A/N: Okay, so I know that in Greece, it doesn't truly develop into the great society it became until the sixth century, and if I were to stay honest with the fact that Atem was born during the time Egypt separated (Japanese dub of 3000 years) or when Egypt began forming (English dub 5000 years).

So ignoring actual factual time line, Greece was a developed country with theaters, olympics and democracy in order to determine the changes of their society. They have a monarchy to be able to form alliances with other countries and strengthen the alliances or prevent war.

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Kaiba was staring out the window of the hospital room. He was currently visiting Joey who had been asleep for a week. Kiyoko was able to keep the media from knowing about this with Seto's help. Joey's father didn't know about this, so he wouldn't turn to alcohol by using this as an excuse. His friends were well aware of this, and were enraged (at least Tristan bought it to that peak) at Kaiba for doing this, but they haven't had the chance to confront him since he eluded them.

Except for Yugi, who was able to reason with him through phone that he wasn't angry. He just wanted to know if he was okay, and Seto wasn't but he didn't tell him that. He just gave him a cold remark, and then hung up.

Seto didn't start with feeling terrible. At first, he was simply too shocked to understand that he had hit the damn duelist too hard to make him unconscious. To put him into a coma, it was absurd, but now that a week had passed, and the swelling to the brain showed little signs of improvement, he began to weakly believe that the blond may not wake up for months. Optimistically, at least a few would pass before he woke up.

"Shouldn't you wake up, already, idiot." Seto said as he still stared out the window. It was raining. The man had cancelled the gala he was supposed to have since he and Mokuba didn't feel like hosting one.

Mokuba was greatly upset, and Seto knew he blamed him for this even if he didn't say so. The pre-teen had been visiting Joey every day from after school to the weekends with the others. The older Kaiba chose to visit Joey alone preferably, so he wouldn't be racked with guilt if he were to see the other faces accusing him loudly and silently that this was his fault.

He knew it was his fault, dammit!

Seto gritted his teeth and clenched his fists. His company was coming to some sort of temporary peace after catching the traitor, but he was not happy. He knew he never really was truly happy with his company. He did feel satisfaction from it, but it never lasted long enough to leave some sort of indent in him.

He turned around to look down at the sleeping form of Joey Wheeler: the current source of his affections.

He reached his hand to touch his, but stopped himself. He...didn't deserve to hold his hand. The hand he caught during their first dance at the Halloween ball. The hand he held so dearly when they slowly danced that night in the Nightful Moon restaurant. The hand he held when Joey needed him during that night at the park. He didn't deserve to feel that searing hot warmth that palm held.

"Do I have to kiss you?" He asked with the intention of it being a joke, but he knew he sounded serious. He thought he was letting grief get to him mentally if he was actually thinking that kissing the blond would wake him up like the fairy tale dreams he had. Yet, this time, there was nothing to wake him up from doing so now. He tried to say his next line as a joke, "Like some princess in a fairy tale? If that's so, I've seen prettier princesses." The brunet just ended up hating himself more. He hated that he couldn't be honest even when the blond was unconscious.

A part of him that glimmered with hope told him that Joey might hear him since it was rumored that people in a coma can actually hear what someone was saying. Kaiba then wondered if the hot, passionate blond was dreaming. He wanted to know if he was in it. He cruelly chuckled at himself as he thought that the puppy might be having a nightmare if the dream centered around the two of them.

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Joey was having fun! Jona had him experience what she experienced from riding horses across the fields of Athens, swimming in lakes, jumping off cliffs, and most of all, riding the back of the red eyes black dragon across the sky! He danced, drank and ate in festivals. They were just memories, and he loved the type of the food Jona was able to eat! He was amazed by how the theater worked! He could hear the actors clearly from how far he sat!

And he also got to witness from afar the wars that Jona had taken place in! Duel monsters didn't only exist in Egypt as other countries had found their own way of unleashing them, but Jona was able to bring down giants and sorcerers and more on the field with red eyes at her side! But even when it was a thrill to see, the aftermath was a dread to stand in as Jona sang for their lost comrades.

Her voice carried throughout the area. Her voice smoothly entering the souls and hearts of warriors, widows and orphaned children. She had even the strongest of men and women cry for their deceased loved one. Joey couldn't stop from crying, too, and he wasn't the one burdened for the loss of a love one.

"So that's why you sing?" Joey asked when the two sat down on soft grass in a meadow during a sunny blue day.

"I was nine when I went to my first funeral." The woman replied dolefully. "My heart was overcome by the grief and glumness of the room that I just started to sing. Nobody stopped me as I was able to bring out a heavenly feel that their souls was able to pass through Hades domain with a promise for a good afterlife."

"Huh. I wish I could sing like you."

"We are the same person. Perhaps you can. Have you tried?"

The duelist laughed awkwardly like a buffoon. "Please! If ya heard me, I'd sound like a broken record!"

The amber-eyed woman gave him a knowing smile that saw through his insecurities to see a talented-hidden male. She offered, "Then I can teach you."

"But I'm dreaming right? How can I improve my voice? All I know is that I think I sing good, but in real life, I'll sound horrible!"

"You will have to remember my teachings and practice them in real life, and simply keep trying. You'll be able to sing like me in no time since we're gifted."

Joey felt like he can trust her, since she sounded so reassuring like a mother. Joey loved her for having that kind of atmosphere around her. It felt like he was making up for his lost time when he didn't having a mother's love, teachings and adoration.

He had learned a lot from the woman such as the birth of the red eyes black dragon.

Red eyes was the child of Zorc. The evil deity wanted to be pure evil, so he had to remove his heart. And it happened that every time Zorc lost a limb or organ, they turned into a new monster. Zorc's heart became the red eyes black dragon after extraction.

And then came the fusion with Jona and red eyes. The woman's mother hated her, since she saw Jona as untraditional, and blamed her for no longer being the one mostly loved by the king. Her mother, one day, went to an oracle for warnings of a new threat. The oracle told her that one of her children would be overcome with evil in the future. The woman immediately thought that it would be Jona who would become evil, so she gave Jona, who was seven at the time, as a sacrifice for Zeus without her father's knowing.

In the process of the sacrifice, Jona was bound to a stone, and had her heart ripped out. Yet, she did not die when the red eyes black dragon was released the day the millenium items were created. The duel monster needed a vessel and chose her. In return for being his vessel, she was given a heart.

Her mother was shocked to find her alive, and had been sending assassins and such to kill Jona ever since. The princess had nearly been stabbed, burned, poisoned, drowned, imprisoned, and thrown off a cliff more times than usual. If it weren't for being fused with the red eyes black dragon, she would have died.

Then Joey was answered of why they were only able to meet only now. It seemed that the hit the the back of the head by Seto had somehow jolted her sleeping in his form. She had died in a war, and was left to be a wandering spirit until she was reborn into Joey. She theorized that it was because he was exposed to the magic of the millenium items often that it had rubbed on him to release his past incarnate within him. It made more sense to add that part to make things less difficult to believe.

It would not work on Seto or Yugi since their past incarnates had passed to the spirit world. Though this made Joey ask of why she didn't pass to the spirit world, too. The reason was because at the moment of her death, she was unsure of which religion she believed in. She may be Grecian, but the choice of religion became an ultimatum since it meant that she had to chose either to be with her family or her true love for eternity in the afterlife. A reasonable person would choose family, but her circumstances were difficult at the time.

Joey wanted to know who her true love was, but all she would say was that he was Egyptian. The reincarnation made a guess that it was Atem or Seth. Jona said that it could be between the two, and then gave a sly devil smirk. Joey felt some naughty vibes came off of her. He felt tempted to ask if it was both, but blushed instead as her smirk grew.

Jona didn't want to tell him everything about her past yet since she wanted to take this slowly since it's been five thousand years since she had anyone else other than Pyrrhus.

