Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Reverse of Arcadia ❯ Chapter 5: Fate – Signers vs. Dark Signers Part 5 ( Chapter 13 )

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

“All of the conditions have been met,” Goodwin says utterly thrilled with himself, “Let’s begin shall we?”
“Just what were you thinking, Goodwin?!!” Yusei shouts in disgust.
“UUUUUUGGGGGGHHHH!!!” the Dark Signer grunts, ripping off his fake arm and shoves another that had a mark of the bird geoglyph in the sky into the empty socket.
“What’s he doin’?!,” Jack asks.
“I now have the powers of a Signer and Dark Signer. “MWAHAHAHAHAHA!!”
“My mark!” Yusei cries as it starts glowing an angry red.
“Hey! My mark’s gone!” Jack gasps.
“What?! Mine too!” Aki says.
“Just what is going on?” Ruka asks.
“Look at Goodwin!!” I holler. Tattooed on his chest was a glowing Crimson Dragon!
“With the powers of the Immortals and Crimson Dragon, I have become a god!!!” the bastard crows. Oh joy, not was he only a loonie, but a loonie with a god complex! The worse kind of loonie if you ask me.
“What are you saying?!” demands Yusei.
“I’ll tell you if that’ll only to get you to stop pestering me with questions,” he says, grinning evilly. “My brother Rudger had the mark of both a Signer and Dark Signer. But alas, his soul was almost completely taken over by the Immortals. With the last bit of his humanity, Rudger cut off the arm with the Signer mark and left it to me. He did it so that when all you Signers appeared, they would be able to defeat the Dark Signers, including my brother. But I came to realize something… Even if you did defeat them, the Dark Signers would just keep coming back every five thousand years. I decided to stop this endless cycle once and for all!!”
“What makes you think you can do that?” Yusei asks.
“Weren’t you paying attention, boy?! I already said that with the power of both a Dark Signer and Signer I have become a god!!” Yeah, yeah, we heard that crap before, pal! “I shall finish this battle between the Crimson Dragon and the Immortals once and for all! I’ll destroy everything with the King of the Underworld’s power then rebuild it with that of the Crimson Dragon! I shall make a new world!!”
“Not if we have anything to do with it, right guys?!” I spit.
“Did you really think we’d help you with that diabolical plan?!” my traitorous ‘big brother’ retorts.
“Too many innocents will die!!” adds Aki, “I won’t let you do that!!!!!”
“I won’t let you use the Spirit World either!!!!” Ruka yells.
“There’s no way we’re gonna let you make everyone suffer!” her twin says, adding his two cents.
“What you’re doing is wrong Goodwin!!!” Yusei admonishes, “A god is not what can stop this destiny! It’s something we all have to work, strive and fight for!”
“Hmph! And how do you puny, powerless humans intend to fight against destiny?” sneered ‘God’.
“With the bond we share as friends!” my black and gold haired friend yells back, “We’ll use that special bond to change our own destinies!”
“Pathetic!” Goodwin spits back venomously, “I am untouchable! You’re nothing but insects in my eyes!”
Just then another quake hit as the temple began to rise even more out of the ground, causing us to stumble and fall backwards down the stairs. “Iolanthe!!!!” Jack shouts and manages to catch me as I feel myself being hurtled down the stone steps. He then starts jumping down several steps at a time until we are safe back on firmer ground, carrying me all the while. “Are you alright?” he asks.
“Y-Yeah,” I stammer, blushing slightly and feeling the teensiest bit guilty for doubting his loyalty still.
Meanwhile, I see that Aki was in a similar situation with Yusei. I couldn’t help but smile at the attraction between the two. “What now?!” the burgundy haired girl asks when Yusei puts her down gingerly as if she were a fine porcelain doll.
“The temple started to rise again,” Ruka explained.
“YUSEI FUDO…!!!” calls Goodwin, still at the top of the pyramid like structure, “Since you feel so strong about it, then prove it to me!! That is if you can make it all the way up here! But I won’t be making it easy either, you’ll be dueling me along the way!”
“I’ll show you what us powerless humans can do!” he shoots back, rising to the challenge.
“Oh no! I thought I fixed this thing!” Yusei says when his D-Wheel fails to start.
“See how useless you really are, Yusei?!” taunts the silver haired scumbag, “You disappoint me… hmph!”
“Damn it! Why’d this have to happen now?!” my former teammate curses.
“Jack, go get your D-Wheel!” orders Rua.
“I can’t. It got destroyed in a battle with a Dark Signer.”
“That’s bad!” Aki says worriedly.
“Is there really nothing we can do to stop him?”
“Get a hold of yourself Yusei! There’s still one D-Wheel left,” I say hopping onto my beloved Valkyrie and gunning her engine.
“Iolanthe! Don’t! It’s just too dangerous!”
“Now this is amusing!” jeers Goodwin, “a non-Signer wishes to challenge me yet again! As a reward for your bravery, girl, I won’t be holding back.”

