The Two Duelests

by xXSniperKingXx

Saito and his best friend Sam have just finished their new Dual Runners, with the help of some friends, but on their very first test run the unexpected happens when both of them are taken to a whole new world, one unlike any they have ever seen before. Will they survive this new world and will they ever get back? (Sam Is my personal OC and No I will not be taking OC's either)

3. Lets rev it up!

Hey guys Chapter 3 coming at you, hope you like it! I also want to say thank you to everyone who's given me the tips for the "Speed World" field spells. Just to make sure everyone knows, I do not own Familiar of Zero or Yugioh 5D's, I do own this story, my OC Sam and all the decks the characters use in the story.

Chapter 3

"YAHOO!" Sam yelled as his Duel Runner screeched to a stop.

"You're quite the adrenalin junky." Saito smirked pulling a 180 on his Sonic Runner.

"Yeah, but there is nothing like a Turbo Duel to get you fired up in the morning." Sam replied standing up his runner.

"If you say so, to tell you the truth it looks like we've accumulated some fans." Saito said looking over at the small crowd applauding them for their performance. "Somehow this feels like the tournaments we used to watch on TV, you know the one's at the Kaiba Dome."

"Yeah but this place isn't nearly as big." Sam replied looking up at the main tower in the center of the academy.

"Still thinking about what the old man called us for three days ago?" Saito asked following Sam's gaze as he removed his helmet.

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Old Osmond found himself sighing deeply, "This is going to be a very, very long day."

In the aftermath of the duel between the Valliere familiars and Guiche, the entire academy found itself in the presence of two powerful summoners, Sam and Saito, who both have call forth creatures unlike anything anyone has ever heard of, monster big and small, monsters similar to legends and others of unknown origin. And then there was the machines they called 'Duel Runners,' things that could move at unimaginable speeds, and spells and traps on cards that they used to help them in battle. What other powers or abilities did these two boy possess?

A hard knock on the door started Osmond and a few of the senior staff that had already arrived at the office. "ENTER!" The door opened, and the staff curiously watched as the two teenage boys entered the room. Louise led the way, followed by both boys who seemed more relaxed than worried. The staff begun to whisper questioning, whether these boy could actually summon such massive creatures, without wands no less.

Osmond cleared his throat, "So, I think you all are aware of why we've called you here today." The group nodded, "Who are you two? The creatures I saw summoned in that battle with Mr. Gramont were beyond that of any normal human."

Saito then took control of the situation and begun trying to explaining what he could to the best of his abilities. "My name is Saito Hiraga, this is my friend Sam and the creatures you saw us summon were what we call duel monster."

"Duel monsters? What do you mean? Creatures like those are something that's hard to come by even here, yet you two were able to summon them like it was nothing, I want to know how."

Sam then spoke up. "It's a little hard to explain sir, because where we're from we're called duelists who fight against each other with these monster in something we call a YuGiOh duel."

"A dual?" Colbert asked curiously.

"That's correct," Saito nodded holding his left arm out in front of him showing his duel disc. "These are dual disc, they allow the wearer to call forth monsters, spells and traps to aid them in a battle against their opponent, all three can be used in combos and strategies."

"The monsters, spells and traps we explained earlier are on these." Sam continued pulling one of his decks out of a pouch on his belt before placing it on Osmond's desk. "These are called duel decks, they hold creatures, spells, and trap. In our old home, nearly our whole society is circulated around this dueling game."

Osmond, Colbert, and the other staff members each begun looking at the cards Sam placed on the desk studying them. After a moment or two they returned the cards to the deck, Colbert however still held one card in his hand staring, fascinated by just about everything on it. Looking over at Colbert, Sam could see off the reflection of Colberts glasses that he was holding his Stardust Dragon.

"That's one of my better cards," Sam explained drawing Colberts attention from the card. "Thats Stardust Dragon, a synchro type monster."

"Synchro?" A man asked taking hold of the card.

"Yes, there are many different types of monster, synchro being one of them. Other monsters types include normal monster, ritual, fusion, and synchro. Each type of monster also has a certain number of stars indicating the rank of the card."

Looking down at the card, Colbert could see Stardust Dragon had 7 star just below the picture.

"All monster have stars, some have more than others due to certain effects a card has." Sam explained grabbing several cards from the deck as examples. "The way the rules for normal summon work as though you sacrifice something smaller to get something bigger, for example a normal monster like Speed warrior has less than 4 stars and can be summoned right to the battlefield, monsters with 5 or 6 stars require one monster tributed card in order to summon. With 7 or 8 stars you need 2 tributes, 9 and 10 stars you need three."

"What happens to the monster when it's tributed?" Colbert asked quickly writing writing some notes on a sheet of parchment.

"They simply go to the graveyard." Saito answered pulling a card out of the dark spot in his duel disk. "The cards themselves aren't destroyed if that's what you were thinking."

Colbert sighed deeply looking somewhat relieved after hearing what happens to the cards.

"However Ritual, Fusion and Synchro are all summoned differently." Sam continued. "Ritual monsters require a Ritual spell card in order to summon it plus some monster tributed equal to the ritual monsters stars. Fusion monster require fusion materials in order to make, meaning two or more specific monster are needed to summon it. Synchro monster are similar to fusion but they require tuner monster to summon plus some other non-tuner type monster."

So far the staff, as well as Old Osmond, seemed very intrigued and seemed to be curious about something. Miss Longville, unlike the others, was the only one who willing to speak up.

"What are those metal devices you both call Duel Runners, they both move at incredible speeds and they only have two wheels, what exactly are they and how do they move so fast?" Miss Longville asked looking out the window and down to the ground below at said Runners.

