Chapter 3! And I want to thank all of my reviewers who review, fav and watch for updates on this story! And I especially want to thank Autobot00001 for outlining the story for me, I appreciate everything you did and I thank you all from the bottom of my heart.

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It was morning in the town of Haiku, everyone was up and was getting started on their day, shops were opening, the people were heading to work and the kids were getting ready for school. It was near the end of June and Summer had already begun.

In a house in a quiet neighborhood, Serenity was getting dressed, fitting into her school uniform that contrasted a white T-shirt and a green checkered skirt the reached her knee's as the sun shined in her room. She sits on her bed as she puts on her long socks and shoes, she then grabbed a hair brush as she started to brush her long Auburn hair, and ended up tying it up in a high ponytail. A few minutes later she washed her face and brushed her teeth and grabbed her school suitcase and went downstairs.

When Serenity headed to the kitchen, she finds her mother, Lynn Jacobs, sitting at the table drinking tea and having toast. Lynn was wearing a pale yellow shirt with dullard yellow skirt, her short Auburn hair was curly as always and was starting to grey from age, her olive eyes similar to her daughter's was watching television.

"Morning, mom." Serenity says to her as she reached the kitchen.

Lynn looks up and see's her daughter, giving a gentle smile, "Good morning, dear. Would you like anything for breakfast?" she asked.

Serenity shook her head and smiled, "No thanks, I gotta get to school, but I'll eat something there."

"Are you sure?" Lynn asked, "today is exams, if you don't eat something now you might not have the energy to focus. You're already finishing your first year of high school you know."

Serenity was finishing her first year of high school and she was already finishing exams. She was at the top of her classes and made the honor roll in her first year, she was considered a prodigy and the teachers saw promise in the young girl.

Serenity smiles, "Alright, I'll eat something now," Serenity takes a piece of bread and eats bits of it.

Lynn smiled, "Alright. Run along now. Good luck on the exams."

Serenity headed to the door,"Thanks mom! Love you!" and Serenity left.

After Serenity leaves, Lynn returns her attention to the television.

At Domino Hospital, Yugi is on his cellphone with Téa as he stood in front of Joey's room as his friend was asleep. She saw the news at New York and immediately called Yugi. Yugi knew Tea would panic so he tried to calm her down as much as he could, but knowing Tea's fiery personality it would be a challenge.

"How is he, Yugi?" Tea asked worryingly on the other line.

Yugi had an equally worried expression, "The doctor says he's stable for now, but they won't know if there'll be any improvement unless he wakes up."

Téa was breathing heavily, "I still can't believe this happened. I leave Domino for a week and Joey ends up getting hurt. What's next, a piano will drop on Tristan?"

Yugi chuckled a bit from the last statement, "It'll be fine, Téa. Joey's tough, and no matter how bad things get for him, he's always been able to pull through because he never gives up."

Téa sighs, "I hope you're right, Yugi. Things wouldn't be the same without him, especially after everything we've been through together."

Yugi smiles and nods, "I know. I'll let you know if he improves any."

Téa, while Yugi can't see it, smiled on the phone, "Thanks Yugi. Also, did you see on the news after Joey was sent to the hospital?"

Yugi blinked, "Huh? What do you mean?"

"Apparently, around the same time Joey was admitted to the hospital, Red Eyes Black Dragon appeared and started flying across Domino."

Yugi was startled and shocked, "Red Eyes Black dragon!? In Domino!?"

Tea contined, "Yeah, you mean you didn't see it? I saw it on the news and everyone was freaking out. Everyone was running as it flew in the sky roaring."

Yugi blinked and was still in shock, "I never saw it, I was at the hospital with Tristan to see Joey. I didn't even know about this until now! Do you know where Red Eyes is now?"

"I don't know, looks like it disappeared after last night. I haven't seen news of it since. But you and Tristan be on the look out for it, alright...be careful."

Yugi got his composure back and nodded and smiled, "Thanks, Téa. Good luck on your dance recital."

"And good luck getting into Tech school."

As Yugi hung up and sat down. While he missed Tea and was worried about Joey, something else was on his mind, Tea said the Red Eyes Black Dragon appeared in Domino last night. While he wouldn't be that surprised anymore since he experienced such things before, this was unbelievable. When Atem left he thought it was the end of the wild adventures with the supernatural, but when Aigami and his sister Sera came when Seto tried to bring Atem back to duel him once more that expectation went out the window quickly.

