Chapter 16:
*Artemia's POV*
Friday night, the five of us are wearing formal wear in the Anoa'i-Hart Household, without shoes. Goblets filled with our personal favorite sodas are in our hands as the smell of Roman's Italian cooking fills up the household. It's an amazing formal occasion because Adrienne and i are dolled up. Of course Feronia is as well.
"Congratulations everyone," Feronia smiled to us.
"Why thank you Feronia," Adrienne smiles back.
"What shall we toast for?" Dean asked, smiling as well.
"A toast for a future full of love," Roman started with a smile.
"Happiness," I smiled.
"Good health," Adrienne adds.
"Positivity," Dean joins.
"More children?" Feronia suggests.
We all smile to her.
"More children indeed," I smiled more.
As soon as I said that, we all cheer by gently hitting each other's goblets. We all dig into the food after the meal prayer. Usually engaged couples will throw a party with friends and family, but we are more into a quiet dinner kind of thing.
"How many more children so you guys want?" Adrienne asked Roman and I.
"We already have a daughter," Roman smiled, looking at me. "Maybe a son?"
"Will two be okay?" I asked with a nervous smile. "I always wanted twin boys."
"Just twins?" Adrienne rolls her brown eyes.
"Says the one who wants quadruplets," I smirked at her.
Dean's eyes grew wide towards her. She pretends to hide away, but she knows that she's going to have a talk with him. I too need to have a talk with Roman. We say our goodbyes to Dean and Adrienne as they leave to go home.
Feronia wants to stay up a little longer. Roman and I allow her to so the three of us can have a sleepover in the living room. Knowing that our five year old goddess will want to do that, we all have our pajamas on. Feronia has her black nightgown with her makeup off and Storm is in her arms.
Roman usually wears shirtless with just black sweats, but since our little goddess is with us, he put an undershirt. Also his sexy, long hair falls down over shoulders and chest. I have my signature black pajamas with skulls. Makeup's gone and my hair can finally breath.
Cookies are baking in the oven. Feronia and I begin doing medipeds for my 'engagement' color. She has made up the idea for me to have a certain color for certain stages of my life. Like my normal color is black, now is purple since I am engaged. Well a deep eggplant purple. Roman picks out forest green for our little goddess.
"Hehe Joker colors," he chuckles.
"Indeed," I chuckled as well.
"Are the cookies ready?" Feronia asked.
"They will be ready when the nails are all dry," I answered.
"When will that be?":
"Let's see how they are in five minutes," Roman speaks with a smile.
"Love," I speak to him. "Can you put on a movie for us."
"Of course Sweetheart," he smiles more, putting on a movie.
Even though I watch Disney movies before, I've been watching them more because of our little goddess. What can I say? She may be a goddess, but she's also our little Disney princess.
*Roman's POV*
Soon Feronia falls asleep on the couch during the movie. So Artemia and I clean up the mess without waking her up.
Artemia takes the leftover cookies to the kitchen as I make Feronia more comfortable. A pillow from her bed lays under her head when her blanket keeps her warm. Storm is her arms. I smile down to her as I gently stroke her long hair.
"I love you my child," I whisper to her, giving her a kiss.
"I love you too Daddy," Feronia whispers in her sleep.
"You're an amazing father Joe," Artemia smiles, coming over to me.
"And you're an amazing mother Artemia," I smile to her.
"So, two boys will be good right?" she asks, laying on our spot on the floor.
"Well ideally," I answered, laying next to her. "But whatever the good Lord have for us will be good too."
"Let's just hope we don't have another girl," she has a frightened look on her face when she said that.
"That will be too much," I agreed with her.
"Indeed."
The vampire goddess snuggles into my chest as I wrap her closer. A smile appears on my face when I see the love of my life falling asleep against my chest.
"I love you Artemia," I whispered to her, stroking her hair.
"I love you too Joe," she whispers back in her sleep.
*No One's POV*
After a crazy weekend of celebrations of engagements with friends and family, Monday Night Raw has come. Tonight's the night that the five will announce their engagements to the WWE universe. Adrienne has developed a weird idea to appear out separated. Even she doesn't know why, but they're going to.
Artemia is alone in Roman's locker room getting ready for the announcement. She just finishes a shower so she can do everything. Once she has her hair and makeup done, her outfit slowly gets to be in place on her petite body first to the pants then the top. As her breasts are getting covered, the door opens behind her. Her eyes widen when she see the reflection of the very familiar person.
"Long time no see Artemia," he speaks in a dark tone of voice.
She quickly puts on the remaining part of her top before turning towards him with a death stare, "Mark, what are you doing here?"
