The Letters

Axora grinned as he went to the Phantom. His ploy was perfect, made the others think that he was against the Phantom when he was in fact with it all along.

"I have returned." Axora said as he entered the chamber.

"Ahh, Axora, nice to see you again my friend." the Phantom said happily.

"Likewise. So how are the plans going?" Axora asked.

"Almost perfectly. Hiita had turned out to been a traitor after all." Phantom said.

"Not surprised of that , Has Yusei been taken care of?" Axora asked.

"Yes, the corruption process has already begun quite some time ago, and Akiza is almost completely under our control now." Phantom reported. "Just leaves us with Crow, Jack, and Luna."

"Crow is a slippery one, haven't heard anything about him in a long time." Axora explained, sighing as he sat down.

"We also lost Inferno Wing. It was the Elemental Hero Bubbleman's doing, but he's dead, so don't worry about him." Sayer said, entering the room.

"I see…" Axora said, hearing Sayer's statement.

"That makes Burstinatrix and Avian enemies now." Phantom said.

"I see. They can't do much now, I personally saw to the demise of the Nature branch of the Elemental Heroes, only that somehow the very resilient Lady Heat and Poison Rose survived, but they can't Fuse at all. And Neos and the Neo-Spacians are taken care of as well." Axora said.

"Okay." Sayer said.

"Shall we proceed with our next phase of the plan?" Phantom asked.

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"Luna, tell me why we listened to the red haired girl, despite that she was our enemy?" Leo asked.

"It was my birthmark. It felt like it was trying to say to trust her." Luna said, holding her arm where the mark of the Crimson Dragon was.

"Okay." Leo said, sighing.

"Hey you guys, what are you doing here?" a familiar voice asked, making the twins jump in surprise.

Leo turned around first, shaking wildly before seeing who it was. He smiled and calmed down seeing the fifth signer.

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Road and the other Warriors were busy on maintaining their runners.

Aussa smiled as she and Rose looked around the surroundings. They were in a forest clearing with a lake. "Dunno about the boys themselves, but I think we girls need to take a bath." Rose remarked.

Aussa nodded and went to Wynn to see if the Wind Charmer was interested in a bath. Rose giggled and sat at the water's edge, thinking of a joke to get her boyfriend flustered.

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Mana and Akari were silent at the grave of Bubbleman. They still weren't over the fact that he was dead now.

"I believed that he was physically immortal, based on what usually happened to the pervert…" Mana said, smiling weakly at a memory of the Elemental Hero walking in on her showering and getting hit in the face with a bucket thrown by Mana.

"… Same here Mana… guy once survived being electrocuted by one of Sparkman's machines…" Akari said as she looked to the sky. A burnt envelope landed on Akari's face. The Harpie grabbed it and looked at it seeing Mana's name in a familiar handwriting style.

"Mana… this is from Hiita!" she said to the Magician.

"WHAT!" Mana said, snatching the envelope and opened it.

"Dear Mana…" Mana began saying, reading the letter out loud. The letter itself was also burnt but the contents were all there.

"I know you have questions about my choice of helping the Phantom, go to where I lived as a child." Mana read then her eyes widened. "The Orphanage in Shadowed Flats!" she said.

Akari stared at her friend.

"The was the town we were nearby when we met Junk Synchron…" she remarked in shock.

"Correct…" Mana said as she raised her wand up to the sky. "We're going there now."

A portal appeared and the two walked into it.

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"Hey, Junker, I found this in the storage compartment of your runner!" Road warrior holding an envelope in Junk's line of sight.

Junk Warrior opened the envelope and read the contents of it.

"We need to go to the orphanage. NOW!!!" Junk declared, crunching the envelope in a fist.

"why?" Nitro asked his brother.

"It's about Hiita it seems like." Junk said.

"get the girls…" Turbo said to Junk. "They are a part of the 'family' you know."

"gotcha." Junk said as he ran off to where the girls were.

Rose was in the water naked already swimming while Aussa started taking off her top and Wynn was in her bra and panties when Junk Warrior appeared. Aussa put her shirt on again. Wynn blushed a little but stood there. Rose screamed ran out of the water and punched Junk Warrior in the face, knocking him down on his back. Junk saw rose and he was flustered now, despite not showing it.

"I-I-I g-got a m-m-message from Hiita…" Junk said, stuttering a little when he saw Rose's body.

"WHAT?!" the girls said in unison.

Aussa grabbed the envelope from Junk's hand and read the letter.

" We gotta get going now…" Aussa said opening a portal.

"Aussa, didn't know you can do that!" Wynn said, giggling a little.

"I practiced a lot with Miss Mana when we were her students." Aussa said.

"Let me get my clothes first!" Rose said, blushing a shade of deep red realizing that she was naked still.

Aussa and Wynn laughed as Junk was staying silent, trying to avoid his girlfriend's wrath.

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"Yusei…" Akiza asked, looking at the ground a little.

"What is it Akiza?" Yusei asked.

"It's nothing…" Akiza said, looking away. "Forget that I even said anything."

"What's on your mind?" Yusei asked.

"Could… you possibly… well… kiss me?" Akiza asked, blushing deeply.

