A/N: All speaking in different languages, if needed to further the plot, will be written in bracket signs {like this} for the sake of me not screwing up hilariously with Google Translate, and having everyone talk in English is weird. Yeah, that's not saying much considering this series, but still. Also, lookit all these duel master ships! They're just falling from the sky!

10 days after Kimora's first introduction to the creature realm, and a very lengthy explanation by Hawkins later, the latter decided it was about time that he showed his friend the temple. After school, Aaron and Kimora told each other's parents that they were going to hang out together for a bit, and they made their way to…

"A used book store?"

Kimora was a bit confused. All this talk about harrowing adventures took place in a book store? It was almost like some kind of massive joke was being played on him.

"Look, if you can believe everything else I've told ya, you can believe this." Aaron said, walking into the book store. Kimora followed, although moderately disappointed. Inside was a very old woman wearing all purple, standing in front of a black door and intently reading something. She looked up at the two and smiled.

"Jaha! This is Kimora. He's really interested in what we do, and he wants to know more." He explained. She nodded, and stepped out of the way, going back to her book. Hawkins opened the door to reveal a hidden staircase lined with rocks, and a dim gold light at the end.

"I'm starting to believe again." Kimora aid breathlessly, and the two boys started walking down the steps. "Though, it's probably going to be a little complicated to explain to my parents why I'm suddenly making daily visits to a used book store. Maybe I can apply for a job upstairs?" His train of thought beautifully derailed the second he saw what was at the bottom of the passageway.

"Welcome to the temple of the Kaijudo Duel Masters!" Aaron triumphantly proclaimed. Kimora's eyes lit up as he stared down the massive steps leading into the cavern. There were all sorts of light creatures hovering about, casting beams of light across the area.

"Race you down the stairs!" Kimora called out, darting down the steps. Aaron laughed as he followed suit, nearly tripping a few times on his sneakers. And then, Kimora actually did trip. His fall was luckily broken by a young boy in a prep school uniform, as they crashed on the ground in a heap. Another woman, in a similar outfit walking a few feet behind him gasped in panic, and rushed over to the collision site.

"Oh man! I am so, so, sorry!" Kimora shoved himself off the poor boy, bushing wildly. He dusted off his shirt, jacket, and jeans, all the while trying to avoid eye contact until his face got less red. The other boy didn't respond, he just picked himself up and rubbed his arm from where he'd fallen. The woman then grabbed him and looked all round his body to see if he'd gotten seriously injured.

"My apologies, miss! We didn't mean to, uh. Interrupt you guys." Aaron said, after he caught up to Kimora. Kimora proceeded to look down at his shoes and mess around with his ponytail out of sheer embarrassment.

The woman shook her head. "There was no harm done; it was an accident, surely you don't deserve punishment for that. It's quite alright, isn't it, Chavez?"

Chavez rolled his eyes, but nodded. "Yes it is, Master Rojas."

"Oh!" Aaron bowed in reverence. "I didn't know you were her. Master Tiera told me you were coming this day or the next. This must be your… young acolyte?"

"You're as old as me!" Chavez said defensively. "How am I any 'younger' than you?"

"Well, how long have you been an acolyte?"

"An entire year!"

"Well, I've been one for two years! And two months! And three weeks!" He paused for a moment, counting on his fingers. "Or four, maybe? I dunno. But, I still know more about dueling than you do!"

"You willing to bet your life on that?"

"Guys, guys! Calm down. We shouldn't just be standing around and insulting each other like this." Kimora said, fully aware that they had attracted a large crowd with their argument.

"You're right, K." Aaron said. Kimora gave a sigh of relief, but this hope was dashed when Aaron then said "How's about a battle to see who's the best?"

"Uh," Kimora began. "That's not what I mean-"

"You're on. Meet me in the coliseum." Chavez said, storming off in the opposite direction. The woman sighed deeply, and then followed right after him. Aaron also went off with the other acolytes and adepts that had circled around to see what was going on.

Kimora hung his head in annoyance, but was softly elbowed by a small girl with curly bright ginger hair, who smiled sweetly and said "Don't worry about it. Aaron's all bite and no bark, he'll go easy on him. I'm Kelly, what's yours?"

