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 29
Fight for Control
Yusei's POV
I heard a dark voice say to Jayla, "Let us have control. Let us relieve you from this pain."
"B-But…" Jayla muttered.
"Yusei cannot help you. You've only been putting him in danger, right? By giving us control, you won't feel that pain anymore. We've already been holding on and keeping a good grip on you recently, haven't we? You haven't felt any pain until Yusei came up, aren't we right?" the dark voice told her.
"That's true…" Jayla agreed seeming to be becoming possessed.
'Her fear and pain are becoming too much for her. Damn it, Rose! You could've used your brain before you said those things,' I thought worriedly. I looked at my mark for a moment. It was a direct link to the Crimson Dragon. 'If I can activate enough power from my mark, I might be able to reach into that shield and at least grab her arm, remind her that I'm there to help.'
I took a deep breath and began to focus. My mark glowed because I knew I didn't have enough power to break through the shield. "Come on…" I muttered. "I need some help here." I felt the others sending some of their strength to me, along with some concern. I turned as the full Mark of the Crimson Dragon appeared on my back and my body gave a red glow.
"You can enter the shield now, my Signer. Save Jayla," I heard a voice and I knew it was the Crimson Dragon by her words.
I reached my hand in and found a bit of resistance, but it wasn't too bad. I pressed forth, not ready to give up on Jayla anytime soon. I quickly found my hand on her arm and she seemed to perk up a bit in shock. I soon found my entire body within the shield that had been expanding, no doubt the Earthbound Immortals trying to force me off before now.
I quickly turned Jayla's body to me and brought her close and tight. "I'm here, Jayla. I'm right here. Don't give into the Immortals. The only ones who can truly relieve your pain is those you trust to share it with. Even if the Immortals relieved your pain while they controlled you, you know as soon as they released you, you would feel an even worse pain from what you would be forced to do while they controlled you," I whispered to her through her hair. "Snap out of it, Jayla. Don't listen to the Immortals. They're just manipulating you and your pain."
"Yusei…" I heard her mutter, almost in recognition. I looked at her in her eyes which were shifting to those like a Dark Signer's again; but it was slow, like she was fighting it.
I felt her slowly wrap her arms around me. Her hands gripped the back of me shield and I saw pure fear and worry in her eyes. That's when I felt dagger like claws get shoved into my sides. I cried out a bit at the pain and I knew Jayla was forced to shift her hands into her dragon's forcing her dragon talons into me. I could see it in her eyes, that she didn't want to and she was hurt beyond words.
"I'm… fine, Jayla," I told her, straining a bit, but ignoring the pain to the best of my ability. "I know you're in there. I'm right here. Snap out of it. We're connected, Jayla. Through our love, our history together," I pulled out the dragon scale, ignoring the intense pain I was feeling to do so, "through our bonds." She went wide eyed again, obviously recognizing it through her entranced state. "I'm… right here. I'll be okay and I'll always be there for you. I promise. But you have to break free of their control. You've done it before, and escaped being controlled before. I'm right here."
"I… told you not to get near me…" she whispered.
"And I did so anyways because I love you and can't stand seeing you in such pain," I responded.
I leaned forward and placed my lips on hers while I felt the talons that had dug into me change back into human hands. I placed a hand on her cheek and looked as her eyes returned to normal. As soon as they were back to normal and the shield was completely gone, I knew that meant the Earthbound Immortals had retreated in their attempt. I pulled back from the kiss, watching her as she seemed to be slowly recalling what had happened while being controlled.
She looked at her hands which had my blood on them and immediately went wide eyed. "Yusei, I'm sorry…" she whispered.
"It's fine, Jayla," I told her reassuringly. "It wasn't your fault. The Earthbound Immortals were controlling you and you didn't know what you were doing. And I could tell deep down where the true you was, you were scared and didn't want this to happen."
"But, Yusei-"
"No 'buts'," I interrupted sternly. "It isn't your fault. Do you trust me enough to see I'm telling the truth?" She just looked at me. "You're no danger to anyone. The only ones who are the danger is this new threat and the Earthbound Immortals. Do you understand?"
"Yes," she agreed. She leaned into his chest. "And I trust you."
I slowly stroked her hair. "Good," I told her. I winced a bit as I moved my back. I knew I was losing a good deal of blood from just sitting here with these open wounds. But my main worry at the moment was keeping Jayla calm and helping her.
