AnimeKiwi369: Now we find out where Akiza has been taken.
Akiza: I have a bad feeling.
AnimeKiwi369: Why do you have to be like that?
Akiza: Because of how this story's been so far.
AnimeKiwi369: Okay.(?) This chapter actually focuses more on Luna, but the beginning and the end focuses on Akiza. I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's or its character, but I do own the storyline.
A Rose's Nightmare
Chapter 7: Trapped
Akiza woke with another start, but not from the nightmare; from how she passed out replaying in her head. Her head was pounding again from when her head had contacted the ground…again. She stood up and looked around. Nothing was familiar. It wasn't Satellite or New Domino or Arcadia. She heard the sound of waves crashing on rocks. She turned around and saw a cliff. Everything else was just…green. A forest was to the opposite side of the ocean. The sky was covered in gray clouds. Akiza heard an evil laugh and turned toward it. Nothing. No one. Well…not exactly nothing. She saw an old, worn out lighthouse with a house extension on it.
"Where am I?"
Back at the Tops
"Yusei!" Luna yelled as she ran back into the apartment.
"Luna?" he asked as she stopped in front of him. He crouched down in front of her, "What is it? What's wrong?"
"It's…Akiza." She panted, trying to catch her breath. When Akiza had left the apartment, Luna had followed as soon as she could and saw the older girl follow someone around a corner. And Luna had followed her around the corner. The younger female Signer caught a glimpse of the older one going around another corner. As she made it to where Akiza had gone, Luna saw a glimpse of movement. But it was just that…a glimpse. The young girl made it to the last corner she saw Akiza go around. No one was there.
"Akiza?" she had called out, but no answer came. It was a dead end. There was a small card at the end with a small bit of blood by it. Luna picked up the card and read it; her eyes widened as she had read the card and she ran back to hers and Leo's apartment as fast as she could.
"What about Akiza?" Yusei asked, a worried expression crossing his face and seeping into his voice.
"She's been taken." Luna said in a shaking voice.
"What do you mean 'taken'?" he asked, his eyes widening. She held out the card and he read it over. His eyes widened more and he stood up. As calmly as he could he walked over to his runner getting it ready.
"Luna, get your duel disk." He told her and she obeyed without question. When she came back down, Yusei had just put down the phone.
"Who was that, Yusei?" she asked.
"I just called Trudge, Mina, and Akiza's parents." He told her, "We're going after her. I need you to tell me, Luna, what were you going to tell me earlier."
"What does she need to tell you?" Crow asked coming into the room with Leo and Jack.
"Yusei, do you remember when Akiza asked me to go get her deck a few weeks ago?" he nodded and Leo and Crow had a confused expression. "Well, what took me so long was Black Rose Dragon gave me a warning about Akiza."
"Why didn't you tell us?" Jack asked
"I wasn't sure how to tell you." She admitted. "I'm sorry."
"You should've told us if it was important!" he almost yelled, causing her to cringe away. Leo stepped in front of his sister.
"Leave her alone, Jack." He said. "She said she was sorry."
"Luna," Yusei commanded, "what did Black Rose Dragon say to you?"
"She said that the nightmare she had was ruling her life; it keeps returning," she explained, "and she keeps getting a sharp pain in her head and heart. And Black Rose Dragon told me that the spirits in her deck are worried about her health and sanity. And she's worried about hurting us—her friends—with her powers."
"Is that all, Luna?" Yusei asked, worriedly.
"No," Luna shook her head, "Black Rose Dragon said that the spirits in her deck were beginning to think it wasn't a coincidence when I spoke to her. And that we have to help Akiza at all costs." She concluded.
"Did Black Rose Dragon explain or ask anything else?" Crow inquired.
"Like what goes on in Akiza's nightmare?" Yusei asked.
"All she told me about the nightmare was that Akiza becomes under control of Sayer, dueling Misty, and her powers run wild." Luna paused before she continued, "And that she ends up killing her savior. Who is also her only love. But she didn't say anything else about the nightmare. Or who she accidentally kills."
"No wonder she's been reluctant to duel." Jack commented.
"We have to save her." Yusei announced with more than just determination.
"Isn't she outside?" Leo asked.
"No," Yusei told the young boy, "Sayer has her."
"WHAT?" the others exclaimed and Leo went and grabbed his duel disk and the other male Signers got their duel runners ready. They went outside as Trudge and Mina pulled up in a Security patrol car.
"What's going on?" Mina asked in a concerned tone. Yusei handed the little card to her and she read it, then handed it to Officer Trudge. "Leo, Luna, get in the car." The twins got into the car.
"Everyone ready?" Yusei asked after he, Jack, and Crow had mounted their runners. Everyone nodded, "All right then. Let's go save Akiza."And they rode off towards where Sayer had taken the older female Signer.
Back With Akiza
Akiza walked towards the extension of the lighthouse. It was long and the end was tall. Very tall. And it looked almost like a clock tower. A door was opened to the lighthouse. She looked in the door way and saw movement.
"Hello?" she called as she entered, "Sayer?" The door closed behind her, like they had in the hall of mirrors when she faced Misty, startling her. She tried to open it; locked. There was a sickly orange-yellow glow illuminating the extension. The inside was a wreck; glass and debris was everywhere.
"Are you scared Akiza?" Sayer's voice taunted. I know this is going to end badly, but if it means these nightmares might stop, I need to follow. She told herself and began walking towards the voice, avoiding the wreckage as best she could, but got many cuts from the sharp edges of debris.
She made her way towards Sayer's menacing voice. There were broken pipes and more wreckage as she made her way. Akiza found herself in a room that didn't have any door or broken windows, just walls. Sayer's evil laugh came, but she couldn't tell from where, and she heard a sound like something being lit; like a match. Several seconds later Akiza could hear a crackling sound of something, and it took several more seconds before she smelled smoke and felt heat beginning to rise. Sayer had set a fire to the building! She tried to run, but stopped short as flames leapt in front of her. She turned to run the other way, but flames were all around her.
Akiza was trapped.
AnimeKiwi369: Another cliffhanger! Love 'em. Hate 'em. What are ya gonna do about them?
Akiza: That's it. I think I'm going to hurt you.
AnimeKiwi369: You wouldn't do that.
Akiza: Why wouldn't I?
AnimeKiwi369: Then you wouldn't see how the story ends.
Akiza: I hate when you point out the obvious.
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