It's been almost two weeks since the night me and my friends saw that strange looking dragon coming out of the stadium. The news died down quickly with new news reports about the Black Rose Witch and other Psychics injuring or killing civilians popped up in its place. The only one that constantly showed up was the Black Rose Witch, and I knew now was also the best time to go looking for her. I need to find her before things get even worse for the people living in the City. The only thing about the Black Rose Witch's attacks is that they seemed random, compared to the attack of other psychics, who seemed to be tracking people down and would even enter peoples house to attack them. The Black Rose Witch is also a popular topic all over the internet with people sharing lists of the cards they had seen her use, pictures, and even videos of her attacks. Her most popular card being, of course, Black Rose Dragon.
Tomorrow is when I would be joining my friends to go watch the Fortune Cup, which meant today is the best day to get out and do some investigating. I am also intrigued to see who would be dueling tomorrow. I know that Jack will be there, which was bearable considering I wouldn't have to interact with him. I don't think I could ever look him in the eyes again. I knew I had to leave him and he deserved better, and better seems to be just what he is doing with his life. He doesn't even need me to make him happy. I've found out about him being known as the Duel King all over the City. It isn't very hard with all the King Jack signs and merchandise everywhere. The strange thing is that there aren't many reports from before Jack became known as the Duel King. It was if he just appeared one day and went straight to being known as the Duel King, which doesn't make sense. It's almost as if someone brought him into the City for another purpose or is Jack just that power hungry? That would be for me to try and figure out tomorrow at the Fortune Cup. For now, I want to find the Black Rose Witch.
Most of the reports about the Black Rose Witch were centred in the Daimon Area, this was also near the area where Psycho is located. I should easily be able to fit in with all the other marked people living in that area. I made sure to head down there early in the morning on my D-Wheel. I didn't invite any of my friends, because I don't need them being suspicious about anything I might be up too, though I didn't mind talking to them about it after if I need to. So I take my D-Wheel into the outskirts of the Daimon Area as I didn't want to be seen driving around with such a nice D-Wheel in this sketchy part of town. I spend most of the day just walking around, I was even able to make some money in street duels around the area. It's after lunchtime and late into the afternoon when I ran into some more guys holding a street duel. I decide that after this duel I would just head back for the day. So I decided to stand towards the back of the crowd to watch what is going on. One of the guys dueling looks very familiar as if I had seen his face around somewhere before, but I put the thought out of my head and just enjoy the duel.
"I win!" said the familiar looking man in the duel after a while. Right after another duel began, I need to go home, but I tell myself that I deserve to watch one last duel.
"Yea!" I shout when the first bit of damage is dealt in the duel. Though I'm a girl with a marker doesn't draw too much attention to me. If anything, I just get a few eyes looking me up and down every once in a while. But at this point I know it would be no problem to protect myself from some horny teenage boy. If I can kill one, then I can kill them all. After a few more minutes of watching the duel without a result, I hear a kid's voice coming from behind the man standing beside me.
"Mister? Have you dueled against the witch before?" The kid's voice says, I turn around to look at him. He has aquamarine hair and is tapping on the back of the guy beside me as he speaks.
"Stop joking about the witch! Hurry up and go home!" The man shouts at the kid as he waves his hand, trying to tell the kid to leave him alone. The kid is way too young to be walking around in this area anyway and he also brought another one of his little friends with him, but why would he be looking for the witch? The guy beside me turns towards me to leave so I step further into the group of guys surrounding the duel, still trying to listen to the kids chatting behind me.
"Maybe no one has seen her before." The kid says to his friend.
"But if everyone knows about her, then she's definitely here." His friend replies to him. His friend is obviously the smart one here.
"True. I hope the witch shows up soon." Me too kid. Me too.
"I have faith in this deck." His friend replies again. What does this kid plan on doing? Battling the witch? I cover my mouth to hold back a laugh at the thought of that little kid battling the witch.
"But they say that the witch's power is no ordinary power." Are these kids really stupid enough that haven't figured out what a Psychic is with all the bad things going on around the city? I guess not, because the next thing they start going on about is what the witch's powers can do.
"They say that when the witch's monster attacks, the ground actually shakes."
"They say that when she activates a trap or spell, it actually happens." The kid says back to his friend. To me, all they are doing is describing the base powers of a Psychic. These kids don't even know the full potential of Psychics, but I didn't either till not that long ago.
"So the story about her making people disappear might also be true." That is very true kid. Well, maybe not disappear, but die in one way or another, probably.
"Are you scared, Tenpei?"
"I'm not scared!" Well, he should be, but its too late for any of that, the kid found something else interesting and is already running away from his friend.
"Yusei!" The kid screams while running away. "Tenpei, come over here! He's the guy who cusmotized this Duel Disk!"
Yusei? From the Satellite? I try to glance over at him from the crowd. It is him sure enough, I would remember that face anywhere. What was he doing here, in the City? I look at him again. I gasp. His face. Why is Yusei marked? What could have Yusei done to deserve that, the Yusei I knew would never do anything bad. These questions keep circling my head, but I make it my job to move further into the crowd and out of any chance of Yusei's eyesight. I can't let Yusei know that I am here.
