Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Reverse of Arcadia ❯ Chapter 4: The Journey – An old encounter, the escape and a New Menace Pt.2 ( Chapter 8 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

“You really wish to kill me, don’t you?” Aki asks as I rush up to her, “But why?”
“It’s because of all the times you’ve made innocent people suffer in your duels. You were so wrapped up in your bloodlust, you didn’t even care that you had killed my little brother!”
So that was this woman’s story. I cringed. I had first hand experience with Aki’s strange ability to bring the cards to life and cause true damage to an opposing duelist, but she had done her best to hold back when I dueled her last. She even apologized for causing me to get knocked across the room. So I can hardly believe she’d be the sort of person to actually kill anyone!
“I don’t even know who your little brother is!” Aki says in defense.
“Of course not all those you dueled meant absolutely nothing to you…” Misty spits, “He was just one of your many nameless victims!”
“I have no idea what you’re talking about… I never knew your brother.”
“Even if you have no memory of him at all… he was a precious person to me, one who will never be replaced! You are truly an evil witch! All you do is cause nothing but pain!”
Why doesn’t she do something?! Why take this if what she says is true? “Aki!” I say, “Say something! Are you going to just stand there and take this?” The burgundy haired girl just remained silent, sadness and guilt written all over her face.
Suddenly there was an enormous crash from further up the building. It sounded as if something huge had collided with the building.
“What was that?!” Aki asks, just as startled as I was.
A loud scream filled the air and we watch in horror as Divine comes crashing down from above. His body flailing as he falls. I quickly turn away not wanting to see the bastard’s inevitably messy end. Good riddance I inwardly sneer.
“Hmph…” Misty says drawing Aki’s and my attention, “It seems that the end has arrived. Much quicker than I expected.” The end? The end of what? I definitely don’t like the sound of that. “I regret that we’ll have to postpone our duel for now.”
The woman turns and leaves without another word on glance towards us.
“Divine….” Aki says turning to look where the Arcadia leader had fallen but quickly turns away.
“Aki…” I try to say. But what was there I could say to her? She really did seem to believe that she was indebted to that sleaze.
“Iolanthe! Aki!” I turn to see Yusei running towards us. Thank goodness he was alright! “Aki?!” My spiky haired friend and former teammate rushes over to the now visibly distraught girl and puts his hand on her shoulders, “Snap out of it!”
“Divine…” she murmurs, not noticing or caring that we were there with her.
I jump and shriek as the building starts crumbling from above. “We’ve got to make a run for it,” Yusei shouts grabbing hold of Aki’s arm, “It’s too dangerous for us to stay any longer!”
We then make a mad dash for the exit.

R 20;Iolanthe!” Yusei yells as we finally make our exit of the Arcadia skyscraper. Before I know what’s happening, the black and gold haired boy slams into me and knocks me down. I gasp as humungous piece of the building crashes into the cement where I had been standing. “That was close…”
I blush and smile as I remember how I had once saved Yusei in similar way. “T-Thank you…” He blushes as well, returning the smile.
“Wait!” he says, getting off me quickly, “Where are Luna and Leo?!”
“They’re safe, Yus,” I reply as he helps me up, “They made it out with some Arcadia members I managed to de-brainwash.”
“That’s a relief. We’d better get Aki to a doctor. I think there’s one near Blister’s, it should safe there too. Let’s go!”
“Right!” I say and follow Yusei and Aki away from the rapidly collapsing building.

