What the hell are they talking?

Joey pressed his eyes closed but he could still see the blinding light that was changing in intensity and colour. It was like all the multi coloured sparks had turned into one giant one and he was in the middle. The duel disk that was obviously broken felt so hot that he was sure it would catch fire any second and for a few moments he believed that this would be his end.

With all the light and the heat he didn't even notice how the ground seemed to disappear from under his feet. All he could feel was the heat and all he could see was the blinding multi coloured light while he screamed for help until everything turned dark and his consciousness faded away.

Slowly, after a long time, he could hear voices through the dark but didn't get the meaning at all. He heared births and nothing thar even remotly resembled the thunderous strom that had been on. But before he could wonder why Yugi hadn't helped him if he was knocked out long enough for the storm to pass he noticed that there were a few more changes in his surroundings. He was lying on warm sand instead of the hard street he should be on and the city smells were replaced by the smell of flowers.

Slowly he opened his eyes just to close them again, wishing that this was just a bad dream and by the time he opened them again everything would be right back to normal. He slowly tried to open them just to be disappointed. NOt by the blinding sun that was promising some hell of a good weather but by the fact that the 6 guys who all were holding the pointy part of a spear at him were still there. "Hey guys." He said, trying to sound as innocent as he could.

One of them grabbed the back of his coat and pulled him up. "Hey, go easy. Jeez, if ya want me to get up, just ask me." Joey took a look around wondering since when he had enough fantasy to dream up such a strange place. He saw flowers he had never seen before and in between ways and some ponds with big fishes in them. There also was a lot of sand that looked a lot like desert sand. And then he noticed something else. "Hey Atemu, how are ya doing?" But to his surprise he had much more imagination as he had thought possible. Because those spear guys started to talk in a strange language. After listening to the words he didn't understand, he looked confused. He saw someone come out of a huge and nice looking building and knew that this dream would soon turn into a nightmare. None other than Seto Kaiba walked out. Like Atemu's skin his was much more thane and his clothing a far cry from his typical stuff but Joey had already noticed all the Egyptian resemblances and wasn't surprised by that anymore.

Kaiba wasn't the only one to walk out. Ishizu was fallowing him on the foot. Both of them, as well as Atemu, had their Millenniums items with them. "And here I thought the fucking shadow game nightmares had stopped." Joey mumbled while watching the Egyptian Kaiba and the Egyptian Ishizu walk over to the Pharaoh. Joey saw her use her item before looking at him in confusion and whatever she said next wasn't something Kaiba liked. He looked upset and started to argue with the Pharaoh. Even though he didn't understand the words it was obvious to Joey that Kaiba tried to be polite but his face showed his displeasure. It felt like hours before they seemed to get to an agreement. Joey's stomach had grumbled a few times. During the first time the Pharaoh and the other two had looked over to him but after that they simply ignored the sound. "What a pal." Joey mumbled upset without even getting attention from anyone other than the guards who poked him a little with their spears. "Could you at least get me some grub?"

After the discussion had ended Kaiba walked over saying something that made the guards remove the spears. He said something else, walked away two steps, just to turn and make a gesture that clearly meant that he wanted Joey to follow. "Like hell, I'll just follow ya just so ya can torture me." Joey mumbled. Kaiba walked back to him and said a few words very slowly while making one gesture with each of them. First he pointed at Joey then to the floor before pointing at Joey again and then letting a finger glide along his own throat it clearly meant that if Joey stayed he was dead. After waiting to see on Joey's face that he understood, he started the next sentence. This time he first started to point at Joey then towards himself before moving his fingers like walking legs and then he moved his hands like he held something in it and moved it to his mouth, pretending to take a bite out of the imaginary food. Joey thought for a moment, he had a choice between dying or getting some food. The obvious choice was food, but unfortunately that one also meant spending time with Kaiba. Still he walked a step closer and as soon as he turned to walk into the palace Joey followed.

There were statues along the rather narrow way to the room Kaiba was leading him to. The room itself was big and with gold at some places. The bed was huge, a half circle covered with cushions against the wall on the opposite side of the entrance that was nothing but a whole in the wall covered with a curtain. On a table close to the bed were fruits and Kaiba gestured at them. Joey slowly walked towards them and eyed them suspiciously but in the end his empty stomach won and he ate something from the plate, not knowing what it was. He sat down on the bed while eating some more of the food until some fabric was thrown his way. Joey eyed it suspiciously before picking it up to examine it. It was just an rectangle piece of fabric. Joey looked at Kaiba questioningly and he just pulled at the fabric of his skirt like thing, that Joey thought looked ridiculously girly, and then pulled on Joey's jacket, trying to get him out of it. "Get your freaking paws off me." Joey screamed while moving away and throwing the fabric back at Kaiba.