"They're machines we made, they are mainly used for traveling and dueling where we're from. They speeds they move at are made possible by the technology put into them, which, I might add, is far more advanced than anything in this current time period. They have something special we call ' solar panels' which allow them the take sunlight and turn it into energy."

"Incredible, If they made something capable of moving at such high speed, who knows what else they could make." Colbert wondered before looking back at the cards. "Something is off though, I feel like I've seen that Stardust Dragon before but I can't remember where."

"You both made those hmm? That seems very unlikely but if it's true as you say, could you possibly build another?" Osmond asked rubbing his beard.

Looking at each other, Sam shrugged and Saito replied with a hand gesture and a tilt of his head.

"We could try but without the proper materials it's impossible." Sam sighed opening a holoscreen in front of him before pushing it over to Old Osmond. "I believe the materials on this list are enough to build at least one Duel Runner, give or take some bits and pieces."

All the staff members stared at the little screen intrigued. It felt like glass yet it held writing which they could move with the swipe of their finger.

"I thought you said you could only swipe those Skylon chips Sam." Saito said looking over at him.

"This was a birthday present." Sam smiled.

"Your birthday was 6 months ago."

"I know." he said giving Saito a derpy smile.

Facepalming, Saito turned back to Osmond who didn't seem to hear a word either of them said, neither did any of the other teachers or staff for that matter, as he continued to read the list. The list itself seemed to be filled with many basic elements, iron, copper, rubber things like that. Then there were more complex elements such as titanium and various other elements.

"It take all of this to make a Duel Runner?" Old Osmond asked still shocked by the list he was holding.

"Afraid so."

"Hmm... very well, I will have these materials brought to you both as soon as possible. I would like to present this Duel Runner to the Royal Palace, assuming you boys are alright with that." Osmond said looking up at the two teenagers.

Shrugging Sam slipped his hands into his pockets. "I don't mind, not like I was gonna use it."

Saito nodded in agreement. "Yeah, I have my own so I don't need it."

"That's good to hear, thank you, you two." Old Osmond smiled.

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"You think we can build another Runner? Some of the parts we can build ourselves like the transmission but what about the engine and solar panels? Those are much more complex than you think." Sam said pulling up his own Runners blueprints zooming in on the schematics of the engine.

"You doubting yourself? You're always sure you can pull anything off, hell you build your Runner from scratch like me." Saito said trying to reassure him.

"I know but here we don't even have a proper garage for our Runners, or even a way to forge some of the materials into parts." Sam sighed sitting on his duel Runner.

"Thats where preparation comes in. After you and Louise left the room I talked with Osmond about getting us a proper working space, because of our 'secret project.' Soon we'll have our own little home, a garage, and workshop."

"Dude you sound just like Eddy." Sam smiled slugging Saito in the arm.

"Do I? Guess it's too bad he moved to New Domino." Saito smiled looking up into the clouds.

It was then Louise appeared on the far side of the courtyard waving to them. Sam waved back and waited as she walk took her time walking up to them.

"I'm kinda glad she doesn't make us go to her classes with her, especially with the way I snore." Saito laughed looking over at her.

"You snore?"

Before Saito had the time to answer Louise had walked up to them and started talking.

"Saito, Sam, I have a favor to ask both of you." she said blushing slightly.

"A favor? What kind of favor?" Sam asked a little surprised thinking he'd misheard her.

"I want you two to show me how to duel, like you." Louise said still blushing.

Both boys stared at she in complete shock, she wanted them to show her how to Duel? They couldn't possibly have heard her right, could they? After a moment of silence Louise repeated her request, confirming that their hearing was not in anyway messed up in any way.

"Uh, sure but why the sudden request?" Saito asked looking at her confused.

"Umm... Well..." she began sliding her foot across the ground. "You see, I'm a failure as a mage, everyone always makes fun of me because I can't cast a spell without it exploding, so I thought maybe you two could help me, after all you both can summon incredible monsters despite the fact that neither of you are nobleman."

"Well, I guess we could, but you do know dueling is no replacement for magic right?" Sam frowned.

"I know, but... everyone makes me so angry when they call me a Zero! I just want to prove them wrong, even if it's just once!" she said clenching her fist.

"Alright, we'll show you the ropes, but we cannot guarantee that your monster will become real like ours, clear?"

"Y-yes!"

"Alright then, as of this moment you're officially a duelists Louise." Saito smiled patting Louise shoulder. "Let's get to our first lesson shall we?"

"Wha- now?!" Louise asked surprised.

"Why not? Your class just ended didn't it?" Sam asked grabbing one of Saito's spare duel disks from his Runner.

"Well yeah but I didn't think you would start so suddenly."

"That's one of the things you should adapt to as a duelist Louise, being ready for anything." Saito smiled disengaging his Runner's Duel Disk attaching it to his metal arm bracer. "Sam, help Louise out would you?"

As time progressed the three duelists continued for lesson after lesson, soon Louise was taught many complex rules and strategies as well as combos and how to effectively use traps and spells at their greatest and most crucial moments. Soon Louise was able to understand, calculate and think of strategies using the cards in her hand to counter the practice move Saito made against her ultimately leading to her first dueling victory.

"Damn Louise, you catch on quick." Sam smiled patting her on the back.

"Th-thanks." Louise smiled before looking down at the cards in her hand.

"We should get some dinner, the sun's starting to set." Saito added looking up into the orange colored sky.

Louise stomach gave an agreeing growl as did Sam's. Nodding Louise left the two heading for the dining hall, while the two teens took their duel Runners to their usual spot by the wall before heading to the dining hall. Walking inside they were greeted with friendly smiled by students and staff alike, for once they did not feel like outcasts like they did in the satellite.

