Fruits Basket Fan Fiction / .hack//LIMINALITY Fan Fiction / Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Final DestinAnime ❯ Clear Delusions ( Chapter 1 )

Iris: You happy?

Siri: Yes, now shut up and watch me kill.

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"The Yugis on the bus-" Joey tilted his head back in frustration as Tea continued to add verses to 'The Wheels On The Bus.' She was on her nineteenth verse. It made Joey scowl every time Seto and Mokuba passed them in their limo. The younger of the two Kaiba's was standing on something so that he could wave to them from the sunroof. Duke and Tristan were snoozing in each other's arms across the aisle from the irritated blonde. Snoring, singing, Mokuba's innocent taunts, and Serenity's whining drilled holes into his head. 'The Hontogi on the bus-' 'Zzzzz, oh yeah...' 'Hi, Joey!' 'Joey~! Get the blanket out of the bag! I'm tired!' This vacation is on a downward spiral ta' Hell! Joey thought furiously. He turned to look out the window to see a flailing mass of black hair waving to him. Stupid Kaiba brats.

Joey started to sigh when he felt a sharp pain in his heart. As the Kaiba limo passed them, a family of five drove by. A little boy in one of the back seats had his arms full of those breakable trucks and cars. He was throwing them up, letting them break and fall between him and his irritated goth sister, and crying 'Pile-up! Pile-up!'. The blonde shook his head and listened to Marik sing 'Highway to Hell' with his CD player. A shout from the driver caused Joey and the other passengers to jump. Joey shuddered instantaneously.

He looked up to the front of the bus and saw a semi flip (trying to avoid a weaving motorcyclist) just opposite and up the road from them. The bus driver panicked and tried to turn and avoid the oncoming pile-up. The bus tilted, sliding Joey and the people farthest away from the listing side down their seats. Serenity screamed and fell from their seat into Duke's and Tristan's. As the bus slammed onto its side, a piece of Plexiglass broke free from the window and sliced through Serenity's neck. The bloody window missed Joey, who was hanging onto to his own window, by inches. He let go and dropped to his sister. The two boys laying beneath her had awoke to find their clothes and bodies covered in blood. Screams and cries for help racked Joey's brain, he had to get out, get help, but, before he could do anything, there was a cry of 'Shit!' followed by an explosion. Pieces of flesh and metal went flying above the bus. The motorcyclist had apparently been hit, trapped under her bike, then killed when it exploded.

Joey turned on his heel towards the front of the bus when a black limo erupted through the bottom of the bus and crashed against the top. There was blood running down the windows, Mokuba had been foolish enough to stay above the sunroof. Many of Joey's classmates, including Yugi and Tea, had been run over. The front of the limo was smashed in far enough to have killed the driver, but hopefully not far enough to have killed Seto. Joey hurried over the bodies of his dead peers and threw one of the doors open.

"Kaiba?! Hey! Kaiba!?! Where da... Hell!?!" Joey cried out. The engine of the limo had been thrown into the passenger end by the force of the crash, crushing the brown-haired CEO in half. Joey scrambled in and tried to force the engine off. His efforts only brought a pained groan from the CEO's mouth, "Hey, Kaiba! Stay wit me."

"Mokuba..." he murmured, straining to breath, "Where is Mokuba?"

"He's-", Joey looked around to only find Mokuba's lower half laying limp on the floor beside them, "-..."

"Is Mokuba okay?"

"No." Seto closed his deep blue eyes and leaned as far as he could into Joey's chest, "I'm sorry."

"...." Joey wrapped his arms around the dying brunette and cried with him. After a moment, Seto stopped breathing and Joey could hear more people screaming outside the bus. He forced the bus door open and climbed out. The bus, semi, and motorcycle weren't the only ones caught in the accident. A plain brown car was wedged between the semi and bus. It looked like a walnut in a nutcracker's jaws. There was pool of blood beneath a backseat door. The blonde would have considered anyone in that car dead, but a struggling orange-headed boy faultered that decision. Joey jumped from his spot atop the bus to help whoever might be alive. From where he stood, he could clearly see a boy with orange hair and red eyes who was desperately trying to keep the body next to him alive.

"Damn it all, Yuki!" the boy yowled, "You're not going to die on me yet!"

"I can't... Kyo..."

"GODDAMMIT! DON'T YOU DARE STOP BREATHING! YUKI! YUKI!" the demanding shouts softened into upset pleas, "Yuki! ... Yuki, please! Don't die!"

