Yugioh 5D's: Konami/Kazuki Takahashi

Okay, here's my third installment. I hope this does as well as my other two. Don't hesitate to fill in a review if you like it.

New Domino City, the place of endless opportunity! You can do anything and you can be anyone! It's got everything the city has to offer: art, food, entertainment, you name it! It's the city anyone would dream to live in! And speaking of entertainment, there's nothing more exciting than Turbo Dueling: the latest addition to the spectator sport of Duel Monsters! Two duelists ride until only one crosses the finish line! And what's best is that no two duels are alike! And the mainstream battlefield is the city's Kaiba Dome track, where a turbo-duel's already underway!

"The moment you've all been waiting for has arrived!" the Master of Ceremonies yelled over all the excitement, "Who could have predicted things would turn out the way they have?! Was this fate? Was this Destiny? Was it nothing more than pure chance?! NO! This is the product of hard work and never giving up! From Crash Town, he has fought his way up the ranks showing unbelievable courage and spirit! And his name is…"

"AXEL! AXEL! AXEL! AXEL!" the champion's name echoed throughout the arena and beyond. Standing on the track ontop of his trusty mechanical steed, the rider tipped his Stetson to watch the worship and admiration of the screaming crowd around him through his tinted goggles. He then watched over the sun, its light staging the giant perch of his triumph.

"AXEL! AXEL! AXEL! AXEL!"

"AXEL! AXEL, WAKE UP!"

Axel bolted up only to be smacked in the forehead, "OW!"

Axel held his forehead as his vision focused to see an old man with dry grey hair and a mustache. "Mm-hm. You were dreaming about turbo-dueling, weren't you?!"

"But I was just dream-dueling!" Axel argued.

"Boy, what did I tell you; you better not even dream about turbo-dueling?!" the old man snapped, "That's just a dumb pipe-dream! What makes you think you could even make it outside this town?!" he turned to leave the room, mumbling, "Being some big-shot champion. You better learn to get a job like me. Shoot, I'm finna' check the classifieds and get me another job right now..."

Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's

Over the Nexus

Chapter 1: Welcome to Crashtown

Axel groaned as he sat on the foot of the bed. Waking up in the morning's a real drag. After getting out of bed, he cleaned up, then put on his day clothes; which were made of a grey cowboy-styled suit with a dark-red vest and blue jeans, dark-red cowboy boots and a crimson neckerchief. The last thing he needed to get was his deck. It's special to him because it's made of cards used by both his mom and dad before retiring. He still wonders when they'll be back; do ask where he went because he doesn't know either. What's left also belonged to his mother: a dark-brown Stetson about the same color as his skin, with a blue opal attached to a band on it. After placing it on his messy, silver head he left his bedroom.

After walking through the house to the living room, he could tell the old man wasn't there. His name was Klaus, but Axel preferred to call him 'Grand P'pa', since he's actually his grandpa. Those two were living along with each other since he was 7; and he's 15 now. Believe it or not, Klaus is the sheriff of Crash Town. It's his job to make sure this town doesn't fall apart. So far he did a good job. Maybe that's why Axel finds it so boring. He figures he could find something interesting if he took a stroll around town.

First thing he expected once outside was a vast and empty wasteland, the only notable landmark was a steep cliff, and past that was a large mountain. What's special about that place is that's where the Duel Runner's made possible. Inside is a special mineral they called Dyne, that's made in the vehicle's construction. People come from somewhere or another to pick up the stuff that's mined by some of the people here, especially to ship it off to the far-off neighboring New Domino City. When strangers come here the first thing they think of this place is that it looks like the Americans settled here 200 years to late; a Wild West town. To him it's just home.

As he pondered he noticed a little 8-year-old boy running to him from the back of the house. He had light-brown skin and dark hair. That kid's name is West. "Oh! Morning, Axel! I was just coming to get you!"

