Me: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's.
I finally got desperate enough to watch episodes 111-123 in English Subbed. I have a headache from listening to it in Japanese and reading the subtitles in English. Makes me almost wish I could speak Japanese. Almost. The Japanese language sounds like a mouthful.
Chapter 3: Close and Personal
Yusei P.O.V.
Jesse was laying on our couch and had been since around midnight. Akiza and I had been awaken by shouting and when we went outside to investigate we had found Jesse lying in the middle of the road, the passenger side of the vehicle open and a long dagger laying near it, lying uselessly on the pavement with its owner no where in sight. Akiza and I took turns keeping watch over him and waiting to see if he knew what happened to Natsumi. If that bump on the back of his head would let him remember.
It was my turn to stay awake and keep watch when it was around seven am, but the long night and worries were taking its toll and I ended up dozing. And around 7:30 a groan woke me from my doze. "Ugh." I snapped awake to see Jesse moving himself into a sitting position on our green couch. "Yusei?" He asked, rubbing the back of his head.
"Yeah, it's me. You okay kid?" I asked as handed him a glass of water and some motron. He gladly accepted it.
"Not sure. My head feels like a porcupine decided to nest there." He groaned. I couldn't help but laugh a little. "What? What's so funny?"
"Oh, it's nothing. Natsumi said the same thing once when she was recovering from her kidnapping."
"Wait, so she's here?! You guys saved her?" He asked frantically.
I frowned. I almost forgot Natsumi is missing. "No, we don't know where she is or what happened last night. We just found you in the middle of the road with the passenger door open and her dagger on the ground. We were hoping you knew what happened." I replied mournfully.
His face fell noticeably and he said, "I remember everything that happened last night, but I'm afraid I don't know much."
"That's okay, tell me everything you know, it might end up helping us out why Natsumi is missing. Let me wake Akiza first." So I went to wake Akiza, who wanted Jack, Crow, Luna, Leo, and Bruno there. When they got there we explained that Natsumi has been missing since last night and the only witness to her supposed kidnapping had just woken up. They became worried and concerned. Had this been any ordinary girl, there would be less worries about her death, but Natsumi was a hero and hero had enemies that would kill them at the first chance they got. We finally got settled down in my rather small living room and Jesse began to talk.
"I had pulled up to the house and gotten out to open Natsumi's passenger door when someone came behind me, I could feel that he was scrawny and short, and he grabbed me around the throat and pulled me away from the open door. Natsumi jumped out and pulled her knife out so she was ready for a fight, but he threatened to hurt me if she didn't come quietly." He started.
"He?" I asked, trying to clarify.
"Yes, a he. His voice was rough and Natsumi recognized it." Okay, so that ruled out any females, including her last sister. And her brother too. His voie was't rough."He kept on calling her girlie and before he left he told me that I my chances of seeing her again were slim as her waist, then he cat growled. I wanted to hit him so bad, but then one of his cohorts knocked me out." He continued.
"Is there anything else?" Jack questioned.
"Well, even after Natsumi agreed to go quietly for my sake, they still knocked her out."
"That means they think that she'd double cross them and that she's actually a threat." Crow commented. "That mean that person has actually met her and knows she's a fighter and that she doesn't give up easily."
Crow was close, but he wasn't entirely correct. When Natsumi had met him he had never given her a chance to defend herself, and he hadn't been afraid to threaten her life either. He knew she was hard to kill, that she'd fight all the way to the end. She would fight Death again if she had to. "I know who it is." I said. everyone looked at me expectantly. "Trudge and Natsumi are the only other people that we know that know who he is. His name is Spikes and he's the one who put Natsumi in a two week coma." I announced.
Murmuring erupted throughout the small crowd. "Do you think he plans to kill her?" Akiza asked and she clung to my arm.
"I don't know. I honestly don't know."
Natsumi P.O.V.
My head throbbed and my right upper-arm and my left ankle burned as I awoke. I tried to get up, but I was strapped down onto something cold and metallic. I was on some kind of operating table and the straps only allowed me to move my head to look around. I couldn't see what was causing the burning sensation, but I could see that I was in a dark room and a single spotlight shown on me. I was dressed similarly to the way I was when he had caught me once before, except this time I had billowing sleeves that left my shoulders still exposed. I could feel that something was placed on my head, like crown, and my face was covered in make-up.
I hate it when people knock me out, I always get a throbbing headache when they do, but most people know that I am very dangerous conscious, so they tend to do that.
"Subject 1A has gained consciousness sire." A deep voice boomed from behind a glass window.
"I can see that you imbecile, and you can call her by her real name, or better yet, her new name." My captor chuckled from the same place. I don't remember him being this clever and I'm surprised that he hadn't given some new scares to think about yet. He hadn't even told me that he was going to make me his dueling slave.
"Hey Spike," I snapped, "What's new? Thought of a way to make me your dueling slave without having to force me? Maybe brainwashing, huh?"
He chuckled darkly. "No, I'm planning something else. You have such a luscious and gorgeous body, and your dueling skills are as perfect as your body, that I decided to do something different. If you survive this operation, you shall become my wife, and with me, we shall rule our own Egyptian era. I already have a little place set up, in fact we're there right now."
"Ugh," I said, making retching noises, "Why would I do that? And what do you mean operation? What are you going to do to me?" I was trying to sound brave, but honestly, I was flippin' scared. Last time I tangled with him, I didn't come out too good, and this time I wouldn't have a little spirit telling me that I had the choice to live and fulfill a destiny or die.
"You wouldn't have much of a choice," He started, " As for the experiment, we're going to see if possible to turn a living being into a duel card. We just have to find some way to transfer a piece of your essence to a card, a card that will have its own attack and defense points and special abilities. We don't know how the body will react to this and this is our first time trying, hence the code number 1A." He spoke every word with a hint of excitement and anticipation.
He was going to turn me into a card?! He's insane!
And you just figured that out? A part of my mind chided.
"Is the machine ready, doctor?" He asked.
"Indeed sire and patient Natsumi, The Queen of Creatures is ready as well. Shall I begin?"
"Yes."
A machine moved in front of me in a serious of whirs and clicks. It aimed its wide-barreled blaster looking at me and it began to glow and hum. When it finally fired all I could do was scream and pray for Death to come swiftly. I didn't care if I had to see his ugly mug again, as long as I could leave this world of pain behind. But then I thought of Yusei, Akiza, Jesse, and a little someone who would be joining my family in about nine months. I couldn't die now. They would miss me and I could do so much good if I lived. This gave me renewed strength and I fought hard against the urge to just give up and die. I screamed louder, refusing to let the bright light to take me, but I faded into darkness, wondering if I was dead or alive.
