Yu-Gi-Oh!
Duels of the Actillian
Episode Three
Annoyance
Previous from Last Episode
Every student except Kaiba who was still reading his book was very surprised of this. Seto had heard what he said, and frown, he put his bookmark in and closed and sits it down. He then looks to Kyle, and frowns a bit, he was about to interrupt the introduction till his eyes widen upon the third transferred student. His eyes were widening in shock.
Then the third stood forth, and gave a small kind smile, "Hello, my name is-"
"Joseph!" yelled Kaiba as he stood up, instantly catching everyone's attention.
Joey Wheeler though, had thought Kaiba was shouting at him, "I did nothing money bags."
"Not you, him!" Seto said, keeping his sight upon the big guy.
The big guy presumed to be Joseph, was looking at Seto in surprise, while Kyle looked very confused. He's not the only one, every student, Marik and teacher were confused of what's going on.
"How in the heck did you know my name?" he asked, feeling very confused and very surprised.
Seto headed towards him, and stood in front of him. "Joseph Hikari," he said, and when he saw Joseph's eyes widen and head move back in surprise, he smiled and said lastly, "Hello brother."
Episode Three
Annoyance
'How in blazes did Seto knew my fake last name was Hikari?' Joseph thought as he was greatly surprised, than was shocked the moment he heard Seto said lastly.
"Hello brother."
'That's impossible! Completely impossible,' Joseph thought in shock. 'This is either a stupid joke, or there is something very wrong with Kaiba's bloody mind!'
He wasn't the only one shocked; Kyle, Marik, Yugi's gang and Ryou along with all other students were gawking at both Joseph and Seto.
'I need answers!' he thought, he kept his gaze upon Seto. He asked, "Why do you assume I'm your brother? If I was, wouldn't I have been living around here before? Heck for that matter, I never even met you till now. Heck you probably looked up my name before coming here and decide to make a joke on a Canadian like me."
He faintly heard a familiar voice, Yugi Muto, whispered to one of his friends, "I don't think he's joking."
"Joseph, did you forget everything?" asked Seto, sounded very surprised. "Did you forget me and Mokuba?"
"How can I forget you when I never met you," Joseph replied, frowning at Kaiba.
"Eh hem," the teacher cleared her throat, getting their attention. "I'm sure you both can talk about this later, can you."
Joseph nodded to her, avoiding Seto's sight. He mouthed thanks to the teacher without saying it, and then he said, "Like I said, I'm from Canada, and as for hobbies, I'm a collector."
"Good, good," the teacher said with a smile. "Now then, as for where you three will be staying with for the month." She then picks up a paper on the desk to look at the names. "Marik, you will be staying with Ryou Bakura, so please sit beside him." She then indicated where Bakura is by pointing her free hand towards him. Marik heads over and sits down in the desk beside him, and they give a small greeting to each other, a handshake.
Seto reluctantly headed back to his desk, but after he sat, he kept his gaze Joseph.
"As for you two," the teacher continued. "Kyle Pegasus, you're with Seto Kaiba. And Joseph Hikari, you're with Yugi Muto."
Most of the class were surprised to hear this, Yugi and his friends were greatly surprised, they had assumed that Joseph would be with Seto. The one that is mostly surprised was Seto, and he would've demanded but then again, he thought of the big picture. If he gets in trouble, he'll get in detention, and thus he won't get back to his company he owns.
Joseph mouthed to the teacher, "I owe you big time." Then both Joseph and Kyle headed to their desks, Kyle sat down in his desk beside Seto while Joseph sat in his desk beside Yugi. And as he sat there, he took one look at Yugi, and notice one thing odd, 'Where the heck is his puzzle?'
"Now then class, time to continue class, you all can greet each other at lunch. And you three," she indicated to the new students. "Once class is over, please report to the principal." Seeing both Kyle and Joseph nodded, while Marik was a bit surprised, 'Well at least two out of three know what I mean.'
She then clears her throat, "Now class, let's begin with…"
Once class has ended, the three new students left the classroom and headed to the principal's office. Once there, they were given their schedules for the school, and been shown to school regulation clothes, and he had said after that, "You three are to wear these school uniforms while you attend to this school." And so they each were given their uniforms and were to change into them in the restroom.
