Welcome back to Legacy of the Star Princess. Boy, we sure have an episode for you today. You know the drill, so R&R and have a nice day.

Everyone stared blankly at the screen as Goodwin made his announcement. Blister's expression became puzzled, Crow's jaw dropped, and Midori's eyes widened slightly. Yusei gazed at the TV, as the camera zoomed in towards Sidney and Jack as Goodwin congratulated them. He saw, just for a brief moment when Goodwin was speaking, a frightened expression appear on Sidney's face. He could see in her face that she knew nothing about this before hand, nor had she consented to it.

Midori closed her eyes solemnly as reclined on the couch, as if she was falling asleep. Crow looked back at her and sighed. Just then, Midori opened her eyes again, and they found themselves staring straight at each other. A worried expression appeared on her face as she briskly looked left and right.

"Cr…Crow? What's going on? Who are these people?" Her voice became awash in anxiety. Crow looked confused. Everyone turned to look at Midori as she grabbed a pillow and held it to her chest.

"Are you ok, Midori? You told us there was something on TV we needed to see…although…you're right, I didn't introduce anyone." Crow laughed a little. Midori buried her face in the pillow.

"I must have spaced out again, I'm sorry." Midori's words were muffled by the pillow, but they were understandable. Yusei wondered to himself.

"What do you mean by 'spaced out'?" He asked. Midori looked up at the three of them timidly. Crow nodded reassuringly to her. She took a deep breath and started to explain herself to them.

"Well, sometimes I have these blackouts. I usually don't remember what happened during that time until much later…but my grandpa told me it was apart of my powers…that's apart of me being a psychic…" Yusei and Blister looked at each other.

"Midori, do you remember anything right before you blacked out now?" Blister asked. Midori closed her eyes and thought for a moment.

"I remember waking up…and hearing voices. Yours, I think. Then I remember feeling a warm sensation nearby, like a pool of red energy…or that's what it looked like.

Ow…" Midori grabbed her head with her hands and moaned.

"Sorry, I get really bad headaches after my blackouts, too."

Crow rubbed her head. " Anyways…this is Yusei…and Blister…but…Midori, you still need more rest. Especially in your condition."

Midori looked down and nodded as she got up and went back to her make-shift bed on the small sofa. She gently pulled the covers over herself and turned on her side to go to sleep.

"Wow, she told us more now than she ever told me on the way here." Crow blinked. Yusei and Blister nodded to each other.

"Crow, if your theory is true, and she was raped, she may have been too traumatized to talk about it when you first found her. My guess would be it only happened not to long ago…maybe within the last twenty-four hours. Since time has moved along, she may feel a little safer now than when you found her." Blister thought aloud.

"Anyways, Goodwin sent us to find someone called the Oracle of Twilight. From what Midori and you have told us, there is a possibility that she IS the Oracle." Yusei told him.

"Huh?" Crow wondered.

"We don't know much about it either; it's kind of a long story." Blister admitted.

"We've got time. Say, what about what just happened on TV. Can you believe that girl is marrying Jack?" Crow commented.

"No. Especially since she likes Yusei." Blister smirked, remembering the time he saw her at his hideout and Yanagi was ragging on Yusei about her.

Yusei sighed at Blister's comment. "I saw her face. She wasn't happy about this. She looked scared. Something is telling me Goodwin set this up and didn't tell Sidney about it. It would explain what I saw."

"Well…" Crow thought to himself.

"When we get back I'm going to see Goodwin."

"You may need to talk to Jack about it, too. I mean, he's part of this one way or another." Said Crow. Yusei looked out the window as the night sky was beginning to blanket the Satellite, and hoped that everyone would be ok until he got back.

…

The Dinner had begun and everyone was taking their seats. Goodwin sat at the head of the table, and Jack sat down next to where Sidney had been sitting. As Sidney began to collect herself and step down the stairs, she heard someone calling her from up the stairs. She tilted her head up to see Lazar waving to her and motioning for her to come to him.

Sidney saw Goodwin was preoccupied with conversing with other guests, and Carly had swarmed Jack and was bombarding him with questions. The teen carefully slipped up the stairs, picking up her dress slightly so it wouldn't make noise. There was a thick red and gold curtain covering the entryway. Lazar pulled it back for her, allowed her to step behind it, and followed in after her.

Behind the curtain was a long, plain looking hallway with red carpeting like the grand dining room outside. There were elegant light fixtures on the ceilings and a table here and there, but other than that it was a simple cream colored hallway with a series of doors.

Sidney looked at Lazar, who walked up in front of her and motioned for her to follow him. She opened her mouth to speak, but he put a finger up, telling her to wait a moment. After they past a few doors, he whipped around and spoke to her. His voice was serious, but not unlike himself.