Pyrrhus happened to be the name of her red eyes black dragon. It turned out that the red eyes black dragon card he held was the reincarnated version of her red eyes. It turned out that duel monsters souls are able to go through the duel disk system, but can only go as far as see what was in front of them and react with whatever characteristic traits they were given.

Joey, in fact had the red eyes black dragon reincarnated soul inside him when it is not played on the field, since when Jona was reborn, Pyrrhus went with her.

The blond found it unbelievable, but he had to admit that he felt an incredible, close connection to red eyes. The moment Rex showed him the card, he knew he just had to have it. And when it was played, his heart jumped wildly like it never had for any card. At Battle City when he had to give it away, he was truly upset that he even almost let Serenity down. When Atem won it back for him, he knew that red eyes needed to be with him, and he felt that the card agreed with him.

He didn't know if he was exaggerating, but Jona reassured him that he wasn't. She saw through his memories, and had been proud to see how far the two had went through together.

Joey felt extremely happy to hear how proud she was because it felt like a mother was telling her child that. It left a bitter sweet ache in his chest, and that ache had his own red eyes soar from the sky to comfort him with an affectionate nuzzle.

"I got to admit that meeting you was one of the sweetest things to happen to me. And I'm not exaggeratin'!" Joey gushed as he had his red eyes walk with him through the temple of Athena.

Jona had her Pyrrhus in a smaller size on her shoulder. A trick that she would teach Joey later in his future dreams. Despite being in a dream, which meant Joey doing it by imagination should be enough, his red eyes was its own soul which meant that his red eyes was like a pet from a virtual world where things needed to be taken step by step without using cheat codes.

The woman blithely smiled, "The same for me. I cannot get over how amazingly cute I had become."

"And I'm still jealous of how sexy I used to be. I mean I'm sexy, too, but you jus' take it to a whole otta level, y'know what I mean." And then Joey felt some sort of odd sensation on his lips. He touched them to feel them oddly flatten. "My lips feel weird."

"Must be someone placing something on your lips while you sleep." Jona gave an innocent smile that felt out of place at the moment for Joey.

Outside, Kaiba had given in to his thoughts that perhaps a kiss would wake up the blond once and for all. It was supposed to be a quick chaste kiss. However, he felt bewitched by the warmth and tingling the moment their lips touched. Joey's lips were kept not chapped thanks to Tea who thought that Joey might appreciate staying handsome. It was her strange way of consoling herself, but Kaiba didn't concentrate on that than what he was currently doing.

It felt so wrong, but it also felt so right. His lips on Joey's stirred up desire and hidden feelings within his chest that wanted him to deepen the kiss, but he restrained himself to simply putting lip upon lip and enjoy the warmth and tingling he felt right now.

In the inside, Joey was still confused, "Why would someone put something on my lips? I don't remember giving anyone a key to my apartment."

"You could be at the hospital." Jona supplied. "Maybe you slept for more than a day."

That did not sound right at all! "More than a day?! How long have I been here?"

"I honestly don't know. In dreams time passes differently. Sometimes weeks would pass within what felt like a day or two at least."

"Weeks?!" Joey panicked! He had to wake up!

Jona gave him a guilty apologetic look. "I'm sorry. I forgot. I was caught up with enjoying my time with you now that we're finally together. I hope to see you again in my next dream."

That hope made Joey settle his panic down a little, but he still had to get out! "Me too." He gave a grateful, honest smile, and then freaked! "But right now I need to wake up!"

"How about closing your eyes, click yours heels three times and think to yourself, 'There's no place like home.'." Jona was merely joking, but Joey took it seriously and did as he was told. If it worked for Dorothy, then it would work for him!

He closed his eyes shut, clicked his heels three times while chanting to himself, "There's no place like home!"

Kaiba leaned back to look down at Joey's slack face. He frowned to himself as he scolded himself for doing such a childish thing. He sighed, closed his eyes and turned away. He thought about leaving, but then he heard a groan. His eyes flew open, and he snapped his head to Joey so fast that he could've gotten whiplash!

Joey groaned again as his eyes slowly opened. He moved his body slightly on the bed as he felt a bit strained at the small of his back and tailbone from having lied down perfectly still for weeks. His eyes focused on the oddly shaped figure with brown, blue, peach and white that nearly matched the walls background. He recognized those colors in the way they were arranged. "Kaiba?" he whispered weakly.

Seto's heart impacted itself at the back of his ribs. What in the hell was happening now?! Did true love's kiss actually exist! Did he even truly love Joey?! He was too stunned and confused with how reality and fantasy was colliding itself together in his world, that he just did the first thing he could do instinctively!

He pulled Joey's pillow from under the blond, and smothered him with it! Joey screamed a muffled, "WHAT THE FUCK?!" Seto didn't mean to do it. He just instinctively did what he would usually do and that was to terminate the cause of the problem. And that cause was Joey right now.

The blond rose its sleepy leg that jolted from panic to kick Seto away from him. Joey breathed and then sat up yelling, "WHY DE FUCK WAZ YA TRYIN' TA KILL ME?!"

Seto slowly stood up from the floor, straightened his suit and tie, and then said weakly, "You're awake."

"Yeah! Doesn't mean ya had de right ta smother me, ya psycho! What was dat for?!" Joey was staring at Seto incredulously. He can't remember what he did to deserve this!

The CEO ignored his anger. "You were in a coma for a week due to brain swelling, but it looks like you're alright now." Seto forced himself to sound even as he tried to breathe evenly, too.

Joey's chest fell as he felt a chunk of his limited lifetime was sawed off him! "A week?! Oh my god! Kiyoko's gonna kill me! A week dat I could have worked on is all gone!"

Seto sympathized with him, but he was far more disappointed. "Is that all that matters right now?"

"Uhm..." Joey immediately remembered his tutoring/date! "Oh shit! Mokuba!"

Kaiba felt a blood vessel burst. "Not just him! Who do you think had to be blamed for this?!"

"What?" The patient asked innocently. He had the habit of forgetting things when he wakes up from a trance or dream.

Kaiba growled. "You were in a coma for a week because I," He placed his palm on his chest as he bend down, leaned forward, and had his voice projected as he yelled. "hit you at the back of your daft skull! Do you know what you've been doing to me?!"

Joey blinked at him innocently. Kaiba gritted his teeth hard! He turned away from the blond, and projected his voice even louder, "Nevermind!" He grumbled to himself of how much of a clueless doofus the idiot was! He can't believe he kissed him! This idiot who had the gall to act as if a week of worry and angst didn't happen to him!

He sighed out, held his forehead on his palm, and then looked to the door that seemed very appealing at the moment. He needed to straighten his thoughts anyway. "I will inform the medical staff that you are awake. Here." He threw a cellphone at the boob. "Call the dorks you call friends, and leave me be."

"Fine! Leave! I'll call the others! At least, they won't try to smother me with my own pillow when I wake up! Although, there was that one time Tristan-"

"Not interested." Kaiba walked out of the room. His heart beated against his ears. What the fuck just happened?

Joey huffed, and used the cellphone that appeared to be his.

"So this is what a phone looks like up close." A woman said with her face up close beside his.

The reincarnation screamed, and leaped out of his bed. Jona stifled her laughter. She apologized. "It seems that we are connected beyond the dream world, and I appear as a spirit unseen by all except you, my Joey."

The woman stood beside him on the floor. She remained wearing her Greek princess dress with her long golden locks worn up in twists with her golden tiara to display her adopted royal heritage. Joey and her practically had the same face except she had her makeup on which had her appear far more mature and striking. No man would be able to approach her since she held an air of intimidation. However, when she smiled, it would welcome all who are children by age or heart.

