The Crimson Diamonds

Chapter 7: Wishing For a Star

Regulus approached Torunka and Kuribon. Torunka was busy throwing small, marked stones onto the ground over and over again.

"Casting runes, are you?" Regulus asked.

Torunka and Kuribon nodded, and the sage replied, "Yes indeed. No matter how many times I cast them, I always get the same result: Star...Star...Star... it never changes."

Regulus thought for a moment and said, "Star...hmm...perhaps it is referring to Stardust Dragon? He has not arrived yet, perhaps today is the day?"

Torunka looked over toward the lake, where the dragons were loosely gathered. Archfiend was near the edge of the lake, apparently lost in thought. Black Winged and Black Rose were wading in the lake, giggling and laughing together as they conversed. Fairy, however, was off by herself, looking down at the Crimson Diamond in her hands, apparently sad.

"I hope so," Torunka said, "I don't know how much longer Ancient Fairy Dragon can handle it."

Meanwhile, Archfiend looked up at Fairy. Sighing with annoyance at how miserable she looked, especially because he already knew why, Archfiend approached her. When she didn't acknowledge his presence, he looked over at Rose and Black Winged and remarked, "Hmmph! Look at those fools, wasting time like that when we all should be making plans on locating the other four emeralds before Power Tool Dragon and his little brat of a master."

Archfiend said this with hopes that he would either condemn this "accursed feeling" that was causing Fairy to suffer or get her mind off things by angering her with an insult to her mistress' brother. However, his plan failed.

Fairy simply lifted her head slowly and said, "What if...he has fallen into evil?"

"Preposterous," Archfiend said, "He is far too strong for that. I cannot see him getting so easily ensnared by idiots like Sayer or Frank like you and Rose were. Besides, with them gone, we have no other evil to even worry about."

"You are forgetting the Morphtronics, and Yilaster," Fairy said.

"Why do you have such concerns for him?"

"Why is Black Winged tenderly caressing Black Rose at this very moment?"

"Hmmph!"

Fairy looked back down at the Crimson Diamond again and said, "I wish to see him...I wish to see him again..."

A single tear fell from her eye and landed on the gem. Suddenly, it began to glow brightly.

Meanwhile; Yusei, Crow, and Jack were desperately trying to explain everything to Bruno, who, unfortunately, had been out shopping for parts when Leo had delivered the explosive message.

"So, you're telling me that there are Machine Duel Monsters in that tower everyone in the cities talking about, there an invisible island in the sky, and that there are living, breathing dragons right here in New Domino City?" Bruno said.

"Well, you don't have to believe us!" Crow exclaimed in annoyance.

"No, no, no! Well, it's just, I kind of believe you guys, but, you know, it's-," Bruno began, but he was rudely interrupted by a load groan from Yusei. Everyone turned to see that his Mark of the Dragon's Head was glowing.

"Now what?" Jack remarked.

Suddenly, Yusei jumped onto his Duel Runner and took off at full speed.

"Yusei! Where are you going?" Bruno exclaimed.

Yusei zoomed through the night, chanting to himself, "Almost there, almost there, but where I am going!"

His three friends were right behind him.

Before long, they arrived near Martha's home, in front of the Stardust Dragon statue Mr. Bashford had made.

Yusei ran up to the statue and said, "It's here..I know it is..."

"What is?" Bruno asked.

"No clue," Yusei said.

"Here's a clue, look up there!" Crow said, and he pointed to the statue's neck. Lodged into was another Crimson Diamond, marked by the Mark of the Crimson Dragon's head.

"I'm on it," Yusei said and he climbed onto the base and up one of the statue's legs.

"Be careful, Yusei!" Bruno said.

Yusei quickly climbed onto the dragon statue's back and made it to the neck. He made it to the top of the head, and then he bend down and grabbed the Crimson Diamond. He gave it a mighty tug, but it wouldn't budge.

"Man, this thing is stuck tight," Yusei remarked.

"Allow me to help!" a voice said.

Yusei turned and gasped, "Leo!"