Go odwin hadn’t been kidding when he said he wouldn’t hold back anything. I was absolutely furious!!! The slime had been playing with me in our previous duel like a cat would a mouse. Even with a deck designed to get my beloved Monarchs onto the field as quick as possible, that bastard would wipe out my monsters or block using a spell or trap just as when it was beginning to look up for me.
It was as if my deck was just as angry as I was for I finally drew the card that would let me win this – Brain Control! Time to pay Goodwin!!! “I activate my Brain Control and take control of your Giant Germ!!” I shout in triumph. He had no traps and only one other monster face down.
“Struggle all you’d like my dear,” Goodwin sneers boredly, “you’ll never be able to defeat a god!”
“You’re no god, slime ball! And I’ll prove it!!! I offer the Giant Germ I stole from you to summon a dear friend of mine. Say hello to, Raiza the Storm Monarch!!! Raiza send that face down monster to the deck!!!” I command as his special ability kicks in. A hurricane force wind blows the card completely off the field, leaving his 1800 life points wide open! “Raiza! Destroy him once and for all!!!” I bring the Valkyrie to a screeching halt as I finally reach the top of the temple.
“I-Impossible!!! How is it that a non-Signer like you can have such power?!!” Goodwin says in utter shock, “It doesn’t matter… your power is still that of a human, nothing compared to the power I now have! There is no way you can stop the King of the Underworld!”
Suddenly the tattoo of the Crimson Dragon on Goodwin’s chest glows an enraged red and lifts itself off of the crazed megalomaniac. “W-What is the meaning of this?!” he shouts. There is a blinding flash. When I can see again, I look around and see tiny glowing points of red light coming from the other Signers. It appears that the Crimson Dragon wasn’t too happy with this scum either.
“Did the Crimson Dragon refuse, Goodwin?” Yusei says as he halts his finally fixed D-Wheel near the altar.
“Don’t look at me, Yus,” I say, “but if that’s what you think…” I shriek as the Crimson Dragon tattoo appears before me and glows brilliantly before attaching itself to me. I could feel a faint, gentle warmth coming from my chest where I was sure to find the tattoo emblazoned onto my skin.
“T-This can not be!!!” screams the silver haired slime ball, enraged at losing the power I can now feel flowing through and all around me. “I was the Crimson Dragon’s chosen one!!!”
“You’re wrong!!” Yusei says, “It chose the close bond of friendship instead! It knows we can change the future through that bond, because it can withstand any challenge!”
“Utter rubbish!” spits Goodwin vehemently, “I’ll prove to you that I am all mighty! I’ll crush you all right here right now!!!”
For the love of…! How many times must I fight this filth?! Why couldn’t he just give up already?!! I’ve proven twice now that I could kick his slimy ass!! Sighing, I glare at the silver haired bastard and activated my duel disk, hopefully for the last time.

&# 8220;Cauis! D.D. Survivor!” I command, “Get rid of this slime ball!!!” This time we really did it, Kiryu. I say, You can finally be satisfied, koi.
I feel my body heat up and the power the Crimson Dragon had given me flared out into the sky, causing the millennia old creature to appear above the temple. Goodwin screams in pain as his Dark Signer and Signer marks glowed red and purple. The glow intensifies until I am once again blinded. This was getting pretty old fast. My eyes could only take so much abuse.
When I can see again I find myself floating in what I can only describe as the sky. There were stars below me, stars above me, stars everywhere! Before me stood Goodwin, however it was the Goodwin before he had become a Dark Signer.
“Where are we?” he demands. Typical arrogant piece of…
“Who the hell cares?!” I yell back, “Take me back or else scumbag!!!”
“Rex!”
I jump into a battle stance when I see Rudger come walking toward us.
“Brother… Well, it looks like we took our time getting here. Iolanthe, was it?” he asks turning to me. “Because of all of you, I realized I’ve forgotten something… is what Yusei Fudo had been saying all along. Destiny can be changed through the bonds of friendship… I thank you for reminding me.”
That’s it?! He finally comes to his senses only to thank me?! I didn’t want a thank you! I wanted Kiryu back! I wanted Misty and Bommer back!! Those Dark Signers didn’t deserve to die like they did! And most of all I wanted freedom for the people of Satellite!! Not some stupid words of gratitude from an arrogant, manipulating, self righteous sleaze like Goodwin!! I wanted satisfaction!!
The silver haired man turned back to Rudger, “Let’s finish this…” he says, “together as brothers.” The two men give me a small smile before walking into the bright purple light behind them. As they do, the Crimson Dragon appears above me, locked in battle with the six armed monstrosity that was the King of the Underworld. Before I knew what was going on, I am sucked into the light and teleported back to the bottom of the temple outside Goodwin’s mansion.
“Iolanthe!!” Yusei calls, running up to me, surprise and relief written all over his face. “Are you ok? When you disappeared like that… it’s over isn’t it?”
“Yeah, I believe so Yus.” I could somehow feel that all was well with the two worlds. I didn’t know how exactly, maybe it was some residual power left behind the Crimson Dragon, but I was picking up a sense of calm after a storm. “I don’t think the King of the Underworld’s gonna be a problem again for a nice long while.”
“I see. So the power of our friendship has brought peace to the world after all. We should go, everyone’s worried about you.”