I heard more footsteps approach, both from behind me and in front of me. Roman muttered, "No wonder the human race is going extinct. Nobody is selfish anymore."

Someone else spoke, "While that is true about the Signers and their friends, we have plenty of guests that are selfish."

Aki was so quiet, "So many people are gone."

Kiryu's voice came out of nowhere, "All you have to do is lose, and you'll see them again. Or you can give into fear like Yusei. Right?"

Aki handed me the datapad as I pushed myself to my feet, "The only thing I'm afraid of is how angry I am at you right now."

It was taking a lot of effort to not send my anger into them, but that would be a terrible idea.

The one with yellow borders on his cloak spoke, "I have something important to the little Signer."

He held up a card, and Luna gasped, "Ancient Fairy Dragon!"

The man continued, "My name is Demak, and I have the mark of the monkey," he held up his arm to prove it.

Roman laughed again, "Tomorrow, we will meet at the four stars of destiny."

All of them turned around and started to disappear into the fog. I shot forward, the datapad screeching my thoughts, "Quit running and face me right here right now like a man!"

"Oh the irony of a woman telling me to be a man. We can't duel here, we aren't supposed to!"

"Oh, really? Because you just did idiot!"

He didn't respond to that comment, and a few minutes later Jack appeared, "We better get back to the others."

I looked him in the eye, "You look shaken. Is it because of the Dark Signer you have to face?"

He nodded, and we emerged from the fog, to the great relief of the others. Together, we all returned to Martha's house.

Dr. Schmidt stared at us in shock, "Martha's gone?"

I felt sorry for the old man. Martha was the love of his life, and he did just about everything to keep her happy. Now he was going to have to take care of her five kids with no help.

Trudge fell to the ground in front of him, doing the Dogeza* bow. The boys tried to pull him up, but he remained there, claiming that Martha's demise was his fault.

Jack burst out of his seat, "Would you all shut up!"

I hurried to patch up his mistake, helping Trudge up with one hand, "What he's trying to say is that none of you are guilty. It's the Dark Signers fault."

Aki nodded, "Everyone will come back once we defeat the Dark Signers. So you don't need to worry."

Dr. Schmidt looked at Aki, "Are you sure?"

She nodded, and I stepped up to him, "You all should get some sleep. We'll be leaving early in the morning."

The six of them left the room, heading upstairs to bed. I pulled the door shut, tossed the datapad across the room and collapsed at the table. Aki spoke up, "Hey, does anyone know what Roman meant by stars of destiny?'

I mentally scoffed, There's no such thing as destiny. There's only what you do and what you don't do.

Jack's assistant spoke up, "I think he might mean the four control towers. They were the safety system, which failed just before the Reactor went backwards. The four towers were actually named after the Immortals somehow. Ccarayhua, Ccapac Apu, Aslla Piscu, and Cusillu. In the Queschua language they translate into Lizard, Giant, Hummingbird, and Monkey."

Luna piped up, "What about the spider?"

"That's Uru, the name for the Reactor itself."

Aki sat next to me, "So Roman's the boss of them."

"I'm guessing so, but there's something else. The towers were locked by the four Signer dragon cards. Mr. Goodwin mentioned that Dr. Fudo gave him the cards."

Jack apparently had moved behind me at some point, "Why did her dad have them, Mina?"

Mina paused for a second, "Mr. Goodwin said that Dr. Fudo got them back from whomever unlocked the towers, wanting to lock them again but couldn't."

Aki spoke up, "You mean that Goodwin had all of our cards? How'd we get them?"

The assistant spoke again, "He said that he 'released them into the hands of destiny', hoping that they would eventually get to the right people."

I scoffed, and Jack had to explain, "Yusei doesn't believe in anything stronger than coincidences."

Luna giggled, "Does anyone else think that Roman's belief of destiny only makes Yusei hate him more?"

Jack spoke again, "Wouldn't shock me. Even though it bothers me that we were being played by Goodwin this whole time."

A map was unfurled in front of me, and I finally looked up. Mina drew four circles on the map, "These are the locations of the different towers, Giant, Lizard, Monkey and Hummingbird."

I raised an eyebrow as Trudge mentioned the same thing I was thinking, "They're pretty spread out. Are we going to them one by one?"

Jack scoffed, "Huge waste of time. A duel is one on one. We should try to get them over with as soon as possible."

Luna got quiet, "But we just became a team!"

I walked over to her and gave her a hug as Aki had to speak for me, "I think that Yusei is trying to tell us that we are still a team. Distance doesn't matter."

I nodded, stood up, and circled the Giant tower on the map. Aki noticed what I was doing, "Yusei's getting the Giant, and the one with the Lizard mark was glaring at me the whole time, so I'll go there."

Luna bobbed her head, "I'm getting Ancient Fairy Dragon back from the Monkey guy."

Jack sighed, "I'm going to the Hummingbird then."

With that, we all went to the living room and took quick naps to get our energy back.

*A Dogeza bow is basically groveling. The person being bowed to can literally tell the one bowing to off themselves and they would do it.

Since I have a headache, I'm just going to thank Dark Lord of the Fallen Angels for reviewing again!