"I will be perfectly honest with you. Mr. Goodwin doesn't want you to see Cassandra. But, I have reason to believe the two of you should meet. Unless…you want to spend your time surrounded by flighty celebrities and apathetic spectators…Oh, and your future husband." He laughed in his usual taunting matter. Sidney felt frustrated at first, but got a gut feeling that he wasn't teasing her at all.

"So, follow me, then." He turned left and walked swiftly down a corridor, with Sidney following close behind him. As they got to the end of the hallway, she could see a bigger door with a stain-glass window on either side, and a sign "Reserved for Cassandra" on the front.

Lazar went over to knock on the door. "Cassandra, I'd like you to meet someone."

Everything seemed to deaden into silence. Then, the door slowly creaked open. But it wasn't what either of them had hoped to see.

A tall figure dressed in a black hooded robe with white tinge emerged from the room, his face entirely hidden by his hood. He carried Cassandra in his arms, who was blindfolded. She whimpered. Lazar got angry and yelled at him.

"Dark Signer! How dare you! Let Cassandra go or you'll regret it!" He warned the hooded man. He laughed at Lazar.

"…Lazar, is that you?" Cassandra murmured.

The man looked into Cassandra's eyes. "Fear not, Princess. For you shall be with your Prince, my master, soon. Pay no heed to the voices you hear except for mine."

Sidney saw a purple mark glowing on his arm, which appeared to be in the shape of a spider. Sidney's marks began glowing intensely, and the pain came on just as quickly.

The man in the hooded robe peered over at Sidney and smiled wickedly.

"So my master's suspicions are correct. The Star Princess has awakened!"

"Who is your master? What does he want with Cassandra?" Sidney demanded.

"It doesn't concern you."

"Let Cassandra go!" Lazar snapped. The man set Cassandra down by the door.

"Fine, I'll let her go if the Star Princess will engage me in battle. It will be just as satisfying for my master to know that the light of the Star Princess will be extinguished. Someone will have to come for you another day, dear Cassandra." The man glanced over at Cassandra. Lazar ran over to her, began escorting her away, with her still blindfolded.

"Wait! The Star Princess…" Cassandra acted as if she wanted to stay, but Lazar feared for her safety and started pulling her away.

"I'll get Goodwin and Jack! They'll be back for you…Let's go, Cassandra, there's no time to waste." Sidney could hear Lazar calling. Cassandra then said something, but their voices beginning to trail off.

"Wait! I have my deck! But I don't have a Duel Disk!" Sidney called after them. Just then, Lazar came running back and tossed Sidney his Duel Disk and ran back to where Cassandra was before she would start coming back.

Sidney slipped on the disk and inserted her deck, and the hooded man did the same. A circle of purple energy formed around the two of them and their life point counter were set at 4000 each.

This must be a Shadow Drone…Like what Goodwin and Yusei talked about earlier…I hope can defeat this guy.

"I will go first. I start by summoning Twin Headed Behemoth in Attack Mode."

The man drew a card, then placed one on the field. Suddenly a two headed, sickly purple dragon appeared, with bat like wings and a demonic aura around it. One head had blue eyes, while the other had red eyes, and they both snarled at Sidney viciously.

(Twin Headed Behemoth is a Level three Wind Attribute Dragon with 1500 attack points and 1200 defense points.)

"Then I play a spell card known as The Cheerful Coffin, which allows me to send up to three cards in my hand directly to the graveyard." The Drone selected three cards and inserted them into the Graveyard slot on his disk. Sidney wondered why he would send cards to his graveyard so needlessly, unless it was apart of some strategy he had planned.

"I end my turn there."

Sidney drew from her deck. In her hand were six cards: Fire Trooper, Homunculus the Alchemic Being, Doriado's Blessing, Dian Keto the Cure Master, Dust Tornado, and the card she just drew, which was Rescue Cat.

"I summon Homunculus the Alchemic being in Attack Mode." She declared as she placed the card on her disk. In a flash on light, a blindfolded humanoid appeared on the field, wearing only a pairing of pants and straps of leather of various places. His skin was red in some places and dark blue in others, and his hair was dark brown. He had a mark on his chest like a question mark with runes running on either side.

(Homunculus The Alchemic Being is a Level four Light Attribute Plant with 1800 attack points and 1600 defense points.)

"I'll attack your Behemoth with my monster! Use Elemental Warp!"

The monster wrapped itself around the dragon and smothered it in a blaze of fire. The Behemoth vanished, and brought the Drone's life points down to 3700. Sidney saw the drone cringe. She saw a burn mark on the floor. The battle damage was real, as it had been said to her before.

"I'll set one card face down and end my turn." Sidney set down Dust Tornado. As her turn ended, the monster she had just destroyed suddenly reappeared.

"If my Behemoth is destroyed and sent from the field to the grave, I can re-summon it on your end phase with 1000 attack and defense points." The Drone drew a card.

