You're my Super Star
Chapter 14—Out of hell and in to the Graveyard
by YYY

"No! You're not going to be burning in the inferno because of me!" Joey shouts.

"Joey! Get back in here!" The prince shouts. He suddenly falls down to the ground.

"Prince! Your body is getting eat away by the air here, we have to go!" Sanzo says.

"I can't leave the bunny here!" The prince says.

"And I can't leave you here! The moon princess is going to kill me if I do!" Sanzo shouts.

"The bunny is the most important thing in the world to the princess, I can't let anything happen to the bunny!" The prince chases after Joey.

"Well, guess I'm going back too." Sanzo jumps back onto Charon's ferry.

"You guys! Make up your mind already! Are you going to the land of living or are you going to the land of dead?" Charon asks.

Seto walks up to the top of a volcano with the man in black. "This is going to be your new home." The man says to Seto.

Seto looks down and sees a bunch of condemned soul screaming in pain. Seto can feels how painful it is. To think that he is gonna get cooked forever and ever is making Seto scared. He tries to suppress his fear and acts clam. (I can do this.) Seto thinks. He takes a deep breath and gets ready to jump into the fire pit.

"Wait!" Joey shouts. The little bunny runs up to the volcano and jumps down into the fire.

The prince and Sanzo arrive. "Damn it! We're too late." The prince says.

"What do you think you're doing, you crazy mutt!" Seto shouts down to the pitt.

"You can go home now." Sanzo says, "if someone is willing to take your place in the inferno, your soul is free."

"That stupid mutt!" Seto shouts, "get him back up here! I'm not going to let that mutt get burn for me!"

"We can't do that. Joey is a condemned soul now. Nothing can get him back anymore." The man in black says.

"Fine! If he can't get back, then I'm going to join him!" Seto shouts and jumps into the pit of fire.

"Are you two crazy!" The man in black says, "you want to burn forever that bad?"

Joey drops into the pit of larva, and at once he can feels his whole body burning painfully. All his internal organs are burning. Suddenly, Joey sees Seto falling down into the larva next to him.

"Seto!" Joey screams.

"You stupid mutt! I'm going to beat you up so bad that you'll not dare to do anything dumb again!" Seto says, "what makes you think I'll let you be here all by yourself after I got all the way down here to get you?"

"I…" Joey is crying too bad to talk now. Seto holds Joey in his arms. The fire burn is getting more and more painful by the second.

Suddenly, the fire around them disappears. The two of them slowly float up to the air.

"What's going on?" Seto asks.

"I don't know." Joey says.

"If two people love each other enough to be willing to sacrificed their soul for each other in the inferno, their soul will be free from hell." The man in black says.

"Guess your love is too strong for the volcano," the prince says.

"Of course not. Who will love this clueless mutt? The inferno is afraid of the mutt spreading his craziness around so they let me take the mutt into the living world." Seto says, "if they let Joey stay here, he is going to bright up the whole hell. Everyone in the inferno pit is going to sing and dance in joy."

"Okay! Everyone is going to go home now. We're not going to leave anyone behind!" The prince says, "I'm a good caretaker damn it. I'm not going to lost any of you guys!"

"Hmm…your highness…" Joey asks, "Where is Yami?"

"Oh no! I left him at the gate to the living!" The prince runs to the river of soul.

"Going back?" Charon asks on the ferry.

"What took you so long?" The prince asks.

Charon points to Yami, "I was carrying him to my ferry, by the way, there is an extra charge for babysitting."

"Yami!" Joey says.

"Thank you." The prince says.

--In human world—

Sanzo and the Prince of Light appear in front of Yugi. Yugi asks at once, "you got them back?"

"Yes, you did a good job leading me there." Sanzo says.

"Hmm…who is this?" Yugi looks at the Prince.

"This is the prince of light, the moon princess' husband." Sanzo says.

"Just think of me as Joey's father." The Prince smiles.

Joey opens his eyes and shouts, "Yugi!"

"Joey!" Yugi runs up to Joey. The two boys hug each other tight. Yugi cries again; but this time, it's the tears of Joy.

"You scared the hell out of me!" Yugi says, "I'm so sorry I didn't believe in you before. Everything is right in front of my eyes. I can sense Yami calling me, I can hear him and see him every where, but I still won't help you. Thank you for finding Yami for me."

"Don't worry about that. That was really hard to believe." Joey smiles.

Seto soon opens his eyes too. Joey smiles to him.

"What is it now?" Seto says.

"Thank you for coming for me. I'm sorry I almost got you killed and burned in the inferno forever."

"You and your crazy stun." Seto says.

"Yugi." Yami's soul appears.

"Yami! I miss you!" Yugi shouts.

"I miss you too, little one." Yami says.

"By the way, Sanzo, Hakkai, Gojyo, what are you all doing here?" Joey says.

