(a/n): not much to say here
i don't own yugioh 5d's the character Daisuke Fujiwara belongs to me though...
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It begins...
The sun was rising, it was quite the beutiful morning. Completely innocent, hiding the events from the previous night. But more on that later, for now, let us proceed to the apartement building of Tops, where to figures are happily sleeping in eachothers arms. As the rays of sunlight struck one of the figures, she groaned and opened her eyes. Revealing almost feline-like eyes. This person: Aki Izayoi.
Great,she thought I just hate it when I wake up like this, It was the truth. Every time she went to bed, she would almost always wake up to the annoying sun in her eyes. Even though she tried quite often to go to sleep with her face buried in a certain someone's chest. With his strong-yet-gentle arms wrapped around her. She turned herself over just to look at that certain someone: her boyfriend for the past 3 months now, Yusei Fudo.
As she slowly brought her hand to rest on his face, peacefully in slumber. Aki began contemplating her life and how it was once she and Yusei started dating. The very morning of the night their relationship started, Aki had been treated like family from every single one of Yusei's friends. Something she was quite unused to (She got used to it eventually of course). On top of that, her personna had gone through a dramatic change: if anyone who had been at the Fortune cup would have seen her now, only her appearence would give her away. She had changed from a cold, cruel, merciless duelist to a softer, happier and kinder person. This change was highly noticed by the others, who commented on it for a while. It brought her a little more joy in her life, and her happiness had allowed her to keep her powers completely under control. This interern allowed her to duel more safely, and people had started to gain a whole new respect for her. That of course just just made her happier, assuring her mark's control.
And it's all thanks to you, Yusei, She was running her hands through his black hair, gently so as not to awake him. Then she brought it down to the criminal marker on his face, and traced its' design with her finger. She knew it was a little silly, but she just couldn't help feel a little disgust when she touched the marker. Not only was it unfairly placed on him, but in her opinion it was a true wretched mark that spoiled the beauty of his face. She dismissed those thoughts for now and continued to gently caress his face for a while before he finally woke up. His blue eyes blinked open and he smiled once they found hers. She smiled back and kissed him in greeting.
"Ohayo*, Yusei," she said upon pulling back.
"Ohayo, Aki," he replied.
They lay there for a while, just relaxing and enjoying the others presence. Finnaly though, they decided to get up for some breakfast. Afterwards, they headed to their room to change out of their PJ's. Today was a special day, it was their their monthly gathering with their friends. They had been doing this for quite some time now, a way to help get Aki to socialize. And even though they were way past that point, everyone had enjoyed it too much to let it go. Simply put: Yusei, Aki, Jack, Mina, and the twins Leo and Luna, would all spend their day together and hang out.
"Do you think we'll be going out for dinner again?" asked Aki once coming out of their bathroom to change. She and Yusei both thought that it was way to early to be so intimate that they could freely see the other without their clothes. They would wait a little while longer.
"I think so, I'm just hoping we don't get ambushed by the paparazzi...again!" Yusei replied. Boy, what a night that had been, the press had a field day once word got out that not only had the two best duelists in the city been spotted at a simple restaurant, but they had apparently been on a double-date. With Yusei going with the Black rose witch. They had to stay in the apartement building for a week before things would cool down.
"We should be alright, after all that was a long time ago-"
"A month and a half isn't that long," Yusei argued
"My point is," Aki pressed "that was the first night that I was feeling comfortable going out in public. Back then, hardly anyone knew about us,"
"True," He agreed.
And so, our two love birds set off towards the central top floor apartement. Which no doubt al their friends awaited them. They walked hand in hand, chatting a bit and enjoying eachothers company. With Yusei flirting with her every now and then. Aki thought it was cute, that no matter that he knew that her heart was his, he would still make an effort to make it even more so. Her pride would never allow her to admit it, but it worked every time.
Finnaly they arrived at the door. Their greeting was the same as every other time they came for a visit. The twins were always waiting by the door, opening it when they were mearly inches away. They were greeted warmly before entering the main room, where jack and Mina were already lounging and enjoying some tournement in another part of the world. They looked a little startled for a minute when the two sat on the couch next to them. But played it off pleasantly.