Joey tried to touch her, and he was able to feel the fabric of her dress. The woman explained, "It also seems that by sharing a conscience together, we are able to hold onto each other. And I can float." She crisscrossed her legs on midair. "As useful as this would be to catch you if you fall, but it's better if I do not help you since it may cause some widespread panic in your fame."

"This is so cool!" Joey childishly snickered to himself. This was cool! He now has his own ancient spirit! "I can't wait to tell the others about you!" He quickly texted everyone that he was awake, and also sent a silly picture to show that he wasn't lying. It was faster that way since he wanted them all to know at once to meet him at the park to celebrate his awaken!

A lot of them texted at once with questions of if that is really okay or if he's really okay. Jona reassured him that because the red eyes black dragon's spirit is within him, he was sure to make a full recovery soon like he had done in the past.

Kiyoko called him to tell him that there was nothing special planned during the week that he had slept through, so there was no pressure of having to rush anything, and to enjoy his time. Joey told her that he really wanted her there so he could profusely apologize for scaring her, and promised to not get into fights anymore.

She tried to deny him, but he persuaded her, so she caved in to come.

So after the doctor check up (the doctor being baffled by the random recovery), Tea visited his room with a bag of clothes. She greeted him with tears and a bear hug, and then composed herself to smile brightly.

"I figured that after having a week of beauty sleep, you would want my help with your makeup!" She said cheerily. The two sat on the medical bed together. "That's if you want to cross dress. I also bought some guy clothes, too."

Joey grinned his trademark goofy grin. "Thanks Tea! I really appreciate the sentiment. But I think I wanna go with the guy clothes. I'd like to be just myself right now around you guys. The famous cross dresser Joey Wheeler can sleep for one more day."

The brunette smiled understandingly. "So hurry up and dress! Everyone else is going to the park early just to see you! You really gave us a scare when you went into a coma! What was it like?"

Joey smiled to the side where Jona was watching them from the corner. The woman had an amused expression on her face. They telepathically talked, "Should I tell her now?"

"I believe that is best. From what I could tell from your lovely memories, she's the worry wart of your group."

"That's Tea, alright. She worries, and nags a lot like an annoying but also caring mom. And she totally has a crush on Yugi..." Joey gave an expression that held a question of concern.

Jona sweetly replied, "No. Atem was not my true love. However, my distressed heart beats wistfully for him since I couldn't help nor say my goodbyes to him during his battle with Zorc."

"Hey, you lived a sea away from him."

"Though I wish I had not been."

"Joey?" Tea was concern about the sudden drop of silence between them.

"Huh." The blond turned his head to her. "Sorry. I was considerin' if I should tell you, but Jona thinks I should."

"Jona?" Tea said dubiously. Brows furrowed in concern.

Joey gave her another of his grins. "She's my ancient spirit! Just like how Atem was to Yugi, except this time it's different. Unlike Atem whose soul was in the millenium item, her soul was reincarnated into me!"

"What? Wait, slow down. What are you talking about?"

Joey explained of what happened during his coma with gestures and using the room as his stage. Tea listened with an astounded expression that didn't change from where she sat.

The blond expected her to be amazed, or baffled when he was done! However, he was met with a troubled expression. He was confused. "What's wrong, Tea? Don't you believe me?"

She forced herself to smile at him. "I do believe you, Joey," then her smile dropped instantly, "But you know what this could mean. What if it's some sort of destiny that you will have to fulfill with Jona, and put a lot of people in danger! Especially you!" Tears slid down her cheeks. "I'm still not over Atem leaving us. I-"

Joey felt a tug on his back, and then strangely felt lighter in weight. He suddenly didn't feel the need to breath. "Huh?" He found himself floating above the ground and intangible as he had his hand go through a wall next to him. He looked around to see Jona not in sight, yet his own body was walking towards the brunette.

Tea felt coarse, gentle hands on her arms. She felt both uncomfortable and comfortable at the same time. She knew it was Joey holding her, yet it wasn't Joey. The atmosphere was different. It wasn't bright and child-like. It felt more like a beautiful snowy night where she was cuddled in warm blankets in front of a roaring chimney fire. "Joey?" She looked up, and saw an uncharacteristic, soft, and endearing expression.

"Hello, Tea Gardner." Jona made Joey's voice sound deep and charming. It made the brunette before her shiver with delight. "I am Jona, princess of Athens. I understand that you fear for what will happen next from the pain you've felt before, but you must remember that despite how difficult the trials you and your friends had faced before, you had all found the light, and had your friendship nurtured beyond what mere friends are."

"But-"

Jona swiftly and gracefully took her hands in her hands. Her amber eyes never leaving hers. "But even with the temporary absence of one friend through a journey, you still have many to make, many to lose, but always remember brave and beautiful Tea Gardner, that despite the pain and grief, in the end, you will be greeted with light as long as you have faith."

Tea looked down, comprehended what she was told, and then wiped away her tears with the back of her hand. She looked up to see the uncharacteristic mature expression the spirit made Joey's face do. She nodded, "Yes. I should be stronger."

Jona giggled. "You are already strong spiritually, Tea. What you need is to learn how to relax. I've been told that you love to dance. Joey and I would love to dance with you sometime before your departure to New York."

"I-I'd love that, too." She couldn't help but blushed. "Wow, you are not like Joey at all."

"What's that supposed t'mean! I'm compassionate!" Joey yelled, but expectantly, he was ignored by Jona and not heard by Tea.

Jona giggled again. "No, but we fit like peanut butter and jelly."

Joey muttered, "I swear I get no respect!"

The brunette mirthfully smiled. Then awkwardly asked, "So are you here with a mission?"

"None that I know of at the moment. I do have my memories unlike Atem, so I can reassure you that your friend's fate is not predetermined."

That relaxed the blue-eyed beauty somewhat. "Is there a certain time that you have to leave, though. I would love to get to know you before time is up. And I'm leaving for New York, so I-"

Jona spoke to stop her from babbling herself into depression. "There's plenty of time, and I shall not leave Joey's side too soon. And your generation has plenty devices to help keep you two in contact. There's also the addition of Joey being everywhere when his fame grows further beyond the years."

Tea couldn't help feeling dumb at the moment when the ancient spirit spoke with a lot of common sense. The woman then had Tea exit so Joey could get ready for his party. The teenager did so eagerly under her command.

Jona and Joey switched. The blond breathed gulps of air to remind himself of how it felt to have air in his lungs. He wasn't suffocating when he was pulled out of his own body, but the blond appreciated the feel of breathing. "Mind warnin' me before doin' that?"

Jona gave him an apologetic expression. "I'm sorry. I hate to see a beauty in distress over me."

Joey understood. He hated making others worry about him, too. He hated those worried expressions because it hurt his pride. He can take care of himself, and he would never mean to hurt anyone unless there were ultimatums of how one had to be hurt by him.

After changing, Joey got into his pick up truck that was sent by Seto, who took care of it, and drove the trio to the park where everyone had everything ready on three park benches.

Tristan, Yugi, Duke, Kiyoko, Ryou, Mr. Mutou, and Mokuba were there as expected. However, he was surprised to find Mai among them from wherever she left off to.

"Maya."

Joey suddenly felt himself overcome by a feeling he knew was grief. He understood of why Jona felt the way she did. Maya was her older sister back then, and it was obvious that she loved her so much by how she spoke fervently of her. The reincarnation felt her heart well up that even he ended up spilling tears uncontrollably.

"Joey?" Yugi approached him first when he saw the tears. "Are you okay?" He did a side glance which was directed at Jona who caught the look.

Joey wiped his tears away with the back of hand. "It's not me who's crying."

"What?" Duke found that incredibly weird. "What do you mean it's not you who's crying because you're the only person I see here who is."

"Yeah man." Tristan agreed. "What's wrong?"

