Pookles: Another story so soon! My story about Leo taking Health class is on the back burner for now. Because I have a better idea!

Luna: Oh? What is it?

Pookles: Well since you all saw the unveiling of Akiza's Terra Garden Dragon, that requires a purified Earthbound Immortal in order to summon, I'm going to show you the adventure Akiza went on in order to find her new evolution.

Akiza: Oh hell yeah!

Crow: When's my evolution? T.T

Pookles: I'll write a story about that soon. Promise. This is also my attempt at writing in third person again.

Luna: Pookles doesn't own Yu-Gi-Oh 5D's

No POV

Yusei Fudo was working with his friend Bruno on the new engine design while fellow signers Jack and Crow looked on in confusion.

"What are they saying?" Crow asked the taller man.

"Not a clue," he replied. "Let's just leave them to it."

Their lives had been uneventful after adopting Bruno and rescuing Yusei from a kidnapper. Both men recalled the story of how Akiza had saved Yusei twice that day; not only busting open the back of the truck, but also summoning Stardust to save Yusei and Sherry from the falling debris. Both men chuckled at the memory, until something occurred to them.

They hadn't seen Akiza in over a week.

The red-haired signer had almost made it her mission to visit them often. The guys didn't mind it after all Akiza continually brought them news and information on the other duel teams that she'd gathered during her current events class. She usually came over with the twins, and while they did their homework, Akiza would give her assessment of the team she'd researched that day.

Maybe she was caught up in school work, or her parents wanted her to do something else.

But that didn't change the ominous feeling the two men shared.

Suddenly, the door to the garage was thrown open, and two cyan blurs flew into the room.

"Guys!" Leo shouted, extremely out of breath. "Akiza...is..."

Worry filled Jack and Crow as the former proceeded to interrogate the boy.

"Akiza is what? What's going on?" he shouted at the male twin.

"We hadn't seen Akiza at school for a while so we asked Heitmann where she was," Luna began.

"And he said that she was on an extended leave from school," Leo put in.

"So? She's probably sick or something," Crow replied, more so trying to convince himself of that possibility.

"No but get this, we went to her house and her parents said that she was living at Duel Academy for a while," Leo went on.

"It's really weird," Luna finished.

"So we have no idea where Akiza is?" Yusei asked.

The twins shook their heads.

"I'll call Mina and see if she can help us," Jack volunteered.

"In the meantime, we should go look for her," Yusei began.

"Where should we start?" Crow asked.

"Doesn't matter," Jack replied. "Mina says she's out at the Nazca Lines."

The conversation had halted to stunned silence.

"Why is she there?" Leo shouted.

"I don't know," Jack replied. "Mina said that despite questioning Akiza, she wouldn't tell her why she was going. Just the fact that she was and to tell us if we were looking for her."

"What if there's another immortal that got free and its taken control of Akiza?" Crow asked.

"Akiza as a dark signer?" Luna inquired. "I think I'm gonna have nightmares about that."

"So are you going to go after her?" a heavy French accent resounded throughout the garage.

"Sherry?" Yusei asked.

The blonde duelist stood at the top of the ramp, with her butler, Ellsworth not far behind her.

"Bonjour my friends," she greeted as she came down the ramp. "I heard that you were looking for the mademoiselle Akiza."

"Well we already know where she is, so you're a bit late," Jack told her as they all mounted their runners and the twins hopped on with Crow and Bruno.

"Well at least let me join you then," she replied, putting on her helmet.

"Sherry, why are you looking for Akiza!" Yusei inquired hesitantly.

"I thought we could spend some girl time together," she answered.

Despite his suspicions of her motive, the head signer allowed it. "Lets get going then."

Akiza had been at the Nazca Lines for almost a week, after having greeted Greiger and his siblings and leaving an offering at their shrine, she'd driven east until she found the tree geoglyph. It was the geoglyph of Eathbound Immortal Ccgojuru.

This Immortal had been calling out to Akiza, not because it wanted her to become its puppet, but because it was in pain. The red-haired signer knew this from the research she'd done on Ccgojuru. Apparently Ccgojuru was the Aztec Goddess of the Earth and was revered by the Aztecs almost as highly as Quetzalcoatl, or less formally, as the Crimson Dragon; the god that she already was in service to. However, her anger towards humanity caused her to look to the darkness to take her revenge, and was shunned by the gods. Through her deck, Akiza's connection to nature was strong, and she couldn't help but feel the need to help.

