After the disaster in Wendover, me and Mike split up. I headed back to Duel academy while he went east. Besides the occasional burst of speed from going off road on a flat stretch, the trip was boring.
I decided to take the interstate east, then go south through north California. This would give me more time to tune up my runner. We were making good time and just as dark fell, we saw a sign marking the city limits of Carson city, Nevada. We found a reasonable hotel and parked the runner. Once me and Silver got inside, I tried training him with this new power of his. I had him summon an Ojama to attack me with. After a while, we managed to control the signer power so he could activate it on will, but deactivating it was another matter. We stayed for a week there. By the time he finally turned off the mark, I was covered in bruises and really hated Ojamas.
We were about to leave when we noticed a Yu-Gi-Oh! tournament taking place. It was just a hobby league tourney but me and Silver entered just the same. It turned out the tourney had an interesting rule where the shop owner would evaluate your deck, select the card of highest value, and you had to offer it as an ante.
I used my regular deck which focused around summoning assault mode monsters. As such my ante was my ghost rare stardust dragon. Silver breezed through most of the tourney, Me? As much as I hate to admit it, Silver beat me in the second round. He used a "Synchron" deck and using his newest card, Junk destroyer (real card) destroyed my defense and finished me off.
Earth
Lv. 8
ATK/2600
DEF/2500
"Junk Synchron" + 1 or more non-Tuner monsters
When this card is successfully Synchro Summoned, you can select and destroy a number of cards on the field up to the number of non-Tuner monsters used as Synchro Material for the Synchro Summon of this card.
I was sad and happy at the same time when I handed Stardust dragon over to Silver. I watched for the rest of the tournament as he decimated all before him, he also seemed to be in control of his powers.
It was the finals and Silver was walking up to a man in a strange green robe, he had a hood over his head so you couldn't see his face. When the man and Silver shook hands, Silvers mark started acting up. Everyone was shocked to see the faint glow from under his sleeve, but thankfully they couldn't see the mark itself. I was wondering why it was activating when the duel started. Then the man took his arm out of his sleeve and I knew why. His duel disk was the same as those terrorists in wendover!
I muttered "Crap!" under my breath and jumped down to stop the duel, but before I could the man started the duel.
"I activate Seal of Orichalcos!"
The symbol appeared on the floor and I ran right into an invisible wall. "Silver! Watch out! This guys playing for keeps!"
The man continued his turn. "I set two cards facedown, then I Summon Amazoness swords woman!
An incredibly scantily dressed woman with a large sword appeared
Earth
Warrior
Lv.4
ATK/1500
DEF/1600
Any damage from a battle involving this card is inflicted to your opponent.
"I end my turn!"
It was Silvers turn. "I discard my Quillbolt hedgehog to special summon Quickdraw Synchron!"
A chibi person in a cowboy outfit appeard.
Wind
Machine
Lv.5
ATK/700
DEF/1400
You can send 1 monster from your hand to the Graveyard and Special Summon this card from your hand. You can substitute this card for any 1 "Synchron" Tuner for a Synchro Summon. This card cannot be used as a Synchro Material Monster, except for the Synchro Summon of a monster that lists a "Synchron" monster as a Tuner monster.
"Next I use Quillbolt hedgehog's effect, if there's a tuner on the field; I can summon him from the graveyard!"
Earth
Lv.2
"Now I tune Quillbolt to my Quickdraw Synchron to synchro summon Nitro Warrior!
A large green creature with a thruster like appendage on his backside similar to an insects abdomen appeared.
Fire
Warrior
Lv.7
ATK/2800
DEF/1800
Once during each of your turns, if you activated a Spell Card(s), this card gains 1000 ATK during its next attack, for damage calculation only. Once per turn, if this attacking card destroys an opponent's Monster by battle, you can change 1 face-up Defense Position monster your opponent controls to Attack Position, and attack it with this card.
"Next I activate book of moon to put you monster in facedown defense, then Nitro warrior attacks!
The thruster on his backside lit up and he rocketed across the field and took out the facedown with a single titanic punch, the shockwave from the impact knocked the man into the Orichalcos barrier. As he got up he said "So that's the power of a signer,, huh?"
Silver set a card face down and ended his turn. The man drew his card. "I'm afraid this is just about it for you. I summon Kuriboh!"
Seriously, if you don't know what Kuriboh looks like, you don't like yugioh.
Dark
Fiend
Lv.1
ATK/300
DEF/200
Discard this card from your hand to make the Battle Damage inflicted to your Life Points by 1 of your opponent's monsters 0. This effect can only be activated during your opponent's Battle Phase.
