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Chapter 34
"Red Destiny Dragon!"
There was a horrible creaking sound as the wind picked up and pannels were ripped from the walls and sent flying across the room. A fragment of glass slashed Destiny's cheek as, with a thunderous roar of rage and fury, her beloved ace monster made its grand entrance entrance onto the field. Sayer watched with a smirk as its serpent-like body uncoiled and it raised its majestic head skywards.
The time was rapidly approaching.
He watched unflinchingly as the beast stared down at him with flaming black and red eyes, even daring to meet its hostile gaze.
Not even you can protect your mistress now.
In response to his thoughts, the dragon let out another fury-filled roar. It was at that precise moment that the energy that had been building up finally errupted in a blaze of yellow sparks. The deranged psychic could only laugh maniacally as his prodigy's daughter screamed in agony, before finally wrenching the helmet off her head and throwing it away, collapsing to the ground.
Upstairs, viewing box...
The others gasped as Destiny was finally able to remove the helmet and flung it away several feet before falling to the ground. Vanessa buried her face Mark's arm, one hand clutching at her heart, Destiny's agonized screams still ringing in her ears. She glanced at the three boys that stood with her. They didn't look much better: not even ghosts could ever have been so pale.
Almost hesitantly, she glanced downwards. Destiny was lying motionless on the floor. Was she? No, that was impossible! She wasn't! Not Destiny!
Then she saw her twitch and begin to raise her head to Sayer, and Vanessa could almost feel the raw power hanging heavily in the air. Was Destiny making this?
Her breathing quickened as she noticed Destiny begin to get to her feet, her slender arms shaking wildly beneath the weight of her body before completely giving way.
The young redhead was shocked; she had never seen her friend this weak before. It was as if Sayer was literally trying to kill her.
With that revelation her shock transformed into anger and she clenched her fists which were now trembling with the desire to beat the smirk off that laughing psycho jerk's face and then beat him into a pulp with Chris's pipe wrench.
Destiny had to live, she was too stubborn not to. She would make it through whatever Sayer was trying to do and kick his psychic butt in the process, and Vanessa was prepared to do anything to make sure that she did.
"DESTINY!" she yelled through the broken window.
Downstairs, duelling arena...
"DESTINY!"
Destiny moaned, blinking, desperately trying to clear her vision of black dots that were forever growing in quantity. It was no secret that she wouldn't be concious for much longer.
Was that... her mind struggled to register the noise she had just heard, was that... Vanessa's voice? What's she doing here?
Too many muffled noises, too many blurry shapes, was all she could think as she drifted into another bout of unconciousness.
Mistress, the familiar voice sounded within her numbed mind.
Red Destiny...
Mistress, wake up...
Forcing her eyes to open once more, even if only minimally Destiny glanced up at where the voice that had sound so like Vanessa's had come from. Her half-opened eyes found the ruined viewing box and widened fully as she recognised the blurry shapes of who was inside: Vanessa, Jake, Chris, Mark... what where they doing here! They could get hurt!
"DESTINY!" Vanessa's voice hit her ears once more, "GET UP! WE KNOW YOU CAN DO IT!"
"Well, well, well, looks like we have company. Impossible to get any privacy these days."
"Sayer..." she whispered, recognising his cold, masculine voice.
"Oh, you're still there," his voice was filled with disgust. "Shame. I thought I was rid of you."
"What?" she sneered from her spot on the cold metal floor, "so that you could drain my power from my lifeless corpse? Typical."
"You, Miss Fudo, need to learn to hold your tongue. It will be your undoing."
"Screw... you..." she muttered as the blackness once again attempted to take hold of her, this timeb though she managed to fight it, though the dark spots still marred her vision.
"Quite the pitiful sight you are," Sayer continued, ignoring her, "lying down there like the worthless little brat that you are. Take joy in the fact that you'll soon no longer be around to plague the world with your presence. And soon your little friends will join you."
Destiny's face darkened and Sayer's constant smirk only stretched wider across his face. It was apparent that he had hit a nerve. The time had almost arrived.
"Don't you dare touch them," she hissed.
"Really, I think they would be good company for you in the afterlife."
"I SAID DON'T YOU DARE TOUCH THEM!"
Sayer smirk finally exploded into full-blown very evil-looking grin as Destiny eyes began to morph from sapphire blue into a glowing scarlet, the pupils disappearing in the bright light being given off by the iris and she began to rise upward into the air.
So. The legends were true after all.
Upstairs, viewing box...
The four friends shrank back as Destiny began to rise into the air, her eyes glowing an unnatural red and her body curling up into the fetal position.
"What on earth?" Jake whispered, watching with wide violet eyes.
What was happening? What was this?
Tops, just outside the twin's mansion...
Hurriedly, Yusei, Jack, Crow, Kalin and Bruno parked their duel runners and began to make their way towards the door. The twins burst out and ran to meet them.
