Yami, Teà, and Yugi all stepped through the doorway into an old, dusty entrance hall. To their left was a door, which was closed. To their right were two doors, also of which were closed. Right in front of them was a large staircase, which led upstairs to a set of double doors that could have been described as "grand" if they were in better repair. To the left and right of these doors were two more doors, on opposite ends of the wall.

Joey was standing in the middle of the room, looking around, an appalled look on his face that became more so every time he blinked. Tristan was wandering the walls, looking at various dusty paintings that were hung on the wall, camouflaging with the background, as they were both covered in a thick layer of grime.

"This is my house? Joey asked to no one in particular. "It's a dump! Couldn't my grandparents leave me a better place?"

Joey began pacing around the room in anger, his hopes crushed into the dust by the very dust in the room.

"Well, maybe the rest of the house will be better!" Tistan suggested optimistically, stopping from his tour of the paintings.

"Yeah, cheer up. I'm sure the rest of the house is great!" Yugi smiled falsely. He actually didn't really believe his own words, but he would lie to himself to try to cheer up his friends.

"Yeah, with a little polish, this place can look great!" Teà agreed.

"Are you kidding me?" Joey yelled back at them. He stomped over to the bottom of the staircase and kicked the wooden handrail, shaking the whole thing violently and forcing the dust to vacate its surface. Joey gasped in pain and recoiled, clutching his foot with both hands.

"And now my foot hurts!" Joey yelled. Tristan, however, suddenly had a thought.

"Hey, Joey, remember seeing places like this in stories and things?" He asked. When he got no answer, he went on. "Places like these have been abandoned for years – no, decades. There's probably some really old stuff in here."

Joey gave him a look of realization, and the angry air around him seemed to evaporate.

"There could be treasure," Tristan commented.

"Yeah…" Joey said, barely thinking. "There could be…"

"Yeah, Joey," Yugi started. "Maybe we can raise enough money from this place to eventually get a better one!"

The angry look disappeared from Joey's eyes at these words, replaced by something much more hopeful.

"So what do you say we start hunting for it?" Tristan said.

"Yeah!" Joey called eagerly. Immediately, he rushed up the stairs (with each step, the staircase creaked dangerously), and he turned around once he reached the top. "Come on!"

But Yami, who was still standing in the doorway, had a question.

"Do you think this place has plumbing?" he asked.

"Probably not, why?" Joey answered.

"Well… see, I haven't gone to the bathroom since this morning, and…" Yami said awkwardly, wiggling his legs a little.

"Oh, right, um…" Joey looked around awkwardly. However, he was apparently stricken with a thought. "Yeah," he began, "go off and look for it. If we break off into groups, we can find the treasure that much faster!" He hopped up and down enthusiastically.

Yami stared at him for a moment as if he was a bit insane, but decided he was right, shrugged, and walked over to the closest door on his right.

Tristan looked at him for a moment in thought. "I gotta go too," Tristan said, and followed Yami, leaving Yugi and Teà to follow Joey up the stairs.

"Let's go this way," Joey pointed to their left once Teà and Yugi joined him at the top of the staircase. Stretching to their left and right was a hallway, with a single door at each end. In front of them was a set of double doors that would have looked very fancy in better condition. But Joey ignored these doors, and instead began to approach the door at the end of the hallway in which he pointed.

"I bet that's the place where they keep all their diamonds!" Joey said, when he grasped the doorknob, leaving Teà and Yugi to exchange doubtful looks. After a moment of preparation, he turned it and pulled it open.

A strong gust of wind greeted them, pushing them all back as if the air was waiting behind the door to escape. However, it died down almost immediately, leaving everyone staring at each other, silently wondering what that just was.

"What was that?" Yugi finally asked aloud.

"It's a GHOST!" Joey yelled, jumping back from the empty doorway. The sound of his fright bounced off the walls and echoed back to them, making it sound creepier than it would have been. Yugi shuddered with the thought. Teà, however, was not convinced.

"You probably just opened the door too hard, Joey," she said.

"Yeah," Joey accepted after a moment of thought. He straightened himself out, and walked through the doorway, more cautiously than before. Yugi was still a little scared, and he kept looking over his shoulder.

At the other end of the doorway, another long hallway was waiting for them. Doors saluted them on each side of the hallway like a skeleton soldier line up, with the hallway curving to the right and out of sight.

"Another hallway?" Teà commented.

"Well, which door first?" Joey asked, not acknowledging Teà's question.

"Well…" Yugi began, "We're probably going to look in all of them. Let's just start with the closest." He indicated the first door on the left. Joey walked over to it, quickly turned the doorknob, pulled the door open, and jumped aside.

Nothing came out.

The door bounced off the wall (because Joey opened it so hard in his rush to get out of the way) and returned to its original position in the doorway with a click. Joey breathed out with relief, and opened the door again to look in.

"Yes!" He yelled triumphantly after a quick glance in the room. "Am I good or what?"

Yugi walked over to see what the room was, and what he found didn't surprise him one bit. It was a dark and musty room, but the grime didn't diminish Joey's excitement at all, for the room was a kitchen.

Joey took his newfound happiness into the room with him as he entered, and his feet guided him immediately to the refrigerator. His left arm grasped the handle and gave a tug, but the door remained closed. A little surprised, Joey stared for a second, but regained his composure almost immediately, and tugged at it with both hands. Still, nothing.

"Must be locked," Joey guessed, giving up.

"You're pathetic, Joey…" Teà said, staring into the room from behind Yugi. "We have a whole house to explore, and you have to stop at the kitchen?"

"Oh, come on, Teà," Joey replied. "We would be having lunch in school by now, anyway."

"Ugh," Teà gave up. "Come on, Yugi," she said, and walked out of the doorway, leaving Yugi to follow her.

She stopped at a random door, two doors down from the kitchen where Joey was undoubtedly attempting to find something to gorge himself with. "Let's look in here," she said. She grabbed the doorknob, but before she was able to begin turning the device, a loud scream met their ears.

"Joey!" Yugi recognized the yell, and ran off to the kitchen to find the cause of it, leaving Teà's hand on the doorknob.