Author's Note: A really, well not really long chapter, It's decent. But I had a bunch of Ideas to put in this chapter especially for Joey. I was pretty excited to keep on writing and hope you guys are excited to read it :D

Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh or anything else involving the show. Just a Fanfiction :3

Verdonda [ NEXT DAY ]

Her eyes suddenly widened feeling the fragment left inside Yugi completely fade. She knocked a glass to ground breaking it, making an echo through the large room.

"How? How was he able to do that? Why didn't it swallow his power…" She says clenching her fist as her purple eyes shines with the purple candles lighting up the dark room. "We used his Grandpa as a pawn, and yet it was meaningless." She continues and looks up at the stone tablet that held a facedown card.

She saw the man walk up opening the gates leading to a small corridor with pillars marked with Ancient Egyptian Scriptures.

"Von, I have a small task for you to complete for me…" She narrows her eyes sideways having a suspicious grin.

"Yes my lord… What may that task be?" Von responds suddenly bows before her.

"Kill Joseph Wheeler, challenge him to a duel and taint his deck with the powers of the shadows." Verdonda instructed him. "I'm sure Mr. Yugi Moto won't mind…" She then concludes, suddenly turning around, walking down the small steps to where Von is.

Verdonda placed her palm in front of him as a dark flame arose creating a deck. Von looked up at Verdonda nodding, reaching for the deck and placing it on his Duel Disk. His eyes began to slightly change purple like the deck had some kind of power.

"But do not underestimate Mr. Wheeler, he may be an ignorant fool, but his determination is strong." She reminds him.

Von arose as his red spiky shoulder length hair was exposed with light red hair antennas coming out by the edges of his forehead hairline.

Joey Wheeler

"Serenity, hey what's up?" Joey says lying on his bed with one hand holding the phone by his ear.

"We're doing great. I heard you're visiting later."

"NO! You're kidding right?"

"Aaah! That's great to hear. So what time should I pick you up from the station?" Joey got up, he was wearing a white tank top with black Basketball shorts.

Joey and Serenity spoke for about 15 minutes, it was early in the morning and Joey's hair was all over the place. His room was messed up and he always says the same thing. He has no time to clean it up, or he'll do it later. After they said goodbye, Joey hung up the phone. Joey never wakes up at this time since it is Saturday, but until he heard his sister was coming he just couldn't wait. Joey did the usual, he started to take a shower, brush his teeth, fix his hair and change into a new pair of clothes. He wore khaki shorts, a black V-neck and black sneakers. Since it was spring the weather was casual. He picked up his phone and started to dial Tea's number since they were planning on going out today. He waited for her to pick up the cell.

"Hey! Tea." Joey greeted, but he noticed that her voice was tired like she barely got any sleep.

"Why you sound like that?"

"Wait… You were in the Hospital with Bakura, and Yugi? What happened?" Joey started to panic and was ready to leave the house and rush to the Hospital.

"Someone broke into Gramp's game shop, wrecked his placed and injured him? Why didn't you call me?" Joey grabbed his Duel Disk and deck placing it on.

"Hold on call me on my cell." Joey says a bit frustrated that no one told him. He grabbed his cellphone and went outside.

The sun was facing directly at his direction which was a pain to see anything. He waited for the call from Tea to hear more about it, he walked quickly towards the Hospital. But it was about 15 blocks from where he lives so it might take a bit to get there. He felt his phone vibrate, without hesitation he reached for it and picked it up placing it by his right ear.

"Long story? I have time." Joey was not in the mood to be left out, he wanted to be well informed before he made it to the Hospital.

Tea started explaining about the argument with Yugi how much she was concerned for him. Also, telling him that Bakura noticed Yugi crying and quickly called Tea. But Joey was a bit annoyed that Bakura didn't call Yugi since he is one of Yugi's best friends. Tea told Joey that Bakura didn't have his number but had Tea's on speed dial. Finally, concluding with her explaining to him that Grandpa is doing okay and will recover soon.