A few hours later we were safely lying low in Blister’s apartment. It was so good to finally get out of that hideous Arcadia uniform too! “According to the doctor,” Yusei says coming in after I finished changing into some clothes the mysterious man had provided for me. I smirk slightly when he thinks I don’t catch him checking me out. And why shouldn’t he? I was aware of my good looks; after all I made sure to take care of myself as best I could. This Blister had some pretty decent taste. The black lightweight sleeveless turtleneck shirt went perfectly with the skinny jeans and black peep-toe pumps, the dark colors bringing out my pale lavender hair and violet eyes.
“Aki should be fine. And Blister’s going to be taking care of her for now,” he says clearing his throat and blushing, finally noticing my smirk.
“That’s good. I don’t think she should be by herself anyway. Whatever it was between her and that scumbag, seeing him die like that has got her pretty shook up.”
“What about you?” he asks, ever the brotherly figure I remember him to be, “You looked as if you had it rough back there.”
“You have noooo idea, Yus.” I then tell him everything that had happened to me, how that bastard kidnapped me, my being brainwashed, treated like a lab rat and no thanks to that, my memory was even more messed up than it had been when Kiryu found me. He started to say something upon hearing that, but I held up my hand, saying that my memory had been coming back bit by bit. That seemed to relieve him a bit.
I also remind him about my little trip to the Spirit World where I met and saved Luna. And about that Misty woman and how she seemed to enjoy rattling poor Aki like she did.
“No wonder’s Aki in such a state…” my spiky haired friend says when I finally come to the end of my tale. “I didn’t know you were at the Fortune Cup, if I had, I probably could have rescued you then and….”
“Yusei…” I say interrupting him, “Even if you did try to save me, it would have been no use. I was still under Divine’s control.”
We remain quiet sitting on the lumpy old couch in Blister’s work room for several moments. “If you were at the Fortune Cup,” Yusei starts again, “you must have seen the Crimson Dragon appear.”
“You mean that huge glowing red dragon up in the sky?”
“Yes,” he replies solemnly. “It showed us Signers visions about the earth’s past, Neo Domino and Satellite.”
“Signers?” I ask. Where have I heard that before?
“Oh that’s right you don’t know. Jack, Aki and I, as well as Luna and Director Goodwin all have birthmarks on our arms,” he explains, rolling up the sleeve of his jacket. My eyes widen at the strange tail like tattoo etched into the tan skin. “Each mark makes up part of the Crimson Dragon. According to Director Goodwin, we Signers are supposed to protect the world from the Underworld.”
“Oh so that’s what a Signer is.”
“Anyway, one of the visions about Satellite was that it was engulfed in a great fire shaped like a spider then crumbled into nothing. I don’t know if that’s Satellite’s future… but whatever it was, made me feel absolutely terrible.”
I wanted to tell him that it probably was nothing, just a dream, but how could I when I myself couldn’t really explain to myself how I wound up in the Spirit World. It all sounded all too weird, like something out of a fantasy novel or video game.
“The other day,” Yusei went on, “I dueled against someone who had a spider mark on their arm. When I won, the mark vanished and he had no memory whatsoever of what he’d been doing. It looked like to me that he may have been controlled by someone.”
“Divine?”
“No I don’t think so. But that geoglyph… and that spider mark…”
“Yusei…” I say, just as unnerved by this latest turn of events. That Misty woman… and now all this business with marks… what can it all mean?
Blister interrupts our conversation before I can ask Yusei anything else. Our host had come to ask if we’d do some favors for him. And of course, my spiky haired friend never really say no to those in need. And Yusei did have a point, we were staying at his apartment, free of charge so why not help out a little?
After running a few errands for the man, I head straight to the couch that was to be my bed, there were only two in the other room, and went to sleep. It had been one extremely exhausting day.

