Yu-Gi-Oh 5D's: Judgement of the World
Written By: Lady Lunar Phoenix
Beta By: Lady Lunar Phoenix
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Ancient Fairy lowered her head down closer to Aki, causing the young woman to turn to look at the luminescent, sky blue fairy dragon. Unlike Yusei, the Dragon was as vivid and detailed as ever, unwashed by the red light. While within those large jewel like eyes, Aki could see herself reflected by its jewel like surface. She found the attire interesting, given its possible connection to Rua and its current connection to Fubuki. Most interesting was the mask itself, though she couldn't tell much on how it looked given the reflection in Ancient Fairy's eye...
"I... believe this is a dragon mask, but I could be wrong. Rose? Your thoughts?" Ancient Fairy commented, her voice softened for Aki given that she was right next to the young woman's ear. She had been sealed for so long, she couldn't be confident on all the types of dragons that might have manifested between her time and now. After all she knew of the Blue Eyes White Dragon, but never had 'anyone' seen 'her' take flight through out the Spirit World.
Black Rose slipped her own head between Aki and Ancient Fairy, and unlike Fairy, what Rose looked at was clearly given what with her visible iris and pupil. The dragon's eyes traveled the length of the outfit, though she focused more on the mask than anything else. "So dark, whatever it is, it would know the darker parts of the world, parts that you wouldn't go to. Parts I wouldn't bother with given how extreme the clothes is. That is the attire that a human would wear for extreme circumstances I would think," Black Rose answered in hard whispers as she pulled back her head and let her vines wrap themselves loosely around Aki.
"That's true, Black Rose," Yusei finally spoke, her observation helping him as he studied the attire himself. "Somebody braced for combat would wear that, and its militaristic in that I've seen two people wear that outfit without anything unique to the wearer... So one person dressed like that, came here and got killed by Rua, and another who apparently is Tenjoin was at that roof." He was quiet for a time thinking of possible routes they could use to figure out more. If they could get Asukas' deck to talk to them, that would be 'one' method. Surely one of them was on Asuka that day and could report what happened as an eye witness.
But how did one initiate a conversation with that deck without alerting Asuka herself? Sure the girl couldn't see Duel Spirits, but he couldn't ask Aki to just start interrogating the deck in front of her classmate. Nor could he expect Asuka to blindly hand over the deck without an explanation just so Aki could have a private talk with it.
They could try to get Witch, she clearly was able to go vast distances from Aki herself, but was that because Aki was that 'strong' or because Witch wanted to leave? If it was the second option they 'could' ask Witch or one of the Dragons to get one of Tenjoins' cards here. Because ultimately the only other option would be to let them look for her Duel Spirits in the Duel Spirit World... and from what he recalled back when they visited Carly. Depending on how many copies of the card existed, there could be many or few that they would have to go through to find Asuka's.
Well unless they waited until school tomorrow.
"I could ask Witch to talk to Asuka's deck," Aki offered as she pulled off the mask and looked at it herself. Running her fingers over the edges of the mask up to the small diamond shaped red jewel that rested on its brow.
"Summon Stardust!" Rose hissed lowering her head and resting it on the ground like a snake. "He MUST be sleeping!" She grumped.
"True..." Ancient Fairy gave a soft giggle as she answered.
Aki blinked looking across at Yusei who merely shrugged, reaching down he pulled out his deck and shuffled until he found Stardust. Placing the card in her hand, and actually curious about what his dragon was doing...
She blinked as she accepted the card, a bit astounded at how readily he handed over his signature card to her. Before looking at the image of it and the silvery white form of the Dragon that resonated with Yusei's soul. "Stardust..."
The arrival of the Stardust Dragon was pretty anticlimactic.
He must have missed the memo that there was a meeting taking place for he was curled up with his tail draped over his beak like nose. The silver dragon looked so peaceful, the motes of stardust that usually fell from his being floated about like fireflies. Between they and the glow of light that Ancient Fairy was producing for them, it created an utterly magical feeling to the area. Transforming a plain concrete terrace into something more alive.
"Woooow..." Witch of the Black Rose suddenly spoke up as she glided through the air. She moved among the lights, spinning around as though to see everything. She had remained quiet for so long Aki had forgotten she had been manifested at first. But now the Witch looked utterly enchanted, "So this is the power of three dragons when they come together?" She drifted along the normally concrete ground, while the pool now appeared more like a normal lake as plants began dipping in hiding the pools edge.
There was even the shadow of a person sleeping among the foliage!
Taken by surprise by both the light of the Fairy dragon coupled by the motes from Stardust, both Aki and Yusei found their attention turning to Black Rose. Seeing what was clearly her input in the environment manifest, normal plants seemed out of sorts from the insane dark dragon, yet her eyes were lulled. Whatever spurned her onto her wild madness seemed pushed away and her wide eyed madness retreated into an almost dream like gaze.
