Chapter 3: Flight of the Dragon
January 2010
Hali woke up and quickly dashed to the bathroom to be sick. Hali grimaced as she watched the yellow bile slip down the drain. "Oh no, not again." she said to herself.
Atem woke up, grimacing at the sounds from the bathroom. "Hali, you okay?"
"Yeah, I'm fine, Atem. No big deal." Hali said rinsing her mouth out.
"No big deal, you don't normally throw up in the morning unless-wait..." Atem narrowed his eyes. "Are you-?"
Nodding sheepishly at her husband, Hali blushed. "It is possible we did...do it more than a month ago."
"I'll call Hailey to get a test for you." Atem went to get his phone and called Hailey, who brought a test over. He waited impatiently for her to take the test.
"Um Atem..." She said coming out of the bathroom and showing him the test. "It's positive."
"Oh wow..." Atem sank on the bed, his knees having given out in shock.
"Atem, are you ok?" Hali said in concern.
"It's just a surprise, that's all." Atem explained.
"Hopefully its our last one." Hali giggled.
"Well, if I'm going to afford all our kids, I need to get to the museum." Atem sighed, heading for the shower.
"Have a good day honey." Hali called.
Ishizu came into their bedroom and walked up behind Seto placing her hand on his back. "you never told me you were going away."
"There's a conference in Las Vegas that I need to attend to. I'll be gone three weeks." Seto explained looking back at her briefly. He was packing a bag.
"Why didnt you tell me sooner, you're my husband Seto. You need to tell me these sort of things." Ishizu said sounding annoyed.
"I didn't have time. I just found out and I had to let the airport and Rolland know. I would have gotten to you." Seto explained, his temper rising.
"I am your wife Seto. Isn't telling me more important?" She growled narrowing her eyes at him.
"I don't want to fight with you before I leave, Ishizu." Seto zipped the bag and carried it out of the room.
"Well you not doing a very good job at that now are you Seto!" Ishizu yelled.
"Daddy?" a worried voice asked from down the hall.
"What is it Son?" Seto snapped.
Isaiah's lip quivered and ran from his father. "Good job, Seto."
Seto sighed. "I'm sorry but I need to get going. I'm going to miss my flight."
"Fine, go! And don't bother coming back!" Ishizu snapped angrily.
Without saying anything, Seto snorted, slaming the door to the mansion. He got into the awaiting limo. "To the airport Roland and step on it."
Rolland pulled away from the mansion and headed for the airport, pulling into the hangar beside the KaibaCorp jet. "Here you are, Mr. Kaiba."
"Load my bag onto the jet while I do a system check." Seto ordered.
Rolland took the bags and disappeared into the jet ahead of Seto. Once they were in the jet, a shadowy figure snuck in, taking out the ground crew around the fuel nozzle of the jet. He picked up the clipboard one held, reading the information. "Hmm...You don't need that much fuel, Kaiba..." he said quietly in a British accent. He shut off the valve early and removed the hose. "Have a nice landing."
"All systems set, ready for take-off." Seto said as he set the controls and boosted the main thrusters, making the jet shoot upwards into the sky.
Rolland watched the jet disappear into the distance, failing to notice Bakura disappear from the hangar.
"Argh, what is wrong with my jet, Im sure it was fueled up before I left, maybe its just the gague malfunctioning" he growled as red warning lights flashed & beeped in his face. He was flying over California.
"Something wrong, Mr. Kaiba?" the air traffic controller asked over the radio.
"The fuel gague on my jet is telling me I'm nearly out fuel, but that can't be right. It was fueled up before I left." He said struggling to control the now nose diving jet.
"Can you make it to the nearest airport? There's a small one a couple miles from you." the radio squawked.
"I don't know if I can make it that far, I'm...going down..."
"I can pass along a message to someone." the radio squawked again.
"Tell my wife and son that I'm...sorry and I...love them..." Seto said with tears in his eyes as his plane went down crashing to the ground.
"Hello? Can you hear me?" an urgent voice asked, as Seto woke up.
"Hmm, w-who's there?" Seto said looking confused "Ow, my head."
A cool hand touched his tender head as a raven-haired woman came into focus. "Is he awake?" another voice asked from the door.
"I think he's coming to but looks really badly hurt." Rachelle said looking up at her Mother.
Seto blinked up at Rachelle. "Where am I...?"
"You are just on the outskirts of the redwood forest. Hey, you look familiar." Rachelle said spotting his initials on his jacket.
"Would you care to tell me then?"
"What is your name?" Rachelle asked raising an eyebrow.
Seto tried to remember but it made his head hurt more. "I don't remember."
"Well your jacket says KC, your name must start with that letter." Rachelle smiled.
"Doesn't ring a bell."