"Good morning, Axel!" a girl came running from the same direction in a pink dress. She's the same as her brother with wavy black hair. That's West's 12-year-old sister Nico; and together they were the only kids in Crash Town.

"C'mon, Nico! Quit being slow and lazy!" West pouted.

"I can't help that you're too fast!" Nico huffed, "You're gonna fall down and hurt yourself one day, you know!"

"Heh, I'm not a little kid! I'll be okay!" West then remembered something and cut from the argument, "There's this new arcade game down at the old restaurant downtown that's just came in! I'm going there right now! Let's meet up over there!" West then rushed off.

"After I told him it's dangerous running around like that…" Nico groaned to herself and chased after her brother, holding up her long skirt.

Video games, huh? Maybe this'll liven thing up in this small town. So why not?

Soon Axel met with West and Nico at the restaurant where they live over and their father owned. Down at the corner was an arcade machine, although it was a bit smaller than the games he's used to. Under the small screen was a pad that looks similar to the duel-disk. Axel figured it's the control pad, but the only button was a big red 'A' on the right side. "This is the game you're talking about?"

Nico nodded, "This lets you scan your cards into the machine and battle virtual duelists! They call it a Duel Terminal!"

"Virtual Dueling, huh? I'd like to see that," Axel looked under the controls and found a cash slot to put money in. After inserting a coin, the machine came to life. On screen popped a cartoon of a little girl with large, blonde pigtails and big brown eyes. She's wearing the kind of clothes girls in this country wear when they go to school. Finally she pulled out a giant hammer and stamped the virtual floor before heaving it over her shoulder.

"Welcome to the Duel Terminal!" the mascot invited, "Select which mode you would like to play in!"

"Alright, let's see. Action Duel, Speed Duel…how do I move this thing…" Axel wondered.

"I think there's a touch screen on this game." Nico guessed.

"Okay then…" Axel touched the screen and dragged his finger to the top button on the screen…

"In Action Duels, you can scan a team of three monsters to do battle!" then down to the one under… "Speed Duels are just like regular duels! Except you use shorter decks and try to win within the time limit!"

"I can work with that," Axel said and selected Action Duel.

"Good choice! Here's a card to help you play!" a card spat out from the bottom which Axel pulled out, "Now select 20 cards to create your deck! Or you can pick a deck already made for you in our selection!"

"I guess now I can really put my deck into practice!" Axel pulled out his dueling deck. He picked it apart until he found 20 cards to scan onto the pod in the center of the control tray.

"Nice cards! Now you're ready to duel! Here's your opponent!"

Suddenly a small skeletal robot appeared. "Hello. I am Genex Controller. With the power of the four elements on my side I am unstoppable." The screen changed into a 3-D virtual arena. It was formed like a duel field, except there were only three spaces each for both Axel and the virtual opponent's monster zone and spell/trap zone. The duel began as both sides drew four cards.

Axel: 4000

Genex Controller: 4000

Time Limit: 210 sec.

"I will take the first turn," Genex Controller insisted and pulled another card from behind him into his tiny cuffs, "I will start my summoning Genex Undine, a water-attribute monster," a slender blue machine appeared, built with a glass container of liquid as its underbelly (ATK: 1200).

"Genex monsters? I never heard of that kind! Did you?" Nico shook her head at West.

"I activate Genex Undine's monster effect: by sending a water-attribute monster from my deck to the graveyard, I can add Genex Controller from my deck to my hand." Genex Controller pulled out a monster card with his own image on it.

"My duel opponent has its own card?" Axel blinked.

"I set one card face-down and end my turn." A face-down card was placed on his spell/trap zone.

"Alright, let's see what this game can do…" Axel said as his fifth card appeared, "Here's a good monster: (1) X-Saber Uruz(4/ATK: 1600/DEF: 1000)" a beastly-looking samurai warrior appeared wearing red armor plating and a wolf-pelt cape (ATK: 1600), "Now let's see what happens when I have Uruz attack Genex Undine!" the samurai charged forth with its twin swords.