However they both found themselves hopelessly lost. Saito did a quick look around and found a young girl, maybe a year younger than him, dusting a vase. Walking over to her, he attempted to get her attention.

"Excuse me miss…"

Work as a maid at the Academy was hard. It wasn't particularly difficult; it was just long and tedious hours while also avoiding being noticed by some of the more unsavory of the students. It didn't help that Siesta was around their age and a very beautiful woman in her own right, something she tried desperately to downplay. She stood a little taller than five feet with black hair that went down to the back of her neck. Her bangs came down slightly over her steel blue eyes and offset her creamy white skin very nicely. She had a very curvy body, which along with her generous bust made it somewhat dangerous to be working among teenage nobles who could do anything barring murdering her outright and get away with little more that a slap on the wrist but her parents need the money, her being the oldest of eight siblings. In order to remain unnoticed she dressed herself down, making her curves as unnoticeable as possible, and avoided coming in contact with the males of the academy, knowing that if she was advanced on and she refused the noble would just overpower her, take what he wanted, and ruin her family for making him work for it. The mere thought of such a thing forced tears into her eyes so she distracted herself by thinking of the novel waiting for her in her room.

'Oh I can't wait till my shift is over. I had just reached the part where the noble and his maid sweetheart meet for the first time. She was just standing there, dusting a picture when he came up behind her and said…' her inner monologue was interrupted when she heard a voice behind her.

"Excuse me miss…" She froze at the voice, that delightfully regal masculine tenor voice. The kind of voice that haunted her dreams of being swept away by a noble to be his lovely bride, just like in her novels. She knew it wasn't a student here, the voice wasn't pompous or overbearing like any of the young noblemen here and it wasn't a member of the faculty, as she knew all of their voices. So finally the young maid turned around slowly, ready to run if the man behind her tries to take advantage of her.

Siesta felt her breath hitch in her throat as she looked into the Sapphire blue eyes of the man in front of her. He was young, maybe a year or so older than her and wearing a blue coat on top of black underclothes and fingerless black gloves. He was a little bit taller than her, with ebony black hair that was breathtaking in the evening sunlight. Not the normal hair color that most of the nobles have in Tristian. His hair was long, longer than hers, and his face was chiseled, masculine. On it was a small smirk that sent her heart galloping like a breakaway horse. His smirk only grew when she realized she was staring.

"I-is there anything I could help you with?" she asked timidly as she curtsied as best as she could holding a duster in her hands. Although she she could tell the man before her was not a noble, Siesta felt it was safer to assume that he was, and judging on the quality of the clothes he wore she was right.

"I'm sorry, but I'm no nobel," the man said gently, making the young maid blush hotly at his words. 'Oh Brimir, it's just like one of my novels!' she thought with a silent squeal. She was so wrapped up in her thoughts that she almost missed what the noble said next.

"You see we're kinda new here and we don't really know our way around, could you possibly direct us to kitchen miss…" he trailed off, obviously asking for her name.

"Oh I'm sorry. My name is Siesta Takeo and I would be happy to escort you to one of the Kitchen," Siesta blushed yet again only this time it was from embarrassment.

"Nice to meet you Siesta, my name is Saito Hiraga, and this is my friend Sam. And that's very nice of you, thanks." All the blushing maid could do was nod and lead the two down the hall. As the three of them turned around the corner Siesta felt her knees weakening with each step. As she led the way to the kitchen the two entered giving her a 'thank you' nod and a smile before entering. After they entered she felt her legs give out and she leaned up against the wall for support. She put her free hand on her burning cheeks, whisper/screeching, "Kyyyyaaaaa."

Inside Sam and Saito are both treated to a delicious meal given by the kitchen chief. The meal consisted of freshly baked bread, a bowl of stew and a glass of water, both teens scarfing the food down their throats as though they hadn't eaten in days.

"This is the best stew ever!" Sam smiled throwing his arms into the air.

"Glad to hear our swords like the cooking, sorry but these are just leftovers." The head chief laughed.

"We're swords?" Saito asked looking up at him with a mouth full of food.

"That's right. You both are peasants like us, and you both won a duel against that snobby noble boy. You both are the pride of the peasants, our swords."

"Thanks, but none of what we did would have been possible without our friends." Sam smiled holing up his duel disc. "Without the guys in here, we never would have won."

"You mean the monsters sealed inside those cards?" one servent asked.

"Those rumors you heard?" Saito asked looking at him slightly confused.

"Ah, yes I heard it from some of the students."

"Then let us clear it up, the monsters in our cards never were and never have been real, well until now anyways." Sam explained before changing the subject at hand. "Plus someone needed to teach that snob a lesson, no matter which way I look at it, he had it coming."

"I couldn't agree more my friend."

"Couldn't agree more." several of the staff repeated.

"What I don't get is why those snobs always eat stuff this tasty." Sam growled.

"I know, at the very least the nobles could try to be nicer to us lower class people."

"Well if there is anything you can look forward to, it's the kitchens food. When it comes to me, Marteau the head chief, anything will end up tasting exquisite. This is magic in and of itself."

"You can say that again! Out of everything the stew is one of the best things here!"

Outside the three stood in the courtyard under the moon enjoying a nice conversation, Siesta seemed overjoyed just being with them.

"Please come again. Every one of them are fans of yours." Siesta smiled.

Both Sam and Saito sweatdropped before Sam answered. "I want to thank you for helping us out, so I want to teach you something."

"Oh no that's quite alright, you don't-" she began.

