Dartz



Dartz (ダーツ Dātsu) is the main villain in the Waking the Dragons (or Doma) story arc of the second series Yu-Gi-Oh! anime, known as ''Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters'' in Japan. Dartz and the Doma arc do not exist in the manga. In order to understand Dartz, one must know the history of Atlantis, which is tied with his history.

Plotline
Ten thousand years ago, Atlantis was a perfect civilization, an island isolated from the rest of the world. One day, however, meteors rained down upon the kingdom. These meteorites were mysterious and powerful stones of the Orichalcos, and they glowed a bright blue. These stones imbued the people of Atlantis with ultimate knowledge and power. In just a few years, Atlantis became the most advanced civilization on the planet, even more advanced than the modern world of today. But with power come corruption and greed.

Ironheart, the king of Atlantis, gave his throne to his son, Dartz. Soon, the stones of the Orichalcos began to expose the evil in people, turning those with darkness on the inside into monsters on the outside. Dartz witnessed his own wife become a horrid, ugly beast. Confused and frightened, Dartz consulted a stone of the Orichalcos for guidance. The Orichalcos granted Dartz great power and lent him soldiers to do his bidding. It also gave him control of a powerful beast, the Great Leviathan (Orichalcos God in the Japanese version), which would help him to destroy the world and create a new one that would be free of evil. Eventually, Dartz became corrupted and misguided.

Ironheart and Dartz’s daughter Chris fled and called upon the world of Duel Monsters and its guardians, the three Legendary Dragons (in actuality, three soldiers who Dartz had transformed into dragons) for help against the corrupted Dartz. One day, an army of goodly magical creatures including the three dragonsled by Ironheart met with Dartz’s army of evil Orichalcos soldiers and the Great Leviathan, and the Battle of Atlantis took place. The battle concluded with neither side being victorious. The three dragons were frozen in ice, and the magical creatures were sent back to their own world. The bestial soldiers of the Orichalcos were destroyed, and the Great Leviathan was sealed away from this world. The island of Atlantis sank beneath the sea.

The corruption of the Orichalcos made Dartz believe the world to be a wicked place, and that man had an inherent wickedness in his heart. The transformation the Orichalcos had inflicted on his fellow Atlanteans was, as he believed, the punishment for being wicked, as the outside of man became as twisted as their inside. Dartz was driven to revive the Great Leviathan to raze the world, so that he may remake it in the image of glorious Atlantis. And to do so, Dartz required human souls. He proceeded to wander the Earth for the next 10,000 years, presumably kept alive by the power of the Orichalcos, and knew he had found one of the powerful souls he required when he encountered the Pharaoh Atem in ancient Egypt, witnessing his control of the powers of darkness and his ability to command Duel Monsters. It is is unclear precisely when Dartz began to collect souls, but eventually, Dartz established a multinational conglomerate named Paradais, which became a well-known, yet mysterious force in the business world. But this was not the only organization Dartz had formed. He also controlled the Doma Organization (unnamed in the English version), a group formed to gather souls to feed the Great Leviathan by challenging unsuspecting players to games of Duel Monsters, only to have their souls taken by the Seal of Orichalcos, cards he had suffused with the Orichalcos' power.

For ten thousand years, Dartz collected the souls of his adversaries in order to fuel the return of the Great Leviathan into this world. With time, the number of souls Dartz had stolen stretched into the millions, thanks in part to his three minions&mdash;Rafael, Alister and Valon (Raphael, Amelda and Varon in the Japanese version), a gang of Duel Monsters players called Doma's Three Swordsmen whose lives Dartz manipulated to make them feel only hatred, moulding them to be ideal servants to his cause. He gave them each a small fragment of the Orichalcos, which can be used to break the Seal of Orichalcos from outside in case of emergency.

Once aware of the fact that the Pharaoh had been reincarnated and his spirit revived in the present day, Dartz began his plan to take his soul by stealing the Egyptian God Cards, using their power along with human souls to revitalise the Leviathan. Subsequently, Yugi Moto (Yugi Mutou in the manga and Japanese versions), Seto Kaiba and Joey Wheeler (Katsuya Jonouchi in the manga and Japanese versions) free and unite forces with the Legendary Dragons as the souls of both them and their friends come under threat. Events eventually converge on a duel between Yami Yugi (Dark Yugi or Yu-Gi-Oh! in the English manga and Japanese versions), Kaiba and Dartz, in which Yami claims victory by unlocking the power of the Legendary Dragons and returning them to their true forms. Kaiba, Joey and Yugi's souls are freed from the clutches of the Leviathan. However, Dartz sacrificed his own soul, with his body reduced to dust, to give Leviathan enough power to fully ressurect and raise Atlantis once more. In the ensuing battle, Yami Yugi freed the spirits of the Egyptian Gods from within the Leviathan, and together, they destroy it, freeing all the captive souls. However, a trace of its darkness remains, along with Dartz's soul, which Yami Yugi is able to banish, freeing Dartz from the influence of the Orichalcos, allowing him to be reunited with the spirits of his father and daughter. As Atlantis sank beneath the waves, Dartz's spirit was finally freed to be with his family.

Deck ("The Duel")
Dartz plays an Orichalcos deck: a deck that focuses on making an opponent lose life points and make all their moves useless, while increasing one's own life points. Accordingly, Dartz plays Seal of Orichalcos along with Orichalcos Kyutora, whose special ability prevents a player from receiving any battle damage. Dartz uses Orichalcos Gigas, which can return from the graveyard as a result of battle 500 points stronger. Dartz continues to destroy Orichalcos Gigas, and it returns 500 points stronger, and then another 500 points stronger by the effect of the Seal of Orichalcos. Dartz receives no damage because of Orichalcos Kyutora.

