Hello and Welcome, Ladies and Gentlemen and Arc V Fans!

Presenting to you my second fanfiction for the Yu-gi-oh anime I have grown so fond of, starring my personal favorite of the bracelet girls, Selena!

It's a shame really. I had this idea in my head since Episode 115 came out but thanks a certain plot device revealed in Episode 117 that has been... ahem... "Bugging Me", that means this story idea isn't even close to being canon or even head canon.

Oh well. I wrote it anyway since a Good Writer never lets his ideas go to waste!

Disclaimer: I have no ownership what so ever of Yu-gi-oh Arc V. I would go into huge juicy detail of what I would do if I did, but I'm sure you all would rather read the fanfiction instead.

Enjoy!

Chapter 1: Selena Remembers

Selena:

"The Lancers will lose for the sake of the Professor."

The words are poison to my tongue as I keep my mask of darkness on at the Heartbroken Yuzu.

I force my lips to curl upward into a smile as I throw my captive into her prison cell and slam the door shut. I have to walk away now. I have to walk away before she...

"SELENA! WAIT! Why are you doing this?! I thought we were friends!"

Before she says something like that...

Her cries force me to stop. I try not to listen but I cannot help but focus on a single word of her pleas for answers.

Why?

Why would I betray her? Why would I willingly jump back into this polluted cesspool of bigotry and cruelty?

Why indeed?

If only it was easy to explain it.

Yuzu, my friend, my sister, forgive me for what I have to do you.

I think you would understand if I could tell you who I am doing this for.

After all, you would have done the same for Yuya...

I remember counting the days as I sat in my cell, cursing my weakness for allowing Barrett to get the better of me and capture me again. I could have fought, I could have dueled to the death, but I was too weak, and now here I was, with Leo Akaba, the high and mighty "Professor" staring at me with that stone cold face and heartless eyes.

"I will tell you nothing!" I snapped at him. If he thought he was going to keep me locked up here forever then he was wrong. I escaped once before and I can do it again.

Much to my annoyance, the Professor is the same as he was the last time I saw him. Nothing I did ever fazed him. He just stared back at me with those cold lifeless eyes.

"I never expected you to tell me anything, Selena. You were always the most rebellious of my students. Therefore, you will stay here until you learn to behave."

"When I learn to behave?" I snapped again. In truth I was enjoying the familiarity of rebelling in front of his face. "Why should I behave to someone who keeps lying to me? You have no intention of letting me out of this cell because you need me just like you need Yuzu and the other two girls!"

"Now Selena, be reasonable." It was almost chilling listening to him. He didn't raise his voice at all, and his face didn't show a hint of anger, but the power in his voice was tremendous. Perhaps this was why he commanded such loyalty in all the other students.

"I never once lied to you during your entire time here at Duel Academy. You merely stumbled upon a point of view that is different and opposing to the only point of view you experienced your entire life, and naturally your curiosity for the outside world encouraged you to listen to that point of view and forgot mine."

"Cut the bullshit!" I spat. "Why do you need me?! Why do you need Yuzu and Rin and Ruri?! Why not just steal the bracelets off our arms?! Why do you always keep secrets from me?! Am I really just another tool to be used like your little pets, your Obelisk Force! Do none of these people on this God Forsaken Island mean anything to you?!"

"All in good time, Selena." He answered. "In fact, I would not have had to deny you the right to understand my vision if you had just kept in line like a good soldier."

"You never intended to give me the honor of fighting." I growled. "You never intended for me to leave the island because you couldn't afford to lose me!"

"That is...partially true..." He explained.

"But the reports I have received tell a very interesting story. It seems I had greatly underestimated your dueling ability. You performed outstandingly in that little tournament in the Synchro Dimension and you even held your own against an evolved form of one of the Dimension Dragons. It seems I had nothing to worry about. Had I sent you to the Xyz Dimension with the rest of my soldiers, I would not have needed to worry about losing you. You would have performed just as remarkably as the Obelisk Force, perhaps even better! You would have earned the same blue that they were, perhaps even purple!"

