Disclaimers: I'll just go ahead and jumped to the disclaimers. I don't own Yugioh 5Ds or its characters. Just my OCs, and by extent, the story plot.

Chapter 4

Start of Investigation

"Phew! I made it!"

The girl wearing a dark brown hood over head managed to get inside the shed and shut the door lock. She finally pulled her hood down, revealing her short, reddish-orange that reached slightly below her chin and vibrant, green eyes. She placed the bag, which was filled with groceries of some sort, on the small table, and sighed. She took her time to observe the room. There wasn't anything really special about the abandoned shed that she is living in right now, not that that was to be expected. But the ginger hair girl did managed to make this place more comfortable. There were a large pile of flour sacks that were probably expired stacked together to form into a bed that was covered in a blanket, and a shelf that has only a few garden tools that's still usable along with a picture frame, and few books that are still in good condition to read. Plus, there was a small table that was mentioned earlier that only has an old, empty white vase with a handmade nameplate that has the word 'Robin' on it in red right next to it.

"Arf arf!"

The girl, now known as Robin, looked down to see a golden, brown dog that resembles a shiba inu coming towards her and looks at her happily with its dark eyes, as if expecting some warm hug or something.

"Hey, Pao!" Robin greeted as she immediately knelt down and rubbed his furry head, "How's it going, boy? Did you behave while I'm gone?"

"Arf arf arf!" Pao barked in response while wagging his tail excitedly.

"Alright, alright. I get the message," Robin reached into the bag and pulled out a can in one hand and a bowl with the other, "We're in luck today, Pao. I managed to get my hands on these at the market."

She opened the can, revealing the canned meat of some sort inside, and poured it inside the red bowl. As soon as the bowl was placed in front of her furry friend, Pao took a sniff at the meat substance and started gobbling them down.

"Ha ha. Glad you like it. Enjoy," Robin sat next to her dog and sighed. Despite Pao's warm welcome greeting, Robin doesn't seemed really happy, "It looks like the bridge construction is still going on. Most of these people are really serious about getting it down.

She remembered the four people she saw earlier at the bridge today, seeing how passionate they were while helping out with the construction. Then, she grunted.

"I highly doubt it would make a difference, though. People of the city already saw us as trash and treated us like trash already. What's the point of this kind of union, anyway?" She realized what she just said and looked down on the ground with guilt, "Don't get me wrong. It's not that I have anything against them or anything. Just the ones who really hate us. Like those Sector Security, for example.

After finishing his meal, Pao looked at his owner with a questioning look on his face. Robin smiled a little and patted his head.

"You're pretty lucky, Pao," she told him, "Aside from being hungry and looking for a home, you don't have to worry about anything. You don't have deal with a lot of things I have dealt with. Trust me, I highly doubt you want to be in my position. I did a lot of things regretted in the past, and I still do now."

Pao looked at her sympathetically and walked towards her. He lay down on his stomach and placed his chin on her right thigh, as if to comfort her. Robin looked down on him and smiled sadly, before patted his head again. She liked it when he did that, especially when she is feeling down.

Then, she glanced at the picture frame that is obscured in a shadow and sighed. If anything, she just wish that she could change her past to reset her life. Possibly to stop the Zero Reverse so that she doesn't have to live her life in the slums, but she knew that was obviously impossible to do. Just like how she thought it was impossible for the people of Satellite to gain new opportunities just by building the bridge.

"They're what?!"

As soon as the children were fed and put to bed, everyone, sans Crystal, gather around the living room to discuss the new problem that Yuna received about an hour ago. Aside from Yusei and Aoi, everyone was mortified on what they just heard. It's an accurate response, not to mentioned, expected.

"...As I said, some people have gone missing just recently," Yuna explained, "The Sector Security were able to find few of them, but they wound up dead. It's possible that they were murdered."

"Were any of those people were workers?" Jack asked.

The dark hair psychic shook her head, "As far as I know, no. But we can't ruled out the possibility that they might be the next victims."

That was when Jack slammed his fist to table, "Dammit. Just when things were started to get worse..."

"I know, right?" Crow agreed, "We're even making good progress so far. Just what is going on?"

"I wish I knew, Crow," Yusei sighed before turning to Yuna, "They didn't really find out what's the actual cause of the deaths, did they?"

"No. I wasn't informed about it," the dark hair psychic replied, "But, it might have to do with what Crystal and Aoi saw earlier today."

"Wait. What are you talking about?" Crow asked.

That was when Yusei and Yuna took a glanced at Aoi, who nodded in response and grabbed his sketchbook off the couch he was sitting on. Once he turned to the page he was looking for, he placed it on the table for everyone to see. The page was revealed to be the drawing of the same dark creature that he and Crystal saw earlier today.

