Hello again! I wasn't really sure how to approach this particular chapter because i wanted to include some dueling in there, so here's my attempt at that. ^_^" I would like to thank all the lovely people who reviewed on my story and those who Favorited it! Without you all this chapter would not have been written. Please enjoy!

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Raven pulled her D-wheel into the garage she had run from the night before; it felt weird to be back now. Crow followed after her parking his next too her own, she slipped off her helmet and placed it on the seat as she climbed off, for some reason she felt nervous as she saw Yusei working on his own Runner.

He didn't seem to notice their presence though, even as Crow walked up to him saying his name over and over.

"Yus! Hey, anyone home in there?" When he received no response he shrugged and walked over to the fridge, glancing at her.

"Do you want something to drink? Akiza and the twins won't be here for a few minutes." She shook her head, as she walked up to Yusei, who was now mumbling something to himself. She glanced over his shoulder to see what he was poking at; when she couldn't make out his mumbling she looked at the small scanner that was sitting next to him. It flashed red with the words "Foreign object" in white on the screen, but it didn't say where.

She picked up the scanner and typed a code into it; Crow had by this time, noticed her and walked back looking over her shoulder. "That's not a toy you know, Yusei probably won't like you messing with it." She glanced at him and continued typing.

"Yes I know, it's a high intensity turbo scanner with wireless and remote capabilities. I'm just updating the program so that it shows a clearer picture of what's going on; then again it could just be a glitch with the system."

Crow scratched his head, not entirely sure what she said. Raven smiled, "It's just a long way of saying, 'Yes. This is not a toy.'" She giggled at the goofy smile that took over his face.

"I've never seen that type of code before, did you make it yourself?" she jumped nearly dropping the small computer as Yusei suddenly appeared next to her, she blushed as he stared at her intensely.

"N-No…M-My parents were geniuses when it came to duel runners and such. They taught me everything they knew before…umm…Yeah…" she trailed off when she realized what she was going to let slip, apparently she could no longer hold her tongue when it came to this people.

The scanner began beeping showing that it had completed her updates and was showing a clearer picture of the problem, Yusei nodded. Raven looked thoughtfully at the screen then handed it to Yusei,

"D-do you mind if I take a look?" he nodded and she leaned down under the runner.

Crow watched as Raven had done some serious programming work now she was crawling under Yusei's Duel Runner like she had done it a hundred times before. Yusei seemed impressed as she asked him questions about what the scanner said about this and that, she didn't seem as timid like this. It made him happy to watch her interact so casually with someone he considered his brother.

Crow would never admit it, but he felt that she needed to be accepted by Jack, and Yusei. Then it would mean….what? He wasn't sure the answer to that right now, but he felt more at peace with her around. Like she was a piece of his puzzle that had been missing, he rolled his eyes.

'Now I'm comparing a girl I just met yesterday to a freaking puzzle! What the heck is wrong with me?'

Before he had time to contemplate this however he heard said girl yelp,

"Are you ok?"

"Y-yeah, can one of you hand me a flashlight? I think I found the foreign object." As she said this she stuck her hand out, Crow gasped as it was covered in blood with a cut going straight down her palm stopping right before her wrist.

"Raven! Your hand is cut!" Yusei said as he grabbed a clean rag and wrapped it around her hand, before putting the flash light in her hand.

"T-Thanks…" Crow would bet anything that she was blushing right up to her ears right now.

"There's…something stuck in here…Yusei is it near anything vital?" he glanced down at the scanner before saying no.

"Maybe I can get it; I don't want you to hurt yourself again." Yusei offered.

Raven slid back out, there were drops of blood on her face but she quickly wiped them away.

"No it's near the coupling link; my hands can barely fit in there. Whatever it is must have gotten sucked up during your last ride." She took off her jacket tossing it next to her before going back under. Crow blushed as he got a good look at her without it; cream colored skin that looked as soft as cashmere and a lean body that seemed like it was shaped perfectly for her. He started to wonder if her skin was as soft as it looked, or if she had any other hidden marks on her body.

