I'm having that dream again. I'm staring at Kiryu again as I fall into the bright light. Now, I'm standing, facing Yusei again. He keeps shouting at me, but I can't hear a single word coming from his mouth. The only difference this time is that Yusei is battered and bruised. There are small cuts dotted all over his face, with blood smeared all over him. I manage to get a look at what is around us. It's mostly dark, except for bright purple flames in the distance. When I look back towards Yusei, he's vanished and all that remains is a pool of blood on the ground. I feel my stomach churning as I look at the blood. I close my eyes, only to realise that I had woken up from the dream. I look at my hands, relieved to find out that I'm no longer wearing those blood-stained gloves, but instead my hands are completely bare and dry. I can't sleep now, my mind keeps going back to that pool of blood. I manage to ward away those thoughts long enough to doze off for a couple of hours at a time.

When my body gives up on desperately chasing sleep, I look at my phone to find out that it's five o'clock in the morning. I have just under an hour to get to the port to catch the first boat to the Satellite. I sit up in my bed and look around my room. I have an itch to clean, but since I cleaned my apartment last night, there's nothing for me to do. My hands are shaking; all I can think about is what might be waiting in the Satellite for me. What if I don't want to see how things have changed? I suppose I'll have to face whatever comes my way when I get there. I've made my decision and I can't turn back now. I get out of the bed and search for my winnings in my drawer. I manage to find the tin with my money in it fairly quickly. The tin actually came free with some offer years ago, it's actually quite pretty for a freebie with its cute floral patterns. I shove all the money and my phone into the spare deck-holder in my belt, since I don't do Riding Duels of course.

I leave my apartment and start walking towards the port. Leaving early means that I can gather my thoughts and become ready for the human communication since I'll have to do to get on the boat. The outskirts of the City are so peaceful at this hour of the morning. So few people are around that all I can hear is the small sounds of the City waking up. Even though, somewhere rush hour will be starting soon. I love that slightly salty smell that constantly hovers around the docks. Though I wouldn't like to go for a swim anytime soon, since the Sound is the single most disgusting body of water in existence. How typical of this City to have the marked and Satellite population closest to it. I walk around the docklands looking for that one boat Saiga told me about years ago. I spot a few people getting onto a boat in the distance, I start jogging until I reach it.

"Oi, you going to the Satellite?" I speak in a hushed voice. The middle-aged pot-bellied standing on the edge of the dock turns around to me.

"Yeah, we are, girlie." I cringe inwardly at the use of the word 'girlie'. "Why would a girl like you wanna go to the Satellite anyway?" As if me being a girl has anything to do with it.

"Business." I make sure that my face is as stoic as possible, I'm now on guard.

"Okay whatever, just pay the fee." Before he can continue, I drop the exact change into his hand and walk onto the boat. I sat towards the front of the boat, resting my back against the side. There's few people on the boat at this hour, since I reckon the markets would only start to open when we would arrive. I look around the small boat, only a few middle-aged men. They're purposely avoiding my gaze. They're probably confused as to why a young woman such as myself is going to the Satellite of all places with them. Well, I suppose this is better than them making passes at me, which happens more often than it should. As we set off, I rest my head against the side of the boat and close my eyes. I'm not very fond of boats in general, but it's the only option I have.