Joey gave them a big grin. "There's something I gotta tell ya, and Kiyoko, you might be the only one who gets it so I'll explain it to ya a little better after I explain to these guys." His agent was confused, and got more confused when her client began explaining of what happened during the coma.

All of them seemed to understand perfectly which baffled her because she thought the duelist was experiencing some mental problems that aligned with split personalities or schizophrenia. She decided that even if the blond were to explain to her later, she wouldn't understand. So she decided not to bother understanding, and have him hide this from the world.

When Joey was done, his friends were amazed and worried. Though Yugi said cheerily, "That's awesome Joey!"

"And you can see me." Jona stood in front of the shorter male, bend forward in front of him and gave him a kiss on the forehead. Yugi fell back with a crimson blush on his face. Joey went wide eyed as he yelled, "Yugi can see you?!"

"What?!" Everyone cried though their surprise wilted immediately since there were plausible theories to explain this.

The tri-colored haired teen gave a sheepish grin. "Yup. It looks like I can. It's a pleasure to meet you princess Jona. Might I add that you look really lovely."

"No fair!" Mokuba cried out. "I wanna see how she looks like, too!" The others agreed.

"You could dress up like me." Jona suggested to her reincarnation. "We have the same face, and I can do my own hair and makeup. Finding a costume wouldn't be a problem."

Joey agreed, "Hey, she said that I can just dress up like her. We pretty much have the same face."

"That would be wonderful," Ryou said. "But we didn't order your friend food for nothing. Let's enjoy ourselves first. You must be famished."

Due to all the excitement of Jona, Joey only realized now of how hungry he was that his stomach growled upset. He embarrassingly chuckled at everyone's amused smiles.

And so they enjoyed their meals on the soft grass so they could sit in a circle. Mokuba sat right next to him. Joey felt awkward because the young teen sat really close so he could place his hand on his for a few lingering seconds, and then retract it to eat. The blond knew that the black haired boy was just reminding him of their arranged relationship. It wasn't a romantic gesture, but a somewhat comforting one for Joey to know Mokuba still loved him in a way.

Mai sat on the other side of him and asked, "So why were you crying, Joey? You said it wasn't you so it must be Jona. Did she see some familiar faces?"

"Uhm," Joey looked to the spirit who was floating at the center of the circle. "Should I tell them or you?"

"May you please do it. I'm afraid I may cry again if I were to speak to her." The spirit floated over to the female duelist elegantly and then kneeled before her. An expression of pure, doting love focused completely on her. Her hand hovers slightly over the woman's own since she cannot touch anyone but Joey. She also turned that expression towards Tristan. "Everyone else as well. Mai is my Maya. Mokuba is my Anpu. Tea is my Mana. Yugi is my Atem. Ryou is the corrupted thief. Your Tristan... Hoda remained a great loyal friend to the end of my death. We had our differences, but I love his genuineness."

Joey nodded, "Yeah, Tristan and me are the same. He was the first person who ever saw anything in a street punk like me. If it weren't for him, I would've went to rintama high, but he convinced me that domino high was betta. He always watched out for me. He's not the person I'd look to for motivation, but I know I can count on him to have my back on a physical fight. I didn't fend myself off all those gangs alone who got pissy just cuz I wore a skirt."

Jona sighed sweetly, "The first time that I met Hoda was when I was posing as a male streetrat along the streets of Egypt to see how the shadows of the city worked. The guards were loyal to their duties. However, none were as good as Hoda. I talked to him during his time of duty, and he shooed me off at first since he was as stiff as a wet log, but we were able to become friends after we had a dispute about the court system and the prisons. If the millenium items could take away the evil inside of someone, then why were there still cell prisoners? We debated, and I helped him on his duties so we could continue debating about other things, and then before I knew it, we were brothers."

Joey understood that she meant that they became best friends, but they were as close as loving and protective brothers. The others were wondering of why it was taking Joey so long to answer, and Yugi replied that the two were talking.

The actor asked, "Can Yug' hear my thoughts?"

"No. You have noticed that my lips haven't moved, haven't you?" Her pink lips are closed as her hazel amber eyes practically spoke for her. "We are speaking telepathically. And I believe you should answer their question about why my emotions had lead you to cry as well."

The young man nodded, "Sorry about that. Jona was crying earlier cuz you look exactly like her big sister, Mai. We were siblings back then."

The group was shocked except for Kiyoko who just played along. "Wow," Tristan exclaimed, "It's a good thing you guys never dated huh! That would've been awkward as hell!"

"Did she know the pharaoh?" Mokuba asked.

"Yeah, she told me she knew him since she was a teenager. They're eight years apart, right..." Joey said questionably with a side look for confirmation, and then nodded, "Yeah, eight years apart, and Jona went to Egypt about three to ten times a year depending on whether Greece was good or not. She was actually supposed to marry Atem when he was going to be pharaoh, but we all knew what happened."

That left a pause for awkward amusement because Yugi was Atem's reincarnation and Joey was Jona's reincarnation. Their past lives were the opposite gender, so there was room to assume...

"So was Jona and Atem a thing?" Mai asked, "Or was it an arranged marriage?"

Joey looked to Jona for a right answer to say. He knew that Atem wasn't her true love, but he didn't knew the minor details. The princess answered him that it was an arranged marriage between true friends. Joey told them, and that put a warm smile on Yugi's face.

"So wait," Duke said, "So was the arrangement off, or did she marry the one who became pharaoh next after Atem? He was Seto's reincarnation right? How did that go?"

"I don't know if she did gets married or not, and she doesn't want to tell me yet. But she does have a true love from Egypt."

Mr. Muto had a contemplative expression on his face, so Joey asked if he had a question.

"Actually Joseph, I do. But I prefer not to ask unless princess Jona feels comfortable with giving more information. It's a rather...private question if I may say so myself." The man left himself to be an enigma.

Jona floated over to him with a twinkle in her eyes. Her lips moved, "So you are reincarnated as well, Shimon Muran. Always by Atem's side to teach him the most important morals in life. But I'm glad to see that your perverted attitude hasn't influenced him."

Yugi retorted, "Grandpa wouldn't influence me like that. He's a really swell guy."

His grandpa perked up to having been talked about. "She's talking about me? Man, I wish I could see how you truly look right now unlike the portraits of you in urns! This whole time I thought you were a brunette by the black paint used for your hair, but you're actually a blond! It's a great discovery to make on the greatest princess ever known!"

"Greatest princess?" Tea cocked her head curiously like the others.

Yugi's grandpa covered his mouth as if he told a secret, but then he quickly removed to clear his throat and then say, "Truth is I know a bit about princess Jona. But you kids must keep this an absolute secret! If you tell anyone, then I shall curse you all!"

The kids found that doubtful, but then really wanted to know so promised not to tell anyone.

The old man cleared his throat again, and then revealed, "Every archeologist, even Pegasus, knows about her, but she's not put into a history book or even on the internet since there was little known about her existence at all. So the story of princess Jona is practically a well-kept secret between true archeologist! The only thing known about her was that she was a princess of Athens who was sent to Egypt on a mission of peace. However, her existence is doubtful, despite having been the sister of Queen Maya, considering that we could not find her grave. If she had married Pharaoh Seth, then she should have been buried in a tomb next to him. There are only two urns in existence. One that depicts her journey to Egypt to bring peace. And the other depicts her death. From what can be seen from the urn, Jona died by the crushing powerful blows between dark and light duel monsters. Whom was leading the war are not known, but it was clear that Jona sacrificed her own life in order to negate both attacks."

"But why negate them?" Mokuba asked. "Why didn't she help the light side?"

"That's what I would like to know, but unless Jona is comfortable, I'll ask her that question later." The grandpa crossed his arms to give a firm nod of his head.

Joey noticed that Jona looked troubled when she floated away to sit in front of him and Mai. "Did it bring bad memories, Jona?"

