Sorry I left you hanging for 3 days...I'm SO sorry actually. Anyways, this chapter picks up where the last one left off [[Naw, really?]] and you'll find out what happened to Noodle this chapter. Anyways, let's goo :D

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Chapter 9

"NOODLE!" the three men shouted in unison, staring in horror at the Japanese teenager lying motionless on the ground. Nameless Man found them and was way down the hall but could easily catch up to them. "Look, man!" Russel started, "You carry Noodle on your back and we've got to get her to a hospital and FAST!"
"Bu' we don' know 'ow fa' we a' from land!"

"Just get moving!"

The three men ran as fast as they could to the ladder and climbed outside.

When they got out, they realized they were only 15 feet from land. They waded through the water and onto the beach. Then 2D laid Noodle on her back.

"Is she breathing, does she have a pulse?" Russel asked.

"'Ow am I supposed ta know?"
"Put yer ear to 'er chest ya dingbat!" Murdoc insulted. 2D laid his ear to Noodle's chest. The heartbeat was light and fragile, and sounded like it would give any second now. "We gotta get 'er to a 'ospital," 2D said with severe worry in his voice. A beach vendor passed by. "'Scuse me," Russel called.

"Yeah?"
"Where's the nearest hospital?"
"Uhh...2 streets down and it's right on the corner. You can see it from here."

"Thank you sir."

"No problem."

2D lifted Noodle onto his back again. He sighed a choked sigh and tried not to cry. Noodle's skin was almost icy cold, and she was near death. Her face felt hot though, which made 2D worry even more. As the three men made their way to the hospital, nobody talked. When they got inside the hospital, a young man with a rather strange haircut looked up from the front desk. "Can I help you men?" he asked with a mild Southern accent. 2D bravely went to the desk.

"Th's girl is nea' death, an' if she doesn' see a docteh now she coul' die."

"Follow me."

The man stood up and 2D, Russel, and Murdoc followed. They walked through double doors and into a large room. 2D laid Noodle on the bed in the center of the room. The man with a weird haircut hooked her up to a heart monitor and a tear escaped from 2D's eyes. Noodle had a light, crooked heartbeat. "Y'all from around here?" Strange-hair-man asked.

"No. 'M from Englan'."

"I could tell by your accent. Are y'all vacationing or what?"

"Well, i'ssa long story. Yeh see, we wos in tha' ship tha' go' caugh' in th' storm ou' in th' Bermuda Triangle, yeah? An' we foun' ou' dere's a drain down th're tha' leads to a laboratory fing o' somfink. An'...i'ss kin'a 'ard ta e'splain, bu' Noodle 'ere go' possesed by a demon an' I gave 'er a potion ta ge' th' fing outta 'er. She drank 'alf o' it...Wai'...THA'SS I'!"

"Sir, you're really confusing me. So y'all think you cracked the mystery of the Triangle?"

"Essac'ly."

"Hmm...interesting. We'll send a doctor to check on her every couple of hours or so. You're gonna have to stay here."

2D decided there was nothing better to do than sleep. He had a dream. No, not a dream, a horrid nightmare.

There was a horrid feeling of melancholy in the air as 2D went down a winding red hallway full of menacing faces. He found a room with people crowded around a coffin mourning the death of someone. "She was so young!" one of them said.

"But why?" said another.

"It's all 'cause of that horrible man!"

One of them turned their head and saw him. "THERE HE IS!" someone shouted, and they swarmed around poor 2D.

"Wo...wot did I do?"
"You killed her!"

"I kille' who?"
"You killed Noodle! It was that stupid potion! You're an idiot, you know?"

"I did not bloody kill 'er!"

"Then who did?!"

"I swea', it wosn' me!"
"You gave her the potion!"
"I-AAAUGHH!!!"

The angry mob trampled 2D and began killing him-

"Sir?" a feminine voice asked.

"Wot?" asked 2D, stretching and yawning.

"I already told this to the others but the patient is not only poisoned by an unknown substance, she also has diptheria."

"Dip-wot-ia?"
"Diptheria. It's a throat disease, hard to explain though. That's the bad news."
"Oh? An' wo'ss th' good news?"
"The good news is that she's undergoing a sort of extraction of the poisons in her body and she will not die. It may be a few days though. And the man you were speaking to earlier was able to contact someone about you solving the Triangle mystery. The person responded that the person who reportedly posessed your daughter-"

"Friend," 2D corrected.

"...Friend, was a scientist who went crazy and escaped from jail. His name is D. Harry LeMal, and was last seen in the Triangle. Your findings are being published worldwide. You have also been given a nice reward in your country- a new house. As for your friend, seeing that she's an orphan acording to those guys over there,"- she pointed to Russel and Murdoc -"We have to send her back to the orphanage."

"Yeh can'!"
"We have to."

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A/N: Now we know Noodle's okay and they've all been given *SHIIINYYY* rewards, but what's going to happen to Noodle? A nice fancy legal battle next round, I love how I haven't told you this yet but they're in North Carolina, and Noodle isn't even a resident of the US, and 2D loves her, so um...yeah. OH! I forgot to say how old they are in this, and I made it a bit different just for fun.

2D=20

Noodle=14 [[I told you this one]]

Russel=33

Murdoc=39

Just clarifying, I made 2D slightly younger so the pairing makes a bit more sense.