The Year is 2020; the world of Duel Masters has grown exponentially since it's revival in 2011, thanks to the actions of the Duel Clash Association. And so it continues to grow, with thousands of new duelist born every day. Since the last D-Fighters tournament in 2016, Wizards of the coast has not only brought back the rights to their product, but also has joined alongside the DCA to spread the game out in more ways than one. Soon, old favorites were reprinted, joined by a new cast of creatures and cards to give the next generation of duelist a fresh new start in the duel world. And this story tells about the adventure of a young sixteen year old… And his dream of joining alongside his idols as one of the next Kaijudo Masters.

Chapter 1: Break the Chain: Roar Tatsurion!

[New York City; September 7th, 2020]

"Kyle, wake up! Do you want to be late on your first day of school?" A young woman called out from the bottom of the staircase. The brown-haired girl received no reply, annoying her. "This is the last time I'm offering to drive this stupid idiot to school; KYLE!"

Upstairs, the Sixteen-year old Kyle Taylor slept soundly, obviously ignoring his sister's calls for him.

"Sorry dude, but I got a Shield Blast: Tornado Flame to banish your Terrasaur…" Kyle mumbled in his sleep. "Bolshack Dragon, Double Break his shields…."

Two loud booms suddenly crashed on his door, waking the teen up.

"Whoa Whoa Bolshack, kinda overkill don't you-." he looked around and realized he was in his room. "Where's my glove… or the K-Terminal…; or my deck for that matter?"

"KYLE! Move your butt, you're late for school!"

Kyle let out a yawn. "What are you talking about? School doesn't start until Tuesday."

"It is Tuesday you dolt." His sister spoke through the door. "I'll be waiting in the car, just hurry up and get changed so I can drop you off."

Kyle sighed. "Gotcha." He pulled the covers off and got out of the bed. He saw the silver deck case on his nightstand in addition to the red and white glove that sat next to it.

"Hey Axel, you awake?" he asked his deck case.

"Yeah, I have been for a while." the case replied, having the red light blink every time it spoke.

Kyle ran his hand in his short brown hair. "Why didn't you wake me up?"

"Because Allison was trying to; what chance did I have if she couldn't?" it replied.

Kyle opened his closet and thought about what Axel said. "You got a point there." He then pulled out a Gray T-shirt and a red and white plaid shirt, throwing a pair of black jeans over his arm as well.

"By the way, there's something that's been bugging me a bit." Axel spoke.

"And what might that be?"

"My Body…" it replied. "Why haven't you selected a Deck Avatar for me to represent?"

"Because…" Kyle slid his head through the Shirt, followed by his arms. "I want it to be special."

"But you've been playing this game for nearly four years Kyle; most duelists have a card that represents their deck."

"Well, I have Armored Dragons and Beast Kin in my deck. Kinda hard to choose don't you think? Besides, I don't wanna copy the Terra Knight's Deck Avatar. That's disrespecting him."

"So in that case that crosses out both Fighter Dual Fang and Super Dragon Machine Dolzark…"

"Don't worry about it." Kyle said with an upbeat attitude. "I just want to pick the right one, just for you. Something that's… I don't know, the best of both worlds." He grabbed his bag and threw it over his shoulder. "Come on, I promise I'll pick something out later at TCG Towers… Deal…?"

The deck case kept quiet. "Deal…" it whispered.

"Awesome, I knew I could count on you not being mad." Kyle said as he took the case and strapped it onto his wrist. He threw his glove in his bag as well and took off.

Arriving at Pace High School, Kyle jumped out of the Blue Toyota and stared at the school. He took a deep breath, and sighed. "Two more years of this and I'll be free."

"Hey Kyle, I have class later on so I won't be able to pick you up." Allison called out.

"Don't worry; I'm meeting my friends at TCG Tower after school. Tell Mom I'll be home around 7, if not earlier."

"Got it;" She waved him goodbye, driving off afterward.

