You are my Super Star
Chapter 12—Joey is in trouble!
by YYY

At the capsule hotel, Joey crawl into the tiny space made with thin white fiberglass. He pulls down the small thin curtain door and then lay down on the narrow mattress on the floor. "Hey, this is so much fun! I feel like I'm in my bedroom again!" Joey grins. (Joey is the moon rabbit. He used to sleep in the tunnel inside the underground of the moon garden.)

Although the capsule hotel room is only as big as the back seat of a car, it got everything. There is electronics console in the capsule wall and a TV above his knees. "This place is so cool. I want to play with everything in here, but I have something important to do." Joey says.

The moon bunny closes his eyes. His soul slowly leaves his body and a tunnel appears in front of him. He travels down tunnel until he reaches the Acheron River. The Charon is sitting on a ferry, waiting for the travelling soul to board. Joey turns back into a little bunny and hops onto the ferry and hides under a chair.

"The trip to the underworld is starting, hang on." The Charon says. The ferry slowly moves forward.

(Don't worry, Yugi. I'll get Yami back for you.) The bunny thinks.

Back to the human world, Yugi, Seto and Pegasus have arrived at the capsule inn. "Where is the Joey?" Yugi asks.

"He is suppose to be in that Capsule over there." Seto says.

Yugi walks up to the front of the capsule and says, "Joey, I know you're in there. Can we talk?"

There are no responds.

"Joey, I know you're mad at me and I don't deserve to be forgiven for kicking you out of my place. I'm really sorry. I believe you now! Please talk to me." Yugi says.

Seto doesn't like it. Something isn't right. "Mutt, get out of there now!" Seto says.

"Don't yell at Joey." Pegasus says.

"Get him out of there now." Seto says.

"What's the matter?" Yugi asks.

"Joey is too dumb to hold a grunt. There is no way that mutt will not forgive you if you say sorry. Something isn't right with him." Seto says and opens the curtain.

"Joey?" Pegasus calls.

Yugi touches Joey and says, "Don't worry. He is just sleeping."

Suddenly, a strong image pushes into Yugi's head. A demon flies right at Yugi's face. Yugi screams and jumps away. Seto catches Yugi and asks, "what's the matter?"

"Nothing!" Yugi says.

Other people stick their head out of their capsule and see what's going on. Yugi bows to them and says, "sorry I bothered you guys."

The other people stick their head back into their capsule and go back to sleep.

"Is that Joey?" A guy comes in and asks. The guy has golden hair and light peach skin just like Joey.

Seto picks up Joey and holds Joey in his hand. "Who are you?" Seto asks the blonde stranger.

"Who I am is not your business. I come to get Joey. Hang him over." The blonde says.

"If you think I'm just going to give Joey to you, then you're crazy." Seto holds Joey tight.

Two more guys come in. One of them have brown hair and the other one has wine red hair. The brown hair guy smiles kindly and says, "Sanzo, don't be like that."

"Who are you people?" Seto says.

The brown hair guy says, "pardon my friend's rudeness. We're Joey's friends. Joey's family asks us to come here and take Joey home."

"I'm not going to let Joey go unless I heard from him that you guys are his friends and he wants to go with you guys." Seto says.

"Please, can't you tell that Joey is different from you guys? He doesn't belong here. It's not safe for him to be here." The guy with brown hair says. "Let us take him back to where he belongs."

"I'm not going to let you guys have him." Seto says.

"You can't stop us." Sanzo says. It looks like they're gonna fight.

"Wait!" Yugi shouts, "Joey isn't here."

"Joey is right here." Sanzo says.

"His body is here, but his soul is gone." Yugi says.

"What do you mean?" Sanzo asks Yugi.

"Joey's soul is travelling to Limbo." Yugi says.

"What?" The brown hair stranger says. He touches Joey's forehead and says, "The boy is right, Sanzo. Joey's soul is gone."

"Why the hell is Joey doing in Limbo?" Sanzo asks Yugi.

"To look for Yami. Someone in Limbo kidnapped Yami; and Joey wants to get Yami back." Yugi says.

"This fool! He has gone and done it again." Sanzo grunts. "When will he ever learn?"

"You guys have to help Joey. He is in trouble." Yugi says.

"Do you know who these people are?" Pegasus asks Yugi.

"I can't tell you." Yugi says, "if I tell you, you will think I'm crazy."

"Just tell us." Seto says.

"If my guess is right, these people are from heaven." Yugi says, "right?"

"Heaven?" Pegasus asks.

"Take a close look at Joey. Don't you two remember him? You two met him before!" Joey says.

"What do you mean?" Pegasus asks.

"Joey is the bunny of the moon! We all played with him when we were young. Try to remember! When you were a kid, you went up to the moon every night when you're dreaming. You went to Joey's garden and played with Joey." Yugi says.

"You draw too many manga, Yugi…" Pegasus laughs.

Seto is quiet. Pegasus looks at him, "Seto?"

Then suddenly, Pegasus remembers. He remembers how when he was young, he will go up to the moon every night after he sleeps. "Usagi…"Pegasus mutters.

"I bet this three guys here are from heaven. They come here to talk Joey back to the moon." Yugi says.

"This is all too strange. It must be a group hypnosis or something…no way this is for real." Pegasus says.

"It's not group hypnosis. I'm from the heaven. The Jade Emperor is my uncle, and he gives me an order to take the bunny back to the moon kingdom." Sanzo says.

"This is all too crazy." Pegasus says.

"There is no time to be non-believer! Joey's life is in danger! The demons are after him! I saw it in a vision!" Yugi says.

"Demons? This is getting more and more weird." Pegasus says.

"Please! We have to go to the Limbo now!" Yugi says to Sanzo, "you must know a way to get there!"

"Limbo is not for the living. Bunny was able to go in there because he is small. We're not small, we can't just waltz in there. The only way we can get in there is if we're dead." The Sanzo says.

"Stupid mutt." Seto grunts. Pegasus asks, "you're believing all these?"

"There is a way to get to Limbo. If you're in coma, you might be able to get there." Seto says.

"What? How do you know?" Sanzo asks Joey.

"Because I have been to Limbo. I tried to kill myself once and I ended up there. But the doctor revives me before anything bad happened to me." Seto says, "if I'm in a coma again, I can probably get back in the Limbo."

"Are you crazy? You can't put yourself in a coma right now! You were trying to kill yourself that time! You were in a coma! There is no way that can work for real. You're probably delusional and imagining stuff! This whole thing is crazy!" Pegasus says, "why would you believe in any of these?"

"I'm not going to lose Joey." Seto says.

"So what are you planning to do? Kill yourself?' Pegasus asks.

"Don't be stupid." Seto says, "I'm gonna drug myself."

"Are you out of your mind?" Pegasus screams.

"Do any of you have any other ideas?" Seto asks, "listen, Either we stand around here the whole night, or I drug myself and go to Limbo."

"You think that will work, Hakkai?" Sanzo asks the heaven being with brown hair.

"I'm not sure you can end up in Limbo. Besides, even if you end up in Limbo, how are you going to fight demons?" Hakkai asks.

"I fight insurance people, paparazzi and rival agencies every day." Seto says.

"I can't let you do that! Your father is going to kill me!" Pegasus says, "why are you doing this?"

"Because I can feel that Joey is scared." Seto says.

"You can't drug yourself! You just can't!" Pegasus shouts.

"Let's just go and do this now. We wasted enough time." Seto heads out. Pegasus shouts, "Seto, wait!"

Yugi runs after Seto. Pegasus and the three heaven beings follow them. They arrive at Seto's home and Seto talks out a medicine box. There are tons of pills in there. "This bottle of pills are going to put me under, and the needles is going to bring me back. The longest time I can stay under is 15 minutes. After 15 minutes, you have to give me the injection." If you don't I will die." Seto says.

"For the last time, Seto, don't do this! This is too dangerous! Please!" Pegasus shouts.

"Just give me the injection." Seto says.

"Seto, are you sure you can take all these pills?" Yugi asks worried.

"I don't know. I never took this much before. I double my dosage." Seto swallows all the pills in his hands and drinks some water.

Seto never feels this high in his entire life. His whole world is spinning. The vertigo feelings are like a roller coaster ride that will not end. Then, all of a sudden, his whole world blacks out.

At the Limbo, the bunny is running as fast as he can. His leg is really bad. When he was hiding under the chair on the Charon's ferry when a demon pushes the chair away. "Hmm! Look what we have here? A yummy bunny! Oh, I'm going to have so much fun eating you!" The demon says.

Joey jumps away right before the demon catches him. The moon bunny got away but his leg was injured by the demon attacks. Joey jumps down the river Acheron and swims to the shore. All the lost soul in the river tries to grab Joey, but Joey manages to struggle away.

Joey gets on shore and starts running like mad. The demons are all chasing him cause the meat of the moon bunny is the most tender and sweet meat in the galaxy. "I was being so careful! How did those demons find me?" Joey asks.

Joey runs to a place that has mountains and mountains of bones. He trips and falls on a bunch of skulls. The little bunny screams. "This place is scary!" Joey cries.

The demon is getting closer. The little bunny hides behinds a bunch of skulls. (Please don't see me…please don't see me…Please go away…Please go away….) Joey cries silently. The demons kick away the skulls and shouts, "Got you!"

Joey screams. The demons are about to grab the bunny when someone wracks one of the demons in his head. The demon falls to the ground. Joey sees Seto standing there with a femur bone in hands. Seto fights off the other demons.

"This guy got really strong bone. He must have drank a lot of milk…" Seto says as he throws away femur he used as a weapon.

The bunny changes back into the human form of Joey. "Seto, what are you doing here?" Joey asks.

"I come to take you back. You have 15 minutes to go look for your friend. After that you're coming with me." Seto says.

"But I won't know where to start…" Joey says. Without Yugi, there is no way of telling the whereabouts of Yami.

"Are you looking for Yami?" A little girl asks Joey.

"Yes! You know where he is?" Joey asks.

"He is in that cave over there." The girls points to a cave.

"thanks." Joey runs.

"Joey! wait! Don't…" Seto begins to shout. Joey runs into the cave.

"…run into the cave." Seto finishes his sentense and sighs, "you dumb mutt, even a moron can see it's a trap."

Joey enters the cave and a giant cage falls on top of him. A woman in black walks up to the cage and says, "Hello, bunny. Nice of you to come and see me."

"Anuradha! You're the one who kidnapped Yami!" Joey shouts.

"Yes, I hated that little boy Yugi. His sappy manga gave so many people so many dreams. I won't have an annoying little boy giving people dreams." The lady says.

"So you took away Yami to destroy Yugi dreams." Joey says.

"Yes, I did. I'm the destroyer of dreams, after all. So what took you so long? I have been waiting forever." Anuradha says.

"You know I'm coming?" Joey asks.

TBC…