This chapter focuses on Rin and Serena.

Warning: Serena has a sad background. You have been warned.

i don't own Yugioh Arc V

Hope you enjoy!

Chapter 5

Dream:

"What did I say!" a young girl with red and maroon hair tied into two pigtails with green clips yells at a boy with spiky gray hair with very light green highlights, but their faces where blurry. They looked like they could be ten. They were sitting in her room with the girl applying peroxide to the boys arm with a cotton swab.

"But - I had to! Those bullies weren't going to learn otherwise." The boy tries to defend himself while pouting. He cringes when the girl put the Band-Aid on his arm a little roughly as she glares at the boy making him go pale.

"You may be right, but you didn't have to summon Clear Wing to stop them! Now their parents are saying bad things about you…" she yells at first only to get really soft with her voice filled with sadness.

'- is always getting hurt and all I can do is just watch. It's not fair!' she thinks hating her own weakness. The boy scratches his cheek then pulls out a card from his back pocket and hand it to her while looking away blushing. As she took the card she kept her eyes on his turned face with confusion in her eyes.

"I got it back for you -. I know how much it means to you so…" he trailed off with now a really red face. The girl finally took her eyes of him and looked at the card in her hands for the first time and felt tears form in her eyes. She remembered that bully taking it from her when she beat him a week prior, but when her father tried to get it back, the bully denied he had it. It was the only thing she had left from her mother. Now fully crying she jumped the boy and cried into his shoulder saying thank you over and over again. At first the boy was shocked then he returned the hug while laughing.

"Don't worry about it -! If it's something really important just tell me and I will do anything to get it, even if I have to beat the crap out of the Champion!" he said boasting which made the girl start laughing.

Dream End:

Rin woke up in a quick sitting up position while panting. She looked at herself and saw she was sweating. She looked around and saw Yugo sleeping with his upper torso on the ground. She closed her eyes and shakes her head while sighing. She looked at him again with a small smile.

'I'm all he's got and he is all I got in this disgusting town.' She thinks as she gets up and heads to their bathroom to take a shower. When the water was hot enough she stepped in.

'What was with that dream? Who were those two…and why did that boy remind me of Yugo?' she thought as she washed the shampoo out of her hair. As she thought about that boy and Yugo a little more while blow drying her hair after getting dressed, she heard a loud bang and Yugo cursing up a storm. She lets out a sigh and tried to hurry up a bit or else Yugo would leave her behind like he did the day before yesterday on her birthday…

Flashback:

It was noon and Rin still couldn't find Yugo, so she was livid. Anyone that saw her face instantly got out of her way fearing for their lives and the poor sucker that made her this mad. She looked all around the commons, hell she even checked the sewers: which she made a mental note to knee him in his stomach for that. She continued to look but he wasn't in his usual hang out and when she asked Crow, he said he hadn't seen him all day. Yes she was livid. As she got closer to tops territory she prayed he wasn't here. She kept to the shadows since she knew if any of these pigs saw her they would instantly call security. She hated the tops for their prejudice. She didn't care if they did anything to her but if they hurt Yugo then they better hope that their Security and Arcadia Movement can protect them from her wrath.

She saw a crowd in a park that was in the middle of tops territory and saw they were having a small tournament. Now more than ever she prayed that her banana haired idiot wasn't here, but when she saw Clear Wing she wanted to crawl into a hole and just die. Up on stage holding a trophy with a big grin was Yugo. She could see the second place person was mad but she ignored him and stared at Yugo.

'At least he's okay. He looks really happy.' She thought watching him pose for the camera. She knew he wouldn't keep the trophy since you were practically begging to be robbed so why was he here? When Yugo saw her he jumped off the stage yelling her name with his arms open wide prepared to give her a hug but got a knee to his stomach instead; payback for the sewers she had to search. She was scolding him as they left to find his duel runner not noticing the second place person on his phone and Denis watching them from afar. When he pulled out his duel runner and was on the road to get back to the commons, security was in pursuit trying to arrest them. He picked up speed but was forced into a duel. Yugo won thanks to his trap card he placed on his first turn and his Clear Wing Synchro dragon (An: watch Episode 55) It was at that moment Denis took a photo of them and Rin felt like someone was watching them but she had that feeling for a while, but only when she was with Yugo. She told him about her feeling and he promised he would look for a new place to keep Rin safe but Rin said they will find a place since she had a gut feeling it was Yugo they were following...

Flashback End:

As she was brushing her hair she remembered when he gave her Windwitch-Snowbell and her actions after had her face turning red as a tomato. Then she remembered his words and how they were almost the same as the boy from her dream. Quickly pulled from that thought Rin ran out of the bathroom finished when she heard Yugo start their duel runner.

