Animaniacs 5D's – Negative World Race
Episode 13 – The Past Revealed
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"I'm feeling like an adventure! Let's go that way and see where it leads!" Lenore said. "Just this once, then we go back to the hospital!" Draco began to argue.
"You see!?" Sonia called out, "The only way to get what you want is to take what you want! And I want this victory!" Draco growled as his Arc-Dragon Skytear shattered, and he lost 500 LP, "You believe that you're entitled to just about everything. So without regard to who you're hurting, you just take it!" he shouted. "And what's so wrong with believing that truth?" Sonia asked. "Because it's a lie!" Draco told her, causing her to glance at him in shock, "I learned that in order to gain what you want, you have to earn it!"
"You belittled me every day!" he said getting Sonia to look at him. "You told me nothing but hateful words. Never once did you try and save me from the fights your brothers wanted to pick with me! You encouraged them! This is your punishment, this is what you earned by taking what you want and giving nothing back! Platinum Arc-Dragon, Evalion, PLATINUM BLAST!" She screamed out as her LP fell again.
"Draco, where's mother?" Sonia asked in a panic, "I don't wanna fight anymore! I just wanna go home!" She reached down, pushing a button on her console, "DUEL TERMINATED." the computer said, and the field went black.
Lenore kept running, the feeling of someone behind her propelling her forward. Suddenly the ground gave out from under her, almost as if it disappeared, causing her to fall through. "I'll see you later little raven!" Poe said as he stood over the hole she had made, "Only next time, I'll clip your wings!"
[Cue Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's Opening Theme.]
Draco stood there, watching as his step sister shivered in fright in his arms, 'I can't believe this!' he thought to himself, 'Whatever this darkness is, it's playing for keeps! Everything about this situation has changed in my mind, except one thing. We're going to need to get stronger. I almost lost this one, and I'm not going to repeat that kind of mistake!' He released her from his embrace to turn to his runner, spying the card still on his field the Platinum Arc-Dragon, Evalion. 'You got me out of this one my friend, maybe it's time I choose my ace, like Yakko already has.' he thought as he remembered the toon defeating one of the siblings, 'Keep me and my friends safe, and that will be your honor!' Suddenly a memory arose, "Oh crap!" he growled to himself. "What?" Sonia asked as she turned her teary eyes to him. "I still need to find Lenore and get out of here!" he said and ran to his runner. "Wait!" he heard Sonia shout as he mounted the bike, "You're leaving me?" Draco hesitated, turning his head away from her in slight disgust, 'What if she's really changed?' he asked himself, 'Then I can't just leave her here! But this could be a trap!' He once again turned to her, the fear radiating off of her body as she looked to him, expectantly, "Tch! Fine!" he finally said, "Get on your runner and come with me! I'll find somewhere you'll be safe!" She never hesitated once, Sonia ran back to her runner and jumped on, starting the engine and following him through the forest in search of his blue haired raven.
"What is this place?" Lenore asked as she moved her way through the halls. "It's like a trip through memory lane…just longer than I remember." She looked down the hall, finding many pictures both familiar and unfamiliar to her, one that stood out at the end. It was a painted portrait of a man with dark blue hair, waved in front and with a short pony tail in back. He wore a suit of armor like she had seen in the halls of palaces she had visited on vacation, and in his hand he held what looked to be a card. In the background, a dragon loomed over him with piercing red eyes and what looked to be black scales and feathered black angel wings. The tip of its tail was decorated with a large diamond tip and its chest decorated with the same stone surrounded in gold. "What is that thing?" she asked, and looked to the plaque. "It's so rusty I can't read it!" she said to herself as she squinted, "N...D…E?" she asked herself as she read what she could, "What could that mean?" She placed her hand against the portrait, trying to understand the face wielding the card, and turned when she heard a sound, like a plate being smashed, "Who's there?" she asked and stayed perfectly still. When no one answered, she crept forward to the stair case, "Hello?" she asked, and began her decent. Behind her, Poe emerged from the shadows, "So, they recognize her!" he said with a smile, "I had hoped that they were all whipped out by now, but I think she can play right into my hands if I do this right!" He then backed up into the shadows, disappearing as he retreated.