"Well... when we want to," Ancient admitted with a faint smile on her lips, "not all dragons get along together when together after all. Its why we all have territories after all," she pointed out gently.
"But you rule the Spirit World," Aki pointed out, a bit curious about the history of the world these dragons and Witch came from.
"I rule, yes, but I am not the Goddess of the world, I obey the instructions given to me by God." Ancient Fairy clarified her earfins wiggling a little. "It just so happens its been a very long time since I've seen him."
With that she lifted up her head a bit and called out, "Stardust, wake up, we need to talk to you about something!"
The slender dragon didn't stir, not even a flick of the ear or tail to indicate he heard her voice, though Ancient's voice 'did' wake Rose enough to take a more active observation of her surroundings again. While Yusei...
"Stardust? Wake up."
"Snort..." Stardusts' own sun gold, yellow eyes flickered open. He lifted his head up with his head going from the left to the right and back again. There was this almost comical realization that was expressed in how Stardust slowly pushed himself into a sitting position. His whole physical mannerism that of an awkward young man caught napping in class... "So... hello."
"What were you doing sleeping?" Yusei asked, only to have his stoic, semi stern voice interrupted by, of all things, Aki bursting into laughter.
"Dragons sleep, Yusei! Spirits are like people, too!" Aki admonished him lightly before turning her gaze back to the newest Dragon to arrive. "Sorry for waking you up Stardust!"
"Indeed I had, incorrectly, assumed you would be awake at this time," Ancient Fairy noted with a faint upturn of the corners of her mouth.
"Oh, its nothing, I just thought I would take a nap," Stardust confessed as he felt the threat of scolding pass and in answer sat up. He stretched his wings out to get the sleep out of them before arching his back cat like. Across from him he could see Rosy, Ancient Fairy and Yusei with Aki strangely dressed, and Witch of the Black Rose was near his hip looking about the grounds. Yet if Ancient Fairy was here, where was the twins? "No twins?"
"They're in bed," Aki explained as he laid back down though he stretched his length out, looking more like he was reclining on a large couch rather than curled in for a nap. "Say, Stardust, how extensive is your knowledge of other dragons in the Duel Spirit world?"
"Eh, why?"
Aki held out the mask she had held in her hands turning it around for Stardust to exam in answer, "Do you know of any possible dragons that might look like this?"
Stardust responded by extending his long neck across the way, over Yusei and cocked his head to the side for a better look. He was still waking up, but cross referencing the dragons with the mask...
"Looks to me like Red Eyes Black Dragon and all those variations, what with that tiny red jewel in the brow and the shade of color the eyes are..."
Everyone looked at Stardust for a moment then swung their gazes around to Black Rose Dragon taking note of her red eyes and seemingly near black colored body petals excluded...
"No, no, Rosy is Rosy, and that's not what she really looks like anyways," Stardust corrected blithely missing Aki's startled double take look at him. "I'm not surprised if you haven't seen one, they're not trash tier cards so Yusei wouldn't have encountered any on Satellite. Aki and Rosy might have in passing and Ancient's been locked up..." Stardust pointed out as he settled back and thought over the areas he had flown over the years.
"There's a part of our world that's kept intentionally dark, seemingly for dark themed Spirits, and that's where you would normally find Red Eyes. They live on the border of it mostly, I see them from time to time when I do fly overs. Its hard to hide from me you know?" Stardust pointed out, shaking his wings out just enough to set forth more motes of stardust into the air about them. "Why?"
The group looked among each other and it left him a bit curious, summoning him just to ask about a particular dragon? Strange certainly. Especially because Aki was still wearing that strange outfit, it really didn't suit her, and the closer he inspected it. The more he felt he was looking at a spell or maybe a Spirit...
"Well see, we're dealing with a missing person and Yusei saw him today dressed like this with the mask. Only he's seen this mask and outfit twice once out in the city and once here," Ancient explained.
"Ah, I see. Archfiend might know more, he doesn't live there exactly, but his favorite hang out spots are close to it. Lots of molten lava and such, and that outfit does make me think of that region, it would keep someone safe from the heat..." Stardust noted, "but back to subject. What's the problem? If they have a Red Eyes among them just have Archfiend go look for the guy."
"Thing is, we don't 'know' if this guy has a Red Eyes in his deck. From what everyone has made him sound like, I can't imagine he had a dragon deck. Or even a Red Eyes as a type of signature," Yusei explained.
"Yes, we're going to have to talk to his sisters' deck and hopefully one of them has been around long enough that they have interacted with his deck. Which means I'm going to need Witch to go on investigative case tomorrow," Aki added before she released the spell card. Allowing the militant outfit to evaporate into black smoke and roll back into the easily recognized shape and color of a spell card.
