Author's note: Edited.
Bonus Chapter: Raven's and Crimson's Past
Dragon Fire. That was the only thing Crimson knew and felt for the last 3 years...well he wasn't exactly Crimson at this point, to his parents he was just experiment B1-A4C... and to his friends… well he didn't have any… the world didn't know he existed. His parents were able to get rid of any trace of him, he now had no birth certificate or anything and nobody remembered him anyway as he was home schooled and kept inside away from anyone and everyone.
The fire was from his own dragon that he used on his fourth birthday and it was strapped to the celine in chains forcing it to breath down fire on the room; the didn't burn his skin but still hurt like a fire that filled the room shut off briefly and a small hatch opened up and a small bowl of what seemed like sludge, the hut closed and the room filled with fire once more.
"Eat up, we still need you alive," A man that Crimson used to call his father spoke in a harsh and cold tone.
Crimson just stared at the bowl with lifeless eyes and crawled over to it as he rarely had enough strength to move let alone stand. The fact he almost looked like a pile of skin and bones and he looked completely frail, his hair on the other hand was like how it was in the present but it went down to his waist and was only a jet black colour; the only clothing the boy wore was just ragged cloth wrapped around his waist covering his privates.
Crimson then began to scoop the sludge in his hand and ate it slowly as it tasted vile but it was the only source of food he could get; Crimson began to hear the voices of what were his parents while he slowly ate his sludge.
"He's become to accustomed to the pain, we should increase the intensity of the flames," His father suggested acting like he was talking about a rat and not his own son.
"Agreed, let's turn it up to 100%, the data we could get from that would be extraordinary," His mother spoke in what seemed like an excited tone.
Before Crimson could fathom what they said, he screamed out in pain as the flames in the room became excruciatingly hot and made any tears that came out of his eyes turn into steam.
"Oh yes my dear, you were right when you said it would produce better data." Crimson's father chuckled, as Crimson continued to suffer.
'Why?...Why are they doing this to me?' Crimson sobbed in his head, as the tears burnt his face and evaporated instants later.
"Because they fear you…" A dark voice spoke inside Crimson's head.
'How... do I... make it... stop?..." Crimson asked not caring about who the voice was.
"Accept the flames, let them consume you." The voice whispered in a voice that almost comforted Crimson, as he began to calm himself and accept the very flames that tried to hurt him.
Both of Crimson's parents panicked as all their screens showed all of Crimson's pain receptors going down when it should've been going up and the flames started to flow around Crimson and start to enter his body and within seconds all the fire in the room had vanished along with the dragon on the celine.
"What happened?! Get him out of their! We need those results!" Crimson's father shouted, as he and Crimson's mother rushed into the room and grabbed their son by his skinny bone like arms and dragged him out.
Crimson's mother then got a syringe and then injected it into his chest making him scream out in pain and try to fightback a struggle, but it was a fruitless effort because of how weak he was.
Regardless of how weak he was Crimson's eyes started glowing a powerful red the tips of his were slowly turning red.
"Extraordinary! His pain is somehow changing his features, inject him again!" Crimson's father spoke, looking down at Crimson with a sadistic smile.
"Oh, the things we're learning from you… maybe something good could actually come out of your existence." Crimson's mother then moved next to her husband and smiled obviously thinking the same thing and then injected him again making him scream more.
Crimson's heart was in pieces.
His parents had said some awful things to him, but this was the worst, it was the look in their eyes when they said it that hurt him most, it was like he wasn't their son, he was just a thing, a burden to them that only took up their time and occasionally provided some entertainment for them.
He could feel the anger, sadness and pain building up in his body, as he cried from his eyes in sadness and in his voice in pain.
"Let it explode! Let it consume you! LET THEM FEEL YOUR PAIN!" The voice shouted almost like an order.
Crimson followed the order and gave one last shout in pain, which made his body explode with flames pushing his parents back and destroying all the equipment in the room from the shockwave of the explosion.
Standing up from the table he was forced onto, Crimson looked around him with lifeless and uninterested eyes at the now burning hellscape around him and then saw in front of him the two responsible for it.
Both his parents were on the floor screaming in agony from their flesh slowly burning; his mother dared to raise a hand towards Crimson.
"P-Please...Cr...Crimson! Help us we're your parents!" His mother said struggling to remember her own son's name.
Crimson said nothing as he raised his right arm up slightly facing towards his parents and then opened his hand and fire came hurtling out consuming his parents, making them scream in agony as it slowly got quieter before stopping completely after a matter of seconds.
Even after they died Crimson continued to shoot fire out of his hand with lifeless and bored eyes, but the only difference was that he wore a little smile as he burned their already charred corpses.
After about 4 or 5 minutes of burning his dead parents remains to almost a complete pile of ash Crimson heard the foundations of the building start to creak and snap, so he began to slowly make his way out of the building but stopped when he heard voices again, but not the same one as before.
"Take us with you!"
"Free us!"
"We don't want to burn here!"
Crimson turned to his left and saw a small box on top of what seemed to be a scanner similar to that of a duel monsters card scanner but bigger and gathered it was the source of the voices.
Crimson then opened up the box and saw a deck that had a red glowing outline a variety of different voices coming from it; not wanting them to suffer the same fate Crimson closed the box up and took it with him as he left.
As soon as he made it out of the front door he took 5 steps before Crimson collapsed onto the concrete ground struggling to stand let alone breath and passed out as a result.
As the time progressively went by the house slowly fell apart so of course the noise and orange glow the flames produced caused some people to gather round.
Crimson slowly stirred awake to see one of the people who came to the scene was a small boy that looked at Crimson with confusion, which he returned slightly as the small boy had absurdly spiky and messy hair, while being both black and a dark purple.
He then looked up to see two shadowy figures run up behind the child, one male and one female making Crimson afraid in instinct, but he was so weak moving away was not an option.
"Yuto why did you run off like that?!" The woman spoke in a panicked voice, before gasping at the sight of Crimson.
"Mommy, why does he look so sad?" This was the last thing Crimson heard before he started to lose consciousness and drift into a long sleep, which he thought would be where he finally died after all his torture.
Obviously Crimson didn't die there, but he almost did so he was sent to hospital and put on critical support due to how lacking of muscles and fat he had on his body, which made it a difficult strain on his body to function properly.
After about two months Crimson was accepted into Yuto's family, but refused to ever talk as he was still traumatised by the idea of being apart of a family again.
But that all brings us to now, a young Yuto and Ruri walking side by side smiling and laughing, while a quiet and miserable Crimson walked behind them by a few meters as they walked to the XYZ Dimension's You Show Duel school, so they could all see their friends and Crimson could just sit in a corner and watch people duel until they had to leave.
"You really should come and talk to some of the other kids here, Crimson." Yuto suggested trying to start some form of conversation with his adopted brother.
"Yeah, I bet they could make you smile easy." Ruri beamed trying to get Crimson to smile, which was a fruitless effort.
Crimson merely waved them off, before walking past them and into the building with his hair flowing in the wind behind him.
"If he keeps letting his hair grow out then he's gonna out do my hair." Ruri joked, as both her and Yuto entered the building as well laughing as Crimson's hair was now past his waist and covering most of his ass. (A/N: It's basically Super Saiyan 3 length)
While Crimson walked through the school he kept his head down so that his fringe covered most of his face, but stopped when someone bumped into him.