There it was! The praise I had longed for! The recognition! The one goal I had since I arrived in this island years ago, dangling in front of me like a worm to a fish.

But I could see the hook.

"Are you trying to bribe me?!"

"No, Selena." He denied my accusation immediately. "I am simply trying to understand what changed. For as long as I can remember, you had the same ambition as Yuri..."

YURI!

That name... How dare he say that name to me!

"I thought you wanted to share his position of power?" he continued, as if he was twisting a screwdriver into my heart and opening up a forgotten wound.

"I thought the two of you wanted to become the best duelists in my army together, with him as my right hand and you as my left. It is quite a shame that he only sees you as a traitor to the cause you both were so passionate about so long ago..."

HOW?! How does he know? Why would he think I would still have a bond with him when it was severed so long ago?

But I do... when I saw him for the first time in years when he arrived in Standard, and then again in the Synchro Dimension, when I saw how much he had changed, I could no longer deny my own guilt from what I saw. I wanted to talk to him, to reason with him.

That was not Yuri. That was a monster who looked like him.

Yuri is gone, at least the Yuri I remember...

I had never realized how long three years was before remembering this. Another day, another class, another failed attempt to stand out from the rest of the crowd and get myself a spot in the army as one of the professor's soldiers.

Now for recess, where I would have to find someone to duel. What else could I do on this island, anyway?

And I saw it, a duel already in progress in the courtyard by the gardens. He looked no different than me, just another kid longing to prove himself, but what really caught my attention was his opponent. No one in my age group was stupid enough to challenge a full fledged member of the Obelisk Force, so I decided to watch.

And what a surprise, the young upstart crashes and burns, with Ancient Gear Hound Dog, (would it be any other monster?) taking out the rest of his lifepoints.

The thug in blue laughed and walked away, and the boy started to cry. I rolled my eyes. What a wimp. Crying would not solve his problems. They would only make him look like an even bigger idiot in front of the Professor. I turned to leave, and yet for some reason, I looked back Maybe it was the fact that he stood up to an Obelisk Force that had me curious about him. If students did that more often, this island wouldn't be so boring all the time.

My eyes darted to a card scattered on the ground, and I practically had a heart attack after reading it.

Starve Venom Fusion Dragon. This card was not just powerful, it was insane! So why the hell didn't this kid summon it?

More importantly, why didn't he Fusion Summon at all?

"H-H-Hey... G-G-Give that back!" the boy asked me, but it was more of a whimper than a request. Did this kid not have a spine at all?

"Why didn't you summon this card?" I asked. "You could have won on your first turn if you had just used this card? Don't you even know how to fusion summon?!"

The boy lowered his head in shame, answering my question for me.

"You don't know how to fusion summon?! Are you kidding me?! No wonder you couldn't win! You're never going to win if you don't pay attention and learn the most basic technique in Academia! Honestly, what are the instructors going to say! WORSE! What would your parents say if they found out their son who they paid good money to send here CAN'T FUSION SUMMON?!"

I didn't even have to wait for a response to know I said the worst thing possible. The kid looked like he was about to start crying again.

"I have no parents... they... died when I was a baby... The Professor found me in an orphanage..."

That didn't surprise me at all. It was the typical story for most of the first batch of students from the professor's drafting session. It used to be that only the rich families on the main land would send their kids here. They would pay large sums of money to ship their kids off to this rock, but then the new Professor showed up about a year before I arrived here, and the recruiting system changed. He would visit orphanage after orphanage and take them here without asking for so much as a single act of payment, and he would not take no for an answer.

He did the exact same thing to my orphanage, so he must have done the same thing to whatever orphanage Yuri was from, coming in with his guards, bribing the matron of the orphanage, and then herding the kids into boats like cattle to embark on their new destiny...

I wasn't as excited as the other kids in my orphanage, but still. It was better than sitting in darkness waiting for the false hope of being adopted. It was better than feeling like nothing.