"Hold on a minute...Arent you Seto Kaiba? I'd recognize that logo anywhere. Would you like a hand up?" Rachelle said putting her hand out for him to take.
Seto tried to move his arm but a sharp pain radiated up it, making him gasp. "I think it's broken."
"Let me help you" Rachelle said looping her arm around his back and pulling him up. "Are your legs ok?"
Seto screamed in pain as his weight made his brokn leg crumple under him. He panted. "I can't walk."
"Mum! Can you help me please? We need to get him to a hospital! He has a broken right arm and a broken left leg."
"Sure honey, are you ok now?" said Rachelle's mother as she too put her arm around his back. She looked at Seto in concern.
"Second thought, let's get him in the car and get him home. He needs to lay down before he hurts himself anymore. I wonder what caused his jet to crash here." Rachelle shrugged helping her mother put him in the car.
Seto passed out in the backseat of the car before they had even started driving.
"Hey Dad you better hurry. He's already passed out and his injuries could be far worse than what we can see." Rachelle said to her Father as he started the car and sped off.
"Hey Seto, can you hear me, you need to wake up." Rachelle said to him in a panic shaking him slightly.
"Be careful." Rachelle's mother warned. "Like you said his injuries could be worse. It's surprising he's still alive."
"He needs to be awake. If he goes unconscious then he will have to go to a hospital. Come on Seto, wake up." she whispered gently shaking him again.
Seto stirred a little. "Uh..."
"Good he's waking up...You need to keep your eyes open Seto, we are almost home." Rachelle said breathing a sigh of relief.
Seto's eyes fluttered open. "You never said your name..."
"Oh, i didnt either. My names Rachelle. How are you feeling?"
"Like a truck hit me..." Seto closed his eyes, his breathing shallow.
"Stay with us, my boy and we will get you into the house. Then I'll get you on some pain relief. Rachelle are you ok getting him out of the car?" her Father asked as Rachelle nodded.
"I'm going to help you out of the car. Are you able to hop the short way into the house?" Rachelle asked Seto.
"I'm too weak to move..." Seto groaned softly.
"Mum I need your help again." Rachelle pouted as her mother came over helping to lift Seto to the house.
"Be careful of his broken bones." her father warned.
"Yes Father." Rachelle nodded "Could you get the door please? He's getting heavy and I don't want to drop him." Rachell sighed.
"Sure." her dad hurried to the door and opened it leading the way to the downstairs spare bedroom. "He'll need a place to rest his arm."
"I'll get an extra pillow or two to rest his arm on." Rachelle called, dashing out of the room towards hers.
Seto looked over at Rachelle's dad. "Can you set my bones? I don't want the hospital..."
"I certainly can, I've been a doctor for over 30 years. What have got against going to the hospital" her Father chuckled.
"I don't know...I've just got a bad feeling..."
"That's ok. I can do just as good of a job at home as what I can at work. I need to remove your boot and unless you can take your pants off, I will have to cut them." Rachelles Father said frowning slightly
"I've got two pillows Dad, here Seto." Rachelle said tucking the gently under his arm.
"I'm sorry Seto." her Father said as he began snip up the leg of his pants.
Seto closed his eyes, his breathing shallow.
"Are you ok Seto? Now this may hurt but I'm not trying to hurt you on purpose." her Father said as he started to wrap Seto's leg.
"It's ok Seto, I'm here. Dad's nearly done." Rachelle said taking his hand.
"I'm done." Rachelle's dad finished off, cutting the wrapping. "I need to remove your jacket now."
"I will help you Seto, take it easy now." Rachelle said pushing him up gently and slipping his jacket off his shoulders.
"Careful..." Seto hissed in pain.
"Sorry Seto. I'm trying to be careful." she said letting lay back down.
"Can I have something for the pain?" Seto asked, as her father wrapped his arm.
"Sure, Rach can you go to my medicine bag. Get me the vile of Morphine and a needle." he said pointing her in the direction of it.
Seto put a hand to his chest, the pain in his ribs getting worse with each breath. "Doc, I think my ribs are broken."
"Once I get this morphine into you, you won't feel a thing." He said flicking the needle.
"Please get it in quick before I pass out."
"Ok, just a small pinch and you should feel it work within two minutes." her dad said injecting the needle into his inner arm.
Seto fell asleep quickly once the medicine took effect. The doctor wrapped his ribs while he was asleep.
Back in Japan, the phone rang in the mansion. "Hello?" Ishizu asked, answering the phone.
"I'm sorry to say that Mr. Kaiba's jet went down yesterday afternoon." the man said solemnly.
"What?" Ishizu shouted, shocked. "How is that possible?"
"I'm sorry I have no idea how it happened, but he went down in the woods of California."
"I don't care how much it costs, get a search and rescue team out there and find him!" Ishizu ordered.