Ahhh sorry for the late update, I've been sick for the past few days (still am technically) but i managed to get this chapter out! Yay me! I would also like to thank FiringShootingStar for their wonderful and helpful advice as usual! I am definetly trying to improve!

Disclaimer: You all know this bit, OC = mine all of Yugioh 5Ds = Not mine.

Raven jumped back into consciousness at the sound of a loud banging, but she was incredibly warm. Like there was a personal heater right next to her, and the chill around her really made her not want to open her eyes. She nuzzled closer to the warmth as the banging continued.

"Crow damn you! Wake up!" a voice yelled, she frowned, 'Crow? Why would someone be calling his name at my apartment?' realization came too late, as there was a slamming sound and Jack's voice filled the room.

"Hey! I thought I told you-"he was cut off by the sight in front of him, Crow was snoring softly on his back a trail of drool going down his cheek. However this wasn't the thing that stopped him, Raven had her head against his chest one hand entangled with Crow's off to the side while Crows other arm rested around her waist.

Raven screamed as her warm thing was taken out from under her, sending her rolling off the bed and onto the hard ground.

"Ow, ow…what was that for?" she wondered as her pale blue eyes traveled upwards to see none other than Jack Atlas standing above her holding a very pissed off Crow by his collar.

"What the duce is going on? I let her stay because she would be safe and I find you've already taken advantage of her!" The blonde yelled, "What the hell man! I didn't do anything!" Raven's mind was still in a sleepy fog so she wasn't too sure what was going on.

But all this bickering this early was making her head hurt, which did not make her a happy camper. She blew out a frustrated breath, they were yelling so loud she didn't even think she could get through to either of them. Instead she tried a more direct approach; pointing both her pointer fingers at each of them and crossing them upwards.

Just like the previous time they both yelled as they were lifted into the air.

"Raven! What the hell?!" Crow said waving his arms in a crazy manner to keep from hitting the ceiling, Jack just floated with his arms crossed and a very sour look on his face. She gave them both a very annoyed look, and put up two fingers.

"There are two primary choices in life: accept conditions as they exist or accept the responsibility for changing them. And I'm changing them if you don't mind, so until you both can play nicely you're gonna hang out up there and learn how." With that she grabbed her clothes and walked out of the room, intent on at least showering off this foul mood.

Yusei stood by the door with a tall blue haired man in a white and yellow jacket, "Are they going to stay up there all day, because Crow has work in about an hour, and Jack is supposed to go pretend to find a job." The dark haired man commented, "Is that even safe?" the blue haired man said looking at them in awe.

She stared sleepily at them and mummbled, "I will let them down before I leave. May I use the shower?" they both nodded and she continued on her way.

Ten or so minutes later Crow heard the water shut off from the corner of his bedroom ceiling, Jack leaned against a wall not far away from him.

"Hey! Jack." The red head said,

"What is it?" the blonde replied.

"What's up with you? You've been acting weird around Raven since yesterday." He was kind of curious as to what was up with the usually extremely conceded man to act so protecting of someone.

"I don't know what you're talking about."

Crow sighed, deciding it was best to let it drop for now. He looked to the doorway as the bathroom door opened and out walked a refreshed and happy Raven. She walked carefully into the room and after fixing the bed that had been messed up earlier and placing the clothes she had been previously wearing on top she looked around for something.

'What's up with her? Is she ignoring us?' he thought as she looked to be thinking about something, that's when he eyes locked onto Jack's boots,

"Well?! We're friends again! Now will you let me the duce down?" Jack demanded, his patience seeming to run out.

Raven stared at him for a minute before looking around and seeing Crow she gasped, "Oh my gosh! I'm so sorry! I forgot you guys were still up there, oh dear…" she looked at her shoes as she pointed at them again and Crow felt his body slowly regain it's previous gravity and he landed safely onto the ground by the dresser.

Jack landed a few feet away from her; she was blushing a dark shade of red.

"I-I'm so sorry! I'm really not a morning person!" she bowed. Crow couldn't help but think how cute she looked right now, 'she actually looks cute all the time.' He corrected himself.

"It's no biggie really! It's all Jacks fault for waking us up that way." Crow knew he had a point, but Raven still looked really unhappy. And Jack just stood there with his arms folded over his chest,

"Come on Jack, you know I'm right. Just apologize to the girl before she starts crying!" he said. Crow wasn't really sure what he was gonna do if she started crying though.

'Actually I could just hum to her again, it seemed to work last night.' Think about that he remembered how terrified she had sounded, she was whispering but Crow knew begging when he heard it. And whatever she was seeing was terrifying enough to make her beg for its end. It was heart breaking to see, and made a strong anger burn inside his chest. It was really too bad the red head didn't know who to hate.

