Author's note: And I'm back with the new chapter. I don't own Yugioh 5Ds, but I do own my OCs. Enjoy!

Chapter 1

Six months had pass since the Dark Signer's defeat. About a week ago, the bridge was finally complete, bringing the Neo Domino City and Satellite together at last. So much had happened since then; main thing was that the tournament will be held for all Turbo Duelists. World Racing Grand Prix, also known as WRGP for short.

Yusei, Jack, Crow, Aoi, and I were preparing the engine for the upcoming event. And so far, we got everything in control…

BOOM!

…or not.

Jack just accelerated the test Duel Runner so much, that it overloaded and caused massive explosion in our garage. Black smoke filled out of our apartment, and slowly got up, coughing violently due to the smoke.

"Is everyone alright?" Yusei asked between coughs.

"Yeah, we're alright," Crow grinned as he got up from the ground.

"The duel runner on the other hand, not so much," Aoi point it out on the ground.

"How many engines did we destroyed this time?" I asked rhetorically.

"I don't know. But apparently someone is at fault, and I am not going to say his name," Crow turned around and then coughed out, "Jack."

"What did you say?!" Jack bursted out from the rubbles of the duel runner and glared at the orange hair duelist, "You're the one who told me to max out!"

"Oh?" Crow made an exasperated gasped, "Since when did King Jack Atlas follows order from someone else? I was clearly testing your judgement!"

"What was that?!" Jack roared, "Are you trying to pick up a fight birdbrain?"

"Bring it on you…"

"Guys…GUYS!" I shouted.

"WHAT?!" They both yelled at me.

"What in the world happened here?!" A voice shouted from above. We looked up to see an elderly woman at the entrance of the basement.

"That's what!" I pointed out to the two men.

"Oh crap…Zora," Crow muttered.

"That annoying old wench," Jack said. I whacked him on the side of the head for saying something disrespectful to her.

"Watch your mouth young men!" Zora yelled at the blonde, "Unless you want to be kicked out of the street, even considering what you just done here!"

"Wait! It was an accident! We're-"

"I don't want to here any excuses!" Zora cut off Jack's retort.

Yusei stepped in, "Sorry Zora. We all got carried away in the test."

"Ah Yusei, one or two failures is alright," Zora said, less aggravated this time, "Failures are a quickest route to success after all."

"Not if we keep making explosions all the time," Aoi quietly joked.

"I'll leave it off this time, but please be a bit more careful if you must," The landlord told the raven hair.

"Y-Yeah…" Yusei replied with a nod.

Suddenly, a siren was heard, and we went outside to check it out. There, we saw Tetsu Ushio emerged out of the car with Sagiri Mikage.

"Ah, security?! My apologies," Zora greeted them calmly, "We didn't mean to cause trouble."

Ushio laughed it off, "They failed again, huh? That's alright. We came here for an unrelated business."

"Oh? Is that so?" Zora said.

"We would like to speak to the five of you, if you don't mind." Mikage said.

We went inside the garage, and I quickly offered the two guest a drink, which they both declined politely. Then, Ushio started glancing at the duel runner that we attempted to build.

"So you five are still working on that?" he asked.

"Yeah. We need to get the new engine for the Grand Prix in about a year or so," Yusei answered.

"Entries are in a three-man groups, after all," Crow said. I raised an eyebrow at him, "And/or women if you have Crystal in team. We need to get the engine done in time if we want to enter."

"I see." Ushio nodded understandingly, "But the tournament requires three people in a team. A fourth member can join as a sub. But technically there are five of you."

"We already knew that," Aoi said, "All five of us decided to split into two different teams."

"Yusei, Jack, and Crow are in one team. Aoi and I are in the other," I added, "Which leaves one more open spot for team two. But we haven't decided who will that be yet."

"Hmm, makes sense." Ushio said, "Wouldn't it be better if you buy the engines or have sponsors to help you?"

All five of us shook our heads.

"We think it would be better if we do this at our own hands," Yusei replied.

"Suit yourself then."

"What is it that you want from us, though?" Jack asked.

"You heard a rumor about 'Ghost'?" Ushio asked us.

"Ghost?" I tilted my head in confusion.

"I heard about him," Crow suddenly spoke up, "He's the bastard who shows up every night, challenges you to a duel, and makes you crash, right?"

