I know, it's been awhile. But, I suck at keeping up with multi-chapters, but thankfully, chapter 11 is now finished, so this bad boy is posted. Thankfully there is only a few more chapters till the end so cross your fingers and hope I can crank those chapters out with no problem.
Disclaimer: I don't own Yugioh 5D's.
Aki and Ally climbed up the stairs two by two. Once they had reached the top, both girls ducked under the caution tape and entered Ally's apartment. By now most of the room had been cleaned up, the only place left was Ally's bed area.
Both girls ignored the graffiti above the headboard and marched straight over to Ally's dresser. The strawberry blonde grabbed a pair of pink tights, a t-shirt, and black spandex shorts.
Aki wolf-whistled playfully, "Dressing to impress?"
Ally suppressed a blush of embarrassment. "I knew some girls who wore shorter."
"Now, that's just gross." Aki said, wincing in the process.
"I know," Ally commented, heading into the bathroom to change.
Once the door had been closed, Aki walked over and stood by the door, resting her back against the wall. She looked at the graffiti, reading the warning over and over again; memorizing the boxy handwriting. These thugs were crazy, and quite frankly, Aki was a little fearful of them. They had done so much harm to all of her friends over the past few weeks, sometimes it felt like she was counting down the days before they came after her too. Next to Carly and Ally, Aki also had a giant target on her back.
The bathroom door opened making Aki loose her train of thought. Ally came out in her respective dance attire.
"What? No tutu?" Aki chided.
Ally shoved the violet-haired girls shoulder, "Very funny."
The two girls exited Ally's home without another word and rushed down the stairs back to the living room. They found the coffee table, rug and an arm chair moved and everyone sitting on the couch. The twins seemed giddy with excitement, their legs bouncing up and down in sync.
"No tutu?" Crow asked sarcastically, giving Ally a grin.
"Already pulled that one," Aki answered.
"Are you guys ready?" Ally asked ignoring both Crow and Aki's comments. The twins looked at each other wearing similar expressions of enthusiasm. They turned to look at Ally, nodding their head vigorously.
Ally giggled softly and slipped on her toe pads and pointe shoes while Aki took her seat by the boys and Ruka. After Ally was finished she walked to the center of the room and looked at the twins.
"So what do you guys want to see?" she questioned, standing their rather awkwardly avoiding Crow's gawking and everyone else's analytical stares. "Leaps, turns, jumps?"
"Um…" Ruka pondered, trying to think of something.
"Do one of those spinny thingys!" Rua announced, moving his hands about for emphasis.
"A pirouette?" the ballerina raised an eyebrow. "Sure easy-peasy."
She positioned herself and turned with ease on the tops of her shoes. Once she was finished turning she looked at the looks of excitement and astonishment.
"That. Was. AWESOME!" Rua exclaimed.
"Didn't that, ya know, hurt?" Aki asked.
"No, why would it hurt?" the strawberry-blonde retorted.
"Well, you kinda just turned… On a block of wood…" Yusei commented.
The red-head looked at them in disbelief. "You actually thought that was hard?"
They all exchanged glances. They all seemed to be at a loss, anyone could turn, but who would want to on a block… of wood. If they hadn't known Ally for quite some time, they might've thought she was insane.
"Well, yea…" Ruka said.
"That was only a single; you guys haven't even seen a double or a triple." Ally said, crossing her arms, basking in their amazement. "Keep in mind; I've been dancing since I was 3."
"Wait, it's possible to do more than one?" Jack asked speaking up for the first time completely ignoring Ally's other comment.
"Yea, I'll show you," the ballerina said, getting into position and performing a multitude of pirouettes, going on and on until she felt like she was going to puke from spinning so much.
When Ally stopped she put her hands on her knees, trying to catch her breath. She was out of shape after not having danced in months and she had just performed pretty difficult moves without properly warming up. She mentally berated herself for that one.
She felt a hand gently grasp her shoulder. The red-head looked up to see Crow above her, worry evident in his eyes.
"I'm fine," she wheezed, "really."
Crow raised his eyebrow skeptically, not believing a word she said. Ally sighed, continuing to catch her breath.
"I'm seriously fine, just a bit out of shape." She assured, standing up right once again, ignoring the pain in her limbs and the worried looks from her friends. She looked at the twins, excitement still burning behind the worry in their eyes.
"What do you guys want to see next?" she pressed, because that's what ballerina's do best; they go on without worrying about the consequences.
Aki was on her way home from the boys. After spending countless hours over there, it had finally been time to say goodbye and head home. Currently, she was crossing the Daedalus Bridge overlooking the small stretch of ocean that separated the two halves of Neo Domino City.
As she was crossing, Aki took in the sounds of the waves and the scent that floated off of the water. She was so focused on it, she barely noticed the four D-Wheels that were beginning to box her in until it was too late. She cursed herself under her breath. Rule number one on a D-Wheel: always be alert.
The violet-haired woman tried to remain calm be trying to steer herself out of the blockade, but to no avail. The panic truly began to set in, when a cold voice echoed through her ears.
"You should've kept your powers to yourself."
Aki's eyes widened in horror as she recognized the voice as the blonde leader of the Thrashers who had appeared the night Jack and Ally had dueled. Another colder, and if at all possible, creepier voice filled her ears after that.
