Joey: What's become of me?
Seto: *rolls eyes* What do you think?
Zelda_Jewel: Oh come on, you guys have to get along at least one time in this story
Seto: HAHAHA
Joey: Are you kidding, get along with that loser?
Seto: Watch what you say Dog
Zelda_Jewel: Seto, be nice
Seto: He started it
Joey: I did not
Seto: You did to
Joey: Did not and you can't prove it
Zelda_Jewel: STOP!!!
Seto/Joey: *Look at Zelda_Jewel amazed*
Zelda_Jewel: That's better, let's just start the chapter
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Too The Last Heart Beat
Dropping Joey to the floor, Kaiba licked away the last drops of blood that fell from his lips and chin. There the blonde laid motionless, his eyes shut, that held so much pain in the expression.
"Did you drink all of it?" Bakura sneered, not believing Kaiba could finish off Joey that fast.
"I drank him dry" Kaiba sternly replied, some how that wasn't as pleasurable as it was suppose to be.
He looked down at the once called Mutt, Kaiba watched as Joey's chest rose and fell until the last breath escaped his lips, his body went limp, his chest steady, his last breath was released into the cold night air.
Joey was dead
"Place him in a dark place, hide him from the light" Bakura ordered as he disappeared without a trace of even being there.
Kaiba stood alone now, just the corpse of Joey laid at his feet, blood stained his neck forming a puddle of crimson liquid on the floor. Instantly Kaiba felt sick, maybe it was the rotten weather, maybe it was that he was obeying Bakura, or could it even be that he killed the only person that kept him company these last few days, that wasn't what he was?
Finding nothing more to do, he picked the limp blonde from the floor, his hair dripped of the thick, sticky substance called blood, all in all it was revolting. Kaiba placed Joey's body on a spare bed, a room over from his, dawn would come soon that's when his transformation will begin.
Kaiba gave a last glance at Joey before existing his room to settle down for the day, and the one thing running through his mind was that he just took away a innocent life again.
'Damn'
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Tristan hit the wall with full force of his body, Serenity stood a few feet back giving him enough time to charge for the door of Joey's apartment.
"Be careful" Serenity warned, worried about Tristan
"Don't *Hit's door* worry *Hit's door* I'll get *Hit's door* it *Hit's door* open *Hit's door"
"I don't think he's home, we could come back later" Serenity offered, it was to early in the morning to worry about it.
"He hasn't been home all week, and he's not home at 2:00am? There's something wrong" Tristan growled, taking the chance to catch his breath.
"What do you think has happen to him?" Serenity ask now worried for her own brother
"I don't know" With one last try Tristan bull-dozed the oak door down, the neighbors that came out to check what was going on were informed by Serenity that they were a relative.
A metallic smell filled Tristan nostrils, followed by the scent of rottening flesh, at that point he was about ready to leave before literally spilling his guts. That's when Serenity followed shortly after.
"What's that smell" Tristan shook his head in response to Serenity's question, he had never smelt that smell before.
"I don't know but....OH MY" Tristan yelled, Serenity came around the corner were Tristan was and gasped at what she saw.
"Serenity don't look" Tristan urged but it was to late
"SOMEONE HELP" Serenity screamed
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"I have a report of a murder" the cop stood just in front of Joey's apartment.
"Y-Yes my father's dead" Serenity stuttered more worried at where Joey was at the time, what had their father done to him.
"I have a file saying that a young man lived with him at the time" the cop made his way into the tiny apartment. Medics wrapped up the body of Mr.Wheeler.
"M-My brother J-Joey" Serenity cried
"Well with this current information, your brother is our greatest suspect"
"That can't be, Joey would never do that" Tristan argued
"All evidence points to him, your father found dead and a history of violence towards Joey Wheeler, could have created friction between them, your brother could have snapped, killing his and your's father, then fleeing the scene"
"NO THAT CAN'T BE, MY BROTHER'S NOT A MURDER! HE WOULD NEVER KILL ANYONE!"