Even with Atem gone, it was like Yugi said when Atem left for the afterlife, his own story was about to begin.

Tristan came around the corner to find Yugi on the chair.

"How'd she take it?" he asked him.

Yugi looks at Tristan with a bit of exhaustion, "As well as you'd expect."

Tristan closes his eyes and sighs, "No surprise. Hopefully she won't worry to much, she has a recital coming up." Tristan opens his eyes.

Yugi nodded in agreement, "Yeah...Tristan...did you know anything that happened last night?"

Tristan tilted his head, "What do you mean?"

Yugi wasn't sure what to say, while he wanted to ask if he knew about Red Eyes being in Domino, he knew Tristan was worried for Joey to much to worry about anything else. So Yugi shook his head, "It's nothing, forget that I said anything."

Tristan blinked again, but then shrugged, "If you say so."

Yugi stands up and looks at Tristan, "Tristan, I just realized something."

"What's that, Yug'?"

"We haven't heard anything from Serenity, so it's safe to say she doesn't know about this yet."

Tristan realizes this to. Serenity hasn't called about Joey yet. Tristan knew immediately Serenity has no idea what was happening since she would have came down in a heart beat of she knew, "Oh man you're right! She's gonna be devastated when she finds out. And when she finds out about her dad..."

Yugi nods sadly,"Yeah, but if she's gonna find out about this, it's best that she finds out from someone she trusts. Joey is going to need her now more than ever."

Tristan blinks and starts to point at himself, "Wait? You want me to call her?"

"She's known you longer than me and she trusts you, so it'd be better if you told her."

Tristan wasn't sure what to say. While he was actually ecstatic about talking to Serenity, it would be hard for him due to the circumstances of the call and how the poor girl will react.

Still, Tristan looks at Yugi and smiles, "Alright Yug, I'll call sometime today and let her know."

Yugi smiles, "Good. Thanks Tristan."

Suddenly, Yugi's phone rings again. He had to leave for a moment since it was the Dean of the Tech college wanting to discuss about the classes Yugi will take next week. Yugi is to leave for college tomorrow from the Domino train station as the Tech college was forty miles away from the city, and Yugi knew he will have to pack his things by tonight.

Tristan smiles as Yugi was already making plans for his future, but his smile fades as he looks over at Joey in his hospital bed, wondering if Joey will even have a future.

"...Joey..."

Joey wakes up as usual. He was in his boxers and brief's and yawns as he stretches, he groggily looks around and groans, "What happened last night?"

Joey realizes that he was back in his and Tristan's apartment. He instantly became confused, "Wait, how'd I get home?" Joey looks down and saw what he was wearing, "And what happened to my clothes?" with that last question he made a mental note to punch Tristan for stripping him if he did it. He went to his closet and got a pair of clothes and put his shoes on. A few minutes later, Joey walks out of the apartment building and onto the street, but Joey became disturbed when he saw that no one was out.

Not the people walking to work, the kids heading to school, or any dogs barking or birds chirping or cars honking. Everything was dead silent. Joey blinked and looked around, "Okay, this is freaky."

Joey walked down the street to find anyone, he felt great feeling of Deja vu as he remembered Aigami doing a trick like this and nearly erased him from existence. He was praying history wasn't repeating itself.

Suddenly, he see's someone up ahead. It was a figure wearing a black cloak, Joey at first was suspicious, but he wanted to know what was going on so he had no choice.

Joey yells out to the person as he ran, "Hey!" when he caught up to the figure, he was catching his breath, "Pardon me, Do you have any idea what's going on here?"

"...You might say that." The figure spoke, it was a female voice.

Joey looks around, "Where is everyone? It's like a ghost town here. And I can't find my friends either, did something happen?"

"...Something is coming my boy...and I'll see to it that you cannot stop it."

Joey blinked, "Huh?"

Suddenly, the woman turns around and grabs Joey by the throat and begins to choke him. Then by Joey's surprise she lifted him, her hood falling off her head and he saw her face. She had light red curly hair, with fair skin and blue eyes and wore red lipstick. She smirked at Joey as he gagged for air.