La ter that night, I wake up with an uneasy feeling. Something wasn’t right. It was too quiet. I get off the couch and creep over to the door. My hand shook as I grasped the handle and shoved it open, cringing at the slight creak of the rusty hinges. I can hear voices coming from down the hall and cautiously make my way toward the source.
My eyes go wide as I spy Yusei standing before two people, a man and woman. They looked as if they were sleepwalking, their eyes devoid of any life. Both had a duel disk on their arm and were currently dueling against my former teammate.
“Yusei!” I say, not liking that the feeling I’d been getting was coming from these two. “What’s going on?!”
“They have the mark of the Spider!” he replies, “I sense someone’s in Aki’s room, they have the same energy as these guys!”
“But Aki’s…”
“I know! I need you to go over there and make sure she’s ok. Don’t worry about me, I’ll handle things here!”
I give a quick nod. Aki needed my help more than Yusei ever would. I rush over to the only other room on the floor and slam the door open. “Aki!” I shout upon seeing the burgundy haired girl struggling to stay on her feet.
She had been dueling against some street punk. This guy was just like the other two! A glowing purple spider tattoo was on his arm and his eyes were dead, as if the lights were on, but no one was home.
“Leave her alone!” I say coming between the two and readying my duel disk. The man says nothing. Instead he gathers up his deck and restarts the disk. Well if that’s the way he wanted it… I was more than happy to oblige. “Stay back Aki,” I say to her, “I’ll take care of this punk!”
The guy wasn’t bad with that hand increasing deck of his. His only weakness was that he was more of a defensive duelist – relying on his spells and traps to protect his monsters -- and I had always been a bit on the aggressive side, choosing to end my duels as quick as possible by attacking every chance I got.
It’s good to see that the past three years I’ve been spending in a brainwashed haze had rusted my dueling skills. In fact, they’ve improved. I may actually be able to give Yusei even more of a challenge now. That was going to have to wait though; we had more important things to worry about. Like the punk who was coming to.
“Where…. am I?” he groaned, staggering to his feet. “W-What did you do?! I knew I shouldn’t have dropped my guard like that…” I tried to explain to the guy, but he quickly headed out the door before I could get the first word out.
“Th…thanks,” Aki says, still winded from fighting that punk.
“No problem,” I say giving her a reassuring smile, “You ok? You don’t look too hot. Why don’t you go back to bed and rest? Yusei and I will…”
I stare in shock as Aki lets out a scream and her pin/roller glows and shatters. Her face is almost completely obscured by her long bangs, a maniacal grin spread wide across her face.
“A-Aki?” I attempt, not liking the feeling I was getting off of her. It was as if something from deep inside her had forced its way out and was now in control of the girl’s body.
“I must… destroy EVERYTHING!!!” she screams.
“Aki! Get a hold of yourself!” I plead desperately.
“I’m all alone… I have no one in this world. I need no one. I’ll tear this world apart and you with it!!!” She then readies her duel disk.
“Aki… please listen to me,” I begged. However, the psychic duelist refused to listen there was no way out of this. I take a deep breath then ready my own disk.
“Come on snap out of it Aki!” I say as I draw a card. Seeing as I would get no other response from her, I make my first move. “I activate my spell card Dimensional Fissure,” I say with a rather subdued tone. This wasn’t the time for any cutesy remarks or witty banter. This Aki before me wasn’t the same one I dueled back at the Arcadia building. It was a whole other ballgame now. “Then I’ll summon my Dimensional Alchemist in attack mode and place to cards face down. My turn ends here.”
“I summon a monster,” the obviously now psychotic Aki announces. “Come forth Twilight Rose Knight!” Sure enough a diminutive creature in violet armor and cape appeared on the field. “Thanks to my knight’s special ability, I can summon one Level 4 plant monster from my hand. I summon Lord Poison in Attack mode! Next I’ll fuse my Lord Poison and Knight together to synchro summon my strongest monster, Black Rose Dragon! Black Rose Dragon, attack her Alchemist! This duel is mine!!!” She cackles maniacally as the dragon began to launch its attack.
If I hadn’t been smart enough to set one of my spells on the field, I’d be in some serious doo-doo right now. “Sorry Aki,” I say, “I have to do this. I activate the Shrink spell I laid down, that’ll not only shrink your dragon, but it’ll also half his attack points!”
“N-No! You!!”
Sure enough the menacingly beautiful dragon shrinks to about half its original size in mid attack, causing it to be reflected by my Alchemist’s own attack, destroying the monster. Aki let out a small grunt as she took 100 points of damage. “Grr!! I’m placing a card face down and end my turn!” she growls.
“I activate Soul Absorption,” I say laying down the spell card, “Now I’ll activate my Alchemist’s special ability and remove the top card of my deck from play to raise his attack to 1800. Dimensional Alchemist, attack Aki directly!”
“Not so fast!” she cries, gleefully, “I activate Scapegoat. Now I’ll have four monsters to protect me. There is nothing you can do to stop me!” I let out a curse, but I can’t let it get to me. I could still win this. I could only hope that Aki would snap out of it when I did.
“Dimensional Alchemist,” I command again, there was no way I was backing down. “Attack the sheep on the far end!” The swirling ball of dark magical energy created by my monster slammed into the poor defenseless sheep, shattering it to bits. “That’s it for my turn,” I say solemnly.
“Why don’t you just accept defeat,” my opponent sneers, “I summon another Twilight Rose Knight in attack mode.” Oh no, I inwardly groaned as the monster’s effect kicked in as soon as it appeared on the field. This was bad. Real bad. “Now I summon Dark Verger in defense and end my turn.”
I draw another card and frown. I had drawn another spell. One that I couldn’t afford to use right now. I had Granmarg the Stone Monarch in the removed from play pile, but if I used my trap to bring him back now, he’d just be sent right back at the end of my turn. Not to mention I’d lose half my life points as well. “I activate my Alchemist’s ability and remove another card from play!” I announce, praying that the card I’d remove wasn’t another of my heavy hitters. I wince as I watch my Caius the Shadow Monarch joined Granmarg.
“What’s the matter,” Aki jeers, “Not having any good luck today?”
“Afraid so,” I admit, “But I’m not backing down, not until you come to your senses Aki! Dimensional Alchemist! Attack Aki’s Knight!”