"Well, look who finnaly showed up," said Jack "I was starting to wonder what exactly you two were doing to be so fashinably late," He added playfully, before Mina caught what he was saying and grabed his ear like a mother would do to a child. He yelped when she did.
"Jack," she chided "behave yourself,"
"Yes ma'am," At once, she let him go. Then made her head comfortable on his shoulder, and almost instantly went to sleep.
"Wierd girl. one minute she's argry with you the next she's happily sleepy on your lap," Yusei remarked.
"Yeah well, that's why I love her. She can be wierd, but also just plain adorable," Jack admitted in a whisper. "Besides," he said "I'm sure you've found your girl to be a little odd too,"
"Aki is not odd," Yusei corrected him while wrapping his arm protectively around her. "What you call strange I call being sweet and lovable," Aki blushed from his praise, But she was touched that Yusei defended her like that, even if it was naturel for a man to defend the one he loved.
"Hmph, whatever," said Jack, though he was smirking so everyone knew he was just teasing about the whole thing. At this moment, Luna and Leo came back into the room the later of which sat on the opposite end of coffee table from Jack. Some cards were laid out, apparently they had been in the middle of a duel before Yusei had arrived. Leo up against Jack? He thought This won't end well
"Okay Jack," said Leo once they had settled "Time for me to end this, you may still have 4000 points left, but I've got my ace card right here!" he exclaimed.
"Don't brag just yet, Leo," said Luna "You're the one with a meazly 600 LP," she pointed out.
"That doesn't matter," said Leo "Alright, I'm tuning my level 3 morphtronic remocon with my datatron and celfon, to sycro summon: Power tool dragon!"
"When did Leo get a sycro monster in his deck?!" Aki asked, surprised.
"He got it just this morning apparently," Mina explained. "He was bragging that it would be his ticket to being the king and of course Jack here overheard," she said.
"That explains the match," said Yusei. Sure, Jack had matured a great deal over the pas few months. But his ego could still get a bit...evident. He probably thought that one could not go prancing around claiming to be king materiel, and was planning on putting Leo in his place. If there's one thing he learned from being king, it's that one can never give into his pride. It nearly cost Jack quite a bit, and he probably doesn't want Leo to make the same mistake.
"Now I attack your twin-shield defender with power tool dragon," Leo announced
"Trap activate: shadow spell!"
"N-n-nani*??"
"Sorry kid," said jack. "But this stops your monster from attacking, and lowers its attack points by 700 points," he announced.
"Arg! I was so close," said Leo "Turn end,"
"If you can call not even touching my life points close," Jack smirked. "Draw. Now I'll summon it, and tune it to my level 4 twin shield defender to syncro summon Explode wing dragon! And thanks to it's special ability, that's 2300 points heading your way. Simply put: I win," He declared. Leaving Leo to collapse in shame over his loss. "Don't take it so bad, squirt, I mean I am the former king,"
"Yeah, and I guess I was a bit-"
"Egoistic, hot-headed, reckless, am I getting close?" Luna cut him off.
"Oh shut up," he replied. Then, in spite of himself, he laughed. And the others couldn't help but join in the moment. After a quick handshake for a good duel, the rest of the day was just watching the tournement and commenting on what the guys should or should not have done. The whole lasted well into the evening, then suddenly, the twins stood up after a solemn nod to eachother.
"Everyone, we have an announcement," Luna declared.
"What is it, guys?" Yusei asked. Luna's tone had been oddly cheerful, which was rare, so naturally everyone knew something was up.
"Well, me and Leo were thinking about going to a restaurant again but..." she trailed off.
"But seeing as there's a chance we'll have to go into hiding again, we thought of going somewhere a little more fun,"
"What are you getting at, kid?" asked Jack.
"What I'm saying is that we had our parents are allowing us to go out tonight to the night club down the street," Leo declared. Well, that certainly caught everyone off guard.
"N-night club!?" Mina gasped. "But kids, aren't you a little young for that kid of thing?" she asked.
"Relax, Mina," said Luna. "This is a special club for kids our age, one that doesn't serve any alcoholic drinks. However, there is dancing and lots of music!"
"And the best part is that it's walking dictance from our building," Leo said proudly.