"Hey! What the!?" Joey tried to say but he was losing air quickly.

The woman smirked more, "I've been waiting a long time for this. At first I thought it would be difficult knowing how stubborn you are, Joseph. But seeing how that man took care of you physically, circumstances have changed dramatically and this makes this all more easy for me to destroy spiritually. Now the prophecy cannot be fulfilled if the warrior dies...goodbye, Joseph Wheeler."

Joey didn't know what to do. Who was this woman? What was she talking about a prophecy? Warrior? All the questions running through his head, but it didn't matter, he was certain he was done for. He was going to die.

A loud roar rumbled in the city, the woman looks the other way and was wide-eyed in shock. Suddenly a blast of fire headed her direction and screamed as it hit her. Joey falls onto his back, and when he looked up, the woman disappeared.

Joey was beyond confused, "Wha…what just happened?!" he stuttered.

Joey heard the loud roar again. He looks up and to his shock, sees the Red-Eyes Black Dragon flying overhead as it looks at Joey.

"Red-Eyes?!" Joey exclaimed.

As Joey stood up, Red-Eyes starts to fly off, but it looks back at Joey as it does so.

Joey tilted his head, "Okay. Something tells me he wants me to follow it." he groans and holds his head, "Why does everything always happen to me?!"

He starts to follow the dragon.

Tristan is walking down the sidewalk of the busy city. He was in a grim mood because of everything that's happened, first Joey getting hurt by his drunk dad, and now having to tell Serenity the truth of what happened to Joey. And what made it harder for Tristan is that that maybe this time Joey won't survive his dad's attack.

For as long as he could remember, when Joey and Tristan were in Middle school Joey told him how his dad drank and sometimes get violent with him and how he puts him in debt from gambling, leaving Joey no choice but to get a few jobs since his dad wouldn't. Tristan at times would beg Joey to call CPS or his mom for help if Jordan wouldn't get a job or care for Joey, but Joey always refused saying he could care for himself and how his dad needed him.

This time what Tristan feared what would happen to Joey if he didn't leave his dad happened. And Joey might pay for it with his life.

Tristan was lost in his thoughts, "How am I gonna tell Serenity about this? Joey's her big brother and hero! If he doesn't pull through, she might…"

Tristan started to remember the Auburn haired Wheeler. When Tristan saw her picture for the first time, he thought she was an angel, since then he started to develop a crush on his best friends sister. When Tristan met her for the first time after her surgery, she made him like her even more, to the point where he fell in love with her and started telling lies to impress her. Of course when she called him her friend, he was devastated that he was still in the friend zone, and when Duke started showing interest in Serenity it made things worse.

However, as he got to know her he saw that the often shy and timid girl was more Wheeler than he thought. From her humor to her outgoing persona when she got used to the new people around her, when she left to go home he felt sad as he enjoyed Serenity's company.

He started to remember her smile, and that made him change his mind, "I can't think of what could happen. Yugi's right, Serenity deserves to know about this." He says out loud.

Suddenly, Tristan bumps into someone and he stumbled back.

"Hey! Watch where you're going!" A man said angrily at Tristan.

Tristan brushes himself and immediately started apologizing, "Sorry, sir! I wasn't paying attention, I-"

Tristan froze when he saw the man. It was none other than his father, Troy Taylor, he was in his mid forties, wore a green over-shirt with a white T-shirt underneath and a pair of jeans. Like Tristan, he had brown eyes and his hair was pointed like his, however he was graying himself and the years were catching up to him.

Tristan blinked a few times, "Dad?!"

Troy glared at his son, "Well, what do we have here? Playing hooky again, son. I know you just quit the factory but even this is beneath you. But then again this is what you did in high school with your friends, and in Middle school to. Doing nothing but wasting time and not what you should be doing."

Tristan returns the glare, "That's not funny, dad! I told you I didn't want to work in the factory! You forced me to work there after High school and I hated it! I don't want to spend the rest of my life working in a dark room fixing and pouring stuff like you did!"

"Hey! I'll have you know working in the factory is a family tradition! My great grandfather worked in the factory, then my grandpa, then my dad and me! And you dared to destroy that tradition that's lasted four generations!" his father hissed viciously.

