Last time, Yukina and the others were hoping to learn more about Team Camelot. Not only is Team Camelot dangerous because they have one of the six Malicious Fiends, but the other members are powerful as well. They met the other members, Chester and Stephanie, and saw their strength. They completely crushed Kent and Cindy. Despite that, they're not down or depressed about it.

"Aw! The blue clear sky, the warm weather, the cool breeze, and all on a beautiful beach." Cindy said as she took all of that in with her wearing a yellow swim piece with a white bow on it. "What a great day to do some training."

"Right! time to get serious!" Yukina said. All of them were in swim wear with the guys in blue, black, and red swim trunks and Yukina in a black and pink two-piece with a skirt. They might look like they're dressed for some beach fun, but they're not. "After seeing Team Camelot's strength, we need to be ready. It's only a matter of time until we face them again in an official match for the tournament. If we lose to them there, we might not get another chance to face them."

"I'm really sorry that Cindy and I lost to them, but we'll get them back." Kent said.

"It's fine, Kent. At least now we know what to expect with all three members of Team Camelot." Felix said. "We know that Arthur has a Malicious Fiend that he somehow is able to control, and we now know that Stephanie and Chester duel using similar decks. One represents light and the other represents darkness. Now that we know that, we'll be able to strategize against them."

"Yeah! Those guys are going down!" Marcus cheered.

"I'm glad to see no one is depressed after what happened with Team Camelot yesterday." Cindy said.

"Cindy, was there any news from Justin about the other Malicious Fiends? We need to up our focus on both the tournament and our mission." Yukina said.

"I relayed all that we learned from Arthur back to them." Cindy said. "He's going to send a team to investigate in hopes they can learn something about the Malicious Fiends from there."

"Good. Now, let's get serious on training." Yukina said. "Our next match should be coming soon, and we need to win if we're going to face Team Camelot again."

"So, what do we do for training?" Marcus questioned.

"We need to pump our fighting spirit!" Kent said. "We need to make our fighting spirits stronger! I say we do a bunch of physical exercises."

"I'm not sure about that." Felix said. "All of us already have a strong will and don't give up in a duel. What we should focus more on is teamwork. Maybe we should duel each other to practice some combinations. We can look for flaws if we do that."

"Dueling training? Great idea. What should we try?" Marcus said.

"I was thinking that two of us duel each other while the other two try to help each other try some combos." Felix said. "How about Yukina and Marcus duel and I'll pair with Yukina while Kent pairs with Marcus. Kent and I can look at the cards you two draw and suggest some effective combos."

"Hold on. No one tells me how to duel." Marcus said.

"I don't want to pair with this motormouth. I think you just want to be near Yukina, Felix." Kent said.

"It's better than trying to build our "fighting spirit" when we're already in great shape in that department." Felix claimed.

"Are you mocking me?!" Kent said.

"Guys, don't fight." Yukina said.

"Guys, focus! Just give it a try!" Cindy called. The four of them decided to go along with it. Marcus and Yukina were set up to duel each other with Kent and Felix looking over their shoulders. "Okay! Let's give this a try!"

"Okay, I'll start out with this." Marcus said as he was going to make a move.

"Wait. You always start out with that combo. How about try setting up a little defense instead." Kent said.

"No way. I always start out like this because I can deal a lot of damage." Marcus said.

"Yukina, why not try that combo?" Felix said.

"I don't think so. Maybe save it for later." Yukina said.

"But if you play it on your first turn, you might gain control of the duel." Felix said.

"No way. My gut is saying I should try something else." Yukina said.

"Set up a little defense!" Kent argued.

"Best defense is a good offense!" Marcus argued. "You should know that because you blast away at your opponents all the time! I can't believe this meathead is telling me how to duel."

"Meathead?!" Kent argued.

"Yukina, just try it." Felix said.

"No way! I trust my instincts, and my instincts are telling me that now isn't the best time!" Yukina said.

"But what if you don't get the chance?" Felix argued. The two sides kept going at each other, but with their partners in arguments instead of a duel. This whole thing fell apart and they didn't make any progress at all.

...

Later

"Okay... That wasn't the best idea." Cindy said. After what was about an hour of them arguing and not much practice, they all took a break from the fighting and training.

"Bright idea, Felix." Marcus said.

"At least I came up with something. Knowing you, you would have all of our plans revolve around you." Felix said. "You're number one alright, number one at running your mouth."

"What did you say?!" Marcus shouted.

"Knock it off. We got to figure out what we can do to improve our team." Yukina said. They all seemed rather bummed out and not sure what they're going to do.

"I thought horses had faces that long." All of them looked and were rather surprised to see some old faces.

"Team Fanrong!" Yukina said as they weren't expecting to see one of the Chinese teams all the way out here.

"Good to see you again, Yukina." Yuxuan said.