Crow was broken from his thoughts as Raven squeaked, Jack put his hand on her head. He didn't say anything, but Crow had known Jack long enough to see that he was trying to apologize, in his own way.

A minute or two later he calmly walked out leaving the blue eyed girl staring after him, Crow smiled as she looked back at him.

"So umm…was that an apology?" he nodded and dug some clothes out of his dresser for work.

"C-Crow?" she stuttered, he turned seeing her holding out a piece of paper. "If you want to hang out again, or just talk this is my 'cell phone number', I believe that's what it's called. Apparently you can talk to another person with it when they are far away. B-but anyway, please feel free to use it if you want." The red haired man took the piece of paper smiling again.

'Even her lack of technology knowledge is cute…' he thought but shook his head and said instead,

"Sure! Do you wanna get lunch later? I get off around 3." Crow wasn't sure how it happened but for some reason he just couldn't get through a day without spending a majority of it with her. Which was weird, and strange and actually….nice.

He chuckled as she turned another shade of red as she nodded her head,

"Cool, we can just meet back here and go somewhere." Now it was his turn to blush as the timid girl looked right at him and smiled the most beautiful smile he'd seen on her since meeting. It was then that he decided that smile would be the death of him.

After a short and awkward meeting with the blue haired man, named Bruno, Raven left. Her dream was still bugging her, so she decided to look for information; on the Crimson Dragon, the signers and even that man. 'Why did that all look so familiar? I don't understand any of this.' She thought as she sped down the highway.

She remembered the conversation she had with Bruno before she left;

The blue haired boy seemed just as awkward around her as she did around him, which made Crow laugh as they seemed to fall into constant bouts of silence. Raven had found that this man knew nothing of his past except for his name and his skills. Raven felt a mix of emotions as she learned this: jealousy and sadness be the prominent ones.

As Crow left to check on his runner before leaving for work, Raven took this chance to ask the blue haired man something that she wanted to know. She poked him and pointed to a nearby corner so they could speak without being heard. Not that Yusei would hear them as he was too engrossed in whatever he was doing to his runner.

Once they were a good distance away she started;

"Umm, I'm not really from around here. But I need to find some information…" Bruno thought for a second,

"I'm sure Yusei would be ok with you using the computer." She shook her head,

"It's rather personal."

"Hmm, you could try the library downtown. They have a lot of books and a pretty good database. If you want I could come with you, and help?" Raven blushed and politely turned down his offer. She got the directions from him and left not long after.

~0~0~0~

After taking a few wrong turns and awkwardly speaking to the librarian about a library card she was finally let into the many rows upon rows of books. She wasn't really sure where to start looking, so she started the way her parents always would; the computer.

When she clicked the mouse and the search engine appeared, something called 'Google' she typed in the words she was looking for, Crimson Dragon and Signers.

A few seconds later a screen of links appeared, most being from a strangely named site called, 'Wikipedia'. She clicked on the first one which brought up a page she read closely what it said;

"5,000 years ago, an ancient civilization known as the People of the Stars worshiped a mystical light called the 'Dragon Star', which was prayed on by the leader of the People of the Stars, the Star Dragon King, at the top of the Stairway to the Dragon Star. When the star shined, the king knew it would be a message from their god, the Crimson Dragon."

This peaked her interest a bit so she kept reading;

"According to legend, The Crimson Dragon could only be summoned with the help of the Signers, whose individual marks either represented the Heart, Hand, Tail, Wings, Foot and Head of the dragon. Also according to legend there was once a single person with the full mark of the dragon, this person is said to be the portal with which the dragon could enter the world of mankind. Ancient hieroglyphs told researchers that this portal would be necessary when 'the world fell into darkened illness.'"

Raven was surprised, 'So whoever that little girl is, is the portal? And who are the signers now?' The article went on to explain about the Dark Signers and the Nazca Lines, and a thought struck her; Didn't Crow tell her something about the Dark Signers? 'But why would he-'she remembered the mark on his arm the other night, she hadn't seen it very clearly.

She quickly scanned through the document for any pictures of these dragon marks; her heart was pounding in her chest as she clicked on a link to them. As the pictures finally loaded her heart stopped, the one shaped like a tail matched perfectly with the mark on his arm.

She leaned against the back of the chair in shock,

'So…Crow is a Signer?' Now that she thought about it didn't Jack have a red mark on his arm too? And Yusei, he wasn't wearing his jacket while he was working; she was sure she saw a red mark on his arm too.