Crimson turned around to see who it was that bumped into him and saw it was a girl who was obviously in a hurry and dropped a few duel monsters cards then rushed to pick them back up, then apologised subconsciously then ran off again leaving Crimson to himself again.
'I didn't even get the chance to apologise…' Crimson thought to himself with a sad expression.
Crimson then continued to walk to the audience section of the duel arena and found a seat at the back of the stands watched all the duels play out, while he thought of his own ways to counter how people played.
The last duel included the girl that bumped into him earlier and she was pretty good, had some flaws in her style, but she was good.
Crimson then saw that after the duel she got swamped by a large amount of people, guys trying to act cool infront of her and girls complimenting her and gushing over her duel.
He didn't think anything of it but then noticed that she looked up at him and he instantly felt embarrassed and blushed at the eye contact, so he lowered his head and put his feet up on the backs of the chairs in front of him trying to go to sleep to save him from any interaction.
That didn't go well in the end however as he heard movement on the seat next to him less than a couple minutes after he tried to fake going to sleep, then heard her speak in a soft and sweet tone.
"You're the boy that I bumped into earlier. I saw that you watching my duel." The girl said, as Crimson looked at the corner of his eye to see that the girl had Sandy-brown hair with purple tips and had purple eyes.
"Yeah... sorry about that..." Crimson mumbled, as he looked away with a blush, as he'd never really talked to a girl before, besides Ruri.
"I should be the one to say sorry, I wasn't watching where I was going since I was in such a hurry to get to my duel." The girl said.
"Your duel was... pretty good. I'm Crimson... if you were wondering..." Crimson said sitting up a little so that the girl could get a better look at his face.
"I'm Raven Tsukumo, nice to meet you Crimson." Rose said with a smile.
"Likewise…" Crimson mumbled, as he now sat up revealing his hair to Raven which shocked her at how long it was.
"Wow! Your hair is really long. I've never seen a boy with hair this long before." Raven said to him in awe.
"Yeah... It's been a few years since it's been cut..." Crimson chuckled.
"How come you have your hair that long?" Raven asked him in curiosity.
"I guess I got used to it, so I never saw a reason to cut it." Crimson said, as he put some of his hair over his shoulder and held it in his hands.
"Your hair is nearly as long as mine." Raven said.
"I guess I could get it cut…"
"You don't have to cut it, besides I think you look cool in long hair." Raven said to him.
"Really?" Crimson asked blushing from embarrassed.
"Yeah." Raven said with a smile.
Before Crimson could say anything else a couple of Rose's friends had walked over to them and seemed to be giving Crimson annoyed looks and glares.
"Hey guys." Raven said greeting them.
"Hey Raven, how come you're hanging with him?" One of her friends asked her pointing at Crimson.
"He seemed lonely, so I decided to talk to him." Raven said.
"You shouldn't be hanging around him."
"Why can't I hang around Crimson?" Raven asked confused.
"He's a devil child, so come on." One of the boys said, as they grabbed Raven's wrist and dragged her away from Crimson.
"Let me go!" Raven yelled, as she struggled to get out of her friends grip.
Crimson growled out of instinct and stood up with his teeth gritting together with his eyes and tips of his hair glowing making them all stop and look at him slightly scared, but pointed at him.
"See! He is a devil child!"
"He's not a devil child! He's a good person!" Raven yelled at her friends, but they didn't listen to her.
"Then how is his eyes and tips of his hair glowing?" The boy who was holding Raven's wrist asked.
"It shows his the son of Satan." One the girls said.
"It's best you stay away from him, Raven." another boy said.
Crimson gripped his head, as he began hearing the voice from months before.
"Make them pay! They're as bad as them! Burn them!" The voice said trying to force out Crimson's rage, but Crimson forced it back.
"Why do I have to? He hasn't done anything!" Raven said.
"You don't get it, do you. When you become friends with him, when you least expect it, he will hurt you and he won't care." the one holding her wrist said, before he dragged her away.
"Crimson!" Rose yelled, as she held her other hand out to him.
"Close your eyes…" Crimson said in a quiet voice only Raven could hear and complied.
Crimson then burst into flames and charged at them growling like an animal and punching the guy holding Raven and then held his arm reeled back prepared to strike him with a blow that would easily kill him, but remembered what he was told from Yuto's parents and that killing was bad and only monsters do it.
"What are you waiting for?! Kill him! Destruction is in our nature!"
"No! I won't! I'm different now!" Crimson yelled out loud gripping his head.
"You want to do it! Don't fight your instincts! Remember the feeling when you killed them!" The voice shouted back showing memories of when he killed his parents causing him to smile sadisticly, but trying and fight it.
By this point the rest of Raven's friends ran away and the one Crimson punched had also gotten away in Crimson's mental struggle. Crimson had also shut off his flames, while he shouted out to himself.
While Raven had her eyes closed, she heard everything that was happening, she decided to open her eyes when she heard her friends run off and when she heard Crimson shouted to himself.
Raven opened her eyes and saw Crimson gripping his head.
"Crimson, are you okay?" Raven asked, as she ran to his side.
"Stop! I don't want to do it! I want to be someone new!" Crimson shouted not hearing her.
"Crimson!" Raven yelled trying to snap him out of whatever was going on with him.
"I shouldn't do it… but it felt so good...Why? Why did it have to feel so good?" Crimson spoke slowly going into a sob.
Raven pulled Crimson into a hug and started to hum a soft calming tune.
Crimson stopped dead in his tracks not knowing what Raven was doing.
His so called parents never really showed any affection towards him even before he was their test subject, so he didn't know what hugs were or what real affection felt like, whatever Raven was doing however made him feel warm and made him sob more.
"Hey... it's going to be okay..." Raven said softly, before she continued to humming and rubbed his back up and down.
"Why are you doing this for me? You only just met me." Crimson questioned.
"Well, I saw loneliness and sadness in your eyes. I couldn't just stand there and not comfort you." Raven said to him.
"You're such a nice person… I'm sorry I made your friends go all mean..." Crimson said in a sad tone, as he pulled away from the hug.
"It's fine, besides I was going to ditch them anyways." Raven said.
"Why? They seemed concerned about you."
"They're not really my friends, they're just some of the popular kids who I hang out with sometimes and they are pretty annoying." Raven said calmly.
"Popular?" Crimson asked really confused, as he hadn't heard the term be used before.
"So, the easiest way to explain is that you have some kids who act all high and mighty, they think that they rule the school." Raven explained to Crimson.
"Oh… sorry I've… been away for a couple years so I'm not that smart or anything..." Crimson said looking away in embarrassment.
"Don't worry about it, some people can't be perfect." Raven said with a small smile.
"You seem to fit that pretty well though…" Crimson said quietly with a minor blush.
"I just study really, so it's not a big deal." Rose said.
"That's not what i meant…" Crimson said under his breath, which Rose didn't hear.
"So, how old are you?" Rose asked Crimson.
Crimson tried to remember how much time he spent trapped and added it all together.
"I'm 8… I think, you?"
"I'm 8 also." Raven said.
"I can't say if I'm older or younger than you as I don't know my birthday." Crimson chuckled in a sad tone.
"Let's just say that I'm older, since I act older than you." Rose said.