"Yusei, we need to get you to a doctor," she told him noticing the amount of blood he was losing. "You're losing too much blood."
"I'm fine for now," he assured her.
"No, you're not," she retorted. "Don't lie to me with something that's obvious."
Wing hurriedly came up. "What happened?" he asked noticing Yusei's injury.
"Jayla got controlled by the Immortals and was forced to stab with in the back with her talons," I explained. "But I should be fine."
"I doubt that with how much blood you're losing," Wing retorted. "Let's get you two to Jack and Crow and then get you, Yusei, to the hospital." Jayla looked down in shame and fear. "It's not your fault, Jayla. It's Rose's for pushing you so hard. Believe me, Ancient and I are going to be getting onto Rose for this."
"Thanks, Wing," she responded still seeming to think it's her fault.
"Come on, let's get to the others," he suggested.
"Right," I agreed. I knew my friends would not be happy with this, but they would also understand that me getting hurt was not Jayla doing it willingly and wouldn't go at her for it.
Wing changed into his dragon form while Jayla helped me onto his back. She got on behind me, and I was making sure she didn't get any more blood on her. She didn't need that. Wing took off and quickly arrived where my friends were waiting seeming concerned.
"What happened up there?" Crow asked. I slid off and they were obviously shocked to see me hurt. My bird named friend immediately asked more sternly than before, "Alright what happened?"
"Jayla was taken over by the Immortals and was forced to stab me with her claws. It isn't her fault, though," I explained.
"If she was taken over by the Immortals, then, it can't be her fault," Crow agreed.
"Right," Jack agreed.
"For now, we need to get Yusei some help," Jayla commented. "He's losing too much blood."
"Right," they agreed.
"Want me to take your runner to the hospital, Yusei, while you ride with Crow?" Jayla asked me.
"No, I should be fine to ride my duel runner," I answered.
"Uh, I don't think so, Yusei," Crow cut in. He looked at his wounds. "I mean, have you seen your back? You'll need stitches and they're in areas that you need to help balance on a duel runner. Let Jayla take your runner while you ride with me."
"Alright," I agreed. I had no true way to argue back. I wasn't able to see the wounds since they were in my back, but I could feel them and I knew I wouldn't have been able to ride easily with them, let alone with the blood loss.
As such, I got on behind Crow while Jayla sat on my duel runner. She seemed better now that she was out of the Earthbound Immortals influence. I knew then that what she was saying before they took full control was them manipulating her and pulling her over slowly. She probably didn't hear much of what I was saying at all.
Crow took off quickly with Jayla and Jack following on the duel runners and Wing disappearing but flying in the air. I looked at Jayla who still seemed to feel guilty. At least Wing seemed serious when he said Rose was going to get it from him and Ancient when they saw her again. I wanted to hear what they would say to her, but I knew it wasn't my place.
As soon as we arrived at the hospital, the nurses immediately took me to get the stitches. When the doctors asked what happened, Jayla just said an animal attacked me. I wasn't sure if she was saying that as a way of calling herself an animal or whether it was completely just a cover. And when they asked about the blood on her hands, she said she was trying to help stop the bleeding with pressure until her friends got there to help.
But it also didn't take long before the twins and Akiza arrived with questions. Ancient seemed extremely ticked when Rose arrived as did Wing. I had no doubt Wing explained to Ancient what exactly happened. Akiza and the twins seemed completely and utterly confused about the tension between the three Dragon Protectors.
When they asked us about it, we answered we would tell them about it in the garage. Once I was completely bandaged and able to leave which didn't take too long, we left to the garage where most of everything was explained. The Dragon Protectors kept their arguments that they had been having more dulled down and not as detailed, but Akiza did not seem happy with Rose when Wing told them what happened during the time with Lyndon. And they also didn't mention anything about Arch's death.
I wasn't sure what was going on between the Dragon Protectors or what was going to happen with them at this point. It was bad enough with the Earthbound Immortals and these new Meklord Emperors; but now hearing how bad the in-fighting between the Dragon Protectors, with Jayla trying to keep the peace when she could, were, it just made things worse.
I was mad with Rose as I heard everything she had been saying about Jayla, some of which Jayla didn't even seem to know, but I stayed calm and kept my emotions in check. I didn't need to create any more arguments between all of us. I couldn't let anything get any more worse.
