Oh my gosh! Hahaha I totally thought I already updated this, this week! XD I'm awful i know! Anyway; I want to thank my amazing reviewers! Black Dragon 42, Deseya, FiringShootingStar, Magdalene Thorne for their amazing reviews! I'm glad you all are enjoying my story!
Disclaimer: If I owned Yugioh 5Ds this pairing wouldn't be made up.
"Raven…." The girl ignored the voice and tried to slip back into her warm dreamless sleep,
"Raven…" she frowned as the echoing voice called too her again. She blew out a breath and opened her eyes expecting to see the room she remembered falling asleep in, but as her pale blue eyes opened it was not the case. The area she was currently in was white, everywhere she looked was white.
"Hello?" her voice echoed back to her making her shiver in response. A song played somewhere close by, like from a music box, one that was very familiar too her but she couldn't place where she had heard it.
A soft and sweet melody that seemed to flow from somewhere close by, confused Raven stood up and after a few steps fell from the edge of something. She looked around and saw nothing that could have caused that, 'Alright…' still the harmonious sound called too her, something inside of her telling her she needed to find out where the sound came from.
After walking a bit more and feeling like she was walking down stairs her feet touched cold ground, but the feeling vanished as she realized the song was so loud now that she could feel it through her feet. Raven looked around confused,
"Raven…" the voice echoed again, but this time it seemed to come from right in front of her.
Raven's back began to burn as the song ended and the area around her changed, more voices reached her ears but this time was accompanied by faces and scenes of blood and pain passing before her eyes.
A scream ripped from her throat.
Yusei sighed as he left Sector Security headquarters,
"Four hours of searching and still we've got nothing." Akiza yawned and smiled reassuringly,
"Not nothing Yusei, we do know that it did exist." The dark haired boy nodded remembering what the blue haired woman had said.
"Pandora? That's a name I haven't seen for a while." The blue haired women said holding an inquisitive hand to her chin as she leaned back in her chair. They were currently in her office at Sector Security headquarters, Yusei's eyes widened,
"You've heard of it?" she nodded as Akiza smiled, both of them excited to finally get some information.
"What can you tell us about it?" he asked, she thought for a second before beginning.
"First you have to tell me why you want to know." Yusei explained their situation and about Raven, Mina looked concerned as she processed this and finally nodded.
"Alright, basically Pandora was once a division of the city research facilities. They mostly did research regarding psychic duelists, and diseases." The latter sent chills down Yusei's spine, Mina continued.
"This happened about a year or so after the Ener-D reactors blew up, but the lead scientist of Pandora, Doctor Wulf, brought a daring discovery to Director Goodwin. Apparently he had discovered a way to not only harness the power of psychic duelists but a way to create more." Akiza gasped and Yusei clenched his gloved hands together.
"Director Goodwin of course denied his request to mass produce the drug when we found that he was testing on actual people, and eventually shut down the project entirely. After that Doctor Wulf just vanished taking all of his research with him. Sector Security looked for him for months before Goodwin decided it was time to stop." Yusei nodded,
"Did he happen to have a daughter too?" Mina sighed and nodded,
"Yes, but she vanished along with Wulf." Akiza spoke up now,
"And her mother?" Mina shook her head,
"That I'm not sure about, only a select few knew about the details of that case. The rest is sealed in a file in the Sector Security database."
"Can't you access it?" again she shook her head,
"Only the director is able to access it now. Do you think Wulf could be behind the recent string of illnesses?" Yusei sighed,
"Honestly at this point I'm not even sure. Only Wulf knows the real answer and apparently Raven has something to do with it." Mina nodded and stood,
"Then I will try to get access to the file, until then just try and be careful alright?" Yusei nodded and thanked the woman for her time before walking out.
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Yusei was shook from his thought as his signer mark began to glow and burn; he winced and grabbed hold of his arm in an attempt to soothe his arm. Akiza stood next too him staring at her own mark before the world around them swirled and both of them were now standing in a white room.
"What the duce?!" Yusei turned and to his left was Jack the blonde looked at him confused,
"What the duce is going on? How did I get here?" before he could answer though another frightened voice appeared,
"Yusei! You're here too?" they all looked over and saw the twins standing there in their pajamas,
"Freaky…" Crow said looking around confused.
