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"Dis is Jonouchi Katsuya speakin as you can see below us dere is a major traffic jam on da freeway, Mark, stay tuned for de cause of de jam." Jou shouted into his microphone, since the sound of the helicopter blades was almost deafening, this was his first day at his new job as a traffic reporter, the camera man sat next to him pointing the camera towards the road below him. Jou was looking around nervously, he'd never realized before how close those guys got to falling out if the helicopter, suddenly he saw a black dot appear on the horizon and it was slowly getting bigger he made out wings and it was quickly getting closer he didn't even realize what it was exactly until he was flying right next to them.
'What da-' Jou stared at them bewildered; he'd seen Yugi and thought he and Ryou were the only ones like them, but here was a tall, dirty blond, male flying next to them having slowed down and actually coming closer he had a bundle in his arms Jou looked closer it was a girl with scales
'Wait a sec scales dat ain't normal.' He thought pulling on the camera mans shoulder trying to get him to look up from the road. The guy was now looking directly at him as his huge bat-like wings slowly flapped keeping him suspended there he nodded his head to the side and started power stroking to get ahead of the helicopter. The camera man finally looked up in time to catch the look that seemed to ask for them to follow. He pointed the camera at him instantly, sending the station footage of him instead of the traffic jam below.
"Are you guys down there gettin' this?" Jou asked into his microphone the lady at the other end was silent then suddenly he heard
"Y-yes we're seeing what you're seeing, what the heck is that?!" Jou heard over the radio
"It's not 'that' it's a he and he's carrying another one it looks like a girl" he said watching as the guy pulled ahead of them. The pilot was staring wide-eyed at the winged boy Jou hurried up to the cockpit and shouted to the pilot
"Follow him!" as the boy turned away from them, circling to turn around, the entire time the camera man had the camera pointed at him and transmitting everything to the station who in turn had interrupted the morning broadcast to show the world this marvel.
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Marik smirked to himself as the helicopter made a sharp turn and started following him he dropped back flying just in front of the cockpit, Mai looked back curiously to see a blond man and a guy with a camera staring back at them. Marik soon noticed a couple of other helicopters starting to take off below as he flew a straight path towards the small cloud of smoke on the horizon, which was the smoldering building they had left.
'come on, we need more help, send more, guys' he thought as he counted around four or five helicopters following him, suddenly he started to feel tired he was slowing down, Mai was starting to get too heavy for him,
"Mai you're going to have to go with them" Marik said signaling towards the helicopters behind him
"It's okay they are good guys they won't hurt you" she nodded trusting Marik. Marik dropped back right next to the first helicopter that he'd had follow him he took Mai and handed her off to Jou who took her from him, surprised,
"You had better take care of her Jou," he said recognizing him from before, Jou looked between the two and nodded in confirmation.
'How does he know my name?' Marik in a new burst of strength pulled ahead of them and continued to lead them. Soon they were right overtop of the blackened ruins of the lab he came over the top of it and saw all the children in tiny groups sleeping together, he saw Yami who was still sitting next to Yugi watching over the kids; Ryou and Bakura were asleep leaning against each other with the blind girl right next to them. He looked back to see around if the helicopters were still behind him and saw that a few more had joined all of them with different news station numbers on them, and a couple bigger ones with big red crosses on them; all of the pilot's eyes were getting bigger as they went came over the building and saw the group below he turned around and practically stood in mid air and waved for them to follow him down before turning and going down to land. Yami looked up as he landed
"I brought the cavalry" he said pointing over his shoulder at the landing helicopters whose occupants were already jumping out
"Are you sure it's safe?" Yami asked
"Yeah they're only news and hospital helicopters and one of them has a friend of yours on it" he said pointing at the one that Jou had been in. Yami got up and followed Marik as he went out to meet the reporters and medics; Jou and Mai met them first
"Yami!?" he said confused and amazed at the same time; Marik didn't give him time to speak before he started to speak to all of them
"Thank you all for following me we are in need of some help I am the only one here who can fly, out of all these children. If you are here to question what we are how we have gained wings and scales you will ask me do not bother them because they will not be able to answer you" he paused for emphasis
"If you are here to from the hospitals you may see them try not to wake them and do not pull feathers or scales, I can assure you it hurts for them. If you want to know more about them health wise wake him and ask just don't scare him" he said pointing to Ryou he stepped aside as a sign that the medics could go out and see them there were only a few though
"now ask away, I know you all are probably wandering what or who we are?" he said grinning as he saw heads nod and cameras being held up along with microphones to catch the entire interview that was about to take place. Jou and Yami went off to the side to talk
"What on earth are ya doing here Yami?" he asked still bewildered by the sight of all the angels, demons, and dragons that were mostly sleeping
"I've been up all night helping them escape the man that started all of this" Yami replied going back to where Yugi was laying before any of the doctors got to him; Jou and Yami at down next to him
"Where is he?" Yami pointed at the burnt building
"Deader than a doornail" he said
"His name was Malik don't confuse him with Marik over there, Malik was a nut he's the one who blew up that building after Mai killed him; he was prepared to kill all of them"
"Wow!"
"So what are you doing here?" Yami asked the small question had been running through his head for a while.
