A/N: I DO NOT OWN ANY OF DREAMFALL CHAPTERS OR YU GI OH 5DS! ALL RIGHTS GO TO THEIR CREATORS! ALL I OWN ARE MY OCS!
Chapter 2: Dreams - Part 2
Ayumu walked over to the machine that fed her what she needed to stay alive in her comatosed body. "This is probably a terrible idea. But if I can adjust the mixture of drugs going into my veins, I might be able to give my brain a chemical jolt, boost the subconscious signal."
"Is that a good idea?" Leo asked.
"Not usually," Yusei answered.
"Well, I don't know if it'll work or kill me, but I can't even push the buttons out here. The machine is in the physical world," Ayumu continued to talk to herself. "Maybe… Maybe I can somehow affect the state of things that are mirrored in here." She used her powers to slow time and the machine began to go crazy. "Oh, great, the machine's going nuts." Ayumu shook her head. "I feel weird. The machine's gone haywire, it's pumping crazy amount of drugs into my body. I just wanted a little pick-me-upper, not an actual OD." Ayumu turned to her comatosed body. "Okay, the drugs the machine has injected into my body is boosting the subconscious signal. But now… It's too fast, too jarring. Like, like a train of thought going at hyper speed. I can't get a good grip on it. Time to slow things down again." She used her power again and then activated her mental powers. She turned and they all noticed a more immature version of Ayumu standing there.
"Where do you think you're going?" the immature Ayumu asked. "Did you think it was going to be that easy? A quick chat with Mr. Dinner Theater, and then goodbye to Storytime, hello second chances? Don't be an idiot. You're staying here with me, doing the only thing we're good at. Being dead."
"I'm going home," the current Ayumu declared.
"Home. Sure, why not? Why not go home. Easy. But, oh wait! Your parents left you, you put your friends in danger, and you lost every single one of them. Everything and everyone you ever cared for is gone. You're right. That sounds like the perfect home to return to," the past Ayumu argued.
"Who were her friends that she put in danger and lost?" Luna asked.
'I have an idea,' Yusei thought.
"Maybe, maybe not. I'm going to find out for certain," the current Ayumu insisted.
"Nice retort, big sister. Did you rehearse that one?" the past Ayumu mocked.
"What did you call me?" the current Ayumu asked, seeming upset.
"Touch a nerve, did I?" the immature Ayumu asked.
"That was you. You were there. You said goodbye to Faith. It's not for you to mock and use against me," the current Ayumu retorted.
"That was never me. You left me behind before that. You ignored your true self, and pretended to be a hero," the immature Ayumu argued. "Like that was ever going to stick."
"No. Not a hero. A grown-up. Unlike the whiney child I used to be," the current Ayumu fought. "But, you know, that's okay. I accept who I was. I accept you."
The immature Ayumu scoffed. "Spare me that. You're lying to yourself. You don't want anything to do with me."
The current Ayumu got up close to her past self. "I'm ready to embrace who I was. Who I am, who I will be."
"Oh yeah? And… And who is that?"
"I don't know yet," the current Ayumu answered. She placed a hand on her past self. "You're a part of me now. You always will be. We need each other. Come on. Life's waiting, out there. Let's find out what's happening." A light surrounded them before a light beamed into the sky and disappeared.
. . .
Yusei slowly stepped along a stone path in the clouds. As he got further, he saw two strange looking creatures that he couldn't recognize or describe well. Next to them on a stone was a black bird. He stopped just in front of them. But he turned and went wide eyed as Ayumu came next to him as well.
"Ayumu…" he muttered.
"Yusei…" she responded. She hugged him for a moment. Yusei slowly returned it.
"How touching…" a voice commented, truly seeming a bit touched.
"Who are you?" Yusei asked the beings in front of him. "What are you?"
"I was Abnaxus of the Venar. He is Oular. Bird is-" the first being, that seemed like a small, older human with a large head and face and walked on a cane, was cut off by the bird.
"I'm Crow," the bird answered.
"You… can talk?" Yusei questioned.
"Yes. Yes, I can talk," the bird, Crow, replied sounding bored.
"Where am I?" Ezra asked.
"Dreamers, Yusei Fudo, Ayumu Honda, you must find the Purple Mountains. Find the Oular. Save the Dream," Abnaxus replied not answering the question.
"Where are the Purple Mountains? Where can we find the Oular? What's the Dream?" Yusei asked. Abnaxus looked at Crow.
"The bird will show you the way," Abnaxus answered.
"What? To where?" Crow questioned.
"Yeah, he seems real helpful," Ayumu stated sarcastically.
"Hey!" Crow cut in. "I'm right here, you know!"
"Find the Purple Mountains. Save the Dream," Abnaxus stated again.
Suddenly, the ground began to crumble beneath Yusei and Ayumu. "Wait, you still haven't answered our questions!" Ayumu called. "How do we save the Dream?"
"Find that out with bird, you will," Abnaxus answered vaguely.
"That doesn't-" Yusei was cut off as the ground came out from beneath him and he fell with Ayumu.