"Have you even thought that maybe I never wanted to work there!?" Tristan exclaimed harshly, "Have you ever thought about asking what I wanted!? I probably wanted to go to college or have a different job that I wanted! What you may be doing is tradition and times change, dad, and you need to accept that!"

Troy clenched his fists, "You sound just like your brother and sister! Kevin said the exact same thing when he left to do his fruity theater thing, and Rachel when she left to marry that man and had that child, Johji, when she could have married that rich man I introduced to her to!"

"And you disowned them, like you did me." Tristan hissed.

"Damn right I did!" Troy exclaimed in anger, "I wasn't going to let failures carry on the Taylor legacy! And you, my youngest son, have tarnished the Taylor name!"

Tristan growled, this wasn't the first time Troy called Tristan a failure. He called him and his brother and sister that for years, and it always got to him until Middle school when he met Joey and he started to realize his father was just a miserable man who would never be happy with anything.

Tristan scoffed, "Whatever, you disowned me when I quit my job at the factory. There's no point fighting you anymore, I'm a stranger to you just as you are to me. I already started my career as a mechanic and you can't ruin that for me. We're done."

As Tristan started to walk away, Troy scoffed, "Right...by the way, I heard about what happened to you friend, Joey."

Tristan stopped at his tracks, but he didn't look back, "...Yeah, so what?"

"Nothing...I just knew Jordan would do something like this eventually, that man was ruined when he had kids...when he met her and she took everything from him and ruined his life and made him into the broken man he is."

Tristan blinked, "Met who?"

Troy looked at Tristan, "That should be obvious to you, moron. And just remember I was thinking about your future when I gave you that job at the factory! And mark my words you will regret rejecting it and me!"

Troy walked away, while cursing at people to move out of his way while Tristan just glared at his father. Tristan knew he wasn't thinking of him, but only of himself, he was always this selfish man ever since he could remember, especially when he disowned his older brother and sister. Tristan wondered how his mother put up with him for so long, but Tristan didn't care anymore, this was his life and he will decide for himself what he wants.

Tristan walked down the street.

In the outskirts of Domino city, down the dirt path, was an abandoned house. It was aged and had holes and creaking wood going back and forth from the wind, it was brown but became grey and dull due to the unkind years it suffered.

Inside the house, however, was a different story.

The house inside was clean and brand new, the walls were painted a royal blue and the wooden floors were shiny with a red carpet. Vases and antiques surrounded the house along with old paintings. In the red living room was a fire place that was going, crimson flames dancing, and a dark brown sofa chair, with a woman sitting on it.

She was wearing a red dress a pair of black high heel shoes, white pearls around her pale neck as she sipped on wine from her glass.

Suddenly, the door opened and frantic footsteps were heading to the living room. Three cloaked figures came in and they all bowed to the woman.

"Mother! The Red-Eyes Black Dragon has appeared last night in the city!" The middle figure says with excitement.

"I know." the woman says calmly.

The cloaked figure on the right spoke next, "And Joey Wheeler is now in stable condition, but we don't know if he'll recover. But now that Red Eyes has returned we don't have much time to waste!"

The woman began to chuckle. She sat her wine down and stood up, she had bright red hair and blue eyes with red lips, she went over to her sons, "My sons, while you are right that the Red Eyes is returning, you have much to learn."

The men looked at each other in confusion, "What do you mean mother?" The cloaked man on the left asked.

"That wasn't the true Red Eyes black dragon everyone saw last night, it was simply a Ka, Red Eyes spiritual power that stayed with Joseph when it left. The real Red-Eyes Black Dragon will be coming soon, once it learns its companion has been injured. However when I tried to kill Joseph in his coma the Ka stopped me, I wanted to make things easier for our plans by eliminating the warrior. But it seems fate has other plans."

"No need for that mother," the man on the left proclaimed, "It would be boring to defeat them at their most vulnerable moment. We want to give them a chance to fight us...like in ancient times."

The three men stood up and removed their cloaks. The middle man had bright red hair like his mother but had brown eyes, he was tall and muscular with scars on his body and he wore a black armor. The man on the right had dark brown hair and had blue eyes like his mother and was wearing red armor with a dragon on it. The man on the right had light blonde hair and green eyes with an unsettling smirk that would make anyone's skin crawl.