"Please I insist, if there's one thing I know it's to never be in someone debt." Sam smiled, gently taking one of her hands inside his own making her blush a light red.

"A-alright." Siesta smiled shyly.

Shrugging, Siato left the two and begun heading back to Louise's room, seeing as he didn't have his own room or house yet. Along the way he ran into something a little unexpected. 'Little' was the key word Saito thought as he was looking across the hallway at Kirche's familiar Flame, suddenly the Lizard rushed towards him tackling him then taking part of his sweatshirt into his mouth.

"Hey put me down! If you Eat something like me you're gonna have an upset stomach!" he cried flailing his arms about trying to break free from the lizards bite but to no avail, the lizard then begun to walk away with Saito still in his mouth. After a bit the Flame released Saito setting him on the floor in a barely lit room.

"Welcome." a seductive voice said to him.

"Kirche." he said somewhat shocked.

"Welcome to my suite." she said while making several failed attempts to pronounce or say his name correctly.

"Just call me Saito." he finally said after the third attempt.

"All right. Saito... I know it's something that shouldn't be. But my byname is Fever."

"Oh boy, I can guess where this is going." Saito thought keeping quiet as she continued.

" I tend to burn like a torch."

"I see." he said sheepishly.

"Do you not understand? I'm in love with you!" she exclaimed holding her arm out to point at him.

"Can't say I didn't see this coming." Saito thought keeping his face straight.

"Love always comes so suddenly."

"It's certainly sudden." Saito thought as Kirche repeated his very words surprising him.

"You and your friend looked so handsome when you defeated Guiche, but it seems like he's fallen for that maid so I'm left with you. Now Kirche the Fever has become Kirche the Passion..." she said slowly leaning forward for a kiss.

Confused Saito just sat unsure of what to do, just before her lips reached his another male voice called her name. "Kirche!"

"Oh, my, Styx?"

"I came because you didn't show up at our promised time."

"She brought me here despite the fact that she had a date with another boy, quite the manhandler you are Kirche." Saito thought quietly listening to their conversation.

"Then change that appointment to two hours from now."

"That's not the deal we had!"

"Isn't this the third floor?" Saito wondered noticing that Styx was slightly bobbing up and down outside the window.

Kirche then grabbed her wand pointing it at Styx making the flames from a nearby candle then begun to change as it formed into a fire snake that then shot itself at him, hitting him in the head causing him to fall.

"Wasn't he the one with you by the fountain on the day of the summoning?" trying to remember his first day at the institute.

"Yeah, he's just a friend. But right now the one I love most is..." she began again before being interrupted once more.

"Kirche! Who is that man?!" A blond boy with a purple cloak growled. "Tonight, I want you to burn up with me..." he yelled before getting hit in the chest with the same fire snake spell.

"As they say 'Third time's the charm.' " Saito smirked being told he was just another friend.

"In any case the night is short, and I don't want to waste any time with you."

"Kirche!" Saito heard as both as the two of them looked over to see three boys fighting with one another over dominance in the windowsill. "What are you doing?! You said you didn't have any particular lover!" they all shouted in unison before being burnt by Flame.

Looking at Saito Kirche tackled him forcing him onto his back. Looking down to him, her breasts hanging just above his face, she told him "I love you, Saito!"

"Miss Kirche, It's getting kind of late and I need to get to bed..."

"You can sleep here with me, I'm much more than Louise the Zero." she smiled slightly squeezing her breasts together.

"That may be but I should really go, I've got important things to do tomorrow and-" he said before being cut off as Kirche closed her eyes kissed him on the lips.

Opening her eyes slightly, they shot open from shock seeing what was beneath her. There on the ground right underneath her was a blushing bluenette, "T-Tabitha?!" she said before getting a closer look at her.

Kirche then realized it wasn't Tabitha, this girl had the same blue hair yes, but her's was much longer. The girl did not wear glasses, wore a light brown cloak with loose sleeves over a green shirt and a blue short skirt, her hands were wrapped in brown cloth and around her waist was a brown leather belt which had a blue ball of fur attached to it. She also had a wand, just by looking at it Kirche could tell she was a water mage because it had a crystal on it shaped like a drop of water.

"Wh-who are you?!" Kirche shouted pointing her wand at the girl.

"Sorry, but Saito said he needed to get to bed so I... eh... helped him out." she said as a sweatdrop appeared on her head.

"That doesn't tell me who you are!"

"Right sorry, my name is Eria The Water Charmer." she said crawling from beneath Kirche and over to the door. "I'm sorry but I must be going."

"Looks like I have some competition after all." Kirche thought as the girl left her room. "But where is Saito?"

Outside Kirche's room Eria stood leaning against the wall, after a moment a second Eria left Kirche's room and the two looked at each other for a moment before they both sighed.

"Thanks Eria, you saved me there, Kinda." The first one said as it's shape begun to change into Saito.

"You're welcome. I'm just glad you didn't switch the real me for you." Eria smiled walking down the hall and down the stairs.

"Now that that's done with, on to bed." Saito yawned walking off in the opposite direction and up the other staircase to Louise's room. In Louise's room she'd just finished changing for bed before Saito walked in. "Going to sleep already? I thought you'd be up again working on your runner again." she said laying down on her bed.

"Well I had a run-in with Kirche and I'm beat." Saito explained sitting at the table in Louise room.

Louise suddenly grew incredibly angry after what Saito said and then immediately demanded to know why Saito was with her. Explaining the situation Louise calmed herself and seemed rather happy by the trick he'd pulled on her and a little confused by the way he did it. But was never the less happy he left.

"Why didn't you use your cards to stop Kirche's Salamander?" Louise asked recalling how he was brought to her in the first place.