"What's that?" Akane asked.

"This is the monster that Crystal and I encountered today," the blue hair psychic explained, "Earlier, when I was out taking care of some business, I saw couple of those creatures appearing out of nowhere. One of them appeared by the beach, where the little girl, who Martha is taking care right now, was nearly attacked by it. Another one appeared nearby the market and then the woods, where it nearly attacked Crystal. And from what she told me, that same creature had killed off the poor woman she encountered at the market. It's possible that these creatures have to do something with the missing people and by extent, their deaths."

Silence filled the room as everyone else stared at the blue hair psychic awkwardly. Then, Jack spoke, "Are you sure you're not pulling our legs, Aoi?"

"I am not, Jack," Aoi glared at the blonde duelist, "Everything we just encountered today are real."

"I hate to say this, but I'm with Jack on this one," Crow stepped in, "I mean, it's hard to believe that this so-called 'creature' actually exist."

"Actually, I have to be with Aoi on this one, Crow," Yuna suddenly spoke, "That 'creature' might be involved somehow. As implausible as it sounds, he's not making anything of this up."

"What?!" The Blackwing duelist exclaimed in disbelief, "Yuna, you can't be serious about that."

"...I admit that I was skeptic about it at first," the dark hair psychic confessed, "But you seem to forget that I have a ability to read people's mind. And everything I read through him was real alright. At least from his perspective, as well as Crystal's."

"Speaking of Crystal..." Yusei quickly turned to the scarlet hair girl in concern, "Is she's okay now?"

"...Well, considering that she saw the woman died in front of her earlier today, Crystal did threw up a little when I went to check on her, but other than that, she's fine," Akane answered, "She's in her room, resting for now, but I highly doubt she's gonna get a good night sleep."

"Hmph. Let's just hope she doesn't that she doesn't scream in her sleep and woke up the whole orphanage like that one time," Jack commented, "Though, I find it strange that she seems to be having trouble sleeping lately. It almost as if she's been constantly having nightmares."

Once Jack said the last word, both Yuna and Akane glanced at each other in concern, as if having a feeling of what the nightmare is about.

"Anyway," Crow broke the silence, "What are we going to do now, now that we have a new set of problems we have to deal with?"

"Ushio called me, saying that he's going to investigate the bodies tomorrow morning a long with few other Securities, and he asked me to come him," Yuna answered, "We have to make sure that this doesn't get worse and may delay the construction. For now, those who are scheduled to help out with the construction, just focus on what you need to do while we'll handle this."

"I guess we'll do that," Yusei agreed.

"But aren't you a little young to the forensic stuff, Tsukina?" The former King asked, "You're what? Seventeen? Eighteen?"

"Seventeen. I'm only permitted to investigate the place where the body was found under the direction of either Mikage or Ushio," The dark hair psychic clarified, "That's one of the few jobs that I've been given in my position from 'that man' when I first entered Neo Domino City."

"How on earth did Goodwin managed to-OW!" Crow screamed once Akane slammed her foot onto his, causing the rest of the guys to back away. Then, the ginger held on to his injured foot, "Fuck, no I mean fudge! Akane, what the hell was that for?!"

Akane glared at him, "Don't you dare speak that old man's name who literally drill that lance through our hearts!" she seethed.

Yuna silently glared at the Blackwing Duelist as well, as if to agree with the scarlet hair woman. As for everyone else...well, no one said anything after that. That pretty much ended the meeting.

"So these people are the Signers and their guardians. It seems that they're already onto your plan."

A stranger stood in the branch of the tree far away from the orphanage, not being bother by the rain. He had a black cloak on that covered his whole body, aside from his worn jeans and part of his white shirt, and the dark hood pulled up to make sure that no one could see his face. He had a binocular in his hand and use it to look through the window of the orphanage.

"Yes. I suppose they did. Not completely though," someone spoke to the hooded figure telepathically.

"Still, it's only a matter a time before they realized what's truly going on," the hooded figure said as he lowered the binocular, "Should we do something about it?"

"No. Not yet," A voice replied, "Let them do what they want, Misao. For now, just keep an eye on them while the rest of the team will continue with the plan. I will let you know when you need to take care of them."

"Understood," the stranger, now known as Misao, put the binocular away, jumped down from the tree, and walked away. If one looked closely, you could see a wicked smile hidden underneath his hood.

"Soon...Very soon, this city of Hell will end in a bloodshed."

The next day...

