopted son had lost most of his reason. Pegasus’ only hope now was Jaden.
“Now, for my next move I play the card I just drew, Graceful Charity!” Tenma announced. “I draw three more cards and discard two from my hand!”
Jaden saw that one of the cards that Tenma discarded was The Wicked Avatar. All three Wicked Gods had ended up in the Graveyard. It seemed to Jaden that he was about to find out just what Tenma was planning to do.
“When I said before that the reason I let Master Pegasus lock the Wicked Gods away was because I needed time to work on my R.A. project, that wasn’t the only reason.” Tenma said ominously. “You see when I originally did my research on the Egyptian God cards, upon which my Wicked Gods are based, I discovered something that Master Pegasus had overlooked when he made the cards. It seemed that the three Egyptian God monsters had a combined form, one that could only be unlocked by the Pharaoh himself. I confirmed this when I researched the Sacred Beast cards and found out about their combined form.”
Jaden knew exactly what Tenma was talking about. The three Sacred Beast cards that were locked away at his old academy did have the ability to merge together into a Fusion monster called Armityle the Chaos Phantom. Jaden had faced that monster himself in a duel.
“The Sacred Beats are the shadow versions of the Egyptian God cards, a mirror image of sorts.” Tenma continued. “It made sense that if the Sacred Beasts had a fused form, than so would the Egyptian Gods. So I worked long and hard until at last I created the fused form for my Wicked Gods.”
“A Wicked God Fusion monster?” Jaden asked in shock.
“That’s right!” Tenma exclaimed. “And you’re about to witness its arrival! I remove from my Graveyard The Wicked Eraser, The Wicked Dreadroot, and The Wicked Avatar to merge them into The Creator God of Shadows, Zorc!”
The sky became cover by thick black clouds as a purple column of light appeared briefly behind Tenma as it shot up into the air, vanishing to reveal the brown dragon that was The Wicked Eraser, the green demon that was The Wicked Dreadroot, and the black sphere that was The Wicked Avatar. The Wicked Avatar suddenly expanded outward and engulfed the other two gods. At that point the black sphere began to twist, contract, and even change color until finally transform into a completely different monster. The monster in question was a fifty foot humanoid demon that was well muscled and had dark purple skin. On the demon’s face was a sort of horned mask that was silver in color. The demon was dressed in the attire of an Egyptian Pharaoh, complete with a cobra hood headdress and a red flowing cape. Hanging from a rope around the demon’s neck was a giant silver version of the Millennium Ring.
Suddenly Tenma broke into a fit of mad laughter. Jaden noticed that the color of Tenma’s eyes had changed from light green to pitch-black.
“Behold, the ultimate Wicked God has arrived!” Tenma proclaimed. “At long last I have the power to completely and utterly destroy Yugi Muto! Nothing can stand against the power of Zorc!”
Everyone who was watching seemed to be horrified by the sight of Tenma’s ultimate Wicked God. Suddenly the air was filled with the laughter of a low demonic voice. Jaden and a few others looked up to see that the laughter was coming from Tenma’s monster, Zorc.
“At long last!” the demon god cried after he finished laughing. “I… live… AGAIN!”