"I'm sure I sent her in this direction!" Draco said as he raced past the trees. "Are you sure?" Sonia asked as she followed him closely for fear of losing her safety. "Yah!" he said and recognized something as they came to a clearing. He skid to a stop, forcing his sister to stop as well, "This is where I told her to go get help!" he said, and moved his finger around the clearing, "That was the way she went!" he told her. "But, that's the way…" Sonia began, and then hesitated. "Huh?" he asked. "Nothing!" she said. "If you know something then spit it out, I don't have time to play twenty questions!" he growled at her, causing her to cower back into the seat of her runner, "Lenore means a lot to me, and I won't let her get hurt you hear!" Sonia pushed her runner back, readying herself to run if necessary. Draco growled again, then pinched his nose, "Look, I need to find her, anything will help!" he said, yet again she stayed quiet, "Fine, try finding your way out without me!" he huffed and revved his engine. "WAIT!" Sonia shouted, causing him to turn to her, "I'll do it!" he repeated. Sonia chocked in fear as she lowered her head, "Poe's here!" was all she said. "You're big city boyfriend?" Draco asked, "What's he want here?"
"You remember that story he told you about a family that had so much power that they were cursed into poverty?" Sonia asked. "Huh?" Draco asked, "Wait, he actually believes that story's true?" he asked. Sonia simply nodded, "He's been looking for the mansion of that family to claim their secrets!"
"Crap!" Draco said in frustration, "Come on!" The boy revved his engine again, waiting for his sister to follow suit before he rocketed off towards what he hoped was the mansion. "WAIT FOR ME!" Sonia called out as she raced after him.
Lenore wandered around downstairs for a bit, waiting for something to pop out at her. "They've really got the haunted mansion theme down!" she said to herself, and heard a door creak open. She quickly turned to the room, a large oak door swinging on its hinges back and forth as some unfelt breeze made it slowly dance. She moved towards the room, grabbing the door by the edge and peering through it a she pushed it open, "Hello?" she asked as she gazed into the empty space. The room was large, and dark. The lights all broken and glass scattered across the floor, she could only see the first fifteen feet clearly. There were large velvet red chairs that had obviously been chewed on and worn down. The table in the middle was obviously used for tea and friends to hang around, it sat low to the ground, coasters pushed around as if they were once in a stack. Three broken cups sat on top of some of them, one tipped over and a large stain bleeding through the cure of the wood, rotting it out and making it swell. On the floor, a stained and dirty red carpet covered the ground, a pattern of purple and magenta, all colors of red decorating it, and again, a stain where the tea had dripped. "What is this?" Lenore asked as she entered into the room. Pushing the door open all the way, is creaked loudly, yet the light from outside lit up the room even more. There were burns all over the carpet in the back, like something had fallen to the floor that was on fire and a candle on its side nearby. Dirt filled the fireplace and broke through the windows, a single skeleton hand poking out, its palm facing the ceiling. Seeing the hand, a single thought came to mind, and the feeling of a crushing suffocation that the person had to go through. She brought her hands to her mouth in shock as she turned away, pulling the door shut as she tried to hold back the urge to hurl up her lunch, no matter how long she had been down here.
"That Poe, it still surprises me that you decided to date a nut like him!" Draco said as he and Sonia raced through the forest. He quickly found the ground turn to a slope, the two runners quickly getting out of control as they careened down the hill next to a large moss covered wall. They somehow steadied themselves, and as soon as the ground leveled out and the wall ended, the turned into a skid to stop themselves. "What the heck was that?" Draco asked, and turned his head to Sonia, the shock quickly encompassed his face. There standing behind her was a large double door, still intacked but covered in moss. He knew it was a door, the shape was distinct; he remembered the same door in his Step-family's mansion. "What the heck?" he asked and dismounted his runner, "That's a mansion, buried under tons of dirt!" Sonia turned her head, spying what he had seen, "I've been by here before, how come I didn't see it?" she asked. Draco stepped near the steps, and somehow, bumped into nothing. "Oof!" he said as he held his nose. "Oh no!" Sonia said, "Poe's inside with her! I just know it!"