Joey peered inside, trying to get Kyo's attention and saw that a boy with dark gray hair and fading purple eyes, Yuki, had become impaled on a broken pipe from beneath the truck. Kyo had pushed the chair down so that he could pull Yuki off, but the young boy wouldn't make it. Joey knew it was useless to try and help Yuki, so he began to beat on the window. However, Kyo couldn't hear it. He finally got Yuki off the pipe, but he only received a scream of pain. Yuki cried out and immediately went limp in the carrot-top's arms. Kyo sat silently, his gaze going between the dead Yuki in his grasp, and the dead girl laying across the backseat. Joey continued to bang on the door when Kyo shook violently and screamed at the top of his lungs, "GODDAMN!"

Joey gave up on him and climbed over the car to see if anyone else had been caught. He walked off to the grass next to the highway where he found the tangled bodies of a boy and girl wrapped around a sign along with their bikes. The spokes and handles were twisted and stabbing them in vital areas. The two had been biking alongside the road when the air forced out from under the semi pushed them off their path and onto the sign. Joey's misting brown eyes scanned over the sight then back to the sign that read '180'.

"'180'? Why does that sound familiar?" Joey shrugged it off and started back towards the wreck. On his way back up, he noticed a small spark coming from where the bus engine struck the semi, "Shit."

He ran back up to the wreck, hoping that he would make it there in time to save that Kyo kid. Time seemed to stop as he reached for the brown car's door. Just... a little... he thought, his fingers only inches from the handle ...further...

A pillar of fire burst from the bus engine and engulfed everything, including the young blonde. But he wasn't consumed by the flame, instead he found himself sitting in his bus seat. Yugi was trying to snap him out of whatever trance he might have been. Joey looked around frantically, it was like nothing he had seen had happened. He stood up immediately and slapped Tea in the back of the head, "I don't care to hear what the Yugis do on the bus!"

"How'd you know I was going to use Yugi?" Tea whimpered, shielding her head, "I haven't sung nineteen verses of 'The Wheels on the Bus' before."

"And you won't get a chance to sing anymore if we don't stop the bus right now." Joey said firmly. He leapt into the aisle and raced up to the driver, "You have to stop, now! We're all in danger!"

"Sit down, young man!"

"Stop! Now!" Joey shouted, kicking the driver's legs. The bus came to an abrupt stop, causing everyone behind them to stop as well, "We're going to die if you keep driving!"

"What's your problem?" the driver growled, standing up, "We're on a schedule and you kids are going to be late for your field trip if we stop because someone's a little paranoid!"

"I'm not paranoid! I really saw it, there was a semi, a motorcyclist, everyone died!"

"Joey." Yugi jumped up to defend and stop his friend, "Just sit back down, we'll talk about it when we get to the next town."

"Are any of ya listenin' ta me?!" Joey clenched his fists, "We're not gonna get to the next town if we keep going this way!"

"Well, there's no other way into Dai-Hin." Yugi continued, "So we have to keep going."

"No!"

"What are you blabbering about, you dumb mutt?" Kaiba angrily forced the doors of the bus open, "Why are you holding us up?"

"Because we're going to die if we keep going!"

"Likely story!" Kaiba retorted, "Mokuba has been waiting forever to go to Dai-Hin and I'm not going to let some scared pup get in the way!"

Seto turned around and stepped off the bus. Joey leapt out behind him, followed by Yugi. As they got off, a girl wearing a black, white, and red biker suit and black helmet walked up to them and, from the otherside of the road, a boy and girl with bikes came in concern.

"Is everything okay?" asked the second girl, throwing her bike on the ground.

"It's not gonna be if this stupid yelladog don't move!" the biker girl snarled in a light Texan accent, "Quit yappin' and get along! I got a convention t' get to!"

"Hey!" The orange haired and purple haired boys Joey had seen in his vision were walking up to them from behind the biker chick. Kyo bared his fangs, "What the hell is going on?!"

"Listen carefully!" Joey said, throwing his arms up in an important fashion, "Everyone needs ta return home! We'll all die if we keep goin' dis way!"

"Okay, you little bastard." the biker chick growled, pulling her helmet off to reveal short black hair, a red headband, and almost feline dark brown eyes, "Move yer issues orf the road!"

"You don't have any real reason to go to Dai Hin, do you!?" Joey pleaded.

"I do, I've got a panel to do in about an hour and I've gotta visit my sick sister." The biker started to put her helmet back on, "The Authoress Youkai, Iris Sun, doesn't like to be late, so move it or lose it."

"This is nonsense." Seto growled, motioning for his limo to come around, "If you're too scared to go on a field trip, then just stay here on the side of the road."

A truck horn from up the highway sent a chill up Joey's back. He lunged for Seto's arm, knocking the CEO over.

"No don't!"

"Get off!"

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