"That's not my fault though…"
"I know, but it's fun to tease you." Raven said giggling.
"Tease?" Crimson asked again making Raven sigh.
"It means making fun of or attempt to provoke in a playful way." Raven explained.
"Ahh okay. Yeah, sorry that I don't know a lot of stuff, I do know how to duel though." Crimson smiled.
"Cool. If you want I can become your tutor?" Raven asked.
"I'd like that." Crimson said giving a whole hearted smile.
"This is the first time that I've seen you smile." Raven said smiling..
"It's the first time I remember smiling from happiness…" Crimson said surprised.
"Well, you should try smiling more often, it looks better on you." Raven said still smiling and she placed her left hand on his right cheek.
Crimson blushed at the contact and didn't know how to react.
Raven pulled Crimson into another hug and stayed like that until Yuto and Ruri came up to them.
"Erm... you alright there Crimson?" Yuto asked with a snicker, while Ruri giggled next to him.
Crimson didn't say anything, but had a massive blush across his entire face.
Raven pulled away from the hug and started to laugh at Crimson's red face.
"You get embarrassed really easily." Raven giggled.
"I'm not used to this..." Crimson mumbled.
"Don't your parents tease you at home?" Raven asked him.
Crimson went silent and looked down at the ground.
"Sorry… you don't have to answer my question." Raven said.
"I'd… rather not..."
"It's fine, you don't have to tell me until you are ready." Raven said softly, as she put a hand on his left shoulder.
"Thanks…" Crimson mumbled.
"Hey Crimson, is she going to be your new girlfriend?" Ruri asked with a smirk.
Crimson went fully red in the face and stuttered a bunch of random sounds.
"Crimson, are you feeling okay?" Raven asked him.
"I...I... Er... Maybe?" Crimson stuttered out.
Both Ruri and Yuto laughed at Crimson.
"What's so funny?" Raven asked Ruri and Yuto confused.
The years went by for the four of them and Raven tutored Crimson, so that he knew as much as Raven could teach him.
But today's tutor lesson was going to be different, as Raven was planning something special and was even doing her hair, while giving herself a pep talk to not back out.
"Okay Raven... today's the day... so I can't back out..." Raven said to herself.
Raven kept having her little pep talk, until she heard the doorbell and ran downstairs to open the door to see Crimson.
"Hey Crimson, are you ready for today's lesson?" Raven asked him, as she let him inside the house and led him to her room.
"Yeah, I brought the books you mentioned last time, but I hope we skip math today." Crimson groaned out in annoyance, as he played with his hair which was now even longer than before and was even longer than both Ruri's and Raven's hair.
"I can arrange that." Raven said.
"What?! Really, why the change in heart you never want me to skip on math." Crimson asked confused.
"Well, you've been working hard and so I thought I would give you a break from maths for today's lesson." Raven said with a smile.
"You're a lifesaver..." Crimson sighed out, as they entered Raven's room.
Raven closed the door and quietly locked the door without Crimson noticing.
"So, what do you want to start with first?" Raven asked, as she walked to her bed and sat down.
"Well, I was thinking that maybe- woah!" Crimson started, but was cut off by Raven pulling him onto the bed.
"Maybe what?" Raven asked him.
"I was thinking of practicing duel strategies, but you clearly have something else planned." Crimson stated, as Raven got on top of him and gave him a seductive look.
"Do you like any of the girls at school?" Raven asked Crimson.
"Well... there's this one girl, brown and purple hair, really smart, really beautiful, but I don't know if she's interested in anyone. What about you, any guys you like?" Crimson smirked knowing what she was pulling.
"I like you..." Raven said, as she kissed him on the lips.
"That explains all this then." Crimson chuckled, as they separated from the kiss.
"Out of curiosity, how long have you liked me for?" Raven asked.
"Since day one, you?"
"The first day I met you." Raven said with a smile.
"And I'm guessing you have more planned." Crimson smirked.
"How about we skip today's lesson and have some fun instead?" Raven asked smirking.
"Is your fun the normal kind or the kind we shouldn't be doing at our current age?" Crimson asked raising an eyebrow.
"The second option." Raven said.
"What would your parents say if they found out you planned this?" Crimson teased.
"They won't know… since they disappeared... a year ago..." Raven said, as she looked down.
"Shit... I forgot, sorry..." Crimson apologised, but knew Raven still wanted to do this so he decided to do what he told himself he wouldn't do... use his powers.
Crimson turned up his body temperature really high and stated to make the room feel extremely hot for Raven.
'Why does the room feel hot all of a sudden?" Raven thought to herself, as she looked at Crimson with confusion in her eyes.
Crimson could see the lust slowly clouding up in her eyes and focused his powers a lot more making Raven wet and making her forget about anything that was said before.
Raven leaned down and kissed Crimson on the lips passionately.
Crimson slid his hands down to Raven's ass and squeezed it making Raven reel back and moan out in pleasure.
"Crimson…" Raven moaned out, as she felt herself getting wetter.
Crimson lost his control and his flames became visible.
Raven saw the flames around Crimson's body, her eyes widened but she felt as the flames weren't going to hurt her.
Crimson saw Raven relax and intensified the heat making Raven start to shake from pleasure and took off her shirt.
Raven then took off her bra and pants, leaving her in her panties.
"It's a little unfair that I'm the only one getting undressed." Raven said.
"Well, with an almost naked girl sitting on me it's hard to get undressed." Crimson chuckled.
Raven got off of Crimson, so that he could get undressed.
Crimson sat up and slowly started to take off his shirt before moving to his pants. Raven got too impatient of waiting and pulled off his pants and then climbed back on top of Crimson.
"If you were trying to tease me, it worked." Raven said.
"That was the plan." Crimson smirked, as he moved his hips slightly so that his bulge was pointing into Raven's hips.
Raven rubbed his dick through the fabric of his boxers with one of her hands.
"Holy shit... your hands are so soft..." Crimson groaned out making Raven smile and pull his underwear to let out his dick out of it's hiding place and she started to rubbing his shaft.
Raven got bored of rubbing his shaft and decided to pump it up and down, sending lots of pleasure through Crimson's body.
"Holy fuck…" Crimson moaned out, as he started to rub her vagnia through her panties making her moan out as well.
"Fuck... Crimson…" Raven moaned out, as she got even wetter soaking her panties.
Crimson set his hands alight and let his flames dance across Raven's skin and started to feel the heat getting to her.
"Crimson… please fuck… me now…" Raven moaned out, as she looked at Crimson with lust filled eyes.
Crimson smirked before continuing to rub her vagina and groping one of her breasts teasing her and driving her to an insane point.
"Crimson… stop teasing… I need you now..." Ravwn pleaded.
Knowing that Raven had enough teasing Crimson slipped off his underwear while Raven took off her panties and sat just below Crimson's cock.
"So, what position did you want to try?" Raven asked Crimson.
"Well, I think you know more than me, so you decide." Crimson smiled.
"Well, we could try doggystyle?" Raven asked.
"Who am I to say no to you?" Crimson teased before flipping their positions and went behind Raven, who had her legs spread slightly and entered her slowly earning soft moans from Raven.
Once Crimson went past her hymen breaking it, while Raven felt pain as she yelped in pain and clutching the bed sheets tightly.
Raven felt a liquid run down her legs, but she knew what it was and so she didn't panic.
