"What do you think happened to her?" Malik whispered hesitantly, glancing at the sleeping Akefia.
Her silver hair was messier than usual and her brows were knitted into a tight frown of fear, sweat trickling down her forehead as she whimpered in her sleep.
"I don't know," Atem murmured softly.
A few minutes of silence reigned over the tired trio, none of them having slept in case something should happen to Akefia again.
It was then that the harpy appeared in the room and grabbed Akefia again.
"Don't even think about it," Atem snarled, lunging at the hybrid as it grabbed her girlfriend's arm.
"Bring her to master, I must," she squawked, fluttering out of the way of Atem's fist. "Get punished, I won't!"
She ducked under Atem's arm and grabbed Akefia's arm again, but by that stage, Malik had pulled several shuriken out of her sleeve and was hurling them at her while Joey and Atem stood protectively over Akefia.
"We already told you," Malik yelled. "No way in freaking hell are you taking her!"
The harpy yelped and flew backwards, only to crash into Joey, who tried to grab her.
Unfortunately for all of them, that was exactly what the harpy had been waiting for. As she dodged, causing Joey to stumble and fall, Atem ran over to help her, so the harpy was able to swoop in and grab not only Akefia, but Malik as well.
"No!" Atem yelled the creature disappeared with the two girls. "Damn it!"
"So what are we going to do?" Malik asked hesitantly as Atem shook her head, sitting down.
"There's only one thing that we can do; we wait."