"I didn't really have time to react." Saito yawned laying his head on the table.

"You know," She began. "Tomorrow is the day of the week is void-day..."

"The what?" Saito asked curiously.

"Nothing, don't worry about it and get some sleep, we're going shopping tomorrow." Louise said slipping under the blankets.

"With pleasure." Saito thought drifting off to sleep.

In the morning Saito was told to get Sam and wait by the front gates ready to leave the institute for town. Saito obliged, left the room and and went downstairs to get ready to leave. Outside he found Sam asleep by his Duel Runner with his bandana over his face and three DreamSprites asleep on his chest. With a chuckle Saito kicked his leg, suddenly leaning up he three fairies scream as though they were flung by a catapult. Repositioning his bandana Sam squinted as the light flashed in his eye, after a second his eye adjusted and he looked up to see Saito snickering at him.

"What?" he asked yawning checking of his Dreamsprites.

"Nothing, get ready to leave Louise it taking us, well in truth we're taking her, to town." Saito explained walking over activating his Duel Runner.

"I wonder what for." Sam thought out loud.

"Hell is I know, but if she's buying I'd sure as hell go."

"Yeah, I may as well go too, who knows maybe we can both find something useful." Sam smiled stretching his feet before mounting his Runner, meanwhile the sprites all took sleeping position in and on Sams pockets and shoulders.

Revving their engines the two of them headed slowly rode off toward the front gates. Soon Louise made her appearance by the front gates with three leather pouches in her hands one in the left and two in her right.

"You guys ready?" Louise asked.

"We are, what are those?" Saito asked offering her a helmet.

"This is how much money I have to spend." she answered taking the helmet. Pausing she looked at the helmet then back at the two teens in front of her. "Is it ok to ride these to town?"

"Yeah, they can be rode in town as well as long as we ride them slowly." Sam smiled.

"What is someone tries to steal them or causes them to crash?" Louise asked looking worried.

"Our Duel Runners have a locking mechanism to prevent theft." Saito explained patting the hood of his Runner. "Even if someone did manage to steal one, which is very unlikely, they still wouldn't know how to operate them."

"Are you sure they'll be alright?"

"Positive."

"A-alright, if you say so." Louise said putting on the helmet and taking a seat behind Saito on his duel Runner.

"Louise!" Saito called over the noise of his engine.

"What is it?!" she yelled back.

"Be sure to tell us which way to go alright?!" he smiled as the three of them took off down the dirt road.

Unbeknownst to them they were being watched as they left quickly down the dirt road. Kirche watched from her window as the three of them as the speed off leaving a large cloud of dirt behind them.

"Oh, they're going out today? I guess I could use the old 'happen to run into each other while out' pattern..." She smiled grabbing her wand leaving her room and heading to another.

Tabitha sat quietly inside her room reading one of her books like she always did, her Staff resting against the wall by her bed, shoes on the ground wearing only her white shirt, black skirt and long white stockings. Suddenly there was a knock on her door, at that instant Tabitha grabbed her staff from its resting place and muttered "Ansur Rel An." Placing her staff back in its resting place Kirche then came barging in, thanks to Tabitha's spell however not a sound could be heard. When Kirche walked up to Tabitha's bed she looked up at her, grabbed her staff and undid she spell allowing there to be sound again.

"Tabitha! We're going out! Get ready!" Kirche told the bluenette.

"Void-day." she replied not looking away from her book.

"I know just how important Void-day is to you!" Kirche replied slightly annoyed by her response. "You see... I've fallen in love. But he has stepped out with that blasted Valliere! I have to figure out where those two are headed, no wait there were three of them, oh regardless you will help me right?"

Tabitha merely shook her head "No" as she kept reading her book.

"Oh, right, you won't move an inch unless I explain everything." Taking a deep breath Kirche spoke once more. "I want to chase after them because they're headed somewhere, but I can't catch up unless i get the help of your familiar! Please help me!" Kirche pleaded.

Closing her book Tabitha placed at on her lap and nodded. Delighted Kirche smiled happily as she thanked her old friend for her help. Opening her window Tabitha whistled which was followed by a mimicking whistle from her Familiar, Sylpheed.

"I grow fonder of your Sylpheed each time I see it." Kirche smiled.

"Which way?" Tabitha asked.

"Well, I was in a rush... but they left big clouds of dirt behind them, does that help?"

Nodding Tabitha moved up to Slypheed's head and gave her directions. "Three people on two metal objects moving fast, look for the dirt cloud. Don't eat them." Crawling back down her neck Slypheed then turned her head and spotted the cloud of dirt and begun following at.

In town Louise handed the two Duelists one of the leather pouches each telling them that's their money to spend on what they like, but that was all the money they would get and to spend it wisely. Sam took off down the street while Louise and Saito went off in a different direction, with Louise leading the way.

"We got here quicker than I thought." Saito said after a while trying to make conversation.

"Indeed, I don't really know how or why the riding on those Runners seems a lot gentler than a horse." Louise commented keeping her eyes ahead of her.

"So, you mind telling me where we're going?" he asked looking at the shops they passed by.

"To get you a weapon in case you can't use your cards quick enough."

"Seems like a good enough reason to me, but I am not much of a fighter." Saito frowned looking down at his Duel Disc.

"Let's see... I think it was right next to Viemont's elixir shop... Oh, here at is!"

"Swords, huh?" Saito thought looking up at the sword shaped sign hanging by the door.

As the two walked in the man behind the counter, who was leaning back in a wooden chair smoking his pipe, noticed them enter and stood up waiting to help them out. It was then the man noticed Louise and could easily tell she was a nobleman, a smile stretched across his face as he tried to think of a way to squeeze as much gold out of this opportunity as possible.