He saw Kaiba giving a sigh and sitting down on the bed next to the space where Joey had been before, which he now patted clearly signalling Joey to sit back down. But he rather had to stand than sit next to Kaiba. And so he watched him until Kaiba tried to communicate with him again. He pointed at himself and said "Seth"

"Ya know who I am and now quit the gibberish." Joey simply said, wondering since when Seto Kaiba couldn't even pronounce his own name right.

"Seth." Kaiba said once more pointing at himself before pointing questioningly at Joey.

"I got it already." Joey said before pointing at himself, saying "Joey." While thinking Great now were in Tarzan and Jane or what? For a while it was quiet and Joey decided to sit down again. It was unbelievably hot in that room and he was sweating like mad. Even sitting was getting too exhausting after a while and so he let himself drop backwards lying on the bed. "Why is it so hot?" He asked, whiping the sweat off his face.

Joey felt Kaiba moving next to him and the jerk held up the fabric looking thing at him questioningly. "No way." Joey said but got out of his jacket. It was way too hot for the warm clothing he had put on for the cold and wet weather he had been running through to Yugi. Kaiba watched him, still holding the fabric up for him. Joey decided to grab it just to throw it away to make the massage clear while he said "NO" Kaiba simply gave a sigh before he stood up to walk over to a flagon that was filled with water and he poured some of it into a bowl. Then he started to undress himself. "What the hell are you doing?" Joey nearly screamed. This was more than freaky. The strange Kaiba turned around with an amused look on his face before he washed himself right in front of Joey. The only upside was that he had still a bit of fabric around his waist. And even so Joey didn't want to admit it, he did enjoy the view. It was just the feeling he got from watching him that sort of crept him out. After Kaiba was done, he walked with his still half naked body to the fabric Joey had thrown away and then over to Joey to put it next to him. On the other side, where Kaiba had been sitting before, he sat down again right after giving Joey that tiny piece of fabric back.

"You've got to be kidding me." Joey mumbled and walked over to the water to try and refresh himself at least a little but first he tried to get rid of his duel disk. Only now did he notice that it had changed. There were no open parts anymore and parts of it were black, others red. A bit like the black and red one he wanted to get, just way cooler. Some cards from the game with Yugi were still in it and he tried to get them out but that was impossible. He also couldn't remove the cards from the holder. They were all stuck in it and the worst part was that Joey couldn't open it. It was stuck on him. He tried opening it again and again until this Kaiba look alike was next to him. And as much as Joey hated to admit it he was probably his only hope, even so it was clear to him now that it wasn't Kaiba and that he had somehow either gotten back into this strange memory world, just that this time the rules were a little different, or he had managed to travel back in time. Either way, he had absolutely no idea how to get back.

After awhile Seth managed to open the strangely changed device. The metal that clung to Joeys arm seemed to disappear into the disk. After removing it Seth took it and started to examine it. He tried to take one of the card out of it. To Joey's delight that seemed to be much harder than simply opening it but he seemed to refuse to give up easily. He kept trying while Joey washed himself quickly with one eye on the Kaiba look alike, that was now messing with his duel disk and deck, just in case he got one of his cards out.

Once the water had cooled him down enough, Joey thought about getting dressed again but decided against it seeing that it was just too hot for his warm stuff. He even eyed the thin fabric this Seth had given him before but it was just much too girly for his taste and had to think about what Kaiba might say if he told him that his look alike looked girly with that skirt like thing.

Joey walked back over to the bed unsure of what he could do. It wasn't like he could talk to anyone since no one here seemed to understand him and to make things worse Atemu didn't seem to recognise him. Joey let himself fall onto the bad once more and stared silently to the ceiling. "This sucks." He mumbled and wondered what the others were doing right now. Yugi, Tristan, Duke, Teá, Mai, Mokuba and even Kaiba. Joey felt miserable, but he still had to laugh a little at the thought that for the first time in his life he actually would be happy to see the real Kaiba.

Author note:

I wrote that the "Skirt like thing" is girly because I guess that Joey would thing that, not because I don't like it. Because I actually do. I hope you like it so far. Next chapter will be what Kaiba will do when he finds out that Joey is gone.

And thanks to BrowneyedShamer, Nagareboshi-Lover and dancing elf for the nice review (hug) and also thanks to everyone who is reading my story. :P .