A/N: I OWN NOTHING! EVERY BIT OF YU GI OH 5DS GO TO THEIR CREATORS! THE ONLY THING I OWN IS MY OCS!

Chapter 21

Revealing

Yusei's POV

Crow and my other two Signer friends had decided to give Jayla a day to recuperate. She had obviously taken a beating from the Earthbound Immortals and I had decided to refrain from telling Jack and Crow about Jayla's nightmare.

But when Jayla came back from our room seeming a bit out of it and distressed, I tried to get her to talk. But she wouldn't tell me anything of what happened with Wing; and Wing wouldn't say anything, even at Crow's order. It really concerned me that Jayla was keeping this all a secret, but I knew when the time would be right and would ask her again.

Right now, it was the next day and Jayla was behind me with Crow, Wing, and Jack beside us. We were on our way to Martha's where Jayla would grab her duel runner; and Crow insisted on having a turbo duel with her, saying he wanted to test her turbo dueling capability.

"So, Jayla, what type of deck did you duel with?" Jack asked.

"A light attributed, dragon type deck. I've always had the same deck since I first made it," she replied. She looked at the deck holster which held her deck in it. "Still have it actually."

"That'll be interesting to see," Crow commented. "I know people use dragon type decks; but light attributed dragon types alone? Never heard of that."

"Guess it might've come from the fact that I am - or was - a dragon protector made from a dragon god of light and peace," Jayla responded.

"I probably did affect the type of deck you leaned towards," I responded with a grin. 'I never asked Jayla what she meant exactly when it came to being made from a god of light and peace,' I thought. "Jayla, how exactly were you made from the Crimson Dragon?"

"That's a good question," Jack followed.

Wing appeared as he was invisible before and began, "It means we weren't born like everyday humans." The three of us, Signers, raised a confused eyebrow.

"We are created during the day, when the sun is shining at its brightest," Jayla continued making us turn to her. "The Crimson Dragon uses her power to hone the light into one being, or more depending. Those beings are the Dragon Protectors." We went a bit wide eyed. "We are made from the Crimson Dragon's power and the sunlight itself."

"So, you live on light basically?" Crow asked.

"Kind of," Jayla replied.

"As Primo discovered, we have no particular organs and our blood is completely different from humans. We do have, however, a stone that acts like our heart where a human's heart is," Wing continued making us go completely wide eyed in shock. "It is our life source and is the source and storage of our powers and abilities. If it was even damaged, we would die. If it was removed, well, it is like our heart."

"And didn't Jayla say when that Primo kidnapped her that he wanted to take her 'heart' so he could figure out how to harness her power?" Crow commented.

"She did," Jack answered.

I felt Jayla's hands grip tighter since they were around my waist and carefully place a hand on them, squeezing them lightly. She looked at me while I gave her a calming face to try to silently remind her that I wouldn't let anything happen to her. She gave a small nod.

We turned as we came up on Martha's house. My foster mother walked out and greeted us, "Came here for Jayla's runner finally?"

"Yep," I answered.

"Good. I was beginning to have trouble keeping the kids off of it," Martha responded with a joking grin.

"Thanks for looking after it, Martha," Jayla told her.

"It's my pleasure. After all, you are Zora's little orphan," she responded before walking off to get it. The other three men and I turned to Jayla as she rubbed the back of her neck awkwardly.

"Zora is the one who looked after you?!" Crow exclaimed.

"Yeah," she answered.

"Why have you avoided seeing her then?" Wing asked.

"I haven't avoided it," Jayla replied. "I've been stuck at Yusei's side and Zora's not around most of the time I'm with him. Besides, a couple years after I left, Zora found her way to New Domino. It would be a bit awkward to see each other after so long."

"I'm not sure it would be so awkward. I'm sure Zora would have been happy to see you again after so long. I bet she's been wondering of how you've been," I told her. Jayla shrugged. "My question is, why haven't you told any of us this?"

"You're the only one with good… relations to her," Jayla replied. "But I wasn't sure how any of you would've reacted to it? Besides, it wasn't that important."

"Knowing even part of your life before Yusei is important in my book," Jack retorted.

"Sorry," Jayla responded. She turned as Blister came up with her duel runner. "Kept it as you left it. Perfect condition too."

"Thanks," Jayla responded. "I really owe you and Martha one."

"Ah, you sacrificed yourself to protect Yusei. I'm pretty sure you won't ever owe anyone anything," Blister responded. I tensed a bit when my old friend mentioned Jayla's death. I still hated hearing about. It was a constant reminder in my mind that I broke my promise to Jayla, and it gave her the ultimate punishment as a result.

I watched as Jayla kneeled down and checked over her duel runner's parameters for a quick second, making sure everything was in order. I kneeled next to her and asked, "You still wanting to check it over?"

"Wouldn't you?" Jayla replied not looking at me. I just shrugged a bit. After a minute, Jayla stood up and said, "It's good to go."

"Sweet, let's get this duel on the road!" Crow exclaimed excitedly.

Jayla nodded. She turned back to Blister. "Thanks again, Blister. And spread the word to Martha, too," she told him.

"Will do, Jayla. Take care of it," he responded before walking off.

Jayla boarded her runner for the first time in so long. She could instantly tell she still had her skill in it.

"Let's get to the highway, so you two can duel it out," I suggested.

We all nodded and took off. As we drove, Jayla being completely seamless, Crow asked, "Jayla, you haven't driven that runner is months. How are you still that good at driving it?"