"Remind me why am I here again?" Aoi asked Yuna as they to the designated sight where Ushio and the other Sector Security crew are at.

"You possibly have better insights of what's going around than any of us do, so I thought by bringing you along, we might be able to clarify things," the dark hair psychic explained, "That is, if you don't mind?"

"I don't," the male psychic reassured, "But I doubt that's the only reason you want me to come."

"True," Yuna admitted, "I feel like this whole event has to do with the visions you've been having lately during the time I was helping you to control your psychic powers again. After all, you did say that there were going to be some kind of rebellion before this bridge construction has started."

"I did," Aoi replied, "So far, nothing has changed in my future visions, but I feel like that if we don't anything about this is soon, things are going to get worse. It doesn't even help that all those visions ended in black."

"Black?"

"To be precise, it's more like explosion of darkness of some sort."

Yuna noticed a hint of bitterness in the blue hair psychic's tone, as if he was recalling a bad memory. Then, she looked down to see that Aoi was subconsciously rubbing his right arm.

"How's the new star mark treating you?" she suddenly asked.

"...It's okay, I guess," Aoi replied, feeling a bit unsure of himself, "At least, it feels different from the Dark Signer mark I use to possessed. I really don't have to worry about killing people for revenge or things like that."

Yuna nodded. She didn't really knew much of the details, but she had heard that Aoi was one of the Dark Signer who possessed one of the Earthbound Immortals and nearly killed Crystal, so it kinda made her a bit intimidated by him. But she could tell that he tensed up everything time that was brought up, so she never say anything about it. Though besides Crystal, it seemed that Yuna is only one of the other people that Aoi were, at least, comfortable enough to talk about it. Maybe it was possibly because they're both psychics, have slightly similar personalities, and have similar pasts that they pretty much understand each other at least to the point where they can trust each other. Still, it was a surprise to the both of them that they were able to become friends that quickly.

"You'll get use to it soon enough," Yuna told him and glanced forward with a darkened expression on her face, "At least, you might be able to handle it better than I can when my mark first activated."

Before Aoi can asked what she mean by that, they were greeted by the familiar Sector Security Officer.

"Yo, Yuna! You came just in time!" Ushio said to the young woman before turning to Aoi, "Uh...what's he doing here?"

"He might be able to help out on this kind of situation, so I brought him along," Yuna answered, "Anyway, should we start the investigation now?"

"Um...sure. Follow me," Ushio lead the two psychics to the investigation sight and allow them to pass through the yellow 'Caution' tape. That was when they came across what supposed to be the corpse covered in a large, white sheet.

"Now, this may be gonna be a bit weird to you kids once I show you this, so...you might as well brace yourself," Ushio warned them and lifted the white sheet up, revealing the corpse.

Turns out that the corpse was transparent as a glass. Its clothes are still visible to see. If one looked closely, he or she could see the facial lines slightly visible on the face, nose, mouth, eyes (if they're open) and everything. The two psychics stared at the corpse quizzically, only blinking in response.

"...Are you sure we're not seeing a glass mannequin of some sort?" Yuna said bluntly.

"That's what I thought at first," Ushio admitted, "But despite the appearance, if someone carefully touches it, it still feels like a human skin, dead of course."

"The corpse is similar to the description to the one Crystal witnessed," Aoi realized.

"Is there anything else we should know about the victim's death?" Yuna asked.

"Yes," The older man pointed to the nearby, abandoned building, "Couple more victims like this one were killed inside the building, and we're still investigating inside. So far, we found nothing."

"It's gonna be a long search from the looks of it," The blue hair psychic commented as he observed the building.

That was when the female psychic started rummaging to her pockets. 'We probably won't be able to find anything much this way, but it's worth a shot,' Yuna thought.

The dark hair woman pulled out two items from her pocket. One happens to be a green flash drive. The other happens to be a tiny robot that resembles a Winged Kuriboh. Its eyes are close though. Yuna connected the flash drive to the slot on the back of the robotic Winged Kuriboh, causing it to open its' eyes. It floated out of Yuna's hand and made a loud 'Kuri Kuri' sound, which startled Aoi a bit. It looked around for a few seconds before flying towards the entrance of the building, beginning its search.

Things are going to get interesting from here, once they discovered something that probably more twisted than the Dark Signer Wars.

Author's note: Okay, so the mysterious person that appeared in chapter 2 is named Robin, and she certainly gonna play a bigger role in a next couple of chapters or so. And it also turns out that this 'Misao' person and the person he was talking may possibly be behind those creatures incident. And whatever they're planning doesn't sound very good.

But we'll definitely get into details of what's going on soon enough. R&R?