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Chapter 9 The recovery

After the seal was broken by Valon, Atem picked Serenity up and went back into the temple. Raye found an empty room and Atem put his princess on the bed. He sat next to the bed, holding her hand hoping she would awake soon. Everyone was worried about their princess as well because she wasn't moving at all.

Mina finally broke the silence and cried, "Why isn't she moving?"

No one answered they all believed that Serenity's soul had been taken by Dartz. They all had tears in their eyes. They didn't want this to happen at all. They needed Serenity to put a stop to all this, but it looked like they would have to defeat Dartz on their own. Deciding that they should leave their princess in peace, everyone went out into the living room. Atem was the last one out of Serenity's room he looked back at the sleeping princess, and whispered, "I'm sorry Serenity."

He then went out into the living room and saw everyone with the same expression of sadness and doubt written on their faces. He knew that they couldn't take any more pain and suffering, he was no different. In fact he was worse than everyone else. He couldn't handle the pain of seeing his princess in such a state, and also he had many issue dueling against her. Seeing the seal on her forehead was hard enough, but the look in her eyes was worse.

He finally spoke up and said, "We have to put an end to this now, I can't take this anymore."

While Serenity was fighting to wake up, her mind was showing her what was going on. She dreamed of the great leviathan and Dartz. She saw Atem her, and everyone fighting hard against the leviathan, but nothing was working. The leviathan sent an attack towards the scouts and guardians resulting in them becoming unconscious. She looked over to Atem and he looked over at her with a small smile on his face. He said something to her, before he was knocked unconscious as well. Serenity looked around her, she was the only one left. She knew what she had to do, but she didn't think that she could do it on her own. Even though she doubted herself, she decided that this would end. She took out the sliver crystal and attacked the great leviathan.

Right before the attack ended, Serenity snapped her eyes open. She was startled from the dream she just had. She swung her legs over the edge of the bed and put her head in her hands. As she recalled the dream, she started to shake in fear. She was lost in her thoughts about the dream, when she heard voices in the room outside. She stood up from the bed and went over to the door and heard Yugi yelling at someone.

"Yami, don't be stupid!" Yugi said, "You need to stay strong for Serenity!"

Serenity heard Atem's name and opened the door just to see Yugi slap Atem across the face.

"Yugi, stop!" She exclaimed.

Everyone stopped talking and looked up with shock. Their princess was awake! Everyone got up and crowed around Serenity except for Atem. Serenity noticed this and walked up to her prince and said, "Atem, come on, let's go for a walk."

Serenity and Atem walked out of the temple and went on a long walk through the temple rose gardens that they loved so much.

"What made you decided to go on a walk with me Sere?" Atem asked.

"Well you looked sad and lonely when you were sitting there." Serenity explained with a small smile. "Also there's something I need to tell you."

Atem looked at her confused, "And that is…"

"When I was part of the Oricalcose, you were the only one I could think of." Serenity said sadly.

"But… then why did you play the card?"

"I played it because Dartz forced me to play it."

"But if Dartz forced you to play it, he might be planning something."

"I was thinking the same thing, because I heard dartz muttering something to Valon, Mai, and Alister about the seal." Serenity said.

After they were done talking, Serenity and Atem went back to the temple. When they sat back, they were surrounded by their friends. Serenity halted them and told them to sit and she would explain everything.

Serenity finished explaining everything. Raye asked her princess, "Wait so you planned this from the beginning?"

Serenity nodded said, "Yep, I figured that if I didn't tell you what Atem and I were planning, you wouldn't worry."

Everyone was happy that Serenity & Atem just planned it that way. They all had a sigh of relief.

Serenity looked at the clock on the other wall and saw that it was 10:30 PM. Her eyes widened at how late it was.

"Shit, I better get home. My parents are probably flipping out that I'm not home." Serenity said.

Serenity powered to Serena and everyone else powered down also." I'll see you girls at school tomorrow. And I'll see you after Yami."

Serena left and went home and so did Mina, Amy, and Lita. After the other four girls left, Bakura spoke up and asked, "Where are we supposed to stay at?"

Raye spoke up and said, "You can stay here at the temple. I'm sure that my grandfather and his apprentice won't mind."

"Thank you Raye," Yami said, "We appreciate it really much. Right guys?"

"Yeah… right we really do appreciate Raye." The guardians said.

Raye showed Yami, Yugi, Joey, Tristan, and Bakura to their rooms and they went to sleep.

Serena hurried home and saw that the lights were off. Thinking that everyone had gone to bed, she tried to sneak in quietly, but that didn't work. Her mother, Ikuko, was still up waiting for her. Her mom was furious that her daughter got home at 11 PM.

"And where have you been young lady?" Ikuko said.

"I've… uh… been studying with my friends, why?" Serena asked.

"Serena, we've been through this a thousand times," Ikuko said, "I don't want you out later than 10:00 on a school night."

"I know and I'm sorry for that. It's just that something came up and I needed to help my friends." Serena said.

"We'll talk about your consequences later Serena. Just go to bed, you have school in the morning." Ikuko said frustrated.

Serena nodded her head and immediately went up to her room and went to sleep. Ikuko knew she couldn't ground Serena is always honest with her, and she knew that her friends meant the world to her. With that thought in her head, Ikuko went up the stairs and went to bed herself.

Chapter 9 is done! Chapter 10 will be soon hopefully. School started up so things have slowed down a lot. Sorry about that, but anyways please Review!