"You're sister's nice when she's not trying to beat you senseless with something." Axel told his partner.

"Yeah, that's the Fire Civilization for you…" Kyle said honestly. He kept walking, mixing in with the crowd of students that came from the same direction.

"Hey Kyle!" a voice came from behind him, making the teen turn back.

Running up to him was another Caucasian teen, slightly shorter than he was, wearing glasses a blue shirt and jeans. In his arm was a lighter blue and silver Tablet-like device that he was clutching on for dear life by the looks of it.

"Hey Maxi, what's up dude?" he greeted the teen, happy to see him.

"Did you see the DCA's news bulletin yet?"

"I haven't why?"

Maxi pulled out the tablet from under his arm and showed him what he found.

"2020 D-Fighters League's official date has been set for November 22nd to December 8th. All A-Rank teams wanting to take part in this event, apply below… Sweet, we're gonna go through with this right?"

"Dude, of course we are; look who the special guests are going to be at the tournament."

Kyle continued to read the page. "Special Spectators include the 2016 champions… Kaijudo Generation! Are you serious?"

"Entirely; rumor has it that they're representing the DCA's Team this year like the Kaijudo Monarchs did for their match back in 2016."

"Which means… that we have a shot of dueling against our idols?" Kyle realized, about to faint from the excitement. "Holy crud that's insane!"

"But there's only one problem…" Maxi pointed out.

Kyle looked at his friend.

"There are only two of us…"

"Point being…?"

"The D-Fighters Tourney requires a set team of five members."

Kyle's world crashed after hearing that.

"You're telling me this now? Why didn't you mention it sooner?"

"Because dude, it's three months from now; we should be able to get three teammates by then."

Kyle sighed. "Well in that case that's three months of work cut out for us then."

The school bell rang signaling the start of class. The two teens looked up at the bell and then turned back to each other.

"Let's worry about it later. For now, let's get going." Maxi suggested.

The duo then walked off to their first class deciding to put their team recruitment plans on hold for the time being.

Another teenager overhearing them closed her locker and watched them walk away. She had raven black hair and a skull hairpin in her hair. She wore a black and white striped shirt and a black vest over it, along with skinny jeans and heeled boots. She smiled with her dark eyes set on Kyle.

"Looks like I'm going to have some fun after class…" She said. "How about it, Jester…?"

A purple data stream traveled up her arm from her deck case, materializing into a small purple puppet-like creature. It had a disfigured face with an additional mouth on its forehead, in addition to having two thin arms with knife-like nails protruding from the inside. It let out a dark little giggle, making his partner smirk.

"Glad you agree my little friend." She began to walk to her class as well.

Lunch time rolled around with the students getting the opportunity to eat and socialize with their old friends from the previous grades, and their new ones from their new classes. Kyle and Maxi sat at an empty table, still trying to think of people they can recruit for the upcoming tournament. Didn't take them long to realize that every potential candidate that they came up with, were either already part of a team, or had no interest in the tournament, satisfied with their A-Rank title.

"Well this is going nowhere…" Kyle stated disappointed.

"Ditto…" Maxi agreed. "Hey Tech, come up with anything?"

A blue stream of data traveled out of Maxi's deck case and materialized into a small Cyber-like creature, three small tentacles sprouting from its head. It had two telescope-like eyes which the red lenses focused on the two teens in dismay.

"Tech's scan comes up short." The cyber creature spoke in third person. "Tech's scans show that 50% of the population in the school is part of teams, while the other 49.5% refuse to join due to desiring to stay at their current level.

"So in other words, it's 50-50." Maxi said. "Thanks anyway."

"Wait a sec. You said 50 and 49.5? Who's the .5 percent?"

"That would be me…" The girl walked up, her heels clicking against the tiled floor.

Kyle and Maxi looked up and saw the raven haired girl standing in front of them with her arms crossed.

"Who are you?" Kyle asked.