"I'm sorry miss, but until there's enough evidence saying that he didn't murder your father, than he is our prime suspect"
"What happened to innocent until proven guilty" Serenity cried
Tristan put a reassuring hand on her shoulder, as much as he believed that Joey was innocent, the evidence was laid out in front of him.
"I'm sorry, not in this world" the cop sincerely stated
"Tristan, I already lost Kaiba, and can't lose Joey too" Serenity cried into his chest, Tristan stroked her silk hair, even though he was jealous that Kaiba was the one Serenity truly like, he would just go along with it until he could replace that 'hole'.
"Miss, you need to come with us down town to headquarters, we have a few questions to ask you" Serenity nodded her head, what was suppose to be a week of fun for her, turned out to be a week of hell.
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"Why did your parents divorce?"
"Complications in the home life" Serenity replied, tired of all the questions she was being asked that whole afternoon.
"Did you know your father abused your brother?"
"Yes"
"Why didn't you say anything?"
"I was afraid for Joey, if my father found out he would take all his anger out on Joey" Serenity was on the verge of tears, she knew she should have told someone about that.
"How close were you to your brother?"
"Very close, even though we lived away from each other, we have a bond that is very close and could never be broken, my brother cares for me, and I care for him"
"Yes, you stress that multiple of times, we are interested in if your brother could have committed this crime, and were he is right now"
"I don't know were he is, I'm worried"
"Well the police will find him wherever he is, and will bring him in"
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"I DON'T BELIEVE IT" Tea said surprised
"Yeah I didn't either, Joey just disappeared and his father was murdered" Tristan had his hands in his pockets.
"Can we do anything to help?" Ryou asked
"We are allowed to join a search party to look for Joey"
"Then I suggest we help them, it seems like everyone is disappearing this year, first Kaiba, now Joey, and all those strange murders around town, who's next?" Tea asked pacing around
"We better protect ourselves, we have to keep watch form now on, when does the search party begin?" Ryou asked
"Today, at 3:00pm, that's about a half and hour from now, if you want to go now I'm leaving" Ryou and Tea nodded their heads, grabbing a winter jacket and their boots, since the first snow fall had begun yesterday.
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"Well miss Wheeler, thank you for your time, don't worry will find your brother but you should go get a place to stay and a good meal" the cop smiled
"Thank you, please find my brother" at that Serenity left, she had made arrangements to stay with Mai as long as she needed to.
The cold wind froze her delicate skin, thanks to the snow it made it harder to walk in this weather and without any money for a cab she had to walk. And now that it's winter time, there sun would set earlier, meaning the search party wouldn't be out as long.
'Were are you Joey?'
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A petite body ran down the dark alley's. the wind whipped her face, but the reason she was running kept her going.
"PLEASE SOMEONE HELP ME" She screamed
She heard the sound of someone pursing her from behind her, making her go fast. Her chest was pounding hard against her rib cage and she felt her legs go weak, not knowing how long she would last. She turned down another alley, hoping to lose who was ever behind her.
"OH GOD, SOMEONE HELP ME" She cried again and the only response was a gust of cold winters air.
The darkness of the night made it all the more frightening for her, she pleaded for people to hear her cries, to come to her rescue, anyone. Turning the last corner she was confronted with a dead end (There always there when you don't want them to be)
She searched for a door that she could run into for shelter, but found none. Maybe she could climb the brick wall in front of her. In a feeble attempt she tried to pull herself up over the wall.
"HAHAHA"
She instantly froze, the person was right behind her, she didn't want to look at his face, not like that, fear clouded her mind as she prayed it was all a nightmare.
"What's wrong Serenity? Afraid of your own brother?"
Serenity slowly turned around, as indeed Joey walked out from the shadows, a smirk plastered on his face, as those same shadows danced across his facial features.
"J-Joey p-please" Serenity pleaded, it didn't help the situation, Joey kept coming closer to her, backing her into a corner.