Aki: 3100
Iolanthe: 5500

So far so good, I was holding my own against this new side of Aki. However, my confidence was about to take a good hit once she began her turn. “I summon Lord Poison in Attack mode! Writhe in pain!” She lets out another insane laugh. I knew what was coming next. “Lord Poison, destroy Dimensional Alchemist!!” I groan as my loyal friend is sucked into the Dimensional Fissure, his mystic energy adding to my life points in spite of the damage I just took. “I’m in generous mood, so I’ll end my turn here,” Aki says imperiously.
I frown once more as I draw a trap instead of a monster. It was time to use that trap. I hated to do it, but what choice did I have? Aki’s wall of monsters had to come down! “I activate Return from the Different Dimension!” I cry out as I feel my life points shrink down to 3000. “That allows me to special summon as many monsters that were removed from play as I possibly can.” I smile sadly as my Monarchs and Alchemist returned to the field – if only for this one turn. “Next I’ll activate Dimensional Alchemist’s effect once more. Cauis! Attack Lord Poison!”
“Ergh!”
“Sorry, Aki, but Lord Poison’s power is not going to help you now,” I say as I watch the plant monster vanish to the removed from play pile. “Granmarg, get rid of Aki’s Dark Verger! Dimensional Alchemist, attack the blue sheep! I place a card face down and end my turn.” Unfortunately, that means I must say goodbye to my friends here since they only had enough strength to stay for one turn.
“I just might be starting to enjoy this,” Aki sneers, smirking evilly. “I summon my last Twilight Rose Knight in attack mode! Go my knight! Make her suffer and directly attack her life points! AHAHAHAHA!!”
“Ugh!!!”