Once those three arrived into the empty room, Marik instantly turned to Joseph. "You're related to Seto Kaiba?" he asked, still surprised of that.
"No I'm not!" Joseph yelled at him, really annoyed. He then headed into one of the stalls, Kyle headed into another. "He's probably trying to make a joke."
"I don't think Seto has a funny bone in his body," Marik said, he headed into another empty stall. Each of them changes into their new clothes.
"Wait, no funny bone?" asked Kyle, sounded surprised. "Could we trade, I don't do well with serious people. Joseph, how about we make a trade, since you're his long lost brother, after all."
"No way, and I'm not his long lost damn brother!" he yelled at him.
"Sheesh man, I was only kidding," replied Kyle.
"You sure?" asked Marik, "Because you both almost sound alike."
"Oh for crying out loud," Joseph said, sounded very annoyed as his stall door opened and he came out, dressed in his blue school uniform, while the rest of his clothes were put into his black backpack. "Could we please stop talking about it?"
Kyle groaned, "Fine. Hey Marik, noticed you and that Bakura kid, you two already friends?"
"Uh yeah, he and I kinda worked together in Battle City," Marik replied, he didn't really want to talk about it. Then just at the same time, both Kyle and Marik came out, dressed in blue school uniforms. "He and I got into the Battle City finals."
"Him? He looks more of a timid kind of guy," Kyle said, crossing his arms as he looks at Marik. Then he chuckles a bit, "Well there's the saying, don't judge a book by its cover."
"Heh yeah," Marik nodded a bit, than he headed to the door, but noticed Joseph and Kyle weren't following. "Aren't you guys coming?"
"Oh we're coming; we just need one small talk in private. See ya in the lunch room," Kyle replied with a smile.
"Kay, see ya later," then Marik left the room.
The moment he closed the door, Kyle raised his hand, palm outward and towards the door. "Lock," he said, and the sound of a click as the door locked.
"So that's one of your spells huh?" asked Joseph, with his arms crossed as he is looking at Kyle.
Kyle looks a bit tired now, "Yeah, one of few of mine."
'Odd, that was very less detailed, and yet he's tired. His magic must be a little different from mine,' Joseph thought after he noticed the difference. 'Or he hardly practices with his magic.'
"Anyways man," Kyle said, suddenly looked serious. "You should keep that kind of disguise pal, Seto believe you're his long lost brother."
"No way man, there is no way I'm going to allow that," Joseph demanded, really annoyed of this. "Seto is just crazy, or mixed me up with another."
"True, but think of the possibilities," Kyle grinned.
"And what if the real one suddenly appeared," Joseph said in annoyance. "Heck for that matter, how can Seto have a bigger brother? You know his history, right?"
"Yeah, but it's possible that he had a brother before his real parent's accident," Kyle said. "And they didn't say where they came from."
"If so," Joseph said, than he pretty much yelled at Kyle, "but I'm not his brother, so there is no way in hell I will be staying at his place."
"Okay, good to know," Kyle said with his hands in front of him. "But it still could be possible."
"Drop it," Joseph ordered with a glare on Kyle.
"Alright, fine," Kyle relented, backs away a few feet.
"Thank you," Joseph said, calmed down and gave a small smile. Then a thought came to mind, "Are you really pretending to be Maximillion's brother?"
"Well more like step-brother," Kyle replied. "I did arrive into this world before you, and had met with Pegasus. He helps me and I help him in designing some cards. And thus is why I'm so rich." He grins and chuckles a bit.
"You been using his money for everything, and did he really give you that Duellist Kingdom place?" Joseph asked, knowing that the only island that Pegasus has is that place.
"Correct man," Kyle grins, "Pegasus is one rich pal of mine."
Joseph looked a bit worried now, "What do you give him in return?"
"Oh I my artistic talent, ever since I left home with my sketchbook, I made so many pictures of the worlds I been too, and I provide them to Maxi, he like those drawings."