Crimson waited until Raven had gotten used to him and waited for her to move or say something so that he could continue.
Raven looked at Crimson and gave him a nod to move.
Crimson started to move at a slow pace earning quiet moans from Raven, but he started to eventually pick up the pace making Raven get louder.
"Faster! Harder!" Raven yelled out.
Crimson compiled and also got a little rough to see if Raven would enjoy it, which she certainly did.
"Harder!" Raven yelled out, as she wanted him to be rougher with her.
Crimson did so and held her hips to push deeper into her all the while his flames danced across her back and slowly went around to her chest.
"Crimson!" Raven gasped out, because of the feeling of Crimson's flames on her skin.
After hearing that Crimson tried to imagine his flames in the shape of hands, which they did and with a little concentration they started groping Raven's breasts.
Raven's mind started to fog up, because of all the pleasure and lust. So, she could only think of moaning Crimson's name over and over again.
Feeling Raven start to tighten up Crimson made another flame hand, but used this one to rub and pinch her clit.
"Crimson… I'm close…" Raven moaned out.
"Then do it..." Crimson growled in a voice that made Raven shiver.
"CRIMSON!" Raven yelled out, before she tightened her walls around Crimson's shaft and came.
Crimson felt himself close to cumming to, but concentrated so that he didn't and continued to thrust into her.
Raven continued to moan Crimson's name, as her mind was getting more fogged up by the second.
Feeling the pressure really building up within himself and Raven. Crimson's flames began to intensify to their hottest point, but made sure they didn't hurt Raven.
"CRIMSON!" Raven yelled, as she cummed again.
Crimson couldn't handle the pressure anymore and came letting out a wild and low growl that almost sounded exactly like a wild animal.
Crimson pulled out of Raven while catching his breath, then they laid on the bed on their sides facing each other.
"Holy shit... that was amazing…" Crimson grinned, as he got his breath back.
"Yeah... I really... enjoyed it..." Raven said between breaths with a tired smile.
"Sorry about the growls…" Crimson chuckled nervously.
"It's fine and how could you control fire?" Raven asked curious.
"I...I gained them when I was seven, but I'd rather not talk about them." Crimson stated, as he looked away, as he knew it was a bad idea to use his powers.
"It's cool that you're able to control fire and it made our sex more interesting." Raven said,with a soft smile along with a light blush.
"Another thing about that is that because we're only fourteen this bad boy is only gonna get bigger." Crimson laughed indicating down at his crotch.
"Bigger the better." Raven smirked.
Crimson just laughed at what Raven said, as he had a feeling she would say something like that.
"I love you, Crimson with all my heart." Raven said with a smile, as she grabbed one of Crimson's hands and placed it over her heart.
"I love you too, with every fiber of my body." Crimson smiled back.
Raven kissed Crimson on the lips with as much passion as possible, but not enough to start another round of sex.
Crimson returned the kiss with an equal amount of passion and made sure not to trigger his fire powers.
Raven broke away from the kiss and rested her head on his chest feeling a bit tired.
"Tired are you?" Crimson chuckled.
"Yeah, I am..." Raven said tiredly.
"Let's head to sleep then." Crimson smiled.
It had been a year since that night, the next morning their told Raven's sister and grandmother what happened the night before.
Raven's sister Akari almost tried to kill Crimson, but Raven's grandmother stopped her before that could happen.
Today was normal school day, the sky was blue and sun was shine brightly.
Raven, Crimson, Yuto, Ruri and Ruri's brother Shun were sitting under one of the trees in the school yard eating their lunch.
"Today's a nice day, don't think so Crimson?" Raven asked her boyfriend.
"Yeah, it is… but I can't get this feeling off my back..." Crimson sighed.
"What feeling?" Raven asked him.
"I don't know… I just have a bad feeling about something..."
Raven nods and lays her head on his shoulder.
While the five of them were enjoy the serenity of the blue sky, they heard an explosion that didn't sound too far away, but from instinct Crimson blotted up right with fear in his eyes and saw the smoke thinking it was something he did with his powers, but pushed that aside as it essentially impossible.
"What the hell! Was it me or did that sound like a explosion?" Raven asked with some fear in her voice.
"That was..." Crimson said before running off and using his powers to jump onto the roof of the school and look at what exactly happened.
Crimson's eyes widened in horror as he saw an entire city block alight on fire and purple flashes happening here and there, which were followed by screams that Crimson could hear from this distance.
The thing that worried Crimson most was the giant mechanical monsters that were tearing the city apart.
"Crimson! Where did the explosion come from?!" Raven asked shouting.
"It came from the city! Get your duel disks… I think this is a war!" Crimson growled in anger, as he got his duel disk out and activated it.
"Wait, what?!" Raven shouted shocked at what she heard.
Yuto and Shun put their duel disks on and activated them, as Ruri and Raven weren't sure about the situation.
'If this really is the beginning of something big, then I need to move around at my best'
Crimson grabbed the back of his hair from just below his neck and did a quick swipe of his duel disk making a clean cut and letting it fly away in the wind shocking the four of them, as they knew if Crimson cut his hair to not hold his movements back then this was serious.
Raven and Ruri looked at each other and gave a nod, before putting their duel disks on and activating them.
Crimson then took two cards out of his extra deck and swiped his arm, so that they went on the energy blade and on either side of him two balls of fire emerged as Crimson began to shout.
"Take flight! Blood Phantom XYZ Dragon and Blood Flame Dragon!" A blood red version of White Phantom Pendulum Dragon appeared with a loud roar and on the other side a red scaled dragon that looked similar to White Lightning Dragon, but was covered in flames and had bone wings that dripped blood.
Raven and the others had seen the first dragon before, but none of them had seen the second before.
"Appear my friend! Light Rose XYZ Magician!" A female Magician appeared next to Raven, her Magician look like Light Rose Pendulum Magician, but instead of wearing blue she was wearing purple.
Yuto, Shun and Ruri summoned their ace monsters to their sides as well.
Crimson jumped down from the roof so that he was with the rest of them.
"So, how far was the explosion from the school?" Raven asked Crimson.
"About a five minute walk away, so if we run it'll take less."
"Okay. Lead the way." Raven said, as they waited for Crimson to lead the way.
Crimson started to run with the rest of them following behind, but Raven started to notice that Crimson's fire was flaring up.
"Crimson, why is your fire flaring up?" Raven asked him.
"Anger is a catalyst for my powers… if I'm angry they flare up on their own." Crimson gritted out, before his blood flame dragon lowered its head and Crimson jumped on.
"Mistress, would you like me to carry you?" Light Rose XYZ Magician asked Raven, but Raven was the only one who heard her duel monster
"Sure." Raven said, as she stopped running and her Magician pick her up in her arms, then flew after everyone else.
"Take the opportunity and dirty your hands Crimson… you know you can't fight back this bloodlust anymore." The voice inside Crimson's head spoke after years of silence trying to seduce him back into darkness.
'I've told you before, I'm a new person now' Crimson snapped back in his head.
"... well, that's disappointing… now I have to take matters into my own hands..." The voice sighed and before Crimson could do anything, he threw his head back then slumped forwards slightly limp.
"I'm gonna go see if the east district is okay." Crimson stated, as he and his two dragons turned to the right flying off in their own direction, while Raven and the others continued to where the source of the explosion was.