"That's good to hear. I'm right in front of the Hospital. What room is Gramps in?" Joey asked entering the Hospital.

"Oh alright, is Yugi there?" He asked one last question.

"Okay, bye, see ya later." They hung up their phones.

Joey started to quickly rush up the stairs looking like he was jogging, he reached the second floor seeing patients, doctors and nurses walking around with clipboards and white coats. He looked at the tags of each room looking for 2-B3. Finally finding it he peeks through the small plastic window in the door checking if Yugi and Grandpa were there. They are, he saw Yugi having a small conversation with Grandpa, Joey turned the knob and entered as he caught both of their attention.

"Joey?" Yugi stared at Joey not expecting him to come.

"Is Grandpa alright?" Joey looks at Yugi for a brief moment then turning to Grandpa.

"I'm alright." Grandpa responds slowly as he tries to sit down.

"No! Stay, you're still recovering." Yugi quickly reacts stopping him from getting up.

"Oh Yugi I'm alri- Owww~!" Grandpa felt a pain on his back then quickly lied down.

"Yug', why didn't you call me?" Joey asks.

"I just didn't want to make you guys worry." Yugi started to play with his fingers nervously trying to come up with an excuse.

"But Yug', you know that's just making us worry more." Joey sits down by a nearby chair opening his legs trying to get himself comfortable.

"I'm sorry Joey." Yugi apologizes then turning to face Grandpa. "Joey, we have a bigger issue now… There is something else we need to do." Yugi said seriously.

"Eh?" Joey blinks wondering what he was talking about.

"Someone is after me, not just me… But a power I hold left by the Pharaoh. They did this to Grandpa to try to devour the power into darkness by using my anger and sadness. And I swear, I will do anything to find out who did this to him." Yugi clenches his fist holding back the anger.

Suddenly Joey stands up and raises his fist.

"We can do this together! Like we did with the other baddies. This won't be any different, remember Yugi, you're never alone! You got us!" Joey gives him a thumbs up.

Yugi nodded, but then heard Tristan, Tea, Bakura and Duke's voice arguing outside about pushing and shoving. Tea stormed inside first looking annoyed flipping her hair to the side.

"No sense of care in the world." Tea says rolling her eyes.

Bakura entered nervously laughing while Tristan and Duke followed behind rubbing their heads because they were attacked by Tea.

"Why you gotta be so harsh for?" Tristan mumbles to himself as he closed the door behind him.

"Hey! The whole gang's here." Tea smiles as she held flowers on her hands placing them on the table by Grandpa.

"Thank you guys so much!- I'm so happy you all—all came!" Grandpa started to sob as they all gave him a big smile.

"Oh! About that Tea, you know Serenity is coming to visit in a few so if any of you guys want to come get her with m—" Joey was interrupted by Duke and Tristan stepping forward chuckling suspiciously.

"Uhm~ Well, I'll be glad to." Duke rubs his chin while tilting his hips to the side seductively.

"What he said." Tristan raised his eyebrow.

Joey face palms and stares at them with an annoyed expression.

"Do anything stupid and get a beating!" Joey cracks his knuckles narrowing his eyes towards Duke and Tristan.

"Of course! Anything to please Sereni—" Duke was stopped in his track by Joey choking him then getting close to Duke's ear.

"What was that?" Joey whispers.

"Uh—Uh you know! Friendly, sister way!" Duke responds, then breaking free from Joey as he glared at him.

"Boys…" Tea sits crossing her legs and her arms looking out the window noticing the clear sky.

Joey turns to Bakura noticing his arm messed up, Tristan and Duke turns to the direction Joey was facing seeing Bakura in the corner all lonely. Bakura noticed and started to get nervous, his cheeks were red from the embarrassment.

"What happened to you?" Joey eyed his cast on his arm.

"Oh, I fell and broke my arm. I'm clumsy."Bakura laughs awkwardly until he noticed everyone staring Bakura down. "Ehehehe! I'M SORRY!" Bakura suddenly turns the opposite direction.

