Joey: Hey guess what, I heard from Zelda_Jewels, this chapter deals mostly with me, haha take that Kaiba

Seto: You idiot, this whole stories been mostly about you, weren't you the first character introduced?

Joey: Oh yeah, I forgot

Zelda_Jewel: Well this chapter will tell you more about what Bakura meant in the last chapter

Seto: What did he mean?

Zelda_Jewel: -_- You'll find out

Joey: But I don't know if I can wait that long

Zelda_Jewel: Alright then I'll start the chapter now

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Alone in my Pain, With a sadistic Yami

Joey stood at the hallway of a dark place, was he dead yet? Or was this his imagination? He looked from side to side, all was the same, shadows that spread as far as the eye could see, but where was this place anyways?

He began to walk around the place, there was a faint light at the very end, he could see were he was going at least, that told he won't trip.

"Ahh"

Maybe not, he still had trouble not tripping over his own to feet, *sigh* oh well, after getting back on his feet he went down the same direction, the only problem was there was no end to this place.

Joey continued down a narrow corridor, and at the end was a faint light, gaining some what of hope or maybe it was curiosity, he ran towards it, when he reached the end of the corridor, there in front of him was a large golden door.

Not sure if he should go in, he hesitated wondering back and forth if he should take that chance. Making up his mind, he reached for the door, the place around him flooded with light.

Not use of the blinding light, Joey flinched as the white blur started to form different objects on the floor of the room. There was toy trucks, baseball cards and gloves, pictures that he recognized, he entered sure that is was safe. There was a large bed with a Red Eyes Black Dragon printed on it, Joey found it quite comfortable.

Joey reached for some of the scattered pictures. One pictures in his left hand held his friends, Tristan, Yugi, Tea, Yami, Ryou, Malik and Mokuba, they were all there and he was in it as well, he had Tristan in a headlock at the time, that was a time Joey was happy.

In his right, he held a picture of his sister, she was in a baby blue dress and her hair was pulled back from her shoulders. Joey gave a loving smile, placing the picture in his jacket pocket.

Leaving this room that held all his favorite memories and goals, was a hard thing to do he felt at home there, but as he left he noticed another door across from his that wasn't here before, the door was a dark steel covered with over grown vines.

Curiosity got the best of him as he opened the door, it creaked open, and the inside was nothing like the other room, this room was filled with nothing but darkness, except the blue and white drapes that hung from the ceiling giving an ancient evil type look.

" H-Hello, is anyone in h-here?" Joey stuttered as his feet went made there way in, going deeper and deeper into the dark room.

A dark laugh echoed through the room, making shivers run down Joey's back, he had a feeling he made a mistake in coming into this place.

'I think I should leave' Joey thought, turning to leave the metal door slammed shut. Joey was beyond reason terrified at this point, that dark laugh filled his head again, this wasn't good.

"Welcome half light" came a cold, raspy voice, Joey looked behind him to see a transparent figure of Seto Kaiba standing there smirking, his fangs showed, which made Joey more uncomfortable.

"Kaiba! Where are we? And why am I here?" Joey growled

" Your in my soul room, and as for the second question, I was about to ask you the same thing" Kaiba sneered

" Soul room? Like what Yami and Yugi have?" Joey asked dumbfounded

" Not exactly, you see, they have the millennium items that holds the two together, me, I had to gradually turn you into my light with every bit I took, your not my full light, but even when you are we'll have separate bodies"

"What do you mean by that?"

"Was that to hard for you to understand Mutt? I have to bite you three times before you're my full light, but in doing so you will be turned into a vampire, or unless I change my mind, then I'll just kill you if that happens"

"Then kill me, I don't want any of this" Joey growled

"I don't care what you want, it's what I want that matters, right now I can torture you when your awake and now when your asleep"

"Your screwed up" Joey said frustrated

"Thank you, but don't fatter me just yet, I still have other things to tell you, but for now, what brings you here light?"

"Stop calling me that"

"Do you prefer Mutt instead?"

"No, just call me by my really name"

"I am"

"THAT'S IT, I'M LEAVING" Joey was about to push Kaiba aside but instead he walked right through him.

" What? How did you do that?"

"*Rolls Eyes* Your only my half light" Seto stated

" So I don't care, what does that have to do with anything?"

" Shut up and listen, your my half light, that means only half of me is able to have access to your mind, and that part is my sub conscious"

"Ohh" Joey turned his attention to the metal door trying to open it, but found that he was to weak to even turn the handle.

