Me: well it has been a while for this one.
WARNING: THERE WILL BE FOUR CHARACTER DEATHS AND LOTS OF BLOOD! BUT THERE WILL BE A NICE SURPRISE TOWARDS THE END!
Disclaimer: I own nothing, Tyr rightfully belongs to Slifer-sama
Chapter 10 Expecting
Seto watched in horror as Atemu collapsed onto the ground, twitching before his eyes closed. He noticed frozen tears on Atemu's cheeks, Seto quickly made his way towards his lover. But Kohaku growled, stepping in front of the tall demon, stopping him to go any further of getting to the passed out rider.
"Siegfried! Get the hell out of controlling Kohaku!" Seto shouted, Kohaku chuckled.
"Nothing escapes you Seto, I should've thought that you would've understood Kohaku's actions."
"You just get the hell out of Kohaku's head!" Seto warned, his pupils of his eyes turned into slits, silver wings appeared from his back, Siegfried noticed that the wings looked like Kisara's. Seto on the other hand didn't pay much attention with what the wings looked like, he only wanted to use them to avoid Kohaku and get to Atemu as fast as he can before the demon king freezes to death.
Flapping the wings, Kohaku's head pulled back, surprised of the move. Seto quickly took flight and glided by Kohaku's head, landing next to Atemu. Teimaisou stepped in front of the riders, growling as Kohaku turned towards him. Seto gently took Atemu into his arms, shivered a little upon feeling the cold body. Immediately Seto took a hand to rub onto the lump where the child is, he immediately felt two kicks.
Seto's eyes widened, he's going to be a father of twins? Why didn't anyone tell him? More importanly, why did Atemu keep that fact to himself? Seto shook the thought away as Teimaisou gently pushed him towards the cave. Not wanting to get the dragon distracted if he complained, Seto carried Atemu into the warm cave. Once inside, Teimaisou, Critias, and Helmos stood in front of it, keeping Kohaku from entering.
Seto gently laid Atemu down, then he took out a wash cloth and dipped it into the warm water. Taking the cloth out, Seto gently rubbed it on Atemu's frozen cheeks. The frozen tears immediately started to melt, at the same time Atemu stirred from the warm liquid making its way down his neck and the back of his head. Slowly the crimson eyes opened, looking straight into Seto's blue ones. Atemu noticed the slight change of the eyes, and white wings glowing dimly in the darkness.
"You haven't told me that you were having twins." Seto said.
Atemu looked away. "I thought you knew."
"No one told me, what surprises me is that you didn't tell me." Seto replied.
Atemu closed his eyes as he felt another tear falling as he whimpered, "I thought you knew!"
Realizing what he's just done, Seto pulled Atemu into a tight hug, cooing softly as he tried to calm the other down, but Atemu ended up letting all of his tears fall.
"Atemu, I'm sorry. I should've known, but I was too busy making sure that you were happy. Please stop crying." Seto whispered, nuzzling Atemu's cheek lovingly.
"Do you want these children?" Atemu snapped, pulling away from Seto's embrace.
"Of course I do, you know that I love them, and you." Seto asnwered, looking hurt as Atemu's tears fell.
Atemu looked up at Seto with watery eyes. Seto leaned closer, both looking deep into the other's eyes, both of them captivated with the other's eyes. Suddenly they heard the cries of a dragon, looking towards the entrance, the saw it was Helmos. Kohaku has injured Helmos's chest, on his left side over his heart. Blood dripped from the deep wound, as Helmos cried out in pain.
Critias growled before he stood on his hind legs, trying to intimidate Kohaku. Teimaisou roared as he too stood up on his hind legs.
'Teimiasou, maybe we can knock out Kohaku to get rid of Seigfried.' Atemu thought.
That could work. But we'll have to work fast, Helmos won't make it if he's attacked again. Teimaisou replied.
Critias then decided to push Helmos into the cave, who protested as he tried to attack Kohaku.
"Come on, let me at him, let me at him!" Helmos shouted.
"You can't, if you'll get attacked again you'll die!" Critias growled, doing his best to push Helmos with his head.
Kohaku launched a strong, bite attack, this time he bit onto Critias's neck, the big dragon cried out in pain as he struggled to get his neck free of the powerful jaws. This only created his bite wound worse, Teimaisou head butted Kohaku, who let go of Critias as he fell.
"Teimaisou, knock him out! Quick!" Atemu shouted.
Teimaisou readied his tail, and then whacked Kohaku's head, hard enough to knock out the young dragon. Teimaisou looked over to see that his brothers are laying down, gasping and panting for air. Blood flowed from their wounds, as for Critias, he began to cough up some blood as it flowed in his throat from the wound on his neck.
Farinar and Borimier collapsed to their knees, they shared the same wounds as their partners. Atemu got up and went to the two elderly dragons that are down.
"Critias, Helmos, hang on." Atemu said, careful not to step on Helmos's horn on his nose.
"We can't...we knew that we'll die soon." Helmos said, coughing blood in the pause of his sentence.
"Helmos, please don't talk like that, both of you can make it." Teimaisou pleaded.
Critias and Helmos tried to reply, but all that they could do is cough up more blood. Helmos's yellow eyes tried their hardest to keep open and blink, as did Critias's indigo ones. Atemu watched in horror, as the dragons sighed, then their bodies stilled, the life leaving their eyes. The elderly riders of the two dragons fully collapsed onto the ground, and never moved again.