"Kim Nicholson." Maxi said, going through the DCA database on his tablet. "She's one of the Top 100 A-Ranks in the world."

"Nice to meet you;" She smiled. "You must be Kyle Taylor, am I right?"

Kyle nodded slowly.

"I overheard your conversation about entering the D-Fighters tournament this year; it just so happens, I was looking for a team to join."

"So you wanna become an S-Rank too?" Maxi asked.

Kim nodded. "I've won many tournaments in my dueling career, but nothing would satisfy me more than to take on S-Rank Kaijudo Masters such as the legendary Kaijudo Generation."

"So what kind of deck do you play?" Kyle asked, getting straight to the point.

Kim took a seat down at the table and crossed her legs. "Anything that involves darkness…" She said bluntly. "KG's Dark Reaper was my childhood idol, so I made my play style around him when I first started playing."

"Really…? So did I! I made my decks around the Terra Knight's old decks."

Kim surprisingly perked up in interest as the two began to trade their favorite stories about their favorite dueling idols. Maxi just looked at them both and sighed.

"It's like having two Kyle's…" he said.

"Tech thinks these two will become best friends." Tech stated. "At least 80%"

"Oh no way;" Maxi intervened. "Kyle wouldn't replace me."

"Hey do you wanna duel after school?" Kyle asked.

Kim nodded almost instantly. "Definitely, I was gonna head over to TCG towers anyway to tweak my deck a bit."

"So it's a date then?"

"Sounds like it."

Maxi looked at the two teens, kinda speechless about how coincidental that event played out.

"Tech's probability that Maxi will be replaced just raised another 10%."

"Shut up you stupid rinse cup." Maxi snarled at his deck avatar.

After school, the three of them headed to TCG Towers, the famous Mini-Mall-type establishment in NYC, where the members of Kaijudo Generation spent quite a bit of their time in when they were younger.

Walking into the shop, the three went to the front counter to look at the Single cards laid out in the display.

"Hey Maxi, I need your advice." Kyle told him. "Axel's bugging me about giving him a deck avatar body, but I don't have a Key card for my deck; any ideas?"

"Well you deck is Armored Dragons and Beast Kin. Honestly shouldn't be that hard." Maxi told him.

"I said the same thing." Axel noted.

"It is hard when you wanna make it special." Kyle replied to the both of them.

"How about this one…?" Kim pointed to the red card in the case.

"Tatsurion the Unchained…? I never heard of it. Is it any good?"

Kim nodded. "If you play it right, it works wonders. Plus, it's awesome looking."

"Well Axel…?"

"I'd be satisfied with a Blaze Belcher body." The deck case replied, getting desperate for a body.

"Well I guess that could-"

"I WAS KIDDING! Just buy the card please?" Axel snapped.

"Alright, alright; how much is the Tatsurion the Unchained card?"

"Just one…? $10;"

"Ten Dollars for a card?" he turned to Maxi.

"I'm not lending you money."

"Oh come on, all I have is $9."

"Shouldn't have bought that Pepsi on the way here…" Maxi replied.

"Aw come on dude, please?"

"Thank you very much." Kim said as she received the very card.

"Kim! You are like my new best friend!" Kyle said excitedly.

"What?" Maxi stammered. "You just throw me away like that because I wouldn't give you a dollar?"

"Tech's probability of Maxi's replacement: 100%." Maxi spoke through the case.

"Shut up Tech!" Maxi yelled at his case.

Kyle reached for the card but Kim pulled it back. "Not so fast."

"What? But I thought-"

"I did. But then again, A Super rare card like this would look pretty in my collection."

"Fine… what do I have to do to get it from you?"

"Beat me in a duel of course." Kim told him. "And as a handicap, I'll let you use it; you're gonna need it. And of course, if you do beat me, then I'll join your team. Sound fair?"

"And if you win?" Kyle asked.

"I keep Tatsurion and you luck out on getting me on your team."