"Well then," said Aki. "I suppose it's alright then, the dancing should keep everyone distracted enough not to notice who's there with them," She reasoned.
"But just in case," said Leo. "You guys had best wear some things to diguise yourselves, like a hat and sunglasses-"
"I've got just the things," exclaimed Mina."If you would excuse me for a minute," After that, she left. Only to come back less than five minutes later with lumps of clothes. "These were me and Jack's costumes for an outing we had a while back. The other two are extra costumes that we decided not to wear. They should fit you and Aki quite well,"
"You wore these?" Aki seemed sceptical. "In public?"
"Well, it was a little dark," Jack confessed. "And it was a themed dance party,"
"Good enough," Yusei decided, and he went of to change. After a minute he came back out to see Aki gad already gone herself. He was wearing blue-jeans and a black biker jacket over his normal sleeveless. The ensemble was made complete with a pair of sunglasses. He was greeted by Jack, wearing blue jeans with a light brown long sleeve jacket and round sunglasses with a burret-like hat.
"Man, I feel silly," Jack admitted.
"At least you don't look strait from the facility," Yusei pointed out.
"With or without your marker?" Jack asked
"Don't bring this up!" Yusei responded angrilly, pointing to the marker.
"Ok ok just jokin, sheesh!"
"No sweat," Yusei then went off to sit on the couch. "I wonder what's keeping Aki?" Almost immediatly, he was answered by loud whispering from the top of the stairs. He and Jack went over to to the bottom to await them.
"Come on Aki," they heard Luna saying. "You look great,"
"No I don't," Aki was hissing. "I look ridiculous! Oh, Yusei's gonna laugh at me! I just know it!"
"Is she always this self-concious?" Jack whispered to Yusei.
"Almost never," he replied. It must have really bad if she didn't want him to see it. Then she appeared at the top and he couldn't help but gape, which didn't help. Aki was wearing a red dress that was no cloth materiel, pink high heels, and a white version of Jacks hat. Her ensemble was completeted with gold shaded sun glasses. She blushed when she saw him, from his outfit or her own noone was sure, then nervously made her way down the stairs into his arms for a reassuring hug.
"I'm not going to laugh at you, Aki," Yusei stated when they let go, and noting the relief in her face.
"Oh! And one more thing, Yusei," said Mina advancing towards him. Ignoring his protests, Mina practically jumped him. Putting what appeared to be some weird kind of powder on him. He was glaring when she backed off, while Jack just gaped.
"Come on, babe," he said. "I mean, isn't that a little, oh don't know, overkill?"
"If people see this marker of his, they'll recognise him in a second," Mina pointed out.
"But I'm a guy!" Yusei argued. "Guys do not, I mean do not, wear make-u...whoa" He stopped when Aki held a palm mirror to him, and he caught what he looked like in it. "I don't look half bad!"
"No you don't, not in the least," Aki agreed. "Infact, I kinda like you like this,"
"Yeah well, I suppose I could endure this stuff. At least for tonight," He admitted.
"Good. Now then, shall we be going now?" Aki asked the twins.
"Yup, let's go!" Leo answered, then looked at Luna with a look of concern. "You okay sis?" he asked. "You look troubled,"
"I'm fine," She assured him. That seemed to satisfy him, he went out the door with the others as they set off. The truth is, she thought. is that I've had this uneasy feeling inside, like something big is going to happen, and soon, She quickly dismissed those thoughts though, tonight was a time for fun not worries. She followed the rest of the group, unaware that her fears were about to be proven true. The sun was starting to set.
***
Rudger sat at his usual place on the table, all of his companions in their places as well.
"Alright everyone, listen up," he adressed all of them. "Tonight is at long last the night we have long awaited, the night which our masters return to this realm!" At this, the others began to chuckle and snicker.
"Not only that, tonight is the night that we have our long awaited revenge! Revenge against the signers!" At this moment, the set of candles on the tables blazed in a new life. The three flames erupted from their wax pillars, leaving them and circling in mid air, like great flaming snakes. They clustered together and formed a sphere made of three individual circles. There in the center of which appeared a face then another and another.
