Sorry about the long wait. By the way I made some changes to the last Sign but no major ones.. There is no Kiryu; after seeing him in Dark Signs Part One my co-author and I decided he was offically beyond saving due to his demenor. He sounded like he was on the brin of insanity, of crazed hysteria! Instead, I've replaced him with a friend of Crow's named Drake Draconem. He helped during the Signer War and his family had protected the true history of the Crimson Dragon for many generations. More will be revealed. Now on to the long awaited update!

Sign Three: From Dreams come Warnings

The Tsubasa Medical Center--3:25 pm

Leonard Sawatori watched nervously as his hero and the nameless girl were carefully removed from the wreckage of the crash, the strange chestnut Runner on it side, scraped and dented. His mouth dried as he tumbled off the moped, which he'd brought to a successful if nearly catosphoric stop, in his haste to reach the Duel King's side. The tow trucks carefully pulled away the twisted remains of a small medical cart. Several people had been hurt but not as badly as Yusei or his passenger.

"Yusei-nii-sama! Nii-sama!" Leo cried desparetly as the doctors and nurses wiped blood away from the brows of thier patients and settled them onto grunneys as they set up portable medical equipment around the already injuried girl. Yusei's move had made sure that most of the damage had taken by him. His jacket was torn his armsliced alll the way from wrist to shoulderblade. "Nii-sama!"

"Don't crowd him, little one," a kind faced nurse cautioned, holding him back as a quick transport--a large open barge with gryo tech that allowed it to hover--hummed towards them. "Your guardian will be fine;you'll see,"

Leo nodded nervously and sneezed. "Oh my, you gave your jacket to the girl didn't you? Come on we'll get you something to eat and a blanket. How does that sound?"

"Hai, onegai. Arigatou. That does-- ane sa! Doko Elva ikuze?"

"Elva? Who is...?"

"There was a girl riding Yusei's Runner! And now she's gone!"

"I'll have the guards search for her. Will that be fine?"

"Hai, arigatou!"

"Otoko no ko-san," Leo turned to look at a tall woman with glasses her violet hair tied up in a bun. "Shitsurei desu ga namae wa?"

"Watashi wa Sawatori Leonardo desu," He bowed politely as Yusei had taught him. "Konichiwa. By the way, call me Leo,"

"'Douzo yoroshite and certainly. Fudo-sama and Onna no ko-san will be taken care of. Watashi wa Chiryoosha Setsuna desu. Nurse Andrews here will take care of you,"

40 minutes later 4:05 pm

"Don't worry, Leo," Saiga assured the young duelist. He had shown up just ten minutes before and now they both we sitting outside of the diagonis ward where Yusei was being evaluted. The hall was in one of the lower modernized basements complete with white lights and blue metallic walls.

"Leo, Saiga!"

Both looked up as Drake,Carly, Crow and Rylah came running down the corridor. Yes, Carly is the very same klutzy goofy repporter we all know and love. She was saved by a mysterious young boy when Sayer ( In Japanese Divine but he's not really that divine) pushed her out of a window and another unfortunate took her place. But that being was simply the aura copy of a person whose identity they never discovered. (Note; in case you couldn't tell the Signer War ended with the defeat of Rudger becuase Goodwin's plot to become God was foiled before it ever came into being. There's someone working behind the scenes...)

Anyway, Drake Draconem is a thief friend of Crow's with thick shaggy brown falling all over his face and sticking up slightly in places with mahogany brown eyes and slightly warmed tan peach skin. He wore his standard garb of a black collar with a ruby dragon pendant in the direct center, plain long sleeved black shirt, a maroon vest with high collar and silver gems, soft brown pants, fingerless black palm gloves with steelguard and light-weight maroon boots with three brown straps with bronze buckles.