"Sketchbook?" asked Joseph. "Huh, guess that's one difference between us, you use a sketchbook, I use a notebook."
"Ooh, so you're a writer while I'm an artist," Kyle grins.
"Looks like it," Joseph said, making sure his backpack is still on his back.
Then the sounds of a stomach growl from either one of them, Kyle chuckles a bit. "Well, we best go before lunch ends," he said as he goes over to the door and unlocks it.
But when he was about to open it, it slammed opened, slamming Kyle right into the wall while another student rushed in. It was a six feet and three inches tall man with dark brown flat hair and goatee and wearing glasses.
"Excuse me," said the man as he went past Joseph and headed into one of the stalls quickly.
Joseph chuckles a bit as he headed out; "See ya later Kyle."
Slowly the door closes, with Kyle stuck flat against the wall, he groans a bit.
Marik had picked up his lunch in the cafeteria, and found a spot to sit, an empty spot right beside Ryou, who sat at the table with Yugi and the gang. The moment he sat down, he was greeted by the group.
"How ya been Marik?" asked Yugi, giving guy a polite smile.
"Yeah, the last time we saw you were in Egypt last summer. How's your family?" asked Tea.
"Oh they're fine," Marik replied. "My sister is working in the museum here in the city, while Odion is still in Egypt."
"Say man, what's your reason to being transferred to this here school?" asked Joey, feeling curious.
"Well it's mostly because I want to see my sister, but Odion had got me into school since I never been into one," Marik said.
Joey was chowing down on his meal, and after a gulp, "Well hopefully things will be better."
"You can say that again," said Tristan, knowing what his buddy means. Then he noticed at one table closes to the exit of the cafeteria room, "Looks like Seto is waiting for his brother to arrive."
"Speaking of that, how can that be possible?" asked Joey, feeling confused on that.
"Yeah, and we did heard a lot of what Mokuba thinks about Seto, but he never said anything about another brother of his," Tea said, she drank from her bottle of water.
"He's probably trying to make his first joke in front of everyone, guys," Ryou said, than he was thinking, "not a very good joke anyways."
"I doubt he was; have any of you heard Kaiba joke before?" asked Yugi, and many of them either shrugged their shoulders or shook their heads in saying no.
"Kyle did try to trade places with Joseph," Marik said, gaining everyone at this table's attention. "Kyle was worried that Seto is so serious, that he tried to have Joseph to switch places with him, but Joseph refused."
"Can you blame the guy? After all, he did transferred here, probably thought that he was just attend classes. With Seto just calling him brother out of the blue would definitely shock everyone," Tea said right after she finished her meal.
"Yeah, but maybe Kyle would finally make Seto give a good kind a smile once in a while," Joey said, just finished his.
"I kinda doubt that Joey," Tristan spoke to him, gaining his attention. "Seto hates Pegasus, and Kyle is related to Pegasus. How would you feel if you had someone related to a guy you don't like living with you?"
Joey thinks about, than chuckle lightly, "You got a point."
"I don't know about you guys, but I'm glad that he refused to trade places with him," Yugi said, now gaining the whole group's attention.
"Why is that Yugi?" asked Joey.
"There is just something off about Kyle," Yugi said. "He reminds me way too much of Pegasus when he had the millennium eye."
"You mean like he's just playing with everybody till he strikes or something like that?" Tea asked, Yugi nodded, and she said, "But he seems so excited of many things, and…"
Then she stopped when she saw Kyle came into the room, rubbing his nose in pain. He headed over to the counter to get his cafeteria food. Once he got his food, he goes over and sat down with Kaiba at the empty table. It looked like Kaiba was just ignoring him but Kyle kept on talking to him.
"Heh, poor money bags," Joey grins, with that amount of talking would definitely give someone like him a headache. He then turned his attention to Yugi, "So you're happy to have someone who shares a same name as me?" Considering the fact that his name is Joseph too, but everyone calls him Joey.
"Well we could always call you Joey and the other, Joseph, for a while," Tea said. "After all, they're only going to spend time here for a month."
