Chapter Five

"Jack?" Carly asked as she woke up in the dark all alone.

"I'm here Carly." Said Jack. He had been sat with his head down as he balanced on his balled up fists that were held up by his elbows digging into his knees. It usually would have hurt, but at the moment the little bit of pain was a release. He looked up at Carly as she stired and called his name.

"Jack?" Carly said, reaching out her hand, searching for him.

Jack just watched her hand try to find his for a moment. Jack felt so tense, he just didn't want to touch her. But seeing her so helpless, Jack gave her his hand and she squeezed it.

"You OK?" Carly asked.

Jack almost laughed bitterly. "Your in a hospital and your asking about me?"

"Yeah. You haven't answered my calls in a while. What've you been up to?"

Jack's mind went blank. He didn't know what to say.

"You beat all those rukes you had to go up against?"

Jack snorted. "Of course."

And for what seemed like the first time since he'd been back, Carly gave a little smile.

"You know I've been watching all your matches on TV. I still can't believe you can still suprise me the amount of times I've watched you duel. Who was the lastest duelest then?"

Jack was about to answer when the door opened. Jack and Carly both turned to look towards the door, Jack tensing his muscles encase it was the duelest. It was Yusei.

"Yusei, did you get her deck?"

"Errr, yeah but..." Yusei drifted off at he looked towards Carly. He couldn't see her eyes, but from her ) shaped mouth, he took it she was kind of suprised, maybe curious.

"What Yusei?" Asked Jack.

Yusei grimaced as he looked to Jack, then back to Carly. "Carly, what type of deck do you have?"

"A-A fortune fairy deck." Carly stuttered.

Yusei looked down to the deck in his hand, a troubled expression on his face.

"What is it Yusei? Spit it out already!" Jack snapped.

"Carly, the deck I found wasn't a fortune fairy deck. It was a fortune lady deck."

"A what?" Jack almost yelled.

Yusei hezintatly held out the deck towards Jack who snatched it up and began going through the deck, shok and horror taking over his face. Yusei looked to Carly, seeing she looked still confused and in shock.

"What? But? Carly," Jack said now turning on Carly. "How long have you had this deck? What happened to your fortune fairies?"

"I...I don't know. I-I didn't have fortune ladies. I had fortune fairies."

"Carly these are defently fortune ladies." Jack snapped. "This is the same deck you used against me when you were a dark signer."

Carly sucked in a breath. Her bottom lip trembled. "I-I've only ever had fortune fairies." Carly muttered.

"Jack." Yusei said, fearing that Jack was going to lose it more. Carly was already vunerable, Jack didn't need to make things worse. "Carly, is it possible that this deck might not be yours?"

"I-I don't know?"

"Where was the last place you left your cards?" Yusei asked.

"I... I think I left them in my room."

"All over the floor?" Yusei said.

"I...I was having a headache. A-and then the visions started again. I... I was in my room, but... I can't remember what happened. I... It's all a blank."

Yusei looked to Jack, all were unsure what was going on. Jack just seemed to get more frustrated.

"Carly, you must remember! You have to remember? Was her door open? Someone could have taken her deck and replaced it with this one! This must be someone messing with our heads. This-"

"Jack, why don't we step outside to talk?" Yusei said, more as a command than a question, grabbing Jack's shoulder and turning him towards him. Carly looked scared and Jack wasn't helping.

Jack looked like he was going to argue as he frusted the cards into Yusei's face. Yusei took the cards out of Jack's hand and placed them down on the table besides Carly. "Come on Jack, lets go get some coffee. We'll be back soon Carly."

Jack was forced out of the room by Yusei and Carly was left alone, a little shaken by all what was happening. The fear of turning again, becoming a dark signer, dieing again. It scared her a lot. She wanted to ask them both to stay, but she just couldn't find the words before they were gone. When they did leave the room though, Carly heard Jack yelling at Yusei and she was glad Yusei had taken him out of the room. She didn't think she could handle Jack's anger right about now. Not while she felt like crying.

Jack's yelling soon faded as Yusei and Jack moved down the corridor and got told off by security. Carly was sure secruity was even threating to throw them out and there was a lot of voices and yelling and when there was silence, Carly felt so exposed and alone.

The cards had kicked this off. The cards which should have been fortune fairies. Carly turned in her bed, reached out and tried finding the cards on the side of the table. Carly found the cards and when her hand slipped over them, she took in a sharp breath as she felt (and thought she saw) a flash of light go through her mind. Carly picked up her deck and turned the first card over.

Fortune Lady Light.

Carly knew what card it was. She saw a flash of light. Felt warmth, comfort like as if a good trusted friend she loved all her life and had a close bond with had entered her presence. She saw the spirit of Lady Light smile and dance around in her mind. She could even hear this foggy voice go through her head saying 'Hey' to her.

And then she saw and felt Lady Light get defencive and an image of a dark cloaked figure walking through the door, ready to duel her. The flash of the image came and went .

The next flash was of Jack and Yusei outside the hospital front doors, banging on them and yelling for them to be openned.

Then Carly knew it. The duelist, the dark signer, was coming for her now and Yusei and Jack weren't going to be around to help her.

Carly was overcome with her own emotions of fear, but- 'We can do this Carly! I'll be right here to guide you. We'll all be right here to guide you.' The spirit of Lady Light gave her courage and guidance, clearing her mind of all fear and gave her logic as another flash of Jack's duel disk he'd left behind that was on the table besides her. Carly reached for the duel disk, pulling out all the needles and wires that ere attached to her, put Lady Light back in the deck as Carly sent back a mental message to Lady Light saying; 'I'm ready.'