"Well I guess that solves our mystery…" Tea says turning her attention to Yugi, she notices him placing his hand on his chest.

"What's wrong?" Tea asks Yugi.

"I don't know, my chest seems to be bothering me." Yugi looks down to his chest peeking inside his shirt noticing a strange mark. "Wait, what is that?" Yugi wonders.

"What's up?" Joey peeks but Yugi steps back blushing. "Come on Yug'!" Joey quickly grabs Yugi, takes off his jacket and his shirt while Yugi blushed deeply in surprise.

They all notice a mark of the Millennium Puzzle inked in black between his chest. Tea looks at it blushing but tries to not get noticed by the others. Joey licked his thumb and rubs it on the mark checking if it's just a marker, but it didn't smudge at all.

"Guess it's not marker." Joey states. He was still holding on to his shirt.

"Duh, genius. Why would someone do that? It's too well drawn, I see no mistakes on it… Wait…" Tea starts to think. "Yugi! I think this might be the source of the power you have. I think that is what they are after." Tea hypothesized.

"Let me take a look at it, come closer Yugi." Grandpa says.

Yugi nods standing up and heading over to Grandpa, he leans forward.

"Uhuh, I saw something like this in my research, that mark represents the Pharaoh's Legacy, since they were known to possess the Millennium Puzzle I suppose this is it." Grandpa concludes lying back down on his bed slowly.

"So if we find out more of this symbol, we can stop whatever is after Yugi!" Tristan high fives Duke.

"Easier said than done, that symbol is still being researched by experts and yet nothing was found. The writings inside the mark represents something, something that was left after the Pharaoh passed." Grandpa dazed off trying to find out what else he discovered. "I suppose that's all I know."

"But didn't Bakura have a dark side… Yami?" Joey turns to Bakura.

"Well, Bakura wasn't a Pharaoh, so it doesn't count." Grandpa replies.

Joey looks at the time then suddenly remembers that he has to pick up Serenity in 20 minutes, and the time it takes to get there by train is 30 minutes.

"Craaaaaaap!" Joey quickly stands up and rushes to the door.

"Hey what's wrong?" Yugi asks as he puts on his shirt and jacket Joey left on the bed.

"I forgot that I have to pick up Serenity! I don't know if I'm gonna make it to the station in time!" Joey panicked. He started to Jog in place while holding the door knob.

"Hey I can drive you there with my car. I have it parked on the parking lot." Duke aims his thumb outside calmly.

"Thanks so much!" Joey rushes out of the room along with Duke and Tristan.

Duke notices Tristan rushing by them and glares at him, he wanted to be with Serenity alone. They exited the side door of the Hospital leading to the Parking lot. Duke takes out his keys and hops on the Driver's seat with Joey on the passenger seat and Tristan on the backseat. Duke starts the motor and drives off heading towards the highway as Joey explains to him which station they are going to. Joey wasn't in a rush anymore like he was before, since there was a quicker way on getting there in a car. They made it to the Train Station as Duke parks right in front of it, the place looks more like an Airport, a bunch of people walked in and out.

They soon entered the Station looking at the sign to where the train is coming from, he points a direction knowing they still have enough time, but they still decide to run not trying to look stupid and make her wait. Finally, making it to where Serenity's train stops, they notice a red shining train on its way there slowly.

"Phew! Just in time." Joey wipes the sweat off his forehead having his arm on his hips.

"You're welcome." Duke glares at Joey with a sigh waiting for him to thank him for the ride.

"I don't needa thank you! You just came here just to see Serenity… And you too Tristan!" Joey raises his fist then turning to see the train finally stop.

"Welcome to Domino City, I hope you had a wonderful ride." A female voice spoke on the speakers as the doors to the Train opened seeing family members run towards their loved ones.