"Guys!" Leo exclaimed, rushing forward with his sister just behind them.
"Where's Destiny?" Yusei asked, immediately getting to the point, "where did Sayer take her?"
"Arcadia," Luna replied.
"What about Nessie?" Crow asked, "and Jake, Chris and Mark?"
"They followed," the female twin told them.
Jack sighed audibly. "Perfect. Just perfect."
"They could've at least waited for-" Crow broke off as he felt a sudden pain in his right arm. At once he pulled back his sleeve to reveal his tail mark glowing brighter than ever. He glanced up. Yusei, Jack and Luna where doing the same, their marks all glowing equally bright.
"What is this?" Jack asked, examining his arm briefly before glancing at Yusei for an explanation.
"I dunno," Yusei replied, his blue eyes locked on his head mark before jerking upwards to look at the crowd which where all looking at him for an explanation. "But I have a feeling that it has something to do with Destiny."
"She might be in trouble!" Leo exclaimed.
"That's what I'm afraid of," Yusei replied before getting back onto runner, Jack, Crow, Bruno and Kalin doing the same.
"We need to get to the old Arcadia Movement Headquarters," he told them, adjusting his helmet.
"We're coming too!" Leo announced, racing back inside and returning with his and Luna's D-Boards. They had always preferred their custom-made skateboards to the oh-so-typical duel runners.
Yusei nodded before staring up at the sky.
Destiny, he thought, glancing momentarily at his glowing arm, I don't know what's going on here or what Sayer's up to but hold on. I'm coming for you.
Danson City...
Akiza grunted as her right arm was hit with a sudden scorching sensation, the kind of sensation that she hadn't felt in years since she had been with the rest of Team 5D's as a Signer.
"Aki, is something wrong?" Jenna asked as Akiza hurriedly removed the long black fingerless glove on her right arm to reveal the glowing back claw eternally imprinted into her skin that marked her as a warrior of the Crimson Dragon.
"Aki?" Jenna gasped as she saw the mark, "what is that? Did you get, like, a glowing tattoo or something?"
Akiza shook her head numbly. "Something's happening."
"What?" Jenna asked, thoroughly confused.
"Something big that involves the Signers."
"Akiza, what are you talking about?"
Instead of replying, the magenta-haired woman merely stared and her mark, wondering what was going on that semed to require her attention. This was the first time it had acted up in years. Where the other Signers experiencing this as well?
It was the last thought, however, that really caught her attention.
Will I have to go back?
Back at the Arcadia Movement HQ, duelling arena...
Destiny was frightened. She had no idea what was going on, only that her body was doing things without her telling it to do them. She was floating about twenty feet off the ground curled up in a tight ball and her entire body felt like it was on fire.
Then she felt it. The stinging sensation, like a knife being dragged across her skin.
First at the top of her left arm, over her shoulder and along her collar bone, finally ending at her breastbone. Then at her right wrist, spiralling up her arm until finally stopping just above her elbow. Then at her left hip and round her back until it reached her opposite hip. Then a quarter way down her left thigh, coiling round to her knee and then her right foot spiralling upwards to just below her knee. Finally in the centre of her back a large almost circle, with several extensions coming out from different spots.
It was hard not to scream, for it had felt like intricate patterns were being drawn across her skin with a knife, but she had sworn not to give Sayer the satisfaction of seeing her pain ever again.
At last she felt the pain numb, but the areas where the what had felt like knives had drawn remained stinging, and her body unfurled and she stretched her arms out wide.
At once she was hit by the sense of deja vu. Had this not happened before when she was little more than five years old and duelling Jake when a bunch of bullies had come to taunt them.
The day that she'd first unleashed her psychic powers?
Upstairs, the viewing box...
Jake, Chris, Mark and Vanessa watched with wide eyes as Destiny stretched out, revealing her once flawless skin marred with glowing red marks, the strong scarlett light shining through her clothes.
Jake noticed, however, that the one completely visible mark, the one on her right arm, was shaped like a dragon. A red serpent like dragon coiling around her arm - an all-to-familiar looking one too.
The Crimson Dragon.
Downstairs, duelling arena...
"And the experiment is complete," Sayer murmured, staring up in awe at the adolescent girl that floated above him. "The Crimson Vessel."
To be continued...
EchoGirl: I'm cruel, aren't I?
Goldfish: And I'm not plotting world domination.
EchoGirl: Really, you're not? That sounds as likely as Sayer/Divine actually not being a total dickhead for once.
Goldfish: Language, Echo. Either that or up the rating.
EchoGirl: Oh, yeah... my bad.
Goldfish: Yes, your bad.
EchoGirl: ...
Goldfish: Aren't you going to ask your readers to review?
EchoGirl: Oh, yeah! Please review and the next chapter should be up soon!