Aki: 2200
Iolanthe: 4000

“I think I’ll let you live for a little bit longer, since you amuse me so much,” she jeers as she ends her turn.
“Sure you want to do that Aki?” I ask, smiling as I finally draw a monster. One that’ll save my keister for sure.
“What are you talking about?” she spat, laughing, “You’re the one who’s been having all the bad luck here.”
I choose not rise to her bait. Instead I calmly say, “I place a monster in defense mode. Your turn Aki.”
“Hmph. So you’ve decided to run and hide now? Well it’s too late for that! Attack her face down monster!” I put on a stoic face as my D.D. Scout Plane is destroyed. “I end my turn,” she says, causing my monster to return once more to the field.
She’s playing with me, like a cat would a mouse. I didn’t care. I would win this! I had to! Tears of joy and sadness well up in my eyes as I draw my beloved D.D. Survivor. Kiryu… even now after all these years, you still come to my rescue. “I switch my Scout Plane to defense mode and summon D.D. Survivor in attack mode! Go my dear Survivor and take down her Rose Knight!”
“Ergh!” she shouts again as the poor thing is destroyed.

Aki: 1400
Iolanthe: 5500

“Aki, please stop this!” I beg once more, as I end my turn, “You don’t have to do this! Let’s talk to Yusei, we can figure it all out together.”
“Shut up!!!” she screams in fury, “What could you possibly know what it’s like?! To be hated and feared! To be called a witch because of these disgusting powers!!” What could I say to that? I had never… I shout in pain as a vision of tan skinned people dressed in ancient style clothing yell and throw stones at me as I pass through what looked like a marketplace or something. What the heck was that?! Was it this Crimson Dragon Yusei told me about showing me one of its visions? Or was it something else? Again, the questions would have to wait I had more pressing matters to finish up.
“I do know,” I finally say, “People hated and feared me too. They were scared of me being a foreigner with such pale skin and hair.”
Aki stares at me, silent for several moments. “Y-You lie!” she yells, “There is no one who can understand my pain! This next card embodies all the suffering I have been forced to endure, only it truly understands me. I summon Witch of the Black Rose in attack mode!”
If this were any other kind of duel, I’d be squealing with girlish delight. I always had a weakness for all things small and cute, and Aki’s Witch was no exception. The monster looked like a chibi version of her master except she had purple hair and eyes and a lace headband to match her darling gosi-loli outfit.
“You’re in luck, since I still have two scapegoats on the field, I can not activate my Witch’s special ability. However, I can do this. Witch of the Black Rose… attack her D.D. Scout Plane!”
“It’ll be back you know,” I say matter-of-factly.
“Hmph. So what? You can’t keep those spells up forever. My turn is over for now.” Sure enough, my Scout Plane appears once more onto the field.
“Suit yourself,” I retort. “I sacrifice my Scout Plane and summon Zaborg, the Thunder Monarch in attack mode! Since Zaborg was summoned using a sacrifice, his special ability kicks in and I get to choose which of your monsters I get to destroy.”
“Tch!”
“Zaborg destroy the yellow sheep!” Lightning shoots from my monster’s hands and hits the poor sheep token dead on, causing it to vanish. “That’s not all I’m going to do. Zaborg, attack her Witch!”
“Aaaaahhh!!!!”
Sorry Aki, I say silently. “D.D. Survivor get rid of her last sheep!”