The woman didn't move her lips. "Yes. But I'm alright. Thanks to your memories, I know Egypt and Greece prospered."

"And Atem is with everyone now in the afterlife. Everyone ended up great, and you'll be with them, too. I believe that whatever the afterlife is, you will be with your family and true love because how can a place call itself paradise when it can't give you what you want."

"Encouraging words, Joey." She kissed his cheek. "I appreciate your wisdom."

"Just being a friend." Both blonds shared a moment of glee with each other for the afterlife waiting for them.

Then Ryou thought that since the food is nearly gone, they should try dressing Joey to give them a close picture of how Jona looks like. Kiyoko had to leave to do work. Joey promised to send her a picture and explained the situation to her, but she reasoned that it didn't matter since she was a logical person. The blond actor knew well by what she meant since a certain psycho CEO was the same.

So on, the group went to a store where the girls and Joey and Yugi looked for the perfect chiton dress and sandals that looked closest to what Jona was wearing. When they found it, they moved to the jewelry section for a tiara.

When they got what they needed, they headed to Mai's duplex apartment, and Joey used her room to do his own makeup and hair since Jona could possess him and do it herself. And while the woman was fixing up Joey, she began to use his voice to sing.

"Wow, so that's how I sound when I sing good!" Joey felt giddy as he floated over her and watched her put his thick mid-length blond hair in twists. One can definitely tell that he wasn't going to suffer from thin hair and balding by how rich and thick his hair looked like now.

"I can feel it in your lungs that you haven't sang like this. We need to practice on strengthening them, and have you control them to make yourself sound more presentable while in the mean time you could teach me how to cook. I have not eaten for generations if you haven't noticed."

"Wanna try the modern greek food? I can whip something fast and easy for ya to learn! And we can make lots of food since my stomach is a bottomless pit!"

Jona giggled with his voice which made him sound husky and charming. The spirit began applying makeup. They bought kohl makeup, so she used the eyeliner to create a thin precise rimmed line. "I would love that Joey. You should know my Joey, in ancient Greece, women abstained from using too much makeup. To put on lipstick or more meant that you were a prostitute. Natural beauty and a big bottom was smiled upon."

She began dressing herself in the clothing, and then stood in front of a body length mirror. "Perfect."

"Are you sure? Cuz you have boobs."

"I suppose Pyrrhus can help. Pyrrhus?" Then suddenly her shadow wrapped around her before giving the male's body what looked like a real set of breasts! Joey was dumbstruck. The woman explained, "Pyrrhus is my fused duel monster partner, so he can manipulate his shape to fit mine."

"So red eyes and me can do that!"

"Only in a duel with a certain set of cards. You did not go through the experience that I have which I am thankful for, yet due to that, you have limited sets of abilities that you can do with your own red eyes unless you have died."

"What?! Aw, man! But I don't wanna die! And what if it doesn't work?!" The child-like reincarnation moped with his legs and arms crossed above the air.

"Simply be grateful for being together." The princess supplied.

The third ranked duelists crossed his arms behind his head. He looked up at the ceiling as he thought of red eyes. He heard his dragon screech within his heart. His dragon's flame warming his chest. "And I am. I love red eyes, but it would've been so cool if I could create my own boobs instead of relying on fake ones!" Joey fondled his own chest to sadly find it slightly flat. He had muscle but they weren't round and soft!

"But you certainly still have the butt. This butt would've put you in Aphrodite's favor." The blond turned around to ogle their butt that had gave the dress a curve. She stood sideways, bend down to have her palms rest against her knees to see the roundness at its full bloom.

Then there was a knock. "Are you done in there, yet?" Tristan shouted from behind the door.

"Yes!" Jona shouted back, and then faced Joey. "Would you like to escort me, my darling?"

The young man smirked as he stood beside her. She rose her forearm slightly for Joey to take with his. The two sauntered out of the room where everyone looked right at her to see her dressed almost accurately.

Everyone was at awe by how stunning their friend looked, but what caught their attention the most were his boobs!

Mai had seen breasts from fake to real, and felt a bit hysterical to see what looked impossibly real to her eyes! "Are those real?!"

Jona put her hands on the male's hips. "Not at all. I simply used my Pyrrhus to give this body the shape of my own breasts." The low sexy tone that came out of that tenor voice made it obvious to the others that it was the spirit talking to them. She smirked directly at Mokuba, full knowing of his relationship with her reincarnation. "Are they to your liking?"

The black-haired teen blushed hotly, and was thankful that no one caught him. He mentally beat himself to remember that Joey and him were just dating so they didn't end up foolishly dating the wrong people! But now he felt his heart beating fast and his face heated.

Mr. Muto seemed to be the one who was the most excited because he was running around Jona like a child to look at every angle. "I-is this really really how you looked like in the past?! Wow, this is ground-breaking discovery! The great princess Jona! I must tell Hawkins! It's going to blow his mind! Yugi, you better be taking lots of pictures from every angle!"

"R-right." Yugi had his cellphone out and excused himself as he was circling her as well.

Jona patted the old man's head. "You may go ahead and tell all your other friends, but please do warn them to not bother me and my Joey too much with tedious questions. I will only answer their questions through you of course."

"Really?!" The old man jumped in excitement, but then that threw his back. "ARGH! My back!"

"Grandpa!" Yugi cried out while the others laughed.

"Don't worry, I got it." Jona did a quick strike with her hand.

"I'm cured!" The man stood up all rejuvinated. "You are a goddess, princess Jona!"

"Thank you, Solomon Muto." She made Joey's face give a serene expression that had hearts in the room thumping.

Duke then announced, "As fun as this all is, I need to get back to work."

Tristan immediately offered, "I'll go with you." And then he realized something. "Oh right, we forgot to tell them!" By the look on his face, it was something big.

"Tell us?" Joey took back his body. "Tell us what?" Everyone noticed the switch since the comforting and motherly atmosphere changed to a more lighter child-like one.

"Should I tell them, or you?" The brunet asked his green-eyed hot boyfriend.

"Doesn't matter. But I think you should considering that you did the last time." Duke did forgive his taller boyfriend, but he was holding the brunet to it to not do it again.

Tristan understood, and then wrapped his arm around Duke as he declared, "We're getting married next year!"

"What?!" Everyone said, but Joey's own was the loudest! He spluttered, "Youguysaregettingmarried?! When did this happen?! Wait! Were you planning to get married even when I was in the coma?! Who was going to be your best man?!"

"Calm down." Duke ordered. "We weren't going to get married unless you stayed in a coma for more than five years, but now that you're awake, we can get married early. It just makes sense since we love each other, we tolerate each other, our family and friends accept our relationship, we barely fight at all, even if we did, we figure out without all that drama, and Tristan decided to take on the job of being my bodyguard after going through some classes."

Tristan then helpfully summarized and added to it, "In short, we're in love, so getting hitched, and you're all invited to the wedding. We're gonna have it at New York where Joey's tour ends next year, so Tea can make it!"

"Aw, thanks guys!" The brunette felt fortunate to have such loyal friends!

Joey then wrapped his arm around Tristan's neck with a big grin, "Congratulations buddy! So who's gonna be your best man?"

"Of course it's you man, but you have to promise to let me be your best man for your wedding."

"Sure! I won't let you down! Sorry Yug'."

The tri-colored hair teen cheerily smiled. "That's okay, guys. Though I would love to have Joey to be my best man, too, when I get married." He then blushed a crimson red. "And it'd be no surprise if it'll take place in New York, too."

Tea blushed a crimson red as well.

Everyone's eyeswidened except for Mr. Muto, Ryou, and Joey who's lost at the discreet news.

"No way! You and Tea are dating!" Tristan shouted.

"What?" The blond actor was finally shocked and then felt some sort of small lump finally taken off his shoulders! "Are you serious?! Yugi finally did it?! You confessed?! Was everyone getting hitched while I was in the coma?!"

