You're my Super Star
Chapter
23—"Return to me, Tsuzuki!"
by YYY
"Just get out of here." Tatsumi says.
Gokuu looks out to the black field outside Hade's castle and says, "Something is coming. I can sense it."
"What's coming?" Seto asks.
"Whatever it is, it is powerful. Too powerful for me and Sanzo to fight." Gokuu says, "especially with the state Sanzo is in right now."
A dark beast approaches at top speed. Seto shouts, "what the hell is that thing?"
"That thing is coming for your bunny. If you don't get your bunny out of here, that thing will make the bunny it's dinner." Tatsumi says.
The giant beast climbs up the outer wall of Hade's castle. "Joey! Run for you life!" Gokuu shouts.
The beast arrives at the Castle's balcony and charges toward Joey. Tastumi casts a spell and stops the beast while Seto grabs Joey and run. Sanzo and Gokuu run to attack the beast. As Gokuu hits the beast, the beast roars madly and attacks the two of them.
"No! Don't hurt him!" Hisoka shouts. Sanzo and Gokuu stop their attack while the beast runs away.
"What's the matter, Hisoka?" Gokuu asks, "why didn't you attack the beast?"
Hisoka just stands there in silence.
"Is that Tsuzuki?" Joey asks, "that is why you didn't attack me, right? That's Tsuzuki."
Hisoka nods. Tatsumi says, "Come on, let's get everyone's wounds treated."
Tatsumi takes the group to the basement where there is a huge alchemist lab. A man with long golden blonde hair is sitting there working on potions.
"Good evening, Watari." Hisoka says.
"Hey, Hisoka." The blonde says as he looks up from his work table. He notices the beaten up Gokuu and Sanzo. "What happened to you guys?" Sanzo asks.
"Tsuzuki happened to them." Tatsumi says.
"Why would Tsuzuki be here?" Watari asks. He then sees Joey standing there and stops talking. Joey sees Watari looking at him.
"It's because I'm here? Is it? Tsuzuki is after me. Tell me what's going on!" Joey asks.
"It's Anuradha's doing." Watari says, "Anuradha is very mad at you, so she put a spell on the hell hound and change hell hound into a vengeance beast against the moon bunny."
"I'm sorry I got Tsuzuki into this." Hisoka says.
"It's not your fault." Hisoka says.
"So that's why you're around Joey. You want to see if Tsuzuki will show up." Sanzo says.
"Before Tsuzuki turns to the vengeance beast, he asked me to make sure he will not harm Joey." Hisoka says.
"Is there anything I can do to change Tsuzuki back to normal?" Joey asks.
"The spell will not be broken unless Tsuzuki kills you." Tatsumi says.
"Well, then why don't you let him kill me?" Joey asks.
"Are you out of your mind?" Seto yells.
"Do you want the Emperor and the princess to kill me?" Sanzo says.
"I'm made with the night cloud surrounding the moon castle. Even if I die for a short time you can revive me with the rain from the moon garden." Joey says, "You guys will make sure I'm revived before my death is irreversible, right?"
"That was only a myth!" Sanzo says, "we don't know if the rain can really revive you!"
"We can't do it! it's too dangerous!" Gokuu says.
"forget it, bunny. Tsuzuki will not want you to risk your life like that." Hisoka says.
"But Anuradha puts the spell on Tsuzuki because of me! I can't just sit here and do nothing." Joey says.
"Seto, talk some sense into him." Sanzo says.
"Let him do it." Seto says.
"Seto?" Joey says, "you're not mad?"
"Of course I'm mad. I'm furious. But there is no point of trying to talk you out of this. You're the most stubborn thing ever existed." Seto says. Joey gives Seto a kiss on the cheek.
"You're the best, Seto." Joey smiles, "Sanzo, Gokuu, why don't you two get back to earth first? I'll get the rain drop from the moon garden and then we'll plan out what to do."
"You guys don't have to do that." Hisoka says.
"Why not? I own you my life, right? You stopped Ricky from shooting at me." Joey says.