"How's Yu-imouto?" Rylah asked,concerned. The young woman had looked after Team Satisfaction in thier young days and saw the three remaining boys as younger brothers since she was a year older than Jack. She was soft faced and surprisingly tall standing at two inches over Yusei's current height with silvery brown tresses falling into her facethe rest pulled back into a ponytail. Her hands were bare and clutching two leather bags each. She wore a white cotton sleeveless blouse with a triangular collar and a honey coloured tee under it and a long two layered skirt reaching to her thighs, with the top layer of a honey cloth and cut with triangular gaps that revealed the blue triangle underneath, with dark blue high ankle boots and long knee length honey coloured socks. She wore a blue leather utility belt at waist, equipped with several deck cases.

"We don't quite yet but they'll tell us soon," Saiga replied. "Did the others tell you to come?"

Crow nodded. "Hai, we were closer anyway. What's this about your good Samartin act?"

Leo explained the rescue of the girl ending with her admittance to the Critical Exam Labs just mintues before Yusei's entry into the diagonis ward.

"Lab?" Carly repeated, looking confused, adjusting glasses that were no longer there. "That sounds like they're planning on disecting her or something,"

Everyone sweatdropped. Drake rolled his eyes. "Stop being dramatic..."

"Where's Yusei?" a cold stern voice demanded.

"Jack, konichiwa!" Crow turned, raising a hand in greeting. "They're still looking him over," Jack was accompanied by Luna, Akiza, Mina, Rally and Yanagi.

"Luna!" Leo cried out in delight, rushing over to her and immediately began telling to her and Rally about the missing Elva.

"Excuse me!" Everyone looked up as Chiryoosha emerged from the diagonis room. "I'm happy to report that Fudo-sama will be prefectly injuries looked worse than they actually were and we patched up that nasty slash in his arm,"

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

5:07 pm

An hour later saw them all waiting area in the second floor waiting of the Observational Treatment Ward which was void of the usual white wall of a hospital but resembled a caste parlor instead with sandstone walls and soft chairs complete with soft carpeting.

"I fee like we've walked into the Middle Ages of Europe," Carly muttered, sitting next to a cross looking Jack.

Crow nodded in agreement. "This isn't my idea of a hospital,"

"Personally, I think Suzume-sama will be pleased,"

"Huh?" It was a chorus of voices as their heads turned to the wide archway as the doors tucked back within them swung open. Elva with her hair tied back, wearing a long sleeved white tunic, long red coat and blue jeans with a black belt, walked into the room.

"Ane sa, it's you!" Leo exclaimed, jumping up and startling his sister. "Wari," he said to her. "Where were you? Did the guards find you okay?"

She raised an eye brow at him. "Guards? I was repairing the Synchro-Cycle your so-called hero trashed,"

"WHAT!?" Both Rally and Leo screamed at the insult. "YOU WERE FIXING A MACHINE WHEN--"

"Lower your voice, Leo,"Mina reprimanded.

Leo continued with a lowered volume. "--when Yusei nii-sama was hurt trying to help your friend, you ungrateful savage!"

"He's the one who lost control of the bike!" Elva snapped.

"Hey, look!" Crow protested as he stood, noting the looks of shock and anger on the faces of the group Dexter had dubbed the Crimson Guard. "You don't have to--"

"We're allowing three visitors at a time, if you'd like to see your friend now," A short, black haired, male doctor interupted from the Patient's Corridor door.

"Hai!" Leo piped up with a backwards glare at Elva, who'd he'd immediately turned his back on.

"Adults first," the doctor apologetically as a look of shock crossed Leo's face.

"Nani?!"

"It's the rules,"

"Hold on," said Jack as he stood. "Can they come with adult approval?"

"It doesn't say they can't," he replied

"Good enough for me. Leo, Luna come,"

"Three at a time," the doctor reminded them firmly.

"They're short and they're twins," Jack retorted. "They practically count as one person anyway." Snickers followed this statement.

"But Rally, should go to!" they both protested.

"Nah, you're Signers.I'll go later,"

"Leo's not a Signer," Carly pointed out as Leo, Luna, Jack , Akiza and Yanagi followed the doctor to Yusei's room, labelled OW C-B11 (Observation Ward Corridor B, Room 11).