"These are our enemies, the signers," said Rudger, ignoring the growls of his comrades. "They are Yusei Fudo the head, Aki Izayoi the left claw, Jack Atlas the wings, and Luna Sawatori the tail,"
"We already know their identities, Rudger-sama," said Kiryu, obviously trying to keep his voice restrained. "Why are you showing us these?"
"Simple, inspiration. Think of this as your resolve driver, something that will help you realize our goal all the faster,"
"I certainly don't need a reminder of my resolve to have my revenge," the one in silver, Daisuke pointed out. "What I want to know is how we are going to free our masters," One of the females in the group seemed to notice something in the sphere, she turned to the one in orange, who seemed to share her curiosity, then they both turned to Rudger.
"Rudger-sama," said the one in orange.
"What is it, Carly?"
"Me and misty were just curious, but where is the fifth signer? You seem to only be showing four of them, where is the final one?" Noone seemed notice Rudger seem to look a little hesitant before answering.
"Ah yes, I shall get to that now," He said. "Let me first answer your question Daisuke. You see, our masters, though their spirits are free, aren't capable of physical manifestation. Simply put: the cards you now hold in your hands are virtually useless in a duel. In order to fully release them, we must each collect many human souls for them to absorb, thus giving them enough strength to free themselves," He explained."As for the matter of the fifth signer... I'm afraid that he continues to evade us. I myself have not been able to discover his identity,"
"Let me see if I understand this completely," said the one in gold. "You want us to head to the city and terrorize it. To head there and turn the night into a slaughter fest?"
"I think, Demak, that that's exactly what he wants," Daisuke smirked.
"Then let us be off!" Demak cried before raising his fist into the air. "Death to the dragon!"
"Death to the dragon!" the others called, also raising their fists to face level. Then they all dashed to the central doorway, at the far end of the chamber. Moments later, the revving of motorcyles was heard, before fading into the sat back on his chair, grinning like a madman.
"Yes, my children," He chuckled "Go and spread the shadow of our might throughout the land, and deliver to me all the souls you can gather!" He then broke into another round of maniacle laughter.
Yes, victory was near.
***
"Phew! I'm beat," Aki said while leaning her head on Yusei's shoulder. The trip to the club had been a resounding succes! With food and drinks and of course dancing like hell. Their disguises had worked like a charm too, much to their surprise. Nobody in the club had recognised them at all!
But eventually, Aki had gotten herself all tuckered out. She and Yusei, after politely excusing themselves from the group, were now on their way home. They were walking slowly, it was funny, but htey just could not get enough of eachother. Whenever they had a chance, they would always find a way to get close and revel in eachothers warmth.
Yusei kissed her head. "Yeah, that makes two of us," he said. "You were incredible back there, the best dancing I've ever seen,"
"Oh, stop, you're making me blush," Aki said. "Anyway I wasn't that good,"
"Oh I beg to differ, love," Yusei countered. "I have never lied to you, and I mean it when I say that you were great,"
"You were better,"
"No, you were," Aki decided to just leave it at that. She figured if he thought she was ok, she would agree with him. Instead she decided to just relax in the crook of his neck and watch the stars, exept that there weren't any stars...but something quite different: Giant purplish-black figures littered the sky. There were about six them in total, and they seemed to be moving, slowly but surely. One moment they would be in one area, then they seemed to blink out of existance before appearing a few yards away.
"Yusei...w-what are those?" she asked shakily.
"I..." he gulped " I don't know, but they look-"
"Like those lines in the dessert of Peru," Aki realized. "But what on earth are they doing here?"
Yusei didn't answer, he didn't have time to. Because in that moment, a burning pain shot up their bodies. The place of origin, their dragon marks, something was definately wrong. Once they had recovered, they shared a look of deep concern and understanding, before taking off in a run towards the mysterious formations.
Later...
What awaited our two lovers when they arrived at an intersection a few minutes later was best described as something from a horror flick: bodies were everywhere, unconcious. All of them looked as if they'd seen better days. Their clothes were battered and burned, they were all wearing now destroyed duel disks and their skin was covered in burns. Everyone indeed looked badly hurt, but not dead.