Joey lifted her chin up so she would look up into Joey's brown eyes. His eyes seemed lifeless as he sneered down at her. Joey ran his hands through her long silk auburn hair, the innocence in her eyes were now filled with fear. He smirked once more at her before yanking on the hair he was just gently stroking, pulling her head back.
"J-Joe....AHHH" Serenity screamed as Joey viciously bit into her, he couldn't help himself, the blood she possessed tasted so good. The thick, sticky, salty substance poured into his mouth.
The coppery liquid was a sweet and spicy taste that drove Joey more. After sucking the rest of her blood from her, Serenity fell to the ground lifeless. Joey looked down at his sister there and sudden terror came over him, he started to back up from the sight he saw.
He jumped when a cold laugh came from behind him, Joey whipped around to see Kaiba standing there, arms folded, evilly laughing.
"Well done Mutt" he smirked
"No...NOOO" Joey screamed as he looked down at his dead sister.
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"Nooo" Joey jerked awake, sweat came down his forehead, the only thing different was that his chest didn't raise with heavy breathing.
'He's worried for Serenity' Kaiba thought as he watched from his new soul room, watching into Joey's as he awake with a yell
Joey's eyes focused on Kaiba in the corner, he instantly growled trying to get up from his soul bed he laid on. Joey found that his arms and legs wouldn't move on his command, not even his head would turn.
"Why can't I move?" Joey growled
"Because, in the mortal world your dead, if a human was to walk into at this moment they would see you as dead, in our world your alive and able to talk to us, when dusk comes you'll be able to move" Kaiba explained
"NO, I don't want to be dead, dammit Kaiba, how could you do this to me?" Joey growled, he had tears building up in his eyes.
"Your emotions will die in time, soon you'll feel nothing but hate, then you'll know why I did what I did"
"I don't want to kill anyone" Joey's voice cracked "I don't want to be cruel and heartless"
"Well to bad, you don't have much of a choice, either you eat or Bakura will force you to, he had done it on me" Kaiba yelled
Joey was about to mouth a reply, when he suddenly heard voices. Kaiba growled at the intrusion, unfortunately he could do nothing about it, he had to return to his own body. But before leaving he said that he would be back for Joey.
Joey laid there, he couldn't move, so he started to yell for help, hoping that someone would hear him. Yet it seemed no one could hear him.
Suddenly the door was swung open, as a team of cops flooded the room and behind them was Tristan, Tea, and Ryou.
"Guys I'm so happy to see you" Joey smiled
"OH MY....JOEY" Tea screamed and looked away from the sight, Joey had a look of confusion on his face.
"What? What's wrong?" he asked, he still couldn't move
"How are we going to tell Serenity?" Ryou asked
"Tell her what? She's here?" Joey started to panic, if he acted on his dreams, then he needed Serenity to be anywhere but here.
Joey's eyes flickered over to a cop who was in the middle of a conversation on his radio, "....that's right we found the body of Joey Wheeler....he currently died from blood lose from what we can tell like his father....yes very strange, I suggest moving his sister into the protection program..."
"I'm dead? No I'm alive, I'm talk to you why arn't you listening?"
"What about poor Yugi, what will he say?" Tea asked tears falling from her eyes
"I'll tell him and Serenity what has happened" Tristan offered
"Alright move out, this has now become a murder scene" the cop pushed the three friends out of the room. Joey couldn't believe what they said.
\\YOU IDIOT...I told you that humans would see you as dead//
//There going to bury me alive\\
\\No they won't, dusk will be upon us in a few minutes, then I'll come out//
//What about me?\\
\\Move your tongue over your teeth and tell me what you think//
Joey did as told, seeming normal until he hit his eye tooth, it was much longer than it should have been. He was struck with realization that Kaiba was telling the truth, he was dead, no he was the living dead.
"I'm a vampire"
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Seto: Haha I'm good
Joey: No your evil
Seto: True
Zelda_Jewel: hope you like the chapter
Seto: I did *Grins evilly*
Joey: I hated it
(NEXT CHAPTER: What happens when Joey get's hunger and smells the one scent that will drive him up the wall?)
