Hey you guys, The MAN WITH IMAGINATION (echos) returns! I apologize for the long wait. I am pretty sure you guys are all mad at me for not finishing the last part of the chapter last time, but I promise you that this part of the story will leave you speechless. Enjoy it!

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Everyone in the room had stood still since Marik had told them that if anyone would try to take him down, he would cut Téa and kill her. Téa's mother was in total shock just by seeing the situation.

"No... my baby..." Sylvia shook and dropped to her knees as Alex caught her.

"Marik, you let her go now!" Atem had his gun pointed at Marik, but he pointed the blade's edge towards Téa's neck. Akio ducked down quietly and hid behind the grand piano.

"Guys, Marik is here in the chapel. SP's 2 and 3, seal all the exits around the church. We can't let him escape with Téa at all costs. We are catching ourselves a little rat." he whispered.

"Roger..." they said in unison.

"SP 1, do not make a move unless by my signal, got it?" Akio's spy nodded when he heard him through his earpiece.

"Now, I'm taking the bride and leaving with her." Marik walked out of the door and left towards the hallway. Everyone was still in shock seeing Téa being taken away like that. Akio suddenly ran towards Alex.

"Call FBI, tell them that you're a friend of mine and that we got Marik in the church." Akio told Alex. "And make sure that nobody leaves the chapel room. We don't want Marik killing anybody."

"Wait, what about Téa?! I need to know my daughter's known well-being!" Alex shouted as Atem slapped Alex straight across the face.

"Sorry, I just needed you to calm down." Atem continued. "Alex, I love your daughter with all my heart and soul. And as God as my witness, I will get Marik and I will bring Téa back here safe and sound." Alex paused and listened to Atem's words.

"Okay Atem. But, if that maniac kills my daughter, I'll never forgive you." He nodded his head and he took off looking for Marik as Akio followed him. Alex began to call FBI as Marik was carrying a squirming Téa through the hallway out the door.

"Let go of me, you psycho!" She shouted.

"Quiet! Unless you want to feel the sharp edge of my blade!" Marik grabbed the handle on the door. When he tried opening it, it wouldn't budge. "What the hell?" Marik yanked the door, but it didn't budge as it was chained and locked from the outside thanks to Akio's personal protection crew. "Gotta find another way out!"

"You ain't going to find your way out!" Akio's SP 2 appeared in front of him. "There's no escape now. The entire Church is on complete lockdown. Nobody is getting in or out."

Marik threw Téa towards the wall and landed on the floor. She stood up until Marik threw a knife at the wall. She ended up losing a few strands of her hair as it fell to the floor.

"That was just your hair, next time, it'll be your neck." She just stood there in fear having to watch Marik take on one of Akio's agents. SP 2 charges in as he headed towards Marik. Marik jumps over his head the minute he tries to ram him to the ground. Marik grabbed the knife he threw to the wall and shot it at SP 2, but he manages to dodge it, but got cut on his left arm. SP 2, held his arm as he tried to call in Akio.

"This is SP 2, need backup, NOW!" When SP 2 turned to Marik, he felt a stab through his abdomen as Marik cut him deep. SP 2 began to cough out blood from his mouth as it splattered all over the floor. Marik removed the knife from his abdomen as he fell to the floor. Téa screamed her lungs out seeing someone die right in front of her. On another part of the church, Akio and Atem heard the screams from a distance.

"That's Téa. We have follow her voice." Atem ran towards the sound of her scream as Akio followed. When Marik heard footsteps, he ran up to Téa and hit one of her pressure points, causing her to black out into a deep sleep.

"Now you'll be easier for me to carry." Marik grabbed Téa and held her over his shoulder and ran off. Akio and Atem followed the sound as they saw one of the SP's dying, losing blood.

"What happened? Where's Marik?" The SP used the last of his strength to point where he went and pointed down the hall towards the basement of the church. "Atem, come on. Marik's headed to the basement. He's going to try to get out through there."

"Right." Atem nodded.

"If he tries to kill us, shoot him without hesitation." Akio and Atem rushed towards the basement door. They opened it and heard footsteps down there.

