Chapter 12: Where's our Joey?
I was twisting and turning. "Will you stop? Your making me air sick!" "How can a spirit get air sick? How can a spirit get sick?!" "I don't know but..." She put her hands over her mouth like she was about to puke. "Ok! Just don't puke in the necklace...I guess." "Will you two stop your bickering? It's making me nauseous." "Well sorry Princess Pinkie." "Stop calling me Pinkie!" "Well...you are pink." "Luna's got a good point." "That isn't the reason you were calling her pinkie?" "No. I've always called her Pinkie." "Why? She was brown before." "But she was tiny." Espeon just scoffed.
We kept flying. "Isn't that the gang?" I looked down. "I think it is!" I flew down. "Shh. They're sleeping." I flew up into the tree they were sleeping under. Wonder where Tea is. Probably the bushes. I looked up at the moon and a few minutes later fell asleep.
I awoke when the tree I was in started shaking. "It's an earthquake!" "Espeon it's not an earthquake. That is highly improbable." "Yes, yes it is." "You and your logic." "Well..." "Will you guys stop YOUR bickering. It's starting to make me nauseous." "Sorry." I peered down. "Seems like Joey is having a night mare." "Think we should wake him?" "Well of course."
I wrapped my legs around the branch and flung backwards. I was upside down and right above Joey. And I mean right above. I can still hear him snoring. Espeon started poking him with her tail. "Espeon!" I snapped quietly. "Sorry." I started shaking him."Joey...Joey...Yo Joey!" He popped up, almost hitting me in the head. I flung back up and around right in time.
"Huh? Latara!" I got down. "Hey Joey." I started kicking the ground a bit with my foot. "Nice to see ya." "Same. Maybe we should wake the others up." "On it!" Espeon started jumping on Tristan. She gently tickled Yugi. What? She has a sweet side. Yugi sat up and yawned. "Latara?" "The one and only. Hey." "Hi. I didn't think we'd run back into you." "Neither did I..." We were interrupted by Tristan. "Ah! I just had the weirdest dream. I-" "I'm sure it involves pudding." "How'd you know?" I facepalmed. "Oh wait. Latara. Hey!" I slightly lowered my hand. "Hi." Espeon jumped on his shoulder. "Don't forget moi!" The boys gave her a blank stare. "It means 'me' in French." We all turned to see Tea coming out of the bushes. "Morning guys...and girl? Latara!" She ran up and hugged me. "Um...air...please!" "Sorry." She let go. "It's just so glad to have another girl back. "What about Mai? She was just here..hey wait...where is she?" "She left. But she left you a note." She handed a piece of paper to Yugi.
"Wait...who's Mai?" "Mai is a duelist. She won 8 star chips." "Speaking of star chips...how many do ya have?" I put my left hand up and turned it back and forth. "WHAT?! YOU HAVE 10?!" "Mmmhmm. " "And..." Espeon used her psychic and pulled my 4 elemental goddesses out of my deck. "She won these." She turned them around. "Oh wow..." "Cool." "Hey Yug...have you ever seen these?" "No. I haven't." "Really? I didn't realize they were rare..." "Not only rare...I think they're one of a kinds." I gave him a surprised look. "Really?" Why would those girls give me one of a kind cards? "Soooooo...how'd you get them? I mean besides winning them." "That's it. I just won them. The duelists I beat gave them to me." "But...why?" I just shrugged. "Well if we're done talkin'. Let's Go!" Joey started walking into the woods.
"I wonder how many duelists are left on the island." "I heard about a dozen got shipped off yesterday." "I'm sure more have been shipped off by now." Tea added. "A lot of them were very strong duelists. Maybe we're next." We all looked at each other. "Nah!" We all answered, very confidently. "Ok well that might be a bit of a false statement. But still. Over half of the original duelists have probably been eliminated." "But those guys just wanted the prize. You and Joey have much more at stake." I stopped in my tracks and hung my head down. The gang looked back at me. "What's wrong?" I wanted to look back up but for some reason...I couldn't. "Oh boy." "Tea what's the matter with you?" "Nothing. But..." She walked back over to me. "You don't have a real reason you're doing this is there?" "No...not really." I started to cry. "Oh come on! Suck it up!" I slightly looked back up a Joey. "You're a demon for pete's sake! You shouldn't be cryin' just because you're the only one in this group, who's in the tournament and doesn't have a reason to be doin' this dang thing!" I wiped the tears off my face. "You know...if you replaced a word in that sentence with a different one...you might of gotten through to me better." Joey gave me a confused look. "Never mind. But thanks anyway." I gently hit him on the shoulder. "Dimwitt."
We kept walking. "Wait a sec..." We looked back. "What now?" "We're being spied on...I know it." "You're paranoid." "Yea Joey. You've been jumpy since you woke up this morning." "I'm telling you we're being stalked." "Sure..." I rolled my eyes. "I'll prove it!" He walked off all in a huff back into the woods. "What was that all about?" "I have no clue." "I guess we should take a break and wait for Joey." "Well..." I put my hand into my bag and pulled out a picnic blanket. (No I didn't pack one!) "Let's have lunch!" "But...there's no food." "Oh really?" I pointed to the blanket. Some plates with food and some water bottles appeared. "Oh wow!" "It pays to be magic." "No kidding." "Dibs on the noodles!" "Tristan!" "What? She can make more." Tea smacked him. "She's not a maid!" "But..." "Well if he's calling dibs on the noodles...I call dibs on the fruit!" "Bakura don't you start!" Yugi and I were laughing. "Don't be shy. Dig in Yugi!" "Well..." "Come on. There was a reason I poofed all this food." He smiled. "Ok then."
A few hours passed by. "Where is Joey?" "I don't know." "We should go find him." "Well no duh." I packed everything up and started sniffing around. (Dog demon remember?) "I got his scent!" "Ok...that's just weird." "Dog Demon. Helloooo!" "Well...if it finds Joey..." "Follow Me!" I ran back through the woods and over to a fountain of some sort. "I don't get it...his scent's here...but he's not here." "Guys look!" We all looked over at Tea. She picked up a wallet and looked inside. "It's Joey's!" "He'd never leave that behind." Hmm... "Hey Tea." "Yea?" "Can I borrow that?" "Um...ok." She handed me the wallet. I took a deep breath and focused...really focused. The wallet began to have a light, black glow around it. "Woah..." I stopped focusing. "Got him."
"So...where are we going?" "I'm not to sure where." "Then where have you been leading us?!" "To Joey!" "But you said..." "I said I didn't know where we're going but I do know wherever we're going, Joey's there." "That...makes no sense." I turned around, running backwards. "It's magic. It wouldn't make sense to mere mortals." "Wait...were we just insulted?" "Depends on your point of view." "So we were?" "Yes...if you think being called a mortal is bad." "Um..." "His aura's getting stronger." "Meaning?" "He's getting closer. Or we're getting closer to him."
We kept running. I finally stopped at a cave. "Why are we stopping?" "Because if my mana readings are correct, Joey's in this cave." "Well then...let's go find him." "Right. Follow me." I started to slowly walk into the cave, not knowing what'll be in there. "Ok guys remember; We don't know what we'll find in here. So just be careful." "Yea we got it." "Fine. But if you get killed don't say I didn't warn you!" I walked in. The others started looking at each other. Very worried. I walked back out. "I won't actually let you die!" "Oh...right." We all walked in. Come on Joey...please be okay.
Hello Dueling Fans!
Espeon-Hello.
Ok so this is in sync with Episode 17 Arena of The Lost Souls-Part 1.
Espeon-Mmhmm.
So the next one would be in sync to Episode 18 Arena of The Lost Souls-Part 2. Give or Take.
Espeon-Give or Take.
Stop repeating me ok?
Espeon-ok.
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Espeon-...
STOP IT!
Espeon-Ok.
Anyway...I hope you guys liked it. I know it was a little less wordy than normal but I ran out of ideas.
Espeon-Writers Block
Not quite. I've watched the episode and it mainly revolves around what happened to Joey. This one revolves around how the gang found him...
Espeon-It originally revolves around both.
Well...yea...kinda...ok pretty much. But it switches back and forth so I had to make it on just the gang. Case in point it took a while.
Espeon-So I'll guess we'll see you next time.
Yep. Bye!
Espeon-Bye!