Aki: 700
Iolanthe: 6000

I felt like such a bully right now, with my life points steadily increasing with each and every turn. “I end my turn,” I say solemnly, causing my D.D. Scout Plane to return yet again to the field.
“Tch! I summon Botanical Lion in attack mode! My lion gains 300 attack points for each plant I control. Since I only have him out on the field right now, his attack raises to 1900. Botanical Lion, destroy her Scout Plane!”
“Ugh!” I grunt as I lose 1100 life points.
“I end my turn,” Aki announces.
It still looks like she wants to play with me some more. But that’ll be her last mistake. I had to end this and quickly. With three monsters on my side of the field and all in attack mode, I was all set to make the killing blow. Please let this help Aki, I silently prayed.
“Zaborg, destroy Aki’s Lion!” I call, wincing as the noble looking creature let out a roar of outrage as it was destroyed. Aki said nothing as I readied my next attack, “D.D. Scout Plane attack her directly!”
“AAAAAAAAAARRRRGGGGGGGGHHHH!!!!” Aki screams as the last of her life points are wiped out.
“Aki!” Yusei shouts, rushing in. I was relieved to see he was ok. He dashes over to the still screaming girl and clasps her tightly against him. “Calm down, Aki! Iolanthe, what happened?!”
“I-I have nothing left…” Aki starts, tears streaming from her magenta eyes. “This mark on my arm… it’s nothing but a curse! Nothing good ever came from having this! Why?! Why must I be a Signer… abandoned by everyone… everyone but Divine.”
“Aki! He was using you!” I say, “Couldn’t you see that?!”
“H-He told me… I had nothing to worry about… he said… I had place where I could live… with him… but it’s all gone now. This… this horrible, wretched world! I just want to wipe it all out!!!”
“Aki!”
“Aki!” Yusei says forcing her to face him and look him in the eyes, “Look at me, Aki. You’re not alone anymore! You have a place with us! Iolanthe and I will take you in!” I nod in agreement. No one should be forced to face a misunderstanding world alone. No one. “We’ll all be glad to have you… all our other friends. You’ll have a new home… a new family.”
“I-Impossible!”
“Nothing’s impossible, Aki,” he said, placing a hand gently on her cheek, “If you think for yourself… make your own decisions, the possibilities will come find you. It’s because of these marks that we were drawn to each other. It’s because of them that we became friends. How can that be a curse?”
“Friends…?”
“Yes, Aki. You’re my friend.”
“And mine,” I add, nodding.
“Y-You two would consider one such as me as your friend?”
“Of course,” Yusei replies, smiling warmly, “We’re all your friends Aki. None of us can possibly understand your pain, but we all will welcome you and do what we can to make you feel better. Whatever happens next is up to you, Aki. You’ll have to think about it and make your own decision.”
“Then I… I want to help you. All of you.”
“You sure that’s what you want?” Yusei asks.
“Yes. You… you’ve helped me. Now I wish to return the favor by helping you however I can. And I… I must see Misty once more. I have to settle things with her.”
“Thank you, Aki.” I raise an eyebrow at the slight blush on Yusei’s face. Oh ho what’s this? Is our adorable little Yusei finally finding love? If the rest of the boys were here, they’d probably start teasing the hell out of our spiky haired teammate.
“It’s pretty late,” he says, totally unaware that I noticed him blushing just now. “And I don’t think anymore of those guys are going to show up anytime soon. We all should get back to bed and rest. Especially you, Aki, you’re still weak from what happened earlier.”
“A-Alright, Yusei,” she says blushing slightly and allows Yusei to help her to the bed.
Hmm… looks like Yus’s got himself a girl. I say inwardly smirking. When all this is over, I’m telling Crow and Kiryu. And then we’d have some real fun. After all, Kiryu and I owe him some payback for the teasing he did when we got together.