Once Raven and the others got to where the explosion was, they saw men wearing a strange uniform and duel disks.
"Hey, are you the guys responsible for doing this?" Raven asked the men.
"Maybe." one of the men replied while laughing.
"Mistress, these men are dangerous, so be careful." Light Rose XYZ Magician said.
"Don't worry, I will." Raven said.
About ten of the uniformed soldiers turned their attention towards Raven and the others and started summoning mechanical monsters that looked similar to dogs, but a lot more dangerous.
"Those monsters are Ancient Gear Hunting Hounds." Light Rose XYZ Magician said.
"Okay." Raven nods before she turns to Yuto, Shun and Ruri.
"Just to let you know, the monsters are called Ancient Gear Hunting Hounds." Raven said giving them some info about the monsters.
"I don't care they need to be dealt with." Shun said in a pissed off tone.
"Shun, you should care." Ruri scrolled her brother.
"Now is not the time Ruri, we all need to take these guys out!"
"I know..." Ruri sighed.
"Light Rose XYZ Magician attack those Hunting Hounds with Light Magic!" Light Rose XYZ Magician waved her wand, as a few balls of light come out of the wand and flew to some of the Hunting Hounds destroying them.
"Dark Rebellion XYZ Dragon attack with Revolt Lightning Disobey!" Yuto shouted, as his dragon charged forward destroying a few of the bigger Hunting Hounds.
"Lyrical Luscinia - Assembly Nightingale attack some of those soldiers!" Ruri yelled, as her monster attack some of the soldiers, knocking them off their feet.
"Raidraptor - Rise Falcon, rend and tear our enemies to shreds, Brave claw revolution!" Shun yelled, as his monster took to the sky and set alight before destroying the rest of the monsters.
"Great job, Shun." Raven smiled at him, as Light Rose XYZ Magician put her on the ground next her friends.
"Now we should go check on Crimson." He stated, he was dealing with probably the same amount of soldiers.
"I'll have Light Rose XYZ Magician fly away the area and see where he is." Raven suggested.
"Good idea." Yuto stated.
"Light Rose XYZ Magician can you go and fly around the area to find Crimson?" Raven asked her loyal monster.
"Of course Mistress." Light Rose XYZ Magician said, as she flew into the air.
Light Rose XYZ Magician flew around the area and found Crimson a little ways away, so she flew back to Raven and her friend.
"Mistress, I found him."
"Okay, can you take us to him?" Raven asked.
"Of course." Light Rose XYZ Magician said, as she picked Raven up and flew to where Crimson was.
"Crimson!" Raven yelledhis name, as she trying to get his attention.
She got no reply, but saw him in the middle of a destroyed fire covered road surrounded by bloody corpses that were almost unrecognizable, Raven immediately thought that he had only witnessed it, so she went over to hug him.
"Crimson, what happened here?" Raven asked softly.
"They're all gone…they're all dead..." Crimson stated in a sad tone, but his face was fighting back a smile.
Raven noticed, but didn't say anything.
"Did you run into any soldiers?" Raven asked him.
"I… can't remember it was all one big fiery blur… I couldn't tell who was who…"
"Did you get hurt at all?" Raven asked him, as she let go of Crimson and looked over him to see if he had any injuries.
Crimson raised his hands to show that were blood soaked, but started talking before Raven could react.
"Physically no… mentally is a different story…"
"What do you mean mentally?" Raven asked with some worry.
"There... There was just… so much blood..." Crimson said looking at his hands now smiling completely, but complete terror in his eyes.
"Mistress, there's a dark presence within Crimson, he struggling to control it." Light Rose XYZ Magician informed Raven.
Raven hugged Crimson, then she whispered to him.
"Crimson, you can't let it control you..."
Crimson went wide eyed at what Raven was saying.
"Wha... How did you?" Crimson asked with fear in his voice hoping she wouldn't know too much.
"Light Rose XYZ Magician told me that she could sense a dark presence within you and you're struggling to control it." Raven said to him.
"I...I didn't struggle though… I let him... Because it felt... good..." Crimson stated, as he gripped his face and began smiling madly.
"Mistress, the dark presence taking a hold of Crimson, so you should get away from him!" Light Rose XYZ Magician said.
"I won't, I need to get the real Crimson back even if it hurts or kills me. I will get him back." Raven said with determination.
"It felt… so good... their screams were like music to our ears..." Crimson stated, as he reeled his head back and began laughing madly.
"Who ever you are, you are a psychotic bastard, who has taken control of my boyfriend! I suggest that you let Crimson take control or I will have to duel you to get him back!" Raven said with anger.
"Psychotic bastard? Oh how you wound me so… yeah right… you're nothing before us." Crimson said in a mad voice, before going in a serious voice and unleashing a black aura that made Raven freeze on the spot from how much pressure he was producing.
'This aura is very strong' Raven thought.
"Tch… I didn't expect to be this weak… I guess that's what I get for splitting my traits in four parts… but still I wouldn't have had to do that if it wasn't for you." Crimson said, as he stepped forward towards Raven and grabbed her chin roughly hurting her and getting blood on her making her feel sick.
"I didn't do anything!" Raven yelled, as she slapped Crimson's hand away from her and giving him a glare.
"Oh no you didn't do anything… but you did." Crimson stated in a tone that made him seem like he was talking through Raven.
"If only Ray didn't get inside your head… we could've owned the universe in our hands, but you decided to listen to her rather than me when you knew I did everything for us!" Crimson shouted starting to get angry.
"I have no idea what you're talking about!" Raven said confused on what he was saying.
"DID I SAY YOU COULD TALK!" Crimson snapped out at Raven slapping her and making her fall to the ground and look up at him in fear.
"Sorry… that's a bit of Zarc talking there. We didn't want to do tha- Oh would you shut up!" Crimson shouted hitting the side of his head.
"Fucking Crimson here doesn't seem to like what I'm doing, oh well he won't be around much longer." Crimson muttered the last part to himself.
"Mistress, are you okay?" Light Rose XYZ Magician asked, as she flew up to Raven.
"I'm... okay..." Raven said with a sad smile.
"Here, let me get me heal you." Light Rose XYZ Magician said, as she healed Raven.
"Thanks..."
"It's my pleasure Mistress." Light Rose XYZ Magician said.
Raven stood up and stared daggers at Crimson, who just glanced a look at Raven's monster, then raised two fingers up at her.
"Shut up…"
With those two words Black and Purple flames shot out of his fingers and consumed Raven's monster making her scream out in pain, which in turn made Raven scream in horror as she listened to her monster's screams.
"STOP!" Raven yelled at Crimson.
Crimson said nothing as he turned his hand into a fist disintegrating her monster instantly.
He then turned to the left and shot three flame shots which hit the incoming monsters that belonged to Shun, Ruri and Yuto making the three of them fall to the ground with loud thuds.
"Shun! Ruri! Yuto!" Raven yelled in panic for her friends.
"Why are you doing this?!" Raven yelled at Crimson.
"Because we love destruction and chaos… and I want to be back in my normal body."
"Crimson, would never do this, he's not like you!" Raven yelled him.
"If only you knew!" Crimson laughed.
"Do me a favor a think about something for me. Why hasn't he told you anything about before he met you? Why hasn't he explained how he got his powers? Why was he smiling and not freaking out when he was surrounded by corpses? Why hasn't he ever said anything about his parents?"