Well I suppose I should apologize...

"I'm... sorry... I guess I'm just frustrated. I'm in the same boat you are. I'm getting nowhere with my own progress and the harsh lectures from the instructors make it worse. I guess I'm not the only member of the dropouts since the Professor never even so much as looks at me."

The silence that followed was awkward, too awkward for my liking, but I stayed. I guess I missed actually talking to someone for a change.

"Yuri... I'm Yuri..."

What was with this kid? No one on this prison of an island was this sickeningly nice! Didn't he realize that nice guys finish last? Maybe this was why he couldn't fusion summon! Still, I suppose it would be rude not to tell him my name.

"Selena..."

"Ummmm... would you... would you..."

"Spit it out, brat!" I snapped, but I cursed myself for flinching. Good Lord it really had been too long since I talked to someone.

"I just... wanted to make the Professor happy with me..." Yuri explained. "And...and you want to do it too, right? I just thought... I just thought..."

"Thought what?!"

"I thought you could help me Fusion Summon! Then... Then we could train together! I... I don't have anything... I don't have a home to go back to... All I have is this, and I want to repay the Professor for bringing me to a place where I could be someone!"

I felt something sting my heart. Why did this sound so familiar.

"I just thought... if you taught me how to Fusion Summon... I could share that dream with you! The Professor wants to unite the worlds to make everyone happy! Well... what if we were the ones who led the armies to do it? What if it was our dueling that made his dream come true! We'd be seen as heroes!"

I couldn't argue with that... and I couldn't believe what I was hearing... a kid cut from the same cloth as me, a kid with the same ambition...

"You can say no if you want... I don't blame you..."

The stinging sensation in my heart grew. Who was I to deny someone with the same dream I had?

"Besides..." He continued... "If...If we still don't get recognized by the Professor... we'll still have each other... right?!"

I couldn't help but raise an eyebrow at something so stupid. "What are you talking about? Why would you want to stay with me?"

"Well... because... I thought... I thought we could be... friends..."

Friends. I hardly knew the meaning of the word. It was something no student here was allowed to have, and I certainly never had it back at the orphanage.

Still, what did I have to lose? If the kid was a lost cause, then tough luck for him. If we gained experience from our duels and he learned how to fusion summon, then his little pipe dream didn't sound so out of reach after all. Maybe this is what we both needed to succeed.

"Alright Yuri... Friends... I guess..."

It seemed I wasn't alone on this island after all...

I wasn't going to let the Professor play mind games with me. I kept my mask of spite up. I won't let him spot a single detail of the truth.

"Yuri? That little teacher's pet? He means nothing to me."

I feel like I want to vomit after saying that, but showing weakness in the face of the Professor is not an option, regardless of whether you support him or oppose him.

I had to hold back every urge to swear and curse once I realized the professor saw the fear in my eyes anyway.

"That is good to know. Such attachments would make things difficult once the Arc Area Project reaches completion. After that, I am afraid you will never see him again."

"What are you going to do with him?!" I found myself asking without any control over my voice.

"I thought you just said you didn't care about him." He replied monotonously.

"I DON'T! I'm just... curious... You devoted all that training to one student, and you let the others just play around with Ancient Gears with the exception of a few, like Sora. What made you think he deserved the spot of your best student. I never saw any potential in that little brat years ago, and I still don't see it now!"

There. If you intend to keep secrets from me with your mask, Leo Akaba, I can do the same with my own..."

"Hmph, didn't you listen as to why I kept all those secrets from you? If you had just remained as cooperative as he was, then I would not have had to separate you two..."

Another painful memory. The separation. You are wrong Leo Akaba. You didn't separate Yuri from me, I did that myself...

And now that I saw what it did to him... I regret every second of my foolishness...

