Chapter 1- Torn Lungs

Alex Kaiba sat bolt-upright in bed. She stared around the unframiliar room. "Where am I?" she gasped between laboured breaths heaved from torn lungs.she looked around the room more closely and saw a sleeping form on the couch opposite her starch-sheeted bed. "I think you should lie back down before you damage your ribs anymore." A deep voice said from behind her. Alex started. She turned her head to see her older brother Seto sitting behind her in an uncomfortable metal chair. "How do you do this to yourself?" He asked indicating her bandaged ribs. Alex shrugged. "What happened to me?" She asked. Kaiba gave her a hard look. "Do you remember the tournament that you entered yourself into?" he asked. Alex nodded. "Well, you bet every person that you went up against. You nearly lost against your last competor. You had to give the last bit of your energy to your Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon. And you had just won when you and your Blue Eyes just disapeared into the air. No tracks and no traces of other people near you at all." Kaiba's face went whiter than it already was. "When we found you later on the Redtail fields you had two broken ribs, a broken arm, two breaks in your back and a bad concussion. Your hair had been died over your streaks and your face had been covered with a silk sheet." He shook his head and didn't speak for a long while. "What about my Blue Eyes?" Alex said tentatively, breaking the akward silence. Kaiba looked up at her and said nothing. Alex shuddered as she realized what the silence ment. "No." she whispered. Then she screamed. "No!"

Kaiba yelled as the door to his bedroom exploded in onto his bed and his Alex stormed in. "Get them off of me!" she yelled indicating the small pads stuck to her arms and around her back. "And keep those sycho freaks away from me!" Kaiba looked up into her eyes. They were mad and sorrowful at the same time. Then he saw the doctor slip in the door behind her with a full needle. "I can't." He said. Alex's eyes went wide and her angry yell became silent as the drug the doctor had just injected her with took effect. "I'm sorry." He whispered as his sister fell to the floor. He looked at the doctor. "Take care of her." He said. "Or you will quickly lose your buisness." The doctor nodded. "Set up her care in the last bedroom on the left on the top floor. And touch nothing and take nothing from that room." The doctor nodded again and turned to leave. Kaiba grabbed his arm and the doctor turned back to him. "And only female nurses are to tend her. Now get out!"