0713MM: Hey guys! I welcome you to the 14th chapter of this fanfic! I do not own Yugioh 5Ds, nor do I own Aura. You should know who owns Aura by now. Now, on with the chapter!^^

Chapter 14

"Output is at 80… 90…"

Yusei, Jack, and Crow were testing their new engine as Yusei typed on the computer and Jack revving the engine; Crow watching nervously.

"Is this safe? I don't want another explosion like last time." Crow frowned.

"Impressive Yusei! You perfected it in only a few days!" Jack spoke proudly.

"Yeah, at least there's no problem with the engine." Yusei said, not looking up.

"Engine?" Crow began.

"At least?" Jack asked. Suddenly, the cards in the deck holder flew out, much to Jack and Crow's shock.

"The cards!" Crow yelled, as the engine exploded again.

"Be quiet!" Zora yelled, coming inside. "How many disturbances are you going to cause? I don't know if you're making things or breaking things!"

"I'm sorry." Yusei apologized.

"Don't blame Yusei." Crow said.

"That's right you'll be doing Jack Atlas a favor." Jack said.

"I was talking about you two from the beginning!" Zora yelled.

"Zora, I'm really sorry." Yusei apologized.

"It's fine Yusei. How unfortunate for you, you should occasionally take a break instead of working on that machine all the time." Zora smiled, before glaring at Jack and Crow. "You two should help Yusei instead of holding him back!" Zora then left with a slam to the door.

"How dare she treat us differently!" Jack frowned.

"I prefer that she yells at me instead of giving me that eerie insincere smile." Crow smirked.

"Don't say that; Zora is letting us stay here for free." Yusei reminded them.

"I guess. Anyway, we have to do something about this." Crow said, looking at the mess of cards around them.

"Yusei! Jack! Crow!" The three looked up to see Leo and Luna run in with their friends. "We came to visit!" Leo grinned.

"Welcome!" Crow grinned.

"Again?" Jack asked, exasperated.

"It's messy again. As usual." Leo said, looking around.

"That's for sure." They looked up and were surprised to see Aura, who wore an indigo blouse, a white blazer, gray slacks, and black heels not wearing her hat and her hair tied in a ponytail.

"Wow Aura you look amazing." Luna said.

"Oh thanks. Had to wear this for a job interview I just went to. Then I heard the commotion an decided to see what was up." Aura said, walking down the stairs.

"Job interview?" Patty asked curiously.

"Yup as a teacher's assistant for your school." Aura said nonchalantly.

"Eh?!" The kids gap shock.

"You're gonna work in our school?" Leo gap.

"Yeah; helping with the students, the classes that kind of stuff." Aura shrugged, as she walked to the prototype. "Blew up another engine huh?"

"Hey hey, it was Jack's fault this time!" Crow scowled. "He was the one revving the engine up."

"A D-Wheel! Wow!" Bob said, as he, Dexter, and Patty went to for a closer look.

"It's a frame for testing purposes." Dexter said.

"Cool!" Patty said.

"Don't touch it!" Jack frowned.

"Let me ride it!" Bob said.

"Can we?" Patty asked.

"No! Have you no shame?" Jack scowled.

"Ok kids, let's help these boys collect the cards ok." Aura smiled.

"Ok!" They said.

"We'll help too." Leo said, as they all began collecting the cards.

"Thank you." Yusei smiled.

Then Yusei looked up to notice Sly at the door as did the others. "Sly." Luna said.

"Why is he here?" Leo asked, slightly surprised.

"Sly!" Luna smiled, rushing to Sly as he turned to leave. "What are you doing here? Come over here." Luna took his hand; getting him to come down the stairs. "Yusei, he's our classmate. Yusei's really strong." "Right Sly?"

"Nice to meet you." Yusei greeted.

"So you're Yusei Fudo. Just as I thought you're not very cool." Sly remarked nonchalantly, getting out of Luna's grip.

"What?" Leo said.

"What? Why aren't you working?!" Crow yelled. "Get back to work!"

"Right!" The kids said, as they began collecting cards again.

"Why do I have to do this?" Sly scowled. Then suddenly, Sly looked to the side to see Stardust Dragon. "That's..." He began. "Stardust Dragon..." He reached his hand towards it. Once he grabbed it with his hand, he picked up and stared at it for a moment.