Meanwhile, Daphne Lobachevski was busy looking for her sister. Nadia always played outside before breakfast, and today was no different. In fact, she could usually been seen in the backyard for a vast majority of her day, but if she was not in bed in the morning then Daphne knew that she was playing.

Of course, Nadia didn't mean to worry her on purpose, but she always treated every morning hunt as a game. Every day, she would always be in a different place for one of her siblings to find her. It had become sort of a chore for them, but as long as it kept her happy.

Today, Daphne found her littlest sister in a large black tree, scrambling and darting in and around its branches like a hyperactive squirrel. And in her best coat and tights, to boot. Daphne sighed and called up to her loudly.

{Nadia! Nadia! I found you.}

Nadia looked down from the branch she was on, her long black hair tossing over her shoulders. She grinned, waved down, and the continued to go higher up into its inner workings.

{Nadia, get down from there. You're not being very ladylike.}

{Oh, is this not ladylike?} She said, flipping onto one on the branches and hanging upside down by her knees, with a sarcastic smirk on her face. She then proceeded to fool around in the tree much more, to her sister's chagrin.

{Nadia, please.}

{How about this?}

{Nadia.}

{Or this!}

{Nadia! Cut it out!}

{But I'm not doing anything.}

{Just be back in time for breakfast, won't you? Mama will have a fit if your food gets cold because of you horsing around.}

Daphne then turned on her heel, done arguing for the morning. Nadia shrugged, and slowly started to make her way down the tree, careful not to slip on any tangled branches. She hit the ground with a soft plop, landing gently in the treaded snow. She was about to follow her sister back, when a distant metallic ringing noise caught her attention.

She turned around, trying to distinguish where it came from. In the distance, she saw a golden light, circular in shape, slowly vanish with another beep and dart off and away. With a slight sense of déjà vu, Nadia followed it, the only thing guiding her further was its nigh-invisible outline.

A few minutes later, she stumbled across a bizarre place. It was a black shack out in the middle of nowhere. It wasn't attached to anything, nor were there any signs or fences to indicate who it belonged to. Against her better judgement, she went straight up to the house and opened the door, to reveal an entirely empty room with only a green horizontal beam of light in the center.

She knew this place, from a dream she had as a toddler. A beautiful library hidden in a dark house, with little light fairies there to guard and protect it. The green light she saw was just as bright as she remembered, and she stuck her hand in the light once more, just to see if her dreams were true.

{Hector, stay focused.}

{I always do.}

Master Rojas was busy talking with her acolyte before the battle. While she disliked aggressive events of power display, she knew that she could not talk him down from this, so it was best to just go along with him. Besides, a lesson or two in humility couldn't hurt.

{Remember your training! If you cannot keep steady, you will be floored with ease.}

{Don't worry, I've got it. I'll do my best.}

He crawled down the wall of the coliseum, and stood to face Aaron, activating his bright orange gauntlet as he did. Aaron activated his own, and the two went into their stances, and performed their summon katas.

"Corporal Pepper!"

"Citizen Tokori!"

The fire and water creatures burst forth from their portals, as the duel masters observed on one side, and the adepts and acolytes on the other. Kimora was nervous as ever, and fidgeted around a little bit in his seat as Kelly tried to calm him down.

"You see, he's summoned a hybrid! That gives him an equal chance of winning or of losing against Chavez." She tugged on his jacket sleeve and pointed. Kimora looked down at the two, and immediately covered his eyes when Hector ordered Tokori to fire directly at them both.

Aaron blocked the blast, but lost his footing and fell on his back. Corporal Pepper blasted the rocket with this own gun and barely dodged the resulting explosion. "Surrender now, Aquan!" He bellowed in a deep voice. "Lest ye be burned by the fires of your own frailty. And my gun."

Tokori gurgled loudly and angrily in response, lifting its cannon arm down and raising the other in a 'come at me' gesture. Aaron weakly stood back up, rolled his shoulders, and gestured towards the hybrid, and then at the water creature's cannon. Corporal Pepper nodded, and charged head-on.

{He's not doing it right.}

Kimora uncovered his eyes when he heard a girl's voice right next to him. He looked up and saw Nadia, with a tablet about Citizen Tokori under her arm. Of course, he had no idea how to speak Russian, so his response was a flat "What?"