"Correct." Ushio replied, "And I also bet that you know how the new Speed World 2 works out."

"Who doesn't?" I asked, "Though, there are chances that other Turbo Duelists tend to crash each other out on purpose."

"The only problem is that 'how' is he doing it," Mikage said, "A regular turbo duel would never produce accidents that would hurt someone."

"Unless this 'Ghost' guy turned out to be a psychic duelist," Aoi pointed out.

"Mmm. Yuna thought the same thing, but she wasn't so sure about it yet," Mikage said.

"He could also be using some unlawful mean to this situation." Jack muttered.

"That would also be a case, Atlas-sama." The blue hair woman said.

"Are you trying to say that you want us to help you guys to catch this 'Ghost'?" Crow asked suspiciously.

"Exactly. So how about it?" Ushio offered.

"Well…I don't mind," Yusei said.

"Nope! Sorry, but we're too busy with the WRGP!" Crow interrupted, "So unless it's cancelled or something, we can't help you. So bye!"

Crow immediately shoved the two security officers out the door and shut it lock.

"And what was that all about, Crow?" I asked him almost angrily, "Ushio and Mikage-san were only asking us nicely to help them. And then you decided to throw them out like that? Besides, maybe we can help them take that Ghost down in jiffy."

"It's like what I told them, Crystal," Crow answered, "We got our hands full. And we won't be able to join the WRGP if one of us gets hurt."

"But it's definitely not a good idea to leave that situation to them alone," Aoi suddenly said, "Besides, one of them will get hurt if Ghost shows up again."

When he said the last sentence, Aoi's brown eyes started to become a bit hollow and golden brown. But then, they returned to normal color again, which certainly gave us bad chills in our spines.

"Anyway, it's probably too late to take back what we said," Yusei spoke out, "We should just get back to working on the engine."

After a moment of silence, we agreed.


Later that night…

Crow was out for his delivery shift. Yusei and Aoi were still working on the engine from earlier. Jack was sitting on the couch, watching them from sidelines. I was in a kitchen, preparing dinner.

While in the middle of my cooking, I heard a fizzing somewhere in the living room. So I peeked out of the kitchen to take a look, only to find that Yusei's computer screen began to go fuzzy and Crow's face appeared on it.

"Guys, come quick! Ushio is in a hospital!" Crow shouted.

After turning off the stoves and some other equipments, we dashed out of the apartment and head to the hospital. By the time we got there, Crow and Mikage were in the hallway outside of the emergency room.

"Is it true that Ushio was attacked?" Jack asked, alert.

"Yes. He's heading to the emergency room right now," Mikage said with a worry look on her face.

Suddenly, a stretcher passed by with an injured Ushio on top.

"Ushio! What happened?!" Yusei asked.

Ushio lifted an eye opened and glanced at the raven hair, "Yusei…whatever you do…don't use Synchro on Ghost."

I blinked. Don't use Synchro? Why?

Then, he passed out, and we were forced to move away for the people to move Ushio to the operation room. Then, Jack turned to the blue hair women.

"Why did you let Ushio go after Ghost like that?" he asked sternly.

Mikage turned her head away in shame, "He didn't want to keep on relying on you five, so he offered himself as a bait. I'm sorry. This is all my fault. I should've have stopped him."


Back at the Poppo Time Garage…

"Dammit! This is all my fault!" Crow shouted while punching a wall, "If only I had said that we'll cooperate with him, then he wouldn't…"

"Crow, that's enough!" Yusei told him, "What's done it done. Besides, the way Ghost beat Ushio down like this proves that he's a tough player."

"And that's why we can't just sit here just twiddling our thumbs!" Crow shouted. Yusei tossed Crow his helmet in response, and then geared himself up for a ride.

"And who says we're going to sit here and twiddle our thumbs? We're going after Ghost!" I said, straightening my fingerless gloves. Everyone agreed and pulled the tarps out of our own signature duel runners, including Aoi's which was dark blue outlined in silver and black and had various of designs of lightings he painted himself which looked pretty awesome.

We mounted on our duel runners and split ourselves up to look for the suspect. Then, it turned out that it took us a really long time to search for Ghost, because the sun was rising up at this moment. However, I got a call signal from my duel runner and turn it on, revealing Yusei's face on the screen.