So….. This is the Dragon that made Yusei Fudo so famous… Sly thought. The Dragon binds him as one of those Signers…. I've had my eyes on this Dragon for quite some time…. But I could never obtain it…..until now…. Now that's it's mine, I can use to my own advantage and rise to top of my class,while those weaklings stay where they are…. He then pocketed Stardust Dragon in his pocket. He glanced around, thinking someone would notice, luckily from him, no one did. He sighed in relief and reluctantly decided to help the others pick up the rest of the cards.

Soon after collecting the cards, the kids left the apartment.

"Phew; finally cleaned up the place." Crow smiled. "We really owe those kids."

"Yeah." Yusei nodded with a smile. Then Yusei looked to see Aura looking around with a worried look on her face.

"What's wrong Aura?" Yusei asked, concern washing over his face.

"Uh Yusei where's Stardust Dragon?" She asked with deep concern.

"What do you mean?" Yusei asked. "It's in my deck." He takes his deck box off of the table next to the computer he was now back to working on. He opens it up and skims through his deck. His eyes widened when he did not find Stardust Dragon in his deck box. "Stardust Dragon is gone!"

"What?!" Jack gaped. "Now who would steal Stardust Dragon?!"
"You?" Crow smirked. At that remark from Crow, Jack whirled around and grabbed Crow by the shirt.

"For your information Crow, I changed my ways from being a selfish douchebag!" Jack snapped. "I wouldn't steal Stardust Dragon! Not since that incident some time ago…. So thanks for reminding me of that you dolt! And if it wasn't for Carly, then yes; I probably would steal Stardust Dragon again! But I'm making amends for that!" He throws Crow to the ground and proceeds to storm off. Before he left the garage-like area, he stopped and turned his head slightly. "I'm pretty certain it was one of Leo and Luna's friends that wanted to ride our prototype. Or perhaps it was that shady kid, Sly. Sly…. Hah….who names their kid that?" He huffed, then proceeded to go upstairs. "If you need me, I'll be in my room." His footsteps become softer and softer before no one can hear his footsteps anymore.

"Well that was climatic, but he might be right." Aura sighed.

"Right about what?" Yusei asked.

"About that boy Sly. Something seemed off to me about that kid. It could be possible he stole Stardust Dragon." She frowned.

"If what Jack suggested to be true, then we have to find him." Crow chimed in as he picked himself up. He grimaced slightly. "Dammit Jack; why do you have be so rough?"

"Well, you did bringed up a sore spot on him." She sighed. Crow sighed.

"Yeah, perhaps I did." Crow admitted. "But seriously, what does Carly have to do with this problem?" Aura only sighed as Akiza walked in with a surprised/confused look on her face.

"Is something wrong?" She asked.

"Oh nothing. Unless you count Stardust Dragon getting stolen." Aura frowned. Akiza covered her mouth with her right hand.

"Wh-What?..." Akiza started. "Who would-?"

"We think it's one of Leo and Luna's classmates. A boy named Sly." Yusei explained to Akiza.

"But why would Sly take Stardust Dragon?" Akiza wondered aloud. Crow only shrugged.

"I dunno. To become Yusei? Use Stardust Dragon the same way Jack did all that time ago? Some other god forsaken reason that I don't know?" Crow asked as he counted each of his questions on his fingers.

"Let's just go find the kid and get back Stardust!" Aura declared.

"Yeah!" Crow cracked his knuckles. "I'll give him a piece of my-"

"No!" Akiza interjected. "I will!"

"Eh?" Crow gaped. "Why?"

"Because for one, I go to the same school Sly and others go to, but I'm in a higher grade, if you wish to call it that. And another reason-"

"Because you care about Yusei and you want to impress him to a degree?" Crow teased; a smirk present on his lips. At that tease from Crow, Akiza's face turned bright red.

"Shut up Crow!" Akiza snapped. "That's not the reason at all!"

"No; she's just protective of Yusei's cards." Aura said.

"Oi Oi. Fine; I'll stop." Crow remarked. "So where would we find Sly anyway? You said he goes to your school Akiza?" Akiza nodded.

"Yeah." She replied. "But school's out for the day, so he's probably back at his house."

"Then we'll confront him at school tomorrow." Aura said.

"Alright." Akiza smiled. Crow just stood there, not really understanding the term of school and whatnot. He knew the basics, sure, but nothing past it.

"Well, you guys have fun tomorrow." Crow grinned sheepishly. "I'll be here in case you guys will need me. Gonna try and see if I can get Jack to help Zora around this place. Otherwise, Jack might either be kicked out by Zora, or he'll have to get a job. Whichever comes first." At the "Jack getting a job" remark from Crow, Yusei and Akiza couldn't help but laugh.

