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Chapter Fifteen: Day What's a Riding Duel?
"Hm. I wonder where they could be." I said, looking over the railing, and onto the street, in hopes of seeing them. However, I was a good twenty sum stories up and I couldn't see anything except people that looked like ants.
"I hope everything's okay," I said, sighing. It had been at least an hour, if not more, since Ruka called to ask if Rua had shown up here. Apparently, he has disappeared and no one knew where he was.
"I'm sure they're fine, Alyssa," Vixen said, sitting down next to me.
"You're probably right, like usual. So how am I going to explain why I suddenly have a dog, and why I am talking to it?" I asked, hoping to get some help.
"No idea," Vixen said, making a somewhat shoulder shrug, "You'll think of something."
Groaning, I pressed my head against the railing, "God, I want to go back home. Everything thing there was so much simpler."
"I know you do, Alyssa, but until we find a way for you to get back home, you have to put up with the non-simple stuff," Vixen said, not harshly but not sugar coating it either.
"Well, I should probably go inside and do something useful. All this worrying is going to cause me to die at a young age," I said as Vixen and I walked back into the apartment.
Vixen gave a barking laugh. "Alyssa, it's completely in your nature to over worry about the ones you care for."
"Yeah, I know," I said smiling, "but I can always hope."
RING!
"Hello?" I asked after I had made a mad dash for the phone thinking it might be Ruka calling back.
"….."
"Hello?" I asked once more.
Click. Dial tone.
"Well, nice talking to you too!" I yelled in annoyance as I slammed the phone back into its holder.
"Who was that?" Vixen asked.
"Probably just some immature kids playing prank calls. Making calls with no one on the other line is way past its time," I said.
Even though I wouldn't admit it, that phone call kind of creeped me out. Yes, I know I sound paranoid and any other time I would have been annoyed at myself for letting one weird phone call get to me, but after hearing about the Shadow Dweller and everything else that's happened, my nerves were really stretched to their breaking point. When I looked at the clock, I saw that it was now quarter to ten. It had been over an hour and a half since Ruka had called me. I tried to call her again, but didn't get an answer.
"Okay, Vixen. Let's go find them," I said after hanging up the phone.
"But didn't Ruka ask you to stay here?" Vixen asked me.
"Yeah, but that was over an hour and a half ago, and Rua hasn't come home yet, so either they are on their way home, or something bad happened. Either way, I'm going to go see if I can find them," I replied, while grabbing my jacket off the couch.
"Then I'm coming with you," Vixen said, standing up, "We might even just meet them on the way out."
'She really is optimistic,' I thought to myself as we headed to the door.
I was just reaching for the door handle, when the door swung open, and hit me in the face, hard.
Covering my nose, and mumbling curses, I dashed into the kitchen to grab a Kleenex before blood dripped onto the floor.
"Are you okay, Alyssa?" Ruka asked.
"Sorry about that, Alyssa," Yusei said.
I waved my hand as I pinched my nose, "It's okay. A bump on the nose is no big deal."
Knowing that I probably sounded like I just sucked in some helium, I quit talking for the time being. After a couple of minutes, my nose bleed stopped.
"So, did you guys find Rua?" I asked as I tossed the bloody Kleenex into the trash.
"Yeah, I think Greiger took him upstairs," Ruka said.
"Greiger? You mean that guy from the Fortune Cup that made that sweet speech?" I asked, walking with Ruka to the living room.
"Yeah. Apparently Yusei has to duel Greiger tomorrow, and they are going to have a riding duel. I guess Rua got it in his head that he should go check out Greiger's duel runner and tell Yusei what it's like. He got locked inside the warehouse, and we found Greiger carrying him out of the building," Ruka said.
"Carrying him out of the building?" I asked questionably, thinking that some bad had happened.
"Yeah. I guess Rua fell asleep and refused to wake up," Ruka said.
"Oh," was all I said. That really didn't surprise me at all, "My little sister can sleep like the dead sometimes too."
When we got to the living room, I started to tidy up some of the video games, magazines and other knick knacks that were laying around. I looked out the window and saw Yusei standing with that Greiger guy. They might have been talking, but I wasn't sure because they had their backs to me.
"Hey, Ruka, you said before that Yusei and Greiger are having a riding duel tomorrow. What is that?" I asked, as I continued to clean up.
"Ruka?" I asked after a couple more minutes of silence.