"I play Goblin Thief, it takes away 500 of your life points and restores mine by the same amount. The darkness prevails over the light!" Sidney felt a seeping pain as her life points dropped to 3500 and his went up to 4200.

"I then play Mausoleum of the Emperor. This spell allows either of us to sacrifice life points in place of monsters to perform tribute summons, at the cost of 1000 life points per tribute." The field began to glow with a sickening light. Sidney felt something was coming. Something bad.

"I sacrifice 2000 life points to summon Dark Tuner Raus!" His life points dropped to 2200. A sickly gray imp appeared, with black wings made of fire.

(Dark Tuner Raus is a Level eight Dark attribute Dark Tuner Fiend with 500 attack and defense points.)

"Shadows feed on each other, bigger shadows swallow smaller ones. Such are the monsters of the Netherworld. I Dark Tune my Dark Tuner Raus with Twin Headed Behemoth to Summon the Dark Synchro monster known as Fallen Guardian Feuerstein!"

The two monsters dissolved into black orbs that spun around the Shadow Drone rapidly and a pillar of dark energy appeared, sucking them in. When the pillar vanished, Sidney saw a most hideous sight.

Fallen Guardian Feuerstein was an ebony skinned, human like creature, with a bald head, soulless red eyes. It wore a white skirt like wrap around its torso, carried a black scepter with a gold orb at the top, and had wings much like Dark Tuner Raus, except they were much bigger and widespread.

(Fallen Guardian Feuerstein is a Level 5 Dark attribute Dark Synchro Fiend with 2500 attack and 1700 defense points.)

Suddenly, Sidney felt a jolt of pain crawl up her leg and cause her to cramp up. She gripped her leg, and saw her life points dropped to 3000.

"Whenever I use Dark Tuner Raus in a successful Synchro summon, you lose 500 life points!" The Drone declared.

"Now, attack her monster with Unholy Dark Wind!" A strong gust whipped up, pushing Homunculus every which way until it banged against the circle of purple energy and vanished in a poof of smoke. Sidney life points dropped to 2300. The gust pushed her back up against the field, which shocked her when she hit it. She cried out in pain.

Her marks were still glowing brightly, and she could she the mark on her right shoulder was glowing more than the other. It was the tail mark, and she remembered Yusei also had that mark. Does this mean a new power of hers would emerge soon? The wings mark enabled her to fly, and the foreclaw allowed her to use her card's effects in the real world like Akiza.

"I end my turn there." Said the Drone. "It's a shame, really. I could have brought you with Cassandra to my master, but I guess you'll just have to go to the abyss."

…

Lazar frantically came running down the stairs to Goodwin with Cassandra in tow. He looked up, with a concerned look when he saw Cassandra blindfolded. Lazar quickly sat her down at her seat at the table and removed the blindfold. The singer was confused from being pulled around and hearing all the voices around her, and now just being able to see.

Jack saw them and got up from his place and walked over to them. Everyone else seemed distracted with their own conversations and didn't notice.

Lazar quickly whispered in Goodwin's ear. "A Shadow Drone tried to nab Cassandra and is in a Shadow Duel with Sidney right now!"

Goodwin nodded. "I felt it just before you came down. It's strange…Zigzix hasn't called me to say whether a power of her has activated or not."

Lazar muttered. "She must have left the tracking device we disguised as a pendant at home! What do we do?"

"Go back and take Jack there. Also, I want to give back the device to Zigzix, I have a feeling that it is no longer needed." Goodwin told Lazar. Lazar cocked his head. Jack overheard the as he felt a lingering pain in his arm. He could feel that Sidney was in danger, and he had suspected he would be sent after her.

"What's going on? What happened?"

"It's ok, Cassandra, you're safe with other people, including myself around now. Don't worry; Jack and Lazar are going to go handle this." He tried to distract her. Jack walked briskly up the stairs with Lazar trailing behind him. A few people looked up at them with suspicion.

"No need to worry, there are some matter that need attending to. Everyone please continue with the meal." Goodwin reassured them. Cassandra sensed he was lying, but wasn't sure what to say to him. He peered at her.

"So, did I hear correctly that Jack is getting married?" Cassandra asked.

"Yes, but I'll tell you more about it later. You should eat something; you're probably hungry after what you went through." In other words, he was either going to lie to her or tell her nothing at all.

To be continued…in Episode nineteen! Will Sidney make a come back to defeat the Shadow Drone? Will her third ability be revealed? Who was it that attacked Midori? All these questions will be answered next time! Also, I do not own Cassandra. She was created by Coke head and is the protagonist in A Futuristic Fairytale. By the way, you should so read it, because it is AWESOME. I have gotten permission from the author to use her, and she has gotten permission from me to do things of a similar nature. Have a nice day.