"Welcome!" he smiled. "Is there something I can help you with?"

"Yes, fine me the best sword possible for this young man." Louise said pointing to Saito.

As the man looked at Saito he begun scanning him up and down to try and fill the young girls request. It was then he took notice of Saito's Dual Disc and mistook it for a blade of some sort.

"My Lady if you don't mind me asking, why does he need another sword if he's got that one on his arm?" he asked pointing it Saito's arm.

Looking down at his Dual Disc Saito begun to laugh, while Louise snickered quietly, both of them confusing the man.

"I'm sorry but this is no sword or blade, this is a Dual Disc." Saito corrected him.

"Please just find him a sword." Louise said calming herself down.

"Sorry, right away." The man bowed looking around the shop. Gabbing a fencing sword from a nearby barrel. "Try this." he said handing Saito the sword.

Taking the sword Saito took a fencers stance before making several quick stabs and slashes. Looking at the sword he tossed at back and forth between his hands before handing it back to the owner. "Maybe something a little thinker, this seems too light." he said.

Nodding the man replaced the sword in the barrel and grabbed a claymore off the wall and carefully handed it to Saito. "What about this?"

Feeling the weight of the sword Saito grabbed at with both his hands and made a slow overhand swing. Shaking his head Saito gave the sword back once again. "It's a little too heavy for me, do you possibly have something in between?"

Rubbing his chin the man begun to think as he looked around the shop.

"What were wrong with those first two?" Louise asked looking at him confused.

"Well the first sword seemed a little too light and the claymore was too heavy, I'm hoping I can get one that's both lightweight and easy to grab at a moments notice."

Looking at him, Louise nodded in agreement. Something to light would be easy to break or knock out of your hand by someone much stronger, while a claymore is heavy and hard to swing giving quick and agile opponents the upper hand. Something in the middle was probably the best giving what Louise knew about Saito.

"Will this work?" the shop owner asked giving him a single-edged blade covered in rust.

"That looks like junk!" Louise yelled. "Don't you have anything better?!"

"I do, but it would be much like the claymore, and this young man doesn't want one like that."

As Louise begun yelling at the shop owner Saito begun inspecting the sword hoping his time working at the Satellite recycling plant payed off. The sword was heavier than the first sword but lighter than the second, taping the metal of the blade at gave a long ringing sound like a tuning fork indicating that the blade was still good too.

"Can you remove the rust?" Saito asked catching both Louise's and the shop owners attention.

"... uh... yeah, but it involves melting the sword down and reforging it."

"I see, do you sell daggers?"

"Of course."

"May I see one?"

Nodding the owner walked over to a display case and grabbed a decent looking dagger from its stand. Holding the dagger out to Saito, he took it and the scrapped of the dagger against the sword, creating a loud scratching noise similar to nails on a chalkboard. Both the man and Louise covered their ears in pain waiting for him to stop.

"What are you doing?!" Louise yelled uncovering her ears, looking down at the blade however caused her to freeze from shock. Looking closer at the blade Louise could see her reflection in it, Saito just scrapped the rust off the side of the sword.

"I'll be..." The owner said surprised.

"I'll take this sword, dagger and 10 throwing knives." Saito said grabbing the sword sheath from the barrel.

The shop owner nodded and started to haggle with Saito over the price of everything and eventually both the shop owner and Saito agreed on the price of 155 ECU. Smiling Louise left with Saito right behind her.

"How did you know?" Louise immediately asked once they were outside.

"About the sword?" Saito answered tying the dagger sheath to his thigh.

"Yes, how did you know that the rust could be scraped off like that?"

"This may be hard to believe but I use to do that for a living, I had to recycle old and used things such as furniture and old vehicles just to get by. I could tell just by the way the sword rang when I tapped it against something." he said putting the throwing knives on under his his sweatshirt.

"Amazing." Louise said shocked.

"Hardly, anyways lets go find Sam, see if he's alright." he finished throwing the sword over his shoulder.

"You think he's in trouble?" Louise asked confused.

"No, I think the people he might meet are." Saito answered taking the lead as the two walked off down the street.

Walking down the street the two search for what seemed like an hour with little to no results. Along the way Saito suddenly felt a familiar presence nearby, he then jerked his head toward a cart with a tarp over it, curiously he walked up to the cart driver and tapped on his shoulder, Louise watching him curiously.

"Hmm? Oh, can I help you young man?" the Old Farmer looking man asked turning around to face fim.

"What's in the cart if you don't mind me asking." Saito said pointing to the old mans cart.

"Hmm? Oh, just some scrap metal I was hoping to sell to the blacksmith. I found it in my field some time ago, been collecting dust in my shed ever since." he laughed looking back at his cart. "I never really could figure out what to do with it so now I'm just getting rid of it."

"Would you mind if I look at it? I've seen some pretty weird things before." Saito smirked crossing his arms.

Laughing the old man nodded and walked to the back of his cart. "I don't see why not." he said throwing the tarp up.

Saito stood there wide eyed, mouth hanging open. There inside of the cart were old Secter Security Duel Runner parts along with custom Duel Runner parts such as lights, wheels, fenders the works.

"I can't even begin to tell you how lucky you are old timer." Saito said staring at the large pile of metal parts in the cart.

"Oh? You know what these are?" He asked shocked.

"Yeah, and I want to buy it, all of it even the cart." Saito said looking at the old man.

The old man stared at the young boy surprised he'd take such an interest in some old scrap, let alone buy at from him. Looking at the cart, the old man seemed to be thinking over the whole situation before looking back at Saito and nodding.

