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 28
Inner Torment
Jayla's POV
I flew in the sky, trying to find some place to sort my thoughts. The more I thought about Rose's words, the more I felt she was right. I needed to be alone and figure out what I should do next. I came up on the Infinity tower and landed on the very top of it, being sure I was out of view.
I sat down and put my forehead against my knees. 'Am I really a danger to the others and… Yusei? I mean… what I did to Primo when he tried to kill me…' I thought distressed. 'Should I leave forever? I can't let Yusei get hurt… or worse, especially if it's because of me. I may not have that instinctive urge to protect him anymore with my life, but I can't just let him get hurt because of me. I love him…'
A tear fell onto my leg as I muttered, "What am I going to do?"
Yusei's POV
It had been a good two weeks since Zora and Lyndon made up. But two days ago, Jayla disappeared without a trace. Wing, Jack, Crow, and I had been searched everywhere we could think of, but she just disappeared.
We had decided to leave the twins and Akiza out of this, not that Rose would let Akiza look for Jayla in the first place. I knew the argument from when Lyndon was getting his suit was from Rose pushing out her fury against Jayla at Jayla and Wing. Wing told Ancient about Jayla going missing and she asked to help, but he turned her down. We all knew that Jayla didn't need so many people looking for her at once.
But now that the two days had passed, the overwhelming worry I had been trying to hide and control was beginning to show. I needed to talk to her about what happened and I was worried she left so she couldn't explain it to me. Wing wouldn't say it for Jayla despite even Crow's words. And my worry was made even worse when Wing told us Jayla wasn't responding to any telepathic calls from neither him nor Ancient.
At the moment, I was on the road looking for Jayla with Crow and Jack in their own areas of looking. Wing had decided to look around from higher points in the sky for once and I couldn't understand why he hadn't thought of doing that until then. But it wasn't my job to ask him that, it was Crow's and I wasn't even sure Wing would answer Crow on the matter.
"Anyone see her, yet?" I called.
"No," Crow answered.
"No sign here," Jack answered.
"Man, where did she go?" Crow wondered. "I mean, this isn't like her at all."
"Think it has to do with Rose?" Jack suggested.
"I wouldn't set it aside," I answered. "After seeing how hurt Jayla was, how Akiza said she could feel Rose's emotions, and how angry Wing seemed back when we were getting Lyndon he suit, it's possible Rose had said something that none of them liked."
"I'll call Wing and see if he's found her yet," Crow stated. He was obviously about to call out when he said, "Well, he's coming anyways."
"Hopefully with good news," Jack commented. "We've lost one Dragon Protector already. And we don't need to lose Jayla, too."
I looked down a bit, thinking of how Jayla said that Wing had told her about Arch only living if she was dead and vice versa. I knew I couldn't tell Jack about that, yet. Jack was still upset about Arch's death and was easily triggered to any emotion when the subject was brought up. I didn't want to know what Jack would do if he was told about this goddess of fate's choice that led to Arch's death.
"Hey, Wing, what did you find?" Crow's voice asked, breaking me out of my thoughts.
"I think I found her," he answered. "She's on top of the Infinity Tower."
"On top of it?" I questioned.
"If she's on top of it, the three of us won't ever be able to get to her," Jack commented.
"And she won't listen to me if I tried to talk to her," Wing commented. "If we get to the balcony a couple yards under the top, I am strong enough to bring one of you up. But I should only bring one of you. I couldn't see much without getting too close, but she seemed like she was in a distraught state or something similar."
"If you can bring me up, I'll try to talk to her," Yusei told him. "But let's meet at the tower balcony first." They nodded and we all hurried to get to the tower.
I arrived first being the closest, but it didn't take two minutes before the other three arrived. "Is she still up there, Wing?" I asked.
"From what I saw when I got the glimpse as we arrived, yes," he answered.
"Are you sure you're strong enough to get Yusei up there?" Crow asked. "I mean, he's all muscle making him quite heavy."
"Just as all Dragon Protectors can, I can switch into my dragon form as I wish," Wing explained.
"I haven't even seen your dragon form. Heck, I don't even have my Signer Dragon, yet," Crow replied.
"Are you so certain?" Wing answered. "You do have the dragon card Pearson gave you, right?"