I remember it all too well. My overall mood had improved since the time I first met Yuri. We were dueling every day, and Yuri was summoning his dragon more and more often. It was shocking really. Now that he had understood the basics of fusion summoning and how to work with his cards, he was outclassing me with the power of his dragon. I used to beat him all the time, but now it was the other way around. Every day I would find myself on the receiving end of his dragon's power and on the ground in only a few turns.

It was frustrating and infuriating. In my time helping Yuri improve I had failed to improve myself, but at the same time, it was comforting.

The dream we shared would be a reality. We would be the heroes who would see the dream of uniting the four dimensions become a reality.

Yuri and Selena, the heroes of Academia.

I always thought becoming the soldier responsible for Academia's victory would be the one thing that would make me no longer feel like nothing, but after meeting Yuri, I am starting to doubt that thought.

He came up behind me again, surprising me, as per our usual time to meet and duel, but this time he was holding something in his hand.

"What do you want?"

"Um... well... Here... I wanted you to have this..."

I thought it he was about to give me a card, which would have been nice, but at the same time, insulting. Did he really think that I was becoming too easy of an opponent, so he decided to give me a stronger card to even the odds as a handicap? I am strong enough on my own thank you very much!

But to my surprise, it was anything but a card. I stared at the object with confusion.

"What's this old thing? A yellow dishcloth?"

"DON'T SAY THAT!" Yuri suddenly yelled. I was taken aback. I had never heard him yell before, and what was stranger, there was a sudden flash in his eyes when he said those words. I couldn't put my finger on it, but that shimmer of rage in his eyes didn't seem natural.

It almost felt like the presence of his dragon...

Apparently that was a one time occurrence though. Yuri's voice returned to normal as he explained the gift to me.

"This bandana... It... it was my mother's... it was the only thing of my old home they let me keep when they brought me here... I'd like you to have it..."

Now I was officially surprised. What was the point of sacrificing that important to someone he has only known for six months? It made no sense!

"Well what am I supposed to do with this?" I asked him. For some reason, his face turned red when I asked him.

"Well... I don't know, you could put it in your hair and... um... it would make you look... pretty...?"

That single word alone stopped me cold. No one had ever said anything like that. Was he mocking me?

"Excuse me?"

"Well, you're already pretty, I just thought... I'm sorry... It's just that... you never smile... I thought this would make you smile..."

Was I hearing this right? He was actually paying me a true compliment and giving me this prized possession of his... out of the goodness of his heart?

Did I really mean that much to him?

"No No! I'm not angry, it's just... " I pause, reflecting back to my days at the orphanage, before Academia, the day of being nothing...

"No one's ever given me a gift before... Thank you..."

I had no idea a simple thank you would result in Yuri becoming so happy, but here he was, smiling from ear to ear. What was the big deal? I didn't understand it at all!

"Y-Y-Your Welcome Selena! I..."

Yuri didn't get to finish since we were rudely interrupted by the professor's pet thugs, the Obelisk Force, and leading the pack was an instructor I had never seen before. He was middle aged and had the bushiest mustache I had ever seen, but I knew I had to keep my guard up. Somehow I knew his very presence meant trouble.

"Yuri." The man spoke. "Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Sanders, and I will be your private instructor from now on. The Professor's preparations to make his move to unite the four dimensions are nearly complete, so he has asked me to begin a more... "special" type of training."

Yuri was ecstatic. He had every right to be since this Sanders fellow was practically giving him everything he wanted. Power, Respect, the chance for our dream to be real.

There was only one thing that prevented me from being happy for him. Sanders didn't mention me, and I made sure to let him know about it!

"Hey wait a second, what about me?!" It was infuriating. It was like I was invisible to Sanders and only now did he actually turn to look at me and acknowledge my presence.

"I am afraid, Selena, that the professor ONLY wants Yuri for this special training session, not you!"

Not me... I had never been so hurt by two simple words before. Not me... I was nothing again, nothing to Sanders, nothing to Academia.

Why did he only choose Yuri after all we had done together. We attended the same classes, got identical grades on all our exams, and I made sure that at least one instructor was watching us every single time we dueled together! What could Yuri have done to gain better favor?!