Crow's face turned a beet red as this thought entered his brain, when he glanced over at Yusei to see him watching with a perplexed look he stood straight up with his hands in his pockets. He looked back again as he heard her whimper, it was low but he clearly heard it.

"Almost…" she said to no one, then they heard a mechanical pop as she brought something hard down against her. She quickly slid back out again breathing heavily, she handed Yusei the large piece of jagged glass before grabbing her jacket and practically running out of the place.

It hadn't bothered her at first; in fact it didn't even cross her mind. That is, until she felt the glass piece the skin of her uninjured palm a second time. That's when it hit her, the flash of the blade and sudden pain shooting up her arms, bound in front of her as tired blue eyes watched in abstract horror.

A metallic pop ended the vision, brought her back to the present. She quickly disposed on the thing covered in her blood and ran; her stomach was churning heart pounding fiercely inside her chest. Raven didn't know how far she ran until she finally had to stop, her lungs burning with the lack of air.

Leaning a hand against the wall she stared at the ground below her, vaguely aware of the footsteps coming towards her. Finally she felt it, her stomach lurching upwards into her throat.

Tears streamed down her face as she knelt to the ground retching what little she had for breakfast. But that wasn't enough, her body wanted to purge more; she began the process of dry heaving. The black curtain of hair that fell around her face moved as a hand was placed on her back, rubbing soothing circles.

"Shh…it's ok, just relax" a low voice said, she didn't even need to turn to know who it was as a single name rang though her mind; 'Crow…'

Raven wasn't sure how long it took for the heaves to subside, for her tears to dry, or how long she was leaning her back against Crow's chest. She closed her eyes and leaned her head back against his shoulder, eyes snapping open a second later as a low crack filled the air.

"Here, gargle then drink. Slowly." She relaxed as he held a bottle of water to her lips; she did as she was told glad to have the disgusting taste from the back of her mouth out. Once satiated she moved the bottle from her mouth, breathing a sigh of relief, Crow's arms held her securely in place.

"Sorry, I will move in a minute." She said as her eyes closed again, she liked this feeling she had right now. Peace.

"Take your time, just focus on breathing. That was a scary panic attack, do you wanna talk about it?" he asked speaking low.

"When I was younger, they tried to purify me by binding my arms in stone cuffs and stabbing knives into my hands. When my hands started bleeding inside the engine, I just…" she couldn't finish too afraid of panicking again.

"You flashed back to then…" he finished for her; she nodded as she attempted to stand straight again. Her head swam, but she managed to do it, out of sheer force of will if anything.

"Are you ok?" Raven turned to answer but the voice of a small boy cut her off,

"Crow there you are! We've got trouble; some thugs attacked us on our way back. They're holding Akiza and Luna hostage!"

The frantic boy had teal colored hair tied into a pony tail and yellow eyes, possibly the cutest little kid Raven had ever seen. The thought was shaken from her as Crow ran past, "Where are they?"

"In front of the garage, Yusei was trying to talk them down. They're looking for someone who beat up their members last night, but we kept telling them we didn't know anyone like that!" the boy frantically replied. Raven's eyes widened, 'it couldn't be…'

Crow nodded and looked back at her, "You should head back home, you'll be ok there." He said before running off with the teal haired boy in toe.

Raven shook her head, "No Crow, I won't."

Crow stopped when he reached the garage again, standing in front was a group of about twenty or so guys dressed in all black with strange triangle shaped sunglasses. In his opinion they looked the least bit menacing, but that was mostly due to his previous experience with actual duel gangs back in Satellite.

A few of the guys surrounded Akiza and Luna off too the side while Yusei and Jack stood there arms crossed, Crow could already tell that Yusei wasn't happy; his tense shoulders told him everything.

"Yusei, Jack! What the heck is going on?" he said as he walked up,

"These guys showed up after you left, said they were looking for your friend." Yusei replied quietly. "We tried to tell them we didn't know her, but they saw her runner. "

"Where the devil is that stupid girl? It's her fault we're in this mess!" Jack said, Crow wanted to say something about the comment but didn't think this was the time.