"Why are we all here?" Akiza asked no one in particular, Yusei looked around wondering the same thing. The walls around them began to ripple and move as if they were made of water, a female voice rose around them.
"The clock will turn back and you'll see many things. But the past memories might not be wonderful; do you still want to go through with it?" None of them was sure who it was talking too, but he felt as if he some how knew this presence so looking at the others, although unsure, nodded their heads. He looked straight ahead to where he thought the voice was coming from,
"Yes." The wall ahead of them turned dark and memories played out in front of them as if they were watching a movie on an old projector.
"Rose! Don't die! Get the code team in here!" A pale white woman with long black hair lay on an operating table with tubes and wires running all different directions and a heart monitor beginning to slow in its beeping noise.
The woman smiled as she placed her hand on the dark haired man's face, tears were streaming down his face. The heart monitor flat lined and the woman's hand dropped from his face.The doors behind him opened and a little girl of no more than 5 ran in, her looks very similar to the woman's except for her pale blue eyes.
"MOMMY!" she ran up too the bed and grasped the hand that lay limp on the table tears streaming down her eyes making them shine bright in the florescent lighting.
Crow's heart nearly stopped as he realized who that little girl was,
"Raven…" he whispered as the scene changed to the inside of what appeared to be another facility. Only this time it was Raven strapped to the table wearing nothing more than a tattered old white dress as tubes and wires protruded from her. Her body was severely malnourished and it was a wonder, In Crow's mind, that she was alive. The thought alone made his heart clench, even as the small girl took a ragged breath that made even his own lungs feel pain.
Men in lab coats watched from behind a window as they proceeded to shock her brain, gaining various outcomes, and completely ignoring the girl's screams of pain. She turned her head as another wave of shocks were sent into her system, a strange blue liquid feeding into a needle protruding from her arm making the vein in her arm almost seem to glow.
"Daddy! Daddy please!" she screamed, but the familiar man behind the glass, now with gray streaks in his hair only smiles as readings come up on the screen.
"The test is going as planned, she is better than your previous subjects Wulf." One of them laughed. Wulf nodded, "Indeed, my late wife's offspring may prove useful after all."
Akiza stood in front of the twins covering their view of the painful cries and blood that streamed down from the girls eyes and ears. Her scream seemed to echo as the scene once again changed this time however Raven was smiling as a bright crimson form hovered above her.
"I accept your terms." She whispered as the form entered her body, the girl gasped as the red snake like form entered her body, she arched her back upwards as her eyes shined a bright yellow. Behind the glass however stood the four scientists from before, the computers around them going haywire as the power readings went crazy.
"Doctor! Readings are off the charts!"
"We've done it Doctor! We got the dragon!" they smiled even as the computers around them blew up the screens smoking black.
As they watched this their marks began to glow again,
"Yusei, do you think…" Crow couldn't even finish the sentence. Yusei's cobalt eyes stared ahead, not believing what he had just seen,
"I don't know Crow." Crow had to hold back himself as he realized the man who had caused her such pain was right in front of him not that long ago and he did nothing. Jack and Yusei seemed to be having the same dilemma, as both of their hands were clenched tight and their bodies stood rigid. The scene changed again as two people, a man and a woman, their faces covered in shadow, were running down the hall with sirens going off behind them.
In the woman's arms she held the unconscious form of Raven,
"Keep going Jane, don't look back!" the man yelled as they reached a door and slammed through it coming out in what looked to be an underground parking garage. The man running in an adjacent direction as the woman, Jane, ran toward a running car. As soon as she was inside and Raven was strapped against her did she look back the way she came.
The man drove one of the cars in front of the door, blocking their chasers from following them. He ran from the car and jumped into the one Jane was sitting inside; he gunned the car and drove out of the underground parking lot. He didn't slow down until after they had left New Domino city behind, and even then he kept looking back through the rear-view mirror.
"John…do you think we're safe?" he looked back another time before shaking his head,
"No honey, not until we get there will we be safe. But we got her out before they could use her powers and that's what matters right now." Jane stroked the sleeping girls' hair.