"Alright;" Kyle said calmly. "Let's get ready then." He then reached into his pocket and strapped his glove on. He clutched his fist, red and green lightning sparking around it.

"You're not the only one who can do that." Kim held her purple and white gloved hand and it produced Blue and Purple lighting around it. "Every A-Rank has some kind of Mastery over the Kaijudo Arts so you showing off, is just killing time."

"Gotta make this entertaining right?" Kyle asked.

The two duelists walked over to the silver duel table that had a glass-like dome that split the two sides apart. They set their decks down and put their Kaijudo ID's in the machine.

"REAPER GIRL: CONFIRMED!" Kim put her hand on the side of the terminal, making it light up on her side.

"JETBLAZE KNIGHT: CONFIRMED!" Kyle put his hand on the side of the terminal, activating his side as well.

The ten teal-shaped shields, five on each side materialized on the dome as the teens set the cards face-down. They drew their five cards and nodded to each other.

"DUEL START!" They announced. The holographic sign popped up in the terminal, disappearing and turning into a turn counter on the top of the dome, with the scores on each side next to it.

"Ladies first;" Kim taunted.

"Be my guest then." Kyle countered.

Kim smirked and set Darkness mana, making a purple amethyst crystal materialize in the terminal with the Darkness Civilization symbol which consisted of a single horned mask with the colors of it split between purple and white; the mask also had fangs on the side of its mouth. The crystal disappeared as Kim ended her turn.

Kyle drew and set Nature mana, in turn a Emerald Mana crystal materialized with the symbol of Nature, being represented by a tree engraved within it.

"I end my turn as well." He said, passing it to her.

Kim drew, and set Water mana this time, the Sapphire crystal materializing; the Water symbol resembled a wave of water with cybernetic circuits surrounding it. The Darkness crystal materialized alongside it as Kim tapped both cards in her mana zone.

"I Summon Skeeter Swarmer." She set the card in her Battle Zone, causing the very creature to mutate from the fusing crystals. It resembled a mosquito, black with a red tattoo on its head. The tattoo though was a spiral tube that sent information from the metal spout on its underside.

"I end my turn."

Kyle drew and set Fire mana this time around, the Ruby crystal materializing, having the Fire Symbol, represented by a Cog Gear with a flame spouting from the eye of the gear. The Nature Crystal materialized as well as Kyle tapped his mana.

"I Summon Drakon Weaponsmith."

The two crystals lined together and turned into a dragon-like humanoid with red tipped braids and claw-like gauntlets on its arms. It screeched at the Skeeter Swarmer and the Brain Jacker made sounds right back at it.

"I end my turn." Kyle told her.

Kim drew and set mana once again. "I summon Aqua Senechal and end my turn."

The two Water and the darkness crystals materialized and fused to become a water-based humanoid with white armor covering his chest area. Said creature scanned the area to find the Drakon waiting to tear something apart.

Kyle drew and set mana, tapping all three as well. "I summon Razorhide!"

A brownish-spiked indigo hedgehog materialized into the battle zone next to the Weaponsmith.

"Drakon Weaponsmith, break a shield, Ike!" Kyle tapped the card, the Drakon Weaponsmith charging in.

The Weaponsmith flipped over the Skeeter Swarmer who said patiently as it kicked a shield to bits.

The Shield counter on Kim's side went down to four, as the small spout in the table shot the card into the air. She caught the card and added it to her hand.

"Surprised you didn't block that." Kyle noticed.

"I have my reasons." Kim said. "Doesn't make sense to lose a blocker so early on…" She drew her next card and set it. "I Summon Skull Cutter."

A Small creature with a marked skeleton mask and bone-shaped blades for hands materialized from three of the crystals.

"Now then… Senechal, attack Drakon Weaponsmith." She tapped her creature, making the Senechal charge a ball of compressed energy from its hands. It slithered towards the Weaponsmith who charged back. Before it could react however, Senechal slammed the energy onto it, making it revert into data.

