Aki crouched next to me, pulling me into a hug, while Jack walked to my side. Above us, Roman muttered to himself, which was then drowned out by an extraordinarily deep voice, "I would have to disagree, Roman. The Signers and their friends may not be selfish, we have plenty of guests staying with us who are quite the opposite. There's no need to worry."

Jack moved in front of me, speaking in a tone that I had never heard from him before, "It's pathetic that you assume we will stop fighting if we are selfish. My entire reason for fighting is to get them back from you for my own sake."

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 to fill them with even more anger.

On either side of Roman, four other cloaked figures emerged from the fog. Two were feminine, while two were masculine. One of each had their hoods up. The masculine hooded figure spoke up, "I have something important to the little Signer."

Flicking his hand, a card appeared, revealing a blue and pink dragon. Luna's gasp echoed through the empty city, "Ancient Fairy Dragon!"

The man continued, "My name is Demak, and I have the mark of the monkey." He held up his arm to show off the twisted lines that vaguely resembled a monkey.

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!"

My powers kept growing with my anger, "You're just ashamed that a woman has more balls than you will ever have!"

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 will have to face?"

Silently, he gave a single nod. Together, we returned to the group. As we emerged from the fog, everyone else visibly relaxed. Without speaking us Signers gathered Martha's three boys, then returned to her house with heavy hearts.


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.

My thoughts were interrupted by Trudge dropping into a Dogeza* bow. The three boys who we brought back scrambled around him, trying to make him stand back up as he spoke, "I apologize. If I had only been a little bit faster, I could have rescued her as I did for Tanaka. It's my fault that she's gone."

All three kids started crying, causing a headache to creep into my head.

"Would you all just shut up?!"

Jack had apparently knocked over the chair that he was sitting in as he got to his feet, and he was now delivering one of his infamous glares at the whole group.

I pulled the datapad out of my pocket, "What he's trying to say is that none of you are guilty. It's the Dark Signers fault."

Aki walked over to the kids, crouching so she could look at them eye to eye, "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?'

A corner of my mind scoffed at the term, 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 Quechua language they translate into Lizard, Giant, Hummingbird, and Monkey."

My brother dramatically flopped down next to me, "And the spider?"

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

Aki sat down on the other side of 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. So it will be imperative for young Luna to retrieve Ancient Fairy Dragon."

Jack looked over at me, "Do you know why your dad had them?"

Shrugging, I tried to rub the exhaustion out of my eyes as Mina continued to speak, "Mr. Goodwin said that Dr. Fudo got them back from whomever unlocked the towers, wanting to lock them again but couldn't."

Luna climbed into my lap, fully joining the conversation, "So if Director Goodwin had our cards, how did they end up with the right person?"

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

A scoff slipped out of my mouth, causing Jack to crack a smile, "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?"

Each one of us Signers grew a smile, and Jack even let out a short laugh, "Wouldn't shock me. Even though it bothers me that we were being played by Goodwin this whole time."

Mina pulled out a map, spreading it out on the table in front of us. Carefully, she drew four circles in different locations across the BAD Zone, "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 spoke quietly in my lap, "But we just became a team!"

Rustling her hair, I looked her in the eyes. Aki spoke up from my side, "I think that Yusei is trying to tell us that we are still a team. Distance doesn't matter."

I nodded, then 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."

The cutest member of our team pulled herself onto the table so she could point, "I'm getting Ancient Fairy Dragon back from the Monkey guy."

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

With Luna now off my lap, I stood up, letting out a huge yawn. It started a domino effect, and one by one we trickled into the living room, each picking a place to curl up for the night.


A/N: Thanks to Lets-Go-To-Vermont and Dark Lord of the Fallen Angels for reviewing on the original version of this chapter.

*For those who don't know, when you do the dogeza bow, you are giving full control of your actions to the person you are bowing to. They can give you any order, and you are swearing that you will do it.