The only things I get out of Yusei's conversation from where I'm standing was that the blue haired kid is named Rua and that he left someone named Ruka at home. Perhaps it was his sister, but besides that, I can't hear anymore of their conversation over the roars of the crowd watching the street duel. My brain is still suck on the idea of why Yusei is here and why he is friends with some kid. Not only that, but the three men standing behind Yusei are also unrecognizable. It is obvious that a lot of things have changed since I left the Satellite, but one thing I knew is that Yusei and Jack were both in the City. More importantly, they weren't in the City together. What about Kiryu and Crow? Are they even still alive?
That's when I think I hear something about the Fortune Cup coming from Yusei's conversation but it's impossible to tell. Seconds after that, I hear Yusei collapse to his knees and he is grabbing at his right arm in pain. What was going on with him? I know I didn't want to see Yusei or have him see me, but the thought of going over to help him entered my head, but it's too late for that.
"It's the witch!" The crowd around me shouts before running away in the direction Yusei is. I can't help but get pushed along by the group of taller men. I look around me, confused, while trying to spot the witch but it's impossible with group of men continuing to push me along, since they all want to get away from her. "It's the witch! She'll make us disappear! Run!"
It's too late, before the group of men can fully escape, large black thorn filled vines shoot from between the group. The group of men break up while the vines shoot towards the walls and other surroundings. I take this chance to run to the building behind Yusei, so that I can see what was going on. Behind a cloud of smoke comes the ferocious screech of none other than Black Rose Dragon. The red eyes and mouth illuminate the sky full of smoke. My instinct is to back up the wall of the building, from fear of the dragon, but I knew the Witch couldn't be as powerful as me. I'm not too far behind Yusei and his pack of friends at the moment and I look at Yusei again to make sure he hasn't noticed me. It seems like he hasn't, but at the same time he is too busy staring at his glowing arm. Wait. His glowing arm? As I look at the glowing mark on his arm, my head begins to hurt. It's the same pain I felt looking at the stadium all over again. What is going on?
"That's the symbol of a Signer. It's the mark of the dragon," says the old man leaning over Yusei. Everything around me is just one confusing whirlwind of thoughts, but I make sure to keep the words the old man said in mind. I would save that to ask the master of useless facts, Dmitri, later. I don't have much time to think about it now as a blinding light shines from the person standing in front of the Black Rose Dragon, The Black Rose Witch. I found her at last. As the light and smoke clears the air, the dragon disappears with it, but the witch is clear to see now. She is dressed in a large cloak and mask that made it look like she was crying blood, but it was impossible to miss her burgundy hair and duel disk peeking out from her disguise.
"The witch." Yusei points out. Yes, Yusei, good job. He is a little late to the party of knowing what is going on apparently.
"That's the witch." The kid known as Rua says in awe of the situation before his eyes. Yusei's other friends that are closer to me and farther behind him run up behind him and make sure nothing bad happens to him or the kid. I'm happy that Yusei has someone to protect him. If anyone, he deserves it.
"The Black Rose Witch… She really exists," says one of the men behind Yusei.
"Wow." The old man says also in awe of the all powerful witch in front of him.
"You too?" The witch says in shock. What could she be talking about?
"You too?" I hear Yusei say before looking down at his arm. Does this mean she has one of these glowing marks as well? This means there might be even more people with marks like Yusei. I need to figure out what these marks mean and if they are important to what's been going on around the City. I need to know. That thought is set in my head and my instincts tell me to run, but not away. I run right past Yusei and his friends, as Yusei starts to approach the witch. I'm running straight towards the witch. I can't let her get away. I need to know what's going on.
"It's a detestable mark!" The witch shouts at Yusei, not paying me any attention. The witch plays one of her spell cards. Even though the witch isn't looking at me. I can feel Yusei's eyes burning into the back of me. Before I am able to reach the witch, a whirlwind of wind and light from the spell card emerges from the ground around her and I am swept off my feet, flying back onto the ground. The wind keeps me from sitting up, but I try to fight back against it. It's too much. I can't get up. Then, as fast as it appeared, the wind was gone and so is the witch. I pull myself off the ground as quickly as I can and do what I'm good at, I run. Past Yusei again, in the direction I came from.
"Kyoko!" That is all I can hear before I leave the area. I don't hear him following me but I don't stop running. I can't take the chance of meeting Yusei face to face again. He must be as confused as me right now, but I can never be friends with him again after becoming a monster and running away. A tear begins to run down my face, but I don't even let myself stop long enough to wipe it. I don't stop till I make it back to my D-Wheel on the outskirts of the Daimon Area. Once I'm on my D-Wheel, I don't stop again till I'm back inside my house. Once I get inside the doors of the house, I immediately crash on the couch and pull my phone out to text Dmitri, making sure I don't forget anything about what I learned today. Yusei. Signer. Mark. Dragon. Witch. What is about to go down in Neo Domino City? For now. I clear my mind by planning my exciting day at the Fortune Cup tomorrow with my friends. At least after this, I shouldn't have to see Yusei again.