"Where the hell do you think you are going Yugo?! YUGO!"

Meanwhile, Serena was looking for her target and was having terrible luck. She made sure that her black coat covered her face, but it was really hot and she was sweating and panting. Not to mention the strange looks she was getting from people she walked past. It took her a while but she reached the docks and the abandoned building from the coordinates on her duel disk but saw it was empty. She tsked and then raised her bracelet and saw it was not shining.

'Oh yeah, it will only glow at night when the moon is really bright' she thought as she let out a sigh. She walked out and saw some people that looked like hoodlums coming her way struggling to walk in a straight line, so she just stayed where she was as they got closer.

"Hey babe what's your name?" A man old enough to be her father asked. She made a mental note that he was drunk from his slurring and his bad breath. She took a step back to get her personal space back.

'Disgusting Pigs, I'm glad Yuri never had to see this.' She thought as she narrowed her eyes looking at the other two trying to surround her.

"Oh little kitty thinks she is too good for us commons, top scum" one of the men said making his two buddies laugh. When she heard him call her kitty she felt her eye twitch as she remembered something from her past she wanted to forget…

Flashback:

"I play Moonlight Blue Cat in defense position and set two cards down and end my turn." A four year old Serena yelled as she looked at two bullies that had tormented her for two years.

"Is that all you can do kitty?" one of them said.

"Kitty?" the other one asked with a smirk looking at the shacking girl.

"Yeah all she ever does is play Moonlight Blue Cat and her best monster is a cat." The first one said laughing with his buddy.

"WILL YOU GO ALREADY?!" she yelled. Yes although she was scared she did have a short temper. But the bullies ignored her and continued on with their conversation smirking at the trembling girl.

"But why a cat?" the boy asked.

"Simple she reminds me of a cat. Always thinking their better and always being annoying with their constant meowing and I want to prove something-" the boy trailed off walking toward Serena making her walk back. As she was walking backwards she lost her footing and fell but was fast enough to grab the ledge. She cried for help with tears in her eyes looking at her bullies that were fully smirking at her.

"What do you want to prove?" one of the boys said smirking at the terrified girl.

"I don't know prove cats don't have nine lives!" the boy said lifting his foot to stomp on Serena's hand while smirking at her. She was petrified as she saw his foot coming closer with her tears falling down her face, but before his foot hit her hands both boys were hit from behind and fell over the ledge, but the blast made her lose her grip and fall as well, but she and her bullies where caught by a purple dragon and brought back onto the place they were just at but Serena was placed behind a boy with purple and pink hair who looked to be four just like her with his dragon right behind them.

"You are so annoying. Go away." The boy said with a look that promised pain for a long time as he glared at the bullies. Catching their breaths the bullies glared at the boy getting up.

"YOU COULD HAVE KILLED US! WHAT THE HELL?!" One of them yelled pointing at the boy. Serena was still shaking with tears in her eyes as she was looking at the boy who was now looking at her bullies with a bored look.

"So it's okay if you do it?" he asked stepping closer to the bullies with a still bored look on his face. The bullies began to panic but then got angry and challenged the boy to a duel saying if he lost he would leave and pretend this never happen and if he won…

"If I win then you leave Serena alone." The boy said. Serena jumped when she heard her name since she didn't know him so how did he know her? They agreed and lost on the boy's turn when he summoned his dragon. She looked in awe as the dragon that saved her destroyed her bullies. When the bullies got up they glared at the boy as they ran at him with fist in the air…

Flashback End:

She was bought back to reality as the one of three men yelled in her face for ignoring them. She felt her eyebrow twitch and jumped back a bit till she was on top of a dumpster glaring at the men before her.

'Yes. Pigs just like those bullies, right Yuri?' she thought as she lifted up her duel disk and tapped a bit till a purple light came out of her duel disk hit the three men.

"What?"

"What's going on?"

"What is this purple light" All three men said, and then when the light disappeared the three men were gone. The only thing that laid there was three cards. Serena jumped off the dumpster and walked over to the three cards. She picked them up and saw the three men's faces begin to appear with fear forever on their faces. She threw the cards in to the ocean with a disgusted look on her face as she remembered her past a bit more.

Flashback:

When the bullies got up they glared at the boy as they ran at him with fist in the air but the dragon was in front of them really fast making them fall on their butts hard looking at it with fear and protecting the boy.