Then it clicked. It couldn't be, but the more I thought about it, the more it could actually be possible! What if Yuri already knew he would be chosen? What if he had been going behind my back to butter up to the instructors? What if this gift, the only gift I had ever received in my life, was just a lie, a peace offering so there would be no hard feelings as he abandons me to accomplish our dream without me?

This couldn't be real. This was just a nightmare and I would wake up to the same kind Yuri who still needed me, not this back stabber!

"What... did... you...say?" I found my temper rising as each word came out, but Sanders only grew more annoyed.

"Are you deaf?! The professor only wants the strongest duelist he can find for his special training and that is not you!"

Strongest duelist? Is he joking? Yuri was strong, but there was no way he was the absolute best! We hadn't made it there yet! We weren't even close to being on par with the Obelisk Force! That did it! This had to be a set up! What could Yuri have bribed Sanders with to get him into that special training course?

"What have you been doing, Yuri?" I growled.

Yuri jumped, and I found myself regretting my hostility, but what if that shock was all part of his act?

"What do you mean?!" He asked.

"What did you do behind my back to suddenly make yourself look so special?! How could you do this to me?! I thought you said you wanted to be my friend, but now I see you were just using me to climb up to the Professor's side! Did you make up the story about the bandana belonging to your mother too?!

"N-N-N-N-NO! NO! I didn't! I would never..."

In my anger, I thought his frantic stuttering was the dead give away that I was right, that he was lying to me. I had no idea just how much I was hurting him.

"Just go with them, Yuri."

"Selena..."

"JUST GO! I see how it is! You thought you could just use me to help you get better at Fusion Summoning and now that the Professor noticed you, you don't need me anymore! I wasn't your friend at all! I was just a stepping stone so you could climb the totem pole up to being the professor's favorite! WELL TAKE IT THEN! Take that offer and go! I never want to see you again!"

"Selena..."

"Leave me alone! I HATE YOU!"

I refused to let Sanders' brutal stare and Yuri's look of shock keep me here any longer, so I ran. I ran as far as my legs could carry me. If the professor wants to mold Yuri into his little pet, then who am I to stop him?!

I stared at the bandana for hours as I stood on a cliff overlooking the sea. How dare that little brat betray me?! After all that time growing stronger together, he does something special for the professor and now he's suddenly his favorite. That should have been me! That should have been both of us! All this time he was just using me to grow stronger so he could impress the professor. All this time, trying to be my friend, trying to make me smile, that was just an act...

Wasn't it?

Wasn't it?

Why was I doubting myself now?

My memory kept darting back to Yuri's face as I ran from him. It was an act! It had to be! If it wasn't then... that means I broke him!

No! It was an act! I don't need him! I don't need anyone on this God Forsaken Island! I don't need him!

I raised my arm to throw the bandana into the ocean, but my arm stopped.

Another moment of weakness, perhaps the professor saw this weakness and that's why he chose only Yuri and not both of us, and yet no matter how hard I try, I couldn't let go of the gift, the only gift I had ever received, the only time someone showed true caring for me, the only time someone called me... pretty...

I felt the heat in my cheeks again and I shrug it off. I would just have to continue training. If need be, I'll just get off this rock and force my way onto the front lines if it means I can show him I'm just as deserving of being a soldier as Yuri is. That goal is all I have now that Yuri is gone.

I tied the bandana back in my hair, and that's where it stayed.

I pushed him away when he needed me... I pushed him away when I thought he was just holding me back and taking advantage of my help... I pushed him away...

I abandoned the one thing that mattered more to me than that stupid pipe dream of fighting for this stupid war, the one person in this dimension I could call a friend...

...And now he's a monster... that sweet little boy... a monster...

Just like the Obelisk Force... NO! WORSE than the Obelisk Force... just a blood hungry predator. His smile is one of cruelty and not joy, all teeth and no heart.

Now that I was finally back "home" if I could call it that, who was I to abandon him again when he needed me now more than ever?