"Guys, I just found Ghost!" He called over.

"Great! Where's he at?!" I heard Crow demanded.

"Near the Central Lane. I'm about to duel this guy right now!"

"Well good luck Yusei! We'll meet you there!" I told him.

The screen shut off. And while I was heading my way to where Yusei is, I felt a 'Whack!' near the side of my duel runner, causing me nearly lost control and swerve my runner back on track.

"Gah! What the heck?" I leaned down a little bit to see some sort of mini device on the frame. It started beeping and lighting on off receptively in red.

"I wouldn't try to take that out if I were you!" I heard someone shout. Just then, a black duel runner outlined in silver ran past by me, revealing the rider dressed in a black riding suit, outlined in silver. Judging by the voice I heard earlier, I could tell it's a female rider. Though, her helmet covers her whole face, so I couldn't tell what she really looked like.

"Yumehara Crystal, isn't it?" she asked.

I stared at her, suspiciously, "Yeah. So what if that's my name?"

"Interesting. Target on sight," she said. Then, she pointed her index finger at me, "Then I hereby challenge you to a duel."

Okay, that was random. Unless… "Are you involved with Ghost?"

"Ghost? Oh, that." she replied nonchalantly, "Not that I know of…"

"Then get out of the way! I don't have time for this right now!" I shouted.

"Are you sure about that?" The mysterious rider asked, "Because if you either run away or stop this duel runner, that device I tact to your duel runner will explode. Of course, if you lose this duel, then that device will still explode at this moment."

She pointed to the device on the frame, and I cursed quietly. Looks like I have no choice if my life is on the life.

"Fine. I don't know if you're responsible for this Ghost incident or not, but I'll accept this duel!" I told her. I quickly contacted my friends about the situation I'm in now and quickly pressed the button on my screen to bring out the speed world.

"Field Magic! Speed World 2, set on!"

The computer started scanning for the available duel lanes.

"Duel Mode. Auto-Pilot Standby. Awaiting Central Grid Official Authorization…Authorization Complete! All non-combat vehicles please leave the combat lane."

"Here goes!" I shouted, "Riding Duel…"

"…ACCELERATION!"

Crystal's LP: 4000 S.C. 0, Mysterious Rider's LP: 4000 S.C. 0

"I'll take the first move. Draw!" The rider declared as she drew a card. "I'll summon Silver Luminous Core in defense mode!"

Silver Luminous Core ATK 0, DEF 0 LV. 1

A small tiny, silver cube appeared beside the mysterious rider. Obviously, it doesn't look strong. Then again, a weak monter like that probably means it has good effect.

"Then by sending it to the graveyard, I can Special summon two level four or lower monsters from my deck. "And I'll use it to bring out Silver Blaze Knight and Silver Mecha Wolf!" she continued.

Silver Blaze Knight ATK 1400, DEF 2000 LV. 4

Silver Mecha Wolf ATK 1500, DEF 1000 LV. 4

Then, the cube burst itself into dust, revealing a silver armor fiery knight nd a robotic wolf on the field.

"I place two cards face down and end my turn!" The rider finished.

"My turn! Draw!" I yelled.

Crystal's S.C. 1, Mysterious Rider S.C. 1

"I summon Moonlight Crystal Empress on the field!"

Moonlight Crystal Empress ATK 1600, DEF 1300 LV. 4

A women with blond hair and pink eyes appeared in white and pink clad and silver armor, holding up a crystallized sword and a shield. She had a crescent moon tiara on her forehead.

"Moonlight Crystal Empress, attack Silver Mecha Wolf!" I shouted. On cue, the empress leaps up and charged at the robotic wolf.

"Trap card, Negate Attack!" The rider flipped up the card and stopped my monster attack.

"Then I place two cards face down and end my turn!" I said.

"My turn! Draw!" The rider drew a card, and I think I heard her chuckled.

Crystal's S.C. 2, Mysterious Rider S.C. 2

"Hehehe…A bit early to draw this, but it seems that I can put it into good use. I play Speed Spell-Count up, which will let me send any number of cards into the graveyard and gain two speed counters for each one. For now, I'm only going to send one to the graveyard."

