A/N: Hey fanfic fans! It's WhiteAsukalover or White for short. This is my 34th fic and my 8th in 2 weeks I think. Anyway this is my first attempt at an honest horror story so please be gentle with your reviews. Thanks in advance! This chapter is simply a prologue to the story's events.
Brief Summary: Yugi thinks Joey and Tea are dead after finding their bodies lying lifeless in an alleyway, drenched in cold blood. Now one year after his friend's supposed demises, Yugi gets a horrifying surprise…
Yugi Moto walked out of the Kame Game Shop, wondering what was keeping his friends Joey Wheeler and Tea Gardener.
Joey had said they'd be there "in a few minutes" but that had been 2 hours ago.
Naturally Yugi was worried so along with his duel disk and dueling deck, he took along a flashlight.
He walked for about 10 minutes before the small duelist came to a narrow alleyway.
It being 9 at night, the alley was almost impossible to see through.
Yugi slowly switched on his flashlight and pointed it's calming light down in front of him.
What he saw next however horrified the gentle hikari.
There, inches in front of him, was Joey's favorite card the Red-Eyes Black Dragon.
What scared Yugi to his core however was that Joey's card was soaked in blood.
"Who or what could have done such a thing to Joey's favorite card?" Yugi asked himself, already getting very scared.
But Joey's Red-Eyes Black Dragon soon became the least of the innocent champ's fears.
Several feet away beyond the bloodstained dragon card was a small handful of Joey's favorite cards, all coated in cold fresh red blood.
Among them were Insect Queen, Panther Warrior, Gearfried The Iron Knight and Jinzo.
But after seeing the blood-ridden Jinzo, Yugi gasped in horror, nearly dropping his flashlight from the sheer horror of the sight he was seeing.
There, laying several feet away from the pool of bloodstained cards, was Joey's lifeless corpse lying right alongside Tea's.
"Joey! Tea!" Yugi cried out in horror, racing to his best friends' sides.
He checked Joey for a pulse, then Tea before the inevitable truth struck the small duelist.
Joey and Tea, his closest friends in the world next to his Other Half, Yami Yugi were dead.
Yugi's eyes filled with tears and he began to cry.
They couldn't be dead.
They just couldn't be.
But then again, how could they not be?
They were lying in an alleyway, drenched in cold blood.
Yugi ran out of the alley, leaving his flashlight behind, his tears dripping off his face as he ran back home to inform Yami of the horrid news, the tears that had dripped off his face left a short puddle in it's wake beside the corpses of his best friends.
Yugi quickly opened the front door of the Game Shop and ran straight up to his room, crying very hard.
Yami Yugi who had been on Yugi's bed, quietly reading a copy of "Duelist Magazine" saw the distraught duelist enter, and grew concerned.
"Aibou my little hikari what on earth is wrong?" Yami asked soothingly, seeing Yugi's almost non-stop tears.
"Oh Yami, what I saw…it's horrible!" Yugi wailed, throwing himself into Yami's arms.
"Yugi-kun, please calm down. Stop crying. Tell me what's made you so sad, young one…" Yami said gently, his big brother-like tone still showing.
"Joey and Tea are…" Yugi started, his voice even more high-pitched than usual because he was crying.
"They are what, aibou?" Yami asked gently.
He hated to see Yugi so sad. He had thought of himself as Yugi's self-appointed guardian and big brother so to see Yugi so emotionally distraught brought a great pain to the ancient Pharaoh's heart.
"Their d-dead Yami." Yugi sniffled, as he cried in Yami's arms, trying to let go of all the pain he felt from seeing his friends' dead bloodstained bodies.
"What?! Are you sure your feeling ok, aibou?" Yami asked, being highly skeptical that both Joey and Tea could just suddenly die out of the blue like his aibou claimed.
Yugi looked up at his darker half, his eyes red from crying.
"Oh sure I'm ok. I just saw my 2 best friends covered in cold blood, dead in an alleyway but yes I'm ok… DO I LOOK OKAY TO YOU?! " Yugi screamed at the top of his lungs almost.
"Aibou, aibou easy. What exactly did you see? Tell me everything you saw." Yami told his trembling hikari, still trying to be gentle with him.
Yugi took a deep breath and stopped crying for the moment before he spoke.
"Well I saw Red-Eyes Black Dragon, Insect Queen, Panther Warrior, Gearfried The Iron Knight and Jinzo all covered in blood. Then just ahead of those cards, I saw Joey and Tea's lifeless body all drenched in blood." Yugi whispered, trying not to cry even more.
"Oh dear Ra…" Yami muttered.
"It's true, Yami! Their gone!" Yugi cried.
Yami just hugged Yugi tightly, trying to quell the small boy's pain in any way he could.
To be continued…