Still not getting an answer, I turned to see Ruka was fast asleep on the couch. Smiling, I gently laid the blanket, which was hung on the back of the couch, on her. She gave a soft snore, and rolled onto her other side. Chuckling softly, I walked into the kitchen, and saw Vixen laying on the floor.
"Hey, were did you disappear to a couple of minutes ago?" I asked as I grabbed an apple off the counter.
"I figured that you should tell them about me before they see me," she said, referring to Rua, Ruka and Yusei.
"Uh, they might see you before I tell them," I said sheepishly as I sat on the floor beside her, "I kind of didn't get a chance to tell them yet. Well, I guess I could tell Yusei later, but Rua and Ruka are down for the night, I think."
"Oh. So who is that guy that came in carrying Rua?" Vixen asked. I must have look surprised because then she said, "What? I said I was out of sight. That doesn't mean that I can't see what is happening."
Seeing the sense that made, I nodded my head. "That's Greiger. I guess him and Yusei are going to have a riding duel tomorrow and Rua wanted to sneak a peek at Greiger's duel runner. That's where he had disappeared too. Ruka said that when they found Rua, Greiger was carrying him because he had fallen asleep after he got locked inside the warehouse. He also gave the really cool speech at the being of the Fortune Cup when these people were ragging on Yusei about having a marker. It was completely pointless, so Greiger stepped in and said how everyone is equal when it comes to playing duel monsters."
"Well, he seems like a really nice person, but, Alyssa, I want you to be cautious about how much you share with people from now on. We don't know who that Shadow Dweller was, and it would be good for you if you kept some of the details of your life to yourself," Vixen said in an almost motherly way.
"I know. I know," I said, "I can just omit some of the facts for right now," I said, taking another bite of my apple.
"Good. Oh, and try not to call any more attention to yourself than you already have," Vixen said, giving me a wary look, "You could really get yourself into some trouble which you won't be able to get yourself out of."
"I'm not going to make you any promises, Vixen, because if someone beats down one of my friends again, I might have to give them a talking to, but I can promise you that I won't go and get into any more pointless fights, okay?" I asked, trying to make it sound better.
Seeing that that was about as good as she was going to get, Vixen nodded her head.
"Good," I said, standing a stretching. "Huh, I wonder where Tanner and Yanagi have gotten too?" Solum had probably gone home by now.
"They said that they were going to crash a Solum's place tonight," Yusei said from the doorway.
"Yeow!" I yelled as I spun to face him, well them. Greiger was standing behind him taking up the whole doorway. "Jesus, I didn't hear you guys come in."
"I figured that when you jumped about a foot in the air," Yusei said with a somewhat smile.
"You know, for someone who will take on someone twice her size, you are as skittish as a kitten," Greiger said.
"I am not that skittish!" I said defensively before what else he said dawned on me, "How did you know about that?"
"Rua told me" was all he said, "Even though that was really foolish, I have to admire the lengths at which you will go to defend your friends."
"Um…..thanks?" I said, not really knowing what else to say, "Oh, my name is Alyssa by the way."
"Greiger," he said, shaking my hand, "but I think you already know that. Well, I better be leaving."
Greiger then turned to Yusei, "I am looking forward to our duel tomorrow, and I wish you luck."
"Thank you," Yusei said, "and I look forward to our duel as well."
"Nice meeting you, Alyssa," Grieger said before he walked out.
"He seems nice," I said after I heard the door close.
"Yeah," Yusei said, then he noticed Vixen, still laying in the same spot except she was looking at us now. "Alyssa, where did that dog come from?"
"Huh?" I asked in a moment of confusion before I saw him looking at Vixen. "Oh, um, well, you know how I'm kind of stuck here? Well, Vixen is like my guardian spirit, if you want to call her that. So, I guess she's here to make sure I don't get into any trouble. Well, any more trouble."
Yusei just nodded as if that made perfect sense. Heck, maybe he did understand what I meant. I really didn't know him all that well to guess at what he's thinking.
But you wish you knew.
'Oh, just great. You again,' I thought, then I looked at Vixen from the corner of my eye. She had gone back to studying Yusei.
"Hey, Yusei," I said, suddenly remembering something that I wasn't quite sure about, "What the heck is a riding duel?"
I'm pretty sure anyone else from this dimension would have looked at me like I had grown a second head, but Yusei didn't. Probably because he knew that I knew absolutely nothing about Duel Monsters, so it probably didn't surprise him that I didn't have any idea about riding duels.
"A riding duel is just a duel on a duel runner," Yusei said, sitting on a chair. I guess he must of figured out that I had more questions.