Joey, Tristan and Duke were trying to find her until they spot a girl with brown long hair wearing a light blue skirt and a casual shirt with a blue flower in the middle, she was carrying her luggage with both of her hands rolling them.

"Found her!" Duke says as he rushes towards her but suddenly grabbed by Tristan and being pulled to the back.

"What the hell?" Duke says trying to get ahead of Tristan, but Joey grabbed both of them and pulled them towards him.

"What did I just say?" Joey whispers to them on the ear having a threatening tone.

Serenity suddenly spots them and waves, she rushes to them with her luggage rolling behind her. Joey let's go and pretends that he didn't say anything to the both of them. Serenity hugs Joey tightly as Duke and Tristan wonders if she would hug them too.

"Joey! I missed you!—Oh hey Duke, Tristan!" Serenity reaches for Duke and hugs him, then goes for Tristan and does the same, but Tristan's hug was longer.

"I missed you too ehehe." Tristan said blushing then noticed Joey's threatening glare and let's go.

"I'll help with that." Duke kindly grabs one of her luggage while Tristan grabs the other.

"Aw, you guys are so sweet. Thanks." Serenity smiled which made Tristan and Duke blush even more.

They began to head back to the car but noticed a man standing in front of it throwing a key up and down… It was Von.

"Hey those keys…" Duke says as he searches for them and noticed them gone. "How in the hell did he get my keys?" Duke wonders them suddenly charges towards Von but was pushed back with one arm to the ground.

"Hm, are you Joseph Wheeler?" Von looks down at Duke calmly as Duke tries to get up.

"No! I am!" Joey glares at Von as he quickly got his attention, he placed one arm in front of Serenity to protect her in any way.

"J-Joey… Who is he?" Serenity stares at him in fear hoping no one would get hurt.

"That's what I'm wonderin' too." Joey responds. "Who are you anyways?" Joey calls out.

"I am Von, and I am here to duel you , if you don't mind of course, but if he wants his keys back there is no other choice." He explains still playing with Duke's keys.

"Duel eh? Bring it on!" Joey steps forward preparing his Duel Disk.

"Joey no! We can't just duel. Serenity just came." Tristan tries to convince him to avoid the duel and walk away.

"He has my keys!" Duke barks at Tristan then turning back to face Von.

"No reason to be hasty, how about we meet at the Abandoned Station C?" Von says as he turns and starts walking ahead of everybody.

They followed behind hesitantly wondering what this guy was up to and why he wanted to duel Joey. Joey thought he was a fan and just wanted to duel so he took Duke's keys. They passed the guards and made it to the abandoned station. Joey and Von faced each other preparing their Duel Disks.

"Whoever you may be… I ain't allowing you to get past me easily, If you know who I am you clearly know the Tournaments I've been i—" Joey was interrupted.

"Yes I do, now shut up so I can end you quickly. I guess it is true. Your irritating voice got you to the big leagues, but it won't work on me. I am idiot proof." Von lets out a small smirk as his eyes began to glow purple.

"WHAT? Grrr! I'll show you who's the idiot that's gonna get his ass whopped by me!" Joey grits his teeth.

Both of them began to shuffle their decks, while Joey just glared at Von while mumbling curse words at him. Von shook his head with a small smirk for the amount of stupidity Joey has. The others stood behind Joey trying to cheer him on and hopefully getting Duke's keys back from Von.

"Come on Joey! You can do it!" Serenity yells.

Joey turns to her and smiles giving her thumbs up, they both draw 5 cards.

"Duel!" They both yell out… And the duel begins.

Joey: 4000 Von: 4000

Joey completely unaware of what he may face, not noticing Von is one of the people after Yugi… And if Joey loses, is his life also at stake? Find out more on the next chapter!

[ Chapter 11 End ]

Author's Note II: So how was it? This was one of my favorite chapters, I think a decent amount of things were uncovered, like Yugi's mark on his chest. I hope you guys enjoyed it. Please review or send feedbacks so I can improve better :D Love ya!