Author's note: And I'm back for this Alternate Dimension. And thanks to Shimmering-Sky's new story of Crimson Fall, I got motivated again to finished this. And I suggest you should check it out too, but read Crimson Feathers first, because that's a prequel to Crimson Fall. And well, guess I'll start this chapter.

Disclaimer: Too lazy to set the disclaimer this time. Figure it out yourselves.

Chapter 6

Punishment and Cost of Sight

"WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?!"

Earlier, I just collapsed to my knees and was frozen in shock, that took both Kyoko and Chocola for a while to make me snapped me out to the reality again. That scene…had completely traumatized me.

Why? Why? Out of all the people…why does Crow have to be one of the victims? More importantly…Aoi…Yuna…they wouldn't…they just wouldn't! Especially in that world…!

Suddenly, I felt a gentle hand on my shoulder, whom I noticed belonged to Kyoko. "I'm sorry. I know what you're thinking now, but I'm afraid that what you just saw is true. At least in that world." Kyoko said.

There were only few moments of silence before I managed to speak again. "J-Jack…"

"What?"

"Jack…he said something that bothers me." I stammered, "He…he mentioned that it was Aoi's fault for not only for Alex's death, but also for that I became blind. What…What caused that?"

"Your blindness?" Kyoko repeated and looked back at the open door before closing it shut, "Well, I won't tell you exactly how that happened just yet, but what I can tell you is that your cause of blindness was from when you were trying to stop them from killing."

She then walked to another door beside her and stared back at me, "I'll jumped to the next scene for now, but if you like, I'll give you a minute to recover."

I shook my head, "No. That's fine. Just head to the next scene, so I can get over it."

"Alright." Kyoko opened the door and let the white light flashed before the next stage of the alternate dimension can begin.

"I…I just don't understand how could all of this happened." Hakase placed a hand over his face and pinched the bridged of his nose, obviously couldn't even grasped the reality around him. First, he lost his daughter due to the fire at the festival. Then, Yusei went missing, whom thankfully was later to be found and was spending the night at Yuna's place (not that he mind at first). And finally, this tragic happened. Three people were killed at the Tsukina's mansion. One of whom happened to be his friend and co-worker, Tsukina Umi. And the other two were Yusei's and Crystal's close friends, Crow Hogan and Alex Atlas. And the ones who were suspects and arrested for murder were Tsukina Yuna and Akiyama Aoi. How and why? No one knew. His son, his niece, and their friends were currently at the hospital, all who were injured and most of them who were unconscious. Right now, he was with his wife Ayame and his two friends, Haruto and Yuri, waiting for the news of their children.

"I don't understand either. None of us do," Ayame said as she held on to her husband's hand. "In fact, what caused all this to happened?"

"I'm afraid that we won't be able to find that answer as of now," a new voice said. The four people looked up and saw a man with jet black hair and dark amethyst eyes walking towards them. The bags were completely noticeable under his eyes and glasses, showing that he hadn't even gotten much sleep.

"Katashi, it's good to see you." Haruto stood up and shook hands with the now said man, "We were wondering where've you been. And, I'm sorry for your loss."

"I-It's fine," Katashi sat down on the bench next to Hakase as he ran his hand through his hair, "It's just that…my wife's gone and I have a bigger problem to deal with. I…I can't see how Yuna could've been one of the people to do all this. I mean…I know my daughter very well, and I know she…she wouldn't kill anyone out of cold blood! Much less her own mother and her friends!"

That was when he buried his face with his hands and broke into silent sobs, while Ayame sat next to him and tried to comfort him. It was clear that no one have ever seen Katashi broke into a mental breakdown like this.

"Shh…It's okay," Ayame shushed the poor scientist, "We understand how you feel. And we know how much a good person Yuna is."

"That reminds me, how is Naomi taking this?" Hakase suddenly asked.

"Not very well, I'm afraid." Yuri said sadly as she gave a cup of coffee to Dr. Tsukina. "I saw her yesterday coming out of a detention center. She was still shock of what happened, and when she tried to confront him, the poor boy completely shut her out."

The sandy blonde hair man wrapped an arm around his wife's shoulder, "Aoi is still traumatized from what happened, isn't he?"

Yuri nodded, "Poor boy. I can sense it. I can feel fear inside him, and he refused to face his mother, after realizing what he had done."

"Their trials are tomorrow," Katashi finally spoke after choking on through his few sobs, "However, I don't know how well this will go, even if I can testify for them." Then, he looked up, "By the way, how are your children's holding up?"