I cast my mind back to the last time I travelled over the Sound. I remember walking over to Martha's from where I stayed with Team Satisfaction. I often visited Martha back then, even though I didn't live there anymore. I suppose I got really bored when the guys wouldn't let me join them when they fought other gangs, because I was too sick. In hindsight, I probably was. I couldn't run for very long before my lungs tried to escape out of my mouth. I remember walking near the market when I saw an officer. I crossed over to the other side of the road to avoid him. This only caught his attention. He called me over with 'Satellite trash', I couldn't run away without raising suspicion so I went over to him. He showed me a picture of some 'thug', and asked me had I seen him lately since he was wanted by Security. He was very rude about the whole thing, only calling me by 'Satellite'. I asked him to stop calling me that, to which he took offense. Of course why wouldn't he? Someone like me doesn't have that right. He only shouted back at me, throwing worse insults. This caused me to yell back at him. It all happened very quickly from there. He arrested me for disrespecting an officer, what a load of bull. Disrespecting him? This City makes me sick. I don't get treated like a human being at times, but if I ask him to stop calling me trash, I'm disrespecting him. He took me to the Security headquarters in the Satellite. Since they can't put women into the Facility, they sent me to the Public Security Maintenance Bureau headquarters in the City. The boat ride to the City was agonising and slow, could they not have flown me? Of course not, I wouldn't worth the effort. What was worse that I never got to tell the guys what happened to me. To them, I disappeared without a trace. I remember my first steps into that huge perfect building, I'd never seen anything like it. I thought then that the City was the utopia like I imagined back then, how wrong I was.

That prick of an officer handed me over to a 'lady officer' as they're called. She introduced herself as 'Officer Jones' with a smile, her smile has always stuck in my mind since. She escorted me, still in handcuffs, to a small courtroom where I was convicted. They engraved an arrow-shaped marker onto my right cheek, just below my eye. Even now the skin is slightly more sensitive compared to the rest of my face. It was probably the most painful experience of my life, I imagine they heard my screams in the lobby. Officer Jones kept looking at me weirdly as she filled out paperwork. I wanted to ask why she kept doing that, but didn't in fear of being punished again. She asked me to repeat my name again. I told her Yuuka Hattori, the name which I believed to be my own. She then asked for my mother's name, I told her Kyoko Hattori and that she had died seven years prior. And again for my father, I told her I never had one. She then walked away to make a phone call. I took the leisure of looking around while she was gone. Lots of cubicles filled the quite large room. The room was mostly filled by the noise of people typing and a little chatter. Officer Jones came back and sat at her deck, she smiled at me again. I felt unsettled by that smile. I said I had no father and she walked off and came back with a smile. I wondered did I actually have a father that my mother had never mentioned.

You have living family in the City.

I remember this news shook my entire world. I thought I was an orphan since my mother had died when I was seven. Then, to be told, that my 'mother' wasn't actually my mother was heart-breaking. I was actually adopted by Kyoko, who in reality was my aunt. My 'real' mother, Kasumi, and my father, Mamoru, had lived in the City the entire time. I was told that I had a brother as well apparently, he's just a little more than a year older than me. Apparently that phone call was to my father, who I bear a striking resemblance to. I learned later that my parents had since split up and Officer 'Nancy' Jones had recently become engaged to my father which was how she knew about me.

Nancy told me that I would be sent to live with my 'mother' and my brother, since she already had my brother. And then started the conspiracy. They changed my details in the system. I was no longer from the Satellite, which would make my presence in the City illegal. I, instead, was raised in an orphanage in the City after Kyoko died. Kyoko, apparently, died in the Zero Reverse, which is what they had in their system anyway, so they couldn't identify me and they threw me into an orphanage. They couldn't do anything about my marker which is permanent. So, they made an identification card which proved my residence in the City was legal. I had to carry it with me wherever I went. Like that, I went from less than human to just a number, a very small improvement I must admit.

Then, I met Kasumi and Kaoru, who is my brother. It was probably the most awkward experience of my life. I said nothing the entire time while Kaoru just stared at me. Kasumi kept going on about she missed me and regretting giving me up. I just felt bitter. Who would give up a child when you already had one? That's what I thought to myself back then. I never felt loved by Kasumi. I was told that after she gave birth to Kaoru, she suffered from depression. So, when she became pregnant shortly after with me, she panicked. Kyoko, Kasumi's sister who was unable to have children herself, offered to adopt me. This arrangement would allow Kasumi to see me whenever she wanted. Though, this wouldn't last long as when I was nearly a year old, the Zero Reverse happened. My mother and I were stranded in the Satellite, away from the rest of our family. My mother never told me about my 'real' family because she knew that I would probably never see them given how the City was treating the situation. I was unhappy when I first started to live in the City. Everyone smothered me, they treated me different. I was told to go only to certain places, act this way, dress this way. I could never happy like that. Kasumi was at the forefront of it all. If word got out I was from the Satellite, the City would break out into chaos because my mere presence there was illegal. Kasumi couldn't have that after all. I think that fact Kasumi 'lost' me back then messed with her head, I felt more like a doll than her 'child'. I'll never call Kasumi my mother. She didn't raise me, she gave me away, she cared more about her image than my happiness. Thinking back, I think the stress that wretched woman caused me is what set off my psychic powers, which only caused my life to go downhill faster than it already was.