The next day…
“Hey Yus, Aki,” I say as I spot the two by the elevator.
“Iolanthe, good morning,” my spiky haired friend says in greeting, “I’m glad to see you’re starting to feel better. Aki seems to be better as well.”
“I must apologize for yesterday,” Aki says, “but I also must thank you. If it weren’t for you, I may not have been able to understand what Yusei was trying to tell me before. Without your help, I probably have gone down the path of destruction… I’m in your debt, Iolanthe.”
“It’s nothing Aki,” I reply smiling gently, “We all have times when we think we’re all alone, but as long as we have friends who truly care, we can overcome the pain with their help.”
“Iolanthe… If you’re a friend of Yusei’s then what were you doing at the Arcadia Movement?”
“She was kidnapped and brainwashed,” Yusei says, tactfully not mentioning Divine’s name, “She only got her memories back yesterday.”
“Brainwashed?!” the burgundy haired girl parrots, “I-I had no idea they were doing such things over there…”
“Aki…”
Before I can say anything else, the elevator doors slide open and a woman with short blue hair in a fancy tailored suit steps out. “Oh, I see you’re here too, Miss Izayoi,” she says approaching us, “That’s great.” I eye her warily. You can take the girl out of Satellite, but you can’t take Satellite out of the girl. Those of us forced to spend our lives scavenging the ruined streets of the blighted island had no real love for those living in the bright and shiny world of Neo Domino. “Mr. Fudo, Miss Izayoi, Director Goodwin wishes to see you now.”
“Goodwin?” Yusei asks, not bothering to hide the irritation in his voice. Good to see someone’s as leery as I am. “What does he want with us?”
The Security underling eyes me suspiciously and I glare right back at her. Heh, I’m not going anywhere bitch so whatcha gonna do about that, hmm?
“It’s ok, she’s a friend,” Aki says, surprising both Yusei and me at her eagerness to stand up for me. “She knows about our marks.”
“I see. Well, Director Goodwin has something extremely important to discuss with you about the Crimson Dragon and the Signers. I’ll be going on ahead, so just stop by as soon as you’re ready.” She then turns and takes the elevator back down. Hmph. Good riddance I’d say. The stench of her expensive perfume was giving me a headache.
“Do you really think we can trust him, Yusei?” Aki asks.
“He’s done so much I can’t forgive…” my former teammate says, frowning, “but I just can’t ignore that vision I had at the Fortune Cup. And there’s what happened yesterday as well. Satellite’s in danger. Unfortunately, Goodwin seems to be the only one who knows anything about what’s been going on.”
“So you’re going to walk into his trap, just so you can get some information?”
“Yusei!” I shout, “Are you crazy?! This is the head of Sector Security we’re talking about here!”
“I know, but what’s important right now is that we get to the bottom of this, Iolanthe.”
“Fine, but I’m coming! And no, I will not stay put while you go rushing off into a trap!”
Yusei sighs. “I never really could say no to you.”
I smirk as I follow them into the elevator.

As we step from the elevator, we were greeted by a very familiar face. Standing before us, dressed in fancy clothes was no other than that no good traitorous ‘big brother’ of mine! How dare he show his face around me!
“Just what do you think you’re doing, Yusei,” Jack demands, “taking Goodwin’s bait like this?!”
“I need to learn the truth behind that vision I saw…” Yusei explains, “and if Satellite really is in danger, then I’m gonna do what I can to protect it.”
“Let me guess, you’re saying that because it’s your fate as a Signer.” Jack’s violet eyes finally fall on me as I stalk up to him. “I-Iolanthe?! What are you doing here?!”
“I’d like to say the same thing, ‘big brother’.” I say, furious at what he’d done. I then do what I’ve been dying to ever since I found out about his betrayal. I punched him square in the jaw!
“W-W-What was that for, you crazy girl?!” he sputters, blood coming out of the corners of his mouth. Ooh looked I did some damage. Good.
“You damn well know what for, Jack!” I yell, “I heard what you did to Yusei back then! You knew how much that card meant to him and yet you went and stole it!”
“Iolanthe, I can explain!” the spiky blond starts.
“Iolanthe… let it go, please,” Yusei intercedes.
“Hmph. Fine. We have more important things to do… more than you Mr. Former Duel King.” That earned me a glare from both boys and a stifled growl from Jack. I hit a nerve. Good. Too bad that’s all I was gonna hit. For now.
“For what it’s worth,” Jack says, smiling a tiny bit, “I’m glad to see you’re still alive.”
“Yeah. Me too,” I mumble. As angry I was at him at the moment, I was glad to see Jack again. If only things had been different.
“That day you vanished…” Jack starts.
“It was Divine and the Arcadia Movement,” Yusei replies, “He kidnapped Iolanthe and had her brainwashed all this time until just recently.”
“To think I’d see you again in a place like this… ‘little sister.’”
“Sorry to interrupt,” the Security woman from before says, coming over to us, “but could you continue this conversation on the way to the meeting with Director Goodwin? We don’t have much time.”
“Let’s get going, Iolanthe,” Yusei says placing a hand on my shoulder, “We all can catch up after we’re done.