As he spoke Raven tried to ignore his questions, but she couldn't and they did make her start to think.
Raven thought through the questions, but she knew that Crimson had a good reason for not talking about those things.
"I don't care, I know he has a good reason for not speaking about thrm." Raven said calmly, as she looked at Crimson.
"*Sigh*...You really are annoying you know that… I try to show you truth and you look away like it's nothing but lies." Crimson gritted in annoyed tone and grabbed her again, but as he did the rest of her friends came up beside the two.
"How about we have duel, but if I win you let Crimson have control and won't bother him again, but if I lose… you can do anything to me as long as don't hurt my friends." Raven said.
"You think I would duel you when in reality, I could kill you in an instant." Crimson laughed, before setting his right hand on fire reeling it back ready to hit her or impale her with it.
As he tried to move his arm forward, Crimson threw Raven back and gripped his head screaming.
'Looks like the real Crimson is trying to take control again' Raven thought.
"GET OUT! I TOLD YOU I WAS IN CONTROL NOW! I AM DESTRUCTION! I AM THE KING OF DEATH!" Crimson yelled at the top of his lungs, before his whole went limp.
'Did Crimson gain control. I guess there's one way to find out' Raven thought, as she walked towards Crimson.
"Crimson?" Raven asked, as she put a hand on Crimson's shoulder.
Crimson grabbed a rock that was in front of him and started bashing him hard on the head with it, while screaming out in pain and screaming out "GET OUT OF MY HEAD" scarring and shocking Raven until she took the bloody rock out of his hand and looked at him to see him in the weakest state she'd ever seen him in.
He now had blood running down his face from the head wounds and he also had tears mixed in with that to as his eyes were full of pure sadness.
"Crimson…" Raven said looking at him with worry.
Raven grabbed Crimson's hands with hers and used her thumbs to rub the top of his hands softly.
"What am I Raven..." Crimson asked in a scared voice.
"You're my boyfriend, someone that I love very much and you're a good person." Raven said softly.
"How...how can I be when I'm a monster who can't even stop himself?!" Crimson shouted back with even more fear in his voice.
"You're really are still naive." Raven said sighing.
"W-What?"
"It doesn't matter what you are, I will love you the same way I always have." Raven said,looking at Crimson with honest eyes.
"B-But… I hurt you and said such bad things to you…"
"You may of hurt me, but if I was super hurt, I wouldn't be here talking to you, now would I?" Raven said to Crimson.
"But… why?"
"Can you stop saying that. My reason is because I love you and I always want to be by your side." Raven said to him smiling softly.
Crimson just burst into even more tears and hugged Raven tightly letting out all of his pent up emotions, while Raven hugged him back and softly stroked his back while humming slightly.
"She tells him "ooh love"
No one's ever gonna hurt you, love,
I'm gonna give you all of my love,
Nobody matters like you." Raven sang softly.
While Raven sang to Crimson, Ruri glanced over at Yuto briefly then grabbed his hand making him blush.
When Raven finished singing, she looked at Crimson.
"How are you feeling now?" Raven asked, as she stroked Crimson's hair like a mother would to their child.
"A little better but I still feel awful… and I think I gave myself a concussion..." Crimson stated, as he pulled back from the hug holding his head.
Raven stood up and took out her deck and looked through her deck until she found the monster she wanted and placed the card in her right hand, then held it in the air.
"Let's see if this will work..." Raven said making everyone confused.
"What are you doing?" Shun asked.
Raven didn't say anything and start to concentrate on the card in her hand, after a couple minutes the card started to glow brighter.
"I Summon from the duel spirit world Light Magician!" Raven yelled, as the card transformed into the Light Magician, which surprising everyone.
"How can you do that?" Yuto asked in shock.
"Mistress, did you want me to explain?" Light Magician asked Raven.
"Yes." Raven nodded.
"Raven is the princess of the Duel spirit world. She did can see and hear Duel spirits and Summon us when she needs us." Light Magician explained.
"That certainly beats whatever I am..." Crimson joked quietly.
Light Magician then looked over at Crimson and gave him a glare, before moving in front of Raven taking a defensive stance.
"Light Magician stand down! I summoned you to heal him not fight him." Raven said to her friend.
"But he hurt you and Light Rose XYZ Magician." Light Magician said through gritted teeth.
Crimson looked down at the floor feeling even worse about what he did.
"Light Magician can you please heal Crimson." Raven said to him.
"Blood Phantom XYZ Dragon and Blood Flame Dragon were worried about you Master Crimson, but while you were taken control from that evil presence of yours, they were in pain." Light Magician said, as he healed Crimson's wounds.
"I'm aware… I could hear them shouting at me… while I…" Crimson began but Light Magician stopped him.
"I am aware of what 'you' did Master Crimson, I know that you will have to live with those burdens on your own." Light Magician stated in a way that purposely made Crimson feel worse.
"Light Magician, you should return to the Duel spirit world." Raven said to Light Magician.
"Of course, Mistress." Light Magician said, as he turned back into a card.
"I'm sorry about him, I don't know what's gotten into him." Raven apologised to him.
"It's not your fault…" Crimson said in a sad tone.
"If you want I can Summon Blood Phantom XYZ Dragon and Blood Flame Dragon, so you can talk to them?" Raven asked.
"I doubt they'd want to talk to me, but you can if you want..." Crimson said handing her the two cards.
Raven lift the cards in the air with her right hand and did what she did with Light Magician.
"I Summon from the Duel spirit world, Blood Phantom XYZ Dragon and Blood Flame Dragon!" Raven said, as the two cards turned into two dragons.
Raven felt exhausted from using her powers, as she falls to her knees to catch her breath.
The two dragons on the other hand were hovering in front of Crimson saying nothing, but just looked at Crimson.
"I'm sorry... It wasn't my fault I swear… I had no control!" Crimson said lowering his head scared to look at his own dragons, who still said nothing scaring him more.
"I'm sorry! I didn't want this to happen!" Raven started to drift in and out of consciousness as Crimson apologised.
Crimson felt something snap when he didn't hear his dragons speak for the fifth time.
"WHAT DO YOU TWO WANT FROM ME?!" Crimson screamed out with tears down his face.
"Admit what you did…" Blood Phantom spoke in his booming dragon voice.
"What?" Crimson asked in shock.
"Admit everything that led to this corruption and possession…" Blood Flame added as Raven finally lost consciousness.
"Why?" Crimson asked in fear of what everyone would think of him.
"It will free you from the chains of Darkness that 'he' has on you…" Blood phantom finished.
Crimson stared at his dragons like they had sentenced him to death and began having memories pop up of what he's done. The memories began building up until Crimson snapped.
"Fine! I gave into the darkness! I murdered my parents and I enjoyed it! I let him take over so I could get the feeling back and I ended up killing everyone on this street with my own hands and powers! I'm sorry, the power and feeling felt too good! I'm sorry!" Crimson shouted in a sob.
Crimson heard a gasp behind him and slowly while shaking turned around to look at Shun, Yuto and Ruri looking at him with wide eyes full of fear.
"I swear! I'm not like that anymore! He pulled me into the darkness!" Crimson pleaded, as he stood up as all three of them backed up from Crimson.
"Y-you… really think I'm a monster don't you?" Crimson spoke lowering his head.
