I've made it back inside the stadium where the bathroom and concession stands are. The duel seems to be going quick and rumors of what's happening above is already spreading to all the people walking around. The stadium is one big circle, so I just decide to go left until I find a sign of where I'm going. I slow down from a run to speed walking, trying not to grab the attention of the people around me. As I keep walking, I can't seem to find any end to the madness of concession stands and merchandise booths. I remember see entrances to the bottom part of the stadium, but they are guarded by security guards and I won't be able to get in that way. I have to find another way to get down there. Everything up here is just repeating in the same order continuously. This is what people refer to as descending into madness. It's not too long before more words of the duel above us are whispered around the stadium. Aki has caused damage to Jill. A scar marks his face where her attack hit him. What a lovely day to be a Psychic.

After probably making a lap and a half around the stadium and opening pretty much every door that I saw, they all lead to storage closets or VIP booths. I finally see a door I don't remember opening before. It's right near the stairs we had to climb to get into the stadium from the outside. Upon opening the door, I see stairs leading down to what seems like the bottom part of the stadium. Score! The area I originally entered seems to just be storage, as I continue around. I find a car park for the D-Wheels and I know I must be getting close. I wonder which one of these, if any of them, are Yusei's. Maybe later I would get to see, but I can't spend time right now worrying about that. After the D-Wheels, I reach a hallway with multiple doors and some bathrooms. One of these rooms has to be for the contestants. The first door I open appears to be an empty room. The next seems to be an dressing room to get ready in, maybe the room is used by Rex Godwin. The next room is a broom closet, followed by the bathrooms. There is one more door before the hallway turns into another hallway. I slowly open the door. I immediately see a screen of the duel going on above the stadium, there is a long table with about ten chairs surrounding it and a couple of couches facing each other. Two people are sitting on the couches. The first is the man named Bommer, he is looking at me from his seat on the couch. The other man who is turning his head to look at who has opened the door is no other than Yusei Fudo. I freeze in my place, unable to move.

"Kyoko! What are you doing here? I saw you yesterday and you ran away. I just wanted to talk to you. No one has seen you in years. We looked for you after you ran away, but we couldn't find you anywhere and we didn't even hear any news about you. We were all worried sick." Yusei is talking to me but I'm still frozen in my place. He stands up as if he is going to walk towards me. No. "Kyoko, please, what's going on with you?" Yusei freezes as he is walking towards me and turns to look at the screen, I look too. Aki has won her duel. The audience is screaming from the force of her final attack and the fact that Jill has passed out, or at least I hope he only passed out. Yusei grabs his arm, where it was glowing yesterday. "A detestable mark…" He whispers under his breath and I remember. That girl is one of the Signers. She is connected to Yusei somehow. If that's the case, then I can't let Yusei get close to me right now. Everyone in the crowd is yelling for Aki to leave, they all hate her, just like I do. They understand the rage I have for Psychics, but this means I also have to lie low. Yusei approaches me again.

"No, Yusei!"

"Kyoko, please." Yusei halts and even takes a small step back.

"Don't come near me! I've ran away from you before and I will do it again. I can't do this Yusei. I have my own things to deal with, other people to deal with. I can't deal with you right now too. I'm a monster, plus you should even be here. You and Jack should both be in the Satellite. Something bad must have happened after I left. You even have a mark now. I can't deal with the burden of getting to know you all over again."

"Kyoko. Just sit down. I'll explain everything that happened after you left, just sit."

"Don't you get it? I can't. I left for a reason and I'm not coming back to you now." As I'm talking, Bommer gets up from his seat without saying a word and heads towards the door.

"Yusei, you better get ready for your duel." That's the only thing Bommer says before leaving the room.

"Yusei, don't do this to me. I came down here for a reason and it's not you." I say, entering the room and walking around the outside of the room as to stay away from Yusei. "So please. Just leave for your duel."

"It's Jack, isn't it? You're here to find Jack, right?"

"No, no, you have it all wrong. I don't want to see Jack either."

"Does he even know you're here?" He takes a step towards me and I take a step back.

"No and I intend to keep it that way." I feel myself getting heated up as the conversation continues.

"Then why else would you be here? You were always there for Jack, he always knew more about you than anyone else did. When you left, all we did was argue about you. If anything encouraged Jack's choice to leave the Satellite, it was you."

"What are you talking about Yusei? I left for a reason and Jack knew clearly why I left, so did everyone else. I didn't want you guys to find me."

"I tried to tell him that. Do you think he listened?" I don't know if Yusei ever got this heated about anything before.