"We have to be careful." Atem went down first as Akio followed. Marik was in the basement where he was finding any open doors to the outside. He found one door, but led to a supply closet. He ran towards another door, but found himself in the kitchen. Marik could barely see as the lights were dim and a few were not lighting up at all. Akio and Atem managed to stay quiet as they reached the basement as well. All three men were armed, but Marik still had Téa hanging on his shoulders. Marik puts her down and laid her back on the wall. He found the hatchway exit, but as Marik went up the stairs to open it, the doors wouldn't budge. Akio's SP Agents locked it from the outside with a chain to prevent Marik from leaving.

"This is SP 3, The entire church is on lock down. Akio, you are clear to make a move."

"Roger that, SP 3..." Akio turned off his mic and focused on Marik. Atem and Akio turned on all the lights in the basement catching Marik trying to leave.

"It's over Marik. Drop the knife or die!" Atem shouted. He and Akio pointed their guns at Marik.

"There's nowhere left for you to run. Surrender yourself and then I'll put you back in the outhouse where you belong." Atem took his eyes off of Marik for a second seeing Téa on the ground asleep. He looks back seeing Marik jump and shoot his knife at Atem's face.

"Whoa!" Atem kneeled down on one knee seeing his face get cut a little. He only showed a little blood dripping off his cheek.

"Ah... Damn!" Marik jumps in front of him.

"Too slow, Asshole!" Marik punches Atem in his open wound as Akio kicked Marik in the jaw. Marik quickly recovers and lands on his feet as he sprints to Akio and lands a punch to his chest. Akio felt the impact of the blow and fell backwards on the floor lying on his back. Atem took advantage of Akio's attack on Marik and rushed to Téa's side.

"Téa, please wake up. Come on!" Atem shook her to try to snap her out of her trance, but there was no luck. Marik caught him and ran towards him.

"Not this time!" Marik pulled out his knife and began to thrust it towards Atem. Atem's instincts kicked in and caught Marik, using his strength to hold back his knife in hand. Atem felt blood coming out from his hand, but grappled Marik's hand hard. Téa began to regain consciousness and saw what she began to witness. She watched in silence seeing Atem risk his life to save her.

"Atem..." she made the words out, but she was too tired to speak out. Atem tried to hold back Marik's knife as he was preventing getting stabbed.

"Just give it up already! You are going to die right here. And after I kill you, I'm going to have sex with your woman!" Marik's eyes became wild as he laughed maniacal. Atem snapped and punched him in the face. Marik flew and fell on top of one of the tables and dropped to the floor. Atem turned around and saw Téa wide awake.

"Téa, are you alright?" Atem removed his jacket and covered Téa in it.

"Yeah, I'll be okay. I just want this crazy madness to be over already." She hugged Atem for comfort until Marik got up holding his knife. He kept laughing from what he saw.

"Isn't that sweet... looks like I'll have to kill both of you... hahahahahaha..." Marik shot his knife targeting Téa, but Atem moved right in front of her and took the blow as the knife was shot into Atem's upper back. Téa screamed from witnessing it. Atem hung on as he quickly removed the knife gently.

"It's okay. I'll manage..." Atem dropped on one knee holding his wound.

"You little bastard! Time for you to die. And this time, I'll make sure you stay down!" Marik prepared to lunge another blow. Téa held onto Atem as she closed her eyes as death was about to be upon them. Before Marik was about to stab Atem to death, a gun shot was heard. Téa and Atem saw that it hit Marik in his chest. Marik looked down and saw blood pouring out of his body. Another shot was blown in his heart, causing him to collapse and fall back to die.

"Toot-a-loo, mother fucker!" Akio had his pistol in hand as smoke came out from it. Téa and Atem got up and smiled from seeing their savior.

"Akio, you did it..." Akio walked up to Marik and shot him in the head as blood splattered on Akio's tuxedo.

"Wasn't that a bit much?" Téa added.

"Marik is a monster; You saw his records. Marik has raped and killed all of his female victims. He is a danger to society, which is why he needed to be stopped by any means necessary." Akio wiped off the blood, but still left splattered stains. "SP 3, unlock all the doors. We got him." Akio told his spy and took off the chains on the doors of the church. "The FBI will deal with this. Right now, we gotta get you patched up." Atem could barely stand as Akio helped him up the hatchway to the outside as the FBI had troops waiting for doors to open seeing the trio covered in blood. The FBI went inside after they got out, took Marik's dead corpse and wrapped it into a body bag and took it to be incinerated. An ambulance was on standby as Atem and Akio were escorted there to heal any injuries. Kaiba and Tristan escorted everyone outside of the church to see FBI vans outside.