"You know, it's kind of surprising of what Joseph's last name. Hikari, that's a word for light, right?" asked Ryou, and most of them nodded. But then Marik was chuckling quietly with his right hand over his eyes. "That's funny?" asked Ryou, feeling confused.
Marik continues to chuckle a bit; he lowered his hand down so he could look at the group. "It's not that, but well, Kyle was the one who picked me up at the airport, along with Joseph. We talked a bit, and Joseph said he and Seto were Hikari and Yami, except Seto is the Hikari while he's the Yami."
"Strange coincidence," Tea said.
"Why did he say that?" Yugi asked.
"Well, Joseph is a Dragon Lover, just like Joey and Seto," Marik chuckles a bit. "But he uses dark dragons."
"Wait, does he have Red-Eyes?" asked Joey, feeling that he might have a competition on the rights of who is the best duellist with a Red-Eyes Black Dragon.
"Not sure, but he uses three cards of one dark dragon," Marik said. After a minute or two, the group waited to hear what the answer was instead of guessing, Joey was just drinking a bit of water from his bottle. "His dark dragon is Five-Headed Dragon."
The group was very surprised by that, Joey had pretty much squirted the water he was drinking right at Tristan, which right now looks ready to punch Joey for that. But Joey ignored him and was looking at Marik, "He has three Five-Headed Dragons?!"
"Well that's what he said anyways," Marik replied.
"That's it! After school, I'm challenging him to a duel!" Joey said loudly, clearly wanting to duel him.
"Sorry to burst your bubble, Joey, but Joseph said he left his cards at home," Marik said, but instantly covered his ears when Joey shouted.
"WHAT?! What kind of duellist leaves their decks in a place they can't reach it?!"
"Calm down, Joey," Tea said. "He's probably the kind who prefers to keep his focus on school work."
"Actually, he claims that he's the strongest duellist back at his home. But no one would duel him, so he's just a collector," Marik said.
"Oh you got to be kidding me," Joey groaned as he sat back down.
"So he collects cards," Yugi said, remembering that Joseph did say he's a collector in class. "He probably holds a lot of rare cards back at his place in Canada."
"And he didn't bring them with him," Joey groans a bit.
"Well you could always duel Kyle," Ryou said, trying to cheer him up.
"No way, he's more likely going to have a Toon Deck like his brother," Joey said. "He's probably bad as him at the game too." He groans, "The only other duellist would be you, Marik."
"Well too bad for you then, Odion has my deck," Marik said, Joey groans and face planted on the table.
"Looks like it is back to losing against Yugi," Tristan chuckles a bit.
Yugi chuckles light, but started to wonder about something, 'Where is Joseph anyway? Lunch period is going to end in ten minutes.'
"Sometimes you're useless," Joseph groans as he was looking at his open notebook while being on the roof of the school.
He had gone up her just so to be away from everyone, so to be alone, as well as checking his notebook. For a few things, there's hardly anything strange about Kyle. And as for Seto strangeness, what it says in the notebook was: The moment Seto looked upon Joseph, a flash of long forgotten memory came to his mind. The part when said 'memory' basically means that Seto was indeed not lying.
'It's either there is another version of me in this world, or someone is messing around with his memories?' he thought to himself.
He sighed a bit, having a bad feeling for what's ahead in the coming weeks. The thoughts of possible escapes came to mind, he knows he has the Level One armor that is mainly for stealth. And there is the Triforce, splitting into three sci-fi video game warriors would obviously stand out a whole lot in a modern city like this.
'Sometimes I wish I could just teleport out of this,' he thought to himself, than the moment after, a sound of a bell ding came in his head. "Hold the phone, that actually sounds like a very good idea," he said, turning a few pages till he is at a blank page. He then pulls out his pencil, and started to write into it.
After a few seconds, he finished. And what he wrote in his notebook is just a simple spell called Teleport. He written the meaning for it, which says: When Joseph says the word as well as thinking of the location of where he has already been too, he'll instantly teleport to that location in a single second.
There are a few reasons of why he picked for locations he already been too, for one specific reason though. It could be possible that teleporting to a random place would cause massive energy loss, as well as getting trapped in things, that would be dangerous.
