Chapter 2: First Duel

"Great, I will be getting a lot of new cards," said Jaden, giving a thumbs up to Professor Banner.

"You need ten locator cards and only eight of you fine duelists will make it, so duel with your heart and believe in the heart of the cards. Also, Kaiba and I will be participating in this tournament," stated Yugi.

"The King of Games is going to be in the tournament. That's awesome," said Jaden, pulling out winged Kuriboh.

"Let the duels begin!" shouted Kaiba as the intercom turned off.

"Ok students, duel your best and good luck," said Banner as he watched the kids leave. "Good I can finally relax." He sat down, watching a pair of young kids duel in front of the hotel. As the duel ended Banner watched the winner take his opponent's deck away.

"Hey kid! The rule of the tournament is the rarest card, not his dueling deck," stated Banner getting up, showing a bulky tall teenager.

"Oh yeah? What the hell you gonna do about it skinny man?" challenged the kid, stepping up to Banner.

"How about we duel for the deck and a locator card?" asked Banner, activating his duel academy duel disk.

"Fine, let's duel!" agreed the boy, activating his Battle City duel disk. "I will start. I summon Troop Dragon (700/400) in attack mode and put a card face down."

"My turn. By the way, what's your name kid?" asked Banner as he drew his sixth card and placed it in his hand.

"I am John. Now, play your turn out!" answered John.

"I play Chaos Distilled! All monsters that go to my graveyard are removed instead of going to the graveyard," continued Banner. "Then I play a face down card and play Pot of Greed. I play three magic cards: Steel Lamp, Bronze Scale, and Lead Compass. Meet my Salamander of the Steel (500/0), Oriboras the Bronze (500/0), and Leon the Lead! And then I will end my turn."

"I offer Troop Dragon to summon Luster Dragon #2 (2400/1200). Attack his Oriboras the Bronze! Luster Barrage!" ordered John.

"I activate Elemental Absorber! When you attack, all I have to do is discard a monster of the same attribute to negate the attack. Now I discard Garuda the Wind Spirit (1600/1500). Now it's my move," said Banner.

"Fine, it's your turn," finished John, getting a little aggravated.

"I play a spell card, Black Process Agleto. I remove all my alchemy beasts and draw two cards for each monster, giving me a combined total of six cards," stated Banner.

Four cards were now removed.

"Now, let's play some of them," Banner continued. "I play Tick Spell Circle, Mercury Hour Glass, and Silver Key. I summon my Time Serpent (500/0), Mercury Beast (500/0), and Silver Golem (500/0). Plus, my monsters aren't like regular monsters. They are unique. They can only attack directly so now my alchemy beasts, attack John directly!" commanded Banner as the three monsters dove at his opponent.

The score was John with 2500 LP and Banner with 4000 LP.

"I will then play a face down. Now it's your move," finished Banner.

"Fine. I will crush your sorry monsters! I play Dark Blade in attack mode (1800/1500)" announced John. "Now, attack his Silver Golem with Dark Slash!" The man in the dark armor slashed at the silver ball with arms.

"I discard Double Coston (1700/1500) to the graveyard and since Chaos Distilled is on the field, it's removed, making five monsters removed," said Banner.

Five monster cards were now removed from play.

"Fine. Attack Luster Dragon#2 2400/1200! Attack his Silver Golem with Luster Barage!"

"I discard another Garuda the Wind Spirit, making it six monsters removed. And your attack fails," smiled Banner.

Six monsters were now removed, making it nine cards altogether that were removed from play.

''Now I play a spell called White Process Albedo. By sacrificing my three alchemy beasts, I can special summon my Golden Homunculus (1500/1500)," announced Banner. "Also my monster gains 300 attack and defense for every monster removed from play. I have nine removed from play, giving my monster a grand total of 4200 ATK/4200 DEF. Now my Golden Homunculus, attack his Dark Blade with Spike Blast!" The massive gold statue shot golden shards at Dark Blade, instantly destroying him.

Now John had 100 LP and Banner had 4000 LP.

"Well it seems I am winning this duel. Oh by the way, I win young duelist. I play Yellow Process Kitolenux. This destroys all monsters on the field and deals you three hundred life points per monster. You lose six hundred," smiled Banner.

Now John had no LP while Banner's LP remained untouched.

"Now give me the deck and your locator card," demanded Banner, taking the deck and the clear card. He walked up to the little boy and gave him his deck back. "Here you are little boy," said Banner. He tucked his locator card in his pocket.

"Umm mister, I want you to have this. I am not good enough for this tournament," said the little boy, handing Banner another locator card and walking away.

Now Banner had 3 locator cards.