Ok..I know that I haven't updated in a while but I just started school...I also made a mistake with the names of Erik and Eric...Erik is the brother, Eric is the boyfriend...just wanted to clear that up...so here we go...
Arthur pov
As the gun is fired, my heart shatters. I see a pool of blood pool around him. Selene sobs as she falls to the ground in sadness. Tears fall from my eyes to see my son dead. This has to be a horrible dream, a horrible nightmare. I bend down to try to comfort Selene but end up crying with her. Roy sobbing along with the team. Megan leans into Conner heavily as she cries in his chest. Wally holds Artemis tightly and Robin burying his face in Roy's chest.
"Dispose of him." Manta orders.
The guards pick up Kaldur's bloody body and carry him out of the room.
"You will pay for this Manta, I swear it!" Selene screams in anger at him.
All he can do is smirk as he ends the feed. Roy lets Robin go and punches the wall angrily.
"Manta is a dead man! I'll kill him." Roy shouts in rage.
"We will find Roy. I swear it to you." Robin says with a sniffle, trying to calm him down.
"I have to tell Mera. She loved him like her own child. I will return shortly. Selene would you like to accompany me?" I ask in a whisper to her.
"I am sorry but I can not. Please thank her for raising my son when I could not." Selene says as she starts to stand up.
"Take care of her please." I ask as I leave for the zeta beam.
No one's pov
As the guards carry Kaldur's body, Judge stops them.
"Where are you taking that body?" Judge asks.
"The Manta ordered us to dispose of it sir." One of the guards answers.
"Take it to the holding cell with the others." Judge orders.
"What of Manta sir?" The other guard asks.
"I will deal with. Just don't tell him. If he asks, tell him it has been done. Understood." Judge explains.
"Yes sir." The guards say as the carry Kaldur to the holding cell.
Judge knows what has been done. Knows what he has to do to find his peace. He walks away not feeling anything but relief.
Alfred pov
As we all try to think of a way out of here, I hear footsteps coming to the cell door. The chains appear and grabs up by our wrist as done before. The metal door opens and a body is thrown in. The door shuts and the chains let us go. I see an African-American male on the ground bleeding, not making a sound. I turn him over and I find myself surprised to see who it is.
"This is Selene's boy. Kaldur." I said as Martha rushes to him.
"Gun shot wound to the shoulder. He's bleeding too fast. We need to get it out of him, now or he dies." Martha says as she gets his shirt off of him.
"Wait, he's alive?" Jonathan asks.
"Let me help you." I offer as I take my emergence sewing kit out.
"What's in his hand?" Mary asks as she unclench his bawled up fist.
In his hand is a beautiful golden ring. It has a bit of blood on it but not too much. Mary takes it and holds it up to see if there writing on it.
"The outside says 'I love you' and the inside say 'love Roy'. He has a partner." Mary reads.
As me and Martha try to get the bullet out of him, I start to wonder what they will do to us.
Kaldur's pov
I do not remember after the gun was fired. I hear cursing, screaming, and crying. I feel my body being carried than thrown violently on the floor. I hear different voice full of worry, concern, surprised even. As I feel something coming off me, I slowly drift back into a long slumber.
I slowly wake up to a soft humming sound. It sounds soothing like a lullaby. My eye open to see a woman with lightish grey hair in a blue flower night gown and blue eyes stroking my hair. I groan lightly trying to get the sleep out of me. I slowly sit up and try to stand.
"What happened? Where am I?" I ask as I stand on my shaking legs.
"It's ok Kaldur. You're safe now. You were shot in the shoulder. Myself and Alfred, the man standing in the tux, took it out. My name is Martha and the man in blue pj's is my husband Jonathan." She explains as she helps me stand up.
I look to see the two men she is talking about. Alfred is wearing a slightly torn tuxedo with grey hair and black eyes. Jonathan is a tall man with black hair and blue eyes. He kind of reminds me of Superman.
"Thank for saving me. Wait, where is my ring?" I ask trying to stay calm.
"Here you go. It was covered in blood and I just wanted to clean it. I'm Mary West. This is my husband Rudolph and his sister and my sister in law, Iris Allen." Mary says as she gives me back my now clean ring.
Mary Iris have red hair and green eyes while Rudolph has brown hair and green eyes. Now I know what Wally's family looks like. I open my hand as the ring drops in my hand.
"Thank you." I whisper to her as I put my ring back on.
"You're welcome. The ring is very beautiful." Iris says with a smile.
"Thank you. I have seen you in a picture. You are Artemis's mother. Paula." I said as I look at her.
"Artemis talks about you. Thank you taking care of my daughter." She says as she takes my hand.
"You may thank when I get us out of here." I said to her.
"But how? There's no way out but the door." Jonathan asks looking confused.
I look around the room slowly. I am trying to process the room that I am in. I look up to see a very high ceiling for a small room.
"Would you all mind moving to your left please." I ask while walking to the back of the room.
They follow quickly as I start to run. I quickly do a flip and grab on the bar that is hanging there. I move to sit on the bar and look down.
"Kaldur are you alright?" Alfred asks.
"Yes. I see a small window up here. Give me a minute." I whisper down to them.