"My new job, traffic reporter for the morning news, Marik went flying past us earlier, so by now the entire city knows about these guys" Jou said smiling, but Yami had on a horrified look
"What's wrong?" Jou asked
"there are more of these guys in the city; forty or so, Marik's been looking after the little guys in an old abandoned building for years if people know about these ones they might go looking for them" Yami said the sun was up now and the kids were all starting to wake up some of them looked at the new people interested since they hadn't seen actual humans other than Yami. Jou looked away at the others spotting Ryou who had been awaken by a couple of the doctors, with his look-a-like standing next to him and the blind girl holding his hand
"These kids look like they are all really nice," Jou commented as he watched a doctor bandage a cut on the bottom of a dragon boy's foot as the boy stared curiously at him
"They're all newborns" Yugi croaked from Yami's lap where his head was laid. Yami looked down at him this was new information to him
"They are?" he asked now that Yugi was awake
"I'm the one who opened their tanks" he said
"Why else do you think they were all in that room he was going to search through them and get rid of the ones with imperfections why do you think a blind child like her was still there? Unless she showed an immediate mastery of telepathy" he said trying to sit up, but gritting his teeth in pain as he moved his injured ankle.
"Man, you guys really have had it rough, huh?"
"I'll just say I'm glad it's all over, we've been through hell and back in one night" Yami said rubbing his head one of the doctors came over to them
"Hello do you mind if I see him?" he asked politely
"No I don't mind, is it all right with you Yugi?" Yugi nodded
"Hopefully you've got something for my foot" the doctor knelt down next to them
"What hurts?" he asked
"My ankle I did something to it" the doctor started to looked Yugi's foot over trying not to move it as much as possible
"Well you broke your ankle young man" the doctor said
"You'll have to come with us back to the hospital to get it fixed up" he added.
"Let go of me!!!" They heard someone scream from across the crowd almost everyone looked towards the scream including Marik who was still answering minor questions, it was a little demon boy who was now sitting curled up with his wings covering him, a doctor was sitting next to him holding his own hand which had a nice set of deep teeth marks on the side of it. Ryou came running over to them
"What did you do, sir?" he asked looking over his hand
"I was just helping him sit up and he bit me, I didn't know he was asleep" he said startled, starting to take some gauze out of his medic kit. Ryou made his way over to the child who sat huddled under his wings
"Hey it's all right this guy's here to help" Ryou said crouching down next to him
"No" came a muffled reply
"Come out I won't hurt you I'm like you" he said trying to convince him it was safe
"No it hurts" the boy replied trying to pull his wings on tighter. Ryou came closer to the demon boy and spread his wings over him making a feathery tent for him he slowly pried the child's wings away from his face. Ryou finally got to see his face there weren't any scratches or scrapes on his face, but he kept his eyes shut tight.
"Would you please open your eyes?" he asked kindly, the boy shook his head
"Why not?"
"He'll kill me" he responded.
"He's dead; I promise he can't hurt you."
"Promise?"
"I promise cross my heart and hope to die."
"Don't say that," the boy said finally squinting open his eyes, Ryou finally looked into them, this child wasn't blind, but his eyes were certainly different, they were a golden yellow color and looked almost cat-like they were now only slits trying to keep out light as he stared at Ryou.
"Is that why; because your eyes are different?" Ryou asked smiling at him, the boy nodded.
"The light hurts," he said wishing he could shut his eyes again
'Poor thing. How could he do that to a kid?' Ryou thought
"I'll help you, can you stand?" he asked
"Yes" Ryou smiled at him
"come on I'll shade your eyes just walk with me" he said helping the boy stand up, awkwardly, he wobbled a little bit before grabbing onto Ryou's arm. Ryou supported him as they walked towards one of the medic-copters
"You've got a name don't you?" Ryou asked as he shaded the child with a wing
"Rex" he replied sitting down on the edge of the helicopter door other children were all ready in this one Rex finally smiled at Ryou as he huddled back into a nice dark corner, his eyes getting wider, he said
"Thank you." Yami soon joined them carrying Yugi with the doctor following close behind; Marik walked up to them having escaped the reporters
"We should start loading them into the other helicopters" Marik advised
"Where are we going to go? Jou's apartment sure isn't big enough to hold all of them" Yami asked; the doctor answered him
"We'll take them, the hospital has room" Marik leaned down and whispered in his ear
"There is more than this in the city that need help too" the doctor raised his eyebrows
"Really how many?" he asked curious
"About forty"
"That many, there are that many of you! That would be enough for a tiny army!" he said his eyes getting wider as he did the math of how many were here, and were in the city
"Yes I know that was their original purpose but I've been raising them since they were babies they're just sweet kids with special talents" Marik said as Ryou led a couple children past him.
"You raised that many on your own?" the doctor asked stunned
"Hard to believe, that a fifteen year old could raise that many kids on his own, right?" Marik responded slightly happy with himself.
"that's amazing to think one so young could accomplish a feat that many parents can barely accomplish with one child!" the doctor said upon hearing that Marik was only fifteen
"I know but it's not easy considering the details like food and cloths; all of which I have had to find, and or take from people who are more fortunate than us" Marik said sadly
"I'll make sure that's taken care of when I get back to the hospital from the sound of it these kids are in better shape than yours" he said watching as Yami helped another kid scramble into a news copter.
"Thank you, sir" Marik said bowing his head politely he turned and walked off to go help Ryou and Yami load kids into the helicopters.
A couple hours later Marik stood back as he listened to the doors of the helicopters close and the engines start up 'lets go home' he thought as he spread his wings to fly the helicopters rising behind him.
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