Soul of the Dragon

Chapter 59: Grudge Match Part 2

Fish finally lowered her hands and the glow faded. "You should be all patched up now."

"That's great!" Lise brightened.

"Finally," Crow groaned. He sat up, pulling his arms across his body and twisting his hips in the opposite direction. "Yep, yeah, everything feels much better in there. Thanks Fish, and thanks for, uh, moral support, Lise."

"Sure, anything for my 'big bro'," Lise teased him, rolling her eyes.

"Oh yeah, that reminds me," Crow smirked. "Now I can do this no problem!" He grabbed Lise by the back of her head and jammed his other fist into her head. "NOOGIE!"

Lise squirmed, trying to extract herself from Crow's grip. Fish laughed as her friend endured the childish taunt.

"What was that for?" Lise asked, pushing Crow away, trying to scowl but unable to fight a smile.

Crow shrugged and stood up. He stretched down to his toes and back up. "My 'little sis' just seemed down. I figured her big bro could cheer her up." He flashed her a grin and a cheesy thumbs up.

The girls rolled their eyes.

"You are such an idiot," Fish smiled.

"And a dorky brother," Lise added. She and Fish both got to their feet.

"Now that that's been established, let's go help out Yusei." He located his duel runner and righted it before mounting it.

"Do I have to?" Fish complained but she jumped aboard her water surfboard anyway.

"Oh um, right," Lise said. She frowned but followed her friends as they headed for the purple Giant geoglyph in the sky.

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Four spotlights danced across the broken windows. The Enforcers weren't going to be able to hide for much longer.

"We only want your leader. Turn him in and the rest of you are free to go," the mustachioed chief called in via a bullhorn.

"Not a chance copper," Kalin laughed. His smile turned to surprise when he turned back to his friends. They were removing their duel disks and placing them on the only furniture in the room; a table. "Hey whoa! What're you guys doing? Are you giving up? If we surrender then it's all been for nothing! Let's get out there and fight!"

"Get real and wake up," Jack said.

Crow nodded in agreement. "This little revolution of ours has gone way too far, man."

"Are you serious?"

"Kalin look, we can still escape out back," Yusei pointed out.

"Escape? No way! I'm sick of running from these guys! Let's end this here. Let's kick them out of Satellite for good. Don't you see? This is our big moment right here!" Kalin insisted. He was growing more nuts by the second.

"Our big moment is never coming, Kalin," Jack said.

"Things weren't supposed to go this far. Let's just get outta here while we still can," Yusei said.

"I have a pretty good idea of what you're thinking, Kalin, and none of us are in. We're... we can't do something like that," Lise said softly.

"This can't be happening! Not here! Not now! We can't just give up!" Kalin growled and slammed his fist backwards into a wall. At the same time, something hit the building from outside. A small dust cloud blocked out a few of the windows.

"We need to get of here, now," Yusei warned.

Police were swarming up the building in hot pursuit. With a shove, Yusei forced Kalin to run with the rest of them, and eventually, the silver-haired Enforcer took the lead, Lise taking the rear.