"Oh, so is that what that red motorcycle is called?" I asked, just to be sure.
Giving a small chuckle, he replied, "Yes, that's what it is called. I guess it does look kind of like a motorcycle to some people."
Normally, I would have gotten defensive if anyone had made fun of my comparison, but it didn't seem like Yusei was making fun of me. He just thought my comparison was funny.
"So, Ruka said that Rua was looking at Greiger's. I'm guessing that because of that, not all duel runners look the same?" I asked.
"Yes, no two runners are exactly alike. It depends on the person who wants the duel runner. They model it in their own creation."
"That makes sense," I said, thinking about how Yusei's and that Atlas guy's duel runners look so different, "So that's why that Atlas guy's runner looks so different?"
However, after I said those words, I wanted to take them back. From the expression on Yusei's face, he wasn't happy about the mention of those two things.
"Oh, um, sorry. I didn't mean to bug you," I said, biting my lower lip. It's something I do when I feel guilty.
"No, it's not that," Yusei said, "It's just, well, that runner used to be mine."
"Yours? But you already have one," I said, confused.
"Yeah. I built the one that I have now after Jack stole my other one from me," he said, with a clenched fist.
"Whoa. Hold on a sec," I said, completely amazed, "You built those?"
I saw Yusei's hand relax a bit so he must of found some amusement or something in my reaction. I couldn't help it though. I never knew someone who was that skilled in mechanics.
"Yeah, I did build them. With the help of my friends of course."
"Ruka, and Rua helped you?" I asked, trying to picture the twins doing something like that.
"No, I built them when I was still in the Satellite," he said, "My friends from there helped me."
"Oh. So, if you don't mind my asking, why did you guys build them? Aren't they illegal or something?" I asked, remembering something along those lines.
"Yes, the people from satellite aren't allowed to have runners," Yusei said, "As to why we built it, we all wanted to get out of the Satellite, and that duel runner, the one Jack has, and my Stardust dragon were going to help us."
"Does he have your dragon too since you used the word were?"
"Yeah, he does. He stole that from me at the same time he took my runner," Yusei said.
"Oh," I said, then debated about asking one more question. I guess Yusei could tell because he said for me to just ask.
"Well, you seem like you would do anything to make sure your runner stays with you, so how did Jack manage to take it?"
"He tied up my friend Rally, and put him in a boat out on the lake," Yusei said, eyes narrowing as he recalled what happened, "Rally is only thirteen so he didn't really out match Jack. Plus, he adored Jack."
Hearing this caused me to suck in my breath, "So Jack just took advantage of Rally like that? That's pathetic!"
"I know. Anyways, I dove in the water to help Rally, and I guess that's when Jack took my runner. I didn't see it until after we got back. So, now I am going to duel against Jack to retrieve my Stardust Dragon."
After hearing all that, my dislike for this Jack person intensified to loathing. "How could he do that? To his friends?"
"We don't really know why Jack did what he did," Yusei said.
"Well, there had better be one damn good explanation for that, but I doubt there is any explanation at all for doing something like that," I said, shaking my head in disgust.
"Alyssa," Vixen said after a couple minutes of silence, "I think you'd better get to bed."
"What are you, my mother?" I asked in a teasing voice which was quickly changed to a yawn.
"No, I'm not your mother," she said, giving me something that looked like a smirk, "But I can tell that you are really tired."
"Fine fine," I said, knowing that she was right. "Hey, Yusei, can you hear her?"
"No, I can't, Alyssa," he said.
"Great," I said groaning, "I'm now going to look like a nut case."
"I'm pretty sure you aren't going to look like a nut case once you tell everyone else what is going on," Yusei said.
"Yeah, I guess. Well, I'm going to bed. Night, Yusei," I said, turning to leave, but then I turned back. "Sorry about the twenty questions before. I didn't mean to pry."
"It's okay, but next time I get to ask you twenty questions," he said.
"Deal," I said, "Have a good sleep."
"Thanks. You too," he said before I left the room.
'Well, that was a nice chat. I learned more about him,' I thought to myself as I climbed the stairs.
Yeah, maybe now you will start to admit your feelings for him.
'I think I'll leave that idea alone for a while,' I thought to my conscience dryly as I enter one of the spare bedrooms.
Well, that was the fifteenth chapter. I promise you guys that the next chapter will be about the Fortune Cup. I just thought this would be a good filler chapter. Anyways, thanks for the reviews from before, and hopefully this pleases you guys. Bye!