It was the morning after. Tristan was thankfully okay but needed to get a blood transfusion. Lucky Jim was the same blood type that Akiza needed to do the transfusion. Once that was all done they were told that Tristan was going to be okay. Once that had all been cleared Beth, who had regained her strength, began to make dinner for everyone. Once everyone had eaten they all went to bed.
Now Rio and Shark were the only once in the appartment their. Flip and Caswell had already woken up and left.
"Come on Rio, hurry up." Shark said to his sister, who was in the bathroom.
"You just go on ahead, I'll be right behind you. You can rush these kinda things." Rio said to her brother. Shark sighed before walking away from the door and out of the apartment. Rio sighed. "Seriously I really think boys don't have any patients." Rio said to herself. Once she was finnished in the bathroom she opened the door.
Before she could take two steps out of the room she was suddenly grabbed by someone. She let out a little scream before having the person put their hand over her mouth and push her into a corner, with her back against it. She looked at the person who had her cornered.
The man wore a black cloak with the hood over his head. Even with the hood up Rio could see that the man was bold. He had deep black eyes with purple pupils. His face had red-like markings, similar to the once Crow had. Rio began to scream for help, hoping that someone would hear, but she only made muffle sounds from the hand that was over her mouth.
"Be quiet girl." The man said. "I have no intentions of hurting you." This made Rio calm down very slightly. "I have a message I want you to deliver to the Signers. Tell the signers to give up their dragons, and my leader will bring them home. Don't give them up and they will suffer a fate worse than death." He then leaned in closer so he breath was begin felt on her left ear. "Devack." And with that the man quickly let Rio go, ran to the open window and then leaped out of it. Rio quickly ran over to the window to see that the man had disappeared.
"For someone who lost a lot of their blood, plus got poisoned, you are sure eating fast." Blair said to Tristan. He and everyone else were in Beth's apartment eating their breakfast, tomato soup. Tristan looked up from his bowl.
"I'm hungry." He said before inhaling his soup again. Jesse laughed.
"You just like Jaden. Nothing stops him from being hungry, even when he is sick." Jesse said as he looked next to him where Jaden sat eating his soup. Jaden smiled at Jesse before eating again.
"Same for Yuma." Tori said as she looked over at Yuma, who was also eating his soup. Then the sound of the front door opening went into everyones ears. Everyone looked over to the door to see Rio enter, looking terrified. Shark quickly abandoned his breakfast and ran to his sister's side.
"Rio, are you okay?" Shark asked with a concerned voice. Rio shook her head.
"Someone was here." She said quietly, but everyone heard. Beth then walked over to Rio.
"Who was it?" Beth asked. Rio shrugged her shoulders.
"I'm not sure. He told me that he had a message." She said. Shark then lead her over to one of the settees and set her down on it. Beth followed her and sat on the other side of her.
"What was the message? Who was it for?" Beth asked.
"The Signers." Yusei and his friends then quickly snapped their heads towards Rio looking confused and slightly shocked.
"Us?" Yusei asked. Rio nodded.
"He said 'tell the signers to give up their dragons, and his leader will bring us home. Don't give them up and you will suffer a fate worse than death.'" Rio repeated. Everyone looked at her in shock. "He then said Devack and jumped out of the window."
"Wait, Devack?" Leo asked, making sure he heard right. Rio nodded.
"Yusei that's-" Luna began to say but Yusei finnished her sentence.
"-the dark signer that took your dragon. I know." Yusei said.
"And now he wants all of our dragons." Akiza said.
"But why? Why would that fool want our dragons?" Jack asked.
"I don't know. But I can tell you this: he ain't taking my dragon from me." Crow said.
"Same here." Leo said.
"But hey, wait a sec." Bronk said to get their attention. "Didn't this guy say that his leader could get us home?" Bronk turned to Rio. "He said that right?"
"Yeah he did." Rio told him.
"Then why not give him what he wants?" Bronk suggested.
"Because each of us signers have a strong connection with our dragons." Yusei told him. "Giving up our dragons is almost like giving up on ourselves."
"Oh please, thats rubbish." Chazz said.
"It is not rubbish. Our dragons are apart of us. Our connection with them is strong." Leo told him.
"Still rubbish." Chazz said, still standing for what he said.
"Let me ask you this Chazz," Yusei began to say, "do you, or any of you, have a strong connection with a monster or any of your monsters?"
"Me and Dark Magician do have a strong connection." Yugi said.
"Same for me and, well all of my monsters really." Jaden told him.
"Same for me and my Crystal Beasts." Jesse said.
"Utopia and I are close as well. He was after all my first number card." Yuma said.
"Yeah, and me and Red Eyes have been through a lot together." Joey told them.
"See?" Yusei said. "If you were told that you had a way to get home, it being true or not, but you had to give up your monster, would you?" Yusei asked each of them. Each of them shook their heads straight away.
"But Yusei?" Syrus said to get his attention, "Why would this guy want your dragons?"
"I'm not sure." Yusei said as he began to think, along with everyone else.
"Do you think it could have something to do with the Crimson Dragon?" Crow suggested.
"Maybe." Akiza said.
"And what did he mean by 'a fate worse than death'?" Luna asked with a slight scare in her voice.
"He was bluffing, trying to scare us." Crow reassured her. "I hope." He added quietly at the end.
"Rio," Tori said to get her attention, "how did the guy get away?"
"He jumped out of the window." Rio said.
"What?" Flip yelled. "Why would he do that?"
"Jumping out of a window from a two story height could easily break a bone, possibly kill you." Caswell pointed out.
"But when I ran over to the window he was gone. It was like he vanished." Rio told them.
"But that's not possible." Alexis said.
"It could be." Beth said to her. Everyone then turned to her. "It's possible it could have been a clone."
"A clone?" "Wait are you serious?" "No way." Everyone said. Beth nodded.
"It's possible that someone here in this dimension has the ability to use Spell cards on humans and not just their monsters." Beth explained.
"Wait, is that possible for everyone?" Yugi asked. Beth shook her head.
"I don't think so. From my time only a few people have it. They called Psychic duelists I think." Beth told them. Akiza tensed at the name. Yusei, who was sitting next to her saw this and gave her a small rub on her knee for comfort. She looked up at him a smiled. She felt lucky when no one saw this, so there would be no questions.
"Okay, I think for all of our safety I think that we all should stay on the same floor for now on. I don't think its safe for all of us to stay in small groups anymore." Beth said as she stood up. "Maybe if we had Yugi and Yuma and their friends stay across the hall from here, and we had Jaden, Yusei and their friends stay here. That way we are all in a big group." Beth suggested. Everyone nodded agreeing with the idea.
"Maybe we should bring the beds here then. I don't think some people would be happy sleeping on the floor." Blair said, slightly staring at Chazz. Beth nodded.
"Okay, if we get a couple of people to head upstair to get those bed and a couple to head downstairs, then we should be done in about 10 minutes." Beth said. Everyone nodded and began to get up and help with the moving. Tristan went to stand up but get pushed back down onto the settee by Joey.
"Oh no you don't man. You are setting this one out." Joey told his friend.
"Joey I'm fine really." Tristan told Joey, but he wasn't having it.
"Don't make me restrain you, cause you know I will." Joey threatened.
2 minutes later Tristan was left with tap around the bottom of his legs and hands.