Another silence in the hallway before Hakase spoke up, "From what the doctor's told me, Yusei is still recovering from hypothermia and some injuries on his head, but eventually he'll be out of there soon." Then, Dr. Fudo change his tone to a whisper, "I can't say the same for Crystal though."

That was when Katashi looked up at his friends in concerned, mainly at the Yumehara couple, "What happened to her?"

Both Haruto and Yuri flinched before glancing at each other and found the floor very interesting. Then, Haruto managed to gain a bit of courage to break the silence, "Crystal…she's the only one who hasn't even woken up for about a week." He managed to say with a tone of fear and sadness in his voice, "The doctors said that it may be because of her severe head injury, but there was something that was causing it as well, and they couldn't find out why. They're still checking on her, but-"

Suddenly, he was cut off when he noticed a doctor coming out of a room—specifically Crystal's room—with a mask still on and carrying a clip in one hand. He noticed the group in the hallway and showed signs of relief, yet worried look in his eyes. He immediately went over them.

"Excuse me, but you two wouldn't have to be Mr. and Mrs. Yumehara, are you?" The doctor addressed the couple. Immediately, they stood up.

"Yes, that would be us." Haruto answered.

"How is she?" The purple hair woman asked as she clutched her hands together in sort of a prayer against her chest.

The doctor cleared his throat before pulling his masked down and looked at them, "The good news is, your daughter showed some signs of regaining conscious and has finally woken up from a coma. Although it was only for few minutes, I'm sure she'll wake up again. So once she did that, you two can come over and visit her."

"Oh, thanks goodness!" Yuri sighed in relief, few noticeable tears of joy fell from her face.

"However, that's only a good news. There's this bad news that we haven't mentioned to you yet." The doctor said.

Haruto's and Yuri's faces turned backed to concerned again. "Then, what's the bad news?" The blonde man asked.

"The bad news is that we noticed something off when she woken up, mainly her eyes." The doctor explained, causing Crystal's parents to gasped, "She was showing the sense of blindness and we have to check back at her brains scans to see the cause of it. Turns out, that her optic nerves are severely damaged. How? We're not so sure, but I'm afraid to say that there's nothing we can do to fix this, not even an eye surgery is going to help. She's permanently blind now."

Both couples were taken back of what they just heard from the doctor. Yuri's hands flew to her mouth as she collapsed to her knees and broke into sobs. "No…No! My poor baby!"

Everyone around the room just sat there, saying nothing. Though, Haruto kneeled down beside Yuri and held her in a comforting embrace, yet that didn't stop her from sobbing in distraught. Plus, he felt like crying too.

I…I have no idea what to say after seeing all this. It's hard to see the look on my parents face after find out the condition of Crystal in that world. "So…I—or rather Crystal in that dimension—is officially blind now."

"Yes. And that too will play a role later on." Kyoko told me. Then, I looked at her, almost completely panic.

"I hate to ask this, but what are Aoi's and Yuna's punishment for all this?!" I cried. "I know what they did was bad, but I could tell from the looks on their faces that they didn't mean to do all this! It's just…I don't know. It's just doesn't seem fair to treat them harshly. Besides, what if there more to the story behind all this."

Kyoko shrugged, "I know you're eager to know the whole truth, but I'm afraid that'll come to you later for a very good reason. Anyway, here's the next scene that will answer your other question and the time spent when you are blind."

Yuna sat alone in a white interrogation room for what seemed like hours. This is probably her second time in this room, though for some reason, it looked a little different. She couldn't tell how much time had passed since she was locked up in the Facility, but if she had to guess, she had been here for at least couple of days. Neither she or the blue hair psychic has been sentenced nor that they have been given criminal marks yet. But for sure, they both were going to receive the worse punishments of their lives.

Then again, she felt that they both deserve it…at least Yuna did. Her thoughts reflect back to what happened couple days ago. She couldn't deny it anymore. For sure, she killed off one of her friends and her own mother. Why she did that? She wasn't so sure. But there was no point in denying it. Proof was shown on her hands and all over her clothes. When Yuna looked down at her own hands, she remembered the feeling of a warm blood trailing on her fingers. The only person who she could remember who's blood she felt was Tsukina Umi. Crow's death, on the other hand, was caused by her materialized bow and arrow.

Yuna clenched her fists tightly and slammed the table really hard. If she wasn't handcuffed now or if the room wasn't completely empty aside from a table and two chairs, she would've taken a knife or some other sharp objects and stabbed herself with it. Why…Why the hell did she do this? What did they do wrong to deserve it? Nothing of course! Yuna hated herself for doing it. She couldn't bare to look at her father when he tried to visit her at the detention center once.