"Crow, Jack getting a job?" Akiza giggled. "Yeah; in probably 1 million years. Perhaps longer."

"Yeah well, if he wants to stick around here, he'll have to." Crow added. "Zora is being nice now, but watch, she'll have us paying rent soon enough. The only reason she's letting us crash here for free is because of Yusei and his achievements thus far."

"Come on Crow." Yusei chimed in. "You know that's not true."

"Wanna bet Yusei?" Aura asked with an amused smile. Yusei turned away from Crow and Akiza to face Aura.
"Eh?" Yusei asked. "Why? You really believe Zora's letting me, Jack and Crow crash here for free is because of my achievements?"

"I won't be surprised if it's true." Crow chuckled.

"Though you had good achievements too Crow." Aura smiled, a hand on Crow's arm

"Perhaps I did." Crow smiled Then his smile faded and formed a frown. "But they aren't that great ultimately. Yeah sure, Zora recognizes them and isn't as harsh towards me as she is with Jack. Which I guess you could say is a good thing."

"You give yourself too little credit Crow. After all with those wonderful kids you took care of, I'd say otherwise." Aura smiled, kissing Crow's cheek. "Well I better get going. See ya." With that, Aura left the apartment. After Aura left, Crow was dumbstruck and awestruck at the same time. Akiza and Yusei glanced at each other. And funny enough, they were both thinking the exact same thing: Let's tease Crow. (Well, moreso Akiza was thinking it than Yusei, but you get the picture.)

"You alright Crow?" Akiza asked teasingly.

"Yeah; you're looking like you got hit by some heart-shaped D-Wheel." Yusei added.

"Uhhhhhh…." Crow spoke, still shocked. "What just happened?"

"Oh, don't worry about it." Akiza laughed light heartedly. Crow pinched the bridge of his nose, then glanced at the clock. His eyes widen slightly.

"9:30pm?!" Crow gaped. "Guess I better head to bed now. I uhhhh…..just remembered that I have a job interview some time later tomorrow. Night Yusei, Akiza." Crow then left the room. With Crow gone, Yusei glanced at Akiza.

"Guess I better get you home then, huh?" Yusei asked Akiza. "Don't need your parents worrying about you." Akiza chuckled.

"Perhaps so/" Akiza agreed.

The next day, Akiza walked to the school early; making sure to be there before the kids. Upon reaching the school grounds, she saw Aura standing with the kids' teacher, Miss. Bartlet, wearing a white blouse, indigo blazer, black skirt, gray stockings, and black heels. Her hair tied in a braid.

"Morning Akiza." Aura smiled.

"Morning Aura." Akiza greeted. "So waiting for the kids to arrive?"

"Yeah; you're the first. Now remember, once we see the kids we talk with them. While I'll see if I can sense Stardust on the little twerp" Aura muttered to her with a low growl.

"Don't worry about Stardust and Sly." Akiza told her. "Once duel class starts here, I'll challenge Sly to get Stardust back. If he has it. Which I have a feeling he does."

Before Aura could answer back, they heard the kids coming.

"Good morning kids." Miss. Bartlet smiled.

"Morning Miss. Bartlett." They said.

"Morning you guys." Aura smiled.

"Wow this is going to take a while to get use to." Leo grinned.

"Do we call you Ms. Flood then?" Patty asked.

"That's my Grandma. If we have to insist on titles here, Miss. Aura will do." Aura chuckled.

"Ok Miss. Aura." They giggled.

"Alright you smart alecks, get to class." Aura smirked, shooing them away. Akiza giggled as the students left to go inside the school and go to their classes. She then saw Sly walking over and her eyes narrowed slightly.

"Good morning Sly." Miss. Bartlett smiled.

"Morning Miss. Bartlet." Sly said respectively. Aura's eyes narrowed as Sly walked in the school with the rest of the kids as she lowly growled.

"That punk does have Stardust." She growled lowly. "Why I outta-!"

"You better make sure Miss Bartlett doesn't get ahead of you." Akiza interrupted. "Otherwise you'll be late for assistant teaching. I'll be the one to take Sly out and get Stardust back for Yusei." Aura sighed in defeat. Akiza was right.

"Ugh fine. But make sure he learns for doing something like this." Aura muttered to Akiza, before walking with Miss. Bartlett to the classroom. Akiza followed behind Aura and Miss Bartlett.