'Does that mean all of them are Signers?' she was pretty sure that's what it meant, but why that brought fear to her heart she wasn't sure. Questions rang through her head, should she ask them, what would they say, do they know who that little girl from her dream is? She took a shaky breath and closed the page; Raven wasn't sure why but something told her to go to the herbal remedies where she ended up checking out a very large book on them.

Most of it was just review to her, most of the women in Alturas were taught home remedies so that the few doctors actually there could focus on the more serious stuff, doctors like her parents. But she shook the thought from her head and continued to read as she walked out of the building and leaning against her runner.

She wasn't sure how long it was but she was shaken from her readings by a ringing in her bag, digging out the object she found her small purple flip phone was ringing, the screen outside said unknown. She pressed the small button on the side as it automatically flipped open and she pressed it too her ear, thinking it was Crow.

"Hello?" she asked there was a frantic yelling and someone was crying in the background.

"Shhh! I'm calling right now! Don't go crazy Doctor; I'm sure she can help!" Raven blinked,

"Umm…who is this?"

"Raven? Oh thank goodness! I'm so sorry, Crow mentioned he had your phone number. Would you mind coming over for a bit? We have a small problem that we think you could fix." She blinked and frowned at the woman's frantic tone,

"Martha? What kind of problem?"

"Well…here let me put the doctor on." There was a sound as the phone was passed before a man cleared his throat.

"Ms. Raven? This is Dr. Schmidt, I'm afraid many of the children have taken ill. It's an illness we call the 'Satellite flu', and I had heard you were from Alturas, the village of healers is that correct?" she nodded and when she realized he couldn't see her she confirmed his information.

The man let out a giant sigh of relief,

"Then please, could you come and see if there is anything you can do? I've heard your not good around groups so I've already called the boys to help out." She blew out a breath she didn't know she was holding and said she'd be there soon. After which, the line went dead and she stood staring at the screen till it too went black.

She flipped it closed and nodded her head, 'Alright Raven, time be useful! You can do this!' the dark haired girl thought as she stuffed the book and the phone into her bag and hoping onto her runner and speeding off.

Raven sighed as she pulled up to Martha's house and saw Yusei and Crow's runners outside, she quickly walked up to the door and knocked. It opened a second later with a very frazzled Martha on the other side,

"Oh thank goodness! Doctor, Doctor! Raven is here! Please this way."

The look on the usually strong woman's face was a mix of worry and fear; she placed her hand on the woman's shoulder.

"Please take a deep breath, I promise I will help as much as I can. But you can't show the children how frightened you are." Raven gave her a reassuring smile and took a few steadying breaths and the fear was replaced with a strong look of hope in her eyes.

Yusei, Crow and a man with a long face and gray hair parted right down the middle with bangs on each side of his face, though one side was longer than the other. He appeared calm, but the dark haired girl could see that he feared just as much as Martha.

"Raven, this is Dr. Schmidt. He has a practice here and helps people who need medical treatment." Yusei said, the man stuck out his hand.

Raven gripped the strap of her bag tightly; his long white coat was the same as the man from her dream, plus she wasn't sure what she was supposed to do with his hand. Sensing her unease he retracted his hand,

"Please this way," he led them down a long hall and into a large room filled with beds, each had a child she saw before in a bed looking ghastly.

Her eye's widened as she took it all in, 'every single one of them?' She looked to Dr. Schmidt, as she walked over to the first bed feeling the child's forehead. The young girl was as hot as a furnace; she glanced at the people standing by the doors.

"Tell me about this, satellite flu."

The doctor cleared his throat again,

"Well it's an illness that's been going around recently, the person is perfectly fine in the morning, but later that day they have an extremely high fever, rapid heart rates, shortness of breath, and vomiting. So far, there have only been a few cases, but this seems immune to the all of the medication that's thrown at it."

Raven nodded and continued to examine the child; her throat, arms, stomach, legs, and feet for anything out of the ordinary. When she was sure it was nothing else she asked something she knew would confirm it.

"Please, tell me exactly when they showed these symptoms."

The doctor and Martha exchanged looks, Martha was the first to answer;

"I suppose it was around 8 this morning.'

"Are you sure? That was the exact time?" Raven's question came as more of a demand, but the information was crucial.

The woman nodded,

"Yes, it was right after breakfast. They suddenly started falling to the ground in pain." Yusei placed his hand on her shoulder; she was shaking as she remembered. Crow spoke now,

"Raven, you know what it is don't you?"

She sighed, "Yes. While I was still in Alturas many people journeyed there for an illness just like this." She rubbed the girls head, "We called it the desert flu because of its potency." She smiled now as she faced them,"Luckily, we were able to construct a cure for it in the early stages."

