Chapter 1

Kaiba opened his eyes to find himself in a strange place unlike any that he had ever seen before. The last thing he knew, he had been in his office drinking away his problems and had no idea how he could have made it to where he was now. His surroundings were just made from different brightly coloured shapes and patterns that contrasted each other, while above him the sky was yellow with clouds that formed words as they floated by.

He sat up from were he lay on the purple grass and cursed himself for drinking too much. Or had he finally lost his mind from all the recent stress he was under? Either way he was convinced that he was dreaming and rubbed his eyes to wake himself up, before he spotted a girl stood before him who hadn't been there just a second ago.

"Seto Kaiba!" The girl squealed with joy. Her hair continued to change shape, length and colour as she stared at him, her eyes were mismatched, one blue and one green coloured.

"Who are you?" He growled whilst getting up on to his feet and brushed himself down. He didn't bother to ask how she knew his name as he was known by almost everyone lately thanks to the bad publicity that he had been receiving.

"That's a good question." The girl replied thinking to herself. "I didn't always use to be like this. I use to be Delight, but that was a long time ago. Now I'm Delirium, I think."

"You got that right." Kaiba mumbled.

Delirium looked at him blankly before she became excited again. "I've been waiting ages for you to come visit, since you're even more of a killjoy than what my brother use to be. But I knew you would because my fishies told me so."

"Fishies?" Kaiba said puzzled and annoyed at being called a killjoy, even though he knew he was. He watched as the girl pointed upwards and saw flickers of colour fly by above their heads. "Those are butterflies." he told her, but had to take a second look to make sure he was right, only to find that they were indeed fishes.

"Really!" Delirium exclaimed as she looked up once more with another blank expression on her face.

"Please don't confuse her anymore than she already is." Kaiba heard a voice come from below him and looked down to see that it was a dog who had spoken to him.

"Barnabas." Delirium bent down and hugged the dog tightly. "I'm not confused. I'm just in a phase were I mistake one thing for another without realising it."

"Yeah that would be confused." Kaiba spoke to the girl who he was convinced was retarded.

"Is not!" Delirium shouted at Kaiba as she released her grip on Barnabas and stared directly at him. "My sister, Death, explained it to me when my sister/brother said that I was 'mentally unbalanced'."

There was a moment of silence as the two stared at each other before Delirium realised just what had been said. "Oh wait, that's not very nice." Her long hair that was blowing pink in the non-existent breeze, then dropped and shortened as it slowly turned blue.

"You should know better than to listen to Desire." Barnabas said as he nuzzled his master's hand.

Grey, smoky, mist started to appear nearby them like an archway and Kaiba strained to see what laid beyond and away from this insane place that he had found himself in. Startled he jumped back as a fish rode a small bicycle past him in mid air. He had to leave this place before it sent him the same way as the retarded girl.

"Now look what you've done." Barnabas told the sad girl as he noticed the mist. "You've called upon your sister."

"Where does this lead to?" Kaiba found himself talking to the dog.

"Some place you don't want to go." Barnabas warned.

"But it leads away from this place?" He asked once more.

"Correct." the dog replied and Kaiba began to head for the archway. "You'll be much better off staying here!" he barked after him.

Ignoring what Barnabas had said, Kaiba entered the mist. "Yeah right." he laughed to himself. "As if I'm going to take advice from a dog." Behind him the mist faded leaving no trace of it in Delirium's realm.

"Where'd he go?" Delirium asked her dog as she looked around franticly. "He hasn't tried my ice cream yet."

"He's gone in to your sister's realm." Barnabas said. "To Despair."

Delirium looked shocked. "But I have chicken and telephone, and green mouse flavoured ice creams." she whined before pouting.