The same air shooter shot Drakon Weaponsmith as Kyle was forced to put it into the graveyard.

"And when Senechal attacks, I draw a card." Kim said as she drew. "I end my turn."

Kyle drew and set mana. "May have lost Weaponsmith, but that doesn't mean I'm down for the count; I Summon Bronze-arm tribe."

The four crystals formed into a green horse-like creature dressed in a loin cloth, wielding a pitchfork. It held its hand in the air, revealing a Nature Mana crystal.

"Bronze-Arm Tribe sends the top card of my deck into my mana zone." He said as he sent Fear Fang into mana.

"Razorhide, attack Aqua Senechal!"

"Skeeter blocks." Kim countered, much to Kyle's dismay.

Razorhide's spikes extended as it dashed towards Senechal, ready to tackle it. However the Skeeter Swarmer moved in and rejected razor's attempt. The Mosquito latched onto the fallen Beast kin and exploded along with it.

"When Razorhide attacks, I add the top card of my deck into my mana zone." He said adding his second Drakon Weaponsmith into mana. "I end my turn."

Kim nodded. She drew and set her fifth mana. "I summon Aqua Soldier, and Aqua Commando; Then I attack with Senechal, Ike, break his shield!"

From the crystals, a Blue Seaman with long blue pincers materialized alongside a creature made completely out of water with two red eyes. Senechal dove past them and broke one of Kyle's shields, the card bouncing into his hand.

"Skull Cutter, break another shield!"

The Small creature ran up and broke a second shield, leaving Kyle with three.

Kyle retrieved the card and smirked with delight. "Shield Blast: Rock Bite! When activated I can banish one of your power 3000 or less creatures and I banish Skull Cutter."

The virtual battlefield erupted suddenly as the ground opened up under the small creature. A rock-like lizard head came up and swallowed the creature, returning back to where it sprouted just as fast.

"Nice one!" Maxi exclaimed.

Kim didn't seem upset at that maneuver, ending her turn.

Kyle drew and set mana, tapping five.

"Let's go, Hyperspeed Dragon!" he set the card down as the five crystals materialized and formed into a golden armored crimson dragon with dozens of fist extending from it's back.

"Now Bronze-arm tribe break another shield ike!"

Bronze roared and threw his pitchfork like a javelin, shattering Kim's second shield.

The shield popped up and she caught it.

"Oh look at that…" she flipped the card over. "Guess that's karma for you. Shield Blast: Bone Blades."

"Shoot!"

Senechal grabbed the materializing bone daggers and went in to cut down the defenseless Bronze-arm tribe.
"Bone Blades banishes one of my opponent's creatures with a level of 4 or less."

Kyle reluctantly put bronze in the grave, where he sat alongside Razorhide.

"I end…" Kyle said. he looked at the field, seeing that he was about to get hammered by three water creatures coming his way. He needed a plan… or a miracle for that matter.

Kim looked at him and drew. "What's the matter? You're worried that you won't get the Tatsurion card from me?"

Kyle looked and scoffed. "Stupid mind reader."

Kim smirked and set mana. She pulled the card from her hand and her hand sparked with the purple lightning.

"She's about to summon her trump card…" Maxi realized.

"Crawl out of the depths of the Miasma Pit: Razorkinder Puppet!"

She set the card in the battle zone as the evil puppet materialized alongside its comrades. It chuckled with its evil laugh and it pointed towards Kyle.

"When I summon Razorkinder Puppet, I can look in your hand and discard a card of my choosing…"

Kyle's eyes widened. "That's not good!"

"Come on, show me what you have."

Kyle flipped the five cards in his hand: Fear Fang, Bolshack Dragon, Raging Goliant, Tornado Flame and Gilaflame the Assaulter.

"I'll discard Gilaflame." She pointed.

Razorkinder chuckled as it watched Kyle discard the card.

"Now then my creatures… Break his shields!"