"Why didn't you want him to go after me?" Did he not care enough to go after me? Now I want to know what's going on.

"Because that's what you wanted. I just wanted to make you feel better. I wanted him to feel better. You have no idea what you leaving did to him!" This is the first time Yusei has properly yelled at me. Of course he's defending Jack over me. I'm the one that left him first. "I also didn't want him to go looking for you because I was worried..."

"Worried about what, Yusei?"

"Worried that he might find you dead." He points his finger at me and I froze again. "Because if he did, I was afraid it would be your own fault you were dead."

"Yusei, please don't say that, I don't want to hear this, I can't hear this right now."

"Fine, I have to get ready for my duel anyway. At least I know that you are still alive now. If you feel like talking again, I'll meet you back down here after my duel. Good bye for now, Kyoko." With that, he turns around and heads out the door. I drop down on the blue couch, trying to process what just happened. What am I supposed to do now? I don't even remember why I'm in here. Before I know it Bommer enters the room, with Aki following close behind him. I remember now, but I can't do anything while Bommer is in here, unless I intend to kill him too. But any plans I have are cut short when a man in a trench coat and auburn hair enters the room.

"Divine, what are you doing here?" Aki asks.

"I'm here to collect you of course, my dear. You must want to talk after your duel." The man named Divine stares Aki now like he is commanding her to go with him, rather than suggesting.

"Of course." That's all Aki says before she starts leaving the room with Divine.

"Wait!" I shout out, trying to get them to stop.

"Is there something I can do for you?" I am greeted by the same sharp eyes that just a moment ago looked at Aki.

"Are you… Are you part of the Arcadia Movement? Home for Psychics?" Even if I couldn't attack now, maybe I could at least use this situation to get some information.

"Why don't you come speak to me in the hall, my dear." Divine's eyes shift from me to Bommer, letting me know he couldn't tell me anything with Bommer around. I decide to follow him and Aki into the hallway. "So why do you ask about the Arcadia Movement? Are you perhaps a Psychic?"

"Me, and some of my friends too. We have heard about what a great place the Arcadia Movement for Psychics, so we've been asking around." Of course I have to lie plenty to get anything I want, but if it helps them I suppose I must. Divine slips a hand inside of his trench coat and pulls out a small card with his name and number printed on it.

"How about you take this and gather your friends? When you are ready to find us, don't hesitate to give me a call and I'll tell you where to go. We would love to have you." Aki looks at me with nervous eyes as Divine is talking, almost as if she is trying to give me a warning, but of course she is. An entire organization full of Psychics, it must be the ultimate hell hole.

"See you soon," I say taking the card from Divine's hand, look into his eyes, and smile.

"Lets go now, Aki." He says, turning around and putting a hand on her shoulder, and leading her down the corridor. I guess the killing will have to wait a bit longer, but now my target range has increased a hundredfold. Now I knew what I would do doing after the Fortune Cup ends. Until then, Yusei and Jack are my only worries. I peeped my head back in the room at Bommer.

"If you want to speak to Yusei, his duel is ending and he should be back down soon."

"I plan to be long gone before Yusei returns." I say, moving to leave.

"Then, it's not like you care to know, but Yusei won his duel and it was against a guy who snuck his way in." I stick my head back in again interested in what Bommer is saying, but I don't have time for this right now. I need to leave before Yusei gets back down here.

"You're right. I don't care, but it's good for him that he won."

"If that's not what you wanted, then why are you still down here? Was Yusei right? Do you want to talk to Jack?"

"No, but I did want to thank you."

"If it's what I said at the opening ceremony, then it's nothing. It's a natural thing to say, even if some people are too small minded to understand, plus it was barely scraping the surface of what people have to deal with." Bommer plays everything off with a cool attitude, but I think he really is proud of what he was able to do today.

"Anyway, I'm going to head off before the next match and Yusei returns, but really, thank you." With that I head out of the room. I think about turning left where I came from, but that's where the D-Wheels are parked and I'm afraid I might run into Yusei again. Instead, I decide to go left and see if I can find a way out of here. When I turn down the hall to the right, I am met with a dead end and a single door. Opening the door, I find the ground below the stadium. To my surprise, the trap doors from the stadium above are already descending again. The match after Yusei's must have ended in less than three turns at this rate.

This also means that I am trapped. I don't want to let the other contestants see me, but if I went back the other way, I would be met face to face with Yusei. I decide to go into the dressing room I found while looking for the competitors' room. I sit down and pull out my phone. I have over 50 messages from my friends in a group chat, asking if I am okay and where I am. I take the time to text them back while I wait for people to clear out outside so that I can leave.

