Once Upon a Dream

Chapter 2
Visions are seldom all they seem...

The lifeguard blew the whistle and Joey looked back towards the tower. He had wanted to get one more good wave before the sun set completely, to get his mind off being sort-of rejected. He and his board were only about a hundred feet offshore. The guard was pointing at him.

"Huh?" Joey looked in front of him just in time to see it. A shark fin disappeared just as a mouth appeared at the nose of his board. Hundreds of teeth crunched into fiberglass- as Joey blacked out and fell off.

"Oh my God! Guys! Guys! He's awake!" Yugi shouted into the hall, frantic with relief.

Tristan, Serenity, Tea, Grampa, and Duke all left Mai alone in the waiting area as they raced back to Joey's hospital room.

Mai's heart skipped a beat, and she lost her breath. "Oh, God, thank you..." She hung her head, "Just please..." The tears choked her. "Please let the doctors be wrong..."

"Mai?"

Her attention snapped to Yugi near her. "Is he-?"

"We don't know yet... Are you okay?"

"Of course not. But go- I'll be fine. I'll... see him in a lil while, okay?"

"Sure..." Yugi left with the worst reassuring smile ever on his face.

Mai pulled the ring out of her pocket and put it on her left ring finger. Something spooked her about it though, and she quickly switched it to her right.

"Where am I?" Joey's speech was surprisingly normal.

"The General Hospital," Tea answered. The whole gang was crowded around the bed.

"What happened?" Joey was looking all around the room, very confused.

"You don't remember that shark in front of your surfboard?" Tristan said nervously. Everyone's glances got worried.

"What?"

"Yeah man! There was this huge shark that just came outta nowhere and chomped off the nose of your board! Luckily, you got knocked out of the way, so you've still got all your parts, heh-heh..." Tristan tried to chuckle.

"I don't reme-"

"But you were also knocked unconscious," Tea chimed in. "And all the lifeguards went out and some weird guy shot the shark. You'd hit your head under the water, too, and they pulled you out and rushed you to the hospital..." Tea was getting more and more worried. Joey was plain scared and freaked out. "Joey, do you remember anything?!"

Joey looked directly at Yugi and asked, "Who are all you guys?"

Mai was standing just outside the doorway and heard. She covered her mouth as the tears started their deluge. She ran down the hall.

A/N: "And all the king's lifeguards, and all the king's paramedics couldn't put Joey together again!" Sorry. By the way, the line "and then some weird guy shot the shark," just sounded to me like something that would logically be dubbed in by the geniuses who dub Tea's lines, lol. Couldn't you just picture her saying that in the show???

 "And all the king's lifeguards, and all the king's paramedics couldn't put Joey together again!" Sorry. By the way, the line "" just sounded to me like something that would logically be dubbed in by the geniuses who dub Tea's lines, lol. Couldn't you just picture her saying that in the show???

Disclaimer: I don't own YGO or Disney's Sleeping Beauty song "Once Upon a Dream." I also do not claim to be the first or best to come up with the idea of Joey amnesia. To the best of my knowledge, the only other story which I have heard this from is Pink Starz's ...With the French Maid in Kaiba's Room! And she's awesome. v