They all stared at her for a moment before Martha barreled towards her throwing her arms around Raven's neck and sobbing.

"Y-You're serious? You can make them all better?" Dr. Schmidt looked like he couldn't believe what he had just heard.

Yusei took the blubbering woman off Raven so she could breathe, and she nodded.

"Yes, luckily we caught it early enough to prevent any spread throughout the body and to others. A few days later and we would have been too late."

Crow had little tears in his eyes and looked like he was about to hug her too, but she put her hands up. "Please, no more hugs! In order for this to work we need to get started right away." They nodded and Raven proceeded to give out jobs.

"Doctor Schmidt and Martha, please stay in here and try to lower their temperature's, and keep them calm if they wake up. Say it's just a cold and they should be back to normal soon." They nodded and set to work, Martha heading off to the kitchen to get ice.

"Yusei and Crow, I'm going to need your help making the medicine." She picked up a pad and some paper on a nearby desk and started writing down ingredients,

"This is a list of things we are going to need, most of it is stuff you find in the kitchen but there is one thing on there that requires us to actually get. Do you know where a medicinal store would be?"

They thought for a second, and Crow snapped his fingers.

"Yeah! There's one on the edge of the city." She nodded and dug the book she got at the library out of her bag and after flipping through the pages found the correct one and handed it to Yusei. "Since this ingredient needs to be added last, just follow these instructions. I hope you're good at cooking." She added with a smile.

Yusei returned her smile and nodded his head, "I will try my best." She turned back to Crow and couldn't help the blush that formed on her cheeks as he looked at her with amazement in his eyes.

"C-Crow…You and me will go get the plant." He nodded and they all went about their jobs.

As Crow and Raven walked outside he grabbed the helmet off her runner and tossed it too her, "It'll be faster to just ride on one." She nodded a little nervous and put on her helmet. Crow wrapped his arm around her waist and helped her onto the Blackbird, before climbing in front of her and starting the engine.

He wrapped her arms around his back, before turning and giving her a smile that always made her heart beat double time.

"Hold on tight, we're gonna go pretty fast!" she nodded taking a deep breath as he pulled out and away from Martha's house, taking turns and dodging people walking at speeds she could only guess at.

She squeaked as they took a sharp turn and tightened her hold on Crow, at this point in time she didn't care that he was a Signer, who the portal was, or that man. She didn't care about all of it, right here and now it was just her and Crow, driving as fast as the wind and it made her heart beat happily.

All too soon however, the ride ended and Crow hoped off, and after helping her they walked into the little store.

~0~0~0~

Crow nearly pushed Raven out of the little store as she held a small white plant that to the red head looked like a flower. But according to her would help, the red haired man wasn't convinced but he trusted Raven and knew if anyone could save his kids, she would. Before they were completely out the door, he was now actually pushing her he was so impatient to get back; Raven stopped and turned to him, a serious look on her face. Pulling out her deck and fanning it out, she picked a card from the middle and placed it on his hand.

"Take this, and relax! You're making me more nervous then usual." She giggled as she said this; Crow looked at the card in his hand.

"Winged Heart?" the card had a picture of a heart with a giant black bird in the background wrapping its wings around it.

"My parents gave that too me, whenever I get scared or unsure I look at it and I always feel better." He smirked and mentally slapped himself.

'Damn it Crow, she's right! You need to calm down and trust her. She can handle this.' Crow thought as he closed his eyes and held the card close to his heart, breathing deeply he could feel himself calming down.

"Everything is going to be fine." Crow nodded and Raven walked out ahead of him.

Crow was still staring at the card as he walked out to join Raven,

"Hey Raven, you know this card is pretty cool. I bet your parents-"he cut himself off at the sound of a yelp; a dark haired tough guy held a struggling Raven up in the air, her wrists firmly grasped in one of his hands, with a knife in the other hand and up to her throat. Crow officially hated this guy right then and there. Standing next to them was a woman in a white lab coat over a short pencil skirt and a button down top tucked into it. Her hair was a bright pink color and tightly tied up into a bun, Crow would have thought she was cute if not for the icy stare her dark eyes were giving him.

"Can I help you both with something?" he asked, though he looked calm his voice said he wasn't playing around.

The woman smiled,

"Why yes, I just wanted to let you know we would be taking back our property now. If you don't mind." She clearly wasn't asking, as she motioned to Raven who freaked out even more as tears formed in her eyes. Crow glared, 'We don't have time for this!'

Yay cliffhangers! Anyway, this next chapter might take some time but I will find a way to push through my sicky-ness! Please R&R! Helpful comments, things you liked, things you didn't. I accept them all! So please let me know!

Until Next time! :3