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Chapter 7

No More

The brunette lay on the bed, writhing around in pain, soft moans escaping him as the contractions in his body began to come thick and fast.

"Try to relax, Jay" Alexis whispered, her hand on his shoulder.

"Oh God … oh God …" he moaned.

"Keep breathing" the blonde girl instructed.

Alexis started breathing in a strange way: the way she had read was beneficial for women in labour to breathe. Okay, Jaden wasn't a woman - but his pregnancy was close to it, and so far so was the birth, and so maybe trying out a few breathing methods would help. Jaden looked at her strangely for a moment before he began to copy her, both of them breathing in quick gasps - Jaden kept it up long after Alexis had stopped, having got the hang of it.

"Jaden, you've still got a little bit to go, and you have to move again" Miss Fontaine said, checking the brunette once again.

"I can't … I can't move …" Jaden moaned, rocking back and forth with the pain.

"Aster" Miss Fontaine said, looking at the boy leaning against the wall.

Aster nodded to the nurse and walked over to his moaning friend, pulling Jaden's arm over his shoulders and pretty much lifted the brunette off the bed and onto his feet. He began to walk around the room at a slow pace, Jaden clinging onto him and moaning in pain.

"Ah … ah … ah!"

"You're doing great" Aster said softly, hoping to calm his friend down a little.

"It hurts … I can't do this … ah … oh God, it … ah!"

Jaden then let out a loud scream of agony and Aster lifted the labouring brunette at the waist and moved him quickly to the bed.

Miss Fontaine pulled the hospital gown up and looked again, much to Jaden's embarrassment. She then took a deep breath and looked at the brunette, who had a tight grip on Alexis' hand and had stopped moaning so loud, his lips clamped shut to stop himself from crying out in pain.

"Jaden, I need you to pay attention to me now" Miss Fontaine said, continuing only when Jaden met her eyes. "You're almost done, Jaden. I need you to start pushing now. So when I tell you to push, you do it, and then stop when I say."

Jaden groaned loudly and began rocking back and forth again, praying for an end to the intense pain. He did as Miss Fontaine told him and got into position, waiting for her command, but his heart wasn't in it. The pain, the heartbreak, it was all too much. He just wanted to die.

"They're right behind me, so watch your backs" Jesse called as he sped past Zane and Chazz.

The two members of the SODMP watched their fellow team-mate speed off into the distance, in the direction of Duel Academy, while they faced the opposite direction. Chazz then stopped the speedboat at Zane's order to do so, and they both stood up - on opposite ends of the small boat so the weight was fairly balanced. Here, they would wait for the Lords to arrive, and judging by what Jesse had said, they wouldn't have long to wait.

In the distance, they saw another speedboat approaching them, and they could make out three figures on that boat. The two activated their duel disks and prepared to draw their cards. Zane then growled softly.

"What? What is it?" Chazz hissed.

"Look. There's more than one boat" Zane whispered. "Three that I can make out."

"We can't hold them all off."

"We'll have to navigate and duel at the same time" Zane insisted. "We can't give in to them now. Jaden needs more time to deliver the baby and we're going to hold them off until it's here."

"How long will that be, Zane?" Chazz hissed.

"As long as it takes, now wise up, Princeton."

As the Lords got closer, the two prepared to fight. They may not be the best of friends, but they could work together in a duel. That was the mark of a decent duellist.

Miss Fontaine grabbed her lucky card, held it for a brief second, and then placed it back in her rarely used deck. She walked back over to the brunette on the bed, whose face was bright scarlet - a mixture of pain and embarrassment.

Jaden was lying on his back, his head propped up with a pillow. His hospital gown was hitched up to his hips, and he felt horribly exposed, especially with Miss Fontaine standing at the foot of the bed. Aster he didn't mind, he was another guy, after all. Alexis was okay, too - from her position knelt beside him, she wasn't able to see anything other than his legs. His legs were bent and spread wide apart for ease of the birth, and they were hurting like hell.

"Okay, Jaden, take a big deep breath and then push hard" Miss Fontaine said.

Jaden took a deep breath several times and then pushed as hard as he could. He found that it hurt even worse when he pushed, and he instantly stopped.

"Keep pushing, Jaden" Miss Fontaine cried.

"No … it hurts too bad … oh God …" the brunette moaned, the tears building up in his eyes. "It hurts too much."

"I know, Jaden, but it'll hurt much worse in the long run if you don't!"

The brunette let out a wail of despair and the colour drained from his face. Instantly, Aster was holding a basin under his chin, and Jaden barely glanced at it before vomiting violently. He almost choked but managed to survive - he would've laughed at the idea had there been less pain - and then gave another push, turning Alexis' knuckles white as he did.

He had met them more than halfway across. He could see the island, but it was too far away. Dammit, why wasn't this damn boat faster? He was never going to get there in time! Jaden was losing his will to live, and it was all his fault. He had to get there before his lover gave up!

Sudden idea! Jesse summoned Sapphire Pegasus and told him to fly ahead to the school and tell Jaden that he was coming for him. The winged horse sighed deeply and said that Jaden wouldn't believe him, and Jesse growled at his friend as he realised he was right. Jaden would think it was all a lie to get him to hang on for longer. But that's what Jesse needed! He needed Jaden to just hang on.

After intense minutes of emotional pain that seemed to stretch on for hours, Jesse finally arrived at the island. He took off running in the direction of the school, hoping that Jaden would be in the infirmary.

He hoped he wasn't too late, but his legs wouldn't move any faster, no matter how much he wanted them to.

Jaden screamed as he pushed again. He had Aster's hand in his left hand, Alexis' hand in his right, and Miss Fontaine stood at the foot of the bed, examining him in places he never wanted any teacher to see - particularly a female.

"Ah … ah … ah … oh God …"

"We're almost done, Jaden, you're nearly there" Aster whispered.

"Oh no" Miss Fontaine whispered.

Three heads snapped up to look at her, the teenagers' eyes wide.

"The baby's not moving when he pushes any more" the nurse said. "Jaden, this is a very special child, conceived in a male's body. If I'm not mistaken, I think it needs some heart put into this delivery. Put your heart into it."

Jaden moaned and tried to want to deliver the baby. He didn't want that to happen, though. Sure, he wanted rid of the pain, but the baby inside him gave him a reason to live and if she was out of him, he knew he'd fade. He was fading now.

The brunette pushed harder than before, screaming as he did.

Then he realised that there was no point. His heart wasn't in it, no matter how much he might love his child. He couldn't do this.

Jaden collapsed against the pillows, letting go of his friends.

"I can't … it's over" he whispered. "No more."

"Jaden, come on, snap out of it" Aster hissed.

"Push, Jaden!" Miss Fontaine urged.

Jaden tried, he tried as hard as he could, but it had very little effect.

"One more, Jaden!" Alexis insisted.

He complied, but again, nothing much happened. With a sharp gasp, he let his body go limp and his head rolled towards the blonde.

"Alexis, I can't do it!" he moaned.

"Of course you can do it, Jaden" Alexis said softly.

Jaden wanted to reply but was interrupted.

"You can do anything, Jaden" the voice said from the doorway.

Four sets of eyes turned towards the doorway as the figure came into the room. But only one person out of those four spoke.

Jaden's eyes glistened with tears as he willed his lips to move.

"Jesse …"


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