So in order to honor the memory of the Goddess this immortal once was, Akiza took it upon herself to plant the acorns she'd brought with her around the edges of the geoglyph.

"I know what it's like to be an outcast," she thought as she continued planting. "I won't let you feel alone anymore."

Akiza planted the last seed and stood to wipe the sweat off her forehead, and as she did, the seed she planted immediately grew into a sprout.

"What the?" she inquired out loud.

"Maybe the Goddess is trying to respond to me," she thought as she bent to gently stroke the sprout.

She stood a heartbeat later and took her runner out to the well that Greiger had told her about. She used a spell card called "Magical Watering Can" to help her maximize the amount of water she could use to water all the seeds. She drove back to the geoglyph and began watering each of the sprouts. The moon was at its highest point in the sky when she'd finished, and drove back to her makeshift camp in the center to see that grass was beginning to grow around the supplies she'd brought.

Akiza had been camping many times before, not only with her family to bond after returning to them, but also with Sayer and a few other psychics in order to attend a training session in the woods. However she felt no need to have a tent, and just pulled out two tarps and a blanket. One of the tarps she threw over her runner, and the other she placed on the ground. She laid down on the tarp with her blanket and took a sip of her water before drifting off to sleep.

The group had made it to Greiger's by dusk, and decided to camp there until the morning.

"So did Akiza tell you why she came out here?" Yusei asked the former Dark Signer.

"She said that one of the geoglyphs was calling out to her, but she made it clear that it didn't seem malicious," Greiger replied.

"Calling out to her? What could it possibly want?" Yusei wondered aloud.

"No idea," Greiger replied. "But she said she was going to make an offering to that Immortal so she could understand it better. She left an offering here at our shrine to ask for strength from Quetzalcoatl. Whatever that girl is up to, she knows what she's doing."

Yusei leaned back on the bench outside the house, "I just wish that I was knowing what was going through her mind."

"Isn't that the case with all women?" Greiger commented with a smile.

Yusei couldn't help but chuckle, "yeah. Despite how well I know her, Akiza still is an enigma sometimes."

"This being one of them," Greiger finished.

"I'm starting to wonder if we should leave her alone for this one," Yusei thought aloud after a moment of silence.

"I don't think that she's in any danger," the other man replied. "I mean, your marks should glow and the geoglyph would appear in the sky right? If that happens you can rush over there to her aid."

"Right," Yusei replied. "I guess we'll look around the lines, and of course help you and your siblings out with anything you need while we're here."

"Thanks Yusei," Greiger replied. "Now we should probably get some sleep."

Yusei nodded and climbed up to the roof and laid out there to look at the stars.

"It's strange, Akiza's at least ten miles east of here, but it feels like she's as safe as she would be if she was here with me," he thought, the pulled off his glove and rolled up his sleeve to look at his mark.

"I just hope she's really okay."

"Are you worried about her?" Sherry's voice came from the other side of the gable-style roof.

"Of course I am," he replied. "She could be flirting with death out there."

"She seems like that kind of girl," she continued. "After what you've told me about her, it doesn't surprise me that she's done something like this."

"It doesn't?" he inquired.

The group had told Sherry all about Akiza's past on the way to the Nazca Lines and about everything they'd gone through together as a team. Sherry had been mortified at what Akiza had done, and was thankful that she had a change of heart and cared for Yusei so much that she rode on his runner to save their lives.

"Of course not," the blonde woman replied. "This is why I wanted to take her out for a girl's night. She's been hanging around a bunch of extremely talented duelists for a while right? She probably wanted to train and acquire her own strength."

"Maybe," Yusei replied and rolled onto his side. "Let's just get some rest."

Sherry smiled, "sure."

Akiza woke to the sun shining through the tops of the trees and sleepily rubbed her eyes, then jolted into a sitting position.

"Trees? Already?" She thought.