"Who's Pearson?" I asked.
We turned as Crow brought out a card. We looked at it in shock as we read its name: "Black-Winged Dragon". Crow looked at Wing and asked, "This is my Signer Dragon? But it was Pearson's to begin with."
"Stardust Dragon, Red Dragon Archfiend, Ancient Fairy Dragon, and Black Rose Dragon didn't initially begin as Yusei and the other's dragons," Wing replied. "Stardust, Archfiend, and Black Rose, all were originally belonging to Professor Fudo for the Ener-D project, then Rex Goodwin, and then to them. The Crimson Dragon and the Signer Dragons always find their way to their Signers, even when the Signer doesn't realize their chosen job yet."
"Anyway, we can talk about this later," I replied. "We need to get to Jayla before she realizes we're down here and flies off again."
"I concur, Yusei," Wing responded. He jumped out of the balcony before silently flying up at the dragon from the picture. "Hop on, Yusei."
"Right," I agreed. I carefully got onto Wing's dragon back.
"Yusei," Crow called. I turned to my two Signer friends.
"Be careful," Jack told me. "We don't know the state she'll be in after two days of being alone and away from you."
"Right," I agreed before Wing silently took off to get higher. When Wing got high enough, I looked for a moment to see Jayla facing away from me, head in her knees and shaking slightly. I stepped off and onto the top of the tower. I nodded at Wing who nodded back before disappearing below the ceiling.
I stepped towards her when she ordered, "Don't come near me, Yusei."
That shocked me a bit. "Jayla, I just need to talk to you," I told her gently and calmly.
"Then talk from over there," she instructed.
"Jayla, what's wrong with you?" I answered. "It isn't like you to disappear for this long or the way you did."
"You wouldn't understand, Yusei," she replied.
"I would if you would talk to me," I argued gently. "Does it have to do with that argument you, Wing, and Rose had before?" She stayed silent. "Jayla, what did Rose say? Why can't you-?"
"I'm a danger to everyone," she interrupted.
"Jayla, that's not true in the slightest," I told her sternly.
"You saw what I did to the Primo guy when he took me. You know what I nearly did to you when I first returned," Jayla argued. "Because of me returning, Arch had to die. Everyone I've come across with has been hurt in some way."
"Jayla, none of that is your fault," I told her. I began to walk closer when a pulse wave shot out of her, and blew me back a few feet, my head off the edge of the roof. I carefully and slowly got up. I looked at her and noticed tears begin to drip onto her legs that already seemed to have tear stains of them. "Jayla, listen to me. None of this, none of what has ever happened, is your fault. It's the Earthbound Immortals who made you do that to me back then. It's that Primo's fault for scaring you and trying to kill you. And it's only because of the goddess of fate that you mentioned that Arch had to die."
"Just… leave me alone, Yusei," she told me.
"No, Jayla, I won't," I denied sternly. Leaving her alone in this state was never going to happen. I wasn't going to do it. "Listen to me, Jayla. I'm right here and I'm not leaving you. I promised you that I would always be by your side and there to help you. Because I love you, Jayla. So no matter what you say or what you do, I'm staying right here at your side until I can figure out some way to help you wake up from this."
"Yusei…" she muttered obviously in shock, also seeming in a bit of a daze.
'It almost sounds like she's hearing me from within a trance or something,' I thought. I slowly kneeled on the ground, keeping my feet firmly placed so I could be blown back if she sent another wave at me. I didn't have the space to land and slide if she did. If she used that pulse was, I would be sent right off this roof if I could keep myself stable. "Jayla, look at me and tell me what's wrong. You can't worry about being a danger to everyone, because you aren't. No one sees you as a danger except Rose. Not Wing, Ancient, Jack, Crow, Akiza, the twins, or me. If we did, we wouldn't have been non-stop looking for you for the past two days. Look at me, Jayla, and trust me on this."
That's when I noticed a dark glow begin to form around her and I knew what that meant. Without a second thought, I sprinted towards her. As I got a foot away from her, I was shot back by a shield. 'The Earthbound Immortals are keeping me from touching her and I doubt she'll be able to hear me now,' I thought worriedly. 'I can't help her this time!' I hit the ground in anger. 'I need to find some way. Fast!'