"I activate the trap card Spiritual Water Art-Aoi," Genex Controller said and the face-down opened, "By offering my water-attribute monster, I can select a card from your hand and send it to the graveyard." The card taken from Axel was one of his monsters. Meanwhile the samurai attacked the robot head on.

Axel: 4000

Genex Controller: 2400

Time Limit: 180 sec.

"That's kinda risky of him to leave himself open like that…" Axel said, "But that won't matter if I can finish this quick. Until then I'll end my turn with a face-down card."

"It's my turn," Genex Controller drew another card, "I activate the spell card Graceful Charity. This allows me to draw three cards from my deck and send two of them from my hand to the graveyard. Next I activate another spell card, Stray Lambs. This allows me to summon two Stray Lamb Tokens (1/ATK: 0/DEF: 0) to my field, but they are the only monsters I can summon this turn," two sleeping balls of fluff with goat horns appeared (DEF: 100x2), "I set one card face-down and end my turn."

Axel started his next turn, "I summon (2) X-Saber Airbellum(4/ATK: 1600/DEF: 200)!" an anthropomorphic lion appeared with claw-like sword gauntlets in addition to its armor (ATK: 1600), "Now, X-Sabers, attack those 2 Lamb Tokens!"

"I activate the trap card Spiritual Earth Art-Kurogane," Genex Controller's face-down opened, "By offering an earth-attribute monster on my field, I can summon another level-4-or-lower earth-attribute monster from my graveyard. So I offer my Lamb Token to summon Genex Gaia in DEF mode." Uruz destroyed one of the tokens, but the other was replaced by a robot made of bronze metal and scrap kneeling (DEF: 1900). Airbellum's claws made no dent in the frame and backfired on Axel's life-points.

Axel: 3700

Genex Controller: 2400

Time Limit: 150 sec.

"Wow, that monster really took a dent out of my life-points. I'll end my turn for now."

Genex Controller pulled out another card, "I summon Genex Blastfan to the field," a large, green fan built into a robot appeared (ATK: 1600), "I end my turn."

Axel started his turn, "I summon (3) X-Saber Palomuro(1/ATK: 200/DEF: 300) in ATK mode!" a reptilian armored warrior appeared (ATK: 200), "And since it's a tuner-monster, I'll tune him with X-Saber Uruz to synchro-summon (5) X-Saber Wayne(5/ATK: 2100/DEF: 400)!" the tuner disappeared and left two rings to float down around Uruz's three stars, combining into a blue-armored cowboy with a blade-like pistol (ATK: 2100), "And with he's synchro-summoned, I can summon a level-4-or-lower warrior-type monster from my hand, like X-Saber Anu Piranha(4/ATK: 1800/DEF: 1100)!" beside the cowboy came a beautiful, blonde-haired warrior in red-and-black armor (ATK: 1800), "Now X-Saber Wayne, attack Genex Gaia!"

"I activate the trap card Spiritual Wind Art-Miyabi," Genex Controller's face-down opened, "By tributing a wind-attribute monster on my field, one of your monsters are returned to the bottom of your deck," Blastfan fired a powerful tunnel of wind to push Wayne off the field, "But since X-Saber Wayne is a synchro-monster, it is returned to the extra-deck instead of your deck."

"It's like the computer know what moves to counter with before I make mine. This could be tougher than I thought. I'll end my turn."

Genex Controller pulled another card, "I tribute Genex Gaia to summon Genex Furnace," the bronze robot was replaced by a mechanized furnace (ATK: 2000), "Genex Furnace will attack X-Saber Anu Piranha!" the furnace opened and destroyed the warrior with a blaze of fire.

Axel: 3500

Genex Controller: 2400

Time Limit: 110 sec.

"I activate the special-ability of X-Saber Palomeno from the graveyard!" Axel said, "By paying 500 life-points, I can summon him back to the field!" the reptilian warrior returned (DEF: 300).