Kyoko: Sorry guys. I was feeling really sick so I decided to head home today, but I'll see you guys tomorrow!

Kamila: Awe, honey! Are you okay? Do you want us to come visit you?

Kyoko: No thanks guys. I'll be okay really, plus you guys don't even know where I live haha.

Dmitri: Maybe that's because someone always tries to change the subject when we ask.

Kyoko: Haha, who would that crazy lady be?

Kai: That would be you, stupid.

Kyoko: What a harsh little boy you are, maybe one day you guys can come visit, but definitely not when i'm sick.

Dmitri: I'll remember you said that when you are feeling better then.

Lorenzo: Yes, we have receipts saying you are going to let us come over now.

Kyoko: Fine, but I got to go now I think I'm about to be sick.

Dmitri: Have fun with that, if you want to know how the duels are going then Yusei won. Kodo won. Now they are about to have a second chance battle for two of the losers. Turn on the tv so you can at least watch the last match today.

Fuck, with that I put my phone down, I thought the duel that just ended was supposed to be the last duel of the day. I guess I will just have to wait it out in here till the end of the final duel. I see a small TV on the wall and look around for the remote. It's not on the vanity desk or the table in the room. Aha! I find it sitting on the sofa across from the TV. I plop down on the sofa, propping my feet up on the table in front of me, and turn the TV on. I search through the few channels available till I was able to find today's broadcast of the duels. The kid from earlier named Ruka was going up again Frank, the loser of the last duel that I missed. At least in here, I will be comfortable and be able to avoid Yusei.

The child on the TV looks a lot different than she did earlier. The version earlier looked a lot more like the boy I saw yesterday named Rua, unless he… No… A young kid like that wouldn't dress up like a girl to impersonate his sister. Right? I guess we will get to see when she starts battling. The guy Ruka is battling seems to be nice enough. Maybe this will be a fair duel, considering Frank doesn't look like a very good duelist to me. I could picture him giving a church sermon or even being a therapist, but a duelist? No.

"Start the second chance battle!" The MC announces.

"Duel!" Ruka and Frank say in unison.

"My turn!" Ruka is taking the first turn this duel. "I draw. I summon Sunny Pixie in defense position (DEF:400)." This girl is definitely a different person than the one that dueled in the first round, maybe they figured out it wasn't really her and that's why they are making her duel now. I hope she's better than the person that was in her place earlier. "I end my turn."

"It's my turn. I draw." Frank seems to be way too calm for performing in a duel, he has a pretty eerie feeling about him. "I summon Symmetry Rorschach (ATK:1200). I'm sure you know what a Rorschach test is. How you feel determines what this monster looks like. It's a psychological test that reveals your uncertainties, worries, and problems. Ruka, what does this monster look like to you? Now answer. What is it?" Yep, confirmed, this guy is a creep. I actually feel kinda bad for the kid having to duel him, but I'm not very good with sympathy, even to people that aren't Psychics.

"It's…"

"Now… Now what is it? What does it look like?"

"It looks like… A fairy?" The monster starts to change form in Ruka's fairy monster, before a horrid black skull emerges out of the head of the fairy. You can tell the poor kid Ruka is very frightened.

"Spiral Mind!" Ruka's monster is instantly taken out. "This test reveal what you're afraid of deep in your mind. You're afraid of fairies and spirits. Am I wrong?" Why would she have a fairy deck if she was afraid of them?

"That's not true." You tell him kid.

"It'll be fine. In this duel, I'll reveal your fears so that you can be set free. In order to do that, be courageous and do to the other world that's hidden deep within your consciousness. You must travel to the spirit would of Duel Monsters. I know that you can hear the spirits' voices. Then that means the spirit world of Duel Monsters must also exist, right?" What is this man talking about? Does he know something we don't? No one can travel to the spirit world, unless, is this girl some kind of Psychic, or is something else about her just special? With Psychics having so many special powers, it's not hard to believe something like this would exist, but what does talking to spirit really allow her to do or are her powers a lot deeper than just that? This isn't something I need to worry about right now, as soon as the Fortune Cup is over, I have to get straight to the Arcadia Movement, but first I have to find some weapons other than just my psychic powers.

"That world exists?" This girl doesn't even know fully about her own powers, so how does this guy know? So many unanswered questions.

"Symmetry Rorschach's monster effect activates. When it destroys your monster, the top card in your deck is turned faceup. Peeping Mind!"