Who was I to forsake him when these Lancers would likely destroy him and card him should they achieve victory?

I did this to him... I turned him into a monster, and now I need to turn him back, but I can't do it behind bars.

He won't take any chances. He won't let me out of this cell unless...

Oh God... that's why he wanted to interrogate me personally, to see if I could be molded back into one of his obedient little puppets, to see if I was as naïve as he believed.

But this... these people who touched my soul the same way Yuri touched mine all those years ago...

Reiji Akaba, the rebel who started it all, who opened my eyes to the reprehensible actions that I foolishly believed until seeing their cruelty with my own eyes.

Yuya Sakaki, the idealist who helped me discover joy. I had never even found dueling to be fun until I saw him in action, riding the wind of his duel runner in the Friendship Cup, attempting to dazzle the crowd and make them happy, and soon enough I found myself doing the same thing when I fought his synchro counterpart.

Yuzu, someone with a kindness I had never known, someone I could truly call a sister and make me feel like I am not alone in this world.

These Lancers... My Friends... My Family... I would have to burn the bridge connecting me to them if it meant I could atone for my deepest regret.

I couldn't just say I would do so and then escape the moment the Professor opened the door, if he even believed me. I would have to demonstrate my loyalty to him. There was only one way to do that, and it made me sick.

I was losing my only chance as I watched the Professor leave my cell.

"ALRIGHT! I'LL DO IT!"

It worked. The Professor stopped dead in his tracks and turned around. "Excuse me?"

"I'll talk. I'll even offer a plan to capture the final piece of your little puzzle. In exchange, you promote me to the same rank of office as Yuri."

"Interesting... and what may I ask, changed your mind? Why should I believe that this is just another escape attempt?"

"Look at me, Professor! What do you see? I have nothing! No friends, no parents, no prized possesions, no dreams! This island, this facility where you took nobodies and made them into objects of power, this was all I had! Was it really wrong to simply dream that I could have more than this if I looked elsewhere?

"But now I realize something. What will happen if the Lancers win this little war? This island, this home I took for granted will be destroyed. Your precious SON will likely card you and Yuri, along with every single Academia soldier who participated in the Xyz Dimension, and then they will go home, back to their lives, back to their loved ones, and where will I be? I will be the same as your little dream, forgotten about and left with nothing."

"If you think I defected because of some simple spark of sympathy for the scum we destroyed in the Xyz Dimension, then you are wrong! I left for the same reason I tried to leave all those other times. My talents were not appreciated, so I decided to find a different group of soldiers who understood true dueling talent when they saw it, but look at me now! Those worms did NOTHING to help me when Barrett recaptured me. All they cared about what defeating you. Losing one expendable soldier was no skin off their nose."

"That is not what Barrett reported."

"He mentioned one boy in particular fighting with every fiber of his being to make sure you and your standard counterpart stayed with them."

Damn it! I would have to try something else.

"Hmph, you mean Yuya Sakaki? Please. He's too soft for his own good. Dueling to make people smile? What a joke! I'm sure he would go out of his way to help me, but he's not the one who is in charge, your son is, and my only regret now is finding out too late that Reiji Akaba could care less whether I am here or not!"

Oddly enough, the mention of the name Sakaki triggered a reaction. I couldn't tell what, but there was something in the Professor's eyes that the mention of Yuya's name triggered.

I suppose I should consider that a victory. I actually got the stone cold Professor to show an emotion.

Did this mean I was successfully convincing him? Only one way to find out.

"I beg your forgiveness, Professor. Allow me to show you that I can be a soldier on par with Yuri in strength and in loyalty. Allow me to meet the Lancers when they arrive in the Fusion Dimension. They will drop their guard when they see me since they foolishly think I am still their friend. You can have as many soldiers as you want lying in wait, and once Yuzu is in sight you can make your move and claim the final piece of your little puzzle."

His gaze narrowed and his eyes made direct contact with mine, looking for any sign of weakness, any indication that my resolve would falter.