But Yusei and Aki were hardly paying attention to that. They were focusing, eyes wide, on the figure whose back was turned to them in the center of the chaos. He was dressed in a long black cloak, accented with silver. But that was not what drew their eyes to him: His body seemed to be seeping out some kind of black energy. Then, out his cloak, he pulled out a card and held it in the air. Seemingly in response, the dark aura around him shot out in all directions, flowing over all the fallen duelists. It only rested a few seconds before it receded, but all it's victims were nowhere to be seen.
The aura continued to flow back towards it's creator. It reached him and continued up his arm, where it dissapeared into the card he was holding. As he turned, they saw he was grinning evilly, thoughn they found it hard to tell since his hood hid most of his face. They could see enough though to see his expression change upon seeing them. From surprised to sick joy. At that moment, instict took over, and they did the only thing they could...
"Run!" Yusei cried, and they raced off in the opposite direction, the hooded duelist taking off right on their tail, before seemingly disapearing into the shadows...
Yusei and Aki weren't thinking. For them their wasn't 'but' or 'what if-' their was just fear. Pure fear. They had no idea how long they had been running, but they finnaly stopped when they reached-
"A dead end!" cried Aki. They had wound up in an alleyway, with a wall way too big to climb.
"It's all right babe," Yusei soothed her, though obviously a bit shaken himself. "I think we lost him,"
"Oh, I wouldn't say that,"said a voice echoing through the alley. Both of their heads shot up in fear, they turned to the only way into the alley...noone was there. "Up here, Signers," the voice adressed them. Again, their heads shot upward, there he was, standing on the wall...the side of the wall.
"Nani ga?!" said Aki.
"Come on!" said Yusei, and they were off again. Not even worrying about possible incoming trafic, they rushed straight into the parking complex across the street.
"Yusei," said Aki. "How did that man know we were signers? How does he even know what a signer is?!"
"I dont know, Aki but something tells me we don't wanna find out!" he responded. "Come on...at the top parking area of this building, theres a staircase that leads to the street on the opposite side. If we can just get there, we might-" he couldn't finish, because something knocked the wind out of him: a rather large sphere of blue fire to be exact.
"Yusei!"
"Now, now," said their persuer. "I do think that's quite enough running, though I do enjoy it when my prey tries to resist," he sneered.
"Kisama!" Aki said. "Who are you, and what do you want from us!?" she demanded. Then she noticed something quite interesting: a mark, almost exactly like her and Yusei's. Exept that it was tainted purplish-black and it took the form of what appeared to be some kind of bird.
"Are you...a signer?" Yusei asked weakly, having noticed the same thing.
"I am a Dark signer," said their apparent enemy. "And you are about to perish," raising his hand, now glowing with dark energy. Aki reacted immidiately rushing in between them with her arms spread out in defence.
"Hold it!" she said. "If you lay one finger on him, I garantee that I will make you severly regret it," The man did not move, he simply continued to stare at her, as if she was his enemy from birth. "You can duel can't you?" She demanded, no answer. "I'll take the fact that all those people we saw back there were duelists as a yes. In such case I, Aki Izayoi, challenge you!" she declared. "I win: you leave us alone, I lose: you get me instead of him," she pointed to Yusei as if to emphasize, ignoring his protests that it was far too dangerous. The Dark signer was silent for a moment, then, his arm burst into black flames. In that instant, a strange duel disk materialized.
"I accept your challenge, Signer," he said. "You were my original target anyway, I simply went for him as an attack on your heart," Aki was no doubt enraged by that statement, but she didn't show it, she had long since gone into duelist mode: where she didn't let her opponent see even a hint of emotion. The Dark signer then inserted his deck, which had the same black aura as before into his disk and stood at the ready. Aki did likewise. Staring into eachothers eyes like lions about to battle over a piece of meat, one could see on their faces the emotions running through each of them: Aki's fiery determination, and the Dark signer's sick mixture of hate and joy.
Finnaly, he thought My revenge is at hand. Aki Izayoi, prepare yourself for a painful blast from the past!
"Let's duel!"
End of chap. 1
Well? What do you guys think so far? It may take a while for another chapter to come up, maybe longer than this one. I can't promise I won't get a little writer's block.
Until next time...