"Not doing it right." She repeated, sitting down next to him and the girl. She took her jacket off, smoothed her sort and blouse, and then pulled the tablet out and pointed directly to it. "Tokori is fighting like a Bezerker. He is not one, so that boy is not using the creature to its full power."

"I… see." Kimora said. A loud bang directed their attention back to the arena, where Corporal Pepper currently had latched onto Tokori's tails with his claws. The duel masters on the other side seemed to agree with Nadia's claim.

"And are you sure that he's been training under you?" Master Brightmore said, eyeing Chavez as the boy was frantically trying to divert the hybrid away from his creature.

"Positive," Master Rojas said, glaring at him. "He's just a bit skittish when people are watching, that's all."

Master Tiera looked closer at the battle going on. "If you ask me, he was no idea what he's doing with a Water creature. It doesn't seem to suit him at all. Did you really only teach him your specialty?"

Master Rojas awkwardly chuckled. "Well, it's not like he was going to get himself into any breaches or incidents for a while. I'll have you know that the compound is nearly impenetrable."

Brightmore was about to make a snarky comment about 'nearly impenetrable' as opposed to fully, but then he saw a face on the other side that he hadn't seen in a decade. "Oh, 'all a pleasant dream', my foot." He whispered as he got up from his seat and walked out of the coliseum.

Meanwhile, Tokori had finally thrown Pepper off of himself, and was now ready to blast him to kingdom come. However, he didn't notice that the hybrid had stuffed his own gun into the cannon's barrel, and he was blown right back into the Water Civilization. Hector could only stare with his mouth agape, and fell to his knees.

The acolytes, adepts, and Kimora and Kelly cheered loudly for Aaron, and Rojas gave a small golf clap as Tiera tried her best to hide a condescending grin. Kimora turned to Nadia, all ready to ask her if she'd seen how awesome that was, only to find that she wasn't there. All that remained was her coat, which he picked up, ready to return to her.

Nadia had left as soon as she had seen Pepper's sneak attack, not wanting to see poor Chavez's reaction when his attempts literally blew up in his face. She was currently in the library, examine on which tablet to read next. She noticed a Water one on a high shelf, and reached up to grab it, only for her arm to be snatched by a rather angry Brightmore.

"And what do you think you're doing?" He asked. Nadia was speechless out of fright, and tried to wrench her arm away from his grasp, but he retained a firm grip. He then proceeded to drag her all the way down the steps, and over to one of the fissures full of cyber-viruses. He was about to drive them from the water when a voice suddenly called out from the doorway.

"Hey, leave her alone!" It was Kimora, who had Nadia's coat sleeves in one hand, and held out the other in front of Brightmore. He ran over to the duel Master, yanking at his arm and trying to get him off of her.

Nigel glared down at him. "I don't quite think you understand what's going on here." He yelled in pain and released Nadia's arm as Kimora delivered a sharp kick to one of his shins. Nadia quickly ran up the stairs, and grabbed the tablet, holding it up as a sort of shield in case he tried to grab her again.

"She's… she's with me!" Kimora quickly blurted out without thinking. "She's going to be an acolyte with me, and she was just getting me stuff to help study, that's all." He hoped this lie sounded sincere enough to get the man off his back.

Master Brightmore rolled his eyes, but relented. "Very well. Study as you wish." He then stormed off, with one hell of rant forming in his head to give to Master Jaha. After he'd left, Kimora gave an extremely anxious sigh of relief, and felt much better. Nadia walked down from the steps and started down the hallway to make sure he wasn't coming back.

"Oh! You, uh, forgot your jacket," Kimora said, remembering why he came here in the first place. "Here!" He handed it over to her with a grin. Nadia took it, nodding and smiling a bit. "Thanks." She said.

"Did you guys see me?" Aaron said, rushing into the room. "It was awesome, that rich kid never saw it coming!" He laughed, and then noticed that Nadia was also in the room. "Oh, hey. She a friend of yours?"

"Sort of!" Kimora said. "But yeah, it was amazing! I sure would hate to be that guy. So, what's next on the agenda?"

"Well, looks like you've already gotten to it," Aaron said. "This is the Kaijudo library!"