Me: I'm back again!
Leo: You left us hanging! *Chucks a bowl of popcorn at me*
Me: *Dodges bowl* Hey, that's my popcorn!
Leo: *Sticks his tongue out* Too bad, it's mine now.
Me: Grr, Yusei you're typing the chapter now! *Tosses a book to Yusei and starts chasing Leo*
Yusei: I haven't had to do this in a while.
Sky: You're right.
Luna: I got the disclaimer! Shimmering-Sky doesn't own Yu-Gi-Oh 5ds or Reshiram. She does own Sky and her Deck though!
*Leo runs through the room*
Me: Get back here popcorn thief!
Yusei: I should probably type the chapter now…
Chapter 28
I awake lying on the ground. I slowly stand up and look around me. There is darkness everywhere. "Yusei!" I shout, remembering that he had fallen as well. A faint moan from somewhere told me he was okay.
I follow the source of the moan and find Yusei on the ground. He slowly stands up. "Where are we?" he asks.
"I don't know," I say. Suddenly several grey figures appear. They grab us and try to drag us down. "Let go of me!" I shout. A jolt of pain runs through my head and an image of the Reactor going berserk appears in my mind.
"You're the ones that died from Zero Reverse," Yusei says. He must have been shown the same image I had. The ground below us turns into a type of quicksand. With the force of the figures, both of us were sinking fast.
"Leave them be!" a voice shouts. "They do not belong here!" The figures recoil at the sound of the voice and leave. The ground also turns solid again.
"Uh, thank you," I say, turning around. I receive the shock of a lifetime. "Dad? Is-Is it really you?" I ask. In front of me stands my dad just as he had been the last time I saw him.
"It is," he says. He stares at Yusei and his face saddens. "I wish I could have seen you grow up my son," Dad says.
"You're my father?" Yusei asks. "Wait, does that mean we are dead?"
Dad shakes his head. "No, the light from the Reactor has gotten ahold of the both of you like it did me. You must leave soon, or else you won't be able to return," he says.
"How are we supposed to get back though?" I ask.
"I have enough power to send you both back," Dad says. "Promise me you will stop the darkness."
"We've stopped some of it already," I say. "Luna defeated Devak, Yusei defeated Kalin, Crow defeated Greiger, and I defeated Roman."
"There are still three more then," Dad says. "Good luck." And then Yusei and I are surrounded by light again. When I open my eyes I am lying on the ground next to Yusei, Crow standing over us.
What did he mean by three? There are only two more towers to be sealed, so there are only two more Dark Signers, I think.
"Thank goodness you two are okay," Crow says as I sit up.
"What happened after we fell?" I ask.
"The light from the Reactor disappeared. A few minutes later both of you flew out of the Reactor, although you were both unconscious," Crow says.
"Sky, you don't think that was a dream, do you?" Yusei asks.
"I've seen stranger things happen, so I think that was real," I reply.
"What are you talking about?" Leo asks.
"We saw our dad in the Reactor," I say. This statement receives weird looks as well.
"Um, why don't we just leave this place? I think the stale air is getting to your heads," Trudge says after an awkward silence. I try to stand up, but my side says otherwise.
I could walk around in the Reactor, why not here? I think.
The light in the Reactor led to another dimension. You can't feel pain there, Reshiram says. The leftover power from the Earthbound Immortal prevents either of us from healing that wound.
The same thing happened with my earlier wound. Is that why I couldn't heal it? I ask.
Yes, although I could probably deaden the pain, Reshiram replies.
Please do that, I don't want to be carried out of here, I think back. Quickly the pain lessens, and I stand up.
"Are you okay?" Yusei asks. "You had a strange look on your face."
"It looked like this," Leo says, scrunching his face up.
"Er, yeah I'm okay. My side hurt, that's all," I say. Would they believe that I was actually talking to a dragon? I think. Luna might, but the others… I won't tell them.
"Can we leave now?" Trudge asks. So the six of us leave the Reactor. When we emerge from the building, small sparkles could be seen in the distance.
