Chapter Two: The Awakening (Part two)
It was as if he had arrived on schedule. The only doors in the tiny lab room had swung open revealing a frustrated Jack Atlas. The night before was still buzzing through his head, but he wanted answers and he had come to the correct room. The lab room was filled with several workers that were unfamiliar to him, yet two he spotted right away. Lazar, his own mentor's assistant who's height outmatched him and the others. Yet when it came to work, he was nothing but serious business, he got what he wanted.
The other person Mr. Goodwin had spotted Jack with a calm face as he walked over to his side, "We understand why you're hear Jack, you want answers, and we're still working on it. That duel was the most fascinating thing I have seen in a long time. You were neck and neck with Yusei trying to deliver the final blow. Yet it seems, as you look at the tape, that it's not always what you expect."
"What do you mean?" He asked, but yet Goodwin motioned to the monitor as it showed the previous night's duel replayed just like it had in his head. Then his eyes widened with surprise as Yusei pulled up his final card "I lost! I lost that duel against Yusei! But I never loose! This is going to be bad reputation for the "Master of Fast!"
"Jack you need to calm down, the security is already working on clearing out what had happened last night. No one will know what happened. They'll just assume that it was an accidental black out." Lazar explained with a soft grin on his face as he watched the others.
"That still doesn't explain one thing." Jack added as he felt his anger starting to fade.
"You mean Yusei's disappearance?" Goodwin asked as he let out a soft sigh, "It seems, that the Crimson Dragon has better things for him."
"So that's what that thing was that interrupted our duel?" Jack asked as he glanced down at his red mark. He remembered that he as well as Yusei suffered from a great pain as the Crimson Dragon arrived. It was nothing that he had felt before.
"Yes, but Jack, it's time I told you something, something that involves you, Yusei and three other people. It goes back far further then man began their first recordings of history." Goodwin explained as he began to leave the room. "I suggest you follow, it will be quiet complicated."
'As if this wasn't complicated enough.' Jack thought to himself, but fell silent as he followed after Goodwin, only curiosity began to grow inside. Wondering what seemed so important to Goodwin that it had to relate to the Crimson Dragon, himself and Yusei.
It had been a long time, now all he saw was an endless row of tunnels, but one of these days, these tunnels would have to come to an end. It was as if they had gone through a long stretch of mazes well below the Kaiba Corporation building that was now above them. They were at the underground levels, which acted as a labyrinth if anyone unfamiliar to the area had come across them. They'd surely get lost.
Another thing that Jack had noticed was that Goodwin hadn't spoken since they left the lab room. That had been a long time at least it felt like that. His purple eyes gazed over to his comrade beside him, yet he could barely make out Goodwin's expression. The light was too dim, it was often lit by one candle on one side of the room, and then once more another one would spring up in the same position, mounted on the wall. At last Goodwin began to speak, his voice however did not seem to echo through the tunnels, it was much too soft.
"Jack this is the reason why I brought you here." He said as a pair of doors slid open with a slight creek. "To see the story of your past." He added as the room began to light up with torches that lead up a narrow pathway, a pathway that eventually a steep staircase that seemed to lead on for miles. At last he realized what he was standing in front of, a temple.
"So this is what we came down to see? A giant rock that was worshiped millions of years ago? Normally you see this kind of stuff in a museum." Jack said with a tone of sarcasm in his voice, yet Goodwin barely even took notice of. He was used to Jack's behavior.
"Jack you don't understand at all, this is much more. It is where the first group of Singers had a fierce battle. There were five of them in all baring the Mark of the Dragon. And those who did had a destiny of battling a fierce dark monster. Yet the first Signers realized that they alone were no match for this great beast, they worshiped at this temple for an offering that would help them win this war. And at last, they received it, it was the Crimson Dragon along with five other dragons that appeared to help stop the evil. You and Yusei have those two dragons.
"Yet there was another interesting piece of this story that we uncovered, it will surprise you greatly. The leader of the Signers was of a warrior with great skills, controlling elements that are beyond our understanding, and his story goes as far back as well. His name at the time…was the Avatar."
