Chapter Four: Now What?
They stepped outside. Joey was positively skipping with excitement while Yugi and Tea were chatting animatedly with Yugi's grandpa about their adventures and all the duels Yugi had battled in, and next to them Kaiba was giving Mokuba a piggy back while he told him about how he almost willingly sacrificed himself for his brother, while Tristan was talking to the Celtic Guardian about how he had become the Cyber Commander in a shadow realm duel and had paid a visit to the graveyard.
Joey gazed fixedly at the sky, miles ahead of everybody else, before positively skipped into Mai. Mai raised her eyebrows at Joey.
"Sorry!" he said cheerfully and not sounding at all sorry.
"What!" she cried as she spotted the package of money in his arms, "YOU won!" she interrogated him.
"Well no actually. Kaiba won and gave me the winnings for my sister. She has poor eyesi-".
"Kaiba won?" she stormed on so loudly that people were staring at her.
"Yes he did", Kaiba said running to catch up to Joey.
Mokuba slid down his back and added his twenty cents worth, "Yeah, that's right!"
Mai stared at them dumb founded. "And who is that?" she added forcefully, pointing over Joey's shoulder.
"The Celtic Guardian. It's a long story."
"The WHAT!" she positively screamed in Joey's ear.
Joey felt an odd ring sound in his ear. "Owwww", he moaned, "scream at someone else!" he added as he clasped a hand over his ringing ear and used the other one to shoo her away. She stalked away when Rex Raptor came along. He held out a hand to Kaiba and said, "Congratulations Seto Kaiba! You sure put Pegasus in his place!"
Kaiba took his hand and shook it then replied, "What's that supposed to mean?"
"Oh, that's just a message from Dweeble Underwood. The hand shake was from me though", Rex said grinning, "Well I've got to get going. I have to get back to the boat before it leaves me here, again!"
"Again?" Joey butted in.
"I always get left behind when I go to things like this." Rex explained.
"Oh, really", they all said sympathetically.
Then Rex trudged off towards the boat. Joey bounded off after Rex and Mai while everyone else started walking normal pace behind him.
They finally arrived at the boat half an hour later. Rex was waiting to be shipped out in a queue of about five people which included Mai and, well, a few other people.
"Oh, hi guy's", he said waving at them.
"Wait a minute", Yugi said halfway through telling his grandpa about a game in the Shadow Realm, "where is Bakura anyway?"
They all whipped around and saw Bakura yelling, "WAIT FOR MEEEEEEE!" at the top of his lungs. Everyone burst out laughing.
"How could we forget Bakura?" Joey said to the others, totally perplexed.
Bakura ran up to them clutching his chest, panting.
"Some… friends you… are!" he panted, slightly angry.
"Ahh, lighten up Bakura! You needed the exercise anyway!" Joey replied cheekily. Bakura punched him lightly on the arm and Joey sarcastically cried out in pain. Two more little boats came and everyone managed to pile into them.
They reached the ship a few minutes later. It seemed considerably emptier compared to when they came, seeming as there were only fourteen people instead of around seventy. Joey was jumping around and kept on looking for Domino city's port every hour, even though they wouldn't get there until tomorrow. The good thing about only fourteen people was that they all got a fairly good room each.
"Hey, Joey!" Yugi shouted in Joey's ear to wake him up.
"What?" Joey asked blearily.
"We're home!" Yugi cried.
Joey jumped out of bed and shouted, "Oh YEAH! We're here, at LAST!"
Everyone stared at him like 0.0 except Kaiba who was just staring like o.o.
A few minutes later the ship landed in at the Domino city harbour. They all somehow got off the boat at the same time.
"Um… Can anyone, like, give me a ride to the Domino city hospital? Please?" Joey asked in a hopeful way.
"Oh, alright!" Kaiba said and took out his mobile phone to call up a limo.
As the limo pulled up Kaiba, Mokuba, Joey and Tea jumped into the vehicle.
"Why are you coming?" Joey asked Tea.
"I'm coming because I haven't seen Serenity for, like, EVER!" Tea replied sounding very un-Teaish.
"Oh," everyone replied (yes including you Seto Kaiba!).
They drove across town to the Domino city (DC) hospital.
Joey ran into the reception area.
"IamJoeyWheelerSerenity'ssisterImeanbrotherandIcanpayforherreallyexpen-siveoperationnow!"Joey said all really quickly and in one breath.
"Um I'll just tell the doctor now", said a very confused secretary.
She repeated the message (a little slower than Joey's version) and accepted Joey's payment.