Mysterious Rider S.C. 4

As her counters went up, her duel runner sped up.

"Then by removing all four of my speed counters, I play a Ritual Speed Spell-Silver Millennium Chant!"

Mysterious Rider S.C. 0

What? A Ritual Speed Spell?! Not very many people use that these days even when it was created for turbo duel. Then, some kind of platform appeared below us, forming a silver flames around it.

"I'll release both Blaze Knight and Mecha Wolf to complete the ritual summon!" she declared, "Ancient huntress of a dark, cold night! Arise from the battlefield of the cold war! Ritual Summon! Now appear with your dark blade! Dark Star-Silver Warrioress!"

Dark Star-Silver Warrioress ATK 2700, DEF 2000 LV. 8

Then, the flame burst, revealing a pale skin woman, wearing a black and silver armor that has spikes over her breast plate. Her face was covered by the helmet, but she does have a really long silver hair and was holding a black sword that was emitting dark aura.

"What…the heck is that?" I asked.

"One of my aces that resembles the terror results of the cold war," she replied, "But never mind that! I'll have silver Warrioress attack your empress!"

The silver hair lady charged at Moonlight Crystal Empress with her sword.

"Activating Trap Card, Crystal Barrier, which will protect my monster and reduce the battle damage to zero as long as I have a monster on the field with the name Crystal!"

The purple light barrier appeared around the empress, completely block the Silver Warrioress attack.

"Hmph. When Silver Warrioress fails to destroy the monster, I can halve her attack points to inflict damage to you life points!" The rider fought back.

That was when the armor lady went straight to me and sliced me on my shoulder, causing blood to spill out. I screamed in pain and hold on to my shoulder protectively. Crap, this girl could possibly a psychic duelist.

Crystal's LP: 2650

"Surprise that I can create real damage to the duel?" she asked, "Trust me, I could do a lot worse than that Ghost person you talked about earlier."

I winced and glared at her, "Are you done yet?"

"Pretty much. I'll end my turn here."

"My turn! Draw!" I yelled.

Crystal's S.C. 3, Mysterious Rider S.C. 1

"I summon tuner monster, Crystal Lunar Rabbit on the field!"

Crystal Lunar Rabbit ATK 500, DEF 200 LV. 3

Suddenly, a tiny pink rabbit with red eyes, floppy ears appears. It had a purple Crescent Mark on it's head and an amethyst gem on it's chest.

"Now I tune my level 4 Moonlight Crystal Empress with my level 3 Crystal Lunar Rabbit!" The tiny rabbit moved its whisker a bit, before jumping up and turned into three rings, surrounding the empress who turned into four orbs, "Shining jewels of the night, reveal your light! Synchro Summon! Shine, Sparkling Crystal Dragon!"

Sparkling Crystal Dragon ATK 2500, DEF 1800 LV. 7

The light flashed, revealing a purple, crystallized dragon on the field. However, I failed to realized that the rider started scoffing.

"Hehe…you shouldn't have brought out a Synchro Monster in a first place," she said. Suddenly, two dark rings appeared and attached themselves to Sparkling Crystal Dragon. She let out a painful roar as dark electricity struck around her from the rings.

"Sparkling Crystal Dragon!" I cried out and glared at her, "What have you done to her?!"

"One of my Synchro Killer strategies!" The rider replied, "As long as Dark Star-Silver Warrioress is on the field, all Synchro Monster's attack and defense points will be reduce to zero. Plus, their effects are negated!"

Sparkling Crystal Dragon ATK 0, DEF 0

"Dang it!" I seethed through my teeth. I looked at my hand and my field. There was nothing I can do to reverse that, "I end my turn."

"My turn, draw!" she yelled.

Crystal's S.C. 4, Mysterious Rider S.C. 2

"I'll have Silver Warrioress attack your useless dragon! Too bad for you, because it will be an immediate loss!"

The female warrior slice my dragon, making her burst into the field.

"Activating Trap Card, Half-Shield, which will cut the battle damage from a monster in half!" I yelled.

Crystal's LP: 1300

"Hmph. You got yourself saved again. I end my turn then," The rider replied. Just then, a duel runner appeared behind us, and I immediately recognized the rider.

"Aoi! What are you doing here?" I asked, surprised.