"You lost so you have to keep up you end of the deal, but I'm glad you didn't." the purple haired boy said with a strange look on his face as he walked over to the bullies. The look was scaring Serena since it looked like he was hoping they would try this. He had a smile on his face while his eyes were glowing with a sinister purple light that made him look crazy.

He looked scary…He was scary…He was… she felt herself stop thinking as she suddenly felt her body move toward the boy. She wasn't in control of her body; it was as if she was watching a movie, a movie of her running to the boy as he got closer to her bullies that had fear in their eyes as they stared at his dragon who suddenly had more mouths on it coming at them to eat them.

She didn't want this! He wasn't like this!

'Zarc isn't like this at all!' She heard someone scream in her head. When she finally had the boy in her arms, her bracelet began to shine and wrap the entire island in a blue light that reached into the sky. The light could be seen by people who were on the main land and ships that were coming to Duel Academy. When the light disappeared Serena looked at the boy who was in her arms crying and trembling.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry" he kept repeating over and over in her arms trembling. Her arms got tighter around him holding him here as if she was afraid that if she let go he would disappear from her. She heard some shuffling and looked up a bit to see her two bullies begin to get up. They looked at the boy in her arms with fear that was soon replaced with smirks. She glared as the got closer and her grip tightened on the frail boy in her arms. She wasn't going to let these boy's hurt him…No she wasn't going to let anything hurt him…Never again.

The boys still had smirks when they were really close to them. They tried to pry her arms off the boy but she kept her grip. One boy had started to kick her to make her let go but her grip tightened as the other boy let go of her arms and began to punch her in her head making her head bleed and hurt.

'I won't let them touch him! I won't let anything taint him again!' she heard that strange voice in her head again and found herself agreeing completely not seeing her bracelet give off a very small blue glow. When the boy was about to punch her again a tan hand appeared out of nowhere and grabbed his arm. When she looked up, her vision was blurry but as her eyes began to focus again she saw a man with light blue eyes looking at her with concern.

"Are you two alright?" he asked her. All she could do was nod, and then she suddenly felt herself lose consciousness and begin to panic. Seeing this, the man put his hand on her back.

"It's alright. I'll help protect him, Ray." he said.

'Ray? No my name is-' she thought but then her world turned black.

When she opened her eyes she saw she was in the infirmary of the school. She sat up and looked around and saw the boy with purple hair in a bed next to her. She tried to get to him but was stopped by the man that saved her.

"Calm down Yuri is fine." The man said when she looked at him.

"Who are you?" she glared at him. The man saw her put her body in a shield type of way trying to protect Yuri even though she had a bandage on her head and body. He smiled when he saw this.

'Still have the need to protect him huh?' He thought with a smile which confused her.

"I'm the Professor, but you can call me Leo Akaba." He said introducing himself. He saw the girls eyes widen and almost laughed when she began to apologize for being rude.

She looked around and saw her bullies were not here. She looked at the man who turned his head to a desk. She looked at the desk and saw two cards. She grabbed both cards and saw the faces of her bullies with fear printed on the card. She knew she should have felt sorry for them but she couldn't feel anything at all for them.

"We don't tolerate abuse or attempted murder. Those two were dealt with accordingly." Leo said as he got up from his chair and was heading to the door. He turned around and looked at her with a serious look in his eyes with his hand on the handle.

"You need to get stronger, otherwise next time there won't be anybody there to protect you" he said then left leaving her with his words. She looked at Yuri and found herself agreeing. She needed to get stronger for both of them…

Flashback End:

She began to walk around Synchro looking for her target. Although that happened ten years ago, she still felt the need to protect Yuri from this ugly world.

'I need to find Yugo. I'm the only one that can protect them. I'm the only one that can protect him.' She thought walking around a bit more till she came to an area that looked really different from where she just was. People were walking around in fancy clothes and talking to each other. She looked at her bracelet one last time and went into a building not knowing her targets were right in the next room…

Standard

As the sun was setting a young boy was playing with darts while talking to a man on his duel disk but his image not coming through since it was an audio only call across from the LDS tower.

"So…I just gotta steal 'em? Those "Pendulum Cards" or whatever?" he asked as he lifted up a hand with a dart.

"Correct. And I won't question you methods. As long as you get them to us, I'll trade you those rare cards you've been after." The voice said. The boy let a smirk for on his face as he lifted his hand with a dart.

"Roger that" he said as he threw the dart that hit a picture of Yuya being pulled into a picture by Yuzu with Gongenzaka, Shuzo and Yoko right behind with smiles on their faces as they stood right behind the blushing boy with Yuzu on his arm smiling at the camera doing a peace sign…

TBC….