"Hey! We're waiting! Where is she?" said the guy standing in front, he had a short spiked up cut and while he was dressed like the others his jacket was wide open revealing massive muscles with tattoo's of things from devil's to dragons.

"That girl needs to pay for messing up my boys!"

Another piped up after, "Yeah! No one turns down a date with our boss!"

the man glared at him blushing."Shut up! They didn't need to know that!"

Crow narrowed his eyes, 'so this is the punk who gave her those bruises.' The thought of someone like him laying even a finger on her enraged him; he walked up to him intent on making him leave.

"Listen buddy, I know you're a sore loser and all but 'that girl' wants nothing more to do with you. So let our friends go and just get out of here before you embarrass yourself more." He said shooing them with his hands.

The leader grabbed Crow's collar lifting him off the ground, his breath reeked of smoke as he got right in his face. "You wanna say that again little man?"

Crow smirked, "You got beat by a girl and now you can't face the shame. You should just go hide in a hole, it would be less embarrassing."

The leader growled, as he pulled his arm back hand in a fist, "That's it!"

Crow expected to feel the pain of his punch; instead all he felt was the shock of his butt hitting the ground again.

"That's enough!" a voice said from behind him, lightning struck the ground in front of him making the giant of a man jump back. He heard the gangsters scream and yelp as more struck the ground around them, giving Akiza and Luna time to get over to Jack and Yusei.

Crow looked behind them as the lightning vanished; Raven was walking toward him, her duel runner behind her and a duel disk on her arm.

"Really, you guys lose majorly to one girl then come back just to embarrass yourself more? Pathetic." She said smirking as she came to stand a few feet away from him.

The leader smiled, "Heh, not likely bitch. I came to get revenge for last night, this is gonna be different than yesterday!" Raven's expression didn't change; she merely raised her duel disk.

"Fine, let's duel then. I win; you leave and don't bother me again." Crow stood up, hearing the frustration in her voice. The leader smiled,

"And if I win; you have to join my gang and be my girl." Raven narrowed her eyes.

"Fine. Let's duel!" she yelled as the disk activated,

"Raven stop! You can't just risk everything for us!" Crow yelled, she ignored him and drew her cards.

"Ladies first." The leader said, Raven nodded pulling another card.

"First I'll summon Masked Dragon in attack mode!" A large white and red winged dragon appeared before her, "then I will place two cards face down. That will do for now."

"Ha! That just had 1400 attack points! I put Hydrogeddon in attack mode; now attack her pathetic excuse of a monster!" The giant water creature shot a stream of water toward Raven's dragon; it stopped as a giant sphinx appeared above her.

"Seems you forgot about my face down cards, this one especially, it's called Ordeal of a Traveler. Now try and keep up, I will try to explain this as slowly as I can. Now you have to pick one of the cards in my hand and tell me the type. If you get it right, my monster goes poof, but if you get it wrong your monster gets sent back to your hand. Understand?" Crow stared not really sure of her strategy.

"Fine, I choose the last one on the left, it's a monster card."

Raven smiled and turned the card, Pot of Greed."Sorry looks like your monster gets sent back to your hand." The monster vanished leaving him very peeved.

Raven yawned, "Gosh, I remember this being more a challenge when I was kicking your butts yesterday. Guess I was mistaken." The leader got even more angry, Crow had to hand it too her; for someone who didn't grow up dueling she could really trash talk with the best of them.

"My turn!" she said as she drew another card before putting it in with the rest of her cards, "I will summon my Divine Dragon Ragnarok in attack mode." A giant silver Chinese dragon appeared.

"Yeah! Now she had two monsters she can attack him with!" Leo said excitedly, Crow agreed with the combined attack points of 1400 and 1500 she would definitely take a good chunk of his life points. Not to mention thanks to her psychic abilities the damage the leader would get would be more then enough pay back which is what made her next words even more shocking.

"I will then place one card face down and end my turn."

"What? Why the duce didn't you attack him?" Jack said,

"She has to be planning something, right guys?" the small teal haired girl replied back.