Axel: 3000

Genex Controller: 2400

Time Limit: 100 sec.

"I set one card face-down and end my turn."

Axel started his next turn, "I summon (4) X-Saber Galahad(4/ATK: 1800/DEF: 800) in ATK mode!" a masked knight in green armor appeared (ATK: 1800), "Now I'll have it tune with X-Saber Airbellum to synchro-summon (6) X-Saber Urbellum(7/ATK: 2200/DEF: 1300)!" the two monsters united to form a tatter-armored warrior with a horned helmet (ATK: 2200), "Next I activate my face-down trap card, Raigeki Break! By sending 1 card from my hand to the graveyard, I can destroy 1 monster on your field!"

"I activate the trap card, Spiritual Fire Art-Kurenai," Genex Controller's trap card opened, "By tributing a fire-attribute monster on my field, you take damage equal to its ATK points." Genex Furnace exploded into a sea of flame.

Axel: 1000

Genex Controller: 2400

Time Limit: 60 sec.

"I activate the spell card Monster Reborn to bring back my X-Saber Wayne!" Axel's armored cowboy returned (ATK: 2100), "Now I'll have both X-Sabers attack you directly!" both warriors smashed the robot to pieces, ending the game.

Axel: 1000

Genex Controller: 0

Time Limit: 50 sec.

YOU WIN!

"Hey, Axel! You won!" West cheered.

"With less than a minute to spare!" Nico added.

"Hey, this thing could be the best thing to ever come to Crash Town!" Axel said.

"It is the best thing!" West said, "Can I play next?"

"Hey, guys! What's up?" The three turned back and saw a tall guy coming in. He was a bit lighter than them and had a scruffy blonde pompadour. He wore a black-yellow-and-white shirt with a red-and-white jacket over it. That's Toru, Axel's next-door neighbor and close friend.

"Toru?" Nico said.

"You said you were too busy putting together your duel-runner to play with us." West pouted.

"Oh yeah, sorry about that," Toru chuckled, "I just gotta finish it so I can hurry up and get to the city!"

"Yeah, you better! You keep saying that you're gonna be the top turbo-duelist in the world!"

"But since you're here, does that mean you finished your duel-runner?" Nico asked.

"Of course… I haven't!" everyone groaned at that reply.

"Why am I not surprised…" Axel muttered.

"Aww, c'mon! I really wanna see that runner!" West whined.

"Hey, give me a break! I just came to remind Axel that the produce caravan just came in!"

Axel's ears perked when he heard Toru, "Hey West, Nico, why don't you two have a little fun with the arcade," he pulled out a few coins and gave them to West, "I have to go. Something just come up!"

Nico watched in confusion as Axel ran out the door, "Why did he leave in such a hurry? Is he expecting someone?"

Toru chuckled, "You can say that."

Axel ran around the edge of town to the outdoor market, where people outside town come and sell the produce they grow, since the dirt around here's no good. Normally he doesn't care about that; but in the postcard he got over a week ago, someone's here to visit, someone he hadn't seen in a long time. He raced through the vendors looking back and forth to find them. But when he reached the end of the street, they're nowhere to be seen. Axel stood and wondered, are they ever planning on coming?

"Axel? Is that you?" Axel looked over his shoulder to the source of the voice. A young girl a couple of years younger than him stepped out from behind the vendor carts. Her short body is covered in a light-green kimono while he hair is the same color as newly-grown leaves. The girl stared at him with chocolate-brown eyes.

"Futaba!" Axel ran to the foreigner girl. "I got your post card! So you came here with your mom again?"

The girl Futaba nodded and smiled, "She's the one who grows what she's selling. She said I can come with her today so I can see you again."

"So what do you wanna do?"

"How about we just take a walk around town? It's been a long time and I wanna catch up!"

