Hey... you guys still here? Coolio, because I, The MAN WITH IMAGINATION (echo) have a chapter for you guys. Who knows, you might laugh, cry, be shocked, or all three. Anyways, let us resume to where we were from before.
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Atem, Akio, and Alex were still hiding their faces from Marik as he readied his blade to cut through them. Atem had to think for a second and came up with an idea.
"Alex..." Atem whispered to him. "I want you to take Téa and get out of here."
"What are you going to do?" Atem took Téa off his back and gave her to Alex. "I am going to deal with Marik."
"No, I'm not letting you." Téa told Atem as her voice was cracking. Atem quickly kissed her and turned his attention to Marik.
"Just go, I'll be alright."
"Excellent, I have you all to myself." Marik began to walk down the stairs as Alex took off with Téa, but Akio stayed with Atem as his backup.
"Hold on man, if you think you are going to do this by yourself, you are crazy." Akio and Atem got rid of their cloaks and revealed themselves to Marik.
"I should have known you would be here to get your girlfriend. You should be glad that I didn't get it on with her upstairs." Marik taunted Atem just to force him to lose his temper.
"What did you say?!"
"Your woman would have been an easy sex toy for me." Marik's plan to taunt Atem was working as Marik snapped his fingers. The minute he did that, the doors behind them shut leaving Alex and Téa outside the mansion.
"No..." Alex tried to ram the door down, but it was no good.
'Atem, please come back out alive.' Téa thought to herself. 'If you die, I don't know what I would do without you...'
Back in the mansion, Akio and Atem were trapped like rats in a maze as they were in the foyer with Marik. As Marik made it to the floor standing with a smile on his face, he took out another knife and pointed it at Atem.
"Time for you to die!" Marik shouted, but Atem grabbed the knife Marik threw at them and removed it from the wall.
"You're gonna be the one to die, Marik!" Akio stepped in and took out his badge and slingshot.
"Marik Ishtar, I am placing you under arrest for Abduction, Sexual Assault, and Breaking and Entering."
"Sorry to burst your bubble, but you are in no position to arrest anybody! You're BOTH on my turf, so you have no authority to take me to prison." Marik threw his knife towards Akio until Atem deflected Marik's knife with the one in his hand.
"Marik, why don't we skip the talking. Time to pay for what you have done!" Atem told Marik.
"Let's dance!" Akio and Atem ran towards Marik as Akio shot his metal pellets at Marik's mid-section. Marik jumped up into the air as he avoided the shots. Marik landed behind them as he grabbed a gun out of his back pocket and shot Akio through his chest. Akio fell backwards and landed by the stairs. He started to cough hard and was unable to move.
"Marik, you coward! Why don't you just put away your damn weapons?!" Atem shouted.
"How about NO!" Marik shot a bullet again, but Atem manages to move out of the way. Atem moved and rammed Marik and knocked his backwards on the floor. Atem felt something sharp while he pushed him and began to shed a little blood on his arm.
"Damn! Relax, it's just a small cut." Atem held his wound to try to stop the bleeding until Marik got up on his feet again.
"Yeah, keep telling yourself that." Marik ran up to Atem and whipped him with the gun in hand. Atem was on his back to the floor as Marik pointed his gun at Atem and put it right up to his forehead. "Now then, you have only one option left. Leave Téa here with me and I promise I will keep you alive." Atem was in a bad position to make this choice, he was unarmed and had to make a rough choice. Before Atem made his choice, metal pellets flew across the room and shot Marik's eyes out. Atem managed to use this as an opening and punched Marik in the face and kicked his teeth in. Atem looked down on the floor and saw the metal pellets on the floor.
"That's for nearly giving me a trip to Hell." Atem turned around and saw Akio still alive.
"Akio, how are you still alive?" Akio removed his shirt and showed Atem he had a bullet-proof vest under it.
"Always be ready." Akio ran up towards Marik and grabbed handcuffs and put his hands behind his back. "NOW you are under arrest!"