"Kuribon." Ruka gives a small smile to her card when she turns it over.

"That's a cute spirit card. Can you also hear its voice? I set two cards and end my turn. It's your turn."

"I draw. Come, Kuribon (ATK:300)!"

"At this moment, I flip over my facedown card! Light to the Depths! You send the top five cards in your deck to your graveyard. We both get to look at the sixth card, and you add that card to your hand. If you don't play that card this turn, you take 2000 points of damage. Now draw the cards at the top of your deck. Slowly." Ruka seems to be in a trance from Frank's words. "One. Two. Three. Four. Five. What's the sixth card? That's the Field Spell Ancient Forest. All monsters switch to attack position, and neither of us can summon a monster in defence position or switch them to defence position. Monsters that attack are destroyed at the end of the Battle Phase." Frank is speaking for Ruka who seems to be completely out of it. "A world where everything is revealed and fighting isn't allowed." Doesn't sound like my kinda place. "Now go to the Spirit World of Duel Monsters." He's trying to force her powers to come out. "It seems that you went to the Spirit World sealed deep within your consciousness." Frank decides to start his turn even though Ruka is unable to properly end her turn.

Frank's turn seems to be going on forever, and Ruka is unable to do anything to defend herself the crowd and MC are even making points to point it out and try to get her to snap out of it, but nothing seems to work. By the end of Frank's turn, Ruka's life points have dropped to 1800. Even though Ruka seems to be out of it, it seems she can still tell the basics of what's going on around her, as if shes having the battle from a different place and she is able to begin her turn. But she takes 300 points of damage during her Standby Phase, dropping her life points to 1500. At least this matching is lasting longer than it did with the other kid. Ruka takes 300 life points from Frank causing his total to fall to 3700.

From the contestants' room across the hall, I hear the door slam and someone running. Then the next minute, I see Yusei appear from the pits of the stadium running up onto the platform. He knows something weird is going on with this duel and seems like he wants to try and stop it. He looks back from Ruka to Frank in confusion. They both seem to be out of it now, almost as if they are in a trance. The next instance Ruka's arm begins to glow, this is the same glow that came from Yusei's arm yesterday. This means that Ruka is one of the five Signers of legend, maybe this has to do with the reason she was able to communicate with duel spirits. It is also suspicious that 3 of the Signers are taking part in the Fortune Cup, unless someone else is looking for the Signers. Is someone gathering them for the war that is bound to come? Is history starting to retell itself? Yusei stands on the field as the match continues. It is Frank's turn again and the turns continue back and forth until Ruka is able to play a trap card that destroys her field spell card. Even after the field spell is destroyed, both duelists don't regain consciousness. The duel comes to an end as Ruka uses Oberon's Prank to deplete her and Frank's life points. The match ends in a tie.

Both duelists finally regain consciousness as Frank stumbles backwards and falls on his back. His eyes tell the story that wherever he was inside his mind, he saw some terrible things. Ruka, on the other hand, seems to be fine. But after a moment, her eyes close and she starts to faint. Thankfully, Yusei is still waiting on the field to catch her. Yusei carries Ruka off the field, most likely to the hospital wing of the stadium.

"The second chance battle ends incredibly with simultaneous destruction! Both players lose." The MC announces as the focus of the TV goes off the field. "Everybody listen!" The broadcast for the Fortune Cup has come back on. "The action-packed first day of the tournament is now complete! These are the matchups for tomorrow's semi finals!" Yusei will be facing Bommer and Aki will be facing off against Kodo. I wonder if Yusei is strong enough to win against Bommer. It's been years since I have been able to properly see him duel, but I guess we will find out how much he's really changed tomorrow. "Today's excitement will continue in tomorrow's duels! Goodbye!" As the broadcast ends, I turn the TV off and take the chance to head out of here before Yusei happens to return down here for his D-Wheel. I listen again the door for signs of anyone walking around. The coast sounds clear so I open the door and head back towards the D-Wheels where I came from. As soon as the door behind me closes, I hear the door at the end of the hallway to the right open. I don't want to draw attention, so I just continue my normal pace to walk out the the hallway. I've almost made it to the end of the hallway when the person who entered the other door turns the corner of the hall and sees me.

"Kyoko." I freeze. It's not Yusei's voice. It's not Bommer. No, I know this voice. He's walking towards me. I feel my breath catch in my chest and all I can do is turn around slowly. He stops right in front of me, looking down at my face and I catch myself looking up at him. Into those purple eyes I've always known, but haven't seen in a very long time. It's Jack Atlas and he's found me again.