So Axel and Futaba spent the entire morning walking together and talking about each other's lives. So much has happened with Futaba that she told Axel. Unfortunately he hasn't had anything happen to him worth talking about, except for the new arcade game. Looking back it seemed that Axel had a boring life here; but Futaba didn't care. Later, they sat together on the cliff overlooking the town.

"It's such a great view from up here!" Futaba said.

"I thought you'd like it," Axel said. "I remembered this being your favorite spot last time you were here."

"It's just as amazing as I last seen it! Thanks for bringing me up here."

"No problem."

"Oh, almost forgot! I've been learning to duel while I was gone!"

"Really? You duel now?"

Futaba nodded, "That's kinda why I wanted to see you again. I thought you'd help me get more familiar with my deck."

"That's interesting! I'm always up for a duel!"

Right after, the two made their way back to town and into Axel's home, where he retrieved his old duel-disk, while Futaba raced back to the vendors to bring hers. As told by Axel, they met back out between the cliffs and the city. Axel's due-disk is an old battle-city model while hers is standard with a green frame.

"I have to say, It's been a long time since I had any new opponent's around these parts," Axel said, "This duel should be interesting!"

"You really think so? There weren't a lot of duelists who would challenge me," Futaba said, "I thought I'd have a better chance with an old friend."

"I'm feeling quite honored." Axel cracked.

Futaba giggled, "Let's get started!" both duelists activated their disks and drew their starting hands.

"DUEL!"

Axel: 4000

Futaba: 4000

"Hey, since I'm being so nice, why don't you go first." Axel offered.

"Well, here goes!" Futaba drew her sixth card, "I think I'll start with (1) Naturia Beetle(4/ATK: 400/DEF: 1800) in ATK mode!" the card came to life as a tiny, wooden hercules beetle appeared near Futaba's side. It has big blue eyes and green-leaf wings (ATK: 400).

"That's a strange monster. It barely has any ATK points!"

"Then I'll give it more ATK points! I activate the field-spell card Gaia Power!" Futaba's spell came to life as a giant tree sprouted from the ground next to the two duelists, "This card gives all earth-attribute monsters 500 extra ATK points, but lowers their DEF points by 400! But that's not all; when a spell card is activated, my beetle's ATK and DEF are switched!" the beetle grew until it matched half Futaba's height (ATK: 900-2300). "That ends my turn!"

"That's quite a fancy strategy!" Axel praised as he drew his sixth card, "Let's see if I can do better. I summon X-Saber Galahad in ATK mode!" the masked knight in light-green armor appeared (ATK: 1800-2300/DEF: 800-400), "And like all X-Sabers, he's an EARTH monster so he gains the benefit of Gaia Power's effect! And it'll gain even more power thanks to this equip-spell, Invigoration! This gives Galahad 400 ATK points but he loses 200!" a sunny-yellow glow surrounded the warrior(ATK: 2300-2700/DEF: 400-200). "And last I remember, your beetle's points switch whenever a spell card activates. So now it's much weaker that Galahad!" Naturia Beetle shrunk back to normal(ATK: 2300-900).

"Maybe that's a good thing, because when a Naturia's effect is activated, I can summon (2) Naturia Hydrangea(5/ATK: 1900/DEF: 2000) from my hand!" the ground cracked and a large bouquet of small blue and pink flowers sprouted in front of Futaba, a pair of eyes seen peeking from under it (ATK: 1900-2400/DEF: 2000-1600).

"Neat trick. But can it survive my attack!" Galahad jumped in the air twirling his green spear over his head, "And guess what, he gains 300 ATK points during the damage-step when he attacks (ATK: 3000)!" Galahad sliced down he Hydrangea.

Axel: 4000

Futaba: 3400

"My Hydrangeas…" Futaba whimpered.

"Finally I place this one card face-down and end my turn!" a reverse-card appeared.

