Pharaoh, I had the greatest dream last night!
I, too, but it was not a dream at all.
A warrior from a future shining bright,
Our challenger, a champion of all,
The superhero duelist, power-eyed.
He challenged us to find what he'd forgot,
Remember all the joy he'd set aside
For duels that must be seriously fought.
Red-blazer saw in Slifer only fun,
And found anew that for which he came
Someday in Duel Monsters he's the one;
Jaden Yuki-- wasn't that his name?
Jaden, I know we will meet again,
At your bright new beginning, my old friend.

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Background:

I don't know what it is about final duels that makes me feel like writing a sonnet. Technically, in my canon of Yu-Gi-Oh!, the Dub, the final duel of GX did not happen. I don't count it in any statistic, nor do I refer to it without stating that I'm doing so and it's off-canon. But I did see it. I decided to get it over with and out of my system quickly, keep my habitual writing about it to a minimum; I watched twenty-five episodes within forty-eight hours, and both of those days were school days. For more about it, see my post that week: The Lockdown Duel II.
I was struck by inspiration upon finishing it off, and I wrote this. Naturally among my questions was chronology: if that was the real Yugi, and what's the point if it wasn't, then why do we never hear about this duel in the original Yu-Gi-Oh!, when it must've happened before Yugi and the Pharaoh parted ways. It would've, must've, happened probably before Tomb of the Nameless Pharaoh. I theorized that, since this whole duel is kind of surreal (Domino is completely deserted), maybe Yugi experienced it as some kind of cool dream. In that case, I wonder if Jaden ever met Yusei in a dream?