Before the three of them could say anything, both of Crimson's dragon's hit them on the back of their heads with the tips of their tails knocking them out instantly.
"Why?" Crimson asked, as he turned to face his dragons.
"So, that you'll now know… they'll always doubt you in the back of their minds." Blood Flame stated.
"Wait, what?"
"That hit was aimed perfectly to make their memories fuzzy, but their feeling intact so they will always doubt you." Blood Phantom explained.
"That's like torturing me! I'll always be on edge of them finding out!" Crimson retorted.
"That's half the point…" Both dragons said.
"...I get it... you're doing this on purpose then…" Crimson muttered, as his dragons began to fade.
"Fine... I'll accept this…" Crimson mumbled, as he fell to his knees.
Raven woke up a couple minutes later.
"I'm not summoning those two again..." Raven said, as she sat up and looked around.
Raven spotted Ruri, Yuto and Shun on the ground.
'What happened while I was out?' Raven asked in thought.
Raven looked around and spotted Crimson on his knees, she got up and walked up to him and kneeled down next to him, then put a hand on his shoulder.
"Crimson." Rose called his name.
"...Hey..." Crimson mumbled in a sad tone.
"What happened with Shun, Yuto and Ruri?" Raven asked Crimson.
"They were knocked out by my dragons…"
"Why? Did they do or say something for them to get knocked out by your dragons?" Raven asked him
"It was… just a moment of panic on my dragons part. Don't worry about it." Crimson said in slightly louder voice, so Raven could hear him properly.
"Well, I don't plan on summoning them again, since they took a lot of my energy away from me." Raven said.
"Don't worry… you won't have to summon them again… for a long time…"
"Are you okay now?" Raven asked him.
"Yeah... just... just give me sec..." Crimson said in a almost spaced out tone.
"When do you think the others will wake up?" Raven asked looking at Shun, Yuto and Ruri.
"Should be soon…"
"What do you think of those soldiers from earlier, do you think you might have an idea on why they are doing here?" Raven asked thinking back to the soldiers that they fought earlier.
"I don't know... I did run into them, but they were dead before they could do anything…"
Raven nods and pulls Crimson into a hug.
Raven along with Ruri were walking around a destroyed Heartland.
Within a couple months, more of the Duel soldiers from the Fusion dimension had invaded their dimension, they carded everyone from innocent children to the duelists.
The reason why Raven and Ruri were walking around was because they were looking for survivors, but so far nothing.
"Hello! Anyone!" Ruri shouted hoping to get a response, but nothing but only silence.
"We should get back. It's getting late." Raven said, as they started to walk back to the shelter
As they were walking Ruri suddenly stopped and her eyes became foggy and lifeless.
"Hey Ruri, you feeling okay?" Raven asked her, as she noticed Ruri not following her and turned around and looking at her with worried eyes.
Ruri didn't say anything and didn't move from where she stood.
"Ruri, we need to get back before Shun, Yuto and Crimson get worried about us." Raven said, as she grabbed Ruri's hand dragged her along.
Ruri's eyes then widened still remaining lifeless, but also gained a bright smile and slight blush.
"Yuto…" She smiled, as she began running in a random direction leaving Raven by herself.
"I guess, I'm walking by myself..." Rose sighed, as she kept walking.
"Aww… and after all the trouble I went through to get us alone you go and say that." A familiar voice echoed around Raven, as her sight became dark.
'What's going on? Why's my sight gone dark? Why does that voice sound like Crimson?' Raven thought.
"At least make a sound… I wanna hear your voice before you suffer." The voice spoke in a dark tone before going into a mad laugh.
"What?" Raven asked with some fear in her voice.
"Now let's see what makes you scream." The voice laughed, as Raven felt something behind her.
"What's going on? Why are you doing this?" Raven asked wanting to get some answers.
"Why? Ahahaha! Because I follow orders and I like the extra fun." The voice laughed sadistically.
"What do you want from me?" Raven asked.
"Why… I want you." The voice said in a creepy and sadistic tone.
"I won't let you!" Raven yelled, as she got her deck and picked a monster, before she summoned the Light Magician.
"Aww it's cute you think you have a say in the matter." The voice laughed again, as he clicked his fingers so Raven's Light Magician vaporised in an instant.
"No! Light Magician! What did you do to him?!" Raven yelled in anger.
"All I did was send him back to the spirit world by force, it's quite painful for them." The voice said no longer echoing, but directly behind her.
Raven turned around to see a person that looked like Crimson, but he had short blue hair with purple tips and also had purple eyes like her, but his were cold and dark like a monster.
"Who are you?" Raven asked glaring at him.
"I am Dracul, the one who will make you scream and beg for death." Dracul stated, as he grabbed Raven's chin with his index finger and thumb softly, but spoke in a sadistic tone that scared Raven.
"Don't touch me!" Raven yelled at him, as she slapped his hand away from her and took a couple steps back from Dracul, while still holding her glare at him.
"Aww don't be like that, I mean look who came to visit you…" Dracul grinned looking behind Raven making her turn around to see her parents and her brother standing there.
"Mom! Dad! Yuma!" Raven yelled in shock, as few tears fell down her face in joy and happiness.
"See now don't they look all happy- oh wait sorry wrong image." Dracul clicked his fingers and in an instant they became all bloody and chained up.
Raven looked at the image in horror, as she cover her mouth with her hands, then she looked away as she felt sick.
"Don't break now… I just got started." Dracul grinned, as he leaned down next to Raven and forcing her to watch and raised his hand and turned it into a fist as making the chains tighten and Raven's family scream.
"Stop! Stop hurting them!" Raven yelled at Dracul.
"Fine… but you asked for it." Dracul smirked, as he slashed his arm to the side sending a psychic wave towards them and in a second cutting them all in half splattering blood everywhere.
"NO!" Raven cried out, as she watched in horror as her adoptive family was slashed in half.
Not wanted to see the image anymore, Raven covered her eyes with her hands and tears fell down her face.
"Oh no no no, you see this is where you watch and beg for it to stop not look away in fear." Dracul said slightly annoyed, while raising his left hand and using some form of psychic power to force her to look up from her hands and watch what he did to them.
"Please... just stop..." Raven pleaded in a sad sobbed voice.
"But look, the main attraction turned up." Dracul said, as he made her look forward to now see a chained up Crimson standing in front of her, which only made her go wide eyed and scared.
"Crimson!" Raven said, as she looked at him with fear in her eyes, as she dared to think of what Dracul would do to him.
"Oh, you think I'm going to kill him too? No… that honor belongs to you." Dracul laughed, as he leaned in next to Raven talking in her ear and putting a knife in her hand.
"No, I won't kill him!" Raven yelled, as she threw the knife away to the side.
"Well, that's disappointing… well you don't have a say in the matter anyway." Dracul said, as he forced her to pick it back up with his powers and walk towards Crimson.
"No, please! I give up! Please don't make me kill him!" Raven yelled pleading, as she was trying as hard as she could to stop walking, but it was no use.
"Do you think I care! This is the best!" Dracul laughed, as he made Raven raise up her arm so the knife was at Crimson's throat.
"Please… I'll do anything... but not this..." Raven begged.
"Anything you say?" Dracul said in a tone that frightened Raven and made her shake at what he could say next.