"Let's just end this bastard!" Atem grabbed Marik's gun from the floor, but Akio put it back down.
"If we killed him, we are no better than him. We are taking him back to the station where he will be staying behind bars until the court marshals deal with him." Akio handcuffed his ankles together to prevent him from running. Atem tried to open the door, but was still locked. Atem and Akio rammed the door down as hard as they could. After a couple of tries, they finally broke the door down. They saw Alex over by the car with Téa in the backseat.
"Come on, let's get this dude behind bars." Marik tried to wiggle put of his handcuffs until Atem grabbed the stun gun from Akio and shocked him and Akio accidentally.
"Sorry about that." Akio fell on one knee as Marik was knocked out again from the stun gun. But, Akio got back up and shook off the shock.
"Forget it, I'm used to it, really."
MEANWHILE
Tristan and Serenity had left the Police Department for being taken in for questioning as they finally cleared up all the issues that they had one through in the past few months They were on their way back to Domino, they stopped at the hospital to go see Joey.
"You think he's okay after what Gozaburo put him through." Serenity asked.
"I'm sure Joey will be alright after all of those bruises he got. But, now that Gozaburo is out of the picture, there's no more need to worry about him. All that we can focus on now is us and our baby." Tristan felt Serenity's swollen stomach as he felt his child move a bit. They went up to the counter to see someone at the desk.
"We're here to see Joey Wheeler?" Tristan told the woman at the desk. She looked into her computer for the name and found it.
"Okay, he is in room 4335 in the Blue Wing. Just follow the directions and you'll find your way there." Tristan and Serenity were given their visitors passes, bowed to her and went to Joey's hospital room. They spent about a couple of minutes looking, but they managed to make it to Joey's room after going through a maze of a hospital. Joey was wired up on a heart monitor bandaged up on his head and lower abdomen after all the injuries Gozaburo had given him and had rested ever since.
"Hey Joey, how are you feeling?" Serenity sat down by his side and held his hand.
"I'm doing alright. Still managing." Tristan walked up to Joey and had a serious look on his face.
"Joey, I want to apologize man. Serenity and I should have stayed back at the house with you."
"Nah, don't worry about it. You guys were smart leaving the house..." Joey tried to sit up as Serenity helped him. "I didn't suffer anything too serious. Doc says I can check out by tomorrow, but I have to take it easy for a few weeks."
"Just as long as you are still in good health, Joey. After all, we are family now." Tristan said as he gave him a thumbs up. "We have to look out for each other." After Serenity and Tristan finished seeing Joey, just as they were about to leave the hospital, Atem and Alex ran in with Téa unconscious on Alex's back.
"Hey guys. What happened?" Atem had no time to explain as he rushed to the Emergency Room.
"I think it would be best if we leave them. I think Téa is in deep trouble." Serenity added.
"We better go see what's wrong with her, too."
Atem and Alex were dropped off by Akio as he was on his way to take Marik to the Police Station. Atem ran through the Emergency Room doors and went up to the counter only to see nobody there.
"Hello?! We need help!" A doctor ran in as he heard Atem from the counter.
"What's wrong?" he asked.
"Help my daughter, please!" Alex pleaded as the doctor felt Téa's forehead.
"Oh no, she's burning up. Quick, I need a stretcher out here! Now!" A nurse rushed off and managed to get a free stretcher within a minute and Alex laid Téa on the stretcher. On their way back from Marik's secret mansion, Téa felt so weak from not eating for a day and a half and being handcuffed on a bed, she somehow gotten a fever and started to burn up. The doctor rushed her into a room as Atem and Alex were forced to wait outside to see if she would get better. As they were waiting, Tristan and Serenity walked up to them to see what was going on.
"Hey Atem, what's going on? Is Téa okay?" Tristan saw Atem pacing hoping that he wasn't too late to save his fiancé.
"I don't know, but I hope she's okay."
"How did she get into a condition like that?" Atem began to tell how all the madness he went through.