Joseph closed his notebook and put it and his pencil into his backpack and closed it and put it on his back. "Now to test it," he said to himself, and looking through the steel fence holes and looking downwards in the front parts of the school.
Considering most of the students are in the lunch room and the main reason why he's not feeling hungry happens to be that he used his magic to make a bowl of noodle soup a while ago. After a bit of looking, seeing the central path whole on either sides are grass areas as well as a few trees.
He looks at one tree, and started to imagine himself standing right beside it. After he got the image in his mind, he said, "Teleport."
In an instant, he vanished from the roof, and reappeared right beside the tree. Once he appeared, he collapsed on his knees with a gasp, his eyes widen as he felt quite an energy loss.
He continues to breathe deeply, like he had run a marathon. "Oh man, I really need to get some of those energy drinks Kyle has," he said to himself, considering the fact that he knows what Diet Coke and other drinks like them are, and yet Kyle did something to them to make him feel so energized, like a sudden boost of energy. Of course it would assume to be the caffeine in the drink, but Joseph had drunk a lot of soda when he was at home, and what Kyle has is definitely different.
After several minutes, he finally could breathe easily. He slowly stood up, and brushed his pants legs to wipe off bits of dirt and grass.
He turns and was about to head into the school so to return to the classroom. But just as he neared the entrance, he noticed in the entrance, two people were arguing.
One man who is seven feet tall brute with flat dark brown hair and dark blue eyes and a weird looking grin, he's covered in blue school uniform. As for the other, is a five feet and ten inches tall slender but a bit muscular girl in pink school uniform with long black hair that goes down to her waist and is in the form of a ponytail, she has light blue eyes.
And then he heard the two talking.
"Come on sweet cheeks, it's simple as that," said the man, it sounds like the lady was saying no to him on something and he won't back down from it.
"No Chad, for the last time I'm not going on a date with you," said the lady, sounded very annoyed. And from the view Joseph has on her, she has a warrior gaze, the kind of gaze that obviously tell that she can defend herself.
Joseph would've ignored them, but he has to go through the entrance in order to head to class, and he doesn't want to risk another energy loss with teleport. So choosing to ignore them, he was about to walk on by them.
"Oh please Ella, I can be quite persuasive when I need too," said Chad, moving closer to her.
"For the last time Chad, no and leave me alone," Ella said, glaring at him.
Chad appears to be not listening to her and was about to say something to her till Joseph decided to intervene. He taps his shoulder left shoulder with his right hand, just as Chad was saying, "Oh come on baby…" Then he felt the tap, and turned to Joseph. "Hey you, get lost, can't you see me and this here pretty lady are trying to have a nice conversation."
"Quite a loud conversation," Joseph said with a frown on his face. "Listen man, when a lady says leave her alone, the right thing to do is to leave her alone."
"Who asked you anyway? You're just some lowlife punk, so get lost or I'll make you get lost," Chad said, now cracking his knuckles.
"At least I'm wise enough to know your threat means nothing," Joseph said, looking very annoyed.
"Oh yeah, then take this!" Chad growled and swung his right fist at Joseph.
Seeing it coming, Joseph dodges the blow. And Chad kept on coming, swinging left and right with his fists, either towards Joseph's gut or head. But Joseph, who was very good in dodge ball back home, dodges each punch and backing several feet till the point he was standing in front of a wall. So when Chad swung his right fist at him, he dodges the blow and Chad had punched right in the wall.
"GAH!" he yells in pain as he holds his sore hand with his free hand.
Joseph now stood four feet away from him, and calmly said, "That was your own fault, next time, think with your head instead with your muscles."
Chad glares and growls at him, "This isn't over pal, just you wait." He turns and ran off, heading away from him.
Once he's out of sight, Joseph headed over to Ella. Once he got to her, he asks, "Are you alright?"
All of a sudden in a flash of pain, he was punched in the gut by Ella.
"Oof!" Joseph groaned and holds his gut in pain, and looked at her. "What was that for?!"
