Chapter Two
Life had gone on normally for Jack and Carly after that night where Jack had admitted to Carly all that had happened during their Dark Signer duel. Jack had been gone early in the morning and Carly had gone back to chasing him like the mad report she was. Life was pretty good, although nothing was concrete with their relationship and two other woman competing for Jack's heart had popped up. The worst thing to happen between Jack and Carly though was Jack had left New Domino City and didn't want her to come.
The days that passed without Jack were simply boring. Carly tried to find someone else to follow and mold into a great superstar like Jack was a great king, only Carly hadn't found anyone. Carly had struggled to find any stories at all, but she had still been getting in some good pictures of the sunset when she'd come home late after a wonder around New Domino. The walks around New Domino was to try and find some insperation or something, but nothing special was popping up in Carly's life. Carly's life was boring.
She watched Jack and Crow on TV dueling others and each other and Carly knew where Akiza, Luna and Leo were no one had any idea where Yusei was). But they were so busy with their lifes they didn't keep in contact much. Carly was feeling lonlier than ever.
Then, one night, as Carly was walking back from one of her wondering walks, somethig happened. Something every bad and confusing happened. Carly was stood on the bridge, taking photos of the sunset which she would sell to the highest bidder when, through her camera lens, Carly was shocked as a flashing image of a dark black and orange bird appeared on the picture. Carly screamed and fell back. She looked up to see if she could still see the big scary bird, but it wasn't there. Shakily, Carly picked up her camera and looked through the pictures she had took. There was no sign of a large bird.
Carly's breathing was heavy. Slowly, she calmed herself down, the coldness of the ground helping to calm her. Soon, Rogue climbed to her feet, though she felt light headed and dizzy on her feet. Carly began making her way back to her flat.
That wasn't the last time Carly saw the bird.
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All the signers were shocked at the same time as pain coursed through their arms and, when they looked down to it, they saw their the mark of the crimson dragon. As they all gasped and wondered what darkness there was now to threaten earth, Akiza made the first move to contact all the Signers and set up a meeting point for them. There destination, New Domino City.
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"What the hells going on?" Jack roared as he walked towards Crow, Akiza, Luna and Leo whom were all waiting for him. Jack had been met by Mina and Stephaine had tagged along.
"Jack." Said Akiza.
"We don't know." Said Crow. "Do you know where Yusei is?"
Jack shuck his head. "Why now of all times does this have to happen? I was about to make another winning streak."
"Yeah, yeah, yeah. Boo hoo. Listen Jack, no one cares about your dueling life on the big screen. We've just gotta find Yusei and we've gotta find out what the heck is going on around here." Crow barked.
"I think I can help with that." Said Mina who was working away at her tablet. Suddenly Mina's face lit up, shocked, then turned to a somewhat satidfied smile.
"What is it Mina? Well come on spit it out!" Jack ordered.
Mina turned her tablet around and there was Yusei on the screan. "Hey guys." He said.
"Yusei." All the signers gasped. "Where are you?" Asked Leo.
"I'm back at Martha's with Kalin. Listen guys, something bigs going down." Yusei said.
"We know that Yusei. We've all meet up back in New Domino to see what it is." Said Crow.
Yusei nodded his head. "Good, but the thing is, this isn't about us Signers."
There were gaspes from Luna, Leo and Akiza while Jack and Crow examoned, "What?"
"This isn't about us guys. This isn't our fight. It involves us, but it's not really our battle to face." Yusei tried to explain.
"What do you mean Yusei?" Asked Luna.
"What I mean is Luna that the ex- Dark Signers are in trouble and we've got to help them."
"What? Help them how? WHat do you mean in trouble?" Jack said, snatching the tablet from Mina and shaking it as if to get Yusei to answer quicker. "Come on answer me!"
"Jack." Mina gasped.
"Hey man, stop it. Your gonna mess with the connection. Let the guy talk." Crow said trying to wrestle the tablet out of Jack's grip.
"What I mean is Jack that the spirits of the Earth Bound Immortals weren't finished when we sealed them away. Over the past few years, they've gotten stronger and built up their strengh and now that they're strong enough, they're attacking the hosts they used and forcing them into a shadow duel."
"What?" Yelled Crow down to the screen. "You gotta be kidding me."
"No job." Yusei said. "You marks must have been going crazy for a while. That was because I was with Kalin when he was dueling the shadows. I stood with him when he dueled and protected him the best I could from the shadows and the dirty treats the Earth Bound Immortals used against them."
"Yusei, why have they come back? And why are they attacking their hosts and not us?" Akiza asked.
"Good question Akiza. It's because, although the Earth Bound Immortals are stronger now, the still can't take shape or form, but what they can do is use the link that was created behind them and their host to pull them back to the real world log enough for a duel to try and break the host and reclaim that host's body as their own. All of you need to find out where your host is that fought against you when the Dark Singers were close to ruling. Go now and go fast. I don't know how much time you guys have. See you all soon."
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Yusei didn't have to tell Jack twice. He was off and driving at mad speed to get to Carly's flat. So fast he almost got pulled over, but he kept going and without locking up his bike, jumped off his D-Wheel and ran to Carly's door.
Thump, thump, thump, "Carly."Thump, thump, thump. "Carly, are you in there? It's me Jack?"
Jack was quiet for less than a moment while he waited for Carly to answer the door. During that silence he heard something like a plate smash. Then nothing else. "Carly? Carly if you don't open this door I'm going to break it down!"
Carly still didn't answer. Jack took a step back and mutiple times kicked at the door, until finally it caved in. Jack stepped into the apparentment and was suprized by what he saw. There was broken glass every where. From tiny little mirror pieces to large window pieces. There was glass covering every surface. Jack took a step in, being careful where he stood and looked around. "Carly." He called. He hoped he wasn't too late.
Then he noticed something. Carly's glasses. The lens were smashed worse than he'd ever seen before and they had blood on them. There was a trail of blood trailed that led to underneath the table and it was there, when Jack got closer to it, that he saw her, Carly. Carly was curled up in a ball, sat underneath the table, shaking.
"Carly?" Jack said softly as he moved a chair out of the way so he could easily get to Carly. "Carly, it's me. Jack. I'm back. Don't worry Carly, everythings going to be al-" Then Jack noticed that the blood trail went up to Carly's hands where streaks of blood dripped from them. "right." Carly's hands were hiding her face and her body was shaking as if she was weeping quietly into her hands. Jack reached out and slowly tried moving Carly's hand away; being careful he didn't hurt her as he didn't know where she'd been cut. Carly put up a fight though and kept her hands to her face. "Carly, it's me Jack. Move your hands from your face and look at me."
"I can't." Carly breathed.
"Why not?" Jack said.
"Because I can't see you." Carly hicupted.
"Well, obviously you can't see me, you've got your hands over your eyes and your glasses are smashed. We'll get you new ones though Carly so you can see-"
"No Jack! I can't see." Carly yelled into her hands followed by sobs.
Jack was getting worried now and pulled harder at her hands, but Carly gave in and slowly she removed her hands from her face. Jack saw her palms were filled with blood, but what disterbed him more was blood was dripping from her face which was still hidden by her hair. "I can't see you Jack." Slowly Carly turned her head to face Jack. Jack gasped at what he saw. Carly's eyes were still closed, but Jack could make out the where the glass had cut her from the deep cuts around her eyes that were filling her hands with blood. Slowly (And painfully) Carly opened her eyes, not showing her normal eyes, but blood red eyes. "I have no sight to see you with." A single tear rolled down Carly's check. It's colour was red.