"Hmm?" Witch lifted up her head at the sound of her name. The shadow of a person lacked substance, and despite all the poking and prodding she had done with her wand said shadow didn't move... Maybe it was just to help inspire people to relax among all this lovely warm light? But no matter, "What do you need Aki?"
"Tomorrow while I'm at school, can you see about talking to Asuka's deck? I need to know if there was ever a Red Eyes Black Dragon in her brothers' deck." Aki instructed, watching as her witch floated back to her side. "Regardless if its a Duel Spirit or just a card."
"Red Eyes, huh? Yeah sure, see if I can get any back information about a Red Eyes or at least a clue where Fubuki went that day?" Witch inquired, when she saw this mild panic look cross Aki's eyes.
"Oh and make sure when you're doing this Asuka is 'away' from Judai."
"Ok, so what is going on with this guy?" Yusei cut in, irritation at the sound of the name clear. Then again it wasn't like he 'enjoyed' constantly having school discussions 'have' to involve someone who did nothing. Nothing save repeatedly cause Aki distress, and with the twins in bed, he could maybe get more 'facts'?
"Well, remember the last time you visited the school?" Aki began her voice hesitant and definitely uncomfortable. When Yusei answered with a nod she continued, "well before then the Duel Spirits didn't make an effort to manifest. After all no one could see them, but now they know 'I' can see them and they've begun to manifest around their partners."
At Yusei's raised eyebrow, expressing a clear concern Aki promptly began back peddling, "not into the physical world mind you. They're not bothering trying to be so visible that they can interact with the world, they know or figured out that they can't..." With that Aki quietly sank her face into her hands and gave a soft sigh. "Now when there's bullying I'll hear the Duel Spirits take to battle in an effort to either attack or defend depending on which side of the bullying. Its so difficult to sit in class and suddenly hear explosions and 'not' jump."
Yusei was taken aback by what she was describing, more over when Ancient Fairy began lowering her own tapered head. Honestly if there was more space for it, Yusei would figure the corners of Fairy's mouth would go down 'lower'.
"As bad as that is, it doesn't help that Judai will gladly give play by plays to what he's seeing. Which, when its a gang beating down a single person, especially when that poor person has to hear about their own Duel Spirit getting beat up because of them."
Aki's lips were a flat line and Ancient Fairy looked increasingly displeased and worried before she spoke, "I had not heard of this from Ruka or Kuribon."
"Well, no one does that in front of the kids, or in front of me either because of my.. reputation, both in hanging out with Asuka and Ryo and my powers. I think they figured me as a type of enforcer upsetting 'me' is going to get a reaction." Aki pressed her fingers against her brow, giving it a massage from the frustration of the situation before her.
Reporting it to Asuka or Ryo only did so much, they couldn't see the Spirits and had to take it from what the kids in front of them were doing at the time. If a fight between Duel Spirits was carrying on from something that happened before it really wasn't their jurisdiction. With or without Judai clearly spectating what was going on. Because he wasn't making an effort to stopping the fights when he saw them.
But he 'did' give Asuka a chance to strike up conversations with him soo... there was 'that'...
"I was not aware that this was going on, true we may battle as per how we interact with your world. Yet we shouldn't be attacking each other when it is clearly not a 'duel', that kind of behavior is unacceptable." Ancient Fairy finally spoke, lifting her head up as her wings began to fan the air. "I don't see a reason for my presence any further. We understand that Witch of the Black Rose needs to do this investigation so I'll retire for now back to our world."
With that the Ruler of the Duel Spirit world departed taking away the soft azure light she exuded. Leaving them with only the stardust motes produced by Stardust and the mechanical lights of Neo Domino.
"Well... sounds like I'm going to be busy..." Black Rose hissed out before she faded away taking the garden with her and leaving Stardust to give a slight groan.
"Translation, Fairy is going to make a trip through the school, but given her nature Rosy is tagging along to enforce said rules," Stardust spoke into the darkness with a sigh. "You know Fairy's nature and it makes her a great ruler... but if Regulus is any indication she's not really.. 'assertive'..."
"So what will Black Rose do?" Yusei asked dutifully, because 'enforce' had so many different meanings...
"Oh you know, bash Duel Spirit heads, hence apparently tomorrow I'm going to have to keep Rosy 'nice'," Stardust answered causing Aki to whimper as she sank her head further down.
"Let her, if they don't listen to Ancient Fairy they don't really have any reason to object to Rose's actions," Yusei countered with an indifferent shrug earning himself a look from Aki as she spread her fingers out to see through them and at him.
"'Let her bash heads'?' Yusei have you 'seen' Black Rose in Action?" Aki demanded!