[color=#EF581A]"Hmm... yeah, I don't know how to help them either."[/color] Ren said back to Chiharu. He crossed his arms and tilted his head. [color=#EF581A]"Maybe we just summon our own monsters?"[/color] he mused, looking down at his Duel Disk. Ren drew a few cards off the top, said [color=#EF581A]"Oooh, this one has high attack! Let's use you!"[/color] and placed the monster in question down on the duel disk. Nothing happened, though. Ren poked his card a few times, tried politely asking it to wake up, even picked it up to place it down again. No matter what he tried, the monster just wouldn't appear. Then, it was like he realised something. Ren balled up the hand holding his cards into a fist and clapped it into his other, open palm.

[color=#EF581A]"Oooh! Luna-chi, the monsters must be duelists too! C'mon, follow my lead!"[/color] he told his friend, then dashed over to slide in front of the Change Slime. As soon as the monster saw Ren as a threat, Ren's Duel Disk sprang to life. The card on top of it and the ones in his hand vanished, his deck shuffled itself and the lifepoints on his Duel Disk counted up to 4000. [color=#EF581A]"I knew it! Okay, so, just draw five cards to start!"[/color] Ren called back to Chiharu and did just that. He scanned over his hand. [color=#EF581A]"Hmm... if you see a card with a yellow or a brown border, that's a monster! Try picking out one with the highest number next to its ATK and placing it down on the field vertically, like this! I summon Shadow Specter!"[/color]

A purple mist creeped up from the floor in front of Ren. It clustered together and a skull was floating in the middle of its haze. 500 points of attack were displayed for all in the area to see. Ren looked down at his hand again. [color=#EF581A]"You should maybe have some purple and green cards in your hand too, but... forget about those for now! Just end your turn after summoning a monster,"[/color] Ren called back. He wanted to keep it simple for Chiharu and figured the monsters they were facing wouldn't be too much of a problem.

Ren took this moment to take a closer look at the opposing monster, as some symbols and numbers were floating above its head. One of the symbols was obviously a card, but it only had 'x 3' next to it. It turned into 'x 4' once Ren had ended his turn. Next to it was just a floating '500'. When he thought about it he came to the conclusion those must've been the monster's cards in hand and life points. They started with a massive handicap against players.