"It looks like someone got busted big time." said Kaiba. "It looks like Marik got caught and is either arrested or dead."

Over by the ambulance, Atem was feeling the stinging pain of rubbing alcohol on his open wounds as he kept hissing in pain.

"Don't worry about this. It may sting, but it does help make the scar heal." The medic stitched his back and was sewn on tight and patched up with tape covering his upper body and another taping on his arm. Téa sat next to him in her blood stained dress.

"Atem, are you gonna be okay?" She felt bad about what Atem had gone through to get those injuries. He puts his arm around her and brings her close to him.

"I'll be fine, but I want to apologize. For what Marik put you through." Atem felt bad himself for not protecting her from Marik. "If I didn't stop Marik before he got to you, Both your father and I would never forgive myself."

"But, I'm alright now. Marik is dead and hopefully he rots in hell for I care. What matters is that everyone is safe now and nobody will ever separate us again." Téa embraced Atem into a hug, but she suddenly went from a smile to a frown. "The only problem now is who is gonna marry us? Without a pastor, we can't be husband and wife." When Kaiba walked towards the ambulance, he heard their conversation.

"Well, well, well... It seems that this wedding became a complete bust. But, I overheard your small chat and I think I can make an arrangement." Kaiba began to speed dial on his phone. "I didn't come here just for nothing. This Christmas wedding is going to happen."

An hour passed by as Kaiba managed to find a pastor on such short notice and the wedding resumed to where it left off.

"Since the wedding was interrupted by a certain person, this wedding is going to resume where it left off." Kaiba stepped down on the small stage as Atem and Téa walked into the chapel arm in arm a bloody mess, though they didn't mind. The couple stood across each other as the pastor began.

"So, where did we leave off?" He was already confused as Akio whispered in his ear and he continued. "Oh yes, yes. Do you Atem, take Téa to be your wife?"

"I do..." Atem smiled and said those words without hesitation.

"And do you Téa take Atem to become your lawfully wedded husband?"

"Yes, I do..." Atem took Téa's hands and brought her in chest to chest.

"I now pronounce you husband and wife. You may now kiss the bride." Atem and Téa had pressed down on each other's lips and felt a fiery passion as everyone applauded to their happy marriage on Christmas Day. Not the way they wanted it to turn out, but the two are now happily married. After the ceremony, the reception was held at Atem and Téa's home in the backyard as only close friends and family members had been able to stay for as the rest of the employees had other plans of their own. Atem and Téa had their bride and groom dance as they had also danced with their new in-laws and their own parents. It was already nearing sunset, they began with the toasts. Alex stood up and had a few words to say to Atem and his daughter.

"Atem, I know that you may be the most dangerous son of a bitch that I have ever met, but you put your life on the line just to save Téa and for that, I thank you for keeping her safe. Téa, even though you are growing up, you will always be my little girl. May you two have a happy life together. Atem, welcome to the family. To the Bride and Groom."

"Here, here!" Akio shouted as they all applauded. As the night ended, everyone left home and it was just Atem and Téa left in the house by themselves. Téa grabs Atem's arm and drags her towards the tree.

"What is it?" Atem asked.

"I want to give you your gift. It's still Christmas, so I got you something." She went under the tree and retrieved Atem's gift. It was a small box. He opened it and he saw that it was a Rolex watch made of silver.

"Thank you Téa, but I have something you both you AND me." Atem takes out the small box and opens it up to reveal plane tickets.

"What is this?" Téa felt shocked as she knew what their gift was.

"Plane tickets. You and me are going to Paris first thing tomorrow for our honeymoon." Téa suddenly leaped into his arms and they both fell on the floor as she embraced him with a kiss. She stopped for a minute to catch her breath.

"I love you Atem. I can't wait until tomorrow."

"Me neither... Ouch..." Atem still felt his injuries as he had to take it easy.

"Sorry... I forgot about your injuries. But, maybe this might make it better." Téa resumed kissing Atem and Atem quickly returned it as he wrapped his arms around her. Both Atem and Téa knew that starting tomorrow, their lives as a married couple was about to begin.

Well, this story is wrapping up quite nicely, but the ending is just around the corner. You guys think its over? It ain't over until I say it is. So, leave your reviews here and I shall return for the last chapter. I hope the chapter I wrote for you all was good. See You Next Time!