Yugioh belongs to Kazuki Takahashi. If I owned it, there would be a sequel in which Atem comes back.
Note: This chapter is really complicated. There is a lot of switching to the future to the present. I hope you can keep up.
Day 9-Afternoon- Present Time-Hospital
"Have you made your decision Ms. Lee?" the doctor asks her.
"Yes," she replies. "When the clock first hits midnight."
"Are you positive?"
"Yes, I'm very positive."
Day 9-Afternoon-Future
"You've been very quiet lately," Atem says. He and Mana were stopped at a stop light, sitting on his motor cycle. Mana didn't say a thing all day which isn't normal for her. "Hello? Earth to Mana."
"Hm?" she asks, leaning her chin on his shoulder.
"Are you feeling okay?"
"Y-Yeah," she replies. She didn't want to tell him about her dream. She had dreamt that she was in the hospital, still in her coma and her mom was making the decision on whether to pull the plug or not. She has a feeling that wasn't a dream.
The light turns green and they zoom off, down the street. They are first going to head to Atem's house to transfer over to his car. Then they were going to hang out a bit, get the new order of games and head to the game shop.
Now in the convertible, they head to get something to eat. Atem was sick of all the hospital food he had eaten and was in desperate need of real food. Still, throughout the whole car ride, Mana is quiet. But he decides not to ask her what's wrong until they were at the restaurant.
"What would you like hun?" the waitress asks, having her notepad and pen in her hand, ready to take their order.
"I'll have the number 5 with a glass of water please," Atem answers.
"Alright and for you young lady?" Mana's eyes slowly scroll to the woman, eyeing everything about her. Her nails were painted red but on her thumb nail, it was plain. The apron she is wearing had a brown smudge on it and who knows where that came from. "Miss." This snaps Mana out of her thoughts.
"Water," Mana replies lowly and the lady writes that down before taking the menus and walking away.
"Mana, you've been down ever since this day started. What's wrong?" Atem asks.
"I'm sorry. Is my low attitude bothering you?"
"Yes, yes it is. What is going on with you?"
"There's nothing wrong." Mana replies with her eyes low.
"I've known you for years. I can tell when there is something wrong."
"It's just that…" Mana starts off but she didn't finish for tears were forming in her eyes and she feels like she couldn't speak. She quickly gets up from her seat, leaving out the door and Atem rushes after her.
She walks out the door, attempting to go somewhere else until Atem grabs her arm. Every attempt she tries to get away, his grip becomes even tighter, not to hut her, but just to get her to stop what she is doing.
"Please, just let me go," she sobs.
"Not until you tell me why you're acting like this."
Mana closes her eyes and takes a deep breath before sighing to calm herself down and he lets her go. "Last night…I had a very strange dream. But I'm certain it was a vision. I was lying in the hospital still in a coma with my mother and a doctor there in my room. The doctor was suggesting pulling the plug and I saw my mom wondering whether to listen to him or not. She made a decision and now I only have till midnight…then…I'll die."
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Day 9-Night
Mana rests her arm on the arm rest of the car while her head leans on her hand as they drive in the car. She looks up into the sky which is slightly dark because the sun is going down. The whole time she is thinking that she is a goner. The day is about to end and there is no way that she would accomplish her mission.
The car stops at a shop where Atem has to pick up a new order of games. It took them awhile to get there because it was very far away and there was a lot of traffic on the way. Plus they had made a stop to Yugi's house to tell him that Atem was just fine and out of the hospital.
"You going to be alright for a couple of minutes?" he asks before going inside and she nods. Her eyes look to the clock in the car.
10:59 P.M. Then it switches to 11:00 P.M. Only one more hour.
Her eyes go to a nearby electronic store with televisions in the windows. One small television shows a popular reality show going on. But the bigger television catches her attention. There is a news broadcast reporting on a wanted man wearing a black wool cap, black pants, a black shirt and a black leather jacket. She gasps and her eyes widen with shock. That was the same guy that had attacked her and Atem at the park and he was still loose. The police had never caught him.
Atem comes out the building carrying a box and he puts it into the trunk before getting in and rolling out of there. During the car ride, he looks over at Mana who is looking forward with her eyes filled with terror. At first he wasn't going to ask him until they dropped the stuff at the game shop since it wasn't far away, but her look was concerning him.
"Mana? You look as if you've seen a ghost."
"He's still out there," she replies.
"What?"
"The guy who attacked us!" she exclaims, now looking at him. "They never caught him! Maybe that's what I need to do! I need to catch him!"
"But how? He could be anywhere and--" The car suddenly stops and Atem looks at the game shop which is engulfed in flames.
"The game shop!" Mana shouts, hopping out of the car.