Teimaisou let out a crying roar to the sky, standing on his hind legs. Atemu began to feel lightheaded, and dizzy. Everything became blurry for the demon king, Tyr noticed her son's odd movements. She ran to his side as he collapsed again, this time his eyes were half lidded.
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Seto sat by the bed where Atemu laid, his eyes still half open. The demon king is still alive, but for some reason his eyes are still half open. Tyr and Yugi came into the room.
"Why are his eyes are like that?" Seto asked.
"He's going through a shock, caused by the blood he shared from the bottle. That bottle had most of the dragons blood, even the three legendary ones. With two dead at the same time put his blood stream in shock, making him faint before he could close his eyes all the way." Tyr explained.
"How long will he be like that?" Yugi wondered.
"Not for long now, since it's been a couple of hours since their death." Tyr answered.
"Will the shock effect the children?" Seto asked.
"No." Tyr answered.
"Wait, children? Are you saying he's having twins?" Yugi asked in shock.
"Yes, he's having twins. Unfortunately I just found out when I felt two kicks earlier before Kohaku injured Helmos." Seto explained.
"Seto, if you keep that up then you'll end up hurting Atemu more. I know that you had to calm him down in that cave, I heard the conversation." Tyr hissed, her red eyes giving the brunette a glare.
"I know, and I am now trying to calm down my temper but at the moment the sudden change of my body isn't helping at all." Seto growled.
"Then you'll have to figure out what to do to keep yourself calm, and I say you should stay away from Atemu for a while. But please, if he looks for you, be there and not start getting all mad at him. I don't plan of having my son die from another stab attack upon himself." Tyr growled back.
Seto sighed. "But I have to be there for him, he knows it. He wants me to be there for him, and you're saying that I can't fufill his need? He'll have a breakdown."
"Then stay with him!" Tyr snapped. "But you will have to keep that temper of yours under control through the whole time."
"I will and I promise not to hurt Atemu." Seto vowed.
"Good, now I'll keep watch to make sure you keep that promise." Tyr warned, gently rubbing Atemu's cheek once, kissing him on his forhead and then left.
"Seto, I came here to not only check on my brother, but I also wanted to tell you that you've inheritited Borimier's share of money, and some of his personal belongings." Yugi explained.
"What personal belongings?" Seto asked, looking at Yugi in wonder.
"Some of them are papers, and others are either a selection of books, clothing, and this one book that he really wants you to have." Yugi answered.
Seto raised an eyebrow. "Papers? What kind of papers?"
"I don't know, but you'll have to take a look at them." Yugi said.
Suddenly Atemu groaned, stirring slightly. Seto immediately took hold of Atemu's right hand, kissing it as the demon king blinked a few times. Atemu groggily looked over to Seto, who in return looked back with love filling his deep, sapphire eyes.
"Your eyes..." Atemu started.
"What about them?" Seto asked.
"They're...not what they used to be..." Atemu whimpered.
"Atemu, your eyes changed too, but I still love yours the same." Seto whispered, nuzzling Atemu's neck.
Atemu groaned in pain, Seto pulled away to look at his lover. The demon king's eyes are closed, he groaned again.
"What's wrong?"
"Cramps...very...bad...cramsp..." Atemu gasped out before he groaned in pain.
"Yugi, go and send for Mahaado! And be quick!" Seto ordered, he was sensing that there's something going on with the children. Yugi nodded as he left to find Mahaado.
Atemu kept groaning and gasping as Seto tried to calm the other down. The blue eyed demon then used one of his hands to gently rub the stomach, he only recieved one hard kick in return. Seto didn't know what to make of the one kick, it was either one is on its way, or its dead.
Mahaado bursted into the room, followed by Tyr and Raphael. Seto was instantly pushed outside of the room as the three closed the door and went to help the demon king. Waiting outside with Seto is Yugi and the other dragon riders. Seto began pacing back and forth in front of the door. Some of the dragon riders are now feeling like deja vu, for they remembered the last time Seto paced in front of Atemu's bedroom.
Thirty minutes later, after many encouraging words from Tyr and the healers as Atemu screamed, the riders heard a baby crying, Seto felt himself go dizzy as he sidestepped until he had the wall to support him. Yugi jumped up and down as the others smiled, Ryou walked towards Seto to check if he's ok.
"I'm an uncle!" Yugi exclaimed, still jumping up and down.
"Whoa, slow down there Yug, we don't want you to crash like the last time you got excited right?" Tristan said.
Yugi then tried to stop himself from jumping up and down, trying his best not to even shiver in excitement.
"Are you okay Seto?" Ryou asked.
"I'm...I'm..." was all Seto could say.
"You're a father." Ryou finished.
"But...why don't I hear...a second one crying...?" Seto wondered.
"There's supposed to be twins?" Ryou gasped, the other riders stopped to listen.
"Yes...I felt...two kicks...Atemu's having...twins..." Seto explained.
Yugi's excitement turned into fear, so far there's only one crying, which means either Atemu hasn't delivered the second one or he already did, but it's either dead or a still born.
"Why can't I hear another baby crying?" Seto demanded, his body shaking in fear as tears formed in his eyes.
And then the door to Atemu's room opened.
Me: well there's that! a nice little cliffe for ya!
Me: Oh and uh...once again I have to leave some voting to u guys...its names for the babies, and as an early New Years present, I'm gonna say that they are both boys, although u should've seen that coming, look back to Chapter 8 where Atemu had his odd dream.
Names for the First Born Son:
1) Syaoran
2) Severus
3) Sirius
Names for the Second Born Son:
1) Adrian
2) Artemus
3) Axel
Review & Vote plz!