After a few hours of classes, Miss Bartlett told the kids that it was time for the duel class. Majority of the kids were pleased by this news and proceeded to head to the gym where the duel arenas' were located. Since Akiza had a free during the underclass's duel class. In that case, she walked down the hallways of the school in the direction of the gym. While she did, lots of thoughts coursed through Akiza's head. Most of them pertained to Yusei, along with Sly and Yusei's Stardust Dragon.

I don't understand… Akiza thought as she continued to walk through the hallways of the school. Why would Sly steal Stardust Dragon?... Is it because he believes that he should have it and that Yusei is unworthy of it? Or is there….something more?... Well regardless, I shall find out soon enough… After several more minutes of walking, Akiza reaches the gym and opens the doors. Upon doing so, she notices mostly everyone has an opponent and dueling. After observing the other students dueling, Akiza eventually notices Sly, who wasn't dueling. And he wasn't any of them either. Instead, he was staring at the clock. As if knowing what Sly was thinking, Akiza walked briskly towards him.

Time to get Stardust Dragon back. Akiza thought to herself as she continued through the gymnasium towards Sly.

Sly doesn't take notice of Akiza right away. Instead, he was thinking of what that white cloaked person (most likely a male) that met some time ago told him.

"Now Sly, you want what I have to offer to you, do you not?" Sly nodded, an eager expression. The white cloaked man grinned in satisfaction.

"Good. Once you succeed in crippling Akiza and Yusei, and perhaps the rest of those Siginers by taking Stardust Dragon, I'll let you keep the card, along with your pay you'll receive from me in return. Go it boy?" Sly nods again.

"Yes." was his reply. The white cloaked man grinned.

"Good. I'll even give you fame and fortune in exchange for doing this assignment. Perhaps you might be able to help in our grand plan if your assignment goes as planned. Now get out of my sight." Sly grinned slyly, then proceeded to walk away The white cloaked man chuckled, then vanished with the swipe of his sword.

Sly looked down at his deck. A sly smile on his face.

Soon….I'll have what I really want… Sly thought. This school is giving me what I want in the end. Moreso the proper education.

"Hey!" Sly turned around to see the red haired teen, Akiza, standing about 5 feet away from him. Her arms were crossed and her facial showed that of some hostility. Sly scowled in response.

"What do you want Akiza?" Sly asked sharply. "I'm kinda busy here."

"Yeah; busy stealing people's cards." Akiza grit her teeth. Sly chuckled.

"I don't recall the faculty hiring you to be a security guard." Sly remarked coldy.. "Not like you could be one anyway. Your reputation would ruin that chance. Along with your anger management issues."

"What was that?!" Akiza growled, gnashing her teeth. "I came here to duel you to get my friend's card back! Not to argue with an antisocial kid like you!" Sly smirked, Akiza's anger spiking slowly.

"You wanted to duel me for some card?" Sly remarked. "Sorry, but I don't duel people like you. Considering what you've been through, I'm surprised the academy allowed you in as a student." An anger mark appeared above Akiza's head.

"Excuse me?!" Akiza snapped. "For your information, Sly, I was a student here long before you were!" Sly only shrugs.

"Whatever." Sly remarked. He glances at the clock and the bell rang for lunch. He glanced back at Akiza, a smile appeared on his face. But Akiza could tell it was a devious, taunting smile. At her. "Oh well. Guess you won't get your chance to duel me today, Miss Akiza." And with that, he left the gymnasium, along with all the other students.

"Why you! Get back here!" Akiza shouted. But unfortunately, she was just shouted at the double door entrance/exit to the gymnasium. Her mouth agape in anger and shock.

"Sorry Yusei..." Akiza muttered sadly. "I tried..."

Aura, who was silently watching in case to jump in, frowned as she followed the class. Guess Sly and I will have to have a little talk. She thought.

In an unknown area, 3 figures sat all wearing white cloaks and hoods as they overlooked a lined Circuit. Upon looking over and down, they could see an image of the inside of the Duel Academy of New Domino City. They watched the scene play out before them regarding Sly and Akiza. As Sly left the gymnasium via the visual they were looking, the one with a red left eye chuckled to himself. Luckily, the other 2 didn't hear him.

"My my, that girl is quite feisty, wouldn't you say?" The one with a right green eye noted as he glanced at the other 2.