" It only opens when I tell it to open"

"Then open it" Joey yelled

" No" Kaiba stated emotionless

"What? Let me out of here"

"As I said no"

"Damn it Kaiba, I did nothing to you"

"True, but doesn't mean I'm not going to do anything to you, as you might not have guessed, I'm much eviler than Kaiba currently is" Kaiba's subconscious chuckled, he stock up to Joey, his fangs were shown making Joey press against the door to get as far away as possible.

"What are you going?" Joey shook with fear as Seto's subconscious reached for him.

"What does it look like I'm doing" Kaiba showed his fangs as he made his way to Joey's neck

"NO..please....Not again"

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Joey was kicked awake forcefully by a not so light foot connecting with his ribs.

"Wake up you stupid Mutt, you've been out all day" Kaiba growled

Joey clutched his bruised side, hissing in pain as he looked into the pool of Kaiba's icy blue eyes. He jumped at how close the CEO really was to him, almost nose to nose, not exactly liking the closeness.

"Ha...is the puppy afraid of his master now?" Kaiba chuckled, he yanked Joey up onto his feet by grabbing a fist full of his blonde hair. Ignoring the cry of pain he received from the Mutt, he gripped his shoulders to keep the blonde steady. Indeed the blonde was still deadly pale and weak from last nights 'accident', but Kaiba wanted him around to witness the capture of his best friend, Yugi.

Kaiba released the hold he had on Joey's shoulders to see if he could stand on his own. Joey's legs shook, giving out on him faster than usual crashing to the ground with a sickening crunch.

"I'll take that as a yes" Kaiba declared maliciously, he circled around the grounded blonde like a vulture to a kill, Joey's eyes were shut tight as he tried to ignore the pain in his side, neck and now back, he again tried to pull himself up, but the effects of blood lose caught up with him, making him sick to his stomach in the process and soon gave up. Kaiba kept an eye on him as he continued to circle around, it was like he was looking for something.

'The Mutt takes forever to recover, come on I didn't take that much blood' Kaiba thought angered at how Joey still looked like the, well, I guess I can't say the living dead, so I'll say the half dead.

"Well...you took enough to n-nearly k-kill me" Joey grumbled trying to sit up again. Kaiba looked on dumbfounded.

'That couldn't be...the Mutt can read my thoughts?'

"Yeah, your not the only one Kaiba, so maybe you should keep your thoughts to yourself" Joey said sarcastically, he made it on one knee, taking a breath before he tried to stand on all two.

"Grr...what's your hurry Mutt, relax, I thought you might want to know...your friend Yugi will be joining us soon" Kaiba smirked, his mood increasing from the sadistic pleasure.

Surprisingly, Joey had made it to his feet, but still was a bit shaky, besides he just lost about 75% of his blood the night before, it takes a while for the blood to regenerate and Joey refused to get a blood transfusion, to much risk involved with that, the consequences of cancer or aids, disease not yet curable, the risk of bad operation, (One of my friends got a blood transfusion and died the next morning) no way not for him, he would rather die.

"Then what Kaiba? Your going to turn me into you 'loyal' minion, what? me become what you are? A blood sucking DEMON, I heard your thoughts last night, I know what your planning"

Joey growled finding the strength he thought wasn't there, whatever happened now, didn't matter to him anymore.

"You had no business in listening to me" Kaiba growled

"Like you did to me, you can ne such a jerk" Joey haughtily smirked

"Watch your tongue dog" Kaiba warned

"And for one, I'M NOT A DOG, and two, WHY, did I upset the great Seto Kaiba?" Joey sarcastically mocked until...

SLAP!

Joey fell back to the ground, the force of that slap wasn't human like... well duh...but the landing was worse. Joey cried out as his back hit the cement, AGAIN (You think he should just stay down?)

"Never talk make to your master Mutt" Kaiba growled, he stomped out of the warehouse in raged at what Joey had said, how?, all through this, he was still acting like the tough kid he knew, Kaiba growled, his plan was to make the Mutt a coward, not brave, and he never fails.

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Yugi had his head in his hands, he was so confused, why couldn't he go home and try to help Joey? He was so lost in thought, that he didn't know Yami had entered his soul room.

"Come on Yugi, don't worry, I think Joey will be alright" Yami assured him

"But what if he's not?" Yugi asked worried, his eyes told the story quite well, that Yugi was afraid for his friend.

" I don't believe in 'what if's', I believe with every problem there's a solution" Yami was quite the talker in his day, wasn't he? But poor Yugi didn't know what to think.