Lenore kept wandering around the down stairs, pushing on doors and trying to open them, finally she found a door that just broke down. Inside she found the master bedroom, half of it buried in dirt and the bed completely crushed, yet somehow, the dirt moved around one of the portraits, almost as if it had hit something hard. Curiosity beckoned her forward, and she obeyed. Moving forward she gazed at the picture, the frame somehow in perfect condition. The portrait was of a man, steadfast and proud with what looked to be a large family. She moved her eyes to the portrait's plaque, the little bar of brass at the bottom, and her eyes opened wide, "Shilo Ravensong?" she asked, and gazed up at the picture. There in the corner, was the smallest of the five boys and six girls, a blue haired boy that had his style pulled back in a small ponytail, and green eyes. He wore what looked to be a renaissance era costume or maybe that was the style of the age he lived in. "Wait!" she said as she backed up, "Ravensong's my name!" She placed her hand along the frame, staring at each of the faces in turn, "Wait!" she said as she finally remembered the smallest, the newborn in the mother's arms, "Core Ravensong? Great Grandpa?"
She remembered when she was a happy little girl, around the age of three, she had been playing with her toys, a small Blackwing figurine and a doll of The Mystical Elf, near the cabinet with the family pictures. Suddenly the picture of her great grandfather, now old and wrinkled with grey hair and a blue striped business suit, toppled over and crashed through the glass of the cabinet. It and several other pictures came down nearly on top of her. She quickly grabbed her dolls and stood up, but not fast enough, the glass rained into her hair and cut her arms a little. She turned back to the glass covered floor, tears in her eyes and saw something strange, the picture frame of her great grandfather had come apart, revealing a card to her that had been hidden between the picture and the frame. The tears still coming she crept closer to the card, ignoring the voice of her mother as she called out. She quickly moved her figure of the Blackwing onto her other arm, and bent down, picking up the card from the frame and turning it around. She couldn't quite read it yet, but she did know that it had the picture of a large black raven on it. Even through her tears her smile returned, she loved birds.
She finally showed her mother the card after she had been to the doctor for her cuts, but her mother just seemed to smile and tell her that it was nice. Then her father came into the hospital, fear and shock finally subsided as he saw his little girl alright. "Look daddy!" the little Lenore said as she showed her father the card. He glance at it, "I haven't seen that card before!" he said, "But it's a bird, and I know you like birds. Maybe it'll lead you on great adventures!"
Lenore let her memory fade back to reality, and pressed even harder against the picture in frustration, it slid back, like a button in the wall. When she let go, the picture moved up. sliding like it was on a spring or something, revealing a small hidden shrine holding a deck of cards. "What the…?" she asked and reached for it. She was quickly pushed away by someone, and looked up to see a boy reach in and grab the deck that had been in the middle. "At last!" he said, "The Ravensong's secrets are mine!"
He then looked up to her, smiled and then turned, mounting his runner and turning it in the room to take off down the hall. "WAIT!" she called out and quickly rose to her feet, making her way towards the sound.
Draco and Sonia waited for something to happen, finally hearing the sound of a Duel Runner from inside, "Huh?" Draco asked as he turned to the door, and watched as Poe smashed right through it. The smile on the boys face was of insanity and pride at the same time, "WHOA!" Draco shouted as he pulled Sonia away from the path of the runaway Duelist. "GET BACK HERE!" they heard Lenore shout as she finally made it to the front door, "Lenore!" Draco shouted as she neared him. "You have to lend me your Duel Runner!" she pleaded. "Here!" she heard Sonia say, and turned to find the gauntlet of said runner in her hand, ready to pass on, "Take mine, I don't want to duel ever again!" Without question, Lenore grabbed the gauntlet and slid it on before mounting the runner, and taking off, "Get on!" Draco told his sister, and with hesitation, obliged.