Then, she remembered that Aoi wasn't faring much better. By using her telepathy, they managed to communicate with each other in separate rooms, though they were mostly recalling back at what happened at the Tsukina mansion. She could tell that Aoi was still traumatized over what he had done to Alex. After seeing his mother, Aoi completely cut off the communication with her, though Yuna understood why and doesn't blamed him for not answering her. And it won't be long before they are going to be branded with criminal marks and sentenced to years…possibly life in prison.

Or that's what she thought.

At long last, the door to the interrogation room opened, and one of a Sector Security guards walked in. He signaled the young dark hair girl to come out and followed him. Yuna did, and she was lead to another room across the hallway. Before she was told to step inside, a black bag was thrust into her hands by the same Sector Security guards who escorted her. He even took off the handcuffs for her.

"Stepped inside that room and changed into this very quickly!" The guard ordered her. "You only have ten minutes!"

Yuna looked at him in suspicion, "What for?" she whispered.

"Just hurry up and change!" He yelled, "You'll find out once I escort you to another room. And don't even think about trying to escape!"

Yuna rolled her eyes. It's not like she can anyway. She quickly entered a small room and shut the door closed and locked tightly, making sure no one comes in when she changed.

About ten minutes had passed, and Yuna have changed out of her tattered old clothes to a fresher one that consists of a long-sleeve gray shirt, blue jeans, and a long white scarf wrapped around her neck. Though, she found this attire slightly strange to her, but at least it's better than that orange suit she had to wear. The guard had escorted to another room, mainly the chief's office. Much to her surprise, she found Aoi standing there, wearing the clothes similar to hers. She noticed that he had bags under his eyes, due to lack of sleep.

"Aoi, I didn't expect to see you here." She told him.

"Same here." He replied as he eyed on the attire Yuna was wearing, "So they made you wear that too, huh?"

Before Yuna can reply, they heard the chief slammed his hands on his desk, getting their full attention, and sat down, staring straight at them mostly in anger and irritation. "Hmph. About time you two came." He grunted. Both the two teens stared at him and recognized him as Chief Armstrong, the most brutal man in the facility. "So, either of you got something to say about all this?"

Both of them glared at him annoyingly because of his attitude and looked away. Though, Aoi managed to spoke out, "Nothing, I guess."

In a response, Chief Armstrong pulled the tiny hairs out of his nose and blow it too Aoi's face, who flinched in disgust. Then, the chief spoke up, "Hmph! I really hate to do this part, considering what kind of people you two are. But consider the two of you lucky, thanks to the director convincing me to do this!"

That got Yuna's attention. Director? He couldn't possibly mean…

"Starting tomorrow, both of you are being sent to Satellite as punishment for your crimes." He told them. "But instead of being branded with the criminal marks, like other prisoners did, you two will serve as Executioners to duel against the prisoners in Satellite. If you win fifty duels in a row, you will get an early release from prison. Otherwise, you will have to start from square one if you lose."

Both teens found this to be a rare sight, though Yuna was the one who was more suspicious about this Executioner thing, especially when she thought it was from a director's order. "Why did he told you to do this for us?" she blurted out.

Chief Armstrong slammed his fist against the table, glaring at the dark hair girl, "How the hell should I know?! He never told me!" He yelled, "Besides, I wasn't even doing it for anyone. Now run along kiddies. I'll be visiting Satellite to see how you two are doing. If you dare do something to defy us, we're going to make your lives a living hell…got it?"

Both Yuna and Aoi only nodded in response. Then, they both left with the Sector Security guards, but not without Chief Armstrong blowing another nose hairs at the male psychic. Aoi swore under his breath that if he ever does that again, he will murder him.

Six months had passed since that terrible incident. Crystal stared at the window in her room with her dull violet eyes, indicating that she was blind. During these past six months, she had to go through the rehabilitation for her blindness, and she hated it. She hated the fact of going through the process of where she had to learn how to rely on her senses other than sight and the fact that she had to read braille now. Not only that, she hated the fact of not being able to see clearly anymore. All the colors of her surrounding had been replaced with pitch black of darkness. She felt that she was completely crippled. She couldn't even tell what her parents and her friends looked like anymore. Yet, she had a hard time interacting with people at the Duel Academy, that she ended up becoming home schooled just few months ago.

But thankfully that change few months ago. Being an Aura Guardian like her mom, Crystal has the ability to see through auras and able to use them to help her disadvantage. Yuri helped her with her abilities by training her to use her aura reading abilities to mapped out her surroundings. Thankfully, her training had paid off, which helped Crystal interact the world again almost normally just by relying on her energy. And dueling blind was no longer a problem for her, because she inherited the ability to communicate Duel Spirits from her dad, which helped her find out which cards she was holding in her hands.