"Don't worry Raven, no matter what Wulf won't get his hands on you. You'll have a hard life but I'm sure you'll meet people someday who will make all the hardship worth it." Jane pressed her forehead against the sleeping girls and John smiled and grabbed hold of his wife's hand.
"That's right Raven, but until then we'll do our best to raise you and make you strong enough to face the challenges ahead of you." Both their eyes shined with unshed tears,
"She's our daughter now." Jane said letting her tears fall, John nodded and turned back to the road.
Crow wiped away the tears that had formed in his eyes as the walls moved like water again. Their marks began to glow as a tornado of crimson flames appeared in front of them, when they dispersed the Crimson Dragon flew before them raised up on its hind legs.
"The past has been revealed. The future is once again in your hands my Signers. Protect the Vessel." Its voice echoed around them and they realized that was the voice from before.
"Wait!" Crow yelled before it could disappear them their sight again. Everyone looked toward him, but he had to ask this, had to know.
"Is there a way to separate both of you?" The dragon's yellow eyes stared at him before replying,
"Death." His body sagged and tension filled his body again,
"Hold on, if we saw all of this…doesn't that mean that Raven did too?!" he yelled worried now.
"She is aware of this occurrence, it is she who wished for you all to know this. Though she did it unconsciously her spirit felt you had a right to know, the memories she has locked away all this time have become clear and it is up to her what shall happen next." Their eyes widened, the dragon roared as the crimson flames once again engulfed it and died down leaving Raven standing there. Her hands were folded together as if praying as her hair billowed softly around her.
The boys blushed as she was only wearing the shirt Crow had lent her that barely reached the middle of her thighs, and one of the shoulders falling off her slender ones. Crow stepped forward, reaching out toward her,
"Raven…" The girl opened her eyes and looked toward each of them, tears formed in her eyes as she got to Crow and she dropped her hand, the other reached out toward him. Crow ran toward her but before they could connect, like smoke she vanished from their sights and the white room bottomed out.
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Crow opened his eyes and saw he was back inside the bathroom, he breathed hard before running out and back into his room.
"Raven?" he yelled as he flipped on the light switch, only to see an empty room. Still he searched the bed to make sure but found nothing, his heart nearly stopped as he remembered the image of her vanishing before her could get too her. He shook the feeling of dread from his body and left the room, running down the stairs. That's when he heard Bruno shouting from outside,
"Raven? Wake up!" he ran toward the blue haired boy's voice. When he got outside he noticed three things; it was snowing, that Raven was passed out in Bruno's arms, and that she had the complete mark of the Crimson Dragon glowing on her back. He appeared at the boy's side,
"Bruno, what happened?" he looked at Crow eyes wide,
"I don't know! I thought she was sleep walking at first but then this giant red tornado engulfed her and when it disappeared she collapsed." Crow reached out and carefully cupped her cheek, she instinctively turned toward it and he sighed.
"Let's get her back inside, it's snowing and I don't want her catching a cold." Bruno nodded and stood up carefully cradling her in his arms before walking back inside. Crow led the way as they walked into his room, the blue haired boy setting the girl carefully down on the bed before wrapping her tightly in the blankets. She was shivering and buried deeper into the warmth of the bed, Crow smiled.
"Thanks Bruno, you should head to bed though. It's getting pretty late." He looked at the sleeping girl before nodding his head. Crow heard Yusei's runner come in as he switched off the light and climbed in the bed with Raven, as he slipped under the covers she turned toward him. Crow wrapped himself around her, both for body heat and that he felt the need to be near her right now. He felt her breath on his neck and buried his face in her hair,
"I'm so sorry Raven…I'm sorry you had to go through all that all by yourself. But I promise we will be happy together and that damn Wulf will never get his hands on you again." He whispered silently as he heard Yusei and Bruno talking downstairs for a bit before the lights from under the door turned off, signaling they had gone to bed.
As Crow drifted off he swore he heard a soft,
"Thank you."
Umm...Well I don't really know what to say about this chapter. I hope it okay at least, so please review with anything thoughts or helpful comments and I promise i won't forget this week to update!
Till next time! :3