Yugi awkwardly laughed. "It just sort of happened."

Tea explained, "Yugi here was trying to cheer me up, and then he built up the courage to confess to me."

"Aw, so I'm the reason you two are finally together! Don't I feel special! Maybe I should go into a coma again, and see what happens next. Who knows, maybe someone, even Kaiba, will get a girlfriend!"

Tristan snorted, "As if that's ever going to happen. I mean seriously. The guy is a walking cyborg. I even bet he's a virgin!"

"He's not, though." Joey blurted. Everyone stared at him. Including Mokuba. Especially Mokuba. He's right there, staring at his boyfriend so hard that he's practically using his mind to psych punch him or poke him really hard. Jona was just intrigued.

The actor realized what he just said, and quickly tried to recover the situation, "I-I mean, he told me when we were talking back at that Halloween ball! It just came up! There's nothin' weird about that!" Mokuba was now looking at him with a strange look that just screamed, 'Oh god, my mind wants to go there, but my whole entire being says no.' The boy tried hard not to picture Joey dealing with an experience Kaiba teaching him the ways in bed. No. No matter how much Mokuba wants Seto to be with Joey, he was not going to fantasize about it.

"Seto's not a virgin." Duke tried the fact on his tongue. It tasted of mild interests. "One learns new things when Joey's around. I'm really glad that you woke up, man." They grabbed each others hands in a manly way as the CEO was making his way out.

"You, too. Bye Tris'." The two did a fist bump.

Yugi and the others except Mai had to leave as well. They all gave him a big hug while Mr. Muto gave him a handshake and wise words to be careful next time like a responsible and caring adult. Joey truly felt grateful for that since Mr. Muto was one of the very few older men that he's had to be proud of him when his father couldn't be there for him.

"Bye, gramps. And don't mind sending me a list of questions. I'll answer them on email and have Yugi send it to you if you're still slow on the new technology."

"Hey, I might be old, but I can get by the times unlike you whippersnappers!" The old man grinned. "And I definitely will send you a whole bunch of them! And I don't mind if you answer little by little. It'll just make me more excited by the minute in my life for when I get them! And princess Jona can finally be acknowledged as not just a mythical character!"

Jona asked Joey for permission for his body. The male blond granted it to her, so she took over, and then told the old man sweetly, "It will be a pleasure to be revived among the names of my love ones who remain immortal by word."

"You can count on me to make sure of that. Or I'll try before my last beating heart." Solomon gave a wink, and then left.

That left Mai, Joey and Jona alone in the apartment. "Joey..." The older duelist started.

Joey returned to his body. "Yeah, Mai?"

The woman gave him a smirk. "I don't wanna get all mushy on you, but I'm happy to know that we were sisters back then. I know I have the looks for a queen, but I can't see a traveler like myself to stay in one place and handle political snobs or dictators."

Jona took over, "And that was how Maya was, sweet Mai. She never liked her predetermined role. However, she learned to accept it in time. She had her agnorasis and perpetiea to accomplish doing so."

"By the sound of your tone, Jona, you aren't going to tell me more. Am I right?"

"Yes. It's too soon for me to share such memories, but I will tell you and Joey this, we have a third sister. Her name was Selene. The past incarnation of Joey's younger sister, Serenity."

"What? No way! How many siblings do you have?"

"Three, Joey. But I will tell you of my third one when the time is right."

Mai smirked wider. "Huh, so I'm the only one out of this family." Realizing what she said, her smirk turned into a reluctant sad smile.

Jona quickly comforted her. "I supposed the fates decided to give you the privilege to finally travel without held down for the sake of family, or feel guilty over leaving them." She took one of Mai's hands to place her cheek upon her palm. An enamored smile gracing her features. "Is this relationship not preferable?"

The female traveler smiled softly. Joey rubbed his eyes for a moment because this was the first time he saw Mai ever smile so softly before. Jona really knew how to melt people. Yet, that soft smile soon turned into a confident smirk. "My, Jona, may I say that you are one hell of a woman. And you're right. If I had been born with those two, and been part of that messy divorce, it would've been one hell of a life I couldn't be satisfied living in. Not that living the life I had before meeting this blockhead was all that great..." Then that smirk faltered to a frown as her brows furrowed by regret.

Joey took his body and placed his palms on Mai's cheeks. "Hey Mai," The woman knew it was him now. "Don't think back to that stuff. It's all in the past, and you'll always be my friend no matter what."

The woman looked into his determined eyes to see that unwavering flame. Mai cursed herself for letting herself fall to depression so easily. She shook it off, and then hugged the goofball. "It's really nice to see, Joey. I swear, if we could fall in love with each other, not that I want to, and I had to chose between you and Valon, it'd definitely be you. However, if you still want him..."

Joey went red. "NO! I don't want that biker street punk! And he's straight!"

"He's bisexual."

"Wha..."

"So you still got a chance!" Mai left all her supporting cheer up in the atmosphere between them. A cheer that Joey definitely didn't want at the moment!

"Shut up! I don't like him! I already told you that I said that so the girls at school would get off my back about Kaiba!"

"Whatever you say hun." She winked at him. Jona stifled her laughter as she fell in love with the situation. Her and Maya were somewhat similar. Mai acted a lot like Maya except the woman was far more vicious due to her frustrations to being a royal. Jona was able to travel unlike her due to being the second oldest daughter which gave her far more freedom from being expected to be queen, and the lectures of their mother.

Jona was open to taking the queen title herself. However, their mother was against it, and Selene didn't have the traits to be a queen for Greece. So Maya was left burdened to be a queen until her old age death. But now, here she was. Reincarnated into a free-spirited, strong woman. She thanked any of her many gods of who was responsible for reincarnation.

After the dispute, Joey left to his own apartment to see that it needed a few dusting since it was left alone for over a week from cleaning. He would do that tomorrow. His work was to start again by next week where Kiyoko had him model for another magazine who was going to ask him more trivial questions about himself.

And then his phone rang. He checked the caller I.D. to see that it was Mokuba calling. Jona had excused herself to go fly around Domino City with Pyrrhus. It turned out that unlike Atem who was held to one spot due to the millennium puzzle, she had the freedom to move around like a ghost without boundaries.

And so after she left, Joey answered as he plopped down on his bed. "Yo, Mokuba! Sorry about our date last week."

"It's okay. You had a valid reason." The kid joked. "Anyway, I figured that we could talk in private like this. I still have questions if you don't mind."

"Shoot, kid."

Mokuba was peeved. "I'm not a kid." He sulked. "You should know better than to call your boyfriend a kid."

Joey felt a weird tingle on his back as if someone placed a tech bug on his clothes and was hearing into his conversation and would kill them when they realize that he's dating a minor. But the blond felt like teasing the punk. "Then stop acting like it."

"How am I acting like a kid?!"

"By shouting like that!"

"I'm not shouting!" Mokuba pouted angrily. Joey was playing with him. He grumbled, "Stop teasing me. I'm trying to be serious."

The blond stopped himself from letting out even a chuckle. He cleared his throat. "I'm sorry."

Mokuba knew that was a dishonest apology, but nothing to argue over about so he accepted it. "So I knew that Seto was the first one to see you wake up. How did that go?"

Joey grimaced. He did not want to think about that morning. And why was Kaiba there at such an early time? Didn't he work early? Today wasn't a school day where he felt like he had the liberty to skip school, and not feel subjected to go to work. The actor groaned, but also felt strangely happy that he was the one who was there. It meant that Seto actually visited him when he didn't have to. Yeah, it was out of guilt, but Kaiba and guilt don't add up, so Joey felt special to have what seemed unlikely to happen, it had happened to him.

"Not very good, Mokuba. He tried to smother me with my pillow when he saw me wakeup!"