The girl stood and stretched, still wearing the same red t-shirt and white shorts from the day before, and slipped on her red sneakers before rolling up her stuff, and leaning it against one of the trees. After securing her duel disk to her arm and inserting her deck, she walked among the trees to a clearing in the center of the geoglyph, where one sapling stood alone in the center. Its longest branch was extended in her direction almost as if it was reaching out to her. After a few steps into the clearing, a root caught her foot and she caught herself before tripping.

"I activate the spell card Miracle Fertilizer, which allows me to summon Rose Fairy from my graveyard," Akiza said quietly as her fairy appeared with a spray can in hand. "Go fertilize that sapling."

Her fairy nodded to her and flew out to the sapling, spraying the sapling until the ground began to shake. Rose Fairy dropped the spray can and was destroyed and Akiza closed her eyes and tried to steady herself. When she opened her eyes, a huge tree had grown in front of her with a elliptic hole in the center. A card appeared within the hole of the tree, and the root around her foot disappeared as she stepped forward.

"Purified Immortal Ccgojuru..." Akiza breathed as she reached out to the card.

"I got through to her!" she thought triumphantly.

Just as her hand was about to touch the card, a whip whizzed past her ear and took the card from the tree.

"Hey what gives?!" the red-haired signer shouted up in the direction of the whip, then froze when she saw its owner.

"Why hello again my dear Akiza," a familiar voice drifted down from one of the lower limbs of the tree.

He wore black robes with pink markings and had had a purple mark on his face, similar to Yusei's, but on the opposite side of his face. His copper-colored hair was frayed and covered his right eye. His other eye was emerald in color and the whites of his eyes were black, making it impossible to tell where the eye ended and the eyelash began. She saw a familiar duel disk strapped to his arm and a deck already in it.

The woman stepped back from the tree as the recognition clicked with her.

"Sayer?" she asked. "Are you a dark signer?"

"Yes I know, it's quite a feat," he began. "Escaping death three times and coming back for you. I told you that I'd always come back for you Akiza."

The red-haired signer felt conflicted about seeing her first savior, and the shock of seeing him again prevented her from speaking or moving.

"Thank you for freeing my immortal Akiza," Sayer continued. "Now I can properly discipline you for leaving me and running off with that shady Yusei character."

At the mention of Yusei's name, Akiza had instantly made up her mind. She didn't want to go back to Sayer, she wanted to stay where she belonged; with her friends, with her family, with Yusei.

She gritted her teeth, "well I hope you expect me to fight back. Because you don't control me anymore Sayer! I make my own decisions! And I don't want to go back with you! I don't want to return to that life!"

"Well too bad," Sayer continued as he raised his arm and Ccgojuru's mark appeared on his arm. "My ancient seal will prevent you from escaping me again."

The ancient seal destroyed the beautiful forest she and the Goddess had created, returning it to a barren wasteland once again. Akiza felt tears sting her eyes as she watched their work go up in smoke and saw Sayer leap down from the tree with the card he'd stolen in his marked hand.

"You managed to purify my immortal hm? No matter, I can simply corrupt her again with my new powers," he said as he held up the card and shadows wrapped around it.

"No!" she shouted.

"It's too late! Now your precious Goddess has returned to her dark ways, and will stay there even after I beat you!" Sayer continued as he activated his duel disk and shuffled the card into his deck.

Akiza growled and wiped her eyes with her arm. "Go ahead and try."

"What's going on? Why is the earth shaking?" Yusei asked, jumping down from the roof.

A moment later the tremors stopped and the sky turned black.

"It's not supposed to rain during this season..." Greiger began.

Luna fell to her knees and pointed, "look! I-It's..."

The group looked to the eastern sky to see an unfamiliar geoglyph painted on the surface of the clouds. The signer's marks began glowing, and they instantly knew that Akiza was in danger. They immediately hopped on their runners and drove as fast as they could to the tree geoglyph.

"Please be safe Akiza," a certain black-haired signer thought as he led the group.

Pookles: I think I'll stop this chapter there.

Luna: Good call. I think you're doing really well with not only this idea, but writing in third person.

Pookles: Thanks! ^^

Jack: I think it needs more me. Then this story will be a true work of art!

Luna & Akiza: Shut up Jack.

Yusei: Hope you enjoyed reading! Pookles has a four-day weekend, so there'll be more to come!