"That means Jack won his duel," Yusei says. "The only one left now is Akiza."
"I think we should go see how she's doing," I say. The others agree, getting on our Duel Runners and Security Car. We soon arrive at where the Lizard Tower is located-an abandoned amusement park. The park is huge, and since there is no geoglyph in the sky, we don't know exactly where Akiza is. The six of us split up, Leo going with Luna, Trudge going with Crow, and I'm with Yusei.
Yusei and I walk past several dilapidated game stands. "I wonder how it was like when there were people here," I say.
"One can only imagine," Yusei says.
"Look out!" a voice shouts. I glance up and see a falling board, aiming itself at Yusei. My brother jumps out of the way and the board smashes into the pavement.
"That was a close one," I say. "Who warned us about it?"
"That would have been me," a man says, walking over to us. He is wearing shades and has auburn-colored hair. "I'm here on the Director's orders to make sure Akiza wins," he adds.
"Thanks for the concern, but we've got it covered," I say.
"It's dangerous to be here," Yusei adds.
"And I am prepared for those dangers," he says. "Would you mind if I help you find Akiza?"
I shrug and we continue searching. I pause as a strange sensation runs through my gut. What is my gut trying to warn me about this time? I think. Then a jolt of pain runs through my head, along with an image.
The image is one of me, Yusei, and a blue-haired lady stuck in some place as it is flooding. "Sky, are you okay?" Yusei asks.
"Sorry, I felt like I was going to be sick or something," I reply. I glance at the man, who is staring at me like I'm a ghost or something. He catches my gaze and looks away instantly.
Strange, I think. Why was he looking at me like that? "Let's continue the search," Yusei says. A few minutes later and the man stops.
"I think I saw movement in that house," he says, pointing at a broken storage facility. Yusei races into the house and I follow him. Underneath us, the floor is metal grating. Underneath that, a blue-haired lady is lying on the ground.
"Are you okay Mina?" Yusei calls to the lady. There is no response. There is an opening in the grating and Yusei heads towards it. He is stopped by a large fireball. The stranger is holding a Duel Disk and a sword. There is a Spell Card on the Disk, whatever card the sword came from.
I instantly stand between Yusei and the man. "What are you going to do with that?" I ask. The man just snarls at me.
"You Fudos are always getting in my way," he says. He lashes out with the sword, which I block with my Duel Disk. Multiple times he strikes at me, but I deflect all of them. Then he does something I don't expect-whack Yusei with the hilt of the sword.
The hilt strikes Yusei's gut, which still hadn't fully healed from his first Shadow Duel with Kalin. The Signer falls to the ground moaning in pain. Using my second of shock, the man continues his attack and strikes my side. My vision fades to black.
XXX
Third Person
"Hmph, you two are pathetic," an auburn-haired man says. He lifts up two unconscious people and dumps them through an opening in a grating. Upon landing on the ground, the male regains consciousness.
"What's going on?" he demands. The auburn-haired man just laughs and presses a button on the wall. Water begins to fill the cellar. The man also shoots a fireball at the opening, welding the lid shut. The water awakens one of the other two, a lady with blue hair. The third remains unconscious.
"What-Where-Yusei, do you have any idea what happened?" the blue-haired lady asks.
"Sorry Mina," Yusei replies. The water level reaches their ankles. "That man, is he the one that stuck you in here?" Yusei asks.
"Yeah, he said the Director sent him, but them he whacked me with something hard," Mina says, putting her hand to the back of her head. "The next thing I remember is waking up just now."
A grunt comes from the third person, but she remains down. A small trickle of blood is coming out of her side. By now, the water level is even higher, almost covering the unconscious lady. Yusei sticks his arm under the lady, keeping her afloat.
"Mina, do you have anything that could possibly wake Sky up?" Yusei asks.
Mina reaches into her pockets. "The only thing remotely close to that would be some pepper spray," the blue-haired lady says.