"Now I activate Multiply!"
spell
quick-play
Tribute 1 face-up "Kuriboh". Special Summon as many "Kuriboh Token" (Fiend-Type/DARK/Level 1/ATK 300/DEF 200) as possible in Defense Position. These Tokens cannot be Tributed for a Tribute Summon.
"Because of Orichalcos, I summon ten tokens! Then I activate my trap, Token Feastevil!
Trap
Activate only when a Token(s) is Special Summoned. Destroy all Tokens on the field, and inflict 300 damage to your opponent for each destroyed Token.
One by one the token monsters vanished and a beam of light hit Silver, the Orichalcos artificially gave the man psychic powers, so the blasts quickly took their toll.
LP
5000
8000
"Now, I activate the flute of summoning Kuriboh to summon a Kuriboh from my deck!
Next, I activate magical stone excavation, by discarding two cards I can recover multiply! Then I play multiply and chain a second Token feastevil!"
LP
2000
8000
"And to end my turn I remove a Kuriboh and the winged Kuriboh I discarded to special summon Chaos Sorcerer!"
Dark
Spellcaster
Lv.6
ATK/2300
DEF/2000
This card cannot be Normal Summoned or Set. This card can only be Special Summoned by removing 1 LIGHT and 1 DARK monster in your Graveyard from play. Once per turn, you can remove 1 face-up monster on the field from play. If you activate this effect, this card cannot attack during this turn.
"I remove your nitro warrior from play!"
The sorcerer shot a beam of white and black energy that opened a hole to another dimension which swallowed Nitro.
"My turn!" Silver said. I summon Synchron explorer!"
Lv.2
"I activate his effect! I can summon any synchron from my graveyard in defense with no ability! I summon Quickdraw synchron!
Lv.5
And lastly I special summon turbo booster!
Lv.1
"Now I tune Turbo booster and Synchron explorer to Quickdraw to synchro summon Stardust-"
Just as he was about to pull out stardust dragon, there was a flash of light and a card appeared, floating in front of him. He picked it up and looked it over for a second before smiling. "I synchro summon JUNK DRAGON!"
A large dragon made of sleek machinery appeared an the field.
Dark
Dragon
Lv.8
ATK/2800
DEF/1000
[Junk Synchron + one or more non-tuner monsters]
When this card is synchro summoned, you can choose one monster
in your extra deck with that includes a "synchron" monster
as synchro material and apply it's effect to Junk dragon.
Once per turn you can special summon one "synchron" monster
from your graveyard in defense mode, It's effect is negated.
You cannot summon the same "synchron" monster more than once.
"Now I activate his effect! Junk dragon gains Nitro warriors effect! Then I use Junk dragon to revive Quickdraw!"
Lv.5
"Then I play Monster reborn to revive turbo booster!"
Lv.1
"Now I tune Quickdraw to turbo booster to synchro summon Turbo warrior!"
Wind
Warrior
Lv.6
ATK/2500
DEF/1500
"Turbo Synchron" + 1 or more non-Tuner monsters
When this card attacks a Level 6 or higher Synchro Monster, halve the monster's ATK until the end of the Damage Step. This card cannot be targeted by the effects of Level 6 or lower monsters.
"Next I activate megamorph! I equip it to Junk dragon, doubling his attack points, then he gets a 1000 point bonus from his effect!"
Junk dragon
ATK/6600
DEF/1000
"Now, Turbo warrior, attack his chaos sorcerer!"
Turbo warrior rocketed across the field and slashed the monster to pieces. The bits of sorcerer hitting the cloaked man and knocking him off his feet.
The man got up smiling. "Ha! Even your dragoon doesn't have the attack to take me out! And when I play my next card, you lose!"
"I'm sorry." Silver said. Then he began glowing, "I know what you and your friends did to that town we came from, you killed hundreds of people! And for that you can't be forgiven!"
I had never heard my son talk like this before, it was like he was an entirely different person. The glow that surrounded him shot off in a beam and hit Junk dragon, the dragon stated moving more like a creature and less like a hologram.
"Are you ready junk dragon?" Silver asked it.
The dragon nodded its head and growled deep inside it's throat.
"Junk dragon, obliterate!"
The dragon opened it's mouth and a massive beam shot out and hit the man, there was a huge explosion and when the dust settled, there was a massive crater where the man once stood, the only thing left were some shattered remnants of his duel disk.
I stood there open mouthed at the carnage I had seen. The man was doomed anyway, If he had won, my sons soul would have been taken so I didn't blame him. The seal spiraled down to where the man once stood and two cards appeared. Me and Silver looked at each other and walked over. There on the ground was a card depicting the man Silver defeated and the seal of Orichalcos. I picked them up and looked them over.
"I'll hold on to these until we know how to deal with them." I told Silver.
After the excitement had settled down, we packed up and went west into California, then took the interstate south towards LA.