"Yes well, if she gets the Circuit gets activated via her actions, she can be as feisty as she wants." The one with the red eye remarked. The 3rd one with a left brown eye and long grey beard and grey hair covering over his other eye, narrowed it slightly. 2 of the 3 white cloaked figures had an infinity symbol attached to their face; covering their other eye.

"Perhaps…." The 3rd one mused. "But I don't recall this being part of the plan to get the Circuit activated…." The one with a red felt himself shaking a bit.

Shit! He thought. If our leader finds out that I bribed Sly to help us crush the Signers and get the Circuit activated, then I'll be in serious trouble! Luckily for him, the green eyed one spoke.

"Oh, looks like the Priestess is taking a turn." He said grinning. "Oh and she just looks livid."

They looked to see Aura going over to Sly; a cold glare present on her face.

"Sly, I wish to talk with you." Aura spoke to him. Sly doesn't turn around, but replies regardless.

"What about?" He asked.

"I think we both know." She said. "Return Stardust Dragon." At that, Sly turns around, a smirk on his lips.

"I think not." He replied.

"Then I guess we do this the hard way." She sighed. At once indigo aura shot out from Aura to his shock as it went in his deck getting out Stardust Dragon and going to her hand. "Hmph...so Jack was right." She said. Sly stares at Aura, still surprised.

"What?..." Sly gaped. "What just happened?"

"So Leo and Luna haven't told you about me I see. I'm not just a Signer. I am the Priestess to the Crimson Dragon. I have abilities different to the Signers. What you saw was one of them. And that is to control the life energy known as Aura. Another is knowing the location of the Signer Dragons; which includes Stardust here." She explained coldly. "Sly, I suggest think before trying to steal the Dragons. Or else you will face consequences."

"What's wrong with trying to become the best in your class?" Sly demanded. "With Stardust Dragon, I would be able to do just that." And perhaps much more… He added in in his head.

"And that is taking the easy way out. Doing something like this is underhanded, cheating, theft, and just plain wrong." She said with a disapproved look on her face. "And you should know that you have it easy Sly. At least you're able to go to school and learn. Not everybody from where I lived was that lucky." Despite this explanation from Aura, Sly crossed his arms.

"Perhaps you're right." Sly reluctantly agreed. Aura looked at him then sighed. "Look, if you ever need any help or advice, come talk to me. I am a teacher assistant after all." She said with a strained smile. Sly forced a smile upon his lips.

"Fair enough." He replied.

"Good. Now go and be careful getting home." She said.

"Yeah yeah." Sly remarked. He proceeded to walk away. After walking for a bit, he stopped and spoke again. He was about to say something else, but instead decided to turn back around and continue walking away.

Aura watched him go with a soft sigh looking at Stardust Dragon.

"You scared a year of life out of me. You know that?" She muttered.

"Aura." Aura turned to see Akiza and the twins walking towards her.

"Is everything ok with Sly?" Luna asked, worried.

"Yeah don't worry everything is fine." Aura assured with a smile.

"You sure?" Akiza asked. She noticed that Stardust Dragon was in Aura's hand. She gave a slight huff. "Humph. I wanted to duel it back so I could give it to Yusei. Oh well. If a Signer Dragon gets stolen again, then I'll be the one to crush that person."

"Easy Akiza. The kid just wanted to succeed in life like everyone else. Can't say I can blame him." Aura shrugged. "Anyway, I'm giving Yusei a lecture on being more careful with Stardust I mean really-" Before Aura continue onward with her mini rant, they heard a phone ring. Aura got her phone out of her blazer pocket; checking it. "Ah speaking of Yusei." She said, picking up. "Hello."

"Aura; I hope this isn't a bad time." Yusei said.

"Ah no schools over so you're fine. What's the matter?" She asked.

"I got a call from the hospital. They have the results." Yusei answered.

"And what are the results Yusei?" Akiza asked curiously, considering she could hear his voice to some degree coming through Aura's phone.

"They only said they have the result and want us to come to the hospital for them." Yusei told Aura.

"Ok I'll meet you at the hospital then." Aura sighed.

"Great. See you then." Yusei spoke, then proceeded to hang up. Aura hung up too and looked at the three.

"Well who wants to find out if Im Yusei's sister?" She asked.

"We do" Leo, Luna and Akiza all spoke excitedly in unison.

"I'll call Crow and the others to meet us there too. Let's go." Aura sighed, walking ahead dialing on her phone.

0713MM: Okay, so I did a little bit of a tease regarding Sly dueling Akiza to reclaim Stardust Dragon back for Yusei. That was the original plan, but I decided to change it.