"I'm scared Yami, Joey is my best friend, I want to help him through anything he's having trouble with, but yet I'm stuck here being a coward"

"What would Joey think if you disobeyed his plead, there could be an important reason that Joey asked us to stay here, maybe someone is after us, and he's protecting us"

"But that's not fair to Joey, to take what we should have GOT!" Yugi protested sternly

Yami only sighed, he knew something was terribly wrong, and as much as he wanted to go and try to help, something told him to stay and protect his light.

" He'll be fine, if you believe in him, it will strengthen him to stay strong" Yami's soothing voice calmed Yugi down a bit, but he still had worry in his eyes.

"I hope your right Yami" Yugi whispered

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Joey hated himself for falling to the ground that easily to Kaiba, he should have struck back at him, but he was physically knew he couldn't handle that right now. He had to get out of here before Kaiba comes back knowing that Joey was the one who told Yugi to no come home.

His cell phone was at it's last stroke of life, there was probably enough strength for one more call, and only one. But who should he call at this time of night?

'Tea?, no she has done enough and what could she do anyways?'

'Duke? No he's out of the country on business'

'Tristan? he'll probably laugh at me when I say 'hey guess what? I'm chained to a cement floor in the middle of a warehouse I don't know were it is, and, oh yeah, Kaiba's alive and is a vampire' Actually come to think of it, they all would laugh at me, except...'

Joey quickly plugged in the number and waited impatiently for someone, anyone to answer.

"Hello?" came a soft voice on the other end

"Ryou?, thank goodness your home, is Bakura there?" Joey asked hopefully

"Bakura? Yeah he just got back from where ever he was, why, do you want to talk to him?"

"There's no time to explain, I need to speak to him"

"Alright hold on" Joey listened to Ryou's voice telling Bakura that there was a call for him, then there was a sickening slap heard over the phone, before a grouchy Bakura came on the phone.

"WHAT do you want?" Bakura yelled angrily

"huh...Bakura? I-I need your help?" Joey asked kind of afraid from what he heard just before Bakura answered.

" Wheeler? And why would you need my help?" Bakura smirked, knowing fully well why Joey needed his help.

"I know this might s-sound funny, but K-Kaiba's alive, but he's not exactly human"

"Really? What is he?" Bakura liked to toy with the naive puppy dog, he loved doing that just before he strikes, and it seemed Joey had more then one vampire interested in him (NOT in that way, geez people)

" W-Well h-he's a v-vampire" Joey stumbled trough his explanation

"You don't say"

"Yeah, and he's kinda has me lock to the ground, he went after Yugi, I need to get out of here before he get's back, because I told Yugi not to come home"

There was a loud laugh on the phone, making Joey think that Bakura didn't believe him, "Hmm I'll see what I can do" Bakura grinned

"You mean, you believe me?"

"Of course, I thought I saw a vampire once in my time"

"Oh thank you Bakura"

"Anytime" Bakura had to hold the dark laugh in until he hung up with Joey, 'So he thought he would go after Yugi, this should be interesting'

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Joey's phone dies as soon as he got off the phone, perfect timing, or so he thought.

"Who were you talking to?" came a dark but amused chuckle from behind him, Joey didn't have to be a rocket scientist to know that it was Kaiba.

"None of your business" Joey stated emotionless, Kaiba narrowed his eyes, trying to pry into

Joey's thoughts, he could feel the blonde putting up a strong mental block, how amusing, he'll just do it the hard way.

" Did I tell you? for some reason Yugi wasn't there, would you know why Mutt?" Kaiba said as calm as he could

"Yeah, I told him not to come home, because of you" Joey realized what he said after it was to late, he turned around to face Kaiba, trying to show his determination.

Kaiba's face got red with anger, at anytime he was about to snap, and Joey kept pushing his buttons, foolish thing to do. Kaiba focused all his mental strength on the object in Joey's hands.

Joey felt his cell phone trying to pull out of his grip towards Kaiba, and like Joey's body did the same, he was trying to resist, and like last time, he failed.

Kaiba grasped the cell phone, quickly charging it, by the way Joey didn't understand. Kaiba's eyes flashed through the information given to him. He scanned through the caller history but the name that got to him was, Bakura...

His eyes flashed red once again, this time Joey stepped over the edge and this time would be his last.

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Seto: I'm so evil

Joey: Yes you are

Zelda_Jewel: I agree, hey if you guys like how these two fight, then check out my sisters story 'Puppy Tails' it's her first story so be nice to her, her username is JoeyWheelerPup

Joey: Aww I got a fan

Seto: Yeah, one

Joey: Hey

Zelda_Jewel: This chapter is for all the ones that request I update fast, and I'll try and get Fake Identity updated soon as well

(NEXT CHAPTER: Will this be Joey's last night?)