"Then it's my turn," Futaba drew her next card, "I summon (3) Naturia Vein(1/ATK: 200/DEF: 300)!" a small figure made of green and purple leaves jump down on it's vine-grown limbs (ATK: 200)-700/DEF: 0), "And since he's a tuner-monster, I can tune him with my Naturia Beetle to synchro-summon (5) Naturia Beast(5/ATK: 2200/DEF: 1700)!" the beetle flew up as Naturia Vein turned into a green ring and rose up around the beetle. The beetle disappeared and left four stars until a ray of light burst to the ground. The light died out to reveal a tiger-like beast with fresh green leaves as its fur, and its limbs made of tree bark (ATK: 2200-2700/DEF: 1300). The beast sat on the field with a docile look in its red eyes.

"That's quite a powerful monster you got there! Too bad it won't get a chance to attack. I activate the trap card Threatening Roar!" Axel's reverse-card opened, "That means you can't attack for the rest of this turn!"

"When a trap card is activated on your field, I can special-summon (4) Naturia Rock(3/ATK: 1200/DEF: 1200) from my hand!" a round, white rock dropped onto the field, its beady red eyes staring at Axel (DEF: 1200-800), "Then I place one card face-down and end my turn."

"My turn!" Axel drew his next card, "I summon X-Saber Airbellum in ATK mode!" the anthropomorphic armored lion appeared with large bladed gauntlets the shape of large claws (ATK: 1600-2100/DEF: 200-0), "Next, I activate the spell Lightning Vortex! By sending a card from my hand to the graveyard, I can destroy all monsters on your field!" Naturia Beast looked up at the sky from the sound of thunder. Black clouds gathered and flashed. Suddenly a large bolt of lightning shot down towards the earth. But the moment the beast opened its mouth a large burst of sound escaped and ripped through the lightning bolt, and the clouds above it, "What just happened?!"

"It's my Naturia Beast special-ability," Futaba said, "By sending two cards from the top of my deck to the graveyard, he can nullify the effects of a spell card you use!"

"But that locks out about a quarter of my deck! Oh well, if I destroy it, it won't matter! X-Saber Galahad, destroy Naturia Beast!"

"I activate my trap card, Negate Attack!" Futaba's open face-down created a forceful gust of wind that pushed back the warrior, "This card both negates your attack and ends the battle-phase!"

"At least I can synchro-summon! I tune X-Saber Galahad with X-Saber Airbellum to synchro-summon X-Saber Urbellum!" the lion left three rings to hover around Galahad's four stars and create a source of light before a warrior in tattered armor and bull-horned mask appeared. The warrior pulled from behind his back a pair of large swords (ATK: 2200-2700/DEF: 1200-900). "That end my turn for now!"

"Then it's my turn!" Futaba drew her next card, "I activate the spell card Monster Reborn! With this, I can bring a monster back from the graveyard! And the monster I'll be choosing will be the tuner-monster Naturia Vein!" the small plant tuner returned (ATK: 200-700).

"Something tells me that monster won't be around for long."

"That's right! I tune Naturia Vein with Naturias Beast and Rock to synchro-summon (6) Naturia Leodrake(9/ATK: 3000/DEF: 1800)!" Naturia Vein left a much larger ring hovering around Beast and Rock. The eight stars formed a large mass of light until it took the form of a colossal lion-like beast with a blanket of green leaves topped over its orange coat, a red leaves lined around its huge face like a sort of mane. Naturia Leodrake roared to let himself be known (ATK: 3000-3500/DEF: 1800-1400).

"Um, that's one big monster…" Axel gulped.

"And that's not all! I also activate the quick-play spell card Shrink! Now your monster's original ATK points are cut in half!" Urbellum shrunk to half his size (ATK: 2700-1600), "Naturia Beast, attack!" the lion slammed its paw down on Urbellum and flattened him, making the ground rumble in the process.

Axel: 2100

Futaba: 3400

"I activate the special-ability to the X-Saber Palomuro that I discarded for Lightning Vortex! By paying 500 life-points, I can bring him back to the field!" Axel summon his anthropomorphic reptile warrior back from the graveyard (DEF: 300-0).