"You didn't safe from jail," he answers.
"Why would I save you? You deserve to be in for what you have done to Big Sister!"
He just looks at her with very deep, dark almost possessive gray eyes. The door locks behind, leaving the two trapped within Roman Reigns's locker room.
Fans cheer when they hear Dean Ambrose's music blasting through the speakers. He comes out towards the ring in his usual entrance, slapping fans' hands. The process continues with Roman Reigns and Adri Flair. Once Adri is in the ring, everyone hears a new entrance music. 'Sharada - Skye Shatuam' plays as the screen has Feronia's name in black on a black and white background. The one with swirls. Also shows scenes of her appearances in WWE. A camera shoes her nervously make her entrance. Her big, gray eyes look around to the fans as she finds the courage to appear it.
Her tiny arms rises up to give everyone a huge hug for everyone. The camera follows backwards as she towards one of the steel steps. Once there, Feronia looks behind her to a huge crowd of fans. Roman meets her as he helps her in. With huge smiles on the father's and daughter's faces. Roman holds his little one on top of one of the turnbuckles so Feronia can rise up her tiny arms up again. Only this time, having the Heavens shine down on her.
Then 'Be Prepared' goes off again for the daughter of the Hitman to come out. No one came out. The music goes off again and still nothing. Now this worries the family very much. Especially for both Roman and Feronia. 'Riot - Three Days Grace' echos throughout the building as the camera shows Art appears out, but she has been thrown to an outfit that seems so familiar to Adrienne.
"Come on Artemia!" the man screams at the future legend. "I wanna play!"
"Roman help me!" Artemia screams at the top of her lungs, trying to be loud enough for her love to hear.
Roman wastes no time to charge directly filled with hatred and anger. He doesn't need to be introduced, he already knows that this person is Mark. The biological father of their precious daughter. Before Roman can even possibly get over to his vampire goddess, Mark snakes his arm around her pretty neck in a very tight squeeze.
"Long time no see Adrienne!" Mark exclaims with a wicked grin.
"Why are you here Mark?!" Adrienne asks frightened, holding onto her trembly niece to protect her.
Dean is guarding them in the ring, knowing exactly what's going on.
"Can I at least meet old friends and my baby girl?" he smirks evilly.
Roman tries to run towards his dismissal in distress. Unfortunately, Mark's grip on the Hitman's daughter's neck has tightened.
"Roman…" she tries to speak through the choking.
"I wouldn't get closer if I were you Roman," the bad man smirks more. "Because at each step, your precious fiancee…." The grip tightens.
The number one contender stares in horror when black rears begin to run down her pale face. She has one her hands on his arm, trying to stop the choking, and the other outstretched her love. Her face has a look of fear, pain, and cry for help.
"Let mommy go!" Feronia screams in fear to her father, crying. "Please let mommy go!"
"What do you want from us?" Dean yells out.
"Well since Danika is no longer with us and Art is now the mother of my child." His gray eyes trail over to Art Hart. "She's the closest one to that so I want her." Mark takes a sniff before licking a piece of her raven hair.
"Don't lick her!" Roman screams out to him in anger.
"You know what Mark," Dean joins in. "You v.s. Roman and I right here and right now!" Then he turns to his love. "Adri, my beautiful fiancee, take Feronia and Art away from here!"
"Be patient Lunatic," Mark speaks. "It will be scheduled for later on tonight! See you guys then!"
Art finally gets released from the grip to the hard floor, barely breathing. Her ears hears the echoes of 'Riot - Three Days Grace'. It tells everyone that Mark is now a WWE Superstar which is seriously not good.
Roman quickly goes to her aid to see the life slowly coming back to her. In a state of panic and worry, his strong arms lifts her petite body up from the floor and takes her to his locker room. Dean, Adrienne, and Feronia follow Roman to backstage.
*Adrienne's POV*
We all managed to get to Roman's locker room. Artemia's slow breathing and eyes moving under the eyelids make us breathe easily.
"Unbelieveable!" I exploded in anger.
Knowing that I am going to say things that kids should not hear, Roman speaks to Feronia, "Cover your ears Little Goddess." And she did.
"Why the hell is he here?! He already broke our sister's heart, now he wants Artemia too?!" The rest wasn't necessity to speak.
"Princess!" my boyfriend exclaimed, placing his hands on her shoulders gently. "You need to relax!"
"How can I be relax?!" I yelled at him.
While I was exploding out my anger, my long blond hair gets pulled down to where Artemia is lying. She's sitting up with her hands on my head. Our heads hit each other painfully, but it calms me down completely.
"And you said my temper is dangerous," she says sarcastically.
I remained silent.