Joey gets to the moon garden. Seto looks around and says, "I haven't been here for so long, I don't even remember any of this stuff."
Joey gets to the middle of the garden where a pavilion stands. "Come on, Seto! Dance with me!" Joey says.
"I don't dance." Seto says.
"I thought you were a teen idol." Joey says.
"That's why I'm not a teen idol anymore. I grow out of dancing." Seto grunts.
"Come on! We never dance together." Joey says. He pulls Seto up to the pavilion and starts dancing around Seto. Soon, Seto gives in and dances with Joey.
As Joey dances, rain slowly falls onto the garden. "It's raining!" Joey cheers and dance some more.
Seto can't help but picks up his tempo too. His stoic face slowly becomes a smiling face. As the two of them dance faster and faster, the rain falls harder and harder. The two boys become soaking wet. They keep dancing and dancing until they are too tired to move.
"This is fun!" Joey smiles.
Seto reaches over and hugs him. "Don't you get yourself killed over this, okay?" Seto says.
Joey smiles, "believe in us! Nothing can keep us apart!"
"Alright, then, let's do this." Seto says. They collect the rain drops and return to the castle of Hades. Sanzo, Gokuu, Hakkai and Gojyo are all there waiting for him.
"So are you really going to go through with this?" Gokuu asks Joey.
"Yes, Hisoka is waiting for Tsuzuki. I want them to be back together again." Joey answers.
Sanzo sighs, "the Jade Emperor is not going to be happy if he knows about this."
"That's why we have to do it now. The Emperor is going to come and stop us any second." Joey says.
"So how are we gonna start?" Gokuu asks.
"Well, I cut myself, the smell of my blood should lure out the hell hound. You guys wait til he kills me, make sure he turns back to normal, and then revive me." Joey explains.
"You make it sounds so easy." Sanzo says.
"Well, better get to it before the Emperor or the Prince come." Joey says as he cuts his arm.
"This is insane." Tatsumi says.
The blood slowly drips onto the floor. "There is no sight of the beast." Gokuu says.
"Let's stop the bleeding. It's not gonna work." Watari says.
"Keep it up for a little longer. I know Tsuzuki is coming." Joey says.
"You've lost too much blood already." Hisoka says.
"It's coming." Gokuu says.
The Giant demon arrives at Hade's castle. Joey's face is calm, but Hisoka can sees Joey's hands shaking. "Joey, don't do this. Tsuzuki will not want this." Hisoka says.
"I'm fine. Don't do anything until you're absolutely sure that Tsuzuki has broken from the spell." Joey says.
The beast comes up and runs toward Joey, Joey just stand there and let the beast hits him. "No!" Gokuu shouts. He tries to get to Joey but Sanzo stops him.
"Don't go! If you go then Joey will not be able to save Tsuzuki." Sanzo says.
The beast starts beating Joey up. Hisoka has to turn his head away. "Please kill Joey already! Make his death a painless and quick." Hisoka mutters.
Joey is hurting really bad, but he doesn't want to scream or cry because the others will worry, especially Seto. He can feels Seto's heart aching in pain. The Vengeance Beast picks Joey up by his neck and tries to strangle Joey.
"No!" Hisoka shouts. Why can't the monsters just kill Joey in one blow? Why does the monster have to strangle Joey and make Joey's death a long and painful one? Joey's face slowly turns pale, and his lips turn green.
"This is crazy! I'm getting you away!" Hisoka shouts as he runs toward Joey.
"No! Don't!" Joey shouts. The beast squeezes Joey's throat tight shut. Joey coughs a couple of times and then lost his consciousness.
Everyone waits impatiently. They all want to run up to Joey at once but they have to make sure Tsuzuki is turning back to normal first. After what feels like an eternality, the beast drops Joey and screams in pain.
"It's working!" Watari shouts.
The beast slowly turns back into a handsome looking young man. Seto runs up to Joey and pours the rain drops into Joey's mouth.
"Come on, get up! Get up!" Seto says.
"Seto…" Joey slowly opens his eyes.
"You crazy fool!" Seto says as he holds Joey tight.