"I can't do anything else so I'll end my turn for now."

"It's my turn!" Axel drew his next card, "I activate the spell card Pot of Greed to draw 2 cards from my deck! Next, I activate the spell card Premature Burial! By paying 800 life-points, I can bring a monster back from the graveyard in ATK mode and equip it with this card! And the monster in question will be X-Saber Urbellum!" after the twin sword-wielding warrior returned, a glowing red mark appeared on his chest (ATK: 2200-2700), "Next I equip him with another spell card, Megamorph! This doubles Urbellum's original ATK points when my life-points are lower!" Urbellum grew to Leodrake's height (ATK: 2700-4900).

"But that's stronger than my Leodrake!" Futaba gasped.

"And now I release my Palomuro to summon on of my Favorite monsters!" the reptilian warrior vanished and replaced by a large warrior in a full body of silver armor with a red cape. The helmet he wore shows a pair of wings and a horn over his x-shaped visor, giving off the appearance of a sheathed sword (ATK: 2100-2600/DEF: 1600-1200), "Meet (*) Commander Gottoms, the Swordmaster(6/ATK: 2100/DEF: 1600)! And when he's out on the field, all of my face-up 'Saber' monsters gain 400 extra ATK points!" Gottoms raised his silver broadsword and released a blue aura, with Urbellum gaining a similar aura.

Commander Gottoms, Swordmaster: (ATK: 4900-5300)

X-Saber Urbellum: (ATK: 2600-3000)

"Time for battle! X-Saber Urbellum attacks Naturia Leodrake!" the giant X-Saber swung his twin swords and cut down the vegetable lion.

Axel: 1300

Futaba: 1600

"Now, Commander Gottoms, attack Futaba directly!" Gottom's aura was gathered into his sword and with one swing, released it and hit Futaba.

Axel: 1300

Futaba: 0

"Well, I guess that's game!" Axel grinned.

Futaba fell to her knees as the holograms vanished. But smiled anyway as she looked to the ground, "I really thought I'd win with Leodrake on my field. I guessed you showed me."

"Hey, don't be like that," Axel walked to the girl, "You backed me into a corner back then. You did good!"

Futaba looked up to Axel, "Yeah. You're right. Wait, I have something for you!" she got of and pulled something out from under her sash to put in Axel's hand. "Let's make a promise: when it's ready, you'll bring it back to me."

"Okay, I promise."

Both Axel and Futaba looked at the setting sun, "I think it's getting late. I better get back," Futaba turned to walk away, "It really was great seeing you Axel."

"It's good to see you too!" Axel said as he followed Futaba back into town.

Once Axel said goodbye and got into the house, he can see Klaus walking out from the other room towards him, "Oh, you're back! I was waiting for you. Say, uh, do you have any free time tomorrow?"

"Well, I—"

"You know what, I don't know why I bothered asking!" Klause cut him off, "I know you never do anything productive around here! So, you're gonna come with me to go shopping tomorrow."

Axel sighed and looked away, "Fine…"

"Don't you take that tone with me, boy," Klaus snapped, "This trip will be good for you. I'm sure it'll give you something to take you mind off that turbo-dueling nonsense. We'll be leaving early tomorrow. So I suggest you get on to bed."

"Alright, Granddaddy. I'll be in bed soon." Axel said.

"Good," Klaus said and left the room.

Soon after readying for bed, Axel sat on his bed looking at the picture of his parents sitting on a small drawer. Seeing it really brings him back to when he was last with them, when he was really little. If it weren't for this picture he wouldn't even know what they look like. Sometimes he couldn't help but wonder what happened to them. He guessed he'll find out when they come home. Until then all he can do is wait…

DUEL-MON DATABASE

(1) X-Saber Uruz

Stats: [Beast-Warrior/Effect] LV: 3 (ATK: 1600/DEF: 1000)

Attribute: EARTH

Effect: When this card destroys an opponent's monster by battle and sends it to the Graveyard, you can Tribute this card to return the destroyed card to the top of its owner's Deck.