"That is for interfering," Ella said with a glare at him. "I can take care of myself, so next time you want to play the hero, don't." She then walks away, not looking back at him.
Joseph groans a bit, and once he was alone, he used his healing spell, Healing Hand, to heal his very sore gut. "I should've just ignored and walked on, and that Chad guy would have the pain in the gut," Joseph quietly said to himself, and walks off, heading into one of the halls, now heading to class.
After several minutes of walking, he reaches to where the classroom was. But just as he was going in, he saw some of the students coming, no doubt like him, being early and ready for next class. He heads over to the desk that is beside Yugi's desk, sat down and waited.
About ten minutes later, just five minutes before the start of the class, Yugi and his gang along with Marik and Bakura arrived into the classroom. And when they came in, they spotted Joseph sitting at his desk.
"Hey man, what are you doing?" asked Joey as he came over with Yugi, Tristan and Tea, while Marik and Ryou stand nearby. "You're missing lunch; it's just five minutes till class start."
"Already had lunch," Joseph replied, didn't look to them.
"Oh, but where were you?" asked Yugi, he sat down in his desk.
"Roof," Joseph said, he had closed his eyes, remain waiting. "Nice and quiet up there, as well as having a good lunch by myself."
"So you prefer to be by yourself at lunch?" Tea asked.
"At times, yes," Joseph replied, he eventually opened his eyes and turned to them. "Since we still have time before next class officially start. As you all know, I'm Joseph Hikari."
"It's nice to meet you Joseph," Yugi replied as he shook hands with Joseph. "I'm Yugi Muto; of course you already know that thanks to the teacher." Joseph had nodded to that.
"Hi, I'm Tea Gardner," Tea said with a smile.
"Hello, I'm Ryou Bakura," said Ryou as he stood beside Marik, who had already introduced himself long ago.
"I'm Tristan Taylor," said Tristan, nodded a little.
"And I'm Yugi's best bud, Joey Wheeler," Joey grinned a bit. He leans close, "Is it true, you use Five-Headed Dragon, three of them?"
Joseph sighed, "I see Marik had told you. Yes it's true, wish I had my deck with me."
"You sound like a strong duellist if you used three Five-Headed Dragons in a duel," Ryou said, gave a small smile. "But then again, your deck's weakness would be the Dragon Capture Jar."
"Oh I know, and handling those kind of traps are actually quite easy," Joseph nodded. He then sighed, "Oh well, even though I don't have my own deck with me, I could always build a new one."
"That's the spirit, and once you do, I want to face you in a duel," Joey said with a grin.
Joseph grinned as well, "Oh you're on."
Tea chuckled, "Glad to see you're not like your brother."
Joseph had face-slammed on his desk, and groaned a bit, "I am not his damned brother!" He raised and glared at her, "I never even met the guy till I got here."
"Well maybe he mistaken you for another, that could be possible," Joey wheeler said right after he sat down in his seat that is in front of Yugi's desk and turned around to look at them both.
"That's always possible, close to 100% that he got the wrong guy," Joseph said, trying to make that clear.
"But he did guess your name right," Tristan said.
"He could very well have looked it up and decided to troll a new student, a lot of rich people tend to do that," Joseph said after.
"Like Pegasus," Yugi replied, nodded at that.
"Never met the guy, but I have a feeling he's the biggest troll of all," Joseph said, he crossed his arms.
"Oh you got that right," Tristan uttered.
"He never takes his duels serious," Joey continued after. "So what about Kyle, is he like his brother?" He's hoping he'll get info from Joseph, thinking he might know.
"I have no idea," Joseph said as he shrugged his shoulders; "Only met him this morning."
"Dang," Joey said, "he's a mystery then."
"Joseph!" yelled a familiar voice, causing the group to turn to look at the exit of the room. Seto Kaiba and Kyle Pegasus came into the room; Kyle seems to have his mouth taped shut, probably Kaiba got sick of Kyle talking so much. While Seto looked ticked, probably because Joseph avoided him and had manage to evade him and the break time is nearing its end.
He came and stood by, looking down at both Yugi and Joseph, considering they're sitting down.