"What are all of you doing out here?" Cindy said.

"To see you, of course." Jaw-Long said.

"And we're lucky you ended up on this beach." Muyang said as he certainly liked that part.

"We heard about your encounter with Team Camelot and wanted to see how you were doing." Li-Jing said.

"How did you know about that?" Felix questioned.

"We have our ways." Yuxuan said trying to seem mysterious. "Anyway, we wanted to see if there was something we could do to help you. You have proven to be worthy adversaries and honorable duelists. Fanrong has also taught us to be honorable to those we consider our equals."

"You came all this way for that? That's really nice of you." Cindy said.

"We could use it. We thought we just had to worry about Team Camelot having a Malicious Fiend in them, but the whole team is powerful. Stephanie and Chester beat us like it was nothing." Kent complained.

"That's something else we wanted to talk about." Muyang said. "You guys mentioned those before, but we've been rather curious. What are those?" The others weren't really sure if they should say anything, but Team Fanrong really did come all this way for them.

"Maybe we should tell them." Felix said.

"You think they would believe us?" Cindy said.

"These guys have proven to be our friends and we can trust them. I'm sure they feel the same." Yukina said. They decided to trust their friends from China and told them about their mission. It did sound a little hard to believe, but Team Fanrong did trust them.

"Six cards with a dangerous dark power?" Yuxuan questioned.

"Yeah. We're trying to find them to ensure they don't fall into the wrong hands while also competing in the tournament." Yukina said. "We know one would be in the hands of Raika, Malicious Fiend: Life Destroyer, but we don't know where he could be. Team Camelot has one as well, but we couldn't convince Arthur to get rid of it."

"I'm not even sure if we can even trust Arthur with it." Felix said.

"This is all quite fascinating, but why were you chosen to deal with such dangerous cards?" Jaw-Long asked.

"I guess it all goes back to that day..." Yukina said as she knows where the starting point was for all of them. "You see, I'm from a small village called Decker Village. One of the Malicious Fiends, known as Life Destroyer, was sealed away there. Then, one day a sinister man named Diego and a dangerous duelist Raika came to the village to steal the card because they wanted the power for themselves." That day continues to be in Yukina's mind because she could never forget it. "My father, who was the best duelist in our village, attempted to stop them. However, even he couldn't stop them and he..." Seeing her father take that fall was so hard for Yukina. "Diego and Raika managed to steal the card, and my father entrusted the Wild Ally deck to me to stop them."

"I'm sorry about your father, Yukina." Yuxuan said.

"Thanks. After that, I went out on my own and traveled around." Yukina said.

"That eventually brought you to us." Cindy said as meeting Yukina was one of the best days of her life. It was when her life changed around and she became the duelist she is today. "Of course, we did run into some trouble along the way like Kent here."

"Yeah. I admit I wasn't the nicest of guys. In fact, I was just a punk looking for trouble." Kent said as he remembered when he was a Duel Breaker. "We tried taking on Yukina, but she proved to be a lot stronger than we thought. She was so strong that Cray was actually impressed and found someone that could give him a challenge."

"Yeah, but to force me to duel, you took Cindy's deck hostage and threatened to drop it off a tower. I would have dueled him just by asking." Yukina said as she remembered how her first duel with Cray. "Of course, it didn't matter. I still managed to beat him."

"Cray would have won! We just didn't know how skilled you were!" Kent claimed. "Besides, after you beat Cray, Diego came to us. He tried to recruit Cray and offered him power to defeat you."

"I remember that happening. While Cray was doing whatever, Diego even gave you your Heatsoul deck." Felix claimed. "After you failed to defeat Yukina, you tried getting others to do it like Tasu and Sylvia."

"Only because Diego promised to return Cray if I did. I didn't trust that guy from the start." Kent said remembering all the times they had.

"But you soon joined with us. After I lost to Sylvia, you actually helped me become a stronger duelist." Cindy said as that experienced was a big part of her progress.

"But soon Cray came back and he went berserk." Felix said. None of them could forget a duel like that, especially with how Cray acted so savage. "After that, Yukina told us all about the Black Ace."

"The Black Ace?" Muyang questioned.

"An organization that wants to use the power of dueling for evil purposes." Yukina said. "Diego is the head of it. When I finally found him after beating Cray again, we went after him in hopes of getting Life Destroyer back. That was also when we faced Raika for the first time."

"That's also when we saw you lose for the first time." Cindy said.

"What?! You mean someone actually beat Yukina?!" Marcus said. None of them forgot that moment.

"He sure did. I was in a pretty dark place after that, and I was lucky none of my energy was drained away by Life Destroyer. Raika was still learning to control Life Destroyer." Yukina claimed. "After that, I returned to Decker Village in hopes of finding answers to what I should do next. All I really needed was my confidence, and I found it."