"What?" The younger Kaiba could not picture that happening. Yeah, Seto can be cold, but he's not one to pull a cruel thing like that. Even if it was a joke.

"Y'heard me! He tried to smother me! That jerk! When I see him, he's gonna get an earful out of me!"

"I'm sure he just panicked because he really didn't expect you to wake up so soon."

"That doesn't give him an excuse to attempt to kill me!"

Mokuba knew that this wasn't going to get anywhere so was going to let his boyfriend and brother figure out this themselves. So he changed topic, "So I guess you aren't going to tell Seto about Jona. He would just think you're crazy anyway."

Joey snorted, "It's Kaiba. He still doesn't believe Atem was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh spirit who had come back to the living after five thousand of years to save the world. I don't think he will believe me when I tell him that because of his briefcase, I suddenly opened a door that connected me to my past self, Jona, who is a Grecian princess of Athens who lived around the same time around his past self and Atem's time."

"It does sound a bit crazy if you hear it from a common stranger's perspective."

"But Kaiba's not a common stranger. He's a narrow-minded asshole who won't believe in anything that he can't figure out. It's the same for all smart asses and control freaks. In this case, your brother is both."

"Okay. Okay. You're still talking about my older brother, Joey."

"Sorry. I'm still pissed about the attempted murder. I should sue him!" Joey was just joking. "There are cameras in that hospital and witnesses who heard me scream! I can do this!"

Mokuba rolled his eyes. "Whatever. So what is Jona doing now?"

"She's flying around Domino City with Pyrrhus to take in the sights as spirits, so they won't be seen and cause a scene or anything."

"She can do that?" Mokuba meant the part of her being able to leave Joey's side at a longer range than usual.

"Yeah. She's a ghost who was released when I opened the door and I'm the only one who can touch her."

"No fair! I wanna see her like you and Yugi can! I'm your boyfriend! Shouldn't I have have perks?!" The pre-teen whined.

Joey rolled his own eyes. "Hey, you can get to know her better at our next date. I'm gonna be busy for the next two weeks to get my popularity status up again. And Tristan's birthday is on April 19. So somewhere on the twenties."

"Sorry, no good. Since you're awake, Seto planned to do the charity gala that we were supposed to do this week. I guess we'll just have to wait on May, but then you'll have to be working on final exams and prom and all that stuff."

"Do you want to come as my date for prom then? It won't be that weird since the media knows we're friends. We can just play it as me wanting to spend time with all my guy friends, and I won't get jealous if you wanna flirt and dance with some hotties." Joey really wasn't going to be jealous. However, when he remembered about their plan for the charity gala, his heart sank. Kaiba wouldn't come to the prom, but he would spend the night with his soulmate.

"That sounds nice." Mokuba interrupted his depressing thoughts. "But if it comes to slow dancing, I'm slow dancing with you."

Joey snorted at the thought of slow dancing with someone shorter than him. Mokuba had grown an inch taller but he was still two inches shorter. "Whatever you say squirt." Mokuba growled loudly. Joey just grinned. The blond rolled onto his side as he breathed in contentment. "Where are you now?"

"I'm at home snacking on chips."

Joey moaned at the idea of eating again.

Mokuba held back a snort of his own. Unknown to him, Seto Kaiba had entered the kitchen for a snack, but then he heard his little brother teased, "What? Does that turn you on? Food."

The blond shrugged, and replied, "So what if it is? A way to a man's heart is through his stomach y'know."

"I'll remember that when I decide on our anniversary gift. How about on our next date, whenever that is, we'll go to an all-you-can-eat-buffet that has a great view over Domino city. We'll laugh and chat, and then afterwards, we'll go out on a walk but if it's raining we'll-"

"If it's not too hard, we can still go out on that walk. Enjoy the rain. Have a cheesy kiss." Joey was just playing along for giggles.

"If you want that. But if it's raining hard, then I'll take you to Kaiba land so I can take you to the Kaiba space dome, and we'll lie down on a tempurpedic bed as we watch the stars, planets and a lot of other pretty, cool space stuff happen. And if you get hungry again, you animal, I'll have pastry desserts and marshmallows at the ready for you."

"I'd like to have the devil chocolate cake which I'll have the chocolate frosting on my finger and have it on your nose, and you'd have to try and lick it off with your tongue." Joey snorted at how corny he felt at the moment.

"I'd like to see you try that, too."

"Hey, I can lick my nose unlike you shortstuff!"

"Stop with the short comments! You don't like it when people give you pet names so stop with that already."

"Alright! I'm sorry! Can't help blurting out these words."

"Hmph. Now you just ruined the mood."

"Aw, don't say that. I love you my snookums bear."

Mokuba snorted, "I love you, too, Joey."

His older brother behind him, who had been listening amusedly this whole time, froze. Seto could not believe of what he had just heard. He wasn't an idiot to doubt his hearing, so he knew that Mokuba had just said that he loved Joey. The brunet watched as his little brother hung up the phone after saying goodbye for whatever reason that Wheeler had to do.

Mokuba still remained clueless to his big brother being behind him since he was now playing a game on his phone while eating his chips.

Seto could not get a word out. He wanted to question, Mokuba! But he was too shocked, and needed time to arrange his thoughts because something completely brain bawling confusing was stirring up inside! He hated having emotions that went off his range to comprehend so he quickly walked away.

._._._.

Seven year old Atem was sitting at the table where the king of Athens, King Kleophas, was speaking with his father about a formed alliance. The boy listened to them men speak as if they were long time friends when the truth was that this was the first time that they met. He watched everyone at the table or standing behind his father with an observant eye.

His father was sitting at the end of the table. The king of Athens was at his left while he was at his right. Beside him was the five high priest. The sixth one, priest Shimon, was standing beside his father so he may give advice and inform of any events that had been slipped from the pharaoh's ear.

The people beside the king of Athens was his family. His wife, Queen Kalligeneia, was deceptively beautiful with her auburn tied up with her crown, purple eyes striking due to her makeup, and she was oddly pale like a ghost in comparison with his people's complexion.

The next person was eighteen year old princess Maya with her husband, general Nikola. General Nikola's hair was fascinating to look at since the brown locks stuck up like his but far more wildly. He was the only one among the group who had blue eyes while the rest not looked upon yet had brown eyes.

Atem looked at the second princess, princess Selene, who had auburn hair like her mother, but brown kind eyes like her father. She was the same age as him, and looked very pretty to him. But he was not very interested in her in a romantic way. He doubted he'd feel any different if they were to grow up.

And then there was a man standing next to the king who was the speaking about plans and such for the treaties. It turned out that the Athenians had a government that they call democracy where anyone could be a leader of a certain issue, but they had to win the people's approval first. The monarchy was simply the ones who would make sure that decisions were to be made fair and have it written on stone or parchment.

At the end of the meeting, Atem could tell that it was obvious that the two kings were able to come upon a good solution for both of their countries which involved with the nile for the sake of trades and improving economy.

"How about our children get to know each other?" The king suggested. "In the future, they're the ones who'll have to uphold our treaty. If they do not like each other now, they have plenty time to learn to tolerate each other in time."

His father chuckled, "I love your humor, King Kleophas."

"As I to you for your good sense of it, pharaoh Aknamkanon!"

"And must I say that you have such beautiful daughters, but I heard that you had three. Where is your third daughter?"

"Jona?" The man gave a hearty chuckle. "She ran off during the morning to greet her friends."

"She has friends here in Egypt?"

"Of course! My daughter had been traveling the seas since she was six! She began going alone when she was eight."

"Isn't that dangerous?"

"Not for my Jona. She's a warrior. She had traveled the seas along with my cargo boats, and had always come back with such fascinating stories! I got to know more about your city more than I expected. That's why I knew that when the issues of alliances came, I knew I could trust you first."