"I split myself up from the others to look for you, cuz I had a bad feeling that something bad had happened to you!" The blue hair psychic replied, "Crow and Jack are still with Yusei, who was still battling with Ghost now and…What the hell happened to your arm?!"

Aoi's eyes bulged out in alert, and I started wincing in pain just realizing the bleeding still there, "This happens when I was forced to duel with that woman there. It turned that she's a psychic duelist who can make duel damage real."

"What she said is correct!" The rider said, hearing out conversation. Then, she turned to the other psychic, "And I'm guessing that you're Akiyama Aoi? You even looked more pathetic than I thought."

Aoi raised an eyebrow at her, "How do you know my name and are you associated with Ghost there?"

"The first question is classified. As for the second question, I'll be honest and say that I'm not familiar with Ghost here," she said, "But if you don't want to believe me, then that's fine. I wasn't expecting you too. But for now, I'm planning on wiping your friend to the floor!"

"We'll see about that!" I closed my eyes and placed my two fingers on my deck. C'mon deck. Just for this one, please let this card appeared again. Suddenly, I felt the burning pain on my right arm, revealing the Crimson Star Guardian Mark through my sleeve. I swiftly drew a card, turned it a little, and smiled.

Crystal's S.C. 5, Mysterious Rider S.C. 3

"You came to me just in time. Thank you!" I glanced at the field again, "First I play Speed-Spell, Angel Baton! By removing four of my speed counters, I can draw two cards and send one to the graveyard!"

Crystal's S.C. 1

I quickly drew two more cards and sent one to the graveyard.

"The one I sent earlier was Crystal Spirit! She can be special summon from the graveyard once per turn!"

A transparent pale skin girl with blue hair, blue eyes, and a blue gem on her chest appeared.

Crystal Spirit ATK 900, DEF 1000 LV. 1

"Then, by releasing Crystal Spirit, I tribute summon Crimson Jewel Priestess!"

Crimson Jewel Priestess ATK 2000, DEF 2300 LV. 5

A woman who looked a lot like me appeared in a ceremonial dress and jewels around her.

"By using her effect, I can bring back Sparkling Crystal Dragon from the graveyard!"

"Idiot! You do realize Silver Warrioress effect against Synchro Monsters!" The rider yelled.

I ignored her as my dragon appeared again. The darks rings surrounded her, reducing her attack and defense points to zero again.

Sparkling Crystal Dragon ATK 0, DEF 0 LV. 7

"I tune my level 7 Sparkling Crystal Dragon with my level 5 Crimson Jewel Priestess!" Seven orbs and five rings merged together. "Ancient power of the Crimson Star, become the path the majestic light shines upon! Shine your shards of light through the life of the earth! Synchro Summon! Reveal your light, Crimson Jewel Dragon!"

Crimson Jewel Dragon ATK 4000, DEF 3800 LV. 12

Out of the crimson light, the dragon that almost looks like Sparkling Crystal Dragon in previous appeared, only that she looked stronger, outlined in crimson, and had a star mark on her chest.

"So what if you just brought out a stronger monster?" The rider taunted, "It's still a Synchro, so the effect from my monster still applies!"

"Except that Crimson Jewel Dragon as the ability to negate all cards effect!" I told her, making her taken back, "Plus, as long as she remains in the field, all monsters on my opponents side will be reduced to zero!"

"What?!"

Dark Star-Silver Warrioress ATK 0, DEF 0 LV. 8

"End this now, Crimson Jewel Dragon! Shattered Crimson Shards!" I commanded.

Crimson Jewel Dragon flew up and send shards of shattered minerals at the dark monster, making her disappeared as well as dropping my opponent's life points to zero.

Mysterious rider's LP: 0, Winner: Crystal

The device on my duel runner detached itself and dropped to the ground. Steamed appeared out of her duel runner, and she was forced to pulled the brake. Aoi and I stopped behind her once she looked up. I could feel her glaring at me through her helmet.

"Hmph. You may have defeat me once, but I will come back and deal with you later! And that includes you tattoo boy, along with the other Signers and Guardians!" The rider declared.

"Then who are you and why are you after us?" I asked her.

"That's none of your concern!" She replied, "But as for who I am…you may call me Artemis."

