A/N: Took a while didn't it? My poor little computer got a virus and I lost all my files. So unfair. So, this chapter is slightly shorter and less brutal than I wanted because I couldn't remember how I wanted it to go. Slightly fillerish bit none the less important to the plot. Because Kiryu is very bad. And then we get to see a bit more of Kiryu's past. And thanks for all the lovely reviews.
"Kiryu, please," Aki whispered, as Kiryu's gaze fell on her. "You're wrong. Listen to me! This is the Dark Signer in you talking!"
Kiryu smirked, amber eyes blazing with new fury. Misty stepped back away from him, he was so angry suddenly. Kiryu returned his gaze to Aki, Infernity Death Dragon prowling behind him. Aki gazed back at him. All he had to do was activate Infernity Death Dragon's effect and she'd lose the duel... and her life.
"Do you feel it yet, Aki?" he cackled. "Do you feel the fear of torture? Something you can't control and you want to fight but you know you can't? Just how I felt back then. I wanted your help, I needed you, and you could have helped me, but you didn't."
"I didn't know, Kiryu," she cried. "I would have helped you if I knew!"
"I activate Infernity Death Dragon's effect," he laughed. "I can destroy a monster on your field and you take damage equal to half its ATK all at the small cost of not being able to attack this turn."
The dragon shot forwards and Kiryu laughed. Misty grabbed his arm and turned away. He was out of control. She felt his hand against her hair but it didn't ease her distress.
"We've won, Misty," he whispered. "She's gone."
She turned slowly to see only a duel disk lying on the ground where Aki had been standing. She backed away from Kiryu and shook her head. "Are you happy now? She wasn't involved and you slaughtered her. She was as much a victim of Divine as you."
"Well, she's not a victim anymore," he replied.
"Kiryu!"
He looked up to see Crow and Yusei watching him from the edge of the flaming geoglyph. His eyes narrowed at the sight of Yusei. "You too, Yusei?"
"What?" he breathed. "Kiryu, stop this. You've had you revenge, now let it go."
"Why?" Kiryu snarled. "Even you, Yusei, who turned me, you've left me to fight on my own, just like always. Because no matter what's happened, I was always alone, wasn't I?"
"We never- Kiryu how can you believe that?" Crow cried. "That's not you talking, Kiryu, it's the Dark Signer and that Dark God. You have to ignore it!"
"Oh come on," he cackled, striding over so only the flaming wall between them. "I've suffered for too long, why can't I let other people feel my pain for once? Why not let other people understand what it's like to die inside?"
"Kiryu, listen to me," Yusei whispered. "I know what you went through, remember? Remember how I was the only one you ever really told about it?"
"Do you feel better now, Yusei?" he snapped. "Knowing you and I slaughtered the person who tortured us for years?"
"Stop it," he growled. "That wasn't me-"
"But it is me. I wasn't a Dark Signer then and I wasn't when I murdered that Security. I don't blame you for not wanting me around, after all, I'm a murderer."
"Kiryu-"
"But it doesn't really matter, does it?" he laughed. "See."
There was a stream of light from in ground lit up the Satellite before darkness fell. Kiryu smiled a strange sludgy creature rose from the ground. The pair of geoglyphs faded and Crow and Yusei were suddenly face to face with Kiryu, who was grinning insanely.
"Is that what I think it is?" Misty cried.
Kiryu laughed. "The King of the Underworld."
"Great," Crow growled. "What are we supposed to do now? Yusei?"
"I don't know," Yusei said quietly. "I don't know if you can beat it."
"You can't," Kiryu told them. "You don't have the power to beat it. Yusei was the only one who could have faced it with Nova but you don't seem to have Nova on your side anymore. And we've already sacrificed one Signer, when it finds the others, it will have their souls too."
"Kiryu," Misty called.
"I know, Misty," he laughed. "You don't want the fate of a Dark Signer, just revenge as a sister and now you want nothing more to do with it. But you'll soon figure out that's just weakness."
"Kiryu-"
"Leave it, Yusei," Crow growled, turning away. "He's not going to listen, let's find Jack and figure out how to beat that thing."
"You can't," Kiryu warned.
"Watch us," he hissed, pulling Yusei along.
"Wait," Misty called. "I can help."
"I doubt it," Kiryu laughed. "But run along anyway. I'm sure my former friends believe they can defeat the King of the Underworld. It would be much easier on you all if you just let destiny run its course. Looks like I'm the only Dark Signer left anyway, so I get to take all that power myself."
There was another stream of light from the city and he frowned. The condor geoglyph appeared in the sky. He laughed. It seemed he wasn't the last one willing to fight.
