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Another Side of Me
Can I break away
Push Me away
Makeme fall
Just to see
Another side of me
Push me away
You can't see
What I see
The other side of me
Shaking his head slightly, Joey Wheeler focused his eyes to open. With his vision no longer distorted Joey began forcing his legs to move... only to find that they could not. He looked down and gasped at what he saw. He was strapped to chair that seemed to floating on a dark piece of ground surrounded by nothingness. "What the hell... How the hell... Where the heck am I? What - Oh yeah now I remember. I was talking to some specter through a mirror and then he pulled me in." He took a look around once more before trying to think of a clue as to his location. A dark voice brought him out of his thoughts.
"Finally awake are we? It's about time."
Joey suddenly looked to his left. Standing there next to a control panel of a large computer screen was his 'other self', clad in a trencoat, much like the ones Kaiba wore, but this was not a denim blue or silvery color. No, this one was a rather deep sacrlet that seemed to be ... dripping?. Indeed the shades of color did seem to have a downard movement yet the color never faded from the cloth not even for instant. 'Blood' Joey thought to himself. He was surpried to here laughter resonating in his head.
'Ha ha ha. Not hardly, my dear brother.'
Joey had looked alarmed. 'What the heck is this? Now this guy's a mind reader? It's really starting to creep me out.'
Shadow Joey attempted to supresses a smirk though it slightly showed on the corners of his mouth. 'Really now.' Seeing the other's shocked expression once again he instead closed his eyes as if trying to concentrate on something. When they opened once again the platform they were located on was no longer stationary but moving, as drifting through hypertime through an endless vaccum of space. Joey once again began to tear at his restraints, and almost immediately regretted doing so. With a glance of the others eyes the chair was suddenly slammed against the wall, and a support from it came down completely trapping him in the seat. The anger in Joey's blood began to boil. Who ever this idiot was he messing around with him and it angered him to point where he could lose his control. It didn't even occur to him that the chair he was in made no as it slammed against the 'wall'. He was enraged. "Why the heck don't you fight a man and stop it with these tricks of yours?"
Shadow Joey chuckled slightly "Who said anything about fighting?" He ignored the look given to him by the actual Joey. "And the're not tricks. Not all of them anyway." Joey gave him a funny look. The other simply chuckled. "Do you think we can only hear each other's thoughts? Do you think its coincidence?"
Joey's temper blew it's top. "Enough already. Where the heck are we?"
"Relax I won't keep you in the dark much longer." Suddenly they were surrounded by an illuminating flame. Shadow Joey roared with laughter. "I told I'd shed some light on the subject."
Joey growled at this guys ridicuclous puns.
"We're on the astral plane, Joseph. A place where all thoughts and timelines intertwine. There are countless lives in the world. And we can all hear what the're thinking. right now." As they traveed farther ghostly images appeared. Memory and thoughts flew by. Joey wasn't too interested with many of them but he did key in on a few. "...'ve got to defeat Marik. For our friend's sake..." "... will become the word's best duelist once again..." "...banish everyone to the shadow realm. hahahaha ..." Joey looked questioningly at the other figure, who was at this point searching through the computer console. "so you're saying everyone's thoughts travel through here?
"Not exaclty every person's. More like every part of them. seeing Joey's ponderous look he motioned to his right with an arm. Joey once again saw a ghastly image of Kaiba, though a rather diffeent Kaiba and with diferent thoughts "... will never mistreat my brother again. I can' ..." With a different motion he saw the thoughts of the other, the Marik ".. fault for what happened to..." "Some thoughts simply overpower others creating a state in which the individual functions until other thoughts rise to surface."
"Yeah well nice lecture and all, but how the heck does it exactly help me?" Joey retored. Suddenly his expression changed. Shadow Joey had stepped back from the computer, a huge grin on his face. And from what Joey knew so far whenever this darker version of himself grinned it was not a good thing. "Why the heck are you smiling like that?"
"Simple. I have found the solution." He gestured to the computer sreen. Sometimes even misguided memories can change the nature of a person. The look on Joey's face asked him the 'what are you planning question.' "Just sit back and enjoy the show."
Joey focused his eyes on the computer screen and immediately wanted to punch the other. On the display was the reason for his parent's divorce, his father's beatings on his mother, Serenity, the countless conversations he and his mother had that always ended up in him losing his temper and finally the devastating scene of Seenity taken away by his mother and him running after their car. The scenes then shifted to the Death-T tournament where Tristan was stuck in puzzlebox arena and he and the gang could not reach him to get him out. Marik using him and Tea to get to Yugi and finally trapping Mai's mind in the shadow realm once their duel ended. The screen turned off.
"Enjoy it?" asked a figure.
"You bastard." Joey was already beyond losing his cool. he wanted to kill Shadow Joey for having to relive this but the restraints held him. Try as he might he could not break them.
"You anger stems from many points. But it's scattered across different targets so you can't combine it. Can't harness it." With that, a thought came to the darker minded person. "But would you be able to? How would your anger spurn if the memory was this?" The screen turned back on once again showing the same memory but at the end it showed Marik laughing mainacally at the younger Joey's pain. "Or perhaps this?"
Tristan was finally smashed by a block. Kaiba was smiling demonically. He laughed. But it wasn't his laugh. It was Marik's
The Images continued. The last one with Marik tourturing Mai's mind and then her unconcious form, carving those cuts with the dagger of the millenium rod did the trick. One thing remained hard on Joey's mind. Kill Marik. Kill Marik. I have to kill Marik. Little by little,all other thoughts began to fade away into the back of his mind. Tea's friendship speaches, "the heart of the cards" The love Serenity had for him and his returned love for her. All those thoughts were pushed away. With an animalistic roar, he broke the restraints sending the pieces across the room. There was a smile on Shadow Joey face." Congradulations." He literaly flew at Joey, pushing him back.
"Ahhhh." Joey found himself standing back in his room. 'I must have been hallucinating' he thought, after taking in the surroundings. Yet as time passed on Joey felt somewhat different. Emotions that he at one point either had put aside, or never felt before began to surface. As more and more of the emotions surfaced a will to supress them faded, welcoming them instead. Joey's normally dark blond hair, lit ablaze. The Eye of Horus appeared on his forhead. A deep crimson aura appeared around him. Joey's voice took a sinister tone. "You'll pay, Marik. You'll pay with your life what you did."
"Attention all finalists, prepare to disembark, Kaiba Craft 3 for the continuation of the battle city finals." came the call over PA system.
Taking one last look around Joey headed out the door, vengance in mind and on his heart. "Let's see which is Stronger, Marik- your rod or my anger."
No one can see
Anything on the other side of me
I walk I crawl
Losing everything and waiting for a downfall
No one can see
Anything on the other side of me
I walk I crawl
Loosing everything on a downfall
finally updated. sorry about the wait.
as always, R&R