Chapter 35: Deck Master Competition: New Tournament.

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The sky grew darker as Daniel and Allen walked the streets. "Let's face it, we can't find Mink or Jess now. I bet they've gone home." Allen sighed.

"Aww, alright. Besides, I think we should head home too" Daniel said as he turned around to face Allen.

"Ummm... Can you walk with me home" Allen said, a bit nervous.

"Why? Awww! Is little Allen scared!" Daniel teased.

"No... it's just..." Allen said looking down.

"Oh him..." Daniel said. "Your worried about him coming after you again..."

"Dude! I mean, I don't even know where he came from. I would have known if he just sprouted out. It's like all this dumb cards fault" Allen took out his Drifting Wind and Grand Geralian.

"Dude, I know but we now have our own problems. We'll have to deal with them for the time being" Daniel said. Another 30 minutes passed as they arrived at Allen's house.

"Thanks, see ya tomorrow!" Allen yelled, running into his house. Daniel sighed and walked down the street back to his house. As he did he ran into someone.

"So... Your suppose to be his best friend" The person said, in a wheezy voice.

"It's you..." Daniel said taking a step back.

"Why do you care. I'm not your problem." Whiley growled, pulling down his hood.

"Allen's my friend. He doesn't need you to control him" Daniel sneered. "Why are you here anyway?!"

"How should I know. Everyone has their good and bad side. I'm just a bad side that can't any more of the good side. It took a lot of strength to leave his frail body. He's too good if you ask me" Whiley hissed. "And if you're going to stand in my way of my plans! You'll have to duel to survive!"

Whiley held up his Steel Plate. "Fine! I accept your challenge" Daniel said.

Whiley began to laugh. "Fool. Why would I waste my time dueling you anyway? I only have one target and one target is enough." Whiley growled.

He then walked away into an alley. But it wasn't the reason that he thought Daniel was a waste of time. He took out a bottle of pills. "These things are lasting very long...." He thought putting a whole bunch of Medikill pills in his mouth and swallowing them down.

Daniel lost sight of him and just headed home.

During the night, Paul felt even better. It was a good sign since everyone forgot what had happened. Paul's new upgrade on the duel disk was successful. He made some copies for everyone else.

Paul arranged them to meet in the park. He was the last one to show up. "Yeah? What'd you want?" Jess asked.

"I wanted you guys to have these" He said opening his suit case. Inside was 4 Duel Disks.

"Sweet!" Allen said grabbing one.

"The new duel disk upgrade, The Duel Xero. I put in a new chip for the Deck Master System so it'll be much easier now, to use" Paul said. "And everyone has been getting them too"

"That's cool" Daniel said putting his Duel Xero on and sliding his deck in.

"Yeah but this is not all you wanted to tell us right..." Mink said looking at him.

"Right... It appears that Darien has a new ancient item, probably more powerful than the other 6 Millennium Items" Paul said.

"6? What about the 7th?" Allen asked.

"Only the Millennium Rod can harm it but the damage is temporary" Paul said.

"Yeah, plus I don't own the Millennium Rod anymore." Mink said giving her Millennium Item to Paul. "Paul owns it"

"But how?" Daniel asked.

"It's been discovered that I'm the reincarnation of the Preist, Set" Paul said.

"That's right...." A voice said. Everyone looked at the person behind Paul, it was Karim, the spirit of the Millennium Scale. "The Preist Set ordered another ritual to be performed, so that Set would live long. His spirit had emerged into one body."

"But that's not all..." Paul announced.

"Yes, what no one knew is that the Preist Set had a long lost, and evil, brother. He owned a tower known as Obelisk Tower" Karim noted.

"Like the god card?" Allen said.

"No, the rock." Paul said. "This tower possessed great power and it's power was formed into something similar to the Millennium Rod."

Behind a tree, Aeo listened to their conversation. "So... that's why they carry around those weird things" She thought.

"So what can we do to help Paul?" Daniel asked.

"I'm not sure about that yet. Paul's brother is also the reincarnation of the Preist's brother. Although we don't know his name yet. I think you should leave this problem alone" Karim said, then he disappeared.

"No! We can't just sit back. Paul is in our team. We have to help him atleast!" Mink said.

"No he's right... Stay out of this one. He's mine" Paul growled walking off, with the Millennium Rod in his hand.

"Either way.. he'll need our help" Jess said.

"Right" Mink nodded. "Anyway's, what should we do today?"

"I've been studying on this thing" Daniel said looking at his Orichalcos Arrow card. "If this card can destroy the Orichalcos Seal, it should be able to free souls"

"Hey! That's an idea!" Allen said.

Daniel held up his Orichalcos Seal card. It had the souls of only Devon. "Wait..." Mink said. "What if he comes back and tries to duel us again?"

"Heh, like we'll want to duel him anymore" Allen smirked. "Go ahead, Dan"

Daniel held the Orichalcos Arrow and Seal up in the air. Suddenly his Orichalcos Seal exploded into pieces and a white cloud zoomed out. It floated into a body in the hospital. Devon's eyes opened wide.

They each unsealed everyone else's Orichalcos Seal, freeing all the Souls inside.

Suddenly the giant screen on top of Paul's building lit up. There was a counter on it. It said '1 More Day until Deck Master Competition starts. Get ready for the newest tournament of the year!'

"Ah! So that's what he was planning!" Mink said, surprised.

"I guess he's going to force a tournament, for the fun of it, I hope" Allen smiled.

Darien saw the billboard from a street. He smirked. "Well, Bakura. You and I will be joining this party." He said.

"Very well... I love a good fight." Bakura smiled evilly.

Aeo had also saw it, making sure she would join. As she walked down the street she saw people using a new duel system. She headed to the game shop to see if they had any. Luckily there was one more and she took it.

"The Duel Xero... Compatible with the Deck Master system...." She read on the label. She left the box in the trash and slid it on her wrist.

She walked by a cafe where Vice, Diego, and Spinks hung around. They too saw the billboard. "Heh, the kid is starting a new tournament" Spinks smirked.

"Let's enter. We'll atleast get a beating on the kid" Vice said.

"We'll need their new system..." Diego said.

"Yeah, go buy us some" Vice insisted. Diego growled walked off to the game shop.

"Ok.. Tomorrow we meet at the park for the beginning of this tournament" Daniel said.

"The Deck Master system is still confusing though. We'll have to chose wisely on the monsters for our Deck Master" Mink said.

"We'll do whatever we can. We'll have to find out the rules first" Jess said.

"Then it's set! Let's get ready!" Allen announced.