A/N: I DO NOT OWN ANY OF STAR WARS OR YU GI OH 5DS! I ONLY OWN MY OCS AND THAT'S IT!

Chapter 6: Stories of the Past

Yusei and Ezra were flying through the air as dawn reached the horizon. Ezra was falling asleep from the lack of it he had gotten that night. Yusei was wide awake shocking Ezra that despite the little sleep, Yusei was still seeming to be in top condition.

"Yusei, how are you so wide awake? You got, like, no sleep," Ezra decided to ask.

"I have always been able to function on little sleep," Yusei explained. "As long as I get at least one night of a good night's sleep within a week, I can function fine."

"I guess you need to when you're in this world, huh?" Ezra responded.

"It's helpful in case you get attacked," Yusei replied. "By the time we reach Delsia, you may have adjusted yourself to a little sleep schedule like me."

"I probably will," Ezra responded. They looked at the sun which was climbing above the looming horizon of forest. "Say, is the entire world of Jelapitgose a forest?"

"No," Yusei answered. "The Mensists Sector is a desert terrain and the Insects there thrive in the sand which they use to hide. Kailo is a coastal Sector though the Insects stay away from the water. Delsia is a rainforest Sector. It rains every five days for three days at a time. It is hard terrain to move through, especially since there is so much water and underbrush for the Delsia Insects to hide in. The rest of the Sectors, though, they are mostly like the Bermisk Sector's terrain. However, the Montilia Sector has less trees than others. You have a lot to learn about this place. But, if you're right about these friends of yours and they get here in time, you may not have to learn as much about this place as I had to."

"Admit it, Yusei, if it weren't so dangerous, you would live here forever if you could," Ezra retorted.

"If it weren't filled with all these Insects out to kill everyone brought here, maybe I would live here for good. I've already lived here for five years," he responded calmly. "Do you really think your friends will get here in time?"

"Yeah," Ezra answered. "Maybe…"

"Maybe what?" Yusei questioned.

"If I can find a place to meditate, I can probably use the Force to contact Kanan telepathically," he stated.

"Kanan is that human man from before, right?" Yusei questioned.

"Yeah," Ezra answered. "He is also a Force-user. He is a Jedi and my master or my teacher." Yusei gave him a confused look. "I'm still learning to control my powers. Kanan is teaching me as his Padawan."

"I wish I had time to learn my powers slower like you," Yusei responded making Ezra shocked. "But here, Ezra, you're usually on your own. And you don't have time to learn the abilities you were given at a slow or steady rate. Here, Ezra, it is learn fast or die."

"I can get that," the boy responded. "And in these situations, I guess it shouldn't be too shocking."

"Really think you can contact this master of yours?" the man asked.

"Yeah," Ezra answered.

"Alright," Yusei agreed. "The closest area that is safe for you to meditate is about a twenty minute flight from here and, fortunately, in the right direction towards the area of the Delsia Sector we need to get to." Ezra nodded. The man looked at his dragon. "Alright, Stardust. You know where to go." It nodded before heading in that direction.

As they flew, Ezra asked, "Hey, Yusei, why did you call yourself 'Fifth Dragon' when we first met?"

"It's a long story," Yusei responded. "As I had told you, my monsters, spells, and traps I can use here are based on cards from my world. Me and four of my friends, not including Syoku, were chosen by a god-like dragon called the Crimson Dragon to protect my world from dark forces. Each of us who were chosen were called Signers and were given a mark like this one," He rolled up his sleeve and showed his Mark of the Dragon Head. "Jack had the wings. Luna, a young girl, had the front claw. Akiza had the back claw. Crow got his at the end of our first fight against our counterparts, the Dark Signers. He got the tail, which is what I had before I was given the head at the same time as Crow got my previous mark. With our marks and cards, we faced and defeated the Dark Signers who wanted to bring the world into darkness. We also defeated a group called Yliaster who wanted to destroy the world and rebuild it into their beliefs of a utopian society. After that, I was brought here with Syoku. I called myself 'Fifth Dragon' out of respect for my mark, the last thing that links me to my friends. Syoku called herself 'Eclipse', since that's what her name meant. It was a way to being sure that if we met anyone new, we protected ourselves until we knew if we could trust them."

"Huh," was all Ezra responded with.

"What about you? What was your life like before you arrived on Jelapitgose?" Yusei asked.

"Not that great. A military government called the Empire had taken over worlds upon worlds. Anyone who wasn't with them was killed. When I was seven, my parents were taken from me and I was left to fend for myself on the streets of my homeworld Lothal for years. I never saw my parents after they were taken from me. About seven years after, Kanan and the others came and I accidently got caught up in their group of rebels fighting against the Empire's control. After I helped them on one mission, Kanan gave me the choice to stay with them and train with him in the ways of the Force or staying away and living on the streets again. I chose to join them and they became my family," Ezra explained. "After that, I've been with them fighting the Empire. Well, I had been. Then this happened."

"You may seem like you hate not having parents for most of your life. But you should consider yourself lucky that you knew them. Jack, Crow, and I, we never knew our parents. They died in an explosion when we were babies. In my case, the day I was born," Yusei responded. "I grew up with a foster mother named Martha in Satellite. An area of the city that was split from the mainland when the explosion occurred. The main city called New Domino thrived and got better, while those trapped in Satellite were forced to live there as a prison and couldn't leave. It wasn't easy living there. We recycled the garbage we got from the city and used it to survive. I understand that losing your parents is hard, and it may be worse with the fact that you knew them personally. But at the same time, remember that there are people who aren't as lucky as to know their parents personally." Ezra nodded in understanding. They heard a rushing waterfall and turned to see a hard falling one coming in their direction. "Well, we're here."

"How are we getting in there?" Ezra asked. "That water is falling way too hard and fast."

But his answer was made as Stardust shot flames from its mouth and made a hole in the waterfall's flow that allowed them to pass through with ease. Yusei and Ezra slid off. "Alright, you can go ahead and try to contact Kanan. I'll be here and watching."

Ezra nodded and sat down in a meditation position while Yusei leaned against the wall in silence, though Stardust stayed out to watch the area and make sure nothing came to hurt the two humans.