Leo was floating right behind him on his hover Duel Board. "Sorry, Yusei, but the Diamonds all belong to Power Tool Dragon now!" he said, Then Leo flew underneath the statue's head and wedged a crowbar between the statue and the Crimson Diamond.

"No, Leo! You don't want Power Tool Dragon to take over the world, do you? Whatever good thing he told you, it was a lie!" Yusei said.

Leo pushed down on the crowbar and said, "No! Power Tool Dragon's gonna make this world and paradise, and I'll be Prince! I'll be filthy rich! Besides, he wouldn't hurt anybody, and you guys'll like it in the Duel Spirit World, and I'm sure I can convince Power Tool to change his plans and make Luna the Princess instead of sending her away with you guys! Ha! She'll love it! I'm already working on influencing him to reconsider! Aha! Here it comes!"

With a small pop, the Crimson Diamond fell into Leo's hands. Leo raised it high and said, "Yes! I did it!"

Yusei suddenly pounced onto Leo, and the Duel Boards wobbled uncontrollably.

"Hey! Stop it! This board wasn't meant for two people!" Leo exclaimed.

Yusei grabbed hold of the Crimson Diamond. Unlimited power surged through him. It was as if everything in his body kicked into overdrive. And then, without having any idea what he was doing or why, as if an outside force was controlling him, Yusei pointed the Diamond at the Stardust Dragon statue an said, "Crimson Release."

The statue began to leak out cracks of red light. Then, without warning, and with a flash, the statue burst apart, and standing on the statue's base, in all his majestic glory, was the real Stardust Dragon.

The five onlookers were all in complete awe.

Stardust stretched out his hand, and Yusei quickly jumped onto it.

Leo looked up at the huge, sparkling dragon, smiled, and took off as fast as his Duel Board could carry him, screaming in utter terror.

Stardust placed Yusei on the ground and said, "Thank you, my master, you have released me."

"But how did you get trapped in the statue in the first place?" Yusei asked.

"It was the ultimate coincidence," Stardust said, "The statue was of me, it had my essence in it, the Crimson Diamond bearing my mark lodged itself into it, the metals the statue was made of conducted the Crimson Control energies, all coincidence. But if you hadn't recovered the Diamond, My spirit would still be trapped in that statue. You have me eternal gratitude. Now, I must seek out the rest of my allies-,"

"Don't worry, the other dragons are all on that island over there," Yusei said while pointing to the island.

Stardust nodded, "Good, now, so that your friend the sculptor does not have to go through any grief..." Stardust the raised the Crimson Diamond and said, "Crimson Regeneration!"

All the broken pits of the statue suddenly came together, and the statue was as good as new.

"And also, if you are wondering why no one has been awakened, it is because Crimson Control had been active and stopped time for you, but it won't last, so I suggest we all take our leave," Stardust said, and with a mighty wing-beat, he took flight.

"Come on, let's scram," Crow said.

"Wake up, Bruno!" Jack said to their paralyzed friend.

"Wow..." was all Bruno could say as he boarded his Duel Runner with wide open eyes.

The Signers and the dragon then took their leave.

Ancient Fairy Dragon stared at the Crimson Diamond in her hand until the light finally faded.

"What does it mean?" she whispered.

"I think I know," Archfiend said, and he pointed up at the sky.

Fairy gasped when she saw Stardust quickly approaching, leaving a trail of his namesake all the while. She quickly took flight to meet him in the air.

The two dragon were hovering in the sky, face to face.

"My Star, just a day without you feels like a year without sunlight to my soul," Fairy said.

The two dragons clasped their hands.

"My Angel, the light shinning off your gorgeous wings is like food for my soul," Stardust said.

Meanwhile, Torunka, Regulus, Kuribon, and the other dragons watched from the ground.

Regulus nodded solemnly and said, "Finally, the five dragons have been reunited. And soon, when we locate the remaining emeralds, we shall foil the vile plots of the machines, and we will all return home."

Let me know if you would've liked the scene with Fairy and Stardust to be an actually parody of the scene between Sonic and Amy during the last episode of the second of the three seasons of Sonic-X. I believe that it was called "So Long Sonic".

Tell me if this was better than the Sonic-X scene. Believe me, they are completely different, not to mention mine is much briefer!