"That will do," Yusei says, extending his other hand. Mina places it into the extended hand. "Mina, can you hold one of her eyelids open?" Yusei asks. Mina hesitates, but then opens one of them.
"Sorry about this Sky," Yusei mutters as he sprays the open eye. Sky sneezes for no apparent reason, but she wakes up. Her hand flies to her eye, rubbing it.
"What was that for?" Sky demands. Her eye is now watering like crazy.
"Well we're stuck in a cellar that is being flooded," Yusei replies. "The only way out is through the opening, but the man sealed it tightly."
Sky glances up and then looks at the wall. "That might just work," she says. The golden-haired woman wades her way over to the wall and starts climbing it. Unfortunately the wall gives out and returns its passenger to the water.
"The water's weakened the wall too much," Sky says. "Now I won't be able to force the grate open with magic… And my Duel Disk is ruined from the water, so no materializing cards."
Sky's POV
The water is now too deep to stand in. "Help! Somebody help us!" Yusei shouts. Considering that help from outside was probably the only way out now, I join in the shouting. Mina joins too, only she is yelling for Jack to help.
A few minutes later and someone walks in. "Trudge, we're down here!" I shout. The water is at least twelve feet deep by now. "The hatch! It's the only way out!"
Trudge finds a metal pole and tries to open the hatch. It won't budge at all. "Help us Mr. Atlas!" Mina shouts one last time. Trudge's face turns red with anger, but the hatch flies off. Just in time, since the water reached the top of the grating.
The four of us scamper out of the storage building. As soon as we're outside we stop. Reshiram, can you numb the pain again? I ask.
Sorry about that, when you lost consciousness I lost my concentration, she replies. The pain lessens and my wound stops bleeding.
"Sky, are you sure you're okay?" Yusei asks.
"Yes Yusei, I'm sure," I reply. "Trudge, wasn't Crow with you?" I ask.
"He was, but he thought he saw something in a hall of mirrors," Trudge says. "I didn't see anything, so I kept going the way we had been."
The conversation then ends, because the Mark of the Lizard appears in the sky. "That must be where Akiza is," Yusei says, running towards the geoglyph. Trudge follows him closely, but I decide to walk. More accurately limp, since my side, while the pain wasn't as bad, it still hurt like crazy.
It took a lot longer to get there while limping, so by the time I got to where Akiza is, the duel was already over. The first thing I notice is that the sun is already under the horizon.
The second thing is that a bright light is coming from the City. The light is in the shape of a Condor. Is this what Dad meant when he said there were three left? I think.
Mistress, that Condor Mark is no good, Celestial Knight-Star says. Not only that, but the King of the Netherworld is rising. If he reaches the Condor Mark, it will mean the end of both our worlds.
I slowly limp down to my friends. "Sky, that Condor Mark is really bad," Luna says.
"I know, Celestial Knight-Star already told me," I say. A small tremor shakes the ground. From the direction of the Reactor, a large mass of muck appears. The muck slowly forms a dragon-like creature. The creature slowly starts crawling to the Condor Mark.
"That thing can't reach the Condor Mark!" both Luna and I say at the same time. Then Luna's, Akiza's, and Yusei's Marks light up, and a crimson bubble surrounds us. The crimson bubble brightens, and I shield my eyes.
XXX
Yusei: And that seems to be the end of the chapter.
Sky: Another cliffhanger? Maybe Crow's right about Shimmering-Sky's mind being twisted.
*Leo dashes through the room again, but is caught by Luna*
Luna: Leo, just say you're sorry and give back the popcorn.
Leo: Aw, the popcorn's too good!
Me: *Snatches bowl from Leo* That's not even my popcorn, it's my brother's. And if he finds out that you're the one who ate it, prepare to be bothered for the rest of your life.
Leo: Luna already does that.
Me: Oh, I don't mean that kind of annoying. I mean 'Drive people insane' annoying.
Leo: Oh. I'm sorry for eating the popcorn then.
Me: Thank you. Anywho, please review my story! Thank you all who have reviewed! And remember, I am open to flames!