(Warning: Chapter contains spoilers in anime)

It starts as a whirlwind of cascading rose pedals, sinuous, hypnotic, and ends as… her. Her eyes fill you and pin you… You can't move, but it doesn't matter, because you don't want to. Suddenly she's close, her skin is warm, her scent is intoxicating, you want to stay like this… with her… forever…

"Yusei! Yusei!!!"

All at once Yusei woke up.

"Just dreaming…" he thought disappointed.

"Yusei, are you in there?"

"Sorry Rally, I was a million miles away."

"Sector Security is outside!"

"What? But I didn't do anything."

"That's what we told them, but they want to see you anyway."

Yusei was told that Luna had been kidnapped. It told him all he needed to know, someone was moving against the signers. Security had escorted him and Crow to the Tops. As they reached Luna and Leo's home Yusei was shocked by the burn marks in the floor and on the wall.

"My God! What happened here?!"

Jack and Akiza were already there, and Leo looked like he had seen a ghost.

"Has he said anything?"

"No."

"Leo, it's okay, we're here."

"Yusei… he came… he came and took Luna…"

"He… He who?"

"He said his name was… Damian… Damian the Bad."

"Who's Damian the Bad?" asked Akiza.

"Just an urban legend meant to frighten little kids and prevent them from going out after dark." said Jack.

"Leo, this is serious… Who kidnapped Luna?"

"Damian… Damian the Bad."

"Yusei, I think he's serious." said Crow.

"But Damian the Bad isn't real."

"Okay, before we go any further can you please clear one thing up for me?" said Akiza "Who is this Damian guy exactly."

"It's really just an old scary story." said Crow "It's about a turbo duelist who couldn't win even with Exodia. Story goes that one day he lost his mind and drove his runner into Hell. And supposedly every year he returns from the grave to hunt down the world's greatest duelists to drag them down there."

"Sorry I asked."

"Leo, what did he look like?" asked Yusei.

"He… He looked like a… man… but… his head was a skull… and it was on fire…"

"On fire?" asked Akiza.

"Yes… he… challenged us to a duel… he faced the two of us at the same time… he beat us… with Exodia."

"Yusei… Exodia was Damian's signature move." said Crow.

"I know."

"And he… he had this… duel runner… It looked like a dragon… the wheels were on fire… he… he… it came to him on its own because he whistled for it… He drove it straight through the wall there… and rode down the building… I know it sounds crazy but…"

"No, not at all." said Jack "So did the big scary man take your sister to the lollipop forest or to ice cream mountain?"

Now Leo looked angry.

"I saw Damian the Bad with my own eyes, and I saw him kidnap my sister!!!"

"Did you also see his henchmen?" asked Jack "You know, the Easter bunny and the tooth fairy?"

"I know what I saw! That crazy skull head broke in through that door and kidnapped my sister!"

Yusei looked at the burn marks in the floor.

"Crow, do you smell that?"

"Yeah, it smells kinda like… rotten eggs! It's one of the signs!"

"Maybe it's just a coincidence?" said Akiza.

"I hope so… because if not… I don't want to think about what's happened to Luna."

"Looks like it's going to be a ghost hunt." said Crow.

"You don't really believe this, do you?" asked Jack.

"Hey, I know I'm new to this whole signer thing, but after what happened with the dark signers and Goodwin I'll believe anything."

"So where do we start looking for this… specter?" asked Akiza.

"Well, some people claim that the old duel arena downtown is haunted by Damian's ghost because it's supposedly the place where he had his last duel. It was closed down several years ago when freaky things started to happen there."

"That place isn't haunted, and there is no ghost." said Jack "It's probably some crazy guy in a mask."

"Then how do explain the fact that his head was on fire?!" exclaimed Leo.

"Duel disks can create life like holograms of giant monsters, it shouldn't be too difficult to make a hologram to give off the impression that a man's head is on fire."

"Regardless of whether there is a ghost or not, someone has kidnapped one of our own." said Yusei "And it's up to the four of us to find Luna. If her kidnapper really was Damian the Bad, or someone claiming to be him, we can't ignore anything that could help us find her."

"But suppose Damian the bad is real, and he's dragged Luna down to… you know… what do we do about it?"

"I don't know…but if Luna had died I think our marks would have given us some kind of sign. So until we find out otherwise, she is alive and awaiting our rescue."