"Yes, anything..." Raven said.
"Even that?" Dracul asked reaching around Raven and grabbing her breasts hard making her yelp in surprise with a mixture of fear in the mix.
"Y-Yes…" Raven nodded.
"Are you really willing to cheat on your own lover?" Dracul asked in a tone that made her feel like she was about to break every law that existed in the universe.
"Yes, as long as you don't make me kill him." Raven said.
"That's good to hear… now let me hear how much you want me." Dracul demanded still keeping the knife in midair, as he made Raven let go and turn around.
"I really need you… Master..." Raven begged feeling like the words she spoke were like poison.
"More." Dracul demanded, as he made two more knives appear in front of Crimson's face; one in front of each eye.
"Master, please make me your whore." Raven begged again.
"You know your place, good." Dracul smirked, as he forced Raven against a wall and lifted her up slightly, before sliding two fingers into her womanhood.
Raven moaned out, while on the inside she was breaking, but she masked it from Dracul.
Raven then saw what she thought was Crimson and saw he was crying which made her feel worse.
'I'm sorry, Crimson' Raven thought, as she looked away and looked at what Dracul was going to do next.
Dracul smirked, but quickly flinched as if he felt something coming near and tutted.
"I guess we can't have total fun today… but this doesn't mean I won't try again." Dracul stated, as he lowered Raven, but then forced her to go towards Crimson and before she could say anything to protest her hand grabbed the knife by Crimson's neck and slashed it open.
Raven's eyes widened with horror at what she did, then she dropped the knife and took a few steps back in shock, before she fell to her knees and screamed in horror while tears flowed down her face.
"Why... Raven?" Crimson gargled slightly as blood filled his throat, while it also gushed out from the slash.
"First you break my heart now... this." He finished, as his eyes slowly began to fade.
Raven stayed silent, as she cried in her hands.
"I… I thought... you loved me…" Crimson muttered, as he slowly went pale.
"I… I do love you..." Raven whispered.
"Then why... have you... done this... to... me?"
"I wasn't in control of my body…" Raven said looking at Crimson with tear filled eyes.
"Then... why... have you... done it... again?..." Crimson gasped out, as breath was becoming harder for him, while Raven looked at her hands and saw that she had the knife in her hands once more and that she had stabbed Crimson directly in the heart.
"I...It wasn't me… I swear..." Raven said.
Crimson didn't hear that last part, as he drew his final breath falling to the ground with a thud.
"Crimson!" Raven screamed out, as she threw the knife and screamed out in pain.
She collapsed on top of his now becoming cold corpse and started to sob even harder and louder.
"Everyone you love seems to die don't they?" Dracul spoke, as his voice echoed.
"It's all your fault!" Raven snapped at Dracul.
"I wasn't the one holding the knife. I wasn't the one who said to stop your family's suffering. That was all you." Dracul laughed.
Raven stayed silent and tried ignoring Dracul, until she heard another voice calling her name.
"ROSE!"
"Of course he picks now to show. We'll see each other again, Raven. I promise you that and next time I'll have my way with you." Dracul growled, as he left and the corpse of Crimson that was in front of Raven disappeared, while the real Crimson ran into the area.
Raven's vision returned back to normal, but was blurry from all the tears. Raven looked up and saw the real Crimson running to her and thought she was dreaming.
"Raven, are you okay?" Crimson asked, as he kneeled in front of her.
Raven didn't say anything, but only reached out to touch his face to see that he was there and real.
"I thought... I killed you…" Raven said, as she hugged Crimson tightly and cried into his chest.
"What?! ...No I'm right here..." Crimson comforted Raven as she cried.
"I…I saw my parents and Yuma… they got slashed in half... because of me…" Raven choked out, as she sobbed harder.
"It wasn't real. None of it was real, okay?" Crimson smiled, as he hugged her tightly.
"How do you know?! You weren't there!" Raven snapped at Crimson.
"Hey... look at me... when have I ever lied to you about something serious..." Crimson said in a soft tone.
"I'm sorry, I…" Raven started, as she looked at Crimson, but then saw a flash of the sadistic bastard Dracul, which triggered images of her family being slashed in half, him on the brink of fucking her and Crimson dying in front of her.
Raven gained a painful headache, as she held her head making Crimson worried.
"Raven, are you okay? What happened?" Crimson asked in a worried tone.
"There was a person that looked like you… but he had short blue hair with purple tips and also had purple eyes… he…" Raven gripped her head harder, as just remembering what Dracul looked like made the headache worse.
"He did what?" Crimson asked slightly scared.
"He was the one… who slashed my family in half… and he took over my body with his psychic powers and made me… kill you… I couldn't stop him… he was so powerful..." Raven said through sobs, as more tears went down her face.
Crimson hugged her tighter.
"And worst of all… he almost raped me…" Raven sobbed out.
Crimson froze up completely.
"Raven... where is this guy now?" Crimson asked holding back his anger, but flames still appeared on him.
"I don't know... he vanished when you came into the area... He also said that he would be back for me..." Raven said with fear in her voice.
"Did he now… well don't worry... next time he shows up I'll rip him apart limb from limb!" Crimson yelled in rage standing up and letting his flames go up.
"Have you guys found Ruri?" Rose asked once she had calmed down.
"Yuto and Shun are looking for her, but she's vanished without a trace."
'Ruri… I should've followed her' Raven thought, as she was worried.
"It's my fault… I should've went after her when she ran off..." Raven said, as she blamed herself for Ruri's disappearance.
"It's not your fault, you were stuck with that sadistic bastard. You couldn't have done anything." Crimson said in a warm tone.
Raven took her deck out and look through it until she found Light Magician, then she summoned him.
"Mistress, I'm glad you're okay, everyone in the Duel spirit world was worried about you." Light Magician said.
"Don't worry I'm fine. I'm more worried about you though, since Dracul forced you back to the Duel spirit world." Raven said looking at him with worry in her eyes.
"It was a little painful but, I'm fine now." Light Magician said giving her a reassuring smile.
"Master Crimson, I suggest that you stay by my Mistress, just in case Dracul comes back for her," Light Magician said to Crimson.
"If the bastard comes back I'll deal with him personally." Crimson growled in anger at the thought of him.
Light Magician's nods and Raven returns him to the Duel spirit world.
Raven then summons Kuriboh and she hugs him.
"Kuri Kuri (Hi Raven.)" Kuriboh said.
"Hey Kuriboh." Raven said, as she stroked his fur making Kuriboh purr.
"Hey little guy." Crimson said trying to reach and stroke Kuriboh, but he just went further towards Raven shaking slightly.
"...Should've figured they're all still afraid of me… and hate me..." Crimson sighed.
"We should get back to thr shelter." Raven said to him.
"Yeah, that's a good idea." Crimson smiled, as he held out his hand for Raven to take, but she hesitated as her trauma from Dracul made it hard for her not to think of him or his sadistic laugh whenever she looked at Crimson.
Kuriboh nudged Raven, telling her that it was okay and saying that it was Crimson and not Dracul. Raven took Crimson's hand, then looked up at Crimson with a small smile.
"I promise you, I'll stay by your side no matter how dark the days get..." Crimson said softly, as he raised his other hand and set it alight and used it like a torch.
"Thanks Crimson. I will also stay by your side no matter what happens." Raven said with a smile.