However, her blindness wasn't the only sad part that happened the past few months. She was still cooping with the loss of Crow Hogan and Alex Atlas. Not only that, she lost connections to her other friends. Not completely, but more like she hadn't been seeing them for a long time. Jack grew distant after the massacre and haven't seen him since. Crystal did see Akane a few times, but she too had grew distant just a month ago. The only one who took the opportunity to visit her almost every week was Yusei, though they didn't talked much and silently reflected on the loss of their close friends.

Then, there were two other friends who were arrested for murder, Aoi and Yuna. It's been six months and she still hadn't even heard of what really happened to them. She did try asking her dad about it a few times, but he refused to give an answer. During that six months, she grew concern for them, but mostly for Aoi. Crystal felt the strong energy from a Duel Monster card in her hand, knowing that it was a same card that he had given her at the festival. She smiled at that thought, realizing how much fun they have together at the festival, along with their other friends.

Suddenly, Crystal grabbed her jacket. And since her parents aren't home yet, she decided to take a good opportunity to go out for a walk outside, even though she felt bad for sneaking out, knowing that her parents were still worried about her conditions.

"Look! I have nothing to give you! Just please leave me alone!" Crystal turned her head as soon as she a young boy cried out. She noticed three men cowering over him, and the young boy's aura waver in fear.

"Looks like I'm going to clarify this again!" One of the men said, his aura wavering in irritation, "Give us all the money you have and your Duel Monster deck, otherwise, me and my fellas here are going to do something that you won't like!"

Crystal took a good opportunity to grab a rock on a ground beside her and threw it straight at the gang member's head. Despite her blindness, it was a blue eye. He yelped and glared at the direction where the rock was thrown. "What the heck?! Who threw that?!"

The purple hair teen looked at the boy with her dull eyes and told him, "Go. Run away while you can!"

The boy hesitantly obeyed and ran away, which left Crystal to deal with the three guys alone. Few seconds later, they approached her slowly.

"Hey, little lady. That wasn't very nice." One of them said. Crystal took a step backwards and glared at them. Then, they took a good look at her, mainly at her face. "Say, are you blind or something?"

Crystal cringed a little, cursing at her own mistake to interfere like that, but she managed to keep her composure. "So what if I am?"

Another one of the gangs smirked at her, "Then how about spending a little time with us and then we'll forgive you for what you just did. Don't worry, we won't bite."

Crystal knew better than to listen to these creeps. Before she can do anything though, something blue just zipped passed through them, narrowly missing at the gangs, and created a frozen track of ice on the ground. Another one passed through them, same result, though they hit the ground this time. Crystal looked around, only to find out that she sensed a Duel Monster beside her attacking those three guys, specifically called the Dance Princess of the Ice Barrier.

"Shit! The attacks are real! Run for your lives!" The three gang members yelped and dashed away, leaving the cloud of dust behind from running. The Duel Monster disappeared, which made Crystal turned around and saw a person standing behind her with a duel disk in hand.

"Phew. That takes care of it." The person behind her was emitting aquamarine aura and her voice sounded way too familiar for Crystal not to recognized.

"No way…Yuna?" She gasped slightly.

Yuna tensed as she heard Crystal called out her name. "C-Crystal…?"

The purple hair girl was about to approach the dark hair girl before Yuna dashed out away from her in response.

"Wait Yuna! Stop!" Crystal grabbed her hand just in time before Yuna can get away, though, the dark hair girl tried to free herself from her grasped.

"Crystal, let go of me!" She yelled, "You shouldn't be near me, considering what I've done six months ago!"

"But now that I finally get to see you, I can get a chance to confront you about it!" Crystal argued, "Look, I know what you're feeling now, and I'm not Jack or Akane who choose not to see through of your actions! I just need to hear those answers from you and try to understand what happened to you and Aoi!"

"No…you already heard of what really happened!" Yuna yelled, "Aoi killed Alex! I killed Crow and my mother! That's all you need to know! We're both guilty of those charges!"

"Not intentionally, isn't it?" Crystal told her, still gripping onto Yuna's hand. "Listen, I want to say this in court just so maybe they can investigate more about that incident, and perhaps make your sentences lighter, but they already halt the investigation and refused to let me testify this. Besides, it won't do much of an evidence anyway." Crystal took a deep breath before speaking again, "Yuna…I…I noticed something off with you and Aoi. More of like you two weren't yourselves when all this happened. Could…Could this be why you won't be able to grasped the memories of that incident?"