"Now go to Jonathan and apologize to him of you yelling at him with your anger."
Dean gets a hug from me as I bury my face in his chest crying a little, "I'm sorry my prince."
"It's okay my princess," he says with a smile, smoothing out my hair.
*Later that night*
*Artemia's POV*
I managed to get enough strength and energy to be Roman's valet at the match. We need Mark out of our lives for good.
"Are you sure you are okay now sweetheart?" my love asks me worried.
"I'm fine love really," I answered looking at him in the eyes.
"Ms. Hart," the stagehand says, giving me a water bottle.
"Thank you," I said, accepting it.
All of the water gets into my body all at once and my hand crushes the bottle in the process. Man, I was seriously thirsty.
"Mommy," Feronia says to me. "Will he be gone for good?"
"If he touches me one more time," I begin "he's going back to jail for good."
"Okay."
My cell phone suddenly gets filled with texts and calls from my family, asking if everyone is alright. Daddy's furious. Mommy's worried about our safety. My siblings are just waiting to destroy him. I even asked Natalya and Naomi if they can watch out for Mark with their guys. They happily agreed. This is perfect. We have five people looking out for us.
Feronia and I are still wearing our gear when Roman gets ready for the match. I try to stay focus on being brave for Feronia's safety also we are reapplying on our makeup.
"Mommy," she speaks. "Are you scared of him?"
"I don't want to say it. Remember when I told you about monsters?"
"Yes Mommy. Some monsters are friends."
"Yes, but he's a monster who is not a friend." She gasps. "Feronia, even though he's your father by blood, always remember Daddy and I will always be your parents." Then a smile appear on my face. "The Anoa'i family, Auntie Adri, Uncle Johnny, and the Hart family are your family."
"And nothing will change that," Roman adds, joining us. "You understand Little Goddess?"
"Yes Daddy," she smiles.
Now that there is positivity around us, we can finish getting ready. Roman helps me with my lucky jacket like the gentleman he is. It was so sweet of him of helping me getting ready.
As soon as Feronia place her signature headband on her head, a text from Adrienne appear saying that they are heading towards the ring for the match. I replied with, "We're heading there as well." My sunglasses are on my face as we head towards his entrance. He makes deadly sure that his arms are tightly around my body. If he let go, I'll be gone.
Our little goddess's little hands are tightly around my hand and forearm. She's really scared of what will Mark do to our family just as much as Roman and I. Roman's left hand laced with my left hand tightly, having the engagement ring be squeezed in between.
There's a television showing the three of us what's going on. Dean's music goes off, the fans are cheering.
"The following contest is scheduled for one fall and it's a handicap match. Introducing first accompanying to the ring by Adri Flai, from Cincinnati, Ohio, weighing in at 225 pounds, Dean Ambrose!"
They both came out with hands united showing everyone their engagement ring. Of course the camera zooms in to show it on the screen behind them. Dean excitedly picks up Adrienne in bridal style as he carries her to the ring. Before entering to the ring, she pulls him into a steamy kiss. Everyone awed at the sight.
We hear Roman's music goes off. It's our cue. "And his tag team partner, accompanying to the ring by Art Hart and Feronia, from Pensacola, Florida, weighing in at 265 pounds. Roman Reigns!"
I show everyone our ring with a huge smile. We got to the wall where he goes over first before bringing Feronia over. He kiss her cheek which she giggles because his facial hair tickles her. It brings a smile on my face. Roman then places her down so he can take me over the wall. Bridal style, I also give him a steamy kiss. Aws are being heard.
Adrienne and Feronia joins me outside of the ring. We three hug tightly together when 'Riot - Three Days Grace' goes off.
"And their opponent from Los Angeles, CA. Mark!"
He didn't came out at all. Roman and Dean look at each other before getting outside of the ring, ready to fight. Mark's music goes off again as Adrienne motions to get into the ring. Maybe it wasn't a good idea because as soon as we got to the center, my left arm gets grabbed by two very strong hands.
"Mommy!" Feronia screams when the pull takes me down to my knees roughly.
The scream was loud enough to get Roman's and Dean's attention. They got back into the ring quickly to try to get the grip off of me. It was no use. Mark's grip tightens at each pull. It continues for almost ten minutes until the hands finally let go.
I am relieved for the grip to be gone, but I freak out again. My left hand feels naked. Pale colored eyes look everywhere on my hands, but it's no where to be seen.
"My ring is gone!" I screamed, freaking out.
Tears begin to run down from my face. It was the ring of my dreams and the first engagement ring I ever had. Everyone are in shock as well. Roman pulls me into a hug, letting me cry in his neck.