Artemis brought her own duel runner back to life again and sped away, leaving me and Aoi in the middle of the duel lane alone.

"Well the good news is that I picked up the bombing device that was attached to your duel runner earlier," Aoi told me.

"Yeah," I replied, somewhat satisfied.

"Though, what was that all about?" he asked.

"No idea," Suddenly, I felt the sharp pain on my bleeding shoulder and collapsed to the ground. Good thing was that Aoi caught me just in time.

"Hey, are you alright, Crystal?" Aoi asked.

"I…I'm fine," I said, "It's nothing to be worrying about."

"The hell it is," I heard him retort. Then, I saw grabbed his duel disk and placed a card on it. Then, a soothing green light appeared on my shoulder, making the wound a lot smaller. The bleeding slows down, the pain on my arm subsided, though it still felt a bit stiff and not much can be done. Instead, Aoi grabbed some bandages out of his duel runner and wrapped it around my arm.

"Here. It should be fine like this until we get back," he told me.

"Hopefully long enough until we meet the guys again," I smiled. "Anyway, thanks."

Suddenly, the phone started ring, coming out of Aoi's pocket. He quickly pulled it out, revealing the hologram face of Crow on it. He turned it on and pressed the phone to his ear.

"Hello?" Aoi started speaking, "Yeah, I'm with Crystal now...She's fine, but her shoulder's injured, so we'll be heading back to get it treated...Huh...WHAT?!"

A long paused due to the shock on his face. "Alright...we'll be there. See ya, Crow."

Aoi turned off his cell phone.

"What's wrong?" I asked.

"Crow just called and said that Yusei had just defeated Ghost. But then he crashed and the Ghost turned out to be a robot," Aoi explained.

"WHAT DID YOU SAY?!" I exclaimed, "So you're saying that we've been chasing a robot for all this time?!"

"Apparently so," he replied, "Anyway, we got to get back to the garage and meet them there."

"Alright," I said in agreement, "So how do we...?"

"Speed Spell Teleport!" Aoi chanted, "Take us back to the garage!"

Much to my dismay, I was about to protest before the light hit us, and I began to feel dizzy from the effect of that card as soon as we hit the garage.

"Ugh! I hate it when you used that! It gives me a headache!" I yelled at the blue hair psychic.

"...Sorry."

"There you two are! We're starting to get worry about you two here!" We turned around and saw Crow and Yusei behind us, along with Mikage.

"Sorry, another trouble occur," I told them, "Where's Jack?"

"Sleeping," Crow answered in disgust. Okay, no surpass there since we stayed up all night.

"Okay. So back to the topic of Ghost. You said that he was a robot all along."

"A Duel Bot to be precise," Mikage answered, "We used these to test them in order to capture the rouge Turbo Duelist."

"We got the program chip out to see if we can track the person who used it, but it turned out to be blank," Yusei added.

"Looks like someone hijacked and erased the memory chip before you took it out," Aoi point it out.

"Possibly."

"So what really happened to you when Yusei was battling ghost, Crystal?" Crow asked.

I sighed as I start explaining, "There was this mysterious person name Artemis who forced into a duel with her. Otherwise, she'll make my duel runner explode if I refuse to accept."

"Sheesh! Going as far as to do that?" Crow said.

"But the good news it that we got the bombing device that was attached to Crystal's Duel Runner," Aoi said as he showed everyone the device, "Perhaps you could use it to track her down."

Suddenly, smoked appeared from the device and exploded itself, causing Aoi to drop it and yelped. We looked down to see that the device was nothing but ashes.

"And we just lost our lead to find out who Artemis really is," I finally said.

"But this is the first time I heard about this. Do you think Artemis was associated with this Ghost person?" Mikage asked.

"I thought so too, at first. But she denies it for some reason," I told her, "Then again, I don't think her sudden appearance was really a coincidence."

"Then we better keep our head up for her and the other person who stole the robot," Yusei said, "They could be our new enemies."

'No kidding,' I thought. Though, this is only a beginning of our new threat.

Me: And that's that.

Crystal: Well isn't that just lovely. We got more new enemies along with Yliaster to deal with.

Me: Certainly. Anyway, the next chapter is just probably a filler for a good reason.

Crystal: ...Why?

Me: You'll see. R&R please.