"Little girls shouldn't play with the big boys."
As if that was their cue, the D-Wheels began slamming into her, trying to throw her off balance. Aki gripped her handle bars, trying to stay composed. She reached for her deck, ready to summon any monster to help her, but another D-Wheel had slammed into her side.
Unable to regain control, Aki flew off of her vehicle, rolling onto the pavement, as her D-Wheel skidded on its side to a halt. Aki was flung across the pavement, her body landing with a sickening thud near the edge of the road. She faintly heard the Thrasher's laughter as they stopped right by her limp body.
"Well, well, well," The one with the creepier voice spoke, "Look's like she figured out she wasn't cut out for the big leagues."
Aki looked up from under her destroyed helmet to see a brunette with ruthless gold eyes staring at her. She could barely suppress a shiver from staring into those unforgiving eyes, but her mind was beginning to cloud and she was losing her focus, fast. She attempted a growl at their remarks but it hardly came off as ferocious more so of a weak animal.
"To bad too, she was a cutie." He remarked.
"About as cute as that red-head from a couple weeks ago," the blonde laughed, poking the other in the ribs playfully.
The brunette smirked, "Agreed, Andy, agreed."
Aki scowled at them, as they pulled away from her, laughing manically as they went. She carefully reached inside her pocket and pulled out her phone, careful to not move herself in case she suffered a head or back injury. She pressed speed dial 1 on her phone and prayed that Yusei would pick up and figure out what was going on before she lost consciousness.
Yusei had just finished putting the coffee table back in place when his cell phone rang. He looked at the caller ID briefly before answer the phone.
"Forget something, Aki?" Yusei asked playfully. After a few minutes of silence, Yusei took the phone away from his ear and examined it. He was pretty sure she had called him, but all he heard on the phone were the noises of the Daedalus Bridge in the background.
"Something wrong, Yusei?" Crow asked helping Ally put the arm chair in its proper position.
"Yea, Aki called, but she's not talking…" he drifted off.
"Butt dial?" Ally suggested trying to put the mechanic's mind at ease.
"I guess, but maybe we should go and check, just to make sure." Yusei said, beginning to get an uncomfortable feeling in the pit of his stomach.
"Sure, whatever you say." Crow agreed, picking his helmet up and racing downstairs to the basement with Jack, Yusei, Rua and Ruka in tow. Ally, having already changed back into her normal clothes, grabbed her helmet and mounted her D-Wheel where she parked it earlier that day.
In minutes, the group was off on D-Wheel and Duel Board alike. Once on the Daedalus Bridge everyone began searching for Aki's D-Wheel while simultaneously trying to assure Yusei that everything was fine.
But everything wasn't fine. After roughly 10 minutes of searching they found a red D-Wheel smoking and crashed against the walls of the bridge several feet away from a woman who was dressed suspiciously like Aki.
Once Yusei saw the scene, he revved his engine in the direction and took off towards the wreck. He hopped off his motorcycle and ran to his girlfriend as fast as his muscles would allow.
"Whatever you do, don't move her!" He could hear Ally's instruction ricochet off the high winds, but he barely took notice of it.
"Aki!" He cried, kneeling at her side carefully. "Are you hurt?"
He got a groan of response in return, "Sorry stupid question."
Yusei looked over her limp body, searching for any signs of an obvious injury. His eyes immediately landed on a dark stain that seemed to be growing bigger and bigger out of her side. "Guys!" he shouted, grabbing the attention of his companions. "She's bleeding!"
Immediately, everyone came rushing over. Looks of panic swept across all of their faces. The twins' eyes began to swell with tears. Crow and Ally put their arms around the twins in a comforting manner. Jack looked on at the gruesome scene, trying to think of some words to keep everyone together.
"Okay, here's what we gotta do," Ally said, beating Jack to the punch. "Yusei, but pressure on the wound until the paramedics get here, and try and keep her conscious."
Yusei nodded as he put his gloved hand on the wound and pressed down eliciting a scream of torture from Aki. Yusei moved the hair out of her face and whispered soothing words to her in order to keep her calm and focused.
"You can't move, Aki, okay? Just stay calm, I'm right here." He assured her, grabbing hold of her hand and squeezing it tightly.
"Jack, you go with Rua and Ruka and call 911." Jack gave a solemn nod to the strawberry blonde and moved the twins away from the terrifying scene.
Finally, Ally's gaze landed on Crow, "Guess that leaves us," Ally commented worry sweeping across her face as she truly took in the scene.
In retrospect, it could've been much worse, but it still didn't help the fact that it looked oddly suspicious. Why would Aki wipe out so suddenly? The violet-haired woman had plenty of practice on her D-Wheel, and the boys had just updated her engine and software not even a couple of weeks ago. There was definitely more to what happened, but Ally couldn't put her finger on it. Was it a set up? What was going on? Was it-
"You're doing fine," Crow said softly grabbing her hand and effectively dragging Ally out of her train of thought.
Ally gave him a weak grin, "C'mon lets use the D-Wheels and block some traffic. We'd better hurry too, rush hours gonna start soon."
But still, in the back of their minds something was going on. They just needed to get to the bottom of it.
And there you go, chapter 10! :D Please review!