Hey! So I just started watching VRains last month and finally decided to try my hand at writing an fanfiction for it. My very first attempt at a Yugioh fanfiction...oh lord. Anyway! Enjoy! Oh but some spoilers ahead just in case!~

SPOILERS!~

"Ai. Will making lots of copies satisfy you?"

"Yeah. As you know, I got rid of my friends and became alone. There were only six of us but we foolishly hated each other."

"Ai, that isn't your fault!"

"I know. But it doesn't matter whose fault it was. I'm like Earth's last surviving human and that fact won't change. Playmaker, I sort of understand how you felt. Being alone is very painful."

"Ai..."

"Revolver may have been right. If this was the result, we shouldn't have been given free will. Then I wouldn't have to suffer."

"I understand your sadness. But don't let this fate sweep you away!"

"My fate... That depends on the result of this duel. That will determine my fate. Weather the copies will be created or not."

"Even if you make copies, they won't be real friends. You're lonliness won't go away!"

"I never expected them to become my friends. Oh I didn't tell you. When the copies are created...as the final activation trigger, my free will will be divided and given to them."

"What will happen to you?"

"My free will will be broken apart. I'll be no more. If you win, you'll retrieve everything I took and I'll be no more. But if I win, you'll be no more and my copies will be created. Either way I'll be no more."

"Ai, you're making me choose how you die?"

"I know its a bother, but thats right. I want to be with you at the end."

"Ai stop this nonesense! There still must be a way to save you!"

"You don't need to save me. Either way, you have to get back what I stole. So let's duel for real. Thats what Ai-your former partner-wants."

"Ai..."

"Ai..."

His head hurt and it felt as though he was surrounded in a thick lingering fog. Yet for as disoriented as he felt he knew for a fact he was alone. There was nobody else there with him. He was the last of the Ignis. Flame. Aqua. Earth. Windy. Lightning. The other five Ignis, no more like his friends, were gone and never coming back.

"Ai."

And Yusaku, his partner who'd he'd battle alongside all this time, he wasn't gone but they'd never see each other again. Not after he faded away thanks to that final duel with perhaps his most dear friend of all. Yes he was convinced of that despite Yusaku being a human and he an A.I. But it was worth it. He'd do anything to protect his partner after all. Had he stayed with the humans then the boy would have gotten caught up in that detestable future and died. Then what would he do?

No.

It was better he resign himself to this fate of floating aimlessly in the dark by himself. It was where he belonged, he was the Dark Ignis after all. The dark was where his exsistance couldn't hurt those he came to love. Just like his name meant. His name that his partner gave him how long ago now.

"AI!"

A single bright light flashed before his memory. A bright light that settled into a rather tall familiarly shaped form of a human. He tried to make it out, the only issue was that the form was so bright that the light was blurring out most of the features he could use to identify the person. All that he could make out was the shape of a duel disk on the arm as the figure reached out towards him as if grasping for him. That coupled with a overwhelming sense of familiarity like he had seen this mystery figure before.

"VIRAL HIJACKING!"

The high pitched, desperate sounding female voice shouted in the empty expanse surrounding his thoughts. The singular eye shot open wide, "Codebreaker!"