Winning Without Gods (A Yu-Gi-Oh Fanfiction)DONE!

Chapter 36: Deadly Rules

Sorry for the long Hiatus. Like Yuugi and the gang, my own world has been changing a lot. It's getting better though, day by day, and I think it's about time to take this into it's final battle.

I am choosing to call Zorc either 'she' or 'Zorc' since it is really a combination of Anzu and Satiah who are both female, it's just the demon Zorc possessing them. However, everyone else is still calling them 'Zorc', because they know it's not their friends in control.

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Using the scarab, they all instantly went there, with Set using his own power.

"Maiiii!" 

Jounouchi was the first to react since he was there. Yuugi watched as five people showed up.

Honda. Grandpa. Mai. Hanasaki and . . .

"Miho doesn't like this," she said. "We are back in Domino City?" 

Miho, that's right. She was in school with them when they were younger.

"Mai!" Jounouchi called out again.

"Jounouchi." Mai's appearance was slightly transparent, just like Grandpa had been before. In fact, all of them had been.

Zorc appeared in front of them. "The name of the game? Is Battlesphere. Our players have been broken up into three teams. You basic humans are team one alone since you all want to save the Earth. Set is team two. He is his own team as the one who wants to rule or destroy the Earth. Then, I am team three. Like him, I am a team of one. I want to destroy all of creation." She gestured widely with her arms toward Mai, Grandpa, Honda, Hanasaki, and Miho. "If you haven't guessed? These are your battleships. Using your new Sphere game, the winner is the first one who takes out all the battleships of one team. I hope you have strong cards, Pharaoh." Zorc stared at both Atem and Yuugi. "They may already be in the underworld, but you'll be battling for their immortal souls."

"What?" What?! "Their eternal soul?"

"Mai." Jounouchi was stunned.

"That's right, Jounouchi," Zorc smiled at him. "If you lose her, you'll never even see her again in death. You'll be separated for the rest of eternity. Aww. What a sad fate for the new mommy."

"Anzu?" Jounouchi didn't understand yet. He only saw the appearance of someone similar to Anzu. "Or is that Satiah maybe?"

"Don't be fooled, Jounouchi. It's not Anzu or Satiah," Yuugi warned him. "It's Masika. The whole Masika, with Zorc in control."

"Zorc?!" Jounouchi took an angry step forward. "You better let go of my friends!"

"Go ahead." Zorc giggled like a school girl. "Go ahead and hit your friend in anger. She's the one who feels it."

"Don't do it, Jounouchi!" Ryou Bakura yelled from the side. "She probably won't, but if Zorc gives back control, she will!"

Jounouchi took a step backward. He wouldn't risk it even if he could, he was still holding Mana. "I would never hit Anzu." Not knowing what to do, he went back to staring at Mai. "Mai? How are you?"

"I'm okay," she assured him. "It's okay."

"That's what you think." Zorc lightly danced around like Anzu and then stared at Atem. "It is pretty biased though, right? A little unfair? Set and I are at a disadvantage, and you have so many ships. So, to keep things fair in the game, I have selected my own fleet." She snapped her fingers.

Shimon. Hasan. Shada. The Priestess Isis. Finally, Akhanadin.

Yuugi tried to calm down Hikaru who was starting to cry. His son knew something was wrong with his mommy. So wrong. "Calm down," Yuugi whispered to Hikaru. Maybe he's sensing my stress too.