"Does it work?" Joey asks.
Gokuu nods, "Yeah, Tsuzuki returns to normal."
Joey looks up and sees Tsuzuki sleeping soundly on the ground not too far away. Hisoka is holding Tsuzuki tight.
"They're back together again." Joey smiles.
"Thank you for everything." Hisoka says to Joey.
"Don't mention it." Joey smiles to Hisoka.
"Joey, we need to get going. The air is going to suck us dry soon." Hakkai says.
"Right, Bakura and Ryou are having their first concert, too. We need to be there to cheer for them. Come on, let's go home." Joey says.
"Thank you again. Good bye." Hisoka says to Joey and the others.
"Come to earth and visit us sometimes." Joey says.
"Will do." Hisoka smiles.
"Good bye." Joey, Seto and the others heaven beings head back to the Hell Gate to return to human world.
"Tatsumi!" A demon bird flies onto the balcony and stops in front of Tatsumi, "Hades is hurt, Hades is hurt!"
"Watari! Grab your medical box and come with me. Hisoka, stay here and protect the castle." Tatsumi says.
--Back in Tokyo--
At the Roppongi Twinstar club, laser beams, flashing lights and smoke machine fog fill the stage as the host announces, "Ladies and Gentleman! Put your hands together for the Dark Gemini!"
All the teenagers cheer as Bakura and Ryou gets up on the stage. The fan girls are cheering like mad. Bakura and Ryou starts singing while the girls dance in frenzy. Mokuba dances to Bakura's song. "Ryou and Bakura are so good!" Mokuba says.
"Here, Mokuba, I got this for you. Now you can tape Ryou and Bakura." Noah says as he gives Mokuba a digital camcorder.
"Yay! I always wanted one of this! Thank you!" Mokuba cheers.
"Don't thank me. Seto asked me to get it for you." Noah says.
"Thank you, Ni-san!" Mokuba smiles. Seto just nods. Mokuba used the camcorder to tape Ryou and Bakura.
Yami asks, "is Bakura free from his step-dad and his doctor now?"
"We got the legal papers today. The doctor and the parents have no power over the twins anymore. Bakura is going to get real psychiatric help this time. The new doctors say Bakura is going to be okay." Seto says.
"That's wonderful news." Yami says.
"The girls at our manga studio are really crazy about him. Even the news about Bakura is crazy doesn't hurt his popularity." Yugi says.
"Bakura's step-dad tells the media that Bakura grew up in mental institute to hurt Bakura's career, but Bakura actually gets more popular because of that. Fan girls enjoy that crazy bad boys image. The director of Bakura's new movie is thinking about using Bakura's past to sell the flim."
"Bakura doesn't mind?"
"No, Bakura actually like the idea. He takes joy in frightening people."
"Joey?" Yugi calls.
"Yes?" Joey answers.
"Is everything alright?"
"Everything is fine."
"Are you really alright? You seem to be very quiet tonight. Bakura got away from his doctor and step-dad; this is Ryou and Bakura's first concert; normally you will be bouncing around because you're happy for the twins." Yugi says worried.
"I just spaced out a couple of second, that's all." Joey smiles.
"What's on your mind?" Seto asks Joey.
"Oh, it's nothing." Joey answers. Joey is smiling but Seto can tell something is bothering Joey.
Seto is gonna asks Joey again but Seto's cell phone starts ringing. "Hello?" Seto picks up the phone. Joey takes a sip of his drink and listens to the twins sing.
After Seto finishes the phone call, he smiles to Joey. "Guess what, Joey? You're going to perform at the Tokyo Dome!" Seto says.
"What?" Yami says, "that's amazing! It's the dream of all the teen idols!"
"Congratulation!" Noah and Mokuba say.
Joey is all zoned out and he doesn't hear what Seto said.
"Joey? What's the matter with you?" Yugi asks.
"I'm just sleepy. Let me go to the washroom and wash my face." Joey smiles and stands up.
Seto follows Joey. Not to Seto's surprise, Joey isn't heading to the washroom. Joey heads to the backstage.
TBC…