Then, Dartz plays Second Seal of Orichalcos, Orichalcos Deuteros. That allows Dartz to gain 500 life points for every monster on his side of the field. Dartz plays Descent of Mirror Knight, summoning four Mirror Knights along with a mirror shield that prevents the mirror knights from being destroyed. Kaiba was able to destroy the mirror shields and use a special magic card that allows Yugi's Dragon Master Knight to directly attack Dartz, but Dartz sacrifices Orichalcos Gigas to negate that attack. Two turns later, after Kaiba was able to destroy 3 of the 4 shields that the mirror knight had, Dartz plays Third Seal Orichalcos. Dartz then plays Orichalcos Diablos (Orichalcos Malevolence in dubbed edition) and Two-Archer Centaur, with Kaiba finding out that trap cards affecting Dartz's monsters are rendered useless as a result of the Third Seal, Orichalcos Tritos.

Episode 180: The Third Seal of Orichalcos
Later, Kaiba gets the Legendary Dragon Critias, and fuses it with Yugi's Mirror Force to make Mirror Force Dragon. Kaiba attacks the last mirror knight with the shield, the attack is reflected back at Kaiba, and then Kaiba uses special ability of Mirror Force Dragon to counterattack all of Dartz's monsters with the mirror knight's attack of 500. Since all of Dartz's monsters have 500 attack points, they are all destroyed. But Kyutora's death activated its other special abilty, evolving into Orichalcos Shunoros, whose arms became two monsters themselves. The left arm (Aristeros) and right arm (Dexia) are always 300 attack points more than the opponent's monster attacking it, and they are always designated as first targets. Orichalcos Shunoros has attack points beginning with Dartz's life points (20,000) and loses attack points as it attacks other monsters.

Yami Yugi had only one thing left that can turn the duel around. It was the blank card Maximillion Pegasus (Pegasus J. Crawford in the Japanese versions) gave him in the Pot of Greed. Yugi didn't put it into his deck, but it magically got there and transformed into the magic card Legend of Heart. It allows Yugi to summon specially the legendary dragons Timaeus, Critias, and Hermos, then transform them into their true forms: the three legendary knights.


 * Three Legendary Knights
 * When all three are on the field, destroy the three Seals of Orichalcos.
 * Legendary Knight Critias can automatically destroy all of a player's monsters when it is summonned.
 * You can remove three monsters from your graveyard. Legendary Knight Hermos's attack points equal three times the monster it is attacking.
 * Legendary Knight Timaeus can fuse any number of monsters together

However, when Orichalcos Shunoros is destroyed, Dartz summons Divine Serpent with infinite attack power. Dartz must sacrifice all his life points, but he can’t lose unless Divine Serpent is destroyed. Dartz sacrifices 10 cards to his graveyard, and attacks Yugi’s Timaeus, but Yami Yugi plays his own trap card(Relay Soul)that summons specially a monster from his hand and he cannot lose until that monster is destroyed. Yami Yugi summons Dark Magician Girl. He then revives Timaeus. Next turn, Dartz discards ten cards from his deck to his graveyard to allow Divine Serpent to have infinite attack. He attacks Dark Magician Girl, but Celtic Guardian comes out to protect her because of Hermos's special ability. Then, Yami Yugi orders Hermos and Critias two attack the Serpent, and they both bury their swords in it's head, to no affect. However, Yami Yugi then activates the Magic Card, Attack Transferal Barrier, redirecting Hermos's attack upon Critias, who uses his special ability to reflect the attack back at Hermos. Consequently, the attack is indefinitely reflected back and forth, over and over, building to infinite strength. Yami Yugi then uses Hermos's special ability, discarding three cards (the three Magnet Warriors) from his deck in order to multiply the attack power by three, yielding an attack that is three times infinity. Yami Yugi then activates Timaeus's special ability, and fuses him with the other two legendary knights to create The Knight of Destiny, wielding the triple infinite power attack, which destroys Divine Serpent, making Dartz the loser. However, should this occur, he trades the three chosen duelists' souls for his soul for the Great Leviathan.

However, the three chosen duellists are released into the human world(which means Little Yugi returns, as do Kaiba and Joey). Meanwhile, a huge underwater disturbance causes a giant hurricane that is 10,000km in diameter, which will reach the east coast in about an hour. Roland tells Kaiba about it. Later, the three chosen duellists must enter the portal in which Dartz transported into. However, Yugi's millennium puzzle reacts to his Egyptain Gods: Obelisk the Tormentor, Slifer the Sky Dragon, and The Winged Dragon of Ra. He takes them, then catches up with Joey and Kaiba.

Yugi transforms into Yami, they all go down to Dartz, but it looks like he is frozen. Yugi touches him, but Dartz dissolves and appears on a giant screen. He tells them he traded their souls for an equally powerful one: his soul. Then the Great Leviathan returns again…

The Great Leviathan
Yes, this is the giant monster he kept talking about. He uses the Great Leviathan for this duel. Yugi, Joey, and Kaiba are, however, forced to duel him at Atlantis. They each summon 3 monsters:

Yugi: Dark Magician, Summoned Skull, Kuriboh Joey: Flame Swordsman, Jinzo, Red Eyes B. Dragon Kaiba: Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon, Gadger Soldier, Vorse Raider

They each summon their dragons, now. And Yugi plays Legend of Heart(which summons the Knights). Joey and Kaiba then get confused. Yugi forces all 12 monsters to attack (including Joey's and Kaiba's)