Chapter 6 : Journey to Improvement

Jack and Yuko had been walking for 20 minutes and were now pretty far from Yusei's. Jack then stopped at the foot of a very steep hill and turned to face Yuko intimidatingly.

"Alright Yuko, listen up!" he said in a rather unfriendly tone. "I gonna tell you a little story about how Yusei and me got our first decks together. When Yusei and me were little, we liked to adventure a lot and since we didnt have any parent to look after us, we usually got into all kinds of trouble."

"One day, Yusei and I decided to leave Satellite via the garbage boat the ran between islands, taking the garbage from Domino City and transporting it to the Satellite. As we got closer to Domino City, we noticed security guards waiting at the docks".

"At the time, we were afraid of getting caught so we jumped out of the boat just before we arrived and swam to the nearest shore. As we made our way into the city, we found that it was crowded with people, but they didn't seem to bothered by us and we managed to blend in easily with the crowd".

"At one point, we were trying to look for a place to stay, when a security guard stopped us. He wanted to see some ID since we were acting suspicious and wore a different stile of clothing. Obviously, we didn't have any ID and so the security police tried to catch us so to transport us back to Satellite.

"Instinctively, me and Yusei started running, and by night fall, we ended up running so much that we made it here, in this very spot".

Yuko looked puzzled, wondering what was the point of this story.

Jack noticed the expression and continued on to finishing the story." We decided to climb this hill and hid in the bushes that you can see at the top, but what we didn't anticipate was to find an old well, drained of water, sitting underneath a blooming, blossom tree. Naturally, me and Yusei were curious as to what was inside and looked in through the entrance to find that it was bigger from the inside and that it was a perfect sheltering area".

Yuko smirked. "So you climbed inside and hid there, right", he mocked, imagining Jack sleeping in the dirt. Jack hesitated for a moment, but then replied, maintaining a straight face. "Yes, we did until the next day, but that's not the point. When it was morning, me and Yusei had woken up from the sun that was beaming through the well's entrance. We found there were cards all over the place which were just laying there in the dirt!"

"At first, me and Yusei thought it was all just a dream, but it was far from it. With as many of the cards that we could find, me and Yusei made our first ever decks, and pretty successful ones too", said Jack proudly.

Yuko began to imagining how happy they must have been at the time, to wake up and find all those cards waiting to be handled by a new master. If only something like that happened to him, he wouldn't have had to look through all those dumpsters for cards.

Jack huffed. "Now I know that it was quite a while back, but I want you to go up that hill and see if there are any cards left in that well that you can spot, and add them to your deck", he said commandingly and pointed over to the top of the hill.

Yuko smiled awkwardly, but appreciated the help. "Thanks, but why did you tell this all to me now?Why not back at the cafe?"

Jack looked at Yuko with his once again cold, judging eyes. "When, I first met you, I thought that you were just some runt that beat the criminal by luck. I thought that you were going to be a burden to our group, but after seeing you duel today, I saw that you actually do have some potential to offer us. That Yusei was right and that it wasn't a waste of time to bring you in", explained Jack calmly, but didn't want to sound too flattering.

Yuko was shocked. Had Jack kept all that to himself this whole time? Though Yuko did think that it was slightly strange to find that the two best duelists in the world, inviting Yuko all of a sudden to join their group and stay at their place. However, what surprised Yuko the most was the fact that Jack claimed that Yuko to have potential!

"Now, I suggest you go check out if there are any cards for you up there, and you better not tell anyone that I bought you here!" finished Jack grumpily.

Yuko grinned to himself, but tried his best to contain his happiness, not wanting Jack to see and watched him leave briskly down the path that they had taken to get here. He knew that Jack wasn't one for helping others and so it amused Yuko.

Yuko turn towards the hill and started to climb it. It was steep, but nothing he couldn't handle. Eventually he made it to the top and looked around to find an extraordinary view of New Domino Cit. He could see practically everything from this height, even Jack who had just made it back to the cafe and was now talking to Crow.