"Téa's ex-boyfriend tried to forcefully have sex with her ever since she dumped him because she caught him cheating on her. Then, he took her and tried to rape her. Alex and I went to save her and managed to take down her Ex. But, on the way back into town, Téa felt weaker as her body was about to give out on her, she caught a fever. And here we are, a bloody mess and waiting for results." As Atem finished, one of the nurses came out as she checked on him.
"Sir, you took some wounds yourself. You should have them be checked out too." The nurse took Atem to see another doctor as Alex, Tristan, and Serenity waited outside Téa's door for results.
About an hour passed and the doctor came out of the door. He saw Alex, Tristan, and Serenity and told them.
"So, how is she, doc? Is my daughter going to be alright?" Alex said in concern.
"She'll be just fine. We managed to bring her fever down, but she is hooked up to a feeding machine to get her energy back up. She just needs to be on it for a few hours and then have a good rest here for tonight."
They all sighed in relief as Atem just came back with his arm bandaged up from his flesh wound. "What happened? Is Téa alright?"
"Yes, she's going to be alright. But, it is best that she should stay here for the night since she is unable to move in her current condition."
"Is it alright if we see her?" Atem asked the Doctor.
"Yes, but her feeding tube prevents her from speaking. But, it won't matter since she is still asleep."
Atem, Alex, Tristan, and Serenity walked into her room to see a feeding tube connected to her mouth, wearing a hospital gown as she is in a deep sleep. Atem sat down next to her holding her hand.
"Téa, I'm so sorry that all of this happened to you." he said. "I just hope that all this crazy crap is behind us and we can finally move on with our lives." Atem started to shed a few tears to see Téa in this condition. As Alex watched Atem holding Téa's hand, he actually sees the real Atem.
'This kid actually puts his life on the line for her. If I hadn't been such an asshole to him before knowing Atem, I wouldn't have said no to him marrying Téa.' Alex walks up to Atem and puts his hand on his shoulder. "Atem, I want to apologize for what I said to you. After seeing what you done to be by Téa's side, I give you my blessings to marry my daughter."
"Thank you. But, right now, I want to be with her alone for a little while." Alex leaves home as Tristan and Serenity walks up to Atem.
"Hey Atem, see you at work tomorrow?" Atem gives Tristan a thumbs up as he and Serenity leave as well.
"At least things are getting back to normal now." Serenity said as she held Tristan's hand.
"Not yet. Now that you are unemployed, we gotta find you a new job. And I think I know just where to get you one." Tristan told her as she giggled.
It was now night-time and Téa was already taken off the feeding machine. She begins to wake up as her vision was a bit blurry. Her eyes open completely only to see Atem asleep by her bedside in a hospital bed.
"Atem?" Téa shook him a bit as he quickly awoken from his sleep. He yawms as he lost track of the time when he fell asleep. "How long have I been here?"
"Just for a couple of hours." Atem told her. "But, it's alright now. You are safe and that's all that matters to me." He kissed her forehead and felt it was at a safe temperature. "Your fever went down too. But, you should get some sleep."
"I want you to sleep with me." She whispers to him. As he was about to do so, the nurse came in on the couple.
"Sir, visiting hours are over. It's time for you to go home." Atem heard her and nodded to the nurse and turned back to Téa.
"I'll come back for you tomorrow." Atem kissed her passionately as she gladly returned the kiss until the nurse let them have their kiss. Atem pulled back and whispered in her ear "When we get home, we are going to have our alone time." Atem left the room as the nurse escorted him out of the hospital.
"I love him so much..." Téa said to herself as she went back to sleep.
Alright, now this story is about to get down to the nitty-gritty. With Marik out of the picture, will things get back to normal or will things stir up again? Meanwhile, with Serenity and Tristan's lives back on track again, what other plans do they have now that their main focus is their soon to have child? Next chapter, I will tell you, so leave your reviews and I shall return with it. See You Next Time!