Senechal, Commando and Soldier all charged ahead. Kim drew from Senechal's ability as he broke the first shield. No Trigger. Commando used its water powers to create a blade, which slashed the second shield.

Kyle retrieved it and saw how Soldier was getting ready to break the last one.

"Hold up there! Shield Blast: Tornado Flame on Aqua Soldier!"

The creature gasped as the shield shards turned into the crimson tornado eating it before it could scratch the final shield.

Kim shrugged her shoulders. "Next turn, it's over so it doesn't matter."

"You sure about that…?" Kyle smirked, suddenly getting a huge determination boost. He drew and set mana, tapping all seven. He pulled out a card in his hand and it sparked with red lightning, similar to Kim.

"Kyle has a trump card!" Maxi realized.

"Yes I do… Break the Chains: Roar Tatsurion the Unchained!" Kyle slammed the card onto the table as the creature materialized from the seven crystals, surprising both Kim and Maxi.

Tatsurion was a Red muscular dragon creature with black and gold armor on his body and red chains covering his wrists. His face showed more of a beastly side than a dragon with the snout and teeth; however his three horns on his muzzle and the three-horned headplate on his forehead showed that he was a dragon as well. Extending from his right shoulder was a Gatling Turret which complimented the gold coloring of his armor.

"When Tatsurion the Unchain enters the Battle Zone, I can banish one of your creatures with power 4000 or less. So Tatsurion, get rid of the puppet!"

Tatsurion roared in agreement, locking his turret onto the puppet and unleashing the fury of the fire civilization onto it.

"Now Tatsurion, attack Aqua Senechal!"

"Did you forget…?" Kim intervened. "Tatsurion has summoning sickness."

"I guess you don't know anything about Hyperspeed Dragon's ability…"

"His ability…"

"When there's another Armored Dragon present, Hyperspeed Dragon gives all of my Armored Dragons 'Fast Attack' an ability that takes away the summoning sickness of my Armored Dragons!"

"Oh no!"

"Oh Yes!" Kyle mimicked. "Tatsurion, evaporate it!"

Tatsurion leapt onto Senechal, who generated blades to defend itself. Unfortunately it was to no avail as Tatsurion laid waste to it. It then turned its attention to aqua commando.

"Oh and Tatsruion's other ability, is that when it wins a battle, it can untap."

"You've gotta be kidding me." Kim said annoyed.

"Hyperspeed Dragon, take Commando!"

Hyperspeed Dragon unleashed its fist which pummeled Aqua Commando into a puddle.

"When Aqua Commando is destroyed, I return it to my hand."

"Finally Tatsurion: Double Break!"

Tatsurion jumped back and aimed its fist in the air, opening two rocket launcher hatches from it. The rockets shot towards their targets, breaking another two shields.

The two cards shot into her hand, one of them giving her a sign of relief.

"Shield Blast: Terror Pit; destroy Hyperspeed Dragon!"

"Crud…"

The Broken shield shards all turned into trillions of black hands which swarmed the dragon and ultimately crushed it.

"I end my turn." He told her.

Kim drew her card and set it. "I summon two Skeeter Swarmer's."

The two mosquito creatures materialized and she ended her turn.

Kyle drew his next card and set it in mana. "Knew it was a good idea to save these two..."

"Oh don't tell me…"

"I cast two comet missiles." Kyle smirked. The two rockets infused comets materialized and crashed into both of the blockers, wiping them out.

"And to add insult to injury… Gilaflame the Assaulter..."

A Silver armored Drakon creature with red blades extending from its gauntlets materialized.

"With no blockers, you better pray that last shield's gonna trigger." Kyle said. "Gilaflame, break it!"

Gilaflame nodded and flew at mach speed, practically teleporting in front of it, slashing it into pieces.

Kim took the card, hoping for a trigger… "No trigger."

"Sweet; Tatsurion the Unchained: Todomeda!"