"Nice view", thought Yuko to himself and turn to face a small well, under a leafless tree that was curving over it. Yuko pushed the old branches away so that the sun could light up the inside and looked down. It wasn't so deep, and there was even a rope ladder leading down to the bottom. "Maybe Jack and Yusei had made it when they came here?" thought Yuko and climbed down to begin the search for improvement.

As Yuko reached the bottom of the well, he tried adjusting his eyes to his surrounding and found that the place was practically one big round room made by the corroded cave walls. There was no water left which bought Yuko to assume that the well had probably been out of use for a long time, maybe even before he was born.

After 15 minutes of looking, Yuko couldn't find a single card. He sat down and scratched his head, feeling rather stupid and frustrated.

"This is a waste of my time", he moaned and punched the ground. He felt confused and started to feel dizzy. Then, heard a growling sound coming from his stomach . "I should have bought something to eat at the cafe before following Jack", Yuko thought regrettably and wrapped his arms around his belly.

The sun was now beginning to set and the light was slowly fading. "It will be dark soon", Yuko thought to himself, after having let out some anger and got up, brushing some dirt that fell on his burnt, black coat. He hadn't had time to replace his burned coat so he just tore the other sleeve off and wore it, since it was starting to get chilly.

Yuko looked around one last time, then decided slowly to make his way back to the ladder. Just as he thought things couldn't get any worse, he tripped on a rock which he had not noticed since the light was fading. He fell on his knee and cut it (not a deep cut, more of a scrape), the impact causing his chest to shoot a gush of pain though his body.

He groaned and felt a few tears trickle from his eyes. Yuko kept still and waited for the pain to fade away, then got up and straightened out his clothes while glaring at the rock which tripped him, not only cutting his knee, but also his jean. Yuko took a deep breath and kicked it, letting out some more anger that had continued to build up within him. The rock went flying against the side of the cave wall, making a rather loud clashing sound that echoed slightly.

Yuko looked down to see if he had damaged his boot when he realized something shiny, which lay on the ground where the rock had just been.

It was a card, and judging from the colour, it was a Synchro monster! Yuko's heart leapt with joy. After all this time, this card had been hiding under this very rock, right in front of his nose. He reached down to pick it up, wiping the dirt that was piled on it and bought it towards the light that was left shining through the well's entrance to read the name out loud.

"Sea Dragon Lord Gishilnodon".

It seemed strong and was easy to summon. He even checked to see if it was damaged in anyway, and let out a sigh of relief. "It's perfect", he whispered, and lay down on the ground, staring at the stars in the sky that were just started to shine.

He had done it. He had found the card that would represent him, like Yusei's "Stardust Dragon" and Jack's "Red Dragon Archfiend", which he had seen been summoned repeatedly during the last years Grand Prix.

"Maybe I should join the Grand Prix this year", thought Yuko casually as he lay relaxed on the earthy ground like Jack had once done, but remembered that he had no functioning duel runner at the moment, nor did he have the right tuner monster for his brand new Synchro monster.

Yuko sighed, but smiled happily to himself and climbed back up the rope ladder and out of the well. Before sliding back down the hill, he decided to make the most of the view of the setting sun, before running back to Yusei's comfortable home, which Yuko could now also call his own.

Yuko: Yep! That was my first ever Synchro monster, folks! I must say that for a 5 star Synchro, it really does pack quite a punch! Anyway, please Review, Follow or add to Favourite and I hope that you all liked this chapter! :D

Leo: Ha! Against my "Power Tool Dragon", you stand no chance! XD

Luna: (sigh) Leo, was that really necessary?

Jack: Hey, what's all the commotion?

Luna: Oh, it's nothing :P

Leo: Jack! Who's dragon do you think is better! My "Power Tool Dragon" or Yuko's "Sea Dragon Lord Gish-thingy"!

Yuko: It's pronounced "Gishilnodon" -_-

Jack: (huffs) Well, considering Leo's dragon is practically a toy, I'm gonna go with Yuko's sea dragon.

Leo: Hey! T_T

Luna: (Giggles)