I look out the window to see nothing but the big, blue ocean. I can hear the loud waves crashing against the ship. I focus my ears to hear dolphins chatting happily to one other. I kindly ask them if they know what ocean are we on. They explain that we are traveling on the Atlantic Ocean. I know that we are still near the Untied States. I slowly and carefully get down from the bar and land on my feet.
"I have found out 2 thing. 1 we are on a ship and 2 we are traveling across the Atlantic Ocean." I explain.
"How do you know that we are on the Atlantic?" Paula asks.
"A dolphin told me." I answer her simply. "Martha, Alfred do you have the bullet that was in me?" I ask as I get an idea.
"Yes but I have never seen anything like it." Alfred says as he hands me the bullet from his pants pocket.
"It was also in you like a cork in a bottle." Martha adds.
I take the bullet between my fingers and hold it to the slightly dim light. It is different form other bullets. I try to squeeze it when I realize that it is a rubber bullet. I know that the Manta can and does careless if I live or die, so why would he shoot me with a rubber bullet. It would only go half way into my shoulder not completely. I look at the wound to see a quarter size hole in my shoulder. I realize that the bullet was not meant to kill me. I rush to the huge steel door as I begin to bang on it with me one good arm.
"Thomas! Thomas get in here!" I shout through the door.
I step a foot back as I hear footsteps coming to the door.
"What do you want?" I hear his booming voice through the door.
"Why did you give the Manta a gun holding rubber bullets?" I ask him.
"How do you know that," He tries to ask but I interrupt him.
"Because for one I am holding the bullet and two there is only one person on this ship that wants, that needs the truth to come out. Your brothers do not care if it does. I know about your history Thomas. Eric told me. I know that you are just victim in this, like me. Please let me help you." I explain to him.
He turn to handle of the door and I step back. I see him in a judge's robe and uses the hood to cover his eyes. He takes off the hood to reveal his tired blood-shot eye.
"Why should I trust you?" He asks me with pure fear and tiredness in his voice.
"Because I am the only person that can get you home to Eric. Trust me please." I beg to Thomas.
Thomas didn't say anything. He just put his hood up and leaves the room.
"What happens now?" Mary asks.
"I do not know. I honestly do not." I answer simply with a strange hint of fear in my voice.
Arthur's pov
As I arrive in Atlantis I try to figure out what to say to Mera. She has always loved Kaldur like a son. I slowly make my way to me and Mera room to see her laying on the bed reading one of her books. This is going to be the third hardest thing I have ever done. I run into Orm in the hall.
"Welcome home brother. You said that you would be home at the end of the week. What has occurred. Where is Kaldur?" Orm asks.
"That is what I was going to tell Mera. Come with me brother." I explain as I walk down the hall, with Orm at my side to my room.
I slowly close the door, making her look up at me.
"Welcome home my love. Where is Kaldur? Does he have to stay on the surface to finish a matter?" She asks as she gets up to properly greet me.
"Mera, there is something I need to tell you. Both of you. Brother you might want to sit down." I explain slowly as I sit her down on the bed and Orm sat in the chair
"Orin what is wrong. What has happened?" She asks worriedly.
"Selene was kidnapped along with the families of Kaldur's team. He made a deal with his captor for his life for his mother's." I explain fighting the urge cry.
"Is she alright? Is she harmed?" Mera asks worriedly.
"She is fine. But Kaldur is not." I said as tears slowly make my way down my face.
"Brother, what happened?" Orm demands looking as if he already knew the answer.
"The Black Manta was also one of his captors. They began to fight each other when the Manta pulled out a gun. He- he shot Kaldur." I explain as my body shakes, holding in the sobs.
"No! No! Not my son! Please not my son!" Mera shouting with a sob.
"I am sorry my darling but Kaldur is dead." I said softly as I can longer hold my sobs.
"No!" Mera shouts as she sobs loudly in my chest.
"Not Kaldur. He was so young. He had a lifetime ahead of him. How could he do this?" Orm says angrily with a small sob.
The room quickly fills with sobs. I hold on to Mera tightly as I cry angrily in her hair. Orm buries his face in his hands as he too cries over Kaldur's death. After about 15 minutes of pure sobbing and crying, my communicator goes off. Orm looks up at me and takes my place in hold a still crying Mera.
"Aquaman." I response after I clear my throat.
"Aquaman, are you sitting down?" Superman asks.
"No why?" I ask as I begin to worry.
"You might want to." Superman says.
"I am listening." I respond as I sit down.
"A few hikers found Kaldur's body in the woods. We need you to come a verify it's him. The police will not be here. I asked Selene if she would do it but she fainted." He explains.
"I will be there in 5 minutes." I response as I take it out of my ear.
"Who was that?" Mera asks with a sniffle.
"Superman. They found his body. I need to go to identify him. I will return when I can." I explain as I kiss Mera sweetly and I hug Orm tightly.
"Orin. Promise me you find them, and make them suffer." Mera hisses to me.
"I swear to you and to Kaldur. Can one of you inform Garth and Tula?" I ask.
"I will. You go and find them." Orm assures me.
I nod to him as I make my way to the zeta beam. Hoping and praying that it was not him. I couldn't loss my son.