"What makes you think I would even agree to this little plan of yours after everything you have done?"

"What reason do you have not to? I just said you can have as many soldiers as you want watching my every move as I use myself as bait! Since I will be under constant surveillance during my little trap, I will never have an opportunity to escape again, and even if I do try, your soldiers can simply attack me on sight and recapture me with Yuzu. I'm not asking you to trust me, I am asking you to be pragmatic. You have nothing to lose with this plan and everything to gain."

It seemed like hours were passing by as he continued to stare at me. It was only now that I realized I was sweating. What would he do to me if he didn't believe me? Would he leave me here to rot, or would he do something worse. It was only when he finally answered that I was able to breathe again.

"You have one chance, Selena. Don't disappoint me."

"SELENA?! WAIT! Why are you doing this?! I thought we were friends!"

I couldn't tell Yuzu. I couldn't even turn around to face her. The guards were still watching.

"Get it through your thick skull, Yuzu! I was NEVER your friend, and now that the professor has all four of my counterparts together, your precious Lancers will lose!"

I could here the sound of my friend crying, but I couldn't turn around now. It's too late for that.

I don't care how many bridges I have to burn, how many hearts I have to break, I have no regrets except for the one decision that turned Yuri into a monster.

It's funny, Yuya probably hates me now. He probably thinks I am just as black hearted as Yuri is now, but if he knew of my true intentions, he would be so proud of me.

My counterparts are the key. I knew it the moment I saw our bracelets glow as one when Yuri and Yugo clashed, entering that monstrous trance and spouting words of becoming one, giving into the savage nature of their dragons, but our power tames the dragons. We can soothe the savage beast, and if I cannot cure Yuri of his monstrosity, then I will need all four of us together to do so.

I will save you Yuri. Even if I have to sell my soul to the devil and paint myself as a cruel villainess to all of my fellow lancers. Even if I have to imprison myself in the pits of hell, I will tame your cruelty and find your heart.

I promise to do what you tried to do to me all those years ago.

I promise to make you smile again.

Authors Notes:

So there we have it! A Window into Selena's Psyche and a backstory that explains her connection to Yuri that we could have had, but we got bugs in her ear instead. It seems we fans can't have everything we want, but that is what fanfiction is for!

I had this idea planned out since the day we saw Episode 115, and I was eager to see why Selena turned on the Lancers, but sadly I was severely disappointed, any chance I had of the premise of this fanfiction being canon was shot out of the sky by the reveal of the parasites in Episode 117.

So with that being said, I don't necessarily hate the writers decisions to use those parasites, but here is my biggest problem with the parasites.

It WASTED any chance the writers have to further explore Selena's backstory and character development.

So yes! I share the same opinion as many other fans, that Selena SHOULD have a strong bond or at least some type of a connection with Yuri, but Leo Akaba or some outside force did something to Yuri and separated them because he knew the importance of the bond between Dragon Boy and Bracelet Girl.

This is why I think Selena should have dueled Yuri instead of Yugo in the final act of the Synchro Dimension Season. We could have received character development and proper backstory for both of them and then Selena would be captured just like canon because she failed to break through to Yuri, but no... instead we deny Yuri more screen time AGAIN by the power of Bracelet Ex Machina COUGH COUGH I mean Yuzu.

So with that being said I have a question for you readers. Who is YOUR favorite Bracelet Girl and why? Whoever it is, I am curious to find out so why don't you tell me in the review section, and while your at it I would very much like to hear what you thought of this little one shot.

Also, while you guys are at it, feel free to check out my OTHER Yu-Gi-Oh Arc V story, Broken Bell. It's a one shot starring our favorite Synchro Couple, Yugo and Rin. Furthermore, feel free to check out my ZEXAL Story, The Ice Queen Cometh starring Rio Kamishiro. 40 chapters and counting, and I am always looking for more readers to enjoy that one!

Until Next Time! This is Nox Descious Signing Out!