'I know what I'm doing; just have to wait a little bit longer.' She thought as her opponent drew his card, "Man, you must be dumber then you look for not attacking me last time. First I'll summon my Hyper Hammerhead in attack mode, and then play the field spell Jurassic World!"

The area around them changed and was filled with trees and an active volcano in the distance, "This card gives my Hammerhead a 300 point power boost."

Raven smirked, 'that's right dummy, play right into my hands.'

"Now attack her Masked Dragon!" his raptor ran forward and moved its hammer like head down on her dragon making it vanish, sending shockwaves toward her, she crashed to the ground as her life points went down too 3500.

The gangster leader began laughing as she stood up again, "You like that? Hahaha wait till you see what we're going to do when we get back to my place!"

Raven scrunched her nose, "I'd rather die, thanks." She replied disgusted.

"Before you end your turn I think you should know about my dragon's special ability; once it's destroyed in battle I can summon another dragon in its place with 1500 attack points or less. So I think I will bring out my Red-eyes black chick in attack mode."

"Heh! You think that little thing can beat my dino's? You're more insane then I gave you credit for. I end my turn." Raven rolled her eyes as she drew another card and sighed.

"Hmm…Looks like your time is up and as I expected you were a boring opponent." She dead panned at the end.

The guy looked at her dumbfounded, "What the hell are you talking about? My Hammerhead is the most powerful monster on the field." She smiled and glared at him.

"Like this; first I will summon my Luster Dragon in attack mode, then I will tune all three of my monsters to summon this: my Victory Dragon!" All three of her monsters vanished and in their place appeared a giant golden dragon with sharp talons and teeth.

"And before you go calling an attack or special effect I should let you know something." she shook her head, "My dragon doesn't like to fight monsters so I will activate my Lightning Vortex! Now all I have to do is send one card from my hand to the grave to send all your monsters to the graveyard." As she sent a card to the grave lightning came down destroying his Hammerhead.

"And I'm not done yet, and then I activate my Stamping Destruction spell card! With this since I have a dragon type on my side of the field I can destroy one spell or trap card on your side, and I choose your face down!" her dragon flew into the air and stomped down onto his card revealing Negate Attack.

The leader screamed as he realized what was happening,

"W-wait a sec! can't we at least come to-" Raven narrowed her eyes

"No. You attack the people nice enough to keep me around even with all the shit in my life and you expect me to hold back. No way, now when my Victory dragon attacks you directly you can say bye bye to all your life points."

Raven could feel her powers flow as her anger got out of control but she couldn't help it, Crow would probably never speak to her again and she would once again lose someone she cared about. She wasn't even sure when he had become so important to her just that he had, and she was going to be damned if she lost him to anyone.

"Victory Dragon, attack him directly and end this duel!" her dragon roared as it shot fire out toward the gangster leader, she heard him scream in pain before collapsing to the ground out cold.

"And that is that," she looked at the other gangsters that were staring in shock,

"A deal is a deal, now the get the heck outta here before I get angrier." She said as her powers shook a light post near them.

"W-wait! We were told to give you this message if we saw you again," one of them said stuttering,

"'Pandora is watching' some guy came by our hide out last night and told us to tell you that. That's all we know, I swear!" With that they grabbed their boss and quickly ran away.

'Pandora? Why does…that sound so familiar?' it made her head hurt to think about, so she dropped it for now deciding to work on the scene here and now. She turned toward where Jack, Yusei, and Crow were standing with the teal haired twins and the red head girl.

Raven bowed letting her hair hide her face, "I'm sorry, it's my fault they came here. I put you in terrible danger with my rash actions." Her heart fell as her words were met with silence. Standing straight again she put her duel disk back on her runner and deck back into the pouch on her leg.

"I-I think I'm just gonna go then…" a voice stopped her just as she was about to turn and leave,

"That was so cool!" and there was Nao running toward her, Raven panicked as she heard a strange metallic squeaking sound.

The light post she had shifted earlier began to fall and Nao was right under it!

Well there we have it. Like I said, I wasn't sure how to approach the dueling thing so I tried to make it as simple as possible. Please R&R and tell me what you think, any helpful hints or commentary is welcome! Till next time!