Chapter 5...wow. I can't believe I wrote so much on one story! The plot starts to make a little more sense in this chapter.
Disclaimer: You know the drill by now! Nope, I don't own Yugioh! ...or the characters...which sucks because I luv Joey and Valon.
From Chapter 4:
Seto Kaiba glared at him and Mokuba had a look of fear, while Mai just seemed shocked. Valon had a feeling that they knew something he didn't, and it was eating away at him. He sighed. "What's going on? I know you people are hiding something!" He shouted
Children of the Orichalcos
Chapter 5: Another hole in the head
Mai sighed. "It's complicated." Valon growled. "What's complicated? Tell me what's going on." He demanded. Kaiba sneered. "What she means it, your brain just might explode if you try to comprehend what has happened. If you have a brain, that is. Then again, this is probably your fault anyways." He added the last part under his breath. Mai rested her hand on Kaiba's shoulder. "Calm down, Seto. Being moody isn't going to get us anywhere." Kaiba jerked away from her and stormed back into the house.
Serenity smiled softly at Valon. "He isn't always like this…not as bad, anyways." She said apologetically. Mai sighed again. "Everything has changed, Valon, ever since you disappeared. I was so worried when Joey said you had taken off, I looked for days. Joey helped me too, heck somehow we even convinced Seto to help. I guess that's how we all ended up here. Joey and I were exhausted after the second day of searching and oddly, Seto offered to let us spend the night at his mansion since we both lived so far away. We helped him through his problems, and he helped us through ours; and besides that we all needed the company. Eventually, we all moved in together. Serenity met Seto when she was visiting Joey and I, and they instantly fell in love. Everything was going smoothly until we found out that the twins were on the way. Its' a shame that they never had a mother to take care of them…" Valon blinked. "I thought that you were their mother." He said. Mai laughed at his confusion. "That's the mind blowing part. Technically, they don't have a mother." Valon gave her a puzzled look. "What do you mean by that? You're making no sense, Mai." He said. She smiled weakly. "It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to us either…but somehow Joey ended up being pregnant." Valon's jaw dropped. "But that's impossible!" Mai nodded. "That's what we were thinking. I believe it may have been partially the exposure to the Orichalcos that caused it. You see, Joey is affected strangely by magic. In Seto's Battle City Tournament, he was exposed to quite a bit of Shadow magic from Marik's Millennium Rod, and handled it pretty well. Even with his mind imprisoned in the shadow realm, he still was able to fight back and eventually regain control. Which is something that even Marik himself wasn't strong enough to do. Twice he was subjected to enough power to shatter my mind and Joey bounced back from it somehow." Valon sighed, trying to process the information, the twins seemed to be soaking it in as well.
"But how…and why would something like that happen?" He asked. Mai sighed. "I couldn't tell you, but things after that happened are even harder to figure out. When he was at the hospital to give birth, I had to leave to pick up Serenity and Seto because they had been in a car accident." Mai said. "A car accident?" he asked curiously, remembering his own crash. "Yeah," Serenity said, "We got hit out of nowhere. When I came to, Seto had already pulled me out of the car and called the police, Mai, and Mokuba." Mai nodded. "It's fortunate that they were in an armor plated vehicle. That thing was trashed! If they had taken a limo or one of Seto's sports cars, they would have been crushed." Valon mused for a moment. "Did you ever see what hit you?" he asked Serenity worriedly. She shook her head vigorously. "No, it was just a blur. Whatever it was appeared from nowhere and hit us head on." Valon sighed. "Sounds familiar, same thing happened to me when I was on my way back to the apartment." Mai blinked. "Wait, do you think this was planned, Valon?" He nodded. "It sounds like it. Whoever did all this was probably trying to get you out of the way. If he took out Kaiba and Serenity on the way to the hospital, you and Mokuba would obviously go to help them." Mai nodded. "That makes sense." She replied sadly.
Kaiba came back out of the house a moment later and walked towards his armor plated SUV. Serenity ran over to him. "Seto, where are you going? We should stay together!" She begged him. He sighed. "I'm going to see Joey. We have to figure this out now, before things get even worse." She blinked back tears. "Then I'm coming with you!" She told him. He shook his head. "It's too dangerous, Serenity, stay here where it's safe." Mai growled at Kaiba. "Seto, she's right. We have strength in numbers, and if we split up, we'll be picked off one at a time like the others were!" She declared angrily. The teenagers were quiet but everyone could see they agreed with Mai's opinion. Seto sighed and gave Valon one last glare before unlocking the SUV's doors. "Fine, everyone in!" He ordered.
The ride to the hospital was fairly silent. Kaiba and Mokuba kept to themselves, Serenity seemed dazed and Mai talked quietly with Zane, Kyris, and Raiyu in the back. Valon sat beside Mai, feeling out of place. Fortunately, no rampant duel monsters attacked them on the way. Serenity shivered as they pulled into the hospital parking lot. "It's so quiet…like the calm before the storm." She whispered. Mai bit her lip. "Careful hun, you'll jinx us." She warned as the group exited the vehicle. Kyris sighed as he looked around the empty parking lot. "I agree with Aunt Serenity though. This place is deserted." The others looked around, noticing that fact for the first time. Seto Kaiba frowned. "Yeah. I noticed that when we were driving. It's odd for such a busy area to be uninhabited." He replied, looking at his surroundings. Zane shivered. "It's like we are the only ones in the entire city." He commented. Valon didn't comment, but could feel his stomach twisting into a knot. Something was obviously wrong. Kaiba strapped on his duel disk and led the way into the hospital. Mokuba looked up at his brother curiously. "Do you think you will need that, Seto?" He asked worriedly. Kaiba sighed. "I hope not Mokuba, I hope not…"
Surprisingly, the reception desk and waiting area were also empty. Kaiba scowled. "What the hell is going on here?" He demanded. Mokuba walked behind the receptionist's desk and glanced at the computer. He froze. "Seto, come look at this! The monitors display only static." He told his brother, who rushed over to see. Kaiba sat down at the desk and checked all the connections, then tried various commands on the key board. Nothing happened. The brunet CEO frowned. "The hard-drives are completely fried!" He declared. Mokuba sighed and looked around the small office. Various files were strewn across the floor as if they had been ripped from the shelf. A single folder was laid neatly on the desk. Mokuba picked it up when he realized who it belonged to. "G-guys! We have to find Joey!" He declared, showing the others the contents of the file.
Name: Joseph Wheeler
Age: Unknown
Status/Illness: Coma
Room 113
The rest of the pages had been torn from the folder. Serenity blinked back tears. She nodded. "Let's hurry!" She declared, running down the hall. The others quickly joined in her search.
JouVal-Yaoi-Fanatik: a cliff hanger! If you wanna know what happens you are going to have to read the next chapter!
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