The woman smiles warmly as she pets her sons, "You three always were sportsmen," she looks at the middle man, "Dub," then the right man, "Dother," and she smiles a bit more at the left man, "And my Dian."

Dub spoke up, "When do you think the Red Eyes will learn of Joey's condition mother? Since the incident nothing else has happened, it has almost been twenty-four hours and it still hasn't arrived except the Ka."

"Apparently the information has yet to reach the dragon so far...but it will soon. It's only a matter of time. The Ka was crying for it, trying to tell it that Joseph is in trouble."

Their mother goes to get three wine glasses and pours the wine into them and hands them to her sons."

"But the day we've been waiting centuries for is upon us, and soon we shall have our revenge. Once the true Red-Eyes vessel has returned, their powers will activate, and we can begin the ritual." she explains.

"To power!" Dub proclaims.

"To victory!" Dother declares.

"To war!" Dian exclaims.

"To revenge." Their mother announces.

They clink their glasses together.

Serenity was sitting in the cafeteria waiting for school to end. She had finished the last of her exams and is now waiting for the bell to ring to begin her Summer vacation. She has so much planned, she thought about spending the Summer with Joey and visit Domino, they haven't seen each other since the airport and the last time they spoke was on the phone making plans for the Summer.

Of course she had to ask her mother first. While she was grateful Joey won the prize money that paid for Serenity's operation, Serenity knew there was still tension between them. Not that Serenity could blame Joey since their mother left him, but she hoped that for her sake her mom and Joey can be civil with each other in that discussion.

Then, her friend, Missy, stumbles into the cafeteria and sits down and sighs, "Ugh! I'm glad it's over, finally!"

Missy had might brown hair that was in a pony tail, slightly tanned skin, she had large dark green eyes and wore the same uniform as Serenity.

Serenity turns her head and smiles, "How did it go, Missy?"

Missy turns her head, "I just want to pass, that's all," then she perks up and smiles at Serenity, "Have you heard anything from your brother? Did your mom give the go ahead to see him in the Summer?"

Serenity shakes her head, "Not yet, but I hope he's okay. I haven't heard anything from him since I called him last month, and I didn't tell mom yet since she is busy and about Thomas."

Missy blinks, "What? your mom's boyfriend Thomas?"

"Yeah," Serenity answers, "And he's not her boyfriend anymore, he actually proposed to her last week."

Missy's eyes widened, "Shut up! Your mom is getting married!? Serenity that's great!"

Serenity ushered Missy to lower her voice, "Missy, keep it down!" and Serenity smiles, "Yeah, I'm happy for mom, she hasn't really been with anyone since the divorce, and Thomas is a very nice man."

Missy became excited and claps her hands slightly, "Now you can have a dad who has a big heart! Things really are looking up!"

Over the intercom, there was a beep and the principal's voice boomed from it.

"Serenity Wheeler, please come to the principal's office, you have a call."

Serenity and Missy were confused, but after she says her goodbyes to Missy she left to go to the office. When she entered she saw the middle aged principal as he looked up at her.

Serenity looked at him in confusion, "You wanted to see me, sir?" she asked.

Principal hands her the phone, "You have a call on line 1, Serenity." he told her.

Even more confused, Serenity took the phone and spoke into it.

"Hello?"

"Serenity? It's Tristan."

Serenity was wide-eyed when she heard Tristan's voice, "Tristan? Why are you calling me when I'm at school?"

Tristan spoke again, "Believe me, it's the last thing I wanted to do, but this was the only way I could get a hold of you."

Serenity noticed the distress in Tristan's voice. Worried, she asked him, "Is everything okay? You don't sound well."

Tristan was silent for a moment, then he spoke again, "No. I wish I didn't have to tell you this, Serenity…Joey's in the hospital in a coma."

Serenity felt her heart reach her throat when Tristan said those words,"...What!?" she says in a silent but raspy voice as her eyes widened and her hand began to shake.

Tristan continued, "And your dad might've been the one who put him there. The police have him in custody and Joey's condition is all over the news, I want to know if you can come down and be there for him?...Serenity? Serenity? Hello?"

"Serenity! Wait! come back!" the principal called out to Serenity as she ran out of the school.

End of chapter three.

Now Serenity knows Joey is in trouble. What will happen next?