Yuna looked down at the ground in shame and relaxed a bit, "Not…Not at first though. However, I did managed to regain few of my memories from that incident, even though it was kinda fuzzy. But…but I remembered the way I killed them. And it's still haunts me."

"But you didn't do it on purpose, did you?"

Another silence before Yuna spoke again, "No. Not on purpose. In fact, I don't even know why I did that? This may relates to my psychic power."

"Then that's why I can't hate you for that," Crystal said. "Because I know neither of you would do something like this!"

Yuna gave a sad smiled once she looked at Crystal's face, "Well…I appreciate you for forgiving me and trying to cheer me up, but it's not working. Besides, we already caused enough damage. Even Aoi. After all, he was the real reason why you're blind right now."

Crystal stared back at her silently before finding the floor interesting again. Then, she looked up, "Where is he now?"

"In the Facility at the Satellite, where the prisoners and Executioners are fighting for their so-called freedom. As you can see, I'm one of the Executioners there. Same thing with Aoi." Yuna sighed. "Which reminds me, I have to go back there before the chief finds out that I have sneaked out of Satellite and visit the city."

Crystal finally lets go of her hand. "Alright, but can you do me a favor?"

Yuna looked at her, "If I do, does it mean that you'll leave me alone after that?" The purple hair teen nodded, "Then shoot."

"Then…Can you take me there to see Aoi?"

Yuna flinched and looked away, "Now that…I can't possibly do. You see, it's illegal for you to enter Satellite. Not only that…It's probably not a good idea for you to confront him. He's not in a good state right now."

"That's why I have to see him." Crystal snapped, "Just take me there, so I can confront him. Even if it's only for a short amount of time."

Few moments later, Yuna sighed in defeat before putting a hand on the blind girl's shoulder. "Alright fine. But I'll warn you that you'll regret this."

That was when Yuna activated a card on her disk to teleport Crystal and herself to Satellite. And little did Crystal know, that Yuna was right to tell her that she'll regret seeing him.

Me: And that's that. Yeah, there is going to be a lot of drama in the next chapter. More likely so, I feel like I'm going to screw up the Sapphireshipping (name of the shipping that Shim and I came up with for CrystalXAoi) pretty badly. Now then-ACK! *gets hit by a frying pan and rubs her face* HEY! WHO THREW THAT?!

?: MCDINH! EXPLAIN YOURSELF!

*Crystal appears in the room*

Me: Oh crap!

Crystal: Would you like to tell me what the heck you just wrote for this story?! Mainly about the major characters deaths...PLURAL!

Me: Double crap! You weren't suppose to find out about it now! Who told you all this?!

Josie: *appears in the room* I did~nya!

Me: Josie you stupid cat! You weren't suppose to tell anyone about this!

Josie: MEOW! I am not a cat~nya! Besides, there no point in hiding it in my opinion, so what's wrong with spilling the beans~nya?"

Me: I...I was going to tell my OCs later. Plus, I don't want any other 5Ds characters to find out what I wrote here. Otherwise...*shivers* I don't know what their going to do with me.

Crystal: Well I already know what am I going to do with you, mcdinh. So...*reaches for a knife, but mcdinh uses her authoress powers to make Cyrstal and Josie disappeared in a room*

Me: *pants* Ha...that was close. Anyway, please R&R?

Fun facts: Okay, this is a little something for entertainments that's going to appear once in each chapter of any of my current stories just for fun. This fun facts is mainly about the trivial stuff about the stories I written, mainly about the OCs personality, my ideas, and some of my opinions concerning about the Yugioh series. So once in each chapter, I'm going to post one fun trivia facts about my fanfic stories (mainly about Crystallization, Crimson Stars, and Alternate Dimension) But for today, this is about the part from Crimson Prophecy, mainly because I use one of the ideas from that story that relates to this chapter.

This Executioner is for those, mostly for psychic duelist, who for some reason got their punishments cut in half and have to fight their way through dueling the prisoners in the Facility. He or she must win 50 duels in a row before they can grant their freedom. These Executioners were given better treatments than those regular prisoners. They even have to wear these kinds of uniforms to indicate their positions as Executioners. Though, I change their attire a bit from Crimson Prophecy to Alternate Dimension, mainly because I felt that it needs a change of style.

Well, this is an example of how am I going to do the fun facts. But if you like, you can send me the request on the review to either suggest anything for me to add or some questions you may have, regarding to either the stories I've written or about my OCs (even though their descriptions are on my profile, I would like to go into more details). But remember, only one fun facts can appear for each chapter, so don't expect for all your requests to appear all at once. So anyway, that's it for now.