"Then I would love to meet your daughter."

Atem noticed the queen's face darken when the pharaoh spoke those words. She used her tongue, "There really is no need to meet her. You have far more important duties to attend to than to meet some seafarer girl."

That gave her strange looks from his father, his priests and himself.

The king cleared his throat. He remedied the situation, "And we have no idea where she could be right now. But if she were to leave Egypt, she would tell me first, so let's hope that you may have your chance.

That chance was going to happen soon as Jona was running around the streets as a man. "Jono!" Hoda shouted as the two ran after a man who they caught about to murder another man for his wife who planned it with the killer. "Be careful!"

The woman leaped from a sack of rice and then ran across the roofs of houses before leaping up into the sky to land her foot onto the killer. The man was knocked out. "K.O.!" She shouted and hooped in her deep manly voice.

"Would you kindly keep that down, streetrat?" A young voice quipped at her. She looked to the sound to see a thirteen-year-old Seth. "People actually prefer the quiet silence after a hard day from work unlike a lazy filth like you."

Jona resisted the urge to roll her eyes. Seth was kind, but to a point. He still held himself to a high standard among others due to knowing that he was a genius. He hates streetrats since he believed them to simply be lazy people who has no one to blame but themselves. That was true, but to a point. There are others who have been wronged by the people they trusted, or they have grown up without direction.

The fifteen-year-old did not despise him for his attitude since she knew the story about him losing both his parents. The loss of his mother was far more tragic since his village was raided. However, she knew that that sort of tragedy didn't give the boy an excuse from being disciplined. It was what he needed, but she wasn't the one to give it to him since she had her own duties to attend.

Though, she gave him a smirk. Her face was dirty by soot that she applied on her own face, and she covered herself in rags to not be identified. "I am sorry oh great Set." She gave him a mock bow. That made the kid snort and reluctantly smiled. She approached him and asked with mock humbleness, "Can I ruffle your hair with my hand my future priest?"

"You may not." Seto gave a disgusted expression which made her silently laugh.

"I'm gonna give you one anyway!" She ran her soot cover hands through his hair, and ruffled it.

"Hey! Don't treat me like a kid! I am a man now!" Seth glared at her when he was able to remove her hand. "And streetrats like you shouldn't be touching the commoners! Who knows what diseases you have!"

"Whatever. But I should get something out of making you smile." The woman dressed like a poor man grinned down at him.

Seth crossed his arms and huffed, "What smile?"

"Why did the man not want his wife swimming in the nile?"

The pre-teen arched an eyebrow at this, but answered anyway. "Because she can't swim?"

Jona's grin widened, "No. It's because he didn't want the fishermen to mistake her for a hippo."

Seth stared at her, and tried not to smile, but then he gave in and smiled. "Alright, you got me. Here." He gave her a silver coin.

"Thank you oh great Set." She bowed, walked away and then put the silver coin into a beggar's bowl.

Seth saw this and was confused, and thought that the streetrat, Jono, was just too stupid to realize that he needed that coin to survive. He saw the guard, Hoda, run towards him, and complain about running off without him. The brunet watched them bicker before leaving for his studies.

Jona ignored Hoda's complaints, and said out of the blue, "I wonder how my dad's and your pharaoh's meeting is going."

"Don't change the subject, and shouldn't you be there?!"

"You're absolutely right, Hoda. So arrest this man and the victim's wife for questioning and court. I have to go!" She ran off.

"Hey wait! Jono!"

She giggled as she ran like a free spirit. She reached the palace, and snuck in as she removed her rags and wiped her face away by using the ponds water in the palace garden. She heard footsteps approach her as she washed her face.

"Jona?" She heard a sweet, young girl say.

She looked over her face, and smiled sweetly at the two kids. One that was her little half-sister and the other assumed to be the future pharaoh, Atem.

Atem was surprised to find the missing princess before him.

When she faced them, he saw her as beautiful. Her blond hair cascaded down like liquid gold over her shoulders. Her eyes gleamed like amber stones that were painted with stories. She was also well endowed like her mother and older sister, but she was a bit thicker, not in a chubby way. It looked like muscles as if she had worked out like a man.

"Hey, Selly! Is this your future lover?" The teenager joked.

Selene showed her a bewildered expression. "No." She replied forthrightly. "Our dads just wanted us to get to know each other. Where were you? The pharaoh wanted to meet you."

"Surely, just for politeness." Jona shrugged one shoulder, and then grinned at Atem. "So great next pharaoh, know any good games?"

"Games?" The was a random topic to talk about between distant royals.

"Yeah. You kids must be bored out of your minds from the meeting, so let's play a game!" Jona turned towards a bush, and called out, "Hey! I know you're there! Got a ball with you!"

"You knew I was here?!" Mana popped out from the bushes.

"Of course I knew. You made so much sounds like a hippo."

"Hey! I'm not that loud! My prince and your sister couldn't hear me!"

"That's cuz they weren't payin' attention! So got a ball with you?"

Mana glared at her with a pout shortly, and then replied, "Yeah, but you got to say please!"

"Please!" Jona gave her brightest grin which got the little girl to smile brightly back.

"Okay!" She said some magical gibberish. But instead of a ball popping out, a large, poisonous snake appeared instead. The children screamed when the snake struck out after them.

"Prince!" A male teen, Mahad, shouted.

They thought that they were too late, but then the snake's head was grabbed by the head, and was left helpless in the the grip. "You really need to learn your magic spells correctly." Jona said frankly as she threw the snake far. "Here." The blond said gibberish, and a ball appeared before them.

"Whoa, you can do magic, too?!" Mana grabbed for the ball to feel its authenticity.

Jona placed her hands on her hips. Eyes gleaming with mild pride. A perfect picture of humility in front of the egyptian prince. "Your country's not the only place who knows how to do magic."

"Prince!" Mahad called out again in panic, and spotted Atem simply standing unharmed. "Are you and the princess alright?"

"Yes, Mahad. Thanks to the brave princess Jona."

"Princess Jona?" Mahad looked to the only person he didn't meet before to be amazed to meet the missing Athenian royal. He quickly bowed. "Princess Jona! It's an hono-"

"Yeah, yeah, no need for pleasantries around me." The teenager interrupted. "I'm not your traditional princess."

"It's true." Selene looked up at her sister with twinkling eyes. "My sister fought in a war when another country threatened our city. She' one of the best soldiers."

"A princess fighting in a war?" Atem was greatly intrigued. "Isn't it a man's role to fight for his country?"

Jona answered, "It's expected of a man to go to war, yet anyone who is willing to lay down his or her life for her country is open to do so." She took the ball from Mana, "So, who's up for a game?!"

The children and teenagers played together while the king, queen, pharaoh and the priest watched them from afar.

"She's quite an odd child." The pharaoh commented without the intention to be offensive. "Did she truly go to war, King Kleophas?"

"Yes. She snuck away into the army as a man, and bought our country to victory. Everyone was surprised to discover her true identity when she stood up to be acknowledged for her bravery!"

The queen snapped, "She made us worry needlessly, and risk her life without a care for our word."

"You would have told her to leave, anyway." quipped the king.

Maya frowned as she watched her half-sister be a child. A dangerous envy in her eyes.

Jona stared at the ancient egyptian tablets that told the story of Atem and Seth's prophecy. She sat there with Pyrrhus behind her so she could lie back and reminisce.

"My past is so colorful. Princess, bastard, warrior, queen, monster, friend , sister, daughter...mother." She stood up, pressed her fingertips against her lips and pressed each of her kissed hands onto the two men on the tablet. "I love you...And I'm sorry."

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A/N: Yeah, just putting the layout of who Jona is. She's gonna play more of a mother or conscience role for Joey. Her own story will come out in little stories in between when it's appropriate.