"Does 200 ECU sound fair?" he asked clapping his hands together.

"I don't have much sir, how about 150?"

"How about 180 ECU?"

"165?"

"175."

"How about 170?" Saito said holding his hand out.

"Alright, I'll go with 170." the old man smiled shaking Saitos hand, walking up to the horses he removed the straps and walked away with the horses reins in his hand and a bag filled with gold coins in the other.

"Why are you going to do with this pile of scrap?" Louise asked watching as Saito covered the pile of parts.

"With these Sam and I can make more Duel Runners." Saito smiled tieing the tarp down over the cart.

"You can make more of those with this junk?!" She said stunned as she pointed to the cart.

"Yeah, since Sam and I are gonna be making another for the institute why not make a few others?" he shrugged.

"YO! Saito!" they heard Sam's voice call from down the street.

Looking down the street, Louise could see him running down the street, almost tripping on several occasions before reaching the two of them. Greeting Saito with their usual knuckle bump Sam pulled a backpack off before holding at out to Saito.

"Look inside, I think you're gonna like it." Sam smiled.

Raising his eyebrow, Saito unbuckled the leather backpack and peered inside for a moment then closed it.

"I don't know if this is by luck or by chance, but thank you." Saito smiled closing his eye before looking up toward the sky.

"What? What is in there?" Louise asked confused.

"Take a look." Sam smiled taking the backpack and tossing it to Louise.

The backpack was heavier than she expected, setting at on the ground she turned it towards her and opened it to reveal hundreds of Dueling cards inside. Reaching inside she grabbed one card with a picture of a angel on at.

"Guardian Angel Joan." she said looking at the card. Suddenly the image on the card appeared in front of her, startling her, falling on her bottom Louise looked up to see the angel giving her a warm smile as she offered Louise her hand. Hesitantly she took and felt as almost weightless as she quickly rose to her feet.

"It would seem you are my partner young one. Please take good care of me Louise." she smiled vanishing.

Blinking, Louise rubbed her eyes and held her hand out in front of her feeling around for something that did not seem to be there. "What was that?" she thought looking at her hand.

"Hey, Louise you ok?" Sam asked look at her from the back back of the cart.

"Oh, y-yeah, I'm fine."

"Come on let's go get our Runners." Saito said rewrapping the tarp over the scrap pile. "Louise can you watch the cart for a minute?"

"S-sure." she nodded looking back at the card she held then to the bag of dueling cards. "I wonder where Sam got these." she thought shuffling through the cards pulling some out a handful at a time. Sorting through them she begun to arrange the cards into combos and strategies, soon Louise build herself a new dueling deck. After a short time the crowds of people nearby begun to move aside as Saito and Sam rode up to the cart with their Duel Runners.

"Sorry for leaving you like that Louise, but Sam and I don't have horses so we're gonna have to use our-"

"Duel me." Louise interrupted.

"Huh?" Saito blinked. "Say that again."

"I said 'duel me' Saito." Louise said once more.

"Why? Where did this come from?" Sam asked pulling his helmet off.

"I want to test out this new Deck I made, will you duel me or not?"

Saito smirked and placed his helmet on the seat of his Runner. "Fine, but I won't hold back like I did with our first duel." he said disengaging his Runners dual disc attaching it to his metal bracer, grabbing one of his spare discs he handed it to Louise before taking his spot several spaces away.

Sam by now was looking around seeing that the crowd was whispering and leaving the surrounding area. Looking back to the two he just sat and watched as their first dual begin.

"DUAL!" the two said activating their duel disks.

Louise's LP=4000

Saito's LP=4000

"The first move is mine!" Louise said drawing one card from her new deck. "And I'll play Skelengel in defence mode, and i'll play one facedown and end my turn." she said as a monster appeared without a visible body, the only parts of at that can be seen are it's crown, wings, rope belt, sandals, hands and a bow with an arrow that had a heart shaped arrow head.

Skelengen=900atk/400def

"My turn," Saito called drawing his card. "And I'll play Star Boy in attack mode and throw two facedowns." Saito said as a Red Starfish with one large eye and mouth appeared in front of him. "And with Star Boys's special ability all Water type monster gain 500 attack points, including himself!"

Star Boy=1050atk(original 550atk)/500def

"Star Boy get rid of that Skelengel!" he said as the Star Boy shot a jet of water out of it's mouth hitting Skelengel destroying it.

"My move then," she said taking another card. "I think I'll play Road Synchron in attack mode, then I'll destroy that little Star Boy of yours!" The Road Synchron appeared, quickly moving over and punching the Starfish, destroying at.

Saito's LP=3550

"Now I'll end with two more face downs!"

Saito smirked as he drew another card. "I summon Ameba to the field in attack mode, then I'll play the field spell Umi." he said as a blue germ like creature appeared on the field, while the market ground was suddenly covered in water.

"With Umi on the field the attack of all fish, sea serpent, thunder and Aqua type monsters increase by 200. Then I'll activate my face down one of my face downs, Mystic box! With this I can select one monster on both our fields destroy yours and give you mine and seeing as we both have only one monster the choice is a little obvious." he continued as two long rectangular boxes appeared one on both sides of the field.

"I don't think so, I activate my facedown, Twister! By paying 500 Life Points I can destroy one spell or trap card." she said destroying the boxes in a gust of wind. "Looks like your Ameba is staying put."

Louise's LP=3500

"I end my turn." Saito grunted.

"My turn, I'll play one more face down and attack that Ameba with my Road Synchron!" Road Synchron moved forward attacking the Ameba destroying it.