"I suggest you leave, the three of you," Kiryu said quietly, picking up Aki's duel disk, Infernity Death Dragon still prowling the area. "Before you end up like your Signer friend."
Misty and Crow pulled Yusei away. Yusei stared back at Kiryu. He didn't remember any of this. He didn't know what had made him so angry or how he could have won but he suddenly felt even worse after his loss of Stardust. He wondered if maybe he could have saved Kiryu if he'd still had her, or if he'd still been a Dark Signer. He growled to himself, watching a helicopter fly over as they he pulled on his helmet. It landed near the amusement park.
"Ignore it," Crow said quietly, offering Misty a spare helmet. "If we're lucky, Security can handle Kiryu."
"I highly doubt it," Misty whispered. She looked over Crow's spare helmet and his D-Wheel with distain. "I didn't realise he was quite so..."
"Insane?" he suggested.
"It's not his fault," Yusei sighed. "It was never his fault."
"I know," he grumbled. "I thought that with everyone and everything that happened... with all them gone, maybe he'd get better. But did you see the look in his eyes? And it would be useful if you actually put that on, Misty."
Misty gaze a little huff and pulled on the helmet. Yusei smiled softly but what Crow was getting at stuck in his mind. There was that look of pure bloodlust in his eyes, like he just wanted to tear everything apart, to make everyone feel the same pain he was suffering. Just like the first time. They should have seen it coming, the sign were exactly the same.
"Here." Kiryu glanced to his side to see Yusei with an umbrella. He smiled and opened it over them. "You're barely able to stand, the last thing we need is for you to get pneumonia."
"You don't get it from standing out in the rain too long," Kiryu whispered. "And I like the rain."
"I know," he replied, gently brushing a few drops from Kiryu's pale cheeks. "Just like I know why, right? Shouldn't you be over there? Saying goodbye?"
"Maybe once everyone's gone," he sighed.
"I never realised your dad had so many friends," Jack said off to their left.
"Neither did I," Kiryu replied. "I guess they're drinking buddies or something."
"At least he won't hurt you anymore," Crow put in from next to Jack. "Just Cook to worry about now."
Kiryu nodded and once again Yusei brushed his cheeks gently, not interested in whether it was the rain or something else. "I know you didn't hate him."
"No. I didn't hate him," he sighed. "Just disappointed."
"Well, he's gone now," Jack growled."We all knew he didn't have long left."
"Do you want to stay with us now, Kiryu?" Crow offered.
"Thanks guys."
It was only days after that Kiryu started to lose control. He began to talk about the pain he'd been through and how it was time people stopped ignoring it. That he and Yusei should make sure people didn't just ignore their suffering anymore. And Kiryu only got worse until he finally snapped and murdered the Security officer. The helicopter flew above them once more. Yusei lifted his head slowly to see Kiryu watching him from the helicopter.
"Well get the Kiryu we knew back, Yusei," Crow said gently. "So, I suppose we should meet up with the others and go over there, right?"
"But none of us have ever beaten Kiryu in a duel," Yusei sighed.
"There's a first time for everything," he snapped. "Now come on."
Misty sighed and got onto the back onto the back of Crow's D-Wheel, grumbling to herself about D-Wheelers. Crow snapped at Yusei once more and he turned his attention from the helicopter, swinging up onto his D-Wheel.
"Hey, didn't Mikage go with Aki?" Crow said suddenly, glancing back at the amusement park.
"Yeah... you didn't see her did you, Misty?" Yusei muttered.
"No. Just Aki and Divine," Misty replied.
"Divine?" he repeated.
"He doesn't-"
"He doesn't remember, no," Crow sighed. "Don't go into details right now. He was a very bad person, he spent years torturing Kiryu for his own gain and that's all you need to know for now, Yusei. What happened to him anyway? I didn't see him."
"Kiryu and Aki's dragons ate him..."
"Ate him?" Yusei said quietly. "Kiryu's completely lost it, hasn't he?"
"Can you blame him? Anyway, come on. Talking about it isn't going to help him," Crow said quietly. "We need to find Jack and the kids and-"
"Save Kiryu and the world?" Yusei muttered. Crow nodded. "Is that even possible?"
"Yes!"
"How do you know? What if we can't?"
"We can because I say we can. And I said, therefore it must be so."
"This is no time for joking," Misty snapped.
"Who's joking?" Crow replied with a grin.
"Crow." The redhead turned to Yusei. "You're starting to sound like Jack. Come on, let's stop talking and actually go."
