I walked out of the museum quickly making my way through the crowds back to the game shop. Okay it was definitely time to tell the gang about the crazy visions and headaches no more staling.
"Yugiiiiiiii!" I screamed at the top of my lungs, leaping over the counter past Gramps, and taking the steps two at a time up the stairs. The gang all peaked out of Yugi's doorway. "Y'all will never guess what's been happenin' to me."
An Hour Later
"Joey, why didn't you tell us this when it started happening a month ago?" Yugi said, looking annoyed.
"Well you were kinda bein' depressed at de time and I hav' reasons for not tellin' everyone else when it started happenin'." I shrugged my shoulders nonchalantly.
It appeared that my situation had been just what we needed to snap Yugi and Ryou out of their depressions…unfortunately. I almost wish they were depressed again so they would stop glaring at me. Man, remind me to never make them mad again. They're terrifying when they want to be.
"So let me get this straight," Yugi said in an irate tone. "You have been having weird vision around Ancient Egyptian Item." When I nodded affirmation she continued. "And my house is filled with said artifacts." I nodded again. "That means that every time that you have come to my house to check on me, every day since Yami left, for a month that you have been having disjointed visions and did NOT tell me." I nodded, looking down into my lap like a little kid getting scolded by their mother.
"Joey I know your all about solving problems yourself and all but did you seriously have to hide it man?" Tristan exclaimed shaking his head at me.
"What exactly facilitated your prophecy to Kaiba, Joey? Did you look at anything specific or was it just Kaiba's presence that resulted in it?" Ryou asked deciding to have pity on me and changing the subject.
"I don't know I dink it w's de timin' and de fact I w's lookin' at 'im. Something is happenin' and I dink it involves us all."
"What time was it when you ran into Rich boy?"
"It was 11:00, but I don't dink it was de literal timin' Tristan. Maybe it was cause Marik and dem was dere to 'elp Moneybags deal wit it and he won't be able to deny it with witnesses."
"According to Pythagoras 11 is the number of the spiritual messenger," Ryou said, quoting some random trivia fact she had read.
I turned to give her a sarcastic look and froze as dizziness came on as soon as I spotted the Millennium Ring. "Crap" I muttered.
"The Thief King is returning, and you will need to remain steadfast and strong. Remind him of his past before the slaughter of his village. He will need you to guide him, that is why you were chosen to bear the Millennium Ring. It will lead you to the other items as they awaken."
"I did it again. Isn't that freaky?" I shouted, turning to look at my friends. "Joey," Yugi said trying to get me to stop hyperventilating. First time I was in shock, second time I freaked out, and hopefully there would not be a third time. "It will be okay," she said rubbing my back. I began to giggle, which was quite out of character.
"It seem like just a couple of hours ago it was me doin' the comforting and you doin' the emotional overload. Oh wait it was." My laughing took a more hysterical note and got louder.
It took five minutes for me to get it out of my system. I slowly took a breathe. "I think I'm okay now. You can stop hovering."
"You sure man? You freaked out pretty badly just now," Tristan inquired, eyeing me like he expected another bout of temporary insanity.
"I'm fine, I think."
"I wonder why you just did that, Joey?" Ryou asked leaving the question open for debate.
"The freaking out because of strange voices telling of the future and giving warnings or the giving of strange warnings and predictions?"
Tea and Tristan glared at me, Ryou and Yugi looked relieved that I could make a joke, and I sat their innocently. "I'm pretty sure she meant the later Joey," Tea said scathingly.
"I think I figured out what is prompting them though not why it is me that is doing them."
I let the silence after I said this linger waiting for one of them to ask why. "Okay I'll bite. What is prompting them, Joey?" Tea asked shaking her at me.
"Well Kaiba triggered the first one and Ryou's Millennium Ring triggered the second. Moneybags' talked about the Millennium Items awakening and why they were awakening and I'm pretty sure that Ryou's ring has now awakened. That probably means that when the other items' powers wake up I'm going to have weird prophecies concerning the wearers too."
"You mean it's going to happen again…and what do you mean the ring is awake?"
I looked at the ring resting on Ryou's chest. "She should be able to use it to locate things again as well as send people to the Shadow Realm…not that she should try to do that…unless she tries on Moneybags."
"Joey Wheeler we are not sending Seto Kaiba to the Shadow Realm not matter how much of a bastard you think he is." Yugi said in a huff, irritated that I would even suggest sending anyone to the Shadow Realm. Normally I wouldn't wish anyone to the Shadow Realm. I had been there and it was not a pleasant place to be, but for Kaiba I was willing to make an exception. Plus he is the one who forced me to tell my friend about my headaches, and visions by getting me to spout the stupid prophecy though that wasn't really his fault and it probably would have happened sooner or later.
Tea suddenly clapped her hands capturing everyone's attention. "Enough talk about crazy do dah. Let's talk about normal things for a while. Are we still on for that trip to Egypt we were talking about, because Joey was the main nay-sayer about the trip but now that we know why we can work around it. We can go see Grandpa Motou's supposedly cursed dig site and visit all the local stalls in the market place. I bet we can find all sorts of interesting trinkets. Arthur and Rebecca are supposed to be there too."
Tea continued to talk for a while and eventually we started to branch off to different subjects and plans for the future. We talked for hours and all left in high spirits. As I walked home to the apartment that I had previously shared with my dad I thought about the secrets I had yet to share with my friends. 'I'll tell them tomorrow' I thought. 'They had more than enough to think about right now.'