"NO!" Atem yells. Mana hears a cackle from nearby and out from a dark corner is the man from before.
"You did this! But why?!" Mana exclaims.
"You still haven't paid your fee," he says with a grin, holding that same wooden bat in his hand. "Think of me as being the repo man. You don't pay something, I take something very valuable of yours away."
"You monster!" Atem yells in anger.
"Now, I know you have some money with you so hand it over."
Atem grabs Mana's hand and they make a run for it through the alley. They could hear the man laughing in the background. Mana feels a drop of rain, then a couple of more before it starts to rain hard, making the ground slippery. They could hear the man not too far from them.
"Mana, split up!" Atem commands. There were two ways to go through there. She goes to the left and him to the right. The man follows Atem.
He runs until there is a brick wall blocking his path.
"No where to run, no where to hide," the man says approaching him and Atem backs up to a wall. He looks around for some options and sees a ladder heading up to a roof of a building. But the man is blocking his way so he couldn't reach it.
"See what happens when you do things the hard way?" He lifts his bat to strike but feels a tap on his shoulder and he turns around, only to be met by Mana's fist.
"Ow, ow, ow," Mana mutters quickly rubbing her fist from the pain of hitting the man's hard face. She and Atem climb up the ladder while the man regains his balance. He drops the bat and pulls something else out of his pocket.
"I didn't think I would have to come to this," he says to himself.
They stop on the roof, trying to catch their breath from running, but they both knew it isn't over.
"Are you okay?" Mana asks.
"Yes, I'm fine," Atem replies. He soon realizes that climbing to the roof is a bad idea, for they were now trapped and the man had made his way up there.
"This…is where it all ends," he says, holding a gun up to them. "Now which one of you goes first?" He points it at Atem and pulls the trigger. Mana quickly pushes him out the way and gets hit in the stomach.
"Mana no!"
"AAUUGH!!" she yells in pain, clutching her stomach, still standing up.
"Still standing eh? Well I'll fix that."
'If I get killed now, he'll still be able to get Atem afterward,' she thinks to herself. He is about to pull the trigger when Mana rushes up to him, causing a shot to go up into the air. Both were holding the weapon, wanting dominance while Atem watches helplessly. The gun goes down to their stomachs and Mana tries to aim it his way while he tries to aim it to her.
Another shot rings out and the man and Mana's eyes widen. The man falls back, falling off the building while Mana is about to the same, but Atem quickly pulls her back and lies her down in his arms.
He pulls out his phone to call 911 and after telling what's wrong on the phone, he hangs up. He looks down worriedly at Mana who is panting and clutching her stomach, a pain filled expression on her face.
"Mana, hang on!"
Day 9-Night-Present
"I believe it's time Ms. Lee," the doctor says. Mana still hasn't wakened up yet and it is 11:59. Ms. Lee looks at her daughter with tears in her eyes before looking up at the clock on the wall that strikes 12. Her head turns to the doctor and she nods.
"Shut it down," the doctor commands and it happens.
Future time-Midnight
Mana screams from the pain that she feels. The ambulance still hasn't come yet.
"Mana, you can't!" Atem yells, tears starting to form. Mana slowly opens her eyes and looks up at him.
"I…think…this is…it for me," she says weakly. "It's too late. I can't…return now. It's already midnight."
"No, this can't happen!"
"At
least…I was able to save you."
"Stop talking like
this! The ambulance will be here and soon you'll get better!"
Mana grits her teeth from another wave of pain.
Midnight-Present
"YOU MONSTER! YOU'VE KILLED HER!" Atem yells at the doctors in the waiting room. He is about to rush up to the doctor and lay a punch when Yugi holds him back.
"I am sorry. But understand, it wasn't our decision," the doctor tries to explain but Atem was too upset to listen.
"MONSTER!"
"Stop
it bro!" Yugi yells.
"Atem, please calm down," says his grandfather. Atem breaks free of Yugi's grip and rushes into Mana's room where the heart monitor has just stopped beeping.
Future time- Midnight
"CLEAR!" the doctor yells, trying to revive Mana but the first attempt doesn't work. "CLEAR!" he yells again but there is no heart beat and he bows her head.
"MANA!" Atem yells, banging his fist on the glass that he was looking through. He drops to his hands and knees and the tears from his eyes fall to the floor.
Midnight-Present
Atem looks in horror as the doctors lay a white sheet over her, symbolizing one thing; that she is gone.
"MANA!" Atem yells, running up to the bed and kneeling down, crying onto the bed sheets. "YOU CAN'T BE GONE! MANA!"
"Sir, you have to leave," says one of the doctors and a security guard comes in, dragging him away as he continues to call out her name.
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