My only solace back then was Kaoru. Kaoru, and his friend Emiko, were the only people who treated me like a real person. We bonded over dueling. Kaoru, Emiko and I formed a little trio back when we were in Duel Academy. Kaoru protected me when people gave me trouble for my mark, which lead to him getting beat up. Apparently, the same people thought that he was gay, which didn't help him in the slightest. In retaliation, I started fighting them back which got me in detention, all the time. Kaoru always objected to me doing this, but I kept doing it anyway. I used to get my ass handed to me and end up battered and bruised. Over the span of a year, I was able to learn how to fight and the boys that would attack us would be in a worse state than me. Which, of course, got me into more trouble. It was worth it though. Thinking about detention brings Izayoi back into my mind. I never had a conversation with her despite how often I was in detention with her. In hindsight, I probably should have tried. I knew she wouldn't talk to me though, she had a reputation. She was probably the only person in Duel Academy who understood what I was actually going through. Maybe if we had talked, we wouldn't have ended up as bad as we are now. Ah well, there's no point in asking 'what if', what's done is done.

Everything changed when my powers activated for the first time. I was dueling Kaoru like normal. I was about to attack him directly and win the duel, for once. I don't know what happened. Maybe it was spotting Kasumi from the corner of my eyes, maybe it was the thoughts of those bullies in my subconscious, but something happened. I knew something was wrong when I declared my attack. The attack hurt Kaoru with dense crack. He had put his right arm to shield the blast, only for it to be broken. His feet lost contact with the ground and flew backwards to land on his back with a thud. My hands covered my mouth in shock. He looked up at me from his place on the ground with wide, terrified eyes. Kasumi ran out to help Kaoru up. He was always her favourite, her baby boy, she called him. I don't really remember what happened immediately after that. All I can remember is the word monster. After that, I cut all contact with Kasumi and Kaoru. I dropped out of Duel Academy in fear of ending up like Izayoi, I had enough on my plate as it was. I moved in with my dad, which admittedly, I should have done sooner. I never told him the truth about what happened. He never questioned why I dropped out of Duel Academy or why I stopped dueling, he just assumed it was trouble with the bullies or maybe he actually knew all along and never said anything. Even though I eventually moved out on my own, I still kept in contact with my dad. If I'm ever short for money, cause marked wages aren't real wages, he doesn't hesitate in helping me out. He takes me out for lunch sometimes and pays for me, because he knows I couldn't afford the high prices. I'm so grateful for him, but I just don't know how to say it. I feel guilty about taking money from him. I'm independent now, I shouldn't have to do this.

I sigh. I'm nearly to the Satellite. A trip down memory lane can really help pass time, even if it's a painful one. I'm so tired that my eye lids feel sore. I suppose I haven't had a proper night sleep since before the Fortune Cup. That dream keeps coming back. It gets more detailed each time. What does that mean? Is it a premonition or just a bunch of random images? Random images seem likely since I only had that dream once I saw Yusei, which brought back thoughts of everyone from Team Satisfaction. I find it strange that I haven't seen Jack in my dreams, does that have a meaning? At this point, I should really stop trying to analyse my dreams. Though I suppose I'll find the answer in the Satellite since that's where I'll find Yusei, Kiryu and Crow. As I step off the boat, I take a deep breath, inhaling that smoggy Satellite air that I haven't taken in since I was arrested four years ago. I set off in the small alleyways in the Satellite, hoping to find the answers to all of the burning questions.