Tatsurion aimed his artillery and let out a massive assault towards Kim's open field, ending it. The Turn counter stopped and changed its appearance, reading: "WINNER: JETBLAZE KNIGHT"

"You're welcome Axel, I did this for you." Kyle said as he looked at his deck case.

"We could've avoided this if you didn't spend that dollar." Axel mentioned, not wanting to let go of that.

"I'm sorry! Just drop it please!" Kyle pleaded.

"Good Game." Kim said. "Like I promised, I'll let you keep the card, and I'll join your team."

"Really…? That's awesome!" Kyle said excitedly. "If all we have to do is keep dueling people to make them join our team then this should be a cinch.

Maxi walked over to the two teens and looked down at Kim's hand.

"Is that a Veil Vortex…?" Maxi asked.

Kim looked down and realized she was holding the card.

"What about it?"

"That was your broken shield wasn't it?"

Kim realized that she did in fact get it from that last shield. "Oh well you know… Even if I did activate it, it wouldn't have done anything."

"You never know. Shouldn't leave anything up to chance; you could've made a comeback if you did activate it.

"Who knows…?" Kim shrugged her shoulders. "Nonetheless, you used Tatsurion the Unchained like a pro, so win or lose, you deserve it."

"I appreciate it. OK Axel, here it comes."

"Finally…" The deck case spoke in relief.

Kyle slid the card across the card reader on the case as the case took a second to register it.

DECK AVATAR: TATSURION THE UNCHAINED: CONFIRMED.

Tatsurion materialized on Kyle shoulder as the avatar stretched and looked at its new body.

"So, how is it…?" he asked the hologram.

"I like it." Axel replied. "Really like it."

"Like I said: the best of both worlds…" Kyle smirked.

Axel nodded.

"So with that aside, we need a team name."

Kim didn't see that coming. "You guys wanted me to join a team, with no name?"

"Well… this team thing was a little last minute so…"

"How about Victory Drive…?" Maxi spoke.

"Victory Drive? Sounds like a racing game." Kyle admitted.

"Well think about it; A team aiming for nothing less than victory, and each member has the drive and determination to achieve it."

"It does have a nice ring to it." Kim admitted. "After all, Kaijudo Generation's name came from their decision to become the next Kaijudo Masters of their Generation's duelist."

With two against one, Kyle shrugged his shoulders. "OK then, Team VD it is."

"Awesome!" Maxi said happily.

"Now then… who else are we gonna recruit…?" Kyle realized. "Getting you to join was a fluke to be honest."

"Well let's not worry about it for now." Kim suggested. "Let's just go duel and and we'll work our way from there."

"Fine by me; Maxi, you're up." Kyle said eagerly.

"I won't hold back tech." Axel roared.

"Tech's not scared of a Beast. Tech is a beast!" the small creature made a little roar of its own.

"Aww that Reef Prince is so cute." Kim said. "Kyle, waste it."

"You know it."

"DUEL START!" Kyle and Maxi called out staring the duel…

Later that night, Kyle stared at the Tatsurion card, loving the fact that he found the perfect trump card for his deck.

"You've been staring at my card for hours. Shouldn't you be getting ready for bed…?"

"I can't help it, this card is like the love child of KG's Terra Knight and Lady Amaterasu." Kyle said. "C.J. Henderson and Jamie Martin are like one of the famous Couples in the dueling world, and this creature is like their better halves. "The Dragons from Jamie and the Beast Kin from C.J. Oh man what I wouldn't give to meet them and the others. The White Knight of Light: Jake Wilson, the Deep Sea General: Dylan Rodriguez, and the Dark Reaper: Karon Davidson."

"That's why we're gonna get two more members and win this tournament right…?" Axel asked.

"That's why we're gonna get two more members and win this tournament." Kyle replied. "All right, that's enough dueling for today. Night Axel."

Kyle shut the light out. "Good Night Kyle…" Axel, instead of returning to the case, curled up on the nightstand and closed its green eyes…

[END]