Seto: *rolls eyes* What do you think?
Zelda_Jewel: Oh come on, you guys have to get along at least one time in this story
Seto: HAHAHA
Joey: Are you kidding, get along with that loser?
Seto: Watch what you say Dog
Zelda_Jewel: Seto, be nice
Seto: He started it
Joey: I did not
Seto: You did to
Joey: Did not and you can't prove it
Zelda_Jewel: STOP!!!
Seto/Joey: *Look at Zelda_Jewel amazed*
Zelda_Jewel: That's better, let's just start the chapter
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Too The Last Heart Beat
Dropping Joey to the floor, Kaiba licked away the last drops of blood that fell from his lips and chin. There the blonde laid motionless, his eyes shut, that held so much pain in the expression.
"Did you drink all of it?" Bakura sneered, not believing Kaiba could finish off Joey that fast.
"I drank him dry" Kaiba sternly replied, some how that wasn't as pleasurable as it was suppose to be.
He looked down at the once called Mutt, Kaiba watched as Joey's chest rose and fell until the last breath escaped his lips, his body went limp, his chest steady, his last breath was released into the cold night air.
Joey was dead
"Place him in a dark place, hide him from the light" Bakura ordered as he disappeared without a trace of even being there.
Kaiba stood alone now, just the corpse of Joey laid at his feet, blood stained his neck forming a puddle of crimson liquid on the floor. Instantly Kaiba felt sick, maybe it was the rotten weather, maybe it was that he was obeying Bakura, or could it even be that he killed the only person that kept him company these last few days, that wasn't what he was?
Finding nothing more to do, he picked the limp blonde from the floor, his hair dripped of the thick, sticky substance called blood, all in all it was revolting. Kaiba placed Joey's body on a spare bed, a room over from his, dawn would come soon that's when his transformation will begin.
Kaiba gave a last glance at Joey before existing his room to settle down for the day, and the one thing running through his mind was that he just took away a innocent life again.
'Damn'
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Tristan hit the wall with full force of his body, Serenity stood a few feet back giving him enough time to charge for the door of Joey's apartment.
"Be careful" Serenity warned, worried about Tristan
"Don't *Hit's door* worry *Hit's door* I'll get *Hit's door* it *Hit's door* open *Hit's door"
"I don't think he's home, we could come back later" Serenity offered, it was to early in the morning to worry about it.
"He hasn't been home all week, and he's not home at 2:00am? There's something wrong" Tristan growled, taking the chance to catch his breath.
"What do you think has happen to him?" Serenity ask now worried for her own brother
"I don't know" With one last try Tristan bull-dozed the oak door down, the neighbors that came out to check what was going on were informed by Serenity that they were a relative.
A metallic smell filled Tristan nostrils, followed by the scent of rottening flesh, at that point he was about ready to leave before literally spilling his guts. That's when Serenity followed shortly after.
"What's that smell" Tristan shook his head in response to Serenity's question, he had never smelt that smell before.
"I don't know but....OH MY" Tristan yelled, Serenity came around the corner were Tristan was and gasped at what she saw.
"Serenity don't look" Tristan urged but it was to late
"SOMEONE HELP" Serenity screamed
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"I have a report of a murder" the cop stood just in front of Joey's apartment.
"Y-Yes my father's dead" Serenity stuttered more worried at where Joey was at the time, what had their father done to him.
"I have a file saying that a young man lived with him at the time" the cop made his way into the tiny apartment. Medics wrapped up the body of Mr.Wheeler.
"M-My brother J-Joey" Serenity cried
"Well with this current information, your brother is our greatest suspect"
"That can't be, Joey would never do that" Tristan argued
"All evidence points to him, your father found dead and a history of violence towards Joey Wheeler, could have created friction between them, your brother could have snapped, killing his and your's father, then fleeing the scene"
"NO THAT CAN'T BE, MY BROTHER'S NOT A MURDER! HE WOULD NEVER KILL ANYONE!"
"I'm sorry miss, but until there's enough evidence saying that he didn't murder your father, than he is our prime suspect"
"What happened to innocent until proven guilty" Serenity cried
Tristan put a reassuring hand on her shoulder, as much as he believed that Joey was innocent, the evidence was laid out in front of him.
"I'm sorry, not in this world" the cop sincerely stated
"Tristan, I already lost Kaiba, and can't lose Joey too" Serenity cried into his chest, Tristan stroked her silk hair, even though he was jealous that Kaiba was the one Serenity truly like, he would just go along with it until he could replace that 'hole'.
"Miss, you need to come with us down town to headquarters, we have a few questions to ask you" Serenity nodded her head, what was suppose to be a week of fun for her, turned out to be a week of hell.
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"Why did your parents divorce?"
"Complications in the home life" Serenity replied, tired of all the questions she was being asked that whole afternoon.
"Did you know your father abused your brother?"
"Yes"
"Why didn't you say anything?"
"I was afraid for Joey, if my father found out he would take all his anger out on Joey" Serenity was on the verge of tears, she knew she should have told someone about that.
"How close were you to your brother?"
"Very close, even though we lived away from each other, we have a bond that is very close and could never be broken, my brother cares for me, and I care for him"
"Yes, you stress that multiple of times, we are interested in if your brother could have committed this crime, and were he is right now"
"I don't know were he is, I'm worried"
"Well the police will find him wherever he is, and will bring him in"
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"I DON'T BELIEVE IT" Tea said surprised
"Yeah I didn't either, Joey just disappeared and his father was murdered" Tristan had his hands in his pockets.
"Can we do anything to help?" Ryou asked
"We are allowed to join a search party to look for Joey"
"Then I suggest we help them, it seems like everyone is disappearing this year, first Kaiba, now Joey, and all those strange murders around town, who's next?" Tea asked pacing around
"We better protect ourselves, we have to keep watch form now on, when does the search party begin?" Ryou asked
"Today, at 3:00pm, that's about a half and hour from now, if you want to go now I'm leaving" Ryou and Tea nodded their heads, grabbing a winter jacket and their boots, since the first snow fall had begun yesterday.
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"Well miss Wheeler, thank you for your time, don't worry will find your brother but you should go get a place to stay and a good meal" the cop smiled
"Thank you, please find my brother" at that Serenity left, she had made arrangements to stay with Mai as long as she needed to.
The cold wind froze her delicate skin, thanks to the snow it made it harder to walk in this weather and without any money for a cab she had to walk. And now that it's winter time, there sun would set earlier, meaning the search party wouldn't be out as long.
'Were are you Joey?'
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A petite body ran down the dark alley's. the wind whipped her face, but the reason she was running kept her going.
"PLEASE SOMEONE HELP ME" She screamed
She heard the sound of someone pursing her from behind her, making her go fast. Her chest was pounding hard against her rib cage and she felt her legs go weak, not knowing how long she would last. She turned down another alley, hoping to lose who was ever behind her.
"OH GOD, SOMEONE HELP ME" She cried again and the only response was a gust of cold winters air.
The darkness of the night made it all the more frightening for her, she pleaded for people to hear her cries, to come to her rescue, anyone. Turning the last corner she was confronted with a dead end (There always there when you don't want them to be)
She searched for a door that she could run into for shelter, but found none. Maybe she could climb the brick wall in front of her. In a feeble attempt she tried to pull herself up over the wall.
"HAHAHA"
She instantly froze, the person was right behind her, she didn't want to look at his face, not like that, fear clouded her mind as she prayed it was all a nightmare.
"What's wrong Serenity? Afraid of your own brother?"
Serenity slowly turned around, as indeed Joey walked out from the shadows, a smirk plastered on his face, as those same shadows danced across his facial features.
"J-Joey p-please" Serenity pleaded, it didn't help the situation, Joey kept coming closer to her, backing her into a corner.
Joey lifted her chin up so she would look up into Joey's brown eyes. His eyes seemed lifeless as he sneered down at her. Joey ran his hands through her long silk auburn hair, the innocence in her eyes were now filled with fear. He smirked once more at her before yanking on the hair he was just gently stroking, pulling her head back.
"J-Joe....AHHH" Serenity screamed as Joey viciously bit into her, he couldn't help himself, the blood she possessed tasted so good. The thick, sticky, salty substance poured into his mouth.
The coppery liquid was a sweet and spicy taste that drove Joey more. After sucking the rest of her blood from her, Serenity fell to the ground lifeless. Joey looked down at his sister there and sudden terror came over him, he started to back up from the sight he saw.
He jumped when a cold laugh came from behind him, Joey whipped around to see Kaiba standing there, arms folded, evilly laughing.
"Well done Mutt" he smirked
"No...NOOO" Joey screamed as he looked down at his dead sister.
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"Nooo" Joey jerked awake, sweat came down his forehead, the only thing different was that his chest didn't raise with heavy breathing.
'He's worried for Serenity' Kaiba thought as he watched from his new soul room, watching into Joey's as he awake with a yell
Joey's eyes focused on Kaiba in the corner, he instantly growled trying to get up from his soul bed he laid on. Joey found that his arms and legs wouldn't move on his command, not even his head would turn.
"Why can't I move?" Joey growled
"Because, in the mortal world your dead, if a human was to walk into at this moment they would see you as dead, in our world your alive and able to talk to us, when dusk comes you'll be able to move" Kaiba explained
"NO, I don't want to be dead, dammit Kaiba, how could you do this to me?" Joey growled, he had tears building up in his eyes.
"Your emotions will die in time, soon you'll feel nothing but hate, then you'll know why I did what I did"
"I don't want to kill anyone" Joey's voice cracked "I don't want to be cruel and heartless"
"Well to bad, you don't have much of a choice, either you eat or Bakura will force you to, he had done it on me" Kaiba yelled
Joey was about to mouth a reply, when he suddenly heard voices. Kaiba growled at the intrusion, unfortunately he could do nothing about it, he had to return to his own body. But before leaving he said that he would be back for Joey.
Joey laid there, he couldn't move, so he started to yell for help, hoping that someone would hear him. Yet it seemed no one could hear him.
Suddenly the door was swung open, as a team of cops flooded the room and behind them was Tristan, Tea, and Ryou.
"Guys I'm so happy to see you" Joey smiled
"OH MY....JOEY" Tea screamed and looked away from the sight, Joey had a look of confusion on his face.
"What? What's wrong?" he asked, he still couldn't move
"How are we going to tell Serenity?" Ryou asked
"Tell her what? She's here?" Joey started to panic, if he acted on his dreams, then he needed Serenity to be anywhere but here.
Joey's eyes flickered over to a cop who was in the middle of a conversation on his radio, "....that's right we found the body of Joey Wheeler....he currently died from blood lose from what we can tell like his father....yes very strange, I suggest moving his sister into the protection program..."
"I'm dead? No I'm alive, I'm talk to you why arn't you listening?"
"What about poor Yugi, what will he say?" Tea asked tears falling from her eyes
"I'll tell him and Serenity what has happened" Tristan offered
"Alright move out, this has now become a murder scene" the cop pushed the three friends out of the room. Joey couldn't believe what they said.
\\YOU IDIOT...I told you that humans would see you as dead//
//There going to bury me alive\\
\\No they won't, dusk will be upon us in a few minutes, then I'll come out//
//What about me?\\
\\Move your tongue over your teeth and tell me what you think//
Joey did as told, seeming normal until he hit his eye tooth, it was much longer than it should have been. He was struck with realization that Kaiba was telling the truth, he was dead, no he was the living dead.
"I'm a vampire"
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Seto: Haha I'm good
Joey: No your evil
Seto: True
Zelda_Jewel: hope you like the chapter
Seto: I did *Grins evilly*
Joey: I hated it
(NEXT CHAPTER: What happens when Joey get's hunger and smells the one scent that will drive him up the wall?)