(2) X-Saber Airbellum

Stats: [Beast-Warrior/Tuner] LV: 3 (ATK: 1600/DEF: 200)

Attribute: EARTH

Effect: When this card inflicts Battle Damage to your opponent by a direct attack, discard 1 random card from your opponent's hand.

(3) X-Saber Palomuro

Stats: [Reptile/Tuner] LV: 1 (ATK: 200/DEF: 300)

Attribute: EARTH

Effect: When another "Saber" monster you control is destroyed by battle and sent to the Graveyard, you can pay 500 Life Points to Special Summon this card from the Graveyard.

(4) X-Saber Galahad

Stats: [Warrior/Effect] LV: 4 (ATK: 1800/DEF: 800)

Attribute: EARTH

Effect: If this card attacks an opponent's monster, this card gains 300 ATK during the Damage Step only. If this card is attacked by an opponent's monster, this card loses 500 ATK during the Damage Step only. When this card is selected as an attack target, you can Tribute another "Saber" monster to negate the attack.

(5) X-Saber Wayne

Stats: [Warrior/Synchro/Effect] LV: 5 (ATK: 2100/DEF: 400)

Attribute: EARTH

Effect: 1 Tuner + 1 or more non-Tuner monsters
When this card is Synchro Summoned, you can Special Summon 1 Level 4 or lower Warrior-Type monster from your hand.

(6) X-Saber Urbellum

Stats: [Warrior/Synchro/Effect] LV: 7 (ATK: 2200/DEF: 1300)

Attribute: EARTH

Effect: 1 Tuner + 1 or more non-Tuner monsters
When this card inflicts Battle Damage to your opponent while they have 4 or more cards in their hand, place 1 random card from their hand on top of their Deck.

(7) Naturia Beetle

Stats: [Insect/Effect] LV: 4 (ATK: 400/DEF: 1800)

Attribute: EARTH

Effect: Switch the original ATK and DEF of this card each time a Spell Card is activated.

(8) Naturia Hydrangea

Stats: [Plant/Effect] LV: 5 (ATK: 1900/DEF: 2000)

Attribute: EARTH

Effect: If the effect of a "Naturia" monster you control was activated during this turn, you can Special Summon this card from your hand.

(9) Naturia Vein

Stats: [Plant/Tuner] LV: 1 (ATK: 200/DEF: 300)

Attribute: EARTH

Effect: You can Tribute this card and 1 "Naturia" monster to negate the activation of your opponent's Spell or Trap Card, and destroy it.

(10) Naturia Rock

Stats: [Rock/Effect] LV: 3 (ATK: 1200/DEF: 1200)

Attribute: EARTH

Effect: When a Trap Card is activated, you can send the top card of your Deck to the Graveyard to Special Summon this card from your hand.

(11) Naturia Beast

Stats: [Beast/Synchro/Effect] LV: 5 (ATK: 2200/DEF: 1700)

Attribute: EARTH

Effect: 1 EARTH Tuner + 1 or more non-Tuner EARTH monsters
During either player's turn, when a Spell Card is activated: You can send the top 2 cards of your Deck to the Graveyard; negate the activation, and if you do, destroy it. This card must be face-up on the field to activate and to resolve this effect.

(12) Naturia Leodrake

Stats: [Beast/Synchro/Effect] LV: 9 (ATK: 3000/DEF: 1800)

Attribute: EARTH

Effect: 1 EARTH Tuner + 1 or more non-Tuner EARTH monsters

(13) Gottoms, Swordmaster

Stats: [Beast-Warrior/Effect] LV: 6 (ATK: 2100/DEF: 1600)

Attribute: EARTH

Effect: All face-up "Saber" monsters you control gain 400 ATK.

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