"But he's as good as," Rally countered.

"Here we are," said the doctor grandly, who had long decided to give up protesting the numberof vistors. He should be grateful that they hadn't all instisted they come.

He opened the door to a green walled room, adorned like a castle room , big with lots of tapestries with a traditional hospital bed by the window inthe center of the wall surrounded by shimmering holoscreens. Yusei's arm was wrapped in crisp white fresh bandages, dressed in a white sleeve and pants.

His cobalt eyes were closed in sleep. "His condition has been stablized," said the doctor as they gathered around hs bed, the holographic screens above scanning light over his body on occasion.

"Yusei..."Luna nearly cried at seeing him this way, but he'd had worse.

"He should awaken short--Ah!" Yanagi, the twins and the doctor jumped as Yusei's eyes snapped open and he seized Akiza's arm, drawing her close. His eyes closed briefly as if gathering his thoughts.

"Yusei?" She spoke with a strong voice, having the feeling that he had something important to tell her.

"Suzume..."

"Suzume?"

"The girl---she--she needs help! She's confused, she doesn't know what's happening! I feel her... in my head! She's connected to my past, Aki, I can feel it!"

Jack , Leo and Luna leaned over to listen, thier eyes widening at once. "Your past?" the ex-King Duel King whispered.

"Hai, and she'll hurt someone if you let her! She can be dangerous and there's something wrong with her aura! She's awake now...but not awake." He drew a long breath. "Save her soul and be kind to the one with neither a dead or living soul," His eyes rolled back in her head, showing the whites briefly before his eyes flickered shut and his body settled back into the breathing pattern of a sleeper.

"Creepy..." Leo whispered.

The doctor looked stunned and was nearly bowled over by the Signers and Leo. Yanagi waddled after them,unable to keep up as Jack and Akiza scooped up the shorter twins and shot through the waiting area, stunning their friends as they burst through the two pairs of exit doors without explanation.

"Hey, hey!" Crow yelled, jumping up and running after them "Where are you lot charging off to!?"

"The rest if us better stay put," Saiga decided."In the mean time, Ojii-sama," He turned to Yanagi." What's going on?"

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

"I sense her," Luna announced from Jack's back, her eyes shining with the warm yellow of her gift. "That way, dead north then southwest and down 400 meters!"

"Got it!" Crow stepped in beside, Akiza and Jack grinning.

"What are you doing here?" she demanded.

"Come on, you're not leaving me out of this!"

"Fine, Leo explain to him okay?"

"Dattebayo!"

The plot thickens! Who is Suzume exactly and how does Yusei have this connection to her? What is with Elva's 180 personality flip? Who is the neither living nor dead soul?

I suggest rereading past chappies to refresh yourselves! Sorry for the long wait; everyone knows one of the worst enemies of the writer is writer's block!

How can Suzume be awake and yet not and how can she be dangerous in her certain injured and nearly hypothermic state? Next time on Paths of Memory: Cobaltwired, more

( but not all) wil be revealed! And since my writer's block has lifted at last, on with the show!

Translation Notes

"Hai, onegai. Arigatou. That does-- ane sa! Doko Elva ikuze?"--"Yes, please, thank you. That does--hey! Where Elva go?

"Otoko no ko-san,"--Mr. Boy

Onna no

Shitsurei desu ga namae wa? – Excuse me, but what is your name, please?

Watashi wa Sawatori Leonardo desu – I am Leonardo Sawatori

'Douzo yoroshite (Nice to meet you),"

Ano sa – means 'hey', but can also mean 'so'

Watashi wa Chiryoosha Setsuna desu--I am Setsuna Chiryoosha

nii-sama--big brother

Imouto--younger brother

Sumimasen--Sorry

"Dattebayo!"--roughly translated into I get it! and is known as Naruto's catchphrase in the Japanese version

In Japanese,I believe the surnames are reversed with personal names.