Yusei blushed slightly and panicked a little.

Akiza looked at him and giggled. "Scared?" she asked, teasing a bit.

"No, just a little startled." Yusei said.

"Then you have no trouble with kissing me?" Akiza asked, teasing still.

"N-no." Yusei said, blushing a little.

"Prove it by kissing me on the lips." Akiza said, teasing a bit.

Yusei blushed and took a deep breath.

Akiza closed her eyes and giggled. "I'm waiting." she said.

Yusei sighed softly and blushed deeper as he kissed her on the lips.

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"Ready?" Aussa asked as everyone started their runners.

"My brothers and I are all set." Road Warrior answered.

"Same here." Wynn said.

"I'm ready." Rose said.

"Let's go then!" Aussa said as they began to enter the portal.

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Mana and Akari appeared at the charred ruins of the orphanage. They saw Leo and Luna and the twins waved their hands, greeting them. They then saw a portal open and saw Junk Warrior and the others of his group appear.

"what are you guys here?" Aussa asked the others.

"We came because of an envelope from Hiita…" Mana said.

"Same for us." Junk said.

"We came by Hiita's instructions." Luna said.

" Seems like that it's a full house." Crow said, appearing.

"Who are you?" Junk asked.

"Crow is my name. I'm the fifth signer." Crow said, introducing himself.

"Okay." Road Warrior said.

"So you came because of Hiita also?" Aussa asked.

"I was brought to this world here by her, does that count?" Crow asked.

"Yeah." Mana said, answering Crow's question.

"Why did Hiita want us to learn why she was with the Phantom?" Nitro asked.

"I think the letter that Leo and I found here may have a clue." Luna said, giving the letter to Junk.

"Guys… you remember the night when Miss Joan died…" Junk said as his brothers nodded their heads.

"I do…" Rose said.

"Well, it says here that there was a black fog that entered the building that day…" Junk said, pointing to the line where it stated the fog.

"You don't think…" Nitro said.

"The Phantom is a black fog when it's in its true form…" Mana said

" And it can absorb monsters based on the stories…" Aussa added.

"Hiita thinks that it was the Phantom that murdered Miss Joan!" Junk said as he further read Leo and Luna's letter. "I think she joined him to get revenge or answers…"

"Makes sense… she was more of a grudge holder…" Wynn said.

"By the way, where's Bubbleman?" Rose asked Mana.

Mana and Akari looked away from the group a little.

"He's dead…" Akari said weakly.

"Died as a hero, not just an Elemental Hero…" Mana said, tears forming again.

"Mana, please, we need to be strong for him." Akari said, placing a hand on the Magician's shoulder.

"I know…" Mana said softly, snuffling a little.

"MANA! AKARI! WYNN! AUSSA!!!" a female voice said happily as Burstinatrix and Avian appeared.

"Woah…" Leo said in awe.

"Burst! Avian!" Mana said in joy as she hugged her friends as they landed.

"You're Alive!" Akari said happily. "I thought that Inferno Wing killed you!"

" …Akari… we WERE her…" Avian said. "But we were not in control."

Akari went silent and nodded.

"We want to make amends for what we did.." Burstinatrix said.

"Why? You weren't yourselves…" Aussa said.

"We were the ones that became the monstrosity…" Avian said. "and that monstrosity KILLED our comrade Bubbleman…"

Everyone went silent.

"I get you. You want to honor your friend's life somehow." Road Warrior said.

"Correct." Burstinatrix replied.

"Recall anything about the Phantom's location?" Rose asked.

"Yes, we know EXACTLY where it is at." Avian said, nodding his head.

"We need to get organized before we start an assault on the Phantom. We also need to take care of the traitor Axora…" Junk Warrior said.

" He was never on your side in the beginning, it was an act to distract you guys while HE collected the Signers and their dragons." Avian explained. "The Phantom is his minion."

"WHAT?!" Aussa said, startled by the revelation she heard.

"Axora's true plan is not domination of the Dominion. He has his eyes set on the Human world this time… he needs the signers and the dragons to open a portal to send him to the Human world. He's unable to do this by his own will. The Phantom is capable of doing so on its own, but can't bring anyone else with it, but it could bring inanimate objects from that world to here." Burstinatrix said.

"Okay. We can understand the situation now. We need to attack Axora before he escapes to the human world and conquers it." Mana said.

"I have a feeling now that Hiita is wrong about the Phantom being responsible for Miss Joan's death." Junk Warrior said as he clenched his fists. " I think it is Axora who actually did it…"

"Well then." Road Warrior said. "get ready everyone. It's Showtime!"

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You guys who haven't seen the 5D's anime as of episode 64 onward have been given a HUGE spoiler… Crow really becomes the NEW Fifth Signer, he gets Yusei's Tail birthmark while Rudger's Head birthmark becomes Yusei's, though the fifth dragon remains a mystery still.

Seems like based on my poll so far, fan service is in demand, but I need more people to vote so that I know if that is what my readers really want to have included. (Warning: if the "Bring it by the Truckload" option is the most selected, there's going to be a rating change from Teen to Mature)