"Oh lay off money bags," Joey said loudly. "He claims he's not your brother, you got the wrong guy."
"Silence mutt!" Seto told him, making Joey angry now. "This doesn't concern you," he focus his gaze on Joseph, "you and I are going to have a talk after school." With the sense of finality of the talk, he headed to his desk and sat down.
"Annoying and disrespectful," Joseph said, sounded annoyed. He turns to Joey, "Does he call you that all the time?"
"Yeah," Joey said, still glaring at Kaiba.
Kyle still stood nearby, with his mouth taped shut. Tristan asked, "Why are you like that?"
Kyle pointed at Seto, who now brought out his book to read.
Marik laughed a bit, "Well you were talking a lot, and maybe you can be quiet for a while." Kyle's right eye twitches a bit.
"Hmph," he said, he then pulled out something from his pocket, and he holds a small package to Joseph.
He takes it, "Hm, what's this?" He looks at it, and sees on the side had very tiny letters. He read it in thought; 'Open this when you're alone.'
Kyle only chuckled with his mouth shut, and headed to his seat beside Kaiba.
"Well come on man, open it," Joey asked, very curious of what's inside.
"Best not now, class is about to start," Yugi said, had saw the time on the clock.
Joseph reaches for his backpack that is beside his left leg on the floor, brought it up, open it and put the package into it. Just as the sound of the school bell go off, and then later the teacher came into the classroom just as all the students return to their proper seating.
"Now class, it's time for…why is your mouth taped shut, mister Pegasus?" asked the teacher the moment she had stood behind her desk and saw one of her new students with his mouth taped shut.
Kyle grumbled and pointed at Seto in annoyance, the teacher sighed, "Please remove the tape."
Kyle was about to till Seto reached and pulled it off, hard. Feeling pain the moment it ripped off, Kyle had clenched his mouth shut and he would've shouted in pain.
"Now class, let's begin with…" the teacher started her class.
Hours later, as the school day ended with the final bell ring. All the students were beginning to leave, and heading out the front entrance. Joseph remains with the group, while Marik and Ryou had left already. Yugi stood by Joseph and Tea while Joey and Tristan were getting their shoes on.
"Um, could we run before Seto arrives?" asked Joseph, quite eager to be away from Seto.
"And leave us to deal with him, no way," Joey said in annoyance. He and Tristan had got on his shoes, "Now we can go." Then all five of them leave.
"So Yugi, how far is your home exactly?" Joseph asked as he looks at the small boy. Considering right now, he's walking with the group, just walking beside Tristan while Yugi seems to be in the center of his three friends.
"Oh it is quite far, just follow us," Joey replied instead of Yugi answering.
"Alright," Joseph shrugged, considering for the next few weeks, he is to stay with Yugi. Even as they go, Joseph was already thinking up of some ideas on how to get to India, since he needs to go there. Then there is one mystery that he needs to know, why is Yugi not wearing his millennium puzzle?
"Hold it right there!" said yet a familiar voice that Joseph has now come to despise to hear. He turned slightly and so did the gang as they see Seto and Kyle coming over. "You're not getting away this time, Joseph."
Joseph groans and looked annoyed at him, "Kaiba, I'm not your brother, why can't you get that through your head?"
"Joseph, have you really forgotten about me and Mokuba?" Seto asked, remain looking serious as he looks at Joseph. While Kyle go and stood by the gang, and all of them watched.
"I'm not a Kaiba, I'm a Hikari, we're not related," Joseph said, still looking annoyed. "And by fact that I was born in Canada, not in Japan, now that's a big difference."
"But you never did had Hikari as a last name till you were adopted," Seto said, trying to get things through.
That felt like a big insult, most children don't like to hear the idea they were adopted. Joseph glared right at Seto, "You have one big mouth for such stupidity, and you're supposed to be brilliant, not stupid. Get your facts straight Kaiba, I am not your adopted brother!" He glares at Seto with clench teeth and fists, liked he's ready to beat the crud out of Kaiba.
Seto did not looked threaten, in fact he looked a bit sad, a bit. Seto then said, "You did forget…"
"I did not forget anything, how can I forget when I don't even know you?" Joseph asked; manage to calm down a little.