"HAHAHAHA! I can't believe how well that worked!" Poe shouted to himself as he traveled the road. He found himself much farther ahead than he would have guessed, passing an over pass as he did. Suddenly he heard another runner and looked behind him, finding nothing. When he looked up, he saw Sonia's runner fly off of the road, and land next to him with Lenore in the driver seat, "GERR! What are you doing here?" he asked. "What, no 'Where's Sonia?' What kind of a boyfriend are you?" Lenore asked. "Tch! I can't stand that needy little girl! She was just the funds to get my little expedition going!" the boy responded. Lenore quickly pressed a button on the console of her runner, "Give me back the deck you stole from my family!" she said. "NEVER! I'VE BEEN SEARCHING FOR THIS POWER FOR YEARS, AND I'M NOT LETTING THE LAST DECENDANT OF THAT MISERABLE FAMILY TAKE IT AWAY FROM ME!" Poe shouted at her. "Then, I'll take it from you by force!" she said, and continued, "I challenge you to a duel, the winner gains possession of the deck from my ancestors!"
"DUAL MODE ENGAGED!" his runner said and suddenly the far side of the rack began lifting up, moving away from the ground and becoming another track entirely, "ACTIVATING DUEL LANE. SPEED WORLD 2 ACTIVATED. READY, SET, DUEL!"
Poe began by punching the throttle, taking the turn at high speeds, "You little raven need to practice on your speed rather than your scavenging!" Poe shouted and then turned his head, finding Lenore gaining on him quickly, "Huh?" he asked as she passed by him at an even higher speed and turn around to drift backwards, "You were saying?" she asked as she completed the turn before him, "Draco doesn't just teach me to duel, he also teaches me to Turbo Duel! My deck has already been modified!" Poe growled as she spun back around, "Fine, I'll let you go first then!" he said as his crystal shined, spreading the darkness throughout the duel lane itself. "Wait you're part of O-Kay's group too?" Lenore asked. "It's a shame!" Poe said, "I had hoped to rip the power from you for myself, but I suppose feeding you to the darkness will have to do!"
"My draw!" Lenore shouted as she pulled the top card from her deck, "I summon my Phoenix Raven in defense mode and lay three cards face down before I end my turn!"
"As you wish. My draw!" Poe said as he pulled the top card from his deck, "I'll give you one last chance, leave now; you cannot defeat the power your family once possessed."
"I at least have to give it a try." Lenore shouted back. "So be it! I summon the 'Nevermore Falcon' in attack mode!" he shouted as he slapped down his card. "Nevermore?" Lenore asked as she watched the portal open up next to him. From the light, a black falcon emerged no bigger than her phoenix. As the bird spread its wings, it let out a cry that echoed towards the other bird, opening a portal behind it and pushing it through, "What?" Lenore asked. "My Nevermore Falcon can remove your monster from play when it's summoned, but I have to send him out of play at the end of the turn I used that ability!" Poe explained. [Nevermore Falcon is a level 3 DARK attribute Winged-beast type monster with 800 ATK and 200 DEF.] And thanks to you having no monsters out on the field, I doubt you can activate any of your song traps that you laid out!" Poe explained, "I attack you with my Falcon!" The bird came soaring in, and flapped its wings, spraying Lenore with a shower of black feathers. "GRAAAA!" she called out as her LP dropped to 3200. 'Not good!' she thought to herself as she gazed at Poe. "I'll lay this card face down and call it a turn, removing my monster from the field!" he said. 'He's right, almost all of my trap and spell cards require me to have a Raven monster out, and if he keeps sending them out of play, I'm the one who's going to stay in this dark pit!'
To be continued…
End Episode 13
