Chapter 10

Author's Note: Here's chapter 10 and the first part of the reunion arc, as I like to call it. Before we get started, I would like to thank everyone who reviewed, followed and favorited this story so far. I hope you all will continue to read and follow this story and review if you enjoy it. Also, I have finally finished editing in all of the plot related duels. Feel free to read them if you like, however, DO NOT leave a review telling me how horrible they. I'm already well aware of it. Now, ON WITH THE CHAPTER!

I am up bright and early this morning, having been too excited to sleep. Today is my first real day in New Domino City now that we're done moving in.

"Oh boy… Finally finished moving," Grandpa says. "It's new land. Why don't you take a look around?" he suggests.

"Not a bad idea. I do need to get a lay of the land." So with the decision made, I leave to explore my new home.

After walking a little ways east, I encounter a strange girl with blue hair. "Are you Sarah?" she asks

"Yeah, who are you and how do you know my name?" I ask suspiciously.

"I thought so. I'm Misaki. Why do I know who you are? I'll tell you if you win the duel."

"If it's a duel you want, then you should have said so from the beginning," I tell her.

"…Duel."

Misaki goes first. She draws, summons a monster in face down defense mode, places two cards face down and ends her turn. I draw, place Dust Tornado face down, summon X-Sabre Airbellum, attack with Airbellum and destroy her defense monster, Wattdragonfly, triggering its effect and allowing her to summon Wattgiraffe, then I end my turn. Misaki draws, activates her face down Mystical Space Typhoon to destroy Dust Tornado, however I use Dust Tornado to destroy her other face down card. She summons Wattfox, synchro summons Wattchimera, equips it with Wattcube to raise its attack points and attacks me directly with Wattchimera's effect, dealing 1700 points of damage and forcing me to place Jinzo on top of my deck. She places one card face down and ends her turn.

I draw, tribute Airbellum to summon Jinzo, attack and destroy Wattchimera to deal 700 points of damage and end my turn. Misaki draws, activates the Wattcastle field spell, summons Wattwoodpecker and ends her turn. I draw, summon Matza The Zapper, attack and destroy Wattwoodpecker with Matza to deal 300 points of damage, attack again with Matza's effect to deal an additional 300 points of damage, attack with Jinzo to deal 2400 points of damage and end my turn. Misaki draws, places a face down and ends her turn. I draw, tribute Matza to summon Kiryu, attack with Kiryu to deal 2000 points of damage and attack with Jinzo to deal 2400 points of damage, wiping out the rest of Misaki's life points and wnning the duel.

"I'd heard you were strong. I guess I heard right. This is your welcome gift," she says as she gives me a "Des Wombat" card. "I'll tell you who I am. Come with me. I don't really like talking." She then leads me to a garage.

Inside is the last person I expected. "Did you forget something, Misaki?" asks the familiar voice of Toru.

"Toru, a souvenir," Misaki says.

"Huh? What's with you all of a sudden?" he asks and turns to face us. He is shocked upon seeing me. "…Sarah! It's you, Sarah! What're you doing here?! No way! You didn't bring her all the way from Crash Town, did you, Misaki?"

I facepalm as Misaki answers. "Toru, you dummy. Crash Town is far away. Do you really think you could get there in this short of a time?"

"Oh, um, yeah, I guess not," he answers sheepishly. "So then, why are you here?" he asks me.

"Things are getting real bad in Crash Town. The feud between the Ramon Group and Malcolm Family is escalating quickly. Grandpa and I decided it was time to get out of there, so we moved here to New Domino City," I explain.

"I see… I'm worried about West and Nico, but now that their dad is okay, they should be fine. But wow, it's really been a long time since we've had this group all together, huh!"

"Um, Toru? What group?" I ask.

"What team? Of course a riding team!"

'Typical Toru. Leave it to him to dive in head first without dealing with the elephant in the room first,' I think to myself.

Misaki, having also realized this, bursts Toru's bubble. "Hang on. How about we start with introductions and go from there."

"Oh, um, yeah. Sorry, sorry. Let me introduce her then. This is Misaki. A girl turbo duelist. She's also really good with mech!"

"Nice to meet you. I've heard a lot about you," Misaki says. "Mostly from Toru."

"What are you talking about! I just barely mentioned her!" Toru retorts defensively.

"Toru, are you getting shy? It doesn't suit you well."

"For someone who doesn't talk very much, you sure are harsh… Anyway, riding team! Now we have a 3-person Duel Runner team! We can enter a lot of tournaments if we have a team! Sarah, you'll join the team, right?"

"How could I possibly say "no"?!" I tell him.

"All right! We're a team!" Toru shouts excitedly.

"I'm on the team. I'm one of you, too," Misaki adds

"We shouldn't get too happy yet, though. Misaki and I have Duel Runners, but you don't, Sarah," Toru says seriously.

"Actually, Toru," I begin, "I do have a Runner. It was left to me by my parents and Grandpa had kept it secret until he thought I was ready. Unfortunately, it's pretty worse for wear."

"I heard the story from Klaus when I finished my Duel Runner. He said you're a lot like your father. So we should be able to do even better than our fathers did! So show us that Duel Runner!" And so, Toru and I bring my Runner to the Garage for an examination. "How does it look over there, Misaki?"

"Difficult."

"Yeah, here too…" Toru sighs. "It seems like it would be easier to just replace everything… But this was left by your parents. We should use as much of this Duel Runner as possible. We need a CPU, engine and frame. We'll take the parts we need from those to fix this Duel Runner."

"The Duel Runner shop is closed," Misaki reminds him.

"Oh yeah, it's on holiday! Hmmm, how to get the parts I need…" Toru thinks aloud.

"The owner knows a lot," Misaki suggests.

"Yeah, the owner of Bootleg… I bet he'd know something. All right! Sarah, go ask the owner! Bootleg is a place in the building to the east. They'll be a sign out front."

"I'll search, too," Misaki offers then leaves.

"There she goes… First, you go talk to the owner! I'll go and find some of the more detailed parts!"

With that, Toru and I split up as I go to ask the owner of bootleg about the parts.

"Of course it's a bar," I mutter to myself as I enter Bootleg.

Sighing, I approach the bar. "What can I do for you?" the owner asks.

"That depends. Do you know where I can find some Duel Runner parts?"

"Oh, Duel Runner parts, eh? Well, I think I might know something. But don't think you can get some good info for free."

"Figures. What will this info cost?" I ask exasperatedly

"Here are 5 duel puzzles. If you get 3 correct, I'll tell you what I know about parts."

"Huh, not as bad as I thought it'd be. Okay, you're on."