Saito's LP=2450

"Getting better Louise, but don't get your hopes up." Saito said drawing his next card. "I Summon Mermaid Knight in attack mode." he said as a Mermaid covered from head to fin in armor rose from the water. "Then I activate my last facedown, Banner of Courage! Now the attack points of all monster in attack mode get a 200 point attack boost."

Mermaid Knight=1900atk(original 1500atk)/900def(original 700def)

"Now Mermaid Knight destroy her Road warrior!" he yelled as the mermaid swam forward ready to destroy her target.

"I activate my trap card, Draining shield, with this I can negate your attack and gain Life Points equal to your monster's current attack points." Louise smiled.

Louise LP=5400

"Not bad Louise, but because I have the field spell Umi my Mermaid Knights ability activates allowing her to attack again, one more time Mermaid Knight destroy Road Synchron!" Swimming forward once more Mermaid Knight readied her sword to cut the Road Synchron in half.

"I activate my other trap card Magical Cylinder! This trap negates your attack and sends the damage back to you as direct damage to your Life Points!" she explained as two cups appeared one cup absorbing the attack and the other shot the damage back to Saito.

Saito's LP=0550

Growling Saito ended his turn placing one card face down.

"My move then, and I'll play the spell Pot of Greed and draw two more cards. Then I'll activate my face down spell Double Summon and Summon from my hand Raging Flame Sprite and Quillbolt Hedgehog in attack mode!" she said as a Sprite consumed by flames and a hedgehog with Bolts coming out of its back appeared in front of her.

Raging Flame Sprite=100atk/200def

Quillbolt Hedgehog=800atk/800def

"Then I'll tune my Road Synchron with my Dedgehog and Flame Sprite in order to Synchro Summon Road Warrior!" Louise yelled as her Road Synchron's chest opened to reveal four tiny light orbs, as the light orbs flew they turned into green rings that looked to scan the other two monsters before a flash of white light flashed up into the sky. When the light died down all that was left in its wake was Road Warrior, a giant warrior whose body is covered in silver and golden armor.

Road Warrior=3000atk/1500def

"Now Road Warrior, destroy Mermaid Knight and end this!" Louise yelled pointing to Saito's Mermaid.

"I don't think so, I activate MY trap card Gravity bind, with this card all monster above Level 4 cannot attack!" Saito smiled as a grid like shape covered the battlefield.

"It's move move now, I draw." Saito looked at the card and smiled. "Time for one of my favorites, I summon Cure Mermaid in attack mode." Saito smiled as a Mermaid with a red scaled tail fin and a Pink Blouse rose from the water. "Thanks to her ability every turn I gain 800 Life Points."

Cure Mermaid=1900atk/1000def

Saito's LP=1350

"I draw and I'll use my Road Warrior's special ability and summon a level 2 or lower warrior or machine monster from my deck, and I'll special Speed Warrior and thanks to his ability his attack points are doubled! Then I'll play from my hand Junk Synchron in attack position and using his special ability I can Special summon Quillbolt Hedgehog back from my graveyard in defence mode. Now I'll tune my Junk Synchron with my Quillbolt Hedgehog in order to Synchro summon Junk Warrior!"

Junk Warrior=3200atk(Original 2300atk)/1300def

Speed Warrior=1800atk(Original 900atk)/400def

"Next I play the spell card Mystical Space Typhoon and destroy Gravity Bind. With that gone my monsters can now attack, I'll say this once more, destroy his monsters and end this!" Louise said as the three warriors charged in destroying the mermaids and officially ending their duel.

Saito's LP=0000

Their monsters gone and the area back to normal there was a long pause before Saito and Sam both begun to clap. As they continued to clap the watching crowd begun to follow suit until it was soon in an uproar of cheering and whistling. Louise looked around to the crowd confused before looking back it Saito, had she she really beaten Saito on her own for the first time?

"Louise, that was fantastic!" Sam smiled patting her on the back. "You've got some real potential you know that?"

"Potential? For what?" Louise asked confused by what he meant.

"For being great! That's what!"

Smiling Louise begun to blush, Saito then walked up to her putting his hand on her shoulder.

"You did some nice work there Louise, and feel free to keep the Duel Disc." he smiled.

"Wha- I can't this belongs to you!" she protested.

Closing his eyes Saito shook his head. "You've earned at Louise, think of at as a congratulatory gift from me."

"Th-thank you..." she said holding her left hand to her chest.

"OK people that's it people! Move along!" Sam yelled giving the crowd a 'shoo' gesture with his hands.

"Sam, come on lets hitch this cart to our Runners and lets go back to the institute." Saito yelled as he moved his Runner into position it the head of the cart.

"Hey how did you two do that back there?" a voice called to Saito.

"Sam why are you asking that, you should easily know the answer." Saito replied.

"Come again?" Sam asked putting his Runner in position right next to Saito.

"Didn't you just ask me something?"

"No."

"That was me kid." the voice called from his back.

Louise, Sam and Saito looked to see Saito's sword partially sticking out of its sheath, talking to the three of them.

"Y-you?!" Sam asked completely in shock.

"Remarkable, a sentient sword!" Louise gasped. "You've sure bought something strange Saito."

"Hey what year is it? And where the hell are we?"

"Hell if I know, name's Saito, this is my friend Sam and that's Louise." Saito introduced as he point to the people as he named them off.

"I'm Derflingher. Nice to meet you brother!

"Hey, come on Saito, lets hook our Runners up and get back to the institute."

"Right, I want to have some of that delicious stew when we get back." Saito said drooling it the thought of the chiefs stew.

After a minute or two the two Duel Runners were hooked up to the cart and the three left town with the cart right behind them back to the institute.

Authors Notes:

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