Seto had closed his eyes and was thinking, than when he opened his eyes, he looked very serious when he said, "If words can't get through to you, than we will duel!"
Joseph's right eye begun to twitch several times, he asks, "Why should I duel you? When you're spouting such nonsense!"
As they talked, Tea quietly whispered to Yugi and her friends, "Say, doesn't this remind you of something?"
"No, what?" asked Joey.
"Like when Atem, Yugi, Ishizu and all the other times trying to convince Kaiba that he had a past self from ancient Egypt," Tea said, now that got their attention. But also Kyle's attention, which he looked first surprised, than slightly confused.
"Who's Atem?" asked Kyle, looking at them.
That got them a bit sweating, and Yugi quietly said, "He was my brother, but he's…" He sounded sad.
"Oh, I'm very sorry to hear that," Kyle said, gave a slight bow, this time he's not smiling.
"He left last summer," Tristan said, he, Joey and Tea were sad as well of the memory.
Then they heard what Kaiba had just said to Joseph and what he said back. Seto looked a bit annoyed now, "We shall duel tomorrow, and I suggest you make your new deck today." He then turned and walks away, heading to a limo that is waiting for him. "Come along Kyle, now!"
Kyle sweated a bit and looked to the group, "Wish me luck." He then goes and joins Seto into the limo. Once the door closes, the limo drove off.
Joseph was still miffed, he is breathing deeply, till he eventually calmed down when he said, "I need a pizza."
"Good, let's go pick up a pizza first, then we'll head over to Yugi's place," Joey said, he likes the taste of pizza as well.
Joseph smiled, "Sounds like a plan." Joey and Tristan grinned, the taste of pizza would make anyone happy, the idea of going to get one right now sounds like a good thing.
Tea groaned as she pinched her nose, "Oh great, not another one. Two is bad enough…I need some female friends."
Yugi quietly chuckled, he could tell that Joseph is going to be liked by his friends and in a way, and he almost likes Joey. While the other side of Joseph also reminded Yugi a bit of Seto Kaiba; then the thought of Joseph is like part Joey and part Seto, he chuckled mentally.
The group started walking onward, with Joseph, Tristan, and Joey walking ahead, but Joseph mainly following the two, while Yugi and Tea follow behind.
But as Joseph goes, he started to think a bit. During his argument with Seto, he had faintly heard the word Atem from one of them. He started to think of what characters that exist in this world that has that name, and eventually he remembered.
He instantly stopped with his eyes widen, and he thought to himself while Yugi and his friends had notice something wrong.
"Hey what's the matter pal?" asked Joey Wheeler, Joseph didn't replied.
'Atem, the name of the nameless pharaoh that no one isn't supposed to know;' Joseph thought to him, slowly the unanswered questions he had been suddenly begun to answer. 'And after discovery of his name, they headed off to send Pharaoh to his resting place. That could explain why Yugi does not have his puzzle…'
"Hello, Joseph, you in there?" asked Tristan, waving his right hand in front of his face.
"Is there something the matter?" asked Tea.
'…this all happened in the end of the first series of YuGiOh and goes onto GX with a new cast,' Joseph continue to think, furthering shocking himself, his head suddenly gave a small vibration. 'This means the temple in India…'
"Hey come on, snap out of it man!" Joey said, sounded a bit surprised, considering they're seeing Joe's entire head twitching or vibrating several times.
"What's wrong Joseph?" asked Yugi, trying to figure out why the new student looked very shocked.
'…the pyramid of Alexander is long destroyed after what happened,' Joseph thought to himself, he started to feel dizzy. 'The portal to the Capsule Monster world is gone, thus dimensional rift in there is sealed. I can't get to it…' With that last thought, his eyes rolled upward into his sockets as well as his eyelids closes as he fainted.
Now that's shocking, is it really impossible for him to get to the dimensional rift? Is he really Seto's brother, or is he not? And how will he duel without his deck for tomorrow? Find out next time in… YuGiOh! Duels of the Actillian! See ya next time!