"Riding a duel runner is a skill you never lose, Crow," I answered for her.

Crow shrugged. When they finally made it to the highway, the bird named man stated, "Let's get this started!" They each quickly slipped their disks into the spot while initiated Speed World 2. The road became a duel lane and Jack and I made their way to the lane where they would watch. "First one around the next corner gets the first draw."

"You'll regret making that bet, Crow," Jayla replied.

"We'll see," Crow responded. "Let's go!"

They took off like a speeding bullet. But as they approached the turn, Jayla seemed to speed up to ridiculous levels and passed Crow in an instant and making it around the turn. He went wide eyed in shock. "Told you you'd regret it," Jayla called to him. "That beginning was me only using half the speed my duel runner can take." She drew her card. "I summon Elenon- Dragon of Golden Fire (Attack 1900/ Defense 2000) in defense mode!" she declared. A dragon shaped being made of actual golden flew onto the field before switching to defense mode. "I then set a face down and end my turn."

"I summon Blackwing- Bora the Spear (Attack 1700/ Defense 800) in attack mode. Now since I control a Blackwing monster on my side of the field, I can special summon another feathered friend from my hand: Blackwing- Gale the Whirlwind (Attack 1300/ Defense 400) in attack mode!" Crow called. "Then I tune my two monsters together. Rise and fight, Blackwing Armor Master (Attack 2500/ Defense 1500)!" His mighty monster rose up and prepared to fight.

"Nice try, Crow," Jayla responded shocking him. "I activate Elenon's special ability. Once per turn during your main phase and the turn you summon a monster with 2000 or higher attack, I can discard one card and destroy the monster summoned." She sent a card to the graveyard and Blackwing Armor Master was destroyed.

"Smart play. Guess you really learned me from what me duel with Yusei," Crow told her. "I set two face downs and end my turn."

Jayla drew her card. "I activate the continuous spell, Dragon of the Sun's Gift," she declared. "With this card which I can only activate when I have zero cards in my graveyard when this card in activated, I can special summon one synchro monster and this card gains two counters. Every time my synchro monster attacks, it loses one counter. But if my opponent activates a trap card during the battle phase my monster attacked, it gains a counter."

"So that means if Crow activates any trap cards to defend against Jayla's attacks, it'll only add to the counters she has to keep her monster able to attack," I calculated.

"And she still has that Elenon," Jack commented.

"With that in play, I summon a dragon with a heart pure of light and void of any darkness. Rise and shine your beautiful light, Luminescence Dragon (Attack 2900/ Defense 2000)!" Jayla called.

A bright light shone for a moment making all of them but Jayla cover their eyes from it. When it grew dimmer, all of them watched as it started as the shape of a European styled dragon. With a small flash of light, the light around it shattered with the light delicately falling off revealing a glowing dragon with a shimmering white scale body. It had a flowing mane and tail tip of light. All of us, except Jayla, were looking at it in pure awe. There was no telling what exact powers this dragon had. It was staring at Jayla with caring and understanding eyes.

'She really is connected to her cards,' I thought. 'Even though she hasn't used them in so long, they still care for her.'

"Nice dragon," Crow complimented. "Too bad it won't win you the duel."

"We'll see, Crow," Jayla responded still seeming confident. "I activate another spell card, Blinding Energy!"

"What's that do?" Crow asked.

"By paying 500 life points, I can activate this continuous spell card," Jayla began as her life points fell to 3500. "This spell card prevents you from activating any trap cards as long as this card is on the field. The catch is at every standby phase of my coming turns, I must pay another 500 to keep it on the field. If I choose not to, Blinding Energy is destroyed."

"Why would Jayla do that if it stops her other card from gaining counters that allows her dragon to attack?" Jack wondered.

"Jayla has a plan," I told him. "I can see it in her eyes."

"Luminescence Dragon, attack Crow directly!" my girlfriend ordered. The attack was sent and hit Crow, dropping his life points to 1100. "I set another face down. That ends my turn."

Crow drew his card, obviously getting tense. "I summon Blackwing- Shura the Blue Flame (Attack 1800/ Defense 1200) in attack mode. Then I special summon another Gale the Whirlwind in attack mode. Now I activate Gale the Whirlwind's effect. With it, I can target one of your monsters and halve its attack and defense. And I'm halving your Luminescence Dragon (Luminescence Dragon: Attack 1450/ Defense 1000)!" he declared. "Now, Shura, attack that Luminescence Dragon! Destroy it to bits!"

"I activate Light's Guardian!" Jayla defended and the card got in the way, repelling Shura. "This card negates an attack being thrown at any light attributed monster and ends the battle phase."

"Nice defense there, Jayla. But it won't stop me from winning," Crow responded.

"Are you so sure, Crow?" she retorted confidently and he gave her a shocked face. "I activate Light on the Tomb! When I end the battle phase through card effect and you didn't activate any spell or trap cards this turn, I can deal you damage equal to the combined attack points of each monster I control."

"What?!" Crow exclaimed in shock.

"Elenon, Luminescence! Deliver Crow that final blow!" Jayla ordered. The attack was sent and hit, catapulting Crow's life points to zero. They pulled to a stop and Jack and I drove up as Jayla told my friend, "Nice duel, Crow."

"Thanks," Crow responded. "I didn't realize you turbo dueled so well. I guess I wasn't prepared for that hard of an opponent."

"Can't judge a girl by her looks," Jayla responded making me grin.

"Let's get back to the garage for now," I suggested. The others nodded and we took off.