"It wasn't that long we took part in the Survival Duel, and the winner could have any wish granted." Cindy said as that moment played a big part in the story. "That's where we met Henry and he won it."

"But it was a trap. Henry was working for the Black Ace and that's how Duel Battlers started." Yukina said.

"Duel Battlers?! Oh man! I so wish I was there! I would have won it!" Marcus said.

"Not likely when it was a trap." Yukina said.

"A trap? What do you mean?" Yuxuan questioned.

"The Black Ace set the whole thing up. They wanted all the powerful duelists gathered in one spot so that Life Destroyer could steal all their energy." Felix said.

"The whole tournament was a setup?" Jaw-Long questioned.

"Yeah, but they weren't expecting us to be so powerful." Kent said. "It was fun traveling around and going to different places. We met a lot of powerful duelists."

"Yeah, which Diego recruited to join him." Cindy said. "Although, the only one he really cared about was Raika. The others were nothing more than pawns to feed Life Destroyer. He even took advantage of Henry when Henry only joined because he thought Raika was his friend and he simply wanted to compete against strong duelists."

"But we made allies of our own such as Sabaro and Taiyo." Yukina said.

"But we had too many close calls. Sabaro, myself, and even Cray fell victim to Life Destroyer's power." Felix claimed. "They even one dangerous duelist named Hebi. His only goal was to try and break Yukina's optimistic spirit."

"But soon it was just Yukina and Raika in the finals." Kent said. "That one was a close call."

"Yeah, and Raika even lost control of Life Destroyer. The power tried to overtake him." Yukina said.

"It looked bad, but you managed to win in the end, Yukina." Cindy said. "After Duel Battlers, Raika and Diego just disappeared and Raika still has Life Destroyer. That's what brought us to right now."

"Before departing for the tournament, we learned that there a total of six Malicious Fiends. It's also possible that the Black Ace is still out there." Felix said.

"I see now. You want to ensure that the Black Ace can't get their hands on their cards." Yuxuan claimed. "That's quite some story."

"I'll say. I can't believe I missed all of that." Marcus said. "You guys would have done so much better if I was there."

"Not really." All four of them said.

"But if this Life Destroyer is capable of stealing the energy out of its victims, can the Malicious Fiend Team Camelot has can do the same thing?" Jaw-Long questioned.

"Good question." Yukina said as she thought about it. "I don't know if it's because the card is different or if it's something about Arthur, but Dark Warrior doesn't seem to have the same ability."

"Regardless, it does sound like these cards are quite dangerous." Yuxuan said. "They were right to ask for you help. That is why we too will help in anyway we can. If you need our help to fight against them, we will gladly fight alongside you."

"Thanks, Yuxuan." Yukina said. Talking about this had Yukina thinking about something else. "You know, we were able to make it through that intense battle with hardly any problems. When we were down, we bounced back up. This isn't really that much different."

"What do you mean?" Li-Jing said.

"We were able to beat the Black Ace, so we should be able to win this tournament." Felix said. "We just have to do what we did before: work together and support each other. It's what we've always done."

"Yeah. Maybe we were just trying to fix something that isn't broken. We can always improve, but Justin had us become a team because we were able to do what what we did before." Cindy said.

"You got that right. Whether it's the Black Ace or Team Camelot, we won't back down to anyone. We won't be defeated by anyone." Kent said.

"And you guys will do better because you have me, the number one duelist." Marcus boasted, but he too was glad to be a part of this team.

"We went through hard times, but they helped us become who we are now." Yukina said. "We don't need to fix anything because we already make a great team." She claimed with her being proud to be a part of it. In fact, all of them were glad to be a part of team. They are Team Mystic.

"I guess we didn't have anything to worry about." Muyang said.

"But I am glad we came." Jaw-Long said. "These are great people, and even though we are not in the tournament anymore, it's good knowing they are."

"Speaking of which, who are you guys facing next?" Li-Jing asked.

"Oh! We don't know yet!" Cindy said.

"Well, let's take a look." Li-Jing said as she shared a tablet with Cindy and tried to find who their next opponent is going to be.

"It looks like it hasn't been decided yet. It's going to be the winner of the match between a Mexican team, Team Luna, vs. a team from Zimbabwe, Team Storm." Cindy claimed.

"Team Storm?!" Yuxuan said with surprise.

"Do you know them?" Yukina asked.

"I've never met them, but I have heard of them." Yuxuan claimed. "The leader is quite powerful and fierce. They're team is named after his most powerful card...Storm Dragon."

"Storm Dragon?!" Kent shouted right in Yuxuan's face after pushing Yukina out of the way. Yukina and her friends were surprised to hear that. "Are you sure it's Storm Dragon?!"

"We only know one guy that uses that card!" Cindy said.

"Did he really find a way in?!" Felix questioned.

"Could it really be him?" Yukina questioned as their next opponent could possibly be an old friend.