Hey heehee here is the next chap to Saving Joey. *dodges rotten fruit* sorry it took so

long to update but be happy its here now. Anyway in my last chap I said the girl's name

was Zerra I changed it to Rian cause my co-authoress is in the fic and that's her name.

Anyway ACME-Rian is now the co-writer for this fic so give Rian some credit she like

wrote half of it. O yeah read her fics they're really good. Anyway um on with the fic.

PAIRINGS: later on it might be seto/oc/joey

DISCLAIMER: nope don't own yu-gi-oh still so stop asking!

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"Please Kaiba tell us what happened to him." Yugi pleaded. Kaiba sighed. 'well

it's either from the nurses or from me so here it goes.'

"Joey..has lost a tremendous amount of blood and.when the knife or whatever

they used hit Joey it punctured five of his ribs and one of his organs." They all stood

there in shock. "And right now he's in a coma. They're not sure if he'll wake up. They

have him on a respirator right now." Kaiba looked at the group with sad eyes.

"No..." Yugi whispered looking downward. 'how could this be? He's to

strong for this to happen to him.' Yugi thought with tears in his eyes. He was pulled from

his trance as Tea spoke.

"Kaiba what is his room number?"

"Room 319. Here all take you to it." Kaiba said turning toward the hospital.

(a/n: sorry I guess I'm writing him a 'little' out of character huh. lol.) The group was

silent on the elevator ride up to the floor. When they reached the floor they were

surprised to see that only them and another girl were on the floor. Kaiba quickly walked

up to the girl and told her something. Then he returned to the group.

"follow her. She will take you to the room." Kaiba said then left.

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(YUGI'S POV)

I felt shocked when Joey was in the hospital after that Rare Hunter beat him up like that.

//Hikari?// Yami asked. He also got concerned.

/I'm here. What is it? / I asked.

//I sense another item and it's on her neck. //

/What?! Another item! /

//Go talk to her. //

/Okay. /

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(RIAN'S POV)

Who was this 'Joseph Wheeler' everyone was talking about? I only knew him as the

duelist who won 2nd place at Duelist Kingdom. A boy with spiky hair walked up. He was

shorter than me, but, quite friendly.

"Who are you?" I asked.

"Yugi Moto." He said.

"Rian Stacies. Everyone calls me 'Ria' most of the time." I said, shaking his hand.

"Aren't you the girl with the hardest to defeat deck?" He asked me, looking at my

bag. It held lot's of dueling decks.

"Ummm..I am. Just don't say it. My cards are sought after. You see, I make

my own." Then I saw him staring at me with wide eyes.

"What? What is it?" I asked him worried. He pointed to my neck, where the

choker I was wearing had started to glow.

//Hello hikari.// I heard a voice say.

/Who are you? / I asked. Worried I might be losing it.

//I'm Raema, the Egyptian sorceress and a good friend of the Pharaoh.// she said.

/Egypt? Sorceress? Pharaoh? What? / I heard a laugh.

// I know it's hard to believe. But you are the chosen one for the millennium choker. //

/What? / Why was I the chosen one all of a sudden?

"Are you talking to the spirit of your item?" Yugi said looking up at me.

"Spirit? No. I'm just going crazy I think." Yugi laughed.

"No you're not going crazy here I'll explain it." He told me everything and then

asked about the phone call I made. "so all that you know is you found him in an alleyway

surrounded by his own blood?!" I nodded sadly. A brown haired teenager walked by us

with a cold-like glare at room 319. that guy, I knew. Seto Kaiba was the owner of Kaiba

Corp and sworn enemy of Joseph Wheeler. Yugi and me were about to enter Joseph's

room when a doctor stopped us.

"Are you the friends or family members of Joseph Wheeler?"

"We are." Yugi said.

"Well we would like to give you a report on his condition first. Please follow

me to my office." He said then turned around and left. Yugi and I followed. Three

other teenagers followed us. One of them was Seto but the other two I did not know.

"What is it?" Yugi said when we reached the office.

"I have some good news and some bad news. The object they used to stab him

did not puncture one of his organs as we first thought it did..." all of them said with

relief. "But some how his head got hit by something and is causing major swelling to the

brain."

"What?! Is he going to be ok?" the brown-haired girl asked.

"We are not sure. But if the swelling does not go down we will have to do a

operation to get the swelling to go down." The girl put her hands over her mouth.

"May we go see him now?" Yugi asked his voice shaking.

"Yes." We all quickly walked out of the room. We were all silent till we

reached Joseph's room. When we walked in I could tell by the look on their faces all of

them were shocked to see him like that. He had a tube coming out of his mouth and wires

all over him and bandages around his head and one of his arms. He looked so weak. The

tall brown-haired boy walk over to him and picked up his hand.

"Joey, you can pull through this man!" next the girl walked over to him and stood

beside the other boy.

"Joey we are right here with you." Then Yugi went over to him.

"Joey please don't give up. You're my best friend and I don't want to lose

you." He said with tears in his eyes. I turned to see if Seto would say anything but he just

turned around and left. I bowed my head and said a little prayer for Joey and for his

friends.

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well there you ppl go. Happy now. Hmph. Anyway I believe the next chap will come

sooner. Ja ne.