"They're here to take you back. I was having dinner with the Jade Emperor, and he wants you to sing for him. I told him I let you went down to the human world and he went crazy. He said it's going to be dangerous to be in the human world and he asked Sanzo to get you back at once." The Prince of light says, "when the 3 of them didn't get back, I came to check on you guys. I was horrified when I found out you ended up in Limbo and Anuradha almost kill you. If I have been there a minute late you would have been gone and so will all of your friends. You're really something! I checked on you before dinner and you were still fine, and then in the middle of the dinner you almost die!"

Joey bows to all of them, "I'm sorry that I cause you guys so much trouble. I really don't mean to get all of you in danger. Please forgive me."

Yugi shakes his head and says, "no no! Please don't say that, Joey. You're just trying to help me. I'm sorry, everyone, this is my fault. Please forgive me! I'm the one who put all of you in harms way!" Yugi bows too.

Yugi and Joey bowing together, their face so pure and serious, no one can have the heart to yell at them anymore. The two of them are just too damn cute together.

"I'm sorry, Joey. It's because of me that you got hurt. If I didn't write those stupid manga and get that Anuradha upset…" Yugi says.

"Don't you dare to think that way!" Joey says, "your manga are very special to a lot of people! Now, let's go and get Yami's body so his soul can return to his body." Joey says, "come on, we still have lots of work to do."

"It's no hurry, guys. I waited so long, I don't mind waiting for a day or two more. You all need to rest." Yami says.

"I'm fine. I want you to have his body back as soon as possible." Joey says to Yami.

"You're going to go to the crematory and dig up a body in the middle of the night?" Hakkai asks.

"Yeah! I can't keep Yami and Yugi waiting!" Joey takes a shovel.

"I need a coffee." Seto sighs.

"Sanzo! I'll go back to see the Jade Emperor after I finish my job here. Please tell your majesty that I will go back and sing for him very soon." Joey says.

"But I promise the Emperor I would get you back to the Palace." Sanzo says.

"Its will only take me a couple of days. I make a lot of promise to a lot of people. I don't want to be a person who doesn't keep his promise. I need to get Yami's body back and I need to record a song for Seto." Joey says.

"But..." Sanzo says.

"Let him, I will talk to your majesty." The prince smiles.

"Thank you, your highness, you're the best!" Joey beams. He hugs the prince and heads out of the place.

"Joey! Wait for me!" Yugi runs out too.

"I better go after him before he got himself in trouble." Seto says.

"You don't have to come with me, Seto. I'm going to be okay by myself." Joey says.

"Last time I left you by yourself for 5 minutes you end up in hell." Seto points out.

"It's not hell, it's just Limbo!" Joey argues.

"You're not going to go anywhere by yourself from now on." Seto says as he leaves with Joey.

"You highness, please inform the king that I will take the bunny back to heaven in a couple of days. Tell him that I'm sorry I failed my mission." Sanzo goes after the Joey.

"Should we go after him? Or should we return to Heaven?" Hakkai asks the prince.

"Knowing Joey, It's better if you go after him. Chances are he might get himself into trouble the moment he get out of the door." The prince smiles.

"Hai, your highness." Hakkai and Gojyo bow. They get out and see a red racecar speeding down the road and heading straight to Joey.

"Watch out!" Hakkai screams.

"What the hell..." Seto leaps forward to push Joey and Yugi out of the way. Sanzo opens fire at the red car.

"He really got into trouble already?" The prince says, "Maybe your majesty is right, maybe we really should just take him back to the moon kingdom."

"What was that?' Sanzo asks.

"Maybe a demon or something? Come to get Joey?" Seto says. He can't believe he is actually saying that. Before the last hour, his biggest challenge is to make sure a music company does well; now he has to worry about demons and monsters.

"Thank you, Seto. For saving my life again!" Joey says.

"Strange, I didn't sense any demon energy coming out from the car, he must be a really powerful demon to mask his energy like that..." Hakkai says.

The group arrives at the crematory. Joey and Seto start digging. "I'm sorry I have to trouble all of you this way." Yami says.

"Don't mention it! I used to dig holes for my seeds all the time when I was on the moon kingdom." Joey smiles.

Yugi is trying his best, but he is just too small for that kind of physical labour. Sanzo takes the shuffle from Yugi and says, "if I let you do it we'll never get out of here. It's gonna take you forever. Just sit over there and let me do the work."

"Thanks." Yugi smiles.

"You guys smiles way too much." Sanzo says. He starts digging the grave.

A ghostly figure dresses in black moves silently across the graveyard. He stops in front of Joey's gang and just stand there to watch. Joey and the others soon sense that someone is watching them. They look up and see a pair of eyes glowing in the dark.

"ARRRHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Everyone screams and fall to the ground.

TBC…