p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"A/N: Hey there! It's only 9:30, so I got some coffee, took a break, and now I'm ready to type til lunchtime or until I need to write more, whichever comes first! I wrote this for you, so I hope you like it!/p
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p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"The next morning, We were rudely awakened and dragged into the common area for an "educational program." Chief Takasu introduced the older man at the podium as a Mister Rex Godwin./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Yusei and I stood next to each other in a sea of inmates. As the program started, Godwin looked straight at Yusei. Then he went on to talk all about Satellite and Neo Domino and why they're separate. He walked down from the stage, then stopped just next to Yusei./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Nevertheless, coming out of Satellite would throw the world into disorder. A single individual's reckless actions can cause trouble for their friends and acquaintances and, on occasion, it may be accompanied by empain/em." He looked at Yusei as he said it. Was he... threatening Yusei?/p
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p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""That concludes the word from the director!" Takasu announced. "Hurry up and vacate the room!" We all obediently headed for the exit./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Number 88 will remain!" he added. I stopped with Yusei, Yanagi, and Himuro./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Watch yourself," Himuro warned./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"I grabbed Yusei's hand in both of my own. "Don't get hurt, okay?" Then I was forced to leave./p
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p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"After that morning, Yusei never returned to the cell. That afternoon, two guards came in and moved me and Yanagi to different rooms. They said we were going to "The Hive." When we got there, I heard from Yanagi who heard from Himuro that Yusei was transferred too, and that's why he never showed. Yanagi and I went to visit him./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Sonny. Sonny!" Yanagi called through the cell bars./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Yusei!" I smiled at him./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Old man, Pinoko..."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Yusei went with us to meet up with Himuro to talk about how this had all happened./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""This side's for long-period inmates. I was supposed to do some community service and get straight out of here!" Yanagi complained./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Same goes for me."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""And we were supposed to get out in a month! emI/em didn't even do any dueling! Are we really not going to get out?" I asked./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Yeah, now that we're over here, I'm sure we'll be here for six months. Even longer if we aren't lucky."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""HYAAAAAH! THERE'S NO WAY I CAN SURVIVE HERE THAT LONG!" I lamented, pulling at my hair./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""We have to get out of here," Yusei declared./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Right? I'm going to keel over if I'm around these terrible prisoners too much longer!" I agreed./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""I'd be careful around that Chief Takasu. Rumor has it he treats prisoners real badly and uses his authority for the wrong things," Himuro stated./p
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p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"The next day, towards midday, a horrible bout of screams wracked the facility. Himuro, battered and beaten, was tossed in front of the wall of cells. Takasu walked up behind him./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Himuro has committed a serious crime! Everyone here will take responsibility for it! For the next year, all of your free time will be levied. You will not be allowed to leave your cells!" he bellowed. Everyone protested in shouts./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Shut your yaps!" he growled. "What are you trash babbling about? This world doesn't need any single one of you! Your kind doesn't have freedom or privileges! All you emdo/em have is the misery of carrying on your furtive lives forever in the shadows! If you have a complaint, speak up! I'll make sure you end up like him!"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Hold it." That was Yusei's voice! "No one in this world is unneeded." It was coming from the cell to my side./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Well, well. So the trash from Satellite is trying to play the hero, is he?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""He's not trash!" I shouted before I could contain my anger. "I hate it when people like you act all high and mighty, just because we were born in different places! Yusei is ten times the man you are! If anyone here is trash, it's you! Himuro did nothing wrong and Yusei is standing up for him, you stupid bully!"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Oh? so the trash has a shitty girlfriend, too?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""She's right. Himuro is a genuine duelist. He's not scheming anything." Yusei stated./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Did you make that remark knowing that yours truly is a duelist, too? He's the genuine article and I'm the fake, is that it? Very well! Let's settle this with a duel for everyone to see! If you win, I'll turn a blind eye to Himuro's crimes and promise to not take away tour free time! However! What if I win?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""I'll be at your mercy for the rest of my life."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Interesting. We duel at half past eight!"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""That's fine."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"I thought it would be over then, but I saw Yanagi being dragged out to Takasu. Two guards started to pull out his hidden cards./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Aah! No! Please don't!" He begged, but was silenced when Takasu backhanded him./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Listen up! This will be your last moment of free time! Make sure to spend it without regret."/p
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p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"After what felt like forever, the cell doors were unlocked. I shoved my way out as fast as I could, following Yusei to a cell where Yanagi and Himuro were tossed. Himuro and Yanagi both lay prone on the floor. Himuro's injuries were the worst./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Himuro!" Yusei knelt down to him./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Yusei..." he croaked./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Are you both alright?" I sniffled, tears forming./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Yeah, I'll manage. Yusei, Pinoko, forgive me. That guy took my deck, too." Himuro was in bad shape. He could barely move. Yanagi made his way to sit on the bottom bunk, then men started filling the room, all of them asking Himuro if he was alright./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"All I could do was snivel! I felt so useless! Yusei pulled me out of the room, then someone started talking. It must have been Yusei's cellmate. He said something about escaping and how Takasu was a cheater, as if we didn't know that./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""I can't do that," Yusei replied. "If they duel me, they're my friend. If I were to leave my friends behind, I wouldn't truly be free."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""But Yusei," I sniffled. "What are you going to do? My deck is still in my purse on your D-Wheel..."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Do what you want!" Yusei's cellmate walked away angrily. Then, from behind us.../p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""You're Yusei?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""You've gone and done it now."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Let's go have a chat."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Himuro's friends from before herded me and Yusei onto the center bridge and surrounded us./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""KYAAAAH! THEY'RE SERIOUSLY GOING TO KILL US NOW!" I shrilled, grabbing tightly onto Yusei's arm./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"What I though was going to be beat down with us in the middle actually turned out better than I expected. Instead of that, everyone gave Yusei a card. They all placed their hopes on Yusei and by the end of it, Yusei had a whole deck in his hand! He smiled./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Your wishes are in my hands."/p
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p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"At 8:30 sharp, Yusei was let out of his room and led to the center. I wasn't sure that there would be a repercussion for my backtalk earlier, but my own cell door opened wide and a guard came in. He grabbed my arms and held them behind my back. I was sure I would be searched for a deck, so I was relieved that I had left Rocky with Yanagi and Himuro for safekeeping. I just hope they can keep him out of trouble./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"I was shoved into the middle platform next to Yusei. After being released, I clung to Yusei in fear of what might happen. He put a comforting hand over mine./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""You need a deck to duel, but you, of course, don't have one! Believe it or not, if you don't one then I win by default."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""You want a deck? Here it is." Yusei produces his collected deck from his pocket./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Impossible! Where'd you get it from?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""You just don't know how much care a duelist gives to a single card or how much they cherish it."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Well, whatever. I'll beat you in a duel! You! Get him a disk."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Two of the men who brought us down here fitted Yusei with a chained duel disk. The third one put a similarly chained shackle on my ankle./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Wha-what is th-this for?" I stammered. Takasu smirked at me evilly./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Aw, don't worry, little girl. It's just a little sideshow. Only the survivor can remove their chains."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Only the survivor?" Yusei asked doubtfully./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""You'll know soon."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Duel!"/p
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p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""And now, Chain Repairer's effect activates! When it destroys a monster by way of battle, it inflicts 300 points of damage to the opponent! Get ready to accept your fates!"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"I saw a little spark at the base of the chain, just before a searing pain exploded all over. Yusei and I both screamed in agony, my legs giving out from under me. Never before had I felt a pain so intense!/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Whoops! I didn't explain that yet, did I? Every time you take damage, you and your mouthy little girlfriend get a shock!"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""W-what?" I gasped, tears flowing freely down my cheeks./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""As precedent stands, I doubt the loser will survive..."/p
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p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"That's chapter seven for you! Anything you want to say? Leave a